skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"A lot of people, if you give them a dollar they'll try to spend it on something. And that, counterintuitively, means they don't see the dollar as a reward."

I think Homer already deconstructed your argument, no not that Homer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A81DYZh6KaQ

But the question is, how can you attribute that behavior to the poor kids only if there is no mention of it in the study or article? Undoubtably some number of both the poor and rich kids are going to want to buy something with the money. Buried in your assumption is the assumption that poor kids are less likely to try to save money or that they don't see financial stability as rewarding.

And, in my opinion, the fact that the reward center of all the kids brains lit up fundamentally contradicts your central point. The poor kids did see the money as a reward for correctly guessing the answer in the game.
Colored Functions Are Good
nitpick: fungi don't produce their own food; they need something to eat. what you need to get an ecosystem going is photosynthetic or chemotrophic organisms that produce their own food.
If life in the universe is actually really rare, isn’t it irresponsible for us to not be seeding life anywhere we can put it? If we put microbes on several planets and moons in the solar system those worlds could have complex and even intelligent lifeforms in millions of years.
I’ve been using nix for a month and definitely the hardest part is that it’s a leaky abstraction. So if it works, setting up nginx or rabbitmq is as simple as writing `service.enable = true`, and it’s truly magical.

If something goes wrong you have to understand 1. Nix 2. Nix abstraction on top of the service 3. The service and how it’s configured 4. Linux, it’s a lot to ask.
> One of the things to come out of discovery in the Damore lawsuit was Google's head of HR declaring a moratorium on hiring white males.

Do you have a source for this? The closest thing I could find is [1], which says some Google employee (not the head of HR) suggested such a moratorium on an internal mailing list. It’s not clear that such a policy was ever implemented or even seriously considered.

[1]: https://thefederalist.com/2018/01/10/19-insane-tidbits-james...
Using analogy: the wheel has a radius of 40cm and thickness of 10cm, I need a wheel of radius 30cm and thickness 15m. Sure, I can cut off the edge, mold it, and graft it onto the side, but it's a lot easier to just grind a new stone.

In real life: the old library covers 80% of my use cases. The problem is that it's not extensible, so in order to add the remaining 20% I have to fork it. Moreover, it has a lot of extra features I don't want, but get in the way when adding my 20%, so it would be less work to rewrite the entire thing from scratch with only the features I need.

Either way, now there are 2 similar versions of the same thing. Then someone else encounters the same problem, except their wheel needs ridges for all-terrain, or their library must be in the language that the rest of their code is written in (and FFI sucks). Now there are 3 similar versions. And so on...

Why not just make a "one-size-fits-all" library which can be extended any way? People have tried and will continue trying, but what they end up producing is the definition of "over-engineered": a bloated mess which is buggy, inefficient, hard to understand, and still manages to only cover 95% of my use-cases.

Don't get me wrong, code reuse (even legacy code) is a good thing, and there are plenty of cases where developers would be better off using an existing library. Maybe they'd to write a bit of glue code to fit their purpose, maybe they'd need to sacrifice some performance or non-essential feature (which is probably performance-related and/or a dumb idea anyways), maybe they understand this but simply choose to spend time writing their own unnecessary library because it's more fun.

But as our world becomes more complex and competitive, especially in web-dev, those couple niche extra features or performance gains or developer pain-point mitigations that only a full rewrite would provide, become worthwhile enough to warrant the rewrite.
Rethinking Team Metrics
A lot of your non-App Store apps use Sparkle just fyi.
They have so little credibility with how comically bad Siri is at just basic commands (like stop the timer), than I’ll be absolutely shocked if they have anything remotely useful in the summer without just using chatgpt and other OpenAI models.
Ask HN: How to deploy money effectively to save time and build a business?
Starting a company is a lot of work and requires focus on things that are most important for pushing the business forward. It can be easy to waste time on things that can be done as effectively by other people.

* What types of activities, both business and personal, have you found to be effective to pay others to do?

* How do you choose what tasks to do yourself and what to delegate?

* How do you navigate getting high quality help versus saving money?

* How do you find people you can trust?

* How much do you value your time (e.g. I'll spend $20 to save an hour of my time)?

A few examples:

On the business side:

* Taking slides and making them look professional, making a website, etc

* Finances, taxes

* Filtering through emails, and doing initial outreach to candidates

Personal:

* Cooking, cleaning, laundry

* Shopping

* Home repairs, car repair, etc

For instance on home repairs, I've found it hard to get reliable contractors. Inevitably something goes wrong and it still ends up being time consuming.

I'll also note that I grew up in a family with relatively little money so I grew up with a mindset to save as much as possible by doing things yourself. But as my time has become more valuable, I'm trying to be more efficient.

