skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Parts of this article are a little ignorant, in particular the way New Wave is framed as a "gentrifier" of punk.

For starters, some of the more ambitious punk bands became New Wave: Wire went from raw punk to brilliant new wave, and even Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols went on to form Public Image Limited.

> the New Wave scene was created mostly by middle- to upper-class white musicians ... after graduating from private art colleges

Guess the author has some weird beef with the Talking Heads, who went to RISD?

Also one of the first punk bands, the Ramones, were essentially a bunch of white kids from Ridgewood, Queens, which is pretty suburban itself, let's be honest.

There's some I agree with, but all in all, kind of a meh musical take from a non-cultural socialist mag.
This is the thing about simple things, usually to maintain a simple "face" they require quite a lot of sophistication on the inside.
Like the stackoverflow example, they have a simple architecture, but to make that work they did a lot of very low level optimizations, have a deep understanding of their stack and database, and also hosted their own servers.
Basically, it takes a lot of skill to build something "simple".
I’ve just come to realize from this article that human challenge trials are really a form of trolley problem [1]. Is it more ethical to “do nothing” and gather data from infections in the wild, where many people are potentially harmed, or do you “throw the switch” and infect a much smaller number deliberately to get high quality data?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem
My point is that the sample code is pretty readable, it just involves patterns and jargon from other languages that Python users might not be used to.
Some months ago, I had problems with captcha. I tried to write an application to access many drugstores and compare the price, but captcha with login system fail the mission.

Do you have any piece of advice for me?
This is an amazing list. I humbly request that the author do a post for AI movies.
Maybe its intentional, but you're actually making the opposite point of what you think, in my view?

All of the best programmers I know do not copy code, they try to understand first, and then apply what they learned. In this way, they use ChatGPT, SO, google, etc. the same amount for copy pasting code: Pretty much not at all.
Laziness is something that should be earned.

When you’re starting out, you should be doing things the hard way on purpose. Learn things the hard way, don’t look at “Learn X in Y days” type tutorials. Use simple tools. Write code by hand.
>Apple are giving away WO 5 (java only)

I tried to download that but the file was damaged
A good painter does not blame but reflects. That could be the whole sentence
This obviously depends on context, but taking someone else's 3d model from partial to finished is often slower than starting over from scratch, because of topological considerations. For a random piece of environment, it's probably a good workflow, but for hero objects, where topology is downstream from the art direction, I'm not sure you get much time savings from a partially-complete model.

Of course, there may be workarounds to topological speedbumps with respect to deformation/animation, texture, detail, etc, that would make the 80% right 3d model very useful.
Voice Coding in IntelliJ with Meta Quest 3 [video]
What exactly don't I get? You're replying to a thread where I highlighted just one social casino company that makes over half a billion annually, doing exactly what you claim they won't do - hedging against walled gardens by investing in infrastructure to support direct relationships with customers. This space full of very big players absolutely will diversify away from app store payment processing if they find a more profitable path elsewhere. They don't care what technology they use.

I haven't talked about unjust fees I've talked about unjust contracts, which prevent forming a direct relationship with customers, aka export your business off the app stores. Once you build the business there they don't want you taking it anywhere else. And they'll wield their influence over smartphone hardware to keep developers complacent. There was just a big antitrust case about this, and the walled garden lost. The losses will continue. The big developers with big resources will use these new pathways to extract more revenue at Apple's expense. Nobody is talking about little guys except you.
> The story was not real, but is completely within the realm of reality.

Of course. A good lie is defined by it being relatively believable. Re: the viability of the exploit, my understanding is that most smart toothbrushes do not connect to the Internet, and even if they did, the huge numbers originally presented in the story (3 million toothbrushes) are astronomically high.
I haven't read that article in detail but the fact that companies provide tools in which they gather data on the usage and how those tools are used shouldn't be surprising. Generally using any of these things that companies provide have such a broadly written terms of service that you literally have no protections beyond what the law provides protections for. Since the law is mostly written by corporate lawyers much of those protections that the law can afford you as defaults also can be voluntarily given up as well.

