skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I studied english in a "traditional" English school back in Italy: study grammar, do homeworks etc. However my listening and speaking was thanks to playing mmorpg (final fantasy xiv). Became friend with a Mexican guy and we talked for hours and hours for many days. When I was trying to immigrate into Canada I had to take an English test (I already took a similar one) and I knew my speaking and listening skills were way below my writing and reading skills. This time after the test my listening and speaking skills were higher than my writing, and all the scores were really high. Very satisfying I must say.
All war is about equipment not people; logistics has always been the primary weapon of war.

US is simply not a party to Ukraine’s war; they are supplying equipment in a very minimal capacity.
Ask HN: Devs what permissions do you require sometimes to complete your work?
Hi, what sort of permissions like GitHub, jira, azure etc. you require to get your daily tasks done? And how often do you require them? I am talking about junior devs who don't get all the permissions at once!
Blackberry was at its most valuable 2 years after the iPhone came out and a year before Android was released.
The government is clearly not taking care of that by regulating the labor market, given the difficult it has in classifying “gig work”.

For example

> The fundamental feature of freelance work is that you get your own customers and you are not dependent on a market maker who cuts you in.

Are electrical/plumbing/painting/etc subcontractors hired by a general contractors freelancing?
Thank you for explaining it. I'm curious if it's just a bad implementation.
I look at his work and feel love. What a great guy. Such depth, breadth and sensitivity.

Forget collecting art. I think I'd rather collect artists.

And he was a theosophist!
Vietnam did not invade and occupy USA. What are we even talking about here?
Nuclear isn’t a great option for grid stability - you can’t easily vary it like gas or pumped or biomass.
> India is not in the U.S. sphere of influence

Financing the Abraham Accords [0], using American engines in tanks [1], American fighter jet engines in Indian fighter jets [2], and being a part of 2 bilateral treaty organizations [3][4] absolutely puts India in the US Sphere of Influence.

> has not even voted to condemn Russia

India will never piss off Russia, because India doesn't want Russia to join the Chinese camp [5]. By keeping trade and defense ties with Russia, India minimizes the chances of Russia becoming pro-China instead of neutral during an India-China war (which almost happened in 2020) [6].

Mistreatment of Indian students in Ukraine during the war made a vote in favor of Ukraine politically untenable during election season [7]

[0] - https://www.axios.com/2023/09/07/saudi-india-uae-us-railway-...

[1] - https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/economy/logistics/ameri...

[2] - https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/why-ge-pl...

[3] - https://www.state.gov/i2u2/

[4] - https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...

[5] - https://carnegieendowment.org/2023/11/06/india-in-emerging-w...

[6] - https://theprint.in/defence/nearing-breaking-point-gen-narav...

[7] - https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/punjab/ukraine-crisis-stra...
Generating gas (=baseload power) from solar is also a solved problem, and is cheaper and safer than operating nuclear plants.
This sounds like a Google experience - not something that happens at Amazon. Which is perhaps why OPs professor joined Amazon again after complaining.
The internet is a lesser example, but yes, it is also true for a million fans posting their own fan art.

Arm those million fans with GenAI instead of pen and paper and MS Paint, and it gets more extreme.

But I disagree WRT Photoshop; that takes much more effort to get anything close to what GenAI can do, and (sans piracy) is too expensive for amateurs. Even the cheaper alternatives take a lot of effort to get passable results that take tens of seconds with GenAI.
They're different kinds of easy...

Writing fresh code is easy because you just express your ideas. What's hard is hitting all the contingencies appropriately; it can take years of 'burn in' to get right.

Reading code is easy - especially if you don't know the language well - because someone has already assembled all the correct syntax, etc. What's hard is that the code may be convoluted from years of monkey-patches to handle all those inconvenient contingencies, to the point of obscuring the core ideas. eg, making you search through ten nested indirections to figure out how something actually executes...

On the writing side, LLM's make it much easier to have the idiomatics of the language easily on hand. (eg, I never ever remember the exact way to use 'super' in python... but ML assistance is happy to fill in the parens as soon as I start them.)
> There has already been an increase in large scale events (LSE) throughout Amazon , but AWS is so big most customers don’t notice. This is a direct result of RTO and Amazon’s silent sacking of thousands of people.

Last sentence is pure bullshit
Flutter if you don't need multi-window support. Examples:

Ubuntu AppCenter: https://github.com/ubuntu/app-center

Android Nearby Share (Windows): https://www.android.com/better-together/nearby-share-app/

Google OneVPN: https://one.google.com/about/vpn

Rows.com (spreadsheets): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEdQXBUPYOE

Superlist (project management): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihpcubpQHA0

Supernova (collab. design): https://flutter.dev/showcase/supernova

Rive studio (animation): https://flutter.dev/showcase/rive

APIDash (Postman alt): https://github.com/foss42/apidash
For me the test is: What unethical action would optimize profits for company X? And what is the control mechanism that prevents them from doing so? If the answer to question 2 is None, there's a good possibility the answer to 1 is already happening.
>Because each arm experiences the same atmospheric conditions, the arms look identical.

