skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd love for this site to have an entry about itself full of critiques like yours.
For that reason, and others, I tell recruiters I’ll do a max of three interviews before I expect an offer or rejection, not counting the initial discussion for fit with the recruiter. That’s a few hours of my time, and they shouldn’t expect any more than that. I had one company scoff at that, but I explained to them that they probably wouldn’t dedicate a single person to interview me eight times, because that would be a waste of time for that one person, and conversely individuals don’t have time to talk to eight or ten people over a month just for a single job these days either. By three times I know if I’m a fit for the job and as a hiring manager previously I never did more than three: myself and one person up and down from me in the org structure.
I think what they mean is that technology promises to make our lives easier. Phones and our relationship with them are a manifestation of this promise. People buying the latest flagship don't do so because they anticipate things will be worse.
Do interest and novelty usually lower heart rate? I would expect the opposite, though that's not to say it isn't worth testing.
> It is like being given a key card for security clearance in a building.

Not really. Apparently they interpret the software which has the embedded key as an "agent".

So it's more like you go into a building and get assigned a person who opens the door and retrieves the stuff you want from there for you. Turns out that the person was on drugs and promptly fell asleep ("malfunctioning") and you take the key to get into the room but it turns out you've just witnessed that this company is a huge scam. Now they want to sue you.
So your argument is that since the courts think a certain way, that we should accept that and move on?
You won't be able to use the YouTube app on Vision Pro
I'd love to see the meat behind those algorithms. Are the algorithms intentionally biased to prefer serving that type of content for some ideological reason? Or are we now just so far gone as a society that a significant number of users actually search for / consume that type of content, and the algorithm recommending it is actually natural/unbiased?
Your intuition of scientists updating views is wrong, see Kuhns scientific revolutions for more examples. Scientists generally stick to preconceived notions long after there is data to refute them.

E.g. heliocentrism, germ theory, cigarettes being unhealthy, lobotomies being optimal
Too many to list, but it's small things such as seeing how long a charge will take. Stock Android is certainly less refined.
We regularly underestimate the value in people doing impractical things at the leading edge. Many restaurants around the world are feverishly hungry for new cooking techniques that they can use to explore new approaches and create fundamentally new dishes. Sous vide is a more recent one and it was used to create all sorts of new approaches that had effects for home cooks as well as people outside the cooking world altogether.
Welcome Back to the Unicorn Club, 10 Years Later
AWS has government specific regions (called GovCloud). Many services or features make it to GovCloud later than other regions because of the certification requirements.
Thank you for the well-reasoned reply, I misunderstood the thrust of your commentary.

> I read this as "the fact that he is calculating makes it less likely that he has changed." But maybe you just meant "the fact that he is calculating means that I require stronger evidence that he has changed"?

That's a fair point. I need to reflect more on that. It is not my place to proclaim absolutely likelihood, you're correct. I think the latter statement is closer to the thrust that I'm getting at. My burden of proof for redemption is higher than a less calculating criminal/crime.
A way out of the "drill sergeant" / "Zen master" dichotomy (2022)
Already had to do this for eBay as they don't allow seller payments in my country without linking to a bank account (and it's not just a one-way link, users have complained of unauthorized withdrawals).
> The law shouldn't be involved in this.

There were huge public rallys when the § 202c StGB (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39047767) was to become introduced.

In Germany, we learnt that resistance and rallys against the politics is typically futile.

Thus, in the recent years in some circles in Germany it has become actually fashionable to speak "Politiker" (politician) in a tone as if you were speaking of a mass rapist or child abuser (and covertly do this word replacement in your head). Believe me: in some circles in Germany, the fury against the politicians of basically every party is insane. :-(
Uzura – MP1/3 encoder in Fortran
Immense suffering one experiences is not explainable and can not be understood by people who did not experience the same. What is left is to smile and say, “I am OK”
Fingertip oxygen sensors can fail on dark skin – now a physician is suing
Yikes! Who knew this was a thing...
I'm not sure what is going on here.

I can see that inflammatory comments are not equally disapproved https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39032567

Now instead of heated conversation there is no conversation and I'm not sure that it is a better outcome.

Were discussion about Foxxcon suicides equally moderated?
The thing that made me more suspicious than that did was the fact that all the pictures comparing results were at an angle with the Miele result farther away and angled so you couldn't see it. the one head-on picture of the results was of a white fish that looked suspiciously like sashimi.

