skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't disagree with anything you wrote. Especially

> inculcating a love of learning and the life of the mind is the whole ballgame. If the vast majority of students aren't in this boat, and instead they're just trying to check a box to graduate, the whole thing is super broken.

Which... Yup. The whole thing is super broken. It has been for a generation. (It's maybe always been at least a little broken? Complaints about students not caring about the life of the mind and only craving the credential were common in the middle ages, too!)

Here's a counterpoint for discussion, which I'm not sure I fully believe in: LLMs can support life-of-the-mind learning. (Even if you think they aren't there yet, their trajectory is clear.) Even apart from that, they will be used everywhere, outside of the classroom. Don't educators have a responsibility to train students in their responsible use?
Consumers deeply do not care about these quibbles. If the media is popular enough they will just pirate it.
I would guess that additions are pretty important in deep learning workloads. For backpropagation, accumulator on the big delta matrix is very important.
That’s absolutely hilarious.
Broot – Get an overview of a directory, even a big one
That’s just a classic PR maneuver
Right, I misspoke saying copyright.
The answer is abolishing copyright. Not to save these shows. For other reasons. But saving these shows would be nice.
Parent seems to think that Antirez has been begrudgingly pulled along by the tide of LLM hype, not as if Antirez is an accomplished developer whose judgement on tools can be trusted.
Pirating it and storing it on your own storage system. Copyright is unlikely to change materially in the next decade or two.

Quality copies make their way into long term archival systems, for when copyright is possibly less insane. 50 years? 100 years? Doesn't matter, those copies will be safe for the future. It will take time for the electorate and the representatives they elect to turn over ("progress occurs one funeral at a time").
Yes

https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/red-pla...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10055329/Spirit-Air...

https://nypost.com/2023/03/09/plane-passengers-slammed-for-g...
Maybe he is just waiting for the right investor that has a purpose for the codec so he can reinburse his time investment.

Making it opensource now would just ruin that leverage.

I am with you OP
Those ten hypothetical people would likely have actually been zero because the task wouldn't have been worth hiring ten people.
But but our notification policy is just “Do you want notifications, including security alerts, new messages, emergency information about your account, and promotional messages and advertisements, and you agree that we can sell all your data”?

There’s literally no way we could break that down! How can we guess what the user wants when they REFUSE to tell us! I guess we better just leave it so they can opt out if they successfully navigate all 6 toggles, but if they do that we better just flag their account for suspicious activity because I don’t know why anybody would ever opt out. Seems suspicious to me.
also, two centuries ago, we didn't have trucks and the concomitant infrastructure, jobs, wealth, etc. that machines brought along.
Raptor - Call of the shadows
Like traffic lights, physically separate can be different colors. Red-green colorblindness is most common though, so your easiest bet is to only pick colors where red or green is always zero, then vary the amount the other and blue. If choosing LEDs, most are single-frequency, so ignoring anything orange or lower frequencies removes most of the redundant choices; leaves green, yellow, blue, violet. They're plenty of good websites out there for details.
Good luck with whatever your goals are!
Bad metaphor and worse that you use it to inform your conclusion. If you must have one then use training wheels, experts don’t need training wheels beginners do, simple as that. Though the utility of LLMs goes much further as the author points out, it can often make the boring or tedious parts easier so you can add assistive peddling to the metaphor. To carry it to the end, once you have four wheels and a motor it’s not long before someone invents the car.
Ok great feedback, your point seems extremely valid, thank you!
$450 for a custom, hand-made leather backpack is a pretty decent price. Leather bags last forever if taken care of and look better as they age. That could easily be a lifetime bag.
That’s cool, for you C is in fact a daily coding language and I’m probably a little jealous that you get to do low level, performance critical work regularly.
I don't see how this is relevant to people stealing to sell on the black market. Reducing usage of food banks has nothing to do with stealing to sell on the black market.
If you want the flags right now you can install this font:

https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Flags.html
Take to the seas!
If there is no means to legally watch something after 10 years, then it shouldn't be illegal to pirate it.
> I did play all of it but it didn't have the feeling of the shareware version, weirdly enough. Kids interact with things differently.

my parents got me those kiosk cds filled with shareware and demos back in the day, also had way more fun pushing the bounds of each small demo than investing in a full story
What is bad about non-citizens, on temporary visa's, not getting to bring in their family?
I agree that the case for banning electronics during takeoff and landing is much stronger than the case for banning them for the whole flight, but I'm primarily objecting to FrustratedMonky claiming that we shouldn't ever chose policies that would lead to additional deaths, regardless of the level of inconvenience that this would impose.