Thanks. But I'm still not convinced. If it is just that the microclimate around the seed is the same, why aren't adjacent crystals identical?
If the book was print-on-demand, nobody at Amazon ever saw or touched the book. And Amazon is not running recurring audits, not even for initial shipments, on those small external partners. What happens, is that as soon as too many concessions are triggered (refubds or replacements), the partner gets warned or shut down (depending on the clout the partners Amazon contacts have, well, politics do happen...). Or, if the partner is big and important enough, people like me at the time, whom are operationally responsible for that partner, get the assigent to straighten things out togwther with retail.

With millions of customers every day so, the number of fuck ups is high in absolute numbers. It is, at least as far as I ever saw, minuscule in relation to the overall volume handled. Much lower, I might add, than anything I ahve ever seen in aerospace manufacturing for example.
> IMO desperate person who tries to buy 90 pills of Oxycodone with forged prescription (OP's example) needs help, not a criminal record.

Sure I definitely don't have a strong opinion on this. I don't have nearly enough first hand experience helping someone with a serious drug problem, or dealing with one myself. The debate over the best way to help people in this situation is firmly in the space of one that I'm happy to weigh in on but would heavily lean on those more experienced to share what they've found to work best.

Unrelated to drug charges, I was involved in helping a close relative through a criminal case that was entirely based on the testimony of one individual, with no hard evidence and other witnesses directly refuting the claim. I have very strong opinions about the legal system in general that would land me pretty squarely on the "provide help not a criminal record" in a vast majority of cases. Our legal system is a complete shit show.
So you might be able to turn this into your advantage. The zillion people embedding your great work will be on the hook if it turns out they haven't performed sufficient due diligence on ffmpeg. And who knows, you might get them to sponsor you to get security audits or documentation done. Could be their "ticket out of jail" one day!
> That wasn’t the objective of the war

The objective of the war was to prevent the spread of communism. That goal was achieved.
Very much rooting for Argentina's Milei to provide a similar lesson in modern times but I am afraid that he has very few allies helping him (besides his own idiosyncrasies) and the current laptop class would simply ignore it as they ignored Venezuela's lesson...
Nor did voting Remain. The EU isn't a static thing.
The letter reported here specifically mentions the FBI and doesn't mention the CIA. The press doesn't mention the CIA because it isn't in the letter the article is about. https://assets.ctfassets.net/vyse88cgwfbl/6KDtp7U4IcH03zPWnp...
What do you think accounts for the increase?
My experience

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38474212
OpenAI is selling a service.

In the terms of this service they explicitly reassign rights of the output to the user. So implicitly they believe they own the rights and are legally able to reassign them to you, a user of their service.

In my view they do not own those rights originally and thus are unable to resign them.
I like plaintext
Who says you can't do that? They would be thrilled to have silicon valley (or equivalent) talent working for India salaries.
If there was a cloud equivalent to the iPhone I feel like I would have heard about it. It could have been Kubernetes, but it hasn’t been.

Maybe it’s them being behind on GenAI. Of course all of the OpenAI competition is trained on commodity cloud services that are basically lift and ship to any cloud with GPU capacity - so Amazon is at worst in the middle of the pack.
Given how cheap 20kWh of battery is compared with the total cost of a house it’s shocking that there aren’t building requirements mandating that much storage.
Due the fact that i need to create repos, i have the admin permission for our group of projects. Soon will i request the AAP2 permission and im one of the group admins of the buildserver and our quay group.
> won “militarily” and lost “politically” or some other cope

If you go by deaths, USA did very well in Vietnam. However, with wars of insurgency people like The Butcher showed that far more deaths are required to win than is palatable

I was going to respond to each of your points carefully, but since you mentioned that Iraq’s leadership remained in power after 1991 as some kind of rebuttal, I am not certain I should. Indeed, overthrowing Iraq’s government was not a war aim there.
Nope, you get severance either way.
It's also due to the fact, that many German buildings are old and therefore carry poor ventilation parameters.

Newer buildings probably don't need shock ventilation, as it's better by design.
I’m opposite about the feeling.

When I work on a problem that’s new to me, I ask around, explaining the problem, checking if someone recognizes the domain, if it is known.

When someone explains to me what I’m working on is a solved problem, I take great joy from it since I already understand the issue some, I can criticize or take great energy from learning something for sure.