I'm dubious to say the least. Why not show the clear delineation between cooked and uncooked salmon straight on instead of canted like that?
As other comments point out, their own platform was (at least in terms of DB) already running on AWS, just using a different account.
I have a work iphone and I pay no attention to apple press releases. I let the phone update and the app just showed up on the homescreen for the phone. I had no idea what is was. I suspect that maybe there are a significant number of people just like me that had the app show up with no warning.
This is great. Having to install all the 32bit versions of tons of libraries was a PITA when trying to use Wine.
According to the article, locales control where the code is running, not where the data is stored. Maybe that is implied in some cases such that if you create data in one locale that is also where it is stored, but it tells you nothing about how data created in one locale and accessed in another locale is handled (or even if that's allowed). As you mention other Chapel features that I don't know about they may fill in the gaps. My only point of contention is that the locale feature is poorly thought out and not a good way to address HPC needs.
But in this case, it is, since this is the way the client connects to the (database) server here.
AR enables offshoring the smarts at least, you treat the person at the location of the work as if they were a robot ... until the robots get good enough, I guess ...
In order for this 8Hz to be making a difference, surely it'd have to be related to some biological human frequency. I think all our clock-type things are too approximate. Heart rates are very variable, brainwave ranges are approximate, we all have different ear canals. We're not powered by crystals, or even metronomes.

It could be the case that they slowed the music down and that had an effect. Or in theory resampling it could've introduced artifacts that slowed listeners' heart rates. Or there could be an effect from recording at 440Hz then slowing it down (Dolly Parton's Jolene at 33rpm sounds great[0]). Or it could just be a shit study.

In order for 432Hz to be "special" I think you have to radically rethink some biology.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMrfM711vXI
So I asked the recruiter about that specifically, because that would be an easy mistake to make. The recruiter agreed, reached out to the hiring manager again, and the hiring manager doubled down. The recruiter was extremely apologetic to me, and he agreed that the feedback made absolutely no sense to him either, but the manager had assured him that the feedback was correct.

I suppose another potential thing that happened is that they did send the wrong feedback, the hiring manager was embarrassed and just doubled down as a sign of bravado. Hard to say for sure.
I must admit i don't particularly understand where this (alleged?) ignorance is coming from. The reasons are the same as they were ten years ago on the ios platform. It's for the consumer. It makes the consumer's experience better.

Pretending that consumers deserve an inferior netflix experience because you believe companies shouldn't charge each other money is insane.
Kubernetes is complete, utter overkill for almost everything.
My way of thinking tends to be monotropic (?), so much so that I can't quite conceptualize what it's like to not think in this way – can others just subtly keep way more items in their working memory at once? If so, how can they maintain any significant level of focus without "tightening" their field of view to exclude certain things?

From my perspective, monotropism is almost to be expected as normal in 90%+ of people. Then again, I may just be extrapolating from my own experience, but if I'm really wrong and only a small % of the populace employs this thinking strategy, I'd be truly dumbfounded.
What does irresponsibly open sourcing something look like?
I think partway through that frustration I'd learn what arguments I need to put into ffmpeg to do that. I may be biased because I've used it for limited editing already though.
Small board game publishers harassed by international counterfeiters
YouTube and Spotify won't launch Apple Vision Pro apps, joining Netflix
That’s what I told my past co-founder. It’s true in a sense
No argument here. I was just describing an organizational pattern instead of lamenting on personal choices. To be fair, even though I personally think building is more important, the companies may well need those kind of "coordinating" roles, as large organizations do bring lots of friction.
The hope is to use viruses, that specifically attack certain bacteria, in replacement of antibiotics.
The Nazis put up some stiff competition when it comes to the wholesale theft of art.
Marx admits better wages in two scenarios:

A) In the class struggle the workers conquer more rights using strikes, organizing themselves, etc. There are several pages in Marx's writing detailing this happening.

B) Like any other commodity, the labor force could became more expensive, entirely following capitalist rules. This would be the case if the price of food increases: you cannot pay for your workers less than the needed for their subsistence in a sustainable model, which means that increases in the living price requires more wages. But this also could happen in other scenarios, like if the society becomes more complex. If now the workers need more things to properly function just because the society is more complex and they require more things in order to produce more complex labor. Then they would get more wages to buy their computers, TVs, pay for education, etc. As a bonus, now these things can also be sold, helping capital to reproduce itself. Marx says that what the workers need in order to produce their own livelihood, the standard of living of their day, is socially and historically determined. This is not a fixed thing.

What Marx says is not that wages cannot improve in capitalism, but that the surplus value would always increase (except for changes caused by scenario A). Which was a perfectly correct prediction: if you check how worker productivity increased over time and how wages increased, you would notice that there is a gap that is always increasing. Moreover, the workers also could not own the relevant means of production: they always would need to sell their labor force.
In that case, it's his job to enter holes.

