skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The idea behind the site is that it's very difficult to get people to agree on what moderation rules should apply to a platform

There's a big difference between "what moderation rules should apply" and "how do I interpret this one vague rule." Questions like "can I play with a toy car in this particular park" are answerable. If some people want the rule to be different, that's another story. People's ability to interpret a vague rule out of context doesn't really bear on the question of how hard or easy it is to agree on rules for a community, or to write good rules that are easy for moderators to apply.

Not every single person in a community needs to like a rule. And if rules are not specific enough, they can be made more specific.
>But I will never impose on yourself something that is not directly related to our jobs.

I see sentiments like this and understand why we lost the workplace as "the second place" in modern times. Part of it is corporate exhaustion, but others just walk into the ironwall by themselves.

It's half your waking life during biological peak of life. And very few people are working their dream jobs. People can help mitigate the lack of passion in the workplace. It's not my job to maximize the company productivity. I'm not getting any extra pay for working harder.

>If you can't understand that different people have different expectations about basically everything, I can see why you are quick to qualify strangers as miserable.

To be fair, this chain started with an experience and then a dismissive response about a different expectation and experience. It takes two...
Just asking if those cores tend to sit unused when "standard" compute jobs are run on the cards. :)
After reading over your response and the other commenter who replied to me (czl), I think to a certain extent we're talking about different things. You both seem to be saying that using a chatbot to write a manuscript shouldn't automatically disqualify your work from being published, which I don't really have any qualms about.

What bothers me is the idea that a talented digital artist could spend days crafting a photorealistic painting only to have someone rob them of the credit they're due by attributing the work to Midjourney.

It bothers me that a gifted writer could spend hours painstakingly deliberating over the best way to convey an idea only to have the credit for the prose given to OpenAI.

This is basically the sentiment that the author of this article was expressing: "That hurts, because — like many people — I find writing a paper to be a somewhat painful process. I read books on how to write — both to be comforted by how much these books stress that writing is generally slow and difficult, and to find ways to improve. My current strategy involves willing myself to write and creating several outlines before the first draft, which is followed by writing and a lot of revising."

People generally don't enjoy working hard on something and having the credit stolen by another entity (regardless of whether or not that entity is a machine). I don't have a problem with people using Github Copilot to write code for example, but if I personally write my code by hand it's infuriating if someone gives the credit to Github's AI.
It's not that EE *needs" to fall back on software for stable employment, it's that software pays more, and ridiculously more at big tech companies.

I have both EE and CS degrees, but I make literally more than double in CS-type jobs than I would back in EE. Even though back in the day, I was definitely better at EE stuff than CS stuff.

This was true very early career, and for now at least continues to be true.

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I'm still of the opinion that software will eventually revert to the mean, comparable to other engineering compensation... some year. It probably won't happen until there's significant regulatory and liability burden that doesn't really exist in software yet. Like some in software complain about GDPR or DMA or whatever, but crank that up orders of magnitude and then add career-and-company-ending lawsuit threats on top, and then you have real engineering. Then it becomes much more expensive to do things, profit margins go way down, and pay does as well.

Who knows when that'll actually happen. For now, software is bonkers profitable.

(When software engineering becomes real engineering, I posit that it will also cease to be as highly paid)
4 does this, but I don’t think this it the show-stopper some people seem think it is. You can ask it to correct itself by feeding it the error messages. It’s like have a very knowledgeable, extremely fast programmer on call. Sometimes their guesses aren’t right first try — so what?
Yeah, sounds like someone who never worked in a small team. Probably wouldn't be a great fit anyway.
Is this a Control reference?
Comparing an impromptu gratitude to abuse is exactly why tech has such a negative stereotype in terms of social dynamics.
All of those things are traceable back to a specific geographic location.
I think it sparked off some interesting discussions. So thanks.
Why would you use PID controllers if you can use NN directly?

Insisting on PID is rigidifying part of your control setup. It's forcing NN to partially not learn the optimal control.

It's a bit like transformers for LLMs. If we could train raw NN in reasonable time it would outperform transformers. We are currently using transformers just because it makes learning of large models feasible not because it's somehow the best architecture for predicting language. The same way PID is something that sort of works if you lack computing power to create better control schemes.
Replies are an illustration of how people can't respect others preferences as well.
Amazon accused again of overcharging shoppers with Buy Box
I believe Cloudflare is in the long-haul of commoditizing their competitors and making their profit through other auxiliary services.

Also, on the plan routing is atrocious, with all requests from Africa and Asia being directed into Europe, which helps keep costs down, but it cannot then be compared with fly.io.
Nobody, ever, is claiming no abstractions are useful or worthwhile. The issue is DRY implies that you should always look for an abstraction to avoid repeating yourself. Trust me, that way lies madness. It should be “sometimes repeat yourself, based on enough context, consideration and experience”. But that’s not as snappy.
I've been on the receiving end of a SWAT in New Zealand. It was aimed at my friend, so I don't know cause.