I believe how to feel about it is a choice btw. As movie says “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life”.
In Common Lisp you put the print statement inline, it will return the result of the form you pass it so it doesn't change the results. If you want to know what f is returning in the form (h (f (g x))) you'd (h (print (f (g x)))) and it will print what f returns to the repl.

Or use Stickers provided by Sly which sort of log things as they change. https://joaotavora.github.io/sly/#Stickers In that case you'd highlight the form starting at f, and turn a sticker on. Then run the code, sticker outputs into a window.
Yes because openAI explicitly reassigns the rights of the output to the user. They do not have legal grounds to claim ownership of those rights and thus CANNOT reassign them.
Looks like it was partly updated in 2018. Tempting to flag - but HN's FAQ doesn't mention "reasonably up-to-date" anywhere, so...
Midjourney V6 photorealistic images collection
If the set theorists knew how to farm, then we wouldn't need the NSF to give them money.
> New OSS governance and runtime binary attestation (aka DRM) layers are being defined by the CRA, e.g. only specific attested binaries from open-source trees that follow specific development practices would be allowed to run in critical systems

That doesn't seem like what the CRA stipulates. I think it's more about manual attestation in its most traditional meaning, i.e, an organization attests that X software is secure.
Maybe this is true for many parts of Amazon culture, but the big factor recently is that the RTO mandate is company-wide. With very few exceptions, it doesn't matter what org you're in, RTO affects you, and can have a drastic change on the entire company's culture.
Microsoft's Copilot app is now available on iOS (freely run GPT4)
> In this place and at this time: We are safe letting one LEO-adjacent individual feel - well maybe not welcome but at least a lower level of mob noise. We don't have to put their haunches up by pushing back with everything we have.

Totally agree. This thread did go off the rails quite a bit. My main point wasn't actually even whether any one LEO can or should be trusted, I assume a vast majority of them are in the job with good intentions. My aim was more so at the power structure of any LEA or government in general, they should never be trusted IMO even when we're willing to take the risks of centralizing power for some greater good.
I (and my company) are just incorporating LLMs into our products everywhere where they make sense. Which requires our engineers to know a lot more about them. We work with source code and data from clients and as such we have to use self hosted LLMs, so ops for ai related services is becoming a thing. I think this will become normal; it’s a tool to use next to other tools, for now.
John Stuart Mill's advice on human flourishing
Clang is able to convert the code to a jump table, though GCC can't.

https://c.godbolt.org/z/Wq65j4rrM

> What would it take to make the compiler optimize this code meaningfully?

To make GCC compile the code meaningfully, it suffices to add a bunch of else statements:

https://c.godbolt.org/z/z4KvxnbfG

In fact, GCC gets very clever at -O3.

(what matters is whether the compiler can turn the sequence of ifs into a switch statement, then both compilers have special logic to generate a lookup table.)
I doubt India government would grant a business visa for that.

They don’t want other countries citizens competing for jobs in their own country, which is effectively what is happening in the us now.
The article cites windows opening inward as a reason for inefficient ventilation, yet the answer is to… insulate less?

> The key may be to have less insulation, because the current system seems to be too airtight to accomodate for residents' differing preferences

Why not change the windows to open outward/upward?
Minimal. Most houses have thick walls and there is a lot of accumulated energy - the air reheats quickly after closing the windows.
This regulation is so shitty. I'm quite sure that it is supported by big actors in the end, because the end goal is to ensure to have a regulatory barrier that will avoid small actors to be able to strive in the software field.

Also, to avoid "dangerous" not yet professional amateurs having a chance against big editors.
While a great concept in practical reality we live under a system of laws not of our individual devising, and known to be imperfect. While we can advocate for reform, reality is, LLM makers will be judged under the current law as it currently is formulated. The novelty will be the LLM and its technologies, not a total rethink of copyright under some noble cultural openness concept.

So, it’s not actually a corporate narrative, it’s actually the law that the narrative stems from, right or wrong. Maybe corporations had a huge role in shaping the law (I’d note copyright benefits individuals as well, though), but it is not mere propaganda or shaping of a shared reality through corporate narrative. It’s enforced by the guys with the guns and jails, as arbitrated by a judge.

It absolutely must be about the technicalities of the law as it’s at the basis a legal issue. By hand waving it away and claiming the social narrative is the right discussion you ignore the material consequences and reality in favor of a fantasy. We absolutely should -also- discuss the stifling nature of copyright and intellectual property, but you can’t ignore what’s actually happening here at the same time.
Tokens are frozen "in-place" pending investigation. It differs from how it works with btc, because the government does not have control of the private keys that manage the addresses in question - so they go to Tether who controls the smart contract that manages the transactions of the tokens.