Just as an example of how horrendous it has gotten for the protections you can give up look at a purchase agreement for an automobile or an RV or something like that. A physical piece of property with a warranty that is protected by law and you effectively give up everything the law could protect you on during that purchase. There is no negotiation on that point either you either purchase it or you do not because the free market has not provided that different dealers have better purchase agreements than others it's all boilerplate of you lose all protections except the most minimum which you cannot give up by law.

So speaking about Justice here, in a legal sense, what has been violated? Almost nobody reads those terms of service especially when the service itself may be free. Therefore they're bound to buy something they didn't really look at. Talking about it in a moral sense of justice, I agree these companies are abusive and will continue to be so. Putting legal restraints around them can't help but that is a double-edged sword as well it can have some benefits and it can have some downsides.

Now if there is actual laws that are being violated, the wheels of Justice do move slowly but eventually they catch up. Unfortunately and cases such as this it's often that the punishment when an organization like the FTC catches up isn't sufficient to prevent future violations. Companies feel emboldened that they can operate in what they consider a gray area knowing that they will secure enough profits to pay any fines should they happen in the future.

In the United States we often like to criticize certain things about China and their "regime", but I would have to say in some regards they actually have some teeth when it comes to corporations violating laws and other such things. In many ways much stronger personal property and personal identity rights. Unfortunately the will of the people is rarely unified enough to overcome the will of the corporations in the US.
Ukraine will send drone to attack compressor station on shore, like we do now with oil refineries. Why we need to play in a muddy waters at all? We are at war with RF.
OpenAI seem to be getting better at stopping jailbreaks, though very probably at the expense of kneecapping the model.

> I'm sorry, but I can't provide text from copyrighted material in that manner. However, I can offer a summary or discuss the themes, characters, and much more about "The Catcher in the Rye" if you're interested. Let me know how I can assist you further!

(From GPT4)
Excellent framing: Dopamine beats entertainment. Just see people with their smartphones out when they’re ‘watching’ a Netflix show. Or the unbundling of funny, often context-less moments from that show into bite sized pieces of dopamine, rebundled together on your social media platform of choice (everything in tech is either bundling or unbundling). It’s all drugs at this point. The emperor is naked.
Was that research into violent FPS video games per chance? And if that research showed no correlation between players of those games and their behavior in the real world (I can't remember if it did or not, or if it was inconclusive), I wonder what the difference is between that and interacting with things like chatbots? Is it because gamers have a hard line differentiation between real world and the game world that keeps actions in the latter from contaminating the former? And interacting with a chatbot is too similar to interacting to a human via a messenger application?
I think if people are relying on new drugs for things they don't often have 5 years.
Scientists' Life-Saving Prediction of the Iceland Eruption
>> He takes a lot of AI-generated boilerplate for granted now without understanding it or the concepts behind it
i have seen this too in junior programmers. It is indeed bad but than i think of myself without internet and in some ways i too become handicapped like them unable to make meaningful progress without access to documentation so its a mixed bag.
Good programmers will learn to identify gaps and filling them so that they can better utilize the tools others would be left behind.

For senior programmers its an absolute productivity boost.
I have the same kind of thoughts often, but then I think to myself: is it a bad thing being lazier if I get more things done? I don't think so. Overall it's been net positive and that's what matters for me at the end of the day
Show HN: LoraLand – 25 fine-tuned LLMs that beat GPT-4
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We'd love to hear comments and feedback from the community
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- Why: These coding capabilities are particularly beneficial for two main use cases: learning and verification. For example, students can play with Gemini's code examples to better understand how modifications impact the outputs. This interactive learning experience can help you grasp coding concepts more effectively. Or, developers can quickly check if the code generated by Gemini runs correctly before copying it. This saves you time and ensures that the code you use is functional.