If you wanted to give a fermi calculation for the fraction of aircraft traveler deaths that this proposal would prevent I'd be happy to think more about this, and you might convince me. My sense that the tradeoff is not worth it is based on thinking that (a) there aren't that many deaths to be prevented and (b) banning the devices wouldn't increase the chance of survival during an evacuation by very much.
At this place

https://ithacareuse.org/

I saw a CD player for $15 with a digital out. I have one of these

https://www.amazon.com/Sony-CDP-CX355-Storage-Compact-Change...

that I plugged into a home theater system and filled up with DTS Music discs which are compressed audio in the same 5.1 format used for movie soundtracks, and if you play them on a home theater they play exactly like a movie soundtrack. Fragile by Yes, Machine Head by Deep Purple, and Maximum-Minimum by Kraftwerk are just a few of the albums that sound amazing with it.
The NeurIPS 2023 Paper Awards (2023)
Of course, one way to avoid it is not to make it there:

I love 60th birthdays
I like the whooshing sound
they make as they go by.

- Douglas Adams (died aged 49)

Pack it all in.
You don't know how long you have.

Douglas is now lying in Highgate Cemetery, near to Malcolm McLaren, Karl Marx, George Michael (d. 53), Michael Faraday and Alexander Litvinenko (d. 44) - maybe don't take your tea near that one :)
Food poverty and especially child food poverty are inexcusable political choices. This political choice is supported by a small plurality of morally defunct voters who have been compromised by several decades of propaganda from the oligarch class via tabloids and the press.
When you go grow a multicolor tab bar, and just happen to use a near identical colors to your compeitors. I'm not even talking true UI... just cloing look and feel wholesale with the serial numbers filed off...
Any specific things you can call out?
Well, at the very least the answer would be softening copyright to the point where the kind of sampling that kind of media did is permissible again without clearing every single piece sampled. However that would effectively kill copyright because the only way those shows were able to do that was, in a way, what we now call "backroom deals".
Hiring top talent for startup: US vs. UK?
Hi HN,

I run a tech startup that's grown to $20M ARR. While we are relatively big, we are incredibly cash strapped till Q3 due to debt we took on last year and are currently paying back.

We've built a mostly B or C team, and it really annoys me. We are slow, we are not up for big challenges, and people are, on average, not that brilliant. Our of our nearly 120 employees, I think I have ONE A player. However, they are also functioning at 60%.

In Q3, I'll finally have a large budget to sit and focus on building out our team. Now I'm trying to figure out: what are the optimal circumstances? We really screwed it up with our first batch of key hires after our seed round: US Product Manager, US Head of Customer Success - quit; US Head of Sales, US Head of Engineering - fired.

Today we are fully remote, should I get an in person office going? In general, which city should I hire talent from? I live in San Francisco and sometimes LA, but find the culture here generally too laid back. New York? But to keep a high quality, let's say, marketer, interested long term, they're going to want $200-220k base (and that's not even that competitive). Which is fine, but that will slow down hiring. London? I found some interesting programs where I can hire Oxbridge grads interested in startups for $40k USD (update: with a bit of professional experience; the program sets 1st year pay @ $40k but I'd gladly 3/5X their pay if they work out.) In terms of budget, I'd love to aim for $180k/key hire and to go as high as $300k if appropriate.

As for what exactly I'm trying to hire for, lots of key hires: department heads, digital marketers, content people, engineers, AI engineers, operations people, strategy people, and more.

I don't know enough about all the working cultures in these places, but I want to find and incentivize people who are willing to own and take responsibility for an area of the business, be trusted to make good decisions, and view it as their responsibility to improve their areas drastically, more than the typical 9-5.

What do you think?

Also, any other practical tips for finding awesome people like this?
> It's hard for media to become lost these days

Not exactly "these days", but not the early 1900s, either: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_missing_episodes
> Where are the other ten hypothetical people?

Zoned out somewhere in the backstreets of SF
It's revolutionized our in house tooling at work.

No longer do I need to give PR feedback more than a couple times, because we can just ask chatgpt to come up with a lint rule that detects and sometimes auto-fixes the issue. I use it to write or change Jenkins jobs, scaffold out tests, diagram ideas from a monologue brain dump, write alerting and monitoring code, write and clean up documentation.

Most recently I wanted to get some "end of year" stats for the teams, normally it would never have happened because I don't have half a day to dedicate to relearning the git commands, and how to count the lines of code and attribute changes to teams and script the whole process to work across 20 repos.

20 minutes later with chatgpt I had results I could share within the company.

It's just allowed me to skip almost all of the boring and time consuming parts of handling small things like that, and instead turns me into a code reviewer who makes a few changes to make it good enough then pushes it out
I just can't see it making a difference. If they somehow catch the thieves, will they arrest them? What will happen afterwards? Will anyone sit in jail? Will it actually make a difference?

My experience with living in the UK is that new laws/regulations/whatever come into effect but in reality there is very little enforcement.

The rules only worked because people generally just followed them. If people don't follow them, I don't believe the system is equipped to handle it.

