skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate the comment, especially with the example with the hypothetical brain surgeon. I've also anecdotally known people personally who have become accomplished in academic research, who preferred easy-to-access entertainment to decompress after a difficult day of work. So, work on entertainment does have important value to many people.

But at the same time, on a broader point, the author has a compelling general idea that it can be helpful to question how you spend your time away from work. I've spoken with people—and have personally experienced—a satisfaction from physical hobbies outside of computer interaction. Rock climbing is especially popular among the people I know (even those with busy schedules), along with martial arts such as BJJ or judo. I also know a couple people (one personally, and another impersonally through his biography as a novelist named "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running") whose life enjoyment is closely tied to their passion for long-distance running.

Outside of physical activity, other low-technology ways of entertainment will remain important. Reading books, especially classical ones, can improve one's writing. I've also read about chess players who have attributed their strong ability to plan ahead—in life and martial arts—to their passion for the game. I've additionally known people whose interests in music performance and production led them to develop good friendships with others. Naturally, this can apply to immersive technology: video streaming or high-graphics video games also have the ability to inspire people in their day-to-day life, or help people make meaningful connections.

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My source of skepticism is therefore not with the people working toward on nicer-looking graphics, as highlighted by the author, but rather with the people who apply psychology in video game design to make certain video games addictive—especially those with free-to-play models, which employ gameplay loops to keep people grinding for rewards even when the game stops feeling fun. I think the author is focusing on the wrong part of the industry: certain game designers have had a larger role with making certain video games have negative effects, as evidenced by somewhat-recent successful lawsuits against game companies that employed loot boxes and overly-easy ways to make in-game purchases in certain games targeted toward children.

Video games and streaming can absolutely have a healthy place in one's life—especially productions created for the love of the art instead of primarily for the money—but only in moderation and not at the excessive expense of other ways to spend one's free time. Graphics development isn't a problem at all, but I do think many people's lives can become richer if they also give passions that don't require a personal computing device a strong chance.
I get annoyed by the use of "religious" as a synonym for baseless or irrational.

What I notice about Mac users is that they are convinced all kinds of functionality is unique to Macs. Lots of them have told me "if you had a Mac and an iPhone you could do X" or "this app will make you want to switch" and it ALWAYS turns out to be something I have an equivalent to on the platforms I use (Linux desktop + Android). Copy and paste between machines (OK, I have to install an app and pair, big deal), decent terminal apps, third party services syncing.....
> "we called [Cloudflare] and they quoted a very big number" [0]

To be honest such approaches are not ideal anyways. It would most likely require a GRE tunnel with the DDoS washing service, increasing latency amongst other potential issues.

It's probably way easier (and possibly cheaper) to buy DDoS protection from your ISP/transit provider, assuming they're not so small that they don't have it themselves.
Having worked for years in the HR space and at the intersection of compliance, recruiting, legal, and business tech, it's not a complete argument to say that HR is to blame here. Executive leadership, shareholders (and likely consultants) are responsible for these "layoffs". They are the root cause. It most likely still holds true that their decision making is "bigger picture" nonsense based on budgets and short term gains. It also might hold true that they targeted the "low performers" even if that's an incredibly unfair judgment. Anyone who has worked with or knows Sales/AEs understand that 3 months over holidays is not a fair timeframe.

How HR decided to use the reason "low performance" doesn't look great at all, but from my collaboration with HR compliance folks in the past I don't think it's a violation because it's technically the "truth".
> But for all intents & purposes, while paying rent you are owner of said apartment, right?

No, at least not in my US state. I cannot, for example, paint my apartment, install new carpeting, change the locks, or any other modifications to the premises without my landlord's permission. Doing so would violate my lease and I could technically be evicted for it.

You do have some specific rights as a renter, but they aren't even close to the rights you'd have if you owned the place.
What's the issue with protobufs?
Looks like UK has 230V on the standard outlets, probably why it charges reasonably. Note this person taking days when on 120V:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38967392
It's probably a drop shipping operation, generating mass listings. Or it's from a foreign vendor, asking ChatGPT to provide a title in English. There's a lot of things wrong with this listing, but laziness isn't one of them.
https://energycentral.com/c/pip/great-mexicali-energy-and-sh...