Here we have an armed offenders squad.

A mostly bizarre experience - not particularly horrible - but neither did I fully understand the risk at the time.

I haven't had any hideous dealings with the police here in Christchurch - it's a small world so perhaps they are a bit more human? I certainly have lots of friends with bad stories - but often pretty damn biased stories!
Nah, analysis of gait is pretty bad too. At this point your best bet is a country with a patchwork of incompatible systems.
As a sibling points out, they're using the local lines.

But you don't need anonymous VoIP. You just buy a burner phone with cash. In the US, carriers are required to route emergency calls even if the phone has no SIM card in it, or if you do have a SIM, but your phone can only see a carrier network you don't have permission to use. The idea being emergencies trump silly things like whether or not you've paid your phone bill or picked the "right" carrier for that location. Or if, say, your SIM card got damaged or dislodged in the accident that caused you to need emergency services.

And I think this is a good thing. But it's of course a vector for abuse, too.
People misunderstand this paper. The point is not to create a strong chess engine. We already have those. It's also not to train it in a smart way. It's just supervised learning.

The whole paper is just an argument against people who still think of transformers as "stochastic parrots".

Probably it's even a mainly internal Deep Mind debate, since people outside have long ago accepted that transformers obviously learn algorthms and do something akind to planning.

You can see this undertone many places in the paper, like when they emphasize the systems plays strongly without _explicit_ search. Or if you read the conclusion.
I took the doubly pedantic view that the tank was not a vehicle simply on account that I was defining a vehicle to be a vehicle when its function is that of a vehicle (namely a tool for locomotion by means other than walking). Applying the principle that someone has to be able to ride on it or in it to count, I pedantically conclude that the tank is not a vehicle because it explicitly says in the question that it is not capable of functioning as a tank anymore. Therefore in effect the tank is little more than a vehicle-shaped-statue, not a vehicle per se. It is no more a violation of the rule than a painting of a car would be. By this reasoning, I counted the stroller, ice skates, and roller blades as violations yet did not count the toy cars, RC planes, nor the picnic wagon.

Is the pedantic answer really uninteresting if it leads to unintuitive answers?

>That’s what made it not interesting, and a better question would be “for each case do you think the police should spend taxpayer money enforcing the rule?”

See, but that's what makes it interesting. You can't just make the law equal to some ad hoc poll of "do I want my tax dollars used to discourage this" for every possible behavior within the park. At some point, for lack of better expression, the rubber has to meet the road. The gut opinion on what is appropriate in a park has to be translated into a rule for the park, and the question of if the rule was violated or not has to be able to be determined entirely on the basis of hard evidence should a ticket for it ever go to court.

At least part of the point of the exercise is that even for something where there's general agreement on the principle (like "people should use pedestrianized parks appropriately"), the translation into an obvious rule (like "no vehicles in the park") fails to capture that intent and the extent to which there actually is general agreement is inversely proportionally to how fully spelled out things are.

The park is interesting because its boring. Its not a hot button issue where people have disagreements on matters of principle like guns or abortion or javascript frameworks. So why is it so hard to write an objective, enforceable rule codifying the seemingly universally agreed and understood idea of what a park is supposed to be? If we can't even get universal agreement on something non-controversial, such as the rules which make a park a park, such as "no vehicles in the park", how can we expect any system of law to work more generally?
It's really interesting that your comment has been heavily downvoted, just for noting that it's not surprising that a criminal like this was also bigoted.
Firstly, the commodification of mental health treatments raises questions about access and equity. If the primary driver behind the development of these therapies is profit, there’s a risk that only those who can afford them will benefit, potentially exacerbating existing disparities in mental health care.

Secondly, while psychedelic drugs offer promising therapeutic potential, their promotion must be approached with caution to avoid oversimplification of complex mental health issues. Mental health is multifaceted, involving biological, psychological, and social factors, and no single treatment is a panacea. Ensuring that these substances are integrated into comprehensive care models that address the broader needs of individuals is essential.

Moreover, the normalization of psychedelic drug use for therapeutic purposes can blur the lines between medical treatment and recreational use, raising concerns about misuse, addiction, and the stigmatization of those who choose not to use these treatments.
> When smoking move out of bars most bars seemed to close.

Pretty good outcome, IMO. If you can't make money without giving all your customers cancer, even if they don't smoke... maybe you shouldn't be in business.
Show HN: Porkybank: Simple, automatic daily budget
Arabs arent stupid. Here how they "invested" $1.5 billion in German Fab 20 years ago: "A German Semiconductor Debacle" - Asianometry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUg5wwkI12A https://www.eetimes.com/dubai-pulls-the-plug-on-german-found...
>reason would be an illegal cause if they stated it.