Another lens to view this through is that some of the most successful entrepreneurs are relentless about simplifying their lives (e.g. wearing the same, simple clothes). That is the most visible thing that happens, but I'm sure there are lots of other things that people have done that are less talked about.
> Crafting an exploit that does anything beyond crashing the program or the computer would require knowing how this was done for a particular program.

No it doesn't. You can run your exploit code and then crash the program, same as exploiting any other program. Or you can add some minimal code on the end of your exploit payload to exit cleanly. If you really wanted to gold-plate it by having it resume the program where it had been then yes, you'd need to figure out some details, but that's not normal or necessary - classical "smash the stack" style exploiters rarely tried to unsmash the stack afterwards, they'd execute their payload and then exit or crash.
I’m sorry that a solar project is having such a negative impact near you.

But implying that I’m evil and drowning you in irrelevant research isn’t making me think that this exchange is productive.
> Isn’t blocking regions just going to block the legitimate traffic

I imagine blocking North Korea, Iran, etc will probably impact 0.5% of traffic and 0.001% of revenue for most sites.

> and push determined adversaries to use proxies?

That might mean you're left with 10% of the previous attackers so it could be worth it.
I am no biologist; I am unclear about the terms here.

Let say I have a piece of bread that has mold on it.
I leave it alone, the mold grows and consumes more of the bread.
The mold / fungi is "alive" in that it is growing and consuming.

Let us say that the fungi here was from moldy bread.
They shoot it into space, stuff it inside the lab and expose it to the
same environment.

Does survival then mean that it keeps eating more of the bread while
the experiment is taking place, so when they look at it afterwards
there is a lot more of it? But 40% of it has died?

Or does it mean that the cells making up the mold are entirely dormant
but is the DNA structure has remained intact for 60% of the mold and
the hypothesis is that if you brought it back to earth it would start
"being alive", growing, eating again?

>The most relevant outcome was that more than 60% of the cells of the endolithic communities studied remained intact after ‘exposure to Mars’, or rather, the stability of their cellular DNA was still high,”
The idea was to get the users first by subsidizing with investor money, and then jack up the prices once they cornered the market. /s
I'm sorry that I made you feel patronized.

If you just wanna make your classifiers and tend to your own knitting, then I have no problem with that. There are a lot of people in this community who vociferously advocate for AI, to the point that I view them as political activists for AI, and it's food for thought for them. But that's a mantle they've chosen to take on, it isn't mandatory.
That's so clever. What a hack. I'm imagining the slow smile on the face of the person that came up with it. "What if...".
It's the power consumption and the noise that gets you with those.
What's the equivalent of int3 on an ARM machine? Is there any attempt to provide a header that "does the right thing" on a wide variety of platforms?
As a software dev by trade I just kind of assume I am going to shell out a couple grand every few years for a nice laptop. For me it’s just the price of doing business.
These “disruptors” (Vroom, Carvana) all have those same costs of buying vehicles, maintaining them, and marketing them. They haven’t disrupted any of those things.
One of my favorite procedural visual artists has a similar vagueness to his specifications that leads to a nice variation each time a piece is recreated: https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/sol_lewitt/
https://massmoca.org/event/walldrawing305/
That's an interesting study paper.

I think they're making a mistake in wording the conclusion with so much certainty based on the tiny sample size though.

I'd say big companies that can confidently stratify the age of users in their porn search preferences, or even social media users, would be a good way to get a more valid sample size.
> as AI systems learn from human behaviour, being abusive towards them risks that they are learning from this interaction to be abusive to humans.

You mean “LLM chatbots”. There are tons of “AI” (without hypespeak known as “ML”) systems in deployment already.

There will not be any commercial deployments of any chatbot that do not tune it to be polite to the max. It costs nothing and not doing it will lose customers, especially since there is no guarantee that it will be abusive to the same human who abused it.

> does not require the AI to have consciousness or sentience, regardless of which of the many, many available definitions of those words you prefer to use.

Actually, the definition does not matter. It’s an intuitive yes/no question. If people do not really think it is conscious whatever that means to them, they will see no reason to not abuse it the same way you might hit a malfunctioning appliance out of frustration. Like we do not think that a cow or an octopus is conscious, so we might be OK eating it.

Sure, some people (e.g., psychopaths) already choose to abuse things they see (or should see) as conscious, a.k.a. other humans. They are not a concern.

The concern are the remaining majority of people liable to transition to psychopathic behavior towards other humans, because they will learn that treating something that talks like a human as if it was an appliance is OK.