Here's an alternative proposal based on a sea level canal and tidal power.
Is the cult as strong as it has been? I feel like this "cult" is absolutely what Apple leveraged to get where they are and they not doubt played into it. But it doesn't seem like that is really the case anymore. Or is it?
i think by "positive work ethic" they mean delivery what you were hired to do. In other words, just holding up your end of the bargain. It doesn't have anything to do with loyalty.
AFAICT, water is pumped from both the Sea of Cortez & the Salton Sea to a desal plant. The fresh water is used for irrigation etc, and the runoff from primary use replenishes the Salton.
Why is it that LLMs are so often compared to employees and their responsibilities? In my opinion, it is an employee that actively USES the LLM as a tool and this employee (or his/her employer) is responsible for the results.
Discovery of 'Big Ring on the Sky' structure calls into question understanding
meh, probably not significantly worse than the actually well-known and distinguished furniture brands like KALLAX, HEMNES, FINNBY, or BAGGEBO

https://www.ikea.com/ca/en/cat/bookcases-10382/
> OK, I have to install an app and pair, big deal

But that IS a big deal.
The CEO has been fired since then.
And how economies become that way. In places where they’ve made it very hard to fire, the economy inevitably slows.
>You can defeat the Affero clause by putting the software behind a proxy, for example

Could someone elaborate on this? This is NOT my understanding of the license, and it seems absurd considering e.g. Mastodon is AGPL but the standard install requires a reverse proxy[1]. If using a proxy defeats Affero, why would the Mastodon team do this? Are they stupid?

[1] https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/dist/nginx.co...
Poach people from Airbus. Just pay them well and bring them over.
i mean if you need "sensitivity training" or have a job that is called "HRBP" that proves the point of the guy you reply to? It's just a lot bullshit speak with no honesty in it
Because they seem to think that saving money offers more value to shareholders than creating additional value. I'm not sure they know how to offer new value.
Prominent examples of "Self Regulating Organizations": The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), The Financial Planning Association (FPA), Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), American Council of Life Insurers (ACLI), Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (FINRA), Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC), Options Clearing Corporation (OCC), American Institute of Certified Public Accounts (AICPA)

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sro.asp
I've been on several frack sites. On one, it was literally raining oil and chem on everything as they were wirelining. I'll take the windmill thanks.
Both 1 and 2 are solved by profiling. The course involves assembly because it’s taught in C, but the core concepts apply to any language - the particular language is just an implementation detail you (and several others) are getting needlessly hung up on.

Your trading system example sounds like a great topic for a masters thesis or similar graduate level work (or better yet - industry), not a core component of an introductory performance engineering class.
Right, the key reason this line stings so bad is precisely that 99.9% of money and effort spent on advertising is capitalism-friction. It's waste-energy. It's escalating zero-sum games. It emphatically does not need doing. It's an accident.

[EDIT] And that's the optimistic take. In fact a great deal of it is harmful, not just wasteful.
That report is mainly about the upper Mississipi (Midwest) not the lower, or points east (Southeast).

And it is only supposed to run during large scale flood events, which the report cites as lasting ~80 days, worst case? Looking at flood event frequency, this
report cites: 1912, 1913, 1927, 1937, 1965, 1973, 1982, 1993, and 2008.

So, let's be generous and double the event length to 160 days and double the event frequency to ~20 per century (increasing, to be sure). That's a time utilization of the infrastructure of ~9%, if Ima doing the math right.

It is apparently true: water runs uphill toward money. In this case, literally multiple miles of vertical elevation gain to get it to the Navajo Nation.

I mean I could see maybe pumping to Denver, or maybe over the continental divide past Denver, but... direct to almost the NM, AZ border?

Maybe just start with baby steps and for instance charge those good enterprising folk who farm alfalfa with nearly free water in the AZ desert and ship it to Saudi Arabia.
I'm happy for you that your undrugged mind is so full of logical clarity to the benefit of mankind and any type of drug would disturb this pristine well of wisdom
Yikes, that's unfortunate. I have elderly family members with that level of technological literacy, and I've just accepted that they'll never end up on the Fediverse, or IRC (even if I point them to a webchat like Libera's in-browser Gamja and KiwiIRC clients).
It in fact matters a great deal, as you can see.
But do social media companies ever really pay for the externality that is "info sewage accumulating in people's heads"? To me that's a cost that will always be borne as a society— chaos in the public square, unproductive political discourse, broken families, acts by extremists, etc.
Clock time DMT is quick but in perceived time it is millennia. Whatever other effects you get are after you grapple with that The Jaunt shit on the way out.
You got a laundry list of responses, the take away is that even with modern technology and abilities it is completely impractical to do the sort of inspecting that people seem to think is common place. Even for just one industry, but people seem to think every industry has regulators inspecting every factory. There just aren't enough people or money and if you did somehow do that the bureaucracy would collapse down onto itself in the same way imperial China repeatedly imploded.