There courts are overloaded, the police are overworked and I don't know the state of the prisons, but my gut tells me it's not great.
In applications like graphics rendering or scientific computations, how does the choice of precision in floating-point representation (single vs double precision) affect the accuracy and performance of logarithmic calculations, especially when relying on this approximation method? Are there benchmarks or scenarios where the difference between these representations is particularly notable?
>forgetting is a filter

Exactly. Spaced repetition is a remarkably effective learning technique, but it can't tell you what to learn.

At some point I think we have to stop listening to external authorities and rely on our own judgement about what to learn, and how to do so, as signalled by feelings of excitement about particular authors and ideas. One of the effects of formal education is to dampen or corrupt that intuition, e.g. by instilling the desire to learn things 'properly' (say in a certain prearranged sequence) or by the desire to only learn prestigious topics in order to impress other people.

If we are engaged meaningfully with reality we will inevitably revisit particular subjects or authors multiple times. This is an organic form of spaced repetition. Forgetting certain things is part of that: we learn to swim during the winter and to skate during the summer.
There is an ambulance at the bottom of the slide, 90 seconds is the target time for evacuating the entire plane in an emergency.

Having an EpiPen in the 90 seconds between your seat and the ambulance while fire is engulfing the tin can with ~400 people trying to get out 2 doors is 100% a luxury. (for the vast majority of humanity, having an EpiPen at all is a luxury)
Exactly this. It was almost like having your own little DesQview -- windowed floating text editor, DOS shell, scripting language, and a really full-featured dialer, all on three floppies.

(The fourth was a revolutionary display-a-GIF-while-it-downloads program, which would let you bail on the transfer early if the file wasn't shaping up to be what you wanted, or bail at 98% if you were shady and didn't want to use up the download credit because the board only counted completed transfers. It was barely related to the rest of TeleMate and had to be shelled out to, since it took over the display.)
use the available... or make yourself A fresh start (when feeling like it. Like in some total burnout. see Sacrifice by Tarkovsky)

There is a .bg saying .. "when the cart goes wheels up, roads are many.." that is usually taken negative - like "it's too late to fix stuff" - but could be used otherway around - do turn the cart wheels-up if u want more road/s..
Don't worry, pretending an `O(lg(n))` thing is `O(1)` thing never misleads or causes problems.

Actually it doesn't really, but that is a cultural time bomb in our thinking that will catch up to us someday.
Not just aircraft, ground vehicles have caused deaths by entering runways too.
In a frictionless market it would make sense to do that. But as Coase pointed out nearly a century ago[1] forming and monitoring the relationships that allow specialization involves a certain amount of overhead. At a certain point going through the hiring or vetting process to utilize another person's skills makes sense, but it looks like the author is very far from that point.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nature_of_the_Firm
It was more a curiosity driven statement. I think the similarity is interesting, that is all.
While we think of push more in context of notifs - this same logic can be applied to any recommendations that come over a channel where intent is to be inferred based on past behaviour versus determined based on user input - be it on email, or any messaging channel or even on a subsequent visit to a page.

While we can debate the merits/demerits of push - for practical commerce, a large part of the world still switches on push, and relevant push will deliver more concrete and better ROI.
This thread was started with throw0101d saying "I think forcing people to not have any distractions during take-offs and landings is a good thing", and we've been discussing how to weigh the inconvenience and boredom of prohibiting distractions against the reduced risk of death via more efficient evacuations.
This seems like a very impractical perspective to me. If there really was a "hardware store" that we could head off to to get what we need, it might be different. But in general, that's not the case.

There can also be significant overhead in looking elsewhere for a solution. That's a big part of why so many developers reinvent things. This is often dismissed as NIH syndrome, but there's more to it than that.

You raised "introductory macroeconomics". The economic effect that will most strongly apply in the case of LLMs is that of the technology treadmill (Cochrane 1958): when there's a tool that can improve productivity, it will be used competitively so that those who don't use it effectively, to improve their productivity, will be outcompeted.

This seems like an unavoidable result in typical capitalist economies.

Your point about leveraging hungry humans would require strong incentives to overcome the treadmill effect. Most Western countries don't have many ways to implement anything like that. The closest thing might be unions, but of course most software development is not unionized.
Wouldn't it be better to use FFI to build an idiomatic interface to use in Dart instead?
... what? Why is this posted as a reply to my question for examples?
Just turn on SMS notifications of any transactions on the account and disable any "app" notifications.
If modern software were as optimized as it had to be to run on Pentium 4’s and PowerPC G5’s it’d be amazing on modern hardware.

Photoshop 7/CS1 was pretty zippy on a decent PowerMac back then for instance, which would lead one to expect that a similarly well optimized graphics editor would be practically instantaneous on a M3 Max or Ryzen 7950X with how ridiculously more powerful that hardware is, but no such editors seem to exist.
To be fair, the article says that universal credit claimants were given a £20 uplift in their payments during the pandemic, and food bank usage and shoplifting fell.