Consider that A) “talks like a human” is the distinguishing quality of an LLM chatbot, and B) the only example of “talks like a human” in human history so far has been exclusively other humans (or imaginary beings, notably gods).
Sorry, I can't help it. It should be: "Flat design weeds out myriad built in affordances of our visual system"
Technically speaking it is a very large configuration file. The config reader runs Ribosome 0.8, which escaped from the lab a couple of billion years ago and infested a whole planet to the point that it became inhospitable to life.
I would be curious if that intersection ever stop causing disconnects. There was an intersection that would cause disconnects only from one area of the intersection (the east side of the intersection) and one day the disconnects stopped. There was another area near a water tower that would also disconnect the CarPlay and that no longer causes an issue. There was a water pump station near the first intersection so I was thinking it could somehow be related to the operations of the equipment. I am betting that once the construction is done in the area I’m having issues currently the issues will go away.
I loved that game, but in my friendless highschool youth I never found anyone interested in playing the version I had (the "New World Order" card game).

I do remember the Talented and Gifted English teacher at my school randomly saw me with cards for the "John Birch Society" and "FNORD" and guffawed.
$.032 in quantity...
SQLite Archive Files
What's restrictive about Anki?
FOI laws are key to exposing AI wrongdoing. The current system isn't up it
but the OP isn't new either, it's from back then. Old news. Discuss on the official post
Yes, that's exactly the sort of prognostication that has been wrong for some time now.
Twitter was useful when you didn't know the source. Keyword searches brought you everyone talking about a topic, and trending showed you topics people were talking about (and, by extension, the people talking about them). Not everything that might be significant to you is necessarily going to be discussed within your close networks or covered adequately by media-of-record.

If CNN has decided not to cover the protest happening outside your downtown office and you don't want to go up to a rowdy crowd to figure out what's going on, Twitter would (have) be(en) the place to drum up intel (with which to decide if you need to go home early that day or not).
An ORM is not too much pre optimisation…
I think the Viking approach from 50 years ago was the right one: Send miniature labs to Mars and look for signatures. The Rovers are funky as all hell and the Skycrane is a masterpiece of engineering. Once down, they don't go very far or very fast and they look for biology-adjacent stuff instead of biology itself.
What’s the nuance, that if someone makes a “speculative investment” they deserve to have the money stolen more than if they walk down a “risky alley” or something?
I'm not familiar with what exactly Wine does to run 32-bit code under OS X, but it would already have to do emulation / binary translation. Because some opcodes have been repurposed for the REX prefix in 64-bit mode, and any absolute 32-bit address would be interpreted as relative to RIP instead.

And 16-bit would be completely impossible, first there's the default operand size and then the completely different encoding for memory addressing.
https://archive.vn/uX5LB
You will be unproductive (including when using an LLM as an assistant) and less capable of solving complex problems if you don't memorize stuff in a technical field like SWE.
Do you have any example of a country driving less when fuel costs were ALWAYS higher? I would guess short term, yes, but eventually people will drive just as much, and they will spend less on housing, which will decrease costs of housing to allow for a larger portion of income to pay for gas. That seems like basic economics to me. Unless, you have a real world example that contrasts that. People still have to get to work. They still have to pick up their kids from school. It doesn't matter what gas costs. They still have to. Just like they are paying double for it in Europe today, they will pay whatever it costs.
Would this still be the case if the power lines were properly isolated?

It feels a lot like spillage to me, antenna or not, but I admit my emf is weak
Did you buy one?
He meant the Lake of Fire which is reserved for heretics, non believers, pedophiles, and CAD software
Tried running this on my iPhone and couldn’t hear anything despite pressing the play button. Is there a bug somewhere?
That's hilarious. We need alternative language for "dummy value" now.
Would that be the case if the power lines were properly isolated?
delegating/outsourcing always comes with an overhead cost that is usually equal to the original amount of resources, although it may shift to different category of resources

but simplification and ruthless prioritization always pay off
Rackstuds
"'AI-generated code resembles an itinerant contributor, prone to violate the DRY-ness [don't repeat yourself] of the repos visited.' ... That serves as a counterpoint to findings of some other studies, including one from GitHub in 2022 that found, for one thing: "developers who used GitHub Copilot completed the task significantly faster -- 55 percent faster than the developers who didn't use GitHub Copilot."

These two observations aren't mutually exclusive. DRY-ness comes from a holistic understsanding of a system; you get similar results when you task a junior developer with little deep knowledge of a novel codebase with solving a problem and don't give them enough oversight; they'll tend to bull-rush through coding a solution with little-to-no knowledge of how the solution can be built out of the parts already existing in the codebase.
I think the Uno wouldn't have enough RAM for that, the Pi is a lot more powerful in that sense.
Kind of a bad mix of priorities. Please keep away from the Sentinelese.
https://github.com/adjust/parquet_fdw
Does good memory actually helps you advance in life? Or does it only make life more fun/interesting. I feel like remmbering things has never been an obstacle to my professional growth.
Can you name a business that isn’t speculating on anything?
Apropos to the mixed art style: the Simpsons couch gag in the cyberpunk 80s style

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK-JE8vOak0
Is this CNN bias or a genuine phenom? Gearing up for war, by aligning with the enemies of the West? Would Muslim support be very important to China in any war against the West?