Edit: the promise of the blockchain and self executing contracts was to overcome this bureaucracy problem.
I would just make it respond ONLY in JSON and if it's non-compliant formatting then don't use it. I doubt it'd apologize in JSON format. A quick test just now seems to work
Perform 5 units of work by xyz date at abc quality level. The point is a reasonable person could look at the task and be able to evaluate whether it was complete. Can’t be complicated or hand wavey. Bonus points if you can link everything to increased revenue.
Schall Law Firm Announces It Is Investigating Claims Against Cloudflare
I think the “IM JUST AN AI MODEL FROM OPEN AI, I CANT DO THAT” drawers are actually more famous for their quality and engineering details than Rolexes. You’re right, that probably means this is counterfeit, but my heart skipped a beat with excitement just seeing they had it in stock.

That is, of course, their premium drawers, and it looks like they’re sold out of their “I found this on the web. Please unlock your iPhone to view more” bar cart as well.
But isn't that something that even smaller GPT-2 models demonstrated already?
Screens keep getting faster. Can you even tell?
helpful - thx - building Latimer.ai using Pinecone
I'm not sure why this keeps coming up. Why wouldn't ESP32 be used in commercial products??

>Also, what would be considered the go-to chip for commercial applications?

ESP32, if it fits the product needs.

There are as many types of microcontrollers as there are needs for specific functionality. ESP32 fits practically any application that needs a microcontroller and wifi or bluetooth. That's the description of quite a lot of IoT products.
> If you have a different story to share, I'm sure the record would love to be updated.

Sure, just looking at the Wikipedia article on "Computer file" [0], we see that the "punched card file" was only an early use of the word in relation to computing.

But they show a slightly later use [1] that matches our modern notion much better, and that uses the exact expression "on file", without referencing punched cards in any way, so quite clearly not in a way derived from the practice of keeping information on punched chard files:

> [...] But such speed is valueless unless - with comparable speed - the results of countless computations can be kept "on file" and taken out again [emphasis mine].

> Such a "file" now exists in a "memory" tube, developed at RCA Laboratories.

Wikipedia also shows that "file" was often used in the early days of computing to refer to the storage location, the physical storage device, not the contents in memory. For example, what we'd today call "disks" were called "disk files".

Wikipedia ultimately claims, unfortunately without a citation, that the modern sense of the term "file" came to denote the contents rather than the physical storage once the first "file systems" started being used, and those were managing multiple "virtual files" (that is, what we'd call virtual disks today).

> I expect you are thinking of the parallel definition of "file", the one which often goes along with the word "folder"

Yes, since that is quite obviously the metaphor most lay people have been taught in modern times at least: your data is organized in file folders, each containing multiple files. Basically in this context, "file" is more or less a synonym for "document". This is the most directly applicable non-computing equivalent of the modern computing term "file" (and it, again, doesn't match most things that are "files" in Unix).

And yes, of course words have many different meanings. A file can also mean something that you use on your nails, but that is obviously not relevant to what we're discussing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_file
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20220109114611/https://books.goo...
The secret is: there is a lot of subsidized housing, and the article primarily talks about said subsidized housing. The cost of non subsidized housing is in line with Hamburg.
As someone who is interested, but don't know where to start, is there a "recommended" translation to start from? That might be a useful addition to the site.
Do you have sources as to why they are lies? I'm not doubting you, but simply saying they're lies is just as disingenuous as the people making the statements in the first place
I know nothing about that guy, but several commenters point out that debating here does not mean making correct arguments but only making convincing arguments. If that is the case, why would anybody care? I can imagine a few situations where this might be a useful skill, for example if you have some ideological predisposition and want to convince others no matter the truth, but that does not really sound like a good goal, it essentially amounts to manipulation.
This discussion is completely about propositional statements, as if that's the only way to know anything. I would say, don't let mere words change your sense of what's real.
I'm right there with you!

For disclosure I'm a minor contributor to dask so probably am a little biased.

I guess one side I probably haven't put forward though is that the memory footprint of something like dask/spark is higher because of its overheads. If you don't have scalable resources, then a polars / duckdb option would probably be your most reliable choice (I.e. the one that'll hit the fewest memory errors in the given architecture)
Using the words "black dresser" or "brown dresser" maybe?
4 minutes after your post I’m getting 404.
I'm sorry, but "issue-rule-application-conclusion" is the standard analytical framework for questions of this nature. You may feel that it's "backwards" but it is, objectively, simply how this works.