That's true but it's also exactly what you go to court for. Then the court audits and determines if this was a coincidence or malice.

That's why employers don't often make it this obvious. Like firing an employee 3 days after announcing they are a protected employee.
Similar research:

From "Computer simulation provides 4k scenarios for a climate turnaround" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36578412 :

"Deep decarbonisation pathways of the energy system in times of unprecedented uncertainty in the energy sector" (2023)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030142152... https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=5181468319964302356...

Additional data sources:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24759414 ; ElectricityMaps parses the EIA data too; but it's not intraday. Would intraday pricing create incentives to invest in grid scale energy storage to solve the duck and alligator curves?

Energy solutions:

This says the Szilard-Chalmers MOST process can store energy for 18 years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39111825

Gravity and infinite empty vacuums can also store/transmit energy.
Got a source to back up this claim? That's a pretty serious accusation.
Back when we played the original game, there was a bug that leads to underflow in the money. You had to build a tunnel that spanned the entire width of the map, which would cost just more than 2 billion dollars, underflowing and giving you 2 billion instead. Afterwards, the game was a pure sandbox, and that's the only way I played it as a kid.

Still one of the best games ever!
How are you sourcing DTS 5.1 soundtracks?
Weird take from WP. I would argue that they have the attractiveness advantage in spades which are making them bold.

I see no issue in this but to say that younger workers are opening up is a stretch.

Heck I think I could pitch having them as an agile consultant at the company I work at in no time flat.
Wouldn’t that also make the professor _not_ a professor?
Time Series Analysis by James D. Hamilton

This is 30 years old but a classic in the field.
I wonder if that would really stand up in court. Here in Sweden our judges are not very impressed by clever technicalities.
I admire you for pressing home your point that others are missing. I practice a visual art form (which I won't name; many other smaller cultures around the world too have their own) which will never "emerge" from AI _unless_ it is programmed in, or trained on the visual art itself. Even though, I don't see how it could ever figure out the intricate detailed meanings without it being programmed. The people trying to counter you are thinking only within the culture within which these AIs have been created, and thus it does seem to them that anything AI creates is emergent because it seemingly created soemthing they haven't, didn't, couldn't, wouldn't. Without the programming (never mind the electricity), AI is still a blunt tool.
If they cannot manage themselves, it is not by becoming Windows/Linux that would save the situation.
If this was a significant factor, then it should have a greater impact in high concurrency workloads, getting progressively worse across multi-socket machines.

Benchmarks all show that LMDB performance scales perfectly linearly across arbitrarily many CPUs. If this effect were an actual issue then the performance scaling should be significantly sub-linear. It's not. See e.g. http://www.lmdb.tech/bench/inmem/scaling.html or even the redb benchmark https://mastodon.social/@hyc/111887593549586249

The notion that "maybe their performance floor was higher" is laughable, since no other DBMS delivers anywhere near LMDB's read performance.
Chalmers on the other hand is technically a universitet, but maintains the högskola title in Swedish.
"Journal of Cleaner Production" is not "highly ranked" in economics. Economists are pretty hierarchical about their journals and know which are the top 5, which are top field journals etc. That one is a non-entity, I have literally never heard of it.
Pronounce it like a Klingon.
AWS ELB certainly is zone aware, iirc cross-zone load-balancing is opt-in
Do someone knows if it is possible to get a RSS feed for a podcast on spotify? If yes, how do you do in spotify (or other ways) to see a podcast RSS feed?
It is strange that your opinion, at least here, is not a clearly accepted one. People who think a few seconds videos made by ‘influencers’ who try you to get to buy garbage while you scroll through most of your day at break neck speed is good for the brain, are probably already too far away in addiction of the platform themselves.
It says free for OVH but on their website for S3 I see:
Outgoing public traffic $0.011 /GB

What am I missing?
Thanks. I'll check it out. Didn't even know there were radio stations for game music.
In EU academia has some kind of deal that they almost never pay for egress. Some use ExpressRoute where egress is free, too
Similar as the Netherlands: there 37 "hogescholen" marketing themselves as "University of Applied Sciences" in English that are not allowed to claim to be "universiteiten" in Dutch (a name is reserved for 14 more academically advanced institutions).
Turning GNU/Linux into Windows/Linux won't make it work, regardless.

Microsoft is already half way there with WSL, as soon as they realised folks rather buy Apple gear for UNIX experience, instead of supporting Linux OEMs.

"Runs Windows better than Windows" didn't work last time, and won't now.

