skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The value proposition of testing is that it documents [...]

No, the value proposition of testing is that it identifies incorrect system behavior before it manifests in live use. Documentation of anything is not the central value proposition of testing.
Well now that Spotify has paused buying their competitors and making podcasts exclusive, maybe the rest of us will get better podcasts to listen to again.
I just posted this because I thought it was interesting how Minecraft is now a huge phenomenon but I definitely get it. Here's an example I quite like: the article for the ADX file format. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADX_(file_format)

It has a detailed description of the file header, and C code samples to help decode it. That's awesome!
But there used to be a note saying basically "this should be removed and put somewhere else, and someone did remove it (click View history) but then someone put it back. I imagine if this wasn't such an obscure subject (it's a music file format used in a few Sega games around the early 2000s that was never visible to end users) the deletionists would have gotten their hands on it years ago.

I think the reason they do this is the same reason forum mods and discord mods act like they do: For some people this kind of thing is fun. It's like a game of whack-a-mole or something, trying to catch them. People do it on stackexchange too, e.g. I've seen questions get voted to be closed because they think it's too complicated to answer (for them). (Why not just leave it without answers until/unless someone wants to?) And I've done it on discord servers before when I was like 13, there was this server for basically support with hacked nintendo consoles and they had a rule against piracy so you would sort of interrogate people to see if they were using pirated games, and it really was kind of fun to "catch" them. Not very proud of it now of course.

Further reading: https://gwern.net/inclusionism
From "48 Laws of Power":

> Law 7: Get Others to Do the Work for You, but Always Take the Credit: Get others to do your work for you. Use their skill, time, and energy to further your ambitions while taking full credit. You’ll be admired for your efficiency.
Any so-called "hits-based" industry, like entertainment, is at the make or break mercy of consumer whims. Technology is not going to change that anytime soon.

TechCrunch doesn't mention the interest rate hikes, but I'd say that's the primary underlying reason for the layoffs.
Many videogames are fun for me personally, and I think that’s about the most complete answer anyone can give!
I think your information is quite outdated. The HWC overlay planes are heavily used, you can see this trivially just doing a 'dumpsys SurfaceFlinger' or grabbing a systrace/perfetto trace. When it falls back to GPU composition it's very obvious as there's a significant hit to latency and more GPU contention.

The overlay capabilities of the modern Snapdragons are also quite absurd. They support like upwards of a dozen overlays now and even have FP16 extended sRGB support. Some HWCs (like the one in the steam deck) even have per plane 3D LUTs for HDR tone mapping (ex https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope/blob/master/src/d... )

The composition is bandwidth heavy of course, but for static scenes there's a cache after the HWC in the form of panel self refresh.
>This is better. Now the only code that differs between a unit test build and a production build is what clock_factory::get_clock() returns.

So you are effectively testing code that will never see the light in Production. That's called a Mock and some people hate mocks.

I have no problem against it taking for granted the actual lib has its own tests.
Dont the larger universities have vast property holdings and investments they manage ?

Smaller universities seem to make a lot on student rental accommodation, at least in places like Australia.

Maybe tuition is their side business.
Simulations illuminate the path to post-event traffic flow
I think he's incredibly good with people or networking in some way. Paul Graham said “Sam is extremely good at becoming powerful.”

I don't have any resources to help and I'm also interested if anyone knows anything.
basically, univ can run a fund of funds with their endowment
now, you've gone from complaining about to whining about it.

it's only a shame if you don't understand the entire purpose of the telescope. if you understood the purpose of the telescope, you'd realize why trying to make it do both IR and visible light would be pointless. to catch the faintest light of the furthest galaxies that has been red-shifted we need the most sensitive instrument would could make. ignoring blue and green wavelengths is the only way of doing it. you make every decision to enhance the ability to see the red.

it's like saying it's a shame drum&bass doesn't have more guitars. you might have that opinion, but it is absolutely pointless in the purpose of the thing your opinion is about.
Top ones have nearly $50B

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universit...
Walter Isaacson bio in 3..2..1
Different laws and rights have different priorities. Private property ownership trumps a lot of rights and laws, passing near authoritarian rights to owners within their property. Free speech for example has no priority over property ownership as I can remove you and therefore your speech from my property. The right to bear arms takes a back seat to my right to again dictate if you can or cannot be on my property. Exceptions of course exist, like I can't exactly murder someone on my property legally (unless they're invading unlawfully and I feel threatened, in some states).

Quite a bit exists and caters to protect those who own things in this country.
He seems to be very good at making people think he is competent and get people to trust him.