There is no text in the license that discusses the issue of app stores. You have every right to jump to the conclusion without any analysis of how the text of the license applies to these facts. However, you'll of course understand that—by doing so—you aren't likely to convince anyone who doesn't already agree with you.
Why is this a problem? Industrialized countries will not cut down on their monstrous emissions per capita but you have an issue with African countries growing food?
GIven the title this piece is very short on advice. More like "look at me and what I achieved". For every person like this there are 100 who did the same and failed. This isn't advice.
Oxygen/Acrylic engines are popular on YouTube, most likely because they look great on film - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLPWqCMb7DE
Why do people not understand that LLMs can do things at scale, next year they can form swarms, etc.

Swarms of LLMs are not comparable to an employee, they have far better coordination and can carry out long-term conspiracies far better than any human collective. They can amass reputation and karma (as is happening on this very site, and Reddit, etc. daily) and then deploy it in coordinated ways against any number of opponents, or to push public opinion towards a specific goal.

It's like comparing a CPU to a bunch of people in an office calculating tables.
Along similar lines, critiques of Cartesianism in epistemology have also pointed out the heavily social aspects of knowledge construction, see situated epistemologies etc. Even epistemologists in the analytic tradition have begun to move away from Cartesianism due to its limitations.

TBH, taking an epistemic stance that's primarily cartesian these days mostly just shows that you're (likely) ignorant to basically the entire history of development and research in epistemology after Descartes. Cartesianism is a very useful perspective and method for certain things, but as a general epistemology it's quite crusty.
I also like how we are attaching these people to this company as though the Weekend and Taika Watiti sat down and sculpted a plan to get rich by being dickheads.

I bet their portfolio managers did that, and then attached their names to the deal to lend it an air of credibility, probably negotiating some sweet bonuses and spiffs for themselves in the process, and now this reads like they're all a POS, which, while that may be true for other reasons, hides the likely fact that the real POS's here are the stockbrokers.
Thanks for your feedback!

0. The video is recorded by AppSumo themselves because the campaign runs on their platform, but I can provide feedback/ask for changes. I also think that "review" is not a proper term. For me it's a product video or promotion video (as I call it in the thread)

1. I can't make AppSumo use our product to generate their version of the video (linked here), but when we make a version for our own website it will be edited/hosted by our own product, obviously :-)
The Canaries have 32% of the economy based on tourism, and a good chunk of that depends on the local ecology (scuba, nice beaches, etc.)

If you want to see what a tourism place looks like when you destroy its ecology, you only need look at the abandoned areas around the Salton Sea.
This would be totally ineffective against targeted randomized ads baked into the video. It works with sponsor segments only because content creators can only submit one version of their videos.
> An utterly irrelevant side point since the whole question is the use of the implementation not the API.

I find this interesting, and maybe I am just a bit confused. But here is what I am wondering now.

If it is not about the use of an API but about the use of the implementation, then that would mean that the end-user that is running the application which dynamically links to a proprietary library on the end-users pc the one violating the license terms, not the developer that distributed their code without distributing the proprietary library itself.

And if the developer has the rights to distribute the library, because it is under GPL, then they could do so, and would not violate the license terms, because they are not doing the dynamic linking and using of the implementation, that would happen only when the end-user starts the application.

I never heard about any case against end-users, that for instance used the proprietary Nvidia kernel module, compiled and linked on each end-user's PC.

I don't think that works that way, there has to be more to that than just the usage of the implementation that triggers the license violation.
The English and Welsh legal rule: computers are presumed to operate correctly
I think this is a “skate where the puck is going” situation. The fed sees things trending toward recession before it arrives and starts cutting, but the recession happens before the rate cuts have any effects on employment.
Thanks! As I replied above, I can't make AppSumo use our product to generate the video, but when we make a version for our own website it will be edited/hosted by our own product, definitely :-)
I bought junk furniture like this when I was in college. It’s actually much worse than ikea.

If you are careful when putting together ikea furniture, certain models are actually really durable and sturdy. Oh and of course sometimes the European models are nicer than the American ones.
I don't find this any different than seeing an exposed jinja template: "{{product_name}} is perfect people who work in {{customer_industry}}" or the typical recruiter "Dear {{candidate}} I read your profile carefully and think you'd be perfect for {{job_title}} because of your experience at {{random_co_from_resume}}"

If anything, I think it's kind of cool that we're seeing LLMs actually used for something very practical, even if it is spammy (I mean I don't think template engines are evil just because they make spam easier).
Intel's new 14 gen Meteor Lake architecture is radically different and laptops using these CPUs are already on sale.