Nobody asked this developer to go through any holes. If you see a hole in your hotel room leading to another room, you don't go through it to see if there is anything to steal, even if you go through holes a lot for your job. You inform the owner that there is a hole.
It's not cooking the salmon in ice. A block of ice was hollowed out, the fillet was put inside, the block was supposedly covered with a layer of ice and then the Dialog oven only heated the salmon inside of the ice.
I would assume that stuff can be scraped though. How much would it cost to set up a bot farm that scrapes ebay live?
What a sad case and i think nobody should do business with this corporation ever again.

Next time: use a vpn, get yourself a anonymous email address and report it to your goverment dataprivacy office. Make it hurt. Make it hurt bad.
Hm.. couldn't a fire engine be driven in reverse? It could have an emergency driver's wheel in the back. I have seen crane trucks driven with a joystick from outside the vehicle, so it doesn't seem impossible.
I agree that queues can cause problems especially when misconfigured. But some amount of queuing is necessary, to absorb short spikes in demand vs capacity. Also, queues can be helpful to re-order requests based on criticality which won't be possible with zero queue size - in which case we have to immediately drop a request or admit it without considering it's priority.

I think it is beneficial to re-think how we tune queues. Instead of setting a queue size, we should be tuning the max permissible latency in the queue which is what a request timeout actually is. That way, you stay within the acceptable response time SLA while keeping only the serve-able requests in the queue.

Aperture, an open-source load management platform took this approach. Each request specifies a timeout for which it is willing to stay in the queue. And weighted fair queuing scheduler then allocates the capacity (a request quota or max number of in-flight requests) based on the priority and tokens (request heaviness) of each request.

Read more about the WFQ scheduler in Aperture: https://docs.fluxninja.com/concepts/scheduler

Link to Aperture's GitHub: https://github.com/fluxninja/aperture

Would love to hear your thoughts on our approach!
Lightest black hole or heaviest neutron star?
Just do what Excel does and wrap around to Series AA, Series AB...
>Art theft implies actually stealing something from someone.

This implies art is by definition a physical thing, which is not something I or many others would agree with. Art can be many things, some of which are tangible, and some which aren't (A live performance, a digital painting etc.).

While the article is talking about physical paintings, I posit that the biggest art theft in history is happening now via AI training. AI which is endangering the very same artists that unwittingly trained it for nothing in return and benefit for others.
I think its pretty myopic to only view facebook through the lens of the benefits theyve provided software engineers. Facebook is a pure cancer on society
Completely right.

There is very little room to complain about what RISC-V does have, in RV32I/RV64I or even RV32G/RV64G. The core ISA works just fine and its primary attribute is that everyone is legally free to use and build on it, and that there is a large and growing body of software that runs on it.

The complaints are about things it doesn't have. No carry bit. No complex addressing modes. That kind of thing. If someone proves that those actually matter, for example by building a CPU with custom instructions that blows away everyone else's, then those can be added to RISC-V. There should never be any reason to need a "RISC-VI".

I'm actually quite sympathetic to Qualcomm's proposal to add some of the things Aarch64 has, as an optional but standardised extension. On the other hand I'm completely against the second part of their proposal, to do a "big bang" replacement of the C extension with their extension in e.g. the RVA23 profile.
Why bother supporting such a small user base. Linux has more users than Vision Pro will for years to come
Love the suffering joke!

I do think that most physics benefits from the empirical nature of being able to test ideas. Statistics is tough because you can't really empirically test a lot of distributions. And then a ton of us (again, myself included) have a hard time seeing the subtle differences introduced with some framings. The Monty Hall one is hilarious for just how upset so many people get on being wrong on it.

Note that I think with modern computers, you can start to test more distributions in simulations than you could dream of in the past. Has some of its own problems, of course, and it is a shame that we lose a lot of symbolic manipulation in the process.

So, I still largely think it is getting people past their experiences. I think that is ultimately compatible with your point. I think I'm just calling into question how rosy the rest of the landscape isn't, in the learning environment.
No. Lots of people can't afford to buy shares, but do have to struggle with higher prices as consumers. This is the wealth transfer that grumpy socialists like myself find objectionable. I'm all for rewarding innovation, but things like changing packaging to include less product for the same price don't seem at all innovative to me.
A person can read about it in maybe ten minutes max, and if someone can’t even do half an hour of research, anyways, should they even comment? Do people have the right to a conversation simply because they read the article title yet have not read even at the surface level about that topic?
Does anyone have access to the corrigendum?
Are other animals on earth not generally intelligent? Dogs octopus, monkeys, dolphins. They have social structures and can problem solve.
AWS has US based GovCloud regions: AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West). It does not have a UK specific GovCloud region that I am aware of.
I agree with the courts. Most people so outside of a vocal minority on this forum.