Not sure how he does that, but I've noticed he does a lot of interviews and becomes the face of things, many does that though so there is probably much more to it.
Even before taking over as President at YC, he was incredibly helpful to a bunch of YC founders and others doing startups -- a combination of willingness to help, and knowing what to do/how to do it, plus being able to do it with high leverage. Mostly weird/unpleasant situations (like the OpenAI drama was, but at a much smaller scale). Doing that for several years before YC President, then presumably continuing to do so while YC President (I'd mostly drifted away from YC by then), goes a long way to explain everything.
Ok I just noticed that you called the play store a "secure app store".

That's ludicrous.
The National Archives are already responsible for managing paper documents held by the government for historical reasons. Given that most of the new documents being added to that archive are digital, it is entirely logical for them to also have responsibility for digitisation.

Keeping paper records is not a solution, it is an admission of failure. We have to figure this stuff out now, because the overwhelming majority of important documents being written today will never exist in printed form and need to be preserved for the future. If we don't trust ourselves to scan and shred old documents, then we have much bigger problems.
> Major bugs are not "oh this can be null"

Not true. Even today the majority of security bugs are simple buffer overflows, for example. The subtle bugs are more memorable, but that doesn't mean they're actually more common.

> major bugs are "this combination of preconditions yield a business logic edge case that wasn't accounted for". Static typing doesn't really help more than dynamic typing in these cases.

It absolutely does, if you put a little bit of effort into actually using it. Represent your business logic invariants in the type system, then the compiler won't let you accidentally violate them.
> the value proposition of testing is that it identifies incorrect system behavior before it manifests in live use.

Incorrect with respect to the documentation, yes. That's what I just said.

Tests are not intended to find undocumented incorrect behaviour. This is provable by taking it to the logical extreme of a codebase that is completely undocumented (no tests). When no tests run, no incorrect behaviour will be uncovered by it.

Only documented cases can reveal instances where the code does not conform to what is documented.
Really appreciate this link. I used a LG C2 as my monitor and I've been having trouble with HDR content in W11/Chrome for years. I always end up using Edge or otherwise for Youtube HDR, and this helped me debug.
It's a for-profit company and they have never tried to hide that.

If you know a way to make money from exclusively showing users content that makes them happier, better informed, better rested, etc., then by all means go ahead -- I sincerely wish you the best. But you won't need my good wishes, because you will soon outcompete YouTube and all the rest with your healthy-yet-still-profitable alternative.
Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) [video]
As a pleb, the article linked below is his biggest accomplishment that I know of, and I am not being sarcastic:

https://blog.samaltman.com/productivity

I do think it's cool that he is investing in fusion and life extension, and it seems "reasonable". Obviously, as a pleb, it's very hard for me to know what's reasonable.

As a side note, the whole concept of going from pleb to someone is fascinating, though I do think it's myth most of the time (e.g. Musk, Bezos, Caesar, Alexander the Great, etc).

edit: Just skimmed his bio again. Kind of fascinating how one person grinds code and begs to be promoted to senior / architect and another is directing billions.

Sam, if you are here, drop some advice.
That's no solution. Drones aren't legally allowed to fly in many classes of airspace. The greater Los Angeles area contains a number of areas where larger drones simply can't be used at all.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38704982. Thanks!
reads to me like "our lawn is for everyone as we want to see the technology succeed, but those who try to crap on it will be asked to leave."

what's wrong with that?
My anecdote is that Baseus adapter seems to broke my AirPods.
Anker is now considered to the best charger brand available in the market.
They are not at all. You just need to establish some inclusion criteria, go through one cycle of rejecting people who don't meet it, and the people who remain following a purge tend to have elevated levels of group loyalty. Astroturfing is not that hard, and there's a lot of literature on how to engineer the outcomes you want.
127k is not a huge salary in large cities with a life and death responsibility job.
That is very naive and ignores the reality of current FAA regulations. Larger, more capable drones are prohibited from flying in much of greater Los Angeles area airspace.
when is this going to use React already
Spotify is not attempting to add value. Spotify is attempting to extract value.

And they are having trouble extracting value.

Spotify's podcast experience is far far worse than Pocket Casts, an app I've had on android for years and years.
I have been hankering for this kind of thing but for remote filesystem sharing. My specific use case is having separate NAS and compute machines in my homelab, and I have workloads running in nomad/k8s/docker-swarm/whatever on the compute machines, and I want the workloads to keep their state on the NAS.

NFS is this mire of needing users and groups to be the same everywhere (possibly also needing to configure some translation layer(s)). MacOS starts numbering users at 501, most linux distros I'm aware of start at uid 1000, and I don't know, can you even mount NFS on windows? Most of the guides I've seen completely punt on any kind of homelab authentication, just advising to squash all users to nobody and have everything on the share be 0777 or whatever completely open facl that equates to.

With NFS, you don't authenticate as a storage consumer directly to the remote storage, you authenticate as a user to the OS and it deals with the storage on your behalf, but this seems like a layering/concerns violation.