And if XBox really goes full speed ahead as cross platform brand, as the console rumor mill has been discussing, lets see how many Microsoft owned studios stuff keep landing on Steam.
Yes, some people won’t move. But that should be an option. An office job should not be the main reason people live in big cities.
Risks to life? This is quite exaggerated. Yes these weird things happen but its a statistical anomaly when you compare to population size.
Show HN: Multi-monitor KVM using just a USB switch
Simple KVM lets you control multiple PCs from one mouse, keyboard and monitor(s).

It is similar to Haimgel's display-switch (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29608967), but it provides a GUI which hopefully makes it a bit easier to set up. It also supports hotkeys which effectively lets you alt+tab between computers.

I was surprised by the star-to-download ratio (55:400) on GitHub, so I thought I'd post it here as it might be useful to someone.

Feedback welcome!

Thanks,
Fidel
I think a big part of the point here is that it picked a seemingly boring, non-controversial case where you would expect agreement to be near universal but it isn't.
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Making it cheap for productive people to enter, and costly to exit, is a time honored strategy by countries and businesses alike. There is nothing particularly surprising going on here.
Previously -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36361527 (70 comments)
> It might not be "reading a book" but I really fail to see the big difference between that and an audiobook.

First, I reject the premise that audiobooks count as reading. We can agree it's consuming a book, or listening to one, but it's pretty objectively not reading.

This is important to my next point too: reading is important not only for expanding ones horizons, but for learning spelling, grammar, sentence structure, and forming long-form arguments. Some of these can be picked up from listening, but certainly not all.

And because we communicate so much by text in the modern world, spelling, grammar, punctuation and sentence structure can have an outsized impact on your life and social interactions
On the contrary. It should dominate battlefields. To the point of making humans there completely obsolete. Any human loses in war should be treated the same way as civilian loses. It's dumb that we create special class of people that we are fine they are getting killed.
What exactly is the purpose of having space-within a patchwork of incompatible systems?
He’s not being harassed by the swatters. He’s being terrorized by the police. It’s important to call out the blame shifting stance authorities like to take. You don’t kick someone’s door 47 times and say someone tricked us into it. Their communication problems and general amnesia are intentional at this point.
SparkJava has an actively developed fork/successor called Javalin[1]. It's straightforward to convert from SparkJava to Javalin. The latter is written in Kotlin but fully supports ordinary Java.

While the rest of the Java world was devolving into annotation hell, AOP and other nightmares, these microframeworks showcased what happens when you leverage modern Java language features. A small but enthusiastic following has developed and they pop up now and then.

[1] https://javalin.io/
Interesting that everyone in this story suffered consequences except for the person who pulled the trigger.
I did some automata for parsing, transformation and compression in my PhD. I think that XPath is the major failure in XML standardization, with XSLT building on this. If we had a stricter language we could easily compile much of the XML stuff and do binary XML much more extensively.
Excel has everything to do with it. From the article:

> In email correspondence seen by Retraction Watch and a follow-up Zoom call, Heshmati told the student he had used Excel’s autofill function to mend the data.

The most charitable interpretation is that the professor has no idea what autofill is or isn't capable of doing, so he misused it.
The fact that you control the pace in your page turner example is part of what makes reading active instead of passive. You don't really get that watching a documentary or listening to a lecture or podcast
If you are the least bit good at OSINT, finding peoples details isn't that hard.
Neat. Seems like the process could be be made continuous.
> Competence at what?

There is a class of people who believe leadership is something you can learn on its own. These are the people who join all the useless commitees for resume building purposes. Leadership only has value when paired with significant knowledge in some domain.

> Avoiding strong personalities purely for the sake easing hostility sounds a lot like cowardice.

Cowardice is when you avoid something, because of fear. GP is talking about avoiding people who will annoy you.
Best Country to Hire Engineers From?
So I analyzed average salaries, startup cultural fit, technical quality, and talent supply, to rank the best countries to hire engineers.

Here’s how I scored it:

A score of 1-5 for each of the 4 metrics. Then averaged scores to rank them.

Here's the list:
10. Colombia
9. Vietnam
8. Ukraine
7. India
6. Turkey
5. Romania
4. Brazil
3. Pakistan
2. Poland
1. Philippines

Let me know what you think
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Let's not conflate side effects and effects.
"protect and serve" (only when we want to)
Also Netherlands to New Zealand. Hilarious.
I was also meaning the temporary boost in activity. It just doesn't exist. You can take glucose to restore energy. But it won't make you more active. No one is taking glucose for an activity boost, else you would be seeing droves of people ditching coffee for dextose energy. But no one does that because it just doesn't work like that.
I'm not surprised that results of this study were not surprising.
Been listening to rainwave for over three years now, gamification aspect with voting is very fitting for a video game music streaming website.
Maybe. I just don’t like to confuse the two, it’s like talking to a middle schooler vs talking to a graduate student. In both cases you can say the experience sucked but you should specify which was it.