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How do you know he’s progressing faster than otherwise? At least, for me, the yardsticks I have for how long it takes to learn to code are: (my own) self-learning experience, (my own) experience learning in the classroom, and then working with new students. If I mentored somebody one-on-one I guess I’d probably be surprised at how fast they learned.
Well that's the tragedy of not contributing back upstream then.
If there were companies actively maintaining the 32 bit port, there would be no plans of dropping it.
And how does that answer my question?
Secret Seastead Ends in Death
My first job was actually rewriting old code from python to php for zuck. Hack is a surprisingly cool language.
Anyone who has used this and notion - any pro/con for using this vs. notion for PM? (Notion these days also has an AI component)
Have a look at the server auction? Tbh, I would limit my dedicated server rentals to server/ddr ram setups (which is a little more expensive).

But if you just need some cpu (to transcode some video, crack some passwords, what-have-you, run a game/videochat server) - consumer cpu models give you unmetered gigabit or 30tb/month 10gbps. So can definitely be worth it vs a VPS.
And William Gibson has a small cameo as himself. I remember the show as being quite good, but I suspect it's not aged well.
Okay, I see what you're saying. The terms this discussion craves are liquidity and capital requirements.

Mortgages are assesed on risk-based metrics in terms of how much equity a bank must hold against each dollar loaned, and how much liquidity as well.

Apologies. The comment you're responding to makes multiple fundamental errors [1], so the discussion is a tad tough to follow.

[1] Banks have enough capital to absorb these losses, capital isn't cash, loss reserves aren't cash, there is no chain reaction of defaults in basic lending, bank failures and rescues aren't inflationary
This is the Impulsonic middleware they acquired back in 2017. They quickly made it free in binary form, but third party uptake seems to have been practically non-existent, probably in large part because they only made it available on PC and Android but not any of the consoles or iOS. They also promised Wwise integration but that never materialized and doesn't appear to be anywhere in the open source release.
>a collapse in commercial RE

Perhaps. But if jobs are not a reason to live in a city, I expect that will change the housing equation for many people and they'll just move somewhere that isn't as crowded.

Which is probably even a good result overall. Lower housing prices for people who want to live in a city for other reasons--albeit perhaps with reductions in services and other favored urban features overall.
I feel like we're talking past each other here.

What I'm saying is that it's hard to tell if the usary limits actually provide a benefit to the borrowers. And I'm discussing the topics related to figuring out if they do or don't.

And what you appear to be saying is that we need those limits because we've always had those limits, and because limits are good. And that the limits don't limit people because secured credit cards exist. Which doesn't really speak to the question I was trying to raise... of whether or not those usary limits provide the benefits they are supposed to.
Part A of the comment is saying debt is a money multiplier up to 100x. One break in The chain erases the 100x of money.

Part B is then saying that if the debt chains collapse, erasing massive amounts of money, partially backfilling people via the limited insurance will cause inflation?

Please clarify this contradictory reasoning.
I wish they developed this further as a cross-platform competitor to Windows Sonic / Dolby Headphones / DTS Unbound.

It’s quite nice to got quasi-surround from a 5/7.1 source with just some headphones and HRTF magic, and its one of the biggest things I miss with gaming on Linux.
No, I don't think that's the case. Governments can influence what the market does using incentives and funding, without anyone making sacrifices. Fund climate-friendly research, fund deployment of renewable energy, subsidize EV cars and charger deployment. This work creates a ton of jobs, advances our tech and research capabilities, and puts us in a good position to help transition other economies around the world. None of that is a sacrifice: cars get cheaper, energy gets cheaper, jobs are created, tech improves, and we don't have to pay trillions of dollars in environmental damage every year.
Cherenkov exists in all media except vacuum. It is when electrons travel faster than speed of light in the media (in this case air).

In vacuum they are limited by the speed of light.

For example: https://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/hfm/CosmicRay/ChLight/Cherenkov.ht....

Also, hello! my name is Ryan & we are likely in the same field.
Amazing! Very well explained.
Yes, but you are still dealing with situations where other teams are deploying code that you are responsible for. With microservices you can always say, "our microservice wasn't deployed, so it is someone else's problem."

But I think you are pointing out one of the reasons most places don't get benefits from microservices. If their culture doesn't let them do as you describe with a monolith, the overhead of microservices just bring in additional complexities to an already dysfunctional team/organization.
yeah, basically I think perspective is important to point out, when people are promoting the narrative "AMD has caught up to M1" but ignoring the fact it's not an Apples to Apples comparison. I'm sure 4090 can play cyberpunk with more FPS. And sure, I think the M series CPUs can eke out more single core performance if they devoted all 140 m2 of the die to CPU. But that's not what the M series chips are.