This, in practice, means that the US government controls the mentioned tokens for the moment. What happens with them depends entirely on the outcome of the investigation.
> Why do you want/need a PCI based card?

Because I don’t know of any USB device that can do 96 channels of pro IO. Also, it always seemed preferable to me to avoid the issue of ‘yet another wire’ and ‘yet another source of latency’.

Being attached to the PCI bus always felt like the most robust approach to getting audio in with the lowest latency (which it is on Windows).

I’d probably prefer to look at Dante/AES67 before USB, unless there’s a compelling reason not to. Mostly because it gives room for future expansion where a fixed soundcard doesn’t.

> yes, on Linux with pipewire and Bitwig you can use multiple cards

How are you clocking the cards? If they don’t share a single clock then you’re gonna get phase issues. The idea of going back to a word-clock does not appeal to me! I’d much prefer a single device with one clock. The fewer moving parts, the better.
>I think it’s possible to do this with analog machines as well by factoring in threshold in and precision tolerances.

With enough compositions even the smallest tolerances will add up. This presents a scaling problem in analog electronics. With the miniaturization of electronics into nano scale components this noise is even more prevalent.

Additionally the way a transistor works it's just easier to use these things in saturation mode.

And one more thing. Yes precision can be "equivalent" but exactness is not. An analog computer cannot represent the value 1 consistently. It essentially can never be precise. There will always be noise on the voltage. A digital computer has finite precision but it has exact finite precision.. so it can represent the exact integer 1. And you can increase precision arbitrarily by using more bytes up to the point where you use up all available bytes in memory. You don't technically have to use the default floating point values which have limited size. With an analog computer you cannot do this at all.
>SP500 is risk free

I'm sorry, what?
> The state of computing security is dire, and governments around the world have rightly decided things can’t go on like this.

What is this? Software is more secure then ever.
Not if it's a special author's copy with no royalties.

It's not completely clear what's going on, maybe returns cause other issues, but he's claiming no royalties from either sale. If he's not just confused that's a big deal.
Ugrep is also available in Debian based repos, which is super nice.
It's like the ones arguing in favor of blatant AI theft have a monetary incentive to see that they succeed.

Or, gasp, they are LLMs themselves.
Requires the device to support the extended USB information query. Pixel devices do, at least, presumably your random Lenovo doesn't though for some reason so you'd need a "driver" (even though all the INF does is say "use the standard winusb driver")
Re: null, possibly a similar effect to the Null Island[0]? I.e. bugs causing empty queries to search for null instead.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Island?wprov=sfla1
Oh my god, where could we end up with? Like dividing these properties into apartments and selling them to families?
> for everything from schools and affordable housing

Affordable housing, eh? Maybe convert some of that CRE into housing then?
My favorite, or I suppose least favorite…, was when I received a “new” book that came with a bookmark of a single square of toilet paper.

Unsure about you all but there’s only one reason I might use a square of toilet paper as a bookmark.
> Ideally any new office space or residential would require a plan to convert to one or the other before being approved

That would be an excellent way of making new buildings too expensive to build.
Could they just...stop locking us out of our accounts? For some reason, even knowing the password, being on a device+network combination I've used a dozen times before and entering a login code generated on an already-logged-in device still isn't enough to prove my right to use the account these days...
Utility scale battery storage is already here which solves that issue. The price of renewables + storage is cheaper (there have been PPAs in the 8-12 cent range).

Also electric cars are not the demand generators that people think. I live in the New England region and our NE ISO has studied this and put out their forecast for the region already. Heat pumps are a much bigger issue.

https://www.iso-ne.com/static-assets/documents/2023/04/trans...
The UK isn't exactly begging people to immigrate. Quite the opposite. Legal immigration has blown through all records since the UK left the EU because the Conservative government set the salary thresholds very low.

This isn't what voters want or were promised at all, but there are currently no established parties in the UK that are willing to actually reduce immigration. They are all committed to allowing in the highest numbers possible.

In theory this behavior should be punished by voters, but if all the parties are the same then there isn't much voters can do except refuse to vote at all. This is what they're telling pollsters they'll do in the next GE. Polls predict a big shift to Labour, but this isn't because Labour is suddenly more popular. It's because the Conservative voters have become so disillusioned with being misled over the immigration issue that they're just refusing to vote at all.
I do not think this is surprising. DAI is a better alternative if you want a stablecoin that can't be frozen.
Straight to the source:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malware-dev-s...
Really? They often convert into really nice loft style apartments.
You sound like a vengeful parent. “Not getting to” is some fantasy of yours, in reality the UK is a sovereign nation and will do what it pleases and if the EU doesn’t agree to their terms there will be no union.
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