skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not necessarily. I am in the same case as OP. Basically I am a specialist with a PhD in a niche topic. There are at most a handful job postings per year that fit my profile perfectly, but then I have virtually no competition. If you have a generic profile ("frontend developer"), you get hundreds of opportunities per day, but are alao in competition with hundreds of similar applicants.

My position is comfortable, but if interest in my particular combination of skills decreases, things could get quite difficult.
Requiring all residential buildings have at least a single camera in every room that’s active 24/7 and is streamed directly to NSA(or whoever) would also save a lot of victims of crimes.

You could have AI detecting instances of domestic abuse and immediately dispatching a police drone to handle it. Technologically this is almost already viable..
This is spot on. I wish there were a way to reconcile how annoying boring and opinionated the mastodon experience is with the threads experience that is also really really badly tuned albeit sort of neat in its design language. The threads recommendation algo is really screwed up for sure.
That's a pretty big exception to the general case though if your argument is "you are a famous person and people would love to collab" - at 2am your time, exactly when you are motivated?
And what if you are not a world famous programmer, what then?

To me its like saying you shouldn't play solitaire because you are a world class poker player, and there's plenty of people who want to game with you. They are orthogonal concepts - just communicating with people can be more work than just reading on your own.
> you take this as a critic, which is not.

Interesting. What is it?
Barely. The software still works but I haven't worked on it for years. And no one else has. What email issues are you having?
Anyone here from one of the large CDN providers want to reach out to AV Herald and offer him some free services? It’s such a useful and informative resource. Too bad it’s super slow when accessed in AU/NZ and I guess outside US/EU.
I live in Phoenix and this post just squashed my entrepreneurial desire to start a bed-bug eradication service.

How am I going to compete with 'oh just turn off your AC for a day in summer and you're good'.
Side-loading is coming in the EU!
> is still a problem in philosophy

Exactly! This is why I removed this fundamental questions from my post: in this moment they don't have any clear reply and will basically make an already complex landscape even more complex. I believe that right now, whatever is happening inside LLMs, we need to focus on investigating the practical level of their "reasoning" abilities. They are very different objects than human brains, but they can do certain limited tasks that before LLMs we thought to be completely in the domain of humans.

We know that LLMs are just very complex functions interpolating their inputs, but this functions are so convoluted, that in practical ways they can solve problems that were, before LLMs, completely outside the reach of automatic systems. Whatever is happening inside those systems is not really important for the way they can or can't reshape our society.
My thinking exactly! There's FOMO going on (and being fueled by people most of which seem to hope to somehow make money off it), but the barriers to entry for using LLMs are just not that high. When the tools are good enough, I'll happily use them. Today, for the work I do, I found that not to be the case yet. I wouldn't advocate for not trying them, but I see no reason to force yourself to use them.
> Hacker News, but also lobster.rs

First time I hear about it. I think you meant https://lobste.rs
I like aider. But is there a way to use it to just chat about the code?

I use LLMs to chat about pros and cons of various approaches or rubber duck out problems. I need to copy code over for that, but I've not found aider good for these kinds of things, because it's all about applying changes.

I usually have several back and forths about the right way to do things and then maybe apply some change.
I understand, have you tried adding more healthy oils and nuts/nut butters (peanut butter, almond butter, etc.) to your diet? They are pretty easy ways to add a lot of calories without carbs for people who aren't able to eat a lot of calories otherwise.

1g of olive oil will give you around 9kcal, when I used to track all my daily intake it was around 100+kcal for a tablespoon of olive oil. Peanut/other nuts butter provide a little less calories per gram but add protein to the mix.
This is such a lazy argument. You can't write out in this moment how to solve this <insert large problem here> therefore it's too complex to solve.

It's all about incentives. Our society is incentivized to make a few people rich, not to solve these sorts of problems. If we wanted to solve them, we would. But that's not profitable, so it's not "worth" it.

Humans never had the technological capabilities we have today, which could solve most, if not all, of these problems. But because of our current economic system we rather spend trillions on advertising instead of reducing human suffering.

It's sad to realize that, unlike any other time in history, we as a society choose to not solve these issues.
Hiew is peak ergonomics, kinda like good orthodox file managers (FAR Manager/Total Commander). Hiew's color scheme is, obviously, Norton Commander's as well :-) One of the few Windows applications that make me keep a Windows VM.
I’ll believe we’ll get official side-loading support in the EU when I see it, but I’m cautiously optimistic!
Mobile reverse engineering to empower the gig economy workers and labor unions [video]
I think I'd prefer the "ghosts" to those hideous eye-disrupting wall decals.
I've looked into this one a bit too. The one main thing I'm missing there, is the ability to extend it with custom views. One thing Schedule-X does, which isn't documented yet, is to allow the implementer to only use the calendar header, and then implement the "view" part completely on their own. In that case Schedule-X just provides a control center type of core, with a bunch of utility APIs; basically a framework/DIY calendar.