From what I can tell SMB is a bit better because your client authenticates directly to the SMB server, but I have never figured out all the Windows-specific identity, groups, ACLs, etc.

All of these are kind of heavyweight for certain use cases too -- it would be handy to have userspace remote filesystems available on microcontrollers, but I don't necessarily want to run a tiny linux on them.

But.. if clients could sign remote storage connection requests with private keys and then that lets them mount whatever storage is on the other end with FUSE or something similar for microcontrollers.. then access to remote storage is completely agnostic of operating system.
That's why using F-Droid, which distributes apps *already built* by them, is such a good idea (albeit with a few risks of its own).
It probably just uses the indexing api
C-level execs are unsafe and should be rewritten in Rust.
>when you're comparing it to a library that literally burned down

There have been significant improvements in structure fireproofing and firefighting in the past 2071 years.
Serious question: Why do you think asking it what it is constitutes a good test of its capabilities?

Do you think (for example) someone asking you what you are would give them enough ability to judge your abilities? Yes you would get the answer right and the models you are choosing are getting the answer wrong, but you can't extrapolate from that to anything else at all about what this model can or can't do.
https://archive.ph/mDvRv
A home getting turned into an airbnb or a city pied-à-terre for a a rich playboy reduces the population but does not improve the housing crisis
Does Zoom even support Wayland or you are running it through XWayland? All these proprietary clients usually have a lot of inertia with implementing Wayland support.
That's...SIGH. I didn't think of that, you're right.
Someone needs to make a visual diff for audio files.
I re-read my comment and I think it’s clear.

Russia had this kind of cultural inferiority complex back in the days of Tolstoy, which I think helped him skewer it in War And Peace (the events of which were shortly before his birth). And in the War and Peace days that quoted scene also shone a light on the macro (geopolitical) level of feeling like they weren’t really part of the “in group”. Feels like the same might have been true when he wrote the novel (invading Crimea in the 1850s is also a good example) but I am not a scholar of Russia.

Also the same is true in today’s Russia, with Putin and others vainly trying to prove that Russia is still part of some inner ring, which they most definitely no longer are.
"it's still the case that no 16-year-olds are going to want to hang out with us"

That's a broad brush you're painting with, amigo. As a 49yo father w/ two teen daughters (17 and 15), I've been surprised and delighted at the strong bonds I have w/ each of them (esp. my 17yo). We "hang out", and seek each others' company, to our mutual enjoyment -- it's absolutely nothing like my relationship w/ my own parents at their age.

Edit: PS I think I agree w/ your main point; it was this one bit I wanted to counter.
Discussed at the time:

All Our Patent Are Belong To You - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7884560 - June 2014 (314 comments)
Thanks for sharing, that's interesting to read. I've just finished the third chapter -- but I'm really just reading through at this point, not following the course. I've just come out of a long creative project, so I'm grazing. I agree with you that the book can be off putting if you aren't in the right frame of mind. I, too, would have scoffed reading it in the past.

The catalyst comment was more my ruminating about the creative process. Like I said, I think the signal-response element is critical, but perhaps not sufficient. Could you spend years in that pattern and not experience any benefits? If so, what's the missing ingredient? I wonder...
I never used pomodoro technique when I was more in control of my time (as a student), and could do 12-14h of focused work: interrupts would have killed off any flow.

However, that only really worked for solo work, and collaboration really spends my energy much faster.

The first question is why did you start doing pomodoro in the first place? What problem is it solving for you? Is there a different solution that does not cause wasteful interrupts?
The q2 should fit.
In 2008, I was run over from behind by an MTA bus driver going south on 21st st in Astoria while on my bicycle. Broad daylight, normal conditions, I had totally un-missable neon reflective gear on.

This was a block and a half past a bus stop where the driver had previously been stopped.
As I was stuck, run over, with myself and my bike stuck in the front right wheelwell, the driver opened the door and spent all of his time kicking me until I could pull the bike free, rather than help. Then he closed the door and drove away.

I sat on the sidewalk and calmly collected myself and my busted bike and called the non-emergency line for the 114th Precinct. Here's what the cop answering the phone told me:

"Hey jackass, do you actually think we're going to file a report against a city employee? click"

That's why I don't talk to the NYPD.
Yep, except when was the last time the prime minister of Canada wasn't the party leader of the party invited to form a government after a federal election?

Saying that Pierre Poilievre isn't the CPC front runner when polling indicates that the LPC is down in the polls, and we have an as yet undeclared election coming up is disingenuous.

No, Canadians don't elect the Prime Minister, and yes it is most likely that one of Trudeau or Poilievre will form a government after the next election, unless Trudeau steps down before or during the campaign starts.
Neat!