Seems to me it's hard to visit a food bank when you're not allowed to leave the house, and hard to shoplift when all the shops are shut. And of course nobody was spending money on commuting, workwear, eating out, parties, holidays, haircuts, sports etc so a lot of people had more money during the pandemic (albeit with a far worse quality of life)

So it's far from clear that the drop in shoplifting was caused by the £20 uplift.
Show HN: SwiftBar 2.0 Powerful macOS menu bar customization tool
New release of my opensource project to help you build menu bar apps.

This release features a lot of new features, but I want to highlight two:

- Shortcuts Plugin - allows you to create menu bar apps from Shortcuts app
- Ephemeral Plugin - allows you to create a transient menu bar app, i.e. for notification
Yeah I remember that some of the notation in the proof confused me a bit too. I proved it to my satisfaction using a slightly different approach, but I don't remember it well enough to write it out. (I'm sure it's trivial for anyone with math chops, but I don't got them.)
> I used a 30hz 4k tv as a monitor back in the day

I used that exact same monitor!

I'm hopeful, but I'm a little less sanguine than you.

A big part of the reason why 4k got so popular is because there was so much 4k content available. And because it was easy to see how much better 4k looks than 1080p.

Neither is true of 8k.
I still miss Goldwave's easy expression editor. You could write one line of math and generate all sorts of waveforms, sweeps, etc.
(I don't think that's what most mean when they say 'chance', but I get what you mean ;) It's similar to realizing how seating choice radically alters your (very small) chance of death by train crash.

I was going to say 'chance of death on that day' but apparently rail transport is remarkably safe and in micromorts, you're as likely to die in one day at 20 years of age as in 10000 km by rail, or (only!) 1600 km by air.

Now, it appears that 1600 km is also nearly the distance of the average passenger flight (a disappointly difficult datum to discover on the internet in 2024). Is this a counterpart to the reassuring quips comparing the chances of death by lightning: that boarding a plane doubles your chances of dying that day?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort#Travel
It is interesting that you didn’t say “that’s not my twitter account” … is it??
I've found LLMs great for vague questions about functions and APIs whose details I've long forgotten. Recognising the right answer when it appears is often faster than digging through random results on google.
I'm a little baffled by the sampling problem. Is a few second small clip of something really representing some sea of lost income damage for the original? Or is it more like femto-dollars per viewing and they want it accounted for?
I loved that game! I was probably 4 years old playing that. My dad had to start it up for me. I think he still has a tape of me crying about it being too difficult. Great times.

I never did work out how to do the special attack...
>It feels like blatant disregard for a starving population.

Seems we in the US get our attitude toward the homeless from the brits as well. People like to say we have a problem with it, but there is something unique going on in the UK. Some mind boggling numbers I recently noticed:

UK: 67m population, 300k homeless

US: 330m population, 600k homeless

I guess it could come down to reporting who is "homeless", but still mindblowing that the UK is in such a dire state.
The richest artists are going to leave the platform, and do what; start their own, go back to iTunes, or rely on concerts? I can't see that happening, but I'm sure Spotify is capable of estimating how the revenue attribution scheme affects artist- and consequently subscriber retention.

I'm in favor of paying artists in proportion to time played; that's a granular vote by users.
TBH I don't need "fine grained rules for each app". There is only one rule I care about for most apps - block all notifications.
Besides my bad economy in the late 80's and start of 90's, as far I remember it was not so trivial from my country to pay for shareware or most commercial programs back then. If I had to pay for just one thing, probably would had done it with Sidekick.
I also had a licence for Kali. It was a great software.

I also paid for KClient, an IRC client with multi-server capabilities before mIRC had it, and you could script it with VBScript IIRC. But that may has been more around 200/2001.
The caloric restriction and the low body fat percentage resulting from it is not maintainable without the use of steroids. The body doesn't produce enough testosterone, which, among other things, means you'll feel tired all the time, have no motivation and no sex drive. But if I recall correctly, he's transparent about his steroid use.
Building is not a waterfall process because of the Planning act. It's waterfall because of the cost structure of building. Every time you iterate physically, you are throwing a lot of money away in time and materials. So any iteration is pushed back to the paper part of the exercise, in which case it might just as well happen before planning approval.

Also, it's possible to request a variation, especially if something wasn't going to work. There is a category called 'non-material variation' which the planning officers are lenient with.

If you got rid of planning (and building control) I guarantee that the quality of buildings would go down. Before building control, many unhealthy buildings were built due to bad drainage, etc.
This is why taxes are important. They are the socialisation of profit. People should be able to take a risk... but they should also payback the institutions that facilitated that risk.