Also I wanted to lean more towards the Material Design 3 specification.
It was removed in response to a lawsuit. Strictly speaking, yes they did recently outlaw being gay, but it was (allegedly) due to forgetting to change a statute definition rather than expanding it.

I guess they get kudos for removing “homosexuality” from the definition of “indecent acts” in 2023!

In any case, the question is whether there’s reason to believe this will be a slippery slope. There’s obviously a pattern of increasing moral regulation throughout the country including book bans. That this particular instance of moral regulation was a bit complicated in its implementation and (allegedly) accidentally overzealous in its scope doesn’t negate the trend.
It's more of the scale you do your thing. For the quick and dirty thing, I'm going to write Torch model within the hours - where would I find a collaborator who is willing to start immediately within that time?
But it’s no unreasonable to assume that demand for CSAM would mean that supply would increase to satisfy it.
What a wonderfully written question... with a patently obvious answer: IEEE-754 floating point formats store the exponent in the most significant bits (other than the sign bit, which is why the question is limited to positive values).
Maybe it has to do with spending those calories before it gets stored as fat. If you consume glucose, it first gets stored as glycogen in the muscles for short term storage. Maybe if you burn that energy as glycogen then, it doesn't count?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerodynamics
This works well in some ecosystems, but the C ecosystem has a "don't pessimize my weird implementation" goal. A bunch of different platforms wrap integers at different widths (or do different things entirely). Say you want to define it. Great! You probably pick the most common case. But now there is some weird embedded system that doesn't provide this wrapping behavior in hardware and the compiler needs to emit code to implement the wrapping and now all integer operations are slower on this target. These devs are now mad!

To get the "just define it all" approach you need people on weird ecosystems to be okay with paying for it. You think it is worth paying for (and I do too, frankly). But a significant portion of both the C and C++ communities don't - and that makes this very very hard.
As a counter, if you lose weight without exercising the body tends to prioritise getting rid of muscle and connective tissue before it even reaches fat stores. It then makes the rest of the process more difficult leading to higher chance of failure.

If you combine calorie deficit, a body that is in dire need of energy, high fasting insulin leading to inability to reach into fat stores, underdeveloped mitochondria making burning fat even more difficult, your result is body that prioritises burning protein for fuel.

If you exercise not only the body gets signal to preserve the tissue and muscles that are being loaded, but also keeps building mitochondria that are necessary to effectively burn more fat.
I like the term parsley code!

I do suspect though that both the hashing and 6-bit weight examples are just extremely rare in the corpus. It wasn't confused about loops, or hashing generally, but just didn't do as well as antirez would have liked. The description of the 6-bit to "why don't I just cast this to 8-bits" thing is definitely a problem. And worse, it's a problem a more junior engineer might not understand. But I suspect that a model trained on a corpus with lots more bit manipulation would have been fine, as it wasn't complex.

Clearly we just need a fine tuned one :).
Or god wanted them all to die, but human technological advances made them live.
I thought it was closer to 4, if you total up everyone on WhatsApp too.
Yes, although depositing so many coins at the bank each week that they are having to let you in the back door isn't exactly low profile behavior!

LTR's record keeping/monitoring must have been abysmal if they didn't realize the sudden drop in revenues when they hired this guy, unless the person he replaced had been doing the same !
I'll bet they baselined 20% and started comparing it to the previous month or previous year. After many years, they probably established norms that accounted for this 20% loss unknowingly.
> but you're factually incorrect

I've provided the actual facts that you ingored

> HTML attributes were literally created to do the exact thing that you seem to think is a smoking gun.

1. You complain, and I quote, "proprietary syntax to inject janky control structure".

What's this then:

click->gallery#next
keydown.ctrl+a->listbox#selectAll
resize@window->gallery#layout
click->gallery#open:capture
scroll->gallery#layout:!passive

2. Do read up on what DSL means. The fact that you're using custom tags to implement it don't make any less of a DSL, and any less of a proprietary syntax.

Though... You know what? Don't bother. Zealots are blind.

Adieu.
There is an impedance problem when working on a new project.

At the beginning, when there's 0% of the task done, and you need to start _somewhere_, with a hello world or a CMakeLists file or a Python script or whatever, it takes effort. Before ChatGPT/LLM, I had to pull that effort out from within myself, with my fingertips. Now, I can farm it out to ChatGPT.

It's less efficient, not as powerful as if I truly "sat down and did it myself," but it removes the cost of "deciding to sit down and do it myself." And even then, I'm cribbing and mashing together copy-pasted fragments from GitHub code search, Stackoverflow, random blog posts, reading docs, Discord, etc. After several attempts and retries, I have a "5% beginning" of a project when it finally takes form and I can truly work on it.