IMO it would be really nice if one could easily profile one’s actual screen with a colorimeter and this were integrated with HDR support. Presumably one would separately profile in HDR and SDR mode. This ought to allow a compositor to give good SDR results in HDR mode.
Discussed at the time:

Rite Aid deployed facial recognition systems in hundreds of U.S. stores - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23975255 - July 2020 (293 comments)
Yes and no. Some type of deferred structure is almost always part of a GPU renderer as it's necessary for batching and reordering which help performance tremendously. Sometimes this is entirely an internal system behind an imperitive API, though. Like skia only offers an imperitive API even though it builds a deferred rendering structure from that under the covers.

So you end up doing a scene graph to imperitive API to internal renderer scene graph in some UI toolkits. In others they may share the same scene graph structure, applying those optimizations directly from the initial graph.

Although all that said a "pure" scene graph is often overkill and slow. They were all the rage in the early 2000s but less so these days. QML's QtQuick looks like the primary remaining example?
A pilot's 'flight hours' is regarded as a key measure of their experience.

If a pilot only ever trained visual approaches in sim, and not the real world accounting for the overwhelming majority of their flight experience, that number would be meaningless.
Chase offered me one.
IME it's fairly variable day-to-day; four is probably about the median but two or fewer is not uncommon, I use those days to get caught up on easier tasks. What you're describing is completely normal and shouldn't cause distress.

> How can I take the number of hours I can work on hard coding problems towards the number of hours I can be awake?

Honestly I would say this shouldn't be a goal, even directionally. Do your best to optimise your space and time for focused work, and if it ends up that you're regularly able to sustain a whole day of focused work that's good, but even if you can't that's still the best you can do.

To that end, you'll really have to experiment with what works best for you. Sounds like you're getting good results in your work periods so start with what you're doing outside of them: diet, sleep, recreation, etc all have a sizeable impact on your ability to do good work.
Could be more Svelte
Knowledge work like this is not unlike a muscle. If you exercise it to the limit, you'll fatigue and need to take a rest for 1 or more days. If you keep doing it you'll become stronger over time. But don't neglect your need to rest, it's not abnormal to need a rest after doing a lot of knowledge work. I tap out after a couple hours of meetings and doing research/coding/testing/implementing too. More meetings == more fatigue, it's draining.
I didn't infer the intent that you're describing now. Given that others might infer the same thing I did, I think my response serves as an important clarification.

Now that you've made your intent clear(er), I'd say that we're in agreement. I started my original post by remarking "Just how ideologically polluted is their training dataset?". This comports with your explanation of how Perplexity is paraphrasing the top Google search link. I also prefaced your quotation of me here ("bolting climate change and election denial right into the LLM") with "This is practically the same as". This suggests that you've misunderstood/mis-inferred my post (as did I with your response), since I'm not claiming that ideological bias is bolted into the LLM, but rather that the pollution of their training dataset make it as though bias is bolted into their LLM.

I hope this clears things up.
The events in the study are triggered after the participants actions. Both in terms of accounting for past actions as such, and in terms of anticipating continuation of present actions.
In the US, they more or less are. The education side business is just for tax benefits.
If I build an AI that is biased toward creating malware, is it the AI's fault?

I say "maybe" because the calculations are performed by the AI, you say
"maybe not" because of the creators' influence, but it still makes sense to me that we should debug/firewall/shut down that AI.
I think this just proves that dense urban housing is both desirable and lower cost. What doesn’t change is that land is expensive. They aren’t making any more of it.
Yeah, this happened to us in Canada. Booked a place (in Canada z with a Canadian billing address), then had to cancel, and realized too late that we had been charged in USD for the initial booking, so ended up losing a few hundred on the fx delta and fees by the time the refund came through.
I tried asking a very specific objective question: what is the speed of light?

Although it answered, but it also spitted lot of unnecessary stuff.

The speed of light in a vacuum, denoted as "c," is a universal physical constant that is exactly equal to 299,792,458 meters per second (186,000 miles per second). This constant is the upper limit for the speed at which conventional matter or energy, and thus any signal, can travel. According to the special theory of relativity, the speed of light is constant and does not change with the motion of the observer.
The speed of light has significant implications in various fields, including physics, computing, and communication. In physics, it serves as the single limiting velocity in the universe, being an upper bound to the propagation speed of signals and the speeds of all material particles. In computing, the speed of light fixes the ultimate minimum communication delay. In time of flight measurements, the speed of light can be used to measure large distances.
The speed of light was first measured to high precision in 1879 by the Michelson-Morley Experiment. Since then, it has been used to define international standard measurements like the meter, mile, foot, and inch.

It is more like a search engine. In fact Google search does much better than this. It gives very precise answer.