What is you plan if you disaggre?
Pretending that Apple provides a superior user experience due to their walled garden is insane.

We can both call other people insane. That doesn't make it true.
> However, to be fair, NOBODY had any answer to the fact that manufacturing automated and could get by on two orders of magnitude fewer employees.

Hasn't the answer been tons more products being made? More product designers, more tool manufacturers, more people in charge of designing factories, more automation engineers, more robotics engineers?

More people supporting those products, more people in sales, more people doing packaging design, logo design, and so on and so forth.

(None of this is environmentally sustainable, separate discussion!)
I wonder if there's a feedback loop in the viewer metrics. Most people are probably not interested in searching around for what they want, so they click on whatever is on the front page. So much porn is perfectly normal-looking based on the thumbnail/preview other than the creepy title, so maybe people just watch it anyway if it looks good, even if the plot premise is offputting.

Then if you're just looking at the viewer metrics, it looks like the step sibling stuff is really popular. So the algorithm prioritizes it further, so people watch it more, etc.

This is all speculation of course, but it's a cautionary tale about why statistical and causal reasoning is useful even if you're in industry, as long as you actually care about delivering a good data product.
Probably this: https://github.com/Andre0512/pyhOn/blob/main/pyhon/const.py
Another oddity is that Medjed isn't depicted in profile like other subjects in Ancient Egyptian art.
There are no consumers…
The Pornhub one's brilliant and even comes with feedback for the applicants pleasure.
I don't see how Zuck/Meta could create an AGI that is not VERY left-wing biased relative to the beliefs of most of the world's population.
Having streets unable to be accessible by fire response vehicles doesn't seem like a good idea. What would be the alternative here? (genuine question, I'm not from the US)
> Its user base also has a long history of revolting

The Reddit userbase is consistently revolting.
What private API entitlements does Apple take advantage of that affects Spotify?

It took Spotify over a year to implement streaming over cellular Apple Watches after it was introduced with a four month lead time when it was in public beta
“maximize the available land”

Part of the author’s point is that single-stair buildings can be built economically on much smaller pieces of land. This increases the number of plots — especially in urban environments — on which you can build MFH, plots which developers today wouldn’t even think of.

Legalizing single-stair buildings would not really change the viability of big apartment complexes, you’re right. But it would allow for smaller ones.
I will always remember this HN thread.
They require various clearances (digging into your life and past relationships to a miserable degree), don't allow someone to have ever smoked pot and pay half or less of what you can make in the pvt sector here (usa).

Everyone I know working FedRAMP jobs is prior military/g-level.
Smaller fire trucks.
Same here – I wondered what the "!" was for and made the mistake of clicking on Caldera's.
Best interview experience I had was a 3 hour after-work meetup with 3 people from the company. No coding challenges, but nice and insightful engineering chat. I got to meet the team and had an offer ready within week

Worst was when a company told me they used my open-source project and wanted me to do 5 interview rounds, two of them being whiteboard-style. I didn’t expect that
5-6 hours a week would drive me insane, that's WAY too much.
I don't think there's any objective way to say that a majority of papers are bullshit, even if they are. Failure to replicate is "easy" to show, but doesn't say anything about the utility or quality of the science done, beyond the absolute basics of a paper describing what a scientist did in detail and not lying about the results. A "sky is blue" paper will replicate, but I'm not sure how you'd find a "fair" way to call it useless.

Anyway, jumping from "50% of papers will probably fail an absolute bare minimum test" to "90% of papers are garbage" is subjectively reasonable to me.

If 90% seems shocking to someone, I suggest they skim a bunch of papers and develop their own feel for how bad the situation is.
But you have a self preservation instinct honed over millions of years of evolution and some unknown degree (but likely high enough) of socialization. Also, to be honest, you aren't that fast or accurate.
AI being a complement to Facebook because... their main customers are spamvertisers?
I’m not conflating them, I’m trying to elicit someone to _compare_ them so we can discuss reflexively rejecting certain solutions.

If you don’t have some measure of cost / benefits / risks, how can you reject a potential solution outright?

The answer is you can’t, so if you are doing so your reflex is based on emotion rather than reason.
The best framing of this imo is all of the other animal extinctions caused by humans - not because humans hate these animals, but because humans were focused on other goals without really thinking of them.

In the case of an unaligned AGI the goals don't even have to be worthwhile - they can be something that accidentally satisfies its reward function by mistake.