I sort of transition from copy-pasting ChatGPT crap to quickly create a bunch of shallow, bullshit proofs-of-concept, eventually gathering enough momentum to dive into it myself.

So, yes, it's slower, and more inefficient, and ChatGPT can't do it better than I can. But it's easier and I don't have to dig as deep. The end result is I have much more endurance in the actual important parts of the project (the middle and end), versus burning myself out on the beginning.
If a future Congress cannot secure the votes to pass the necessary laws to implement a treaty their predecessors [or the House refuses to implement a treaty the Senate] ratified, who is at fault?
Used to have grease spots on the living room wall adjacent to my dad's computer, where 6yr old me and my 4yr old brother were leaning against the wall while watching dad play Duke Nukem and Quake. (mom didn't allow us to play these games)
I have a question about the design.

On the screenshot on the homepage https://schedule-x.dev/ the events are touching the left border of the box for the day, but there's a gap between the event and the right border of the box.

Google Calendar does that as well, and I found it quite ugly. I didn't know whether they did it deliberately (maybe I'm the only one who doesn't like it? or maybe there's some functionality associated with that that I haven't worked out?)

So I can't ask the developers of Google Calendar but I can ask you :) Is there a reason for laying out the calendar that way? Or is that just the convention now that Google Calendar does that?

I see you've obviously put thought into the design so I don't think it's an oversight on your part (although it may be on Google Calendar's part).
If njuffa and edp have weighed in on a floating-point question, it is canonically answered (if you're really lucky you might sometimes get one of the French to join in, but any combination of 2 suffices).
What is this "ever increasing sum of money"? Recording industry revenues peaked in the CD era in the late 90s/early 00s. People pay significantly less money on average today and have access to infinitely more music. And the "purchase and own forever" model you mention hasn't gone anywhere. Everyone is free to buy MP3s/CDs/Vinyl or whatever else. It just doesn't make sense for the majority of people, because no one wants to listen to a single album on repeat for a month.
It's funny that you won't call your favorite social network by its new name.

You seem to be conflating your own use of and preference for X with some kind of overall victory for X over its competitors.

Why is Threads dead? Because the people you follow don't use it? In the second half of 2023, Threads gained significant users/downloads/traffic and X... went the other way.

It's easy for you to ignore Meta, yes. It is even easier for Meta to be ignored by you. You disregard the rather salient fact that Meta has 3 billion daily users of its products, and growing. Its 2023Q3 profit was $11.6 billion, double that of the previous year.
All events I've attended the last months explicitly mentioned having moved away from Twitter, and speakers have dropped twitter as the way to catch up after talks - mostly in favour of LinkedIn, which is tragic.
At least the LLM is in the same time zone...
Wishful is an understatement here. I can’t comment on their products being good or bad thought. I like some of it and don’t bother with others.
> Stop from doing what? Threads is even deader than Mastodon.

To me that's kind of the point of Mastodon actually. It's not a 24/7 engagement machine. I scroll down a bit, and I'm already looking at posts from December 5.

But what's in between is pretty much that I wanted to see, and it doesn't try to raise my blood pressure in an effort to keep me watching ads and angrily firing off messages at people.

Of course it's going to look unimpressive stats-wise compared to Twitter, but to me that's the very point. I don't want infinite crap. I want less, but good.
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Just say it's a glitch but never write a fix ticket and it will hang.
By turning its presence on a resume into a red flag.
Hey, please don't give up on democracy! Assuming you're in the US, that is one version of democracy that favours a two party system, but there are lots of others in the world! Countries with more coalition governments have very different looking democracies to that in the USA.

Besides that, the US (and all countries) have a lot going on that isn't just their voting systems. I.e. capitalisism, regulations or lack thereof, other existing power structures etc

This world has a bunch of scary problems, but I really feel (and I think the evidence shows) that we need more representation to solve them, not less!
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It's funny that they summarise all the ways that attribute((cleanup)) is already being used successfully, then make up some stuff about a problem that it allegedly has (which doesn't affect any of the users), then try to shoehorn defer in again.

Just standardize attribute((cleanup)) as it is already widely implemented and used, and stop messing around with defer nonsense.
I don't understand which part was devastating.
Anime also drove the development of a lot of subtitling technology if I remember correctly.
If you work in a regulated industry (medical, aerospace, auto) you need tracability of all code changes, so even your case 1 needs a ticket reference. Was it a bug? A feature change? Is it linked to requirements? Has it been tested and verified? Which release will it be in?
Even "literally"? While my original comment was just a Stannis joke, I really think you need to rethink how useless it is to have a word that means both "not figuratively" and "figuratively" (by common usage) at the same time. If it means both, we literally have no further use for it in the English language because it modifies nothing.