Besides using a Muslim state as vassal, proxy or for carrying out attacks with plausible deniability, I don’t understand the moral outrage from Chinese against this as they’re normally not taking moral positions on things happening outside China that don’t involve Chinese, which seemed to reflect an awareness of their own historical transgressions and a desire to avoid labels of hypocrisy… but maybe that’s changing now as they craft a more bullish moral position to bolster support for a future war?

The implicit identification with a victim identity here I think is noteworthy and highlights strategies they may use in future to craft their war narrative: they are not the aggressor, they are the much abused victim thereby justified in taking any violent action and pretending its righteous. Powerful and traditional wartime mobilization and recruitment psychological strategy.

Troubling if true, but maybe just CNN bias.
It's painful to see method_missing called out as a first class solution in the first creature https://www.exceptionalcreatures.com/bestiary/NoMethodError.... . "Practical Ruby" has three chapters dedicated to method_missing. "define_method" is more common these days and also painful to see.

Ruby gets a lot of criticism for embracing magic and indirection ("Ruby, the bad parts of Perl"). It has some good parts (no function colors, for example), but the ecosystem is the biggest problem by promoting magic. method_missing is not a good part of Ruby, it's a very bad part that you should only use if you know it's bad _and_ you know you still have to use it. I wish all tutorials would say this. "You can do this with Ruby, but don't, because your coworkers debugging an outage for an hour will hate you once they find out the bug is caused by method_missing".
This is so ruby
USTE: A Gathering of the Best Scale RC Modelers [video]
You can tell the age of an embedded programmer by whether they consider sampling an input to be "polling" (which to me implies blocking, but that's another discussion) and then look for silver bullets for interrupt storms.
Every word in this sentence is wrong. Convince me otherwise.
The only safe job is one you create for yourself.
Weird of you to assume I don't? What precisely are you suggesting here?
Shit. After disabling Google Messages I found out that Fossify SMS Messenger can't send text messages to email addresses, which is my primary use case. Now I have to figure out a way to re-enable Google Messages without signing into the play store with a Google account. Searching APKMirror.

Edit: Damnit, I'm fucked. I can't reinstall through APKMirror because it calls the Google Play Store to finish the installation, and it won't install because I'm not signed into a Google account.

Edit edit: Got Google Messages working again by installing the most recent beta version with APKMirror. I think APKMirror wasn't installing the prior download because it was an earlier version than the one I had disabled. I'll try to keep Fossify set as the default for receipt of texts and only use Google for sending texts and images to email addresses.
Evergrande shares halted after Hong Kong court orders liquidation
It’s a symptom of an inflated ego. Nat geo has a recent documentary about a missionary that might help explain the reasoning behind this religious conquistador mindset. “The Mission”
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/tv/movies-and-specials/th...
This is beautiful. Imagine an alien planet where the plants are like this. Maybe a forest of them can sync up the way metronomes and firebugs synchronize.
It hasn't grown 10x because it's cleaner. Growth and environmental impact are independent of each other. I'm not sure if that's what you were trying to claim. I don't see where solar is cleaner, except that the cells are more efficient in theory (we won't know for another 30 years). Manufacturing is still the same. Let me know if I missed something.
RE "......the person on the phone had broken English phoning from a Thai phone number......" Probably a person that works at the hard drive factory IN Thialand. Hard drive capacity reduced in this way when part of the drive has a problem. Maybe its a warranty return. I would complain directly to Western Digital . If the problem was detected at factory, most likely it never would have had a 10K sticker put on ....
> “The parents at the school didn’t understand how that could be possible,” Zaleski said.

I guess -a- root cause here is the general public’s ignorance of the capability of computer software. Not sure how to fix that besides giving it time. As soon as it’s widely accepted that computers can generate believable fake video, you’d expect deepfakes to be disregarded, but then again we’ve been saying “don’t believe what you see on the Internet” for how long and people still believe what they read on the Internet.
optimistic take
While I do think that is an unreasonable amount for a normal person to consume, I've also met a person who would easily hit that number. Most of us should be safe though.
"It should also cause us to question whether our laws are fit to deal with the particular challenges of technology [...]".

Interesting to see how it will play out throughout the world. From the little I know about existing FOI laws, the interpretation may not be easy for any party in most cases. Additional problems are caused by the fact that a public sector has often outsourced AI/ML to a private sector party, which subsequently will presumably refer to trade secrets and alike.

Ref.:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38565421