Why not have the word "no" mean "yes" and "no" while we're at it?
> OP is clearly an experienced engineer

You think? He's the creator of Redis.
This is a tech forum for discussing technology. This isn't the place for that, and honestly I'd prefer not to have to sift through a bunch of pedantic grammar nitpicking on here.
Technocracy.
Now it’s time to convince you that “western” representative democracy is not the end-all and be-all of democratic systems.

Democracy means the people have the power. The electoral and representative system most countries have in place in more or less the same way is a rough first stab at that.
This is my found of the day!

Thank you!
He could have stopped stealing when he wanted to have a more lavish life style and they wouldn't be have been able to catch him (at least not red handed).
As a generative artist, I experimented with flow fields for a while but found them rather limited, especially given how many people use them. It's hard to distinguish yourself if you do what everyone else is doing.
Great point! Unfortunately I do most of these generative art experiments as SVGs to feed to an axidraw machine (https://shop.evilmadscientist.com/productsmenu/846), but gut feeling says that in these canvas examples where sampling screen colors is possible your suggested method would be faster, and much more so for smaller lines and if the canvas is big.

I'll try to make an edit to the article where I try it out when I'm off work.

Thanks for the tip!
«In one famous example of the flaws of fMRIs [Harris' PHd topic], researchers used a dead salmon as their fMRI subject. The salmon was shown a series of images of various human social situations, designed to evoke an emotional response. The researchers found that, using the standard methods employed by neuroscientists and psychologists, the dead salmon responded to the images, illustrating the insanely high false-positive rate of fMRI research.

[The statistician William Briggs, having studied the thesis] summarises:

“During the course of my investigation of scientism and bad science, I have read a great many bad, poorly reasoned papers. This one might not be the worst, but it deserves a prize for mangling the largest number of things simultaneously.”»
Interesting video. Other reasons billionaires would be on the side of failure are their isolation from common views and sensibilities, and they have much more resources permitting them a safety net and insulation from whatever happens. They'll be fine, whatever happens, so they can experiment on or fuck everyone else if they want and have more power than most to do it. They can "chop down all of the trees on the island and make Moai", but then move to Europe, Hawaii, or Mars.

Another point is that most civilizations last roughly 10 generations, or 250 years, on average. Doomers like Thom Hartmann brought up a reference to this a few years back, and there's something to it. I think the cyclical "saeculum" is a better model because it defines collapse crisis points happen in cycles, and that civilizations don't just disappear, they diffusely fall apart and are either reformed or replaced after there is sufficient decline, strife, and chaos. Most of the time, people choose periodic, limited reform.

tldr: If you're not a billionaire, billionaires don't
care about your survival.

PS: Perhaps the prevalence of works of fiction dealing with apocalyptic themes are a sociological thermometer, and that memetic replication of this possibly leads to a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy that doesn't necessarily need to happen. For example, climate change isn't a binary, omnicidal apocalypse (or not) and most of it its worst effects are reversible for -$10T's spent on efficient carbon sequestration.
Temp over time makes sense, temp over the last 2 digits of the year?
So you think we should extend humans life so they can spend more hours on the couch eating junk food?

30% of the worlds population is currently 'severly food insecure' (starving) [1].

Dont you think the priority first should be sorting out enough food for the existing population? When 100% of the world is fed properly and well, and we have surplus food, then maybe extending life should be come a scientific priority.

[1] - https://www.who.int/news/item/06-07-2022-un-report--global-h...
That link worked yesterday but not today.
Does the article discuss how to wean the parents' generation off of Facebook? I don't think it does... And if not, then grandparent's question stands - what is it that Meta must be prevented from doing?
Have any other games ever captured that feeling for you as those two releases? Not for me.
Making $17/hr in 1994 is equivalent to $31/hr in 2023.

Then again it was Alberta so even minimum wage workers were probably making $17/hr back then since housing costs would have been nuts, or anything really.
what's the late cut-off in Japan, 2 minutes?
ICE may not, but the federal government has every right to regulate immigration, including defending a border to make sure people don't arrive without papers to begin with.
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The people working on my care and selling me one are often immigrants too.
Why assume that you have to charge every user the same amount and then divide up the income fractionally based on usage? An (arguably simpler) alternative is you begin by paying a fixed constant amount to the artist for every stream, then figure out a pricing model.

I'd also argue that "fairness" is not really that important. One could in theory charge a fixed monthly rate to customers and pay a fixed constant fee to artists as long as the company's finances work out favorably. It's not really the customer's business how the company's costs are distributed.
Just FYI, most (all?) of those are in years-old versions of evergreen browsers, no affected versions listed are supported I don't think.
They did, but you had to do without for a few weeks while they replaced it.