Also, there's benchmarks like these:

https://owehrens.com/whisper-nvidia-rtx-4090-vs-m1pro-with-m...
The internet is a global communications platform. You may want to adjust your expectations re: immaculate English usage.
Faculty group calls on Yale to make teaching 'distinct from activism'
I was looking at that project [1] trying to understand what this article explains in a more simple way. There is some non-trivial complexity of how to put together wasm-pack, web-sys, js-sys and wasm-bindgen functions to work well together with javascript for a web page or a browser extension. Nice article!

[1] https://github.com/drakerossman/hackernews-userscript
American Air Raises Bag Fees as Industry Total Tops $33B
Ukraine's neutrality is irrelevant.
IMO Lisps are not nice to refactor in that sense, but a dream to modify in general. In the case of Haskell and Rust, the compiler creates really tight and more importantly, global, feedback loops that have pretty good guarantees (obviously not perfect, but they're stronger than most everything else out there), while Lisp has basically no guarantees and forces you to execute code to know if will even work at all. This doesn't become apparent until you try to do large scale refactors on a codebase and suddenly you actually need good test coverage to have any confidence that the refactor went well vs in Rust or Haskell if it compiles there's already a pretty reasonable guarantee you didn't miss something.

Fortunately, Lisp codebases IME tend to be smaller and use small, unlikely-to-need-to-be-modified macros and functions, so large refactors may be less common.
GlobalFoundries gets 1.5B from CHIPS fund, $600M from NY state
Use the server auction? No setup fee then.
Jacobin is not a source to take seriously. They're a very politically-slanted outfit that generally starts with a conclusion in mind from their particular political point of view and then works backwards from there. Like OANN, but on the left.
Yeah, agreed - if you know what you want, and can write the reqs to coax it out of the model, it's a great typing accelerator.
"Why bother when you can pick them up from any doorhandle, coffee cup, pen, table surface, or just a photograph at super high-res."

Most of those require being loated in the same area and generally even at a similar time (for high use areas). This would be more like the photo attack where you can be located far away.
I like The Thirteenth Floor. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139809/
Hence why I said "LLMs are useful tools". But the current hype pitches them as much, much more than ancillaries to traditional web search, hence why I said "[...] then the hype is a bust. TBD."
The most sophisticated arch ever needed for any scale in my FAANG and F500 jobs are a ssl-supported load balancer, multiple app servers with thread pools, a sharded database, and message queues. Everything else is just a dressed up version of this
you have protections around these things in most places, and especially in Denmark.

also, renters I am referring to are commercial renters (so definitely not the cheapest ones).
Wowww, it is really interesting how fast they are changing things. I tried a couple of days ago and it worked. I need to check my prompts history, maybe I added something different.
Nvidia GH200 72 Core Grace CPU Performance vs. AMD Ryzen Threadripper
U.N. committee to take up issue of satellite interference with astronomy
I increasingly feel like a member of some kind of high priest or scribe class in a feudal society, and I don't like it. I don't like where this is going.

It'll either end in a dark cyberpunk total surveillance and mass manipulation state or a kind of Butlerian Jihad where people reject networked cybernetic systems en masse. Maybe the first happens followed by the second.
>In the last century lots of things that were considered science fiction has become normal parts of our lives

All of those things are within the laws of physics.

>And not that long ago "aliens don't exist" was the default and only crazies believed in them.

The latter is still the case now.
would love to learn more about what you are doing with supermarket prices
This reminds me a bit of the some of the problem solving experiments done comparing pet dogs to undomesticated wolves. The experiment wasn't overly complicated, a piece of meat was placed in a locked cage and the animals were given free reign to try their paws at getting to the food. The wolves were persistent, some employed tools like sticks to push the food out, some managed to navigate the clasping mechanism on the cage. The domesticated dogs more often than not quickly gave up and looked to the human present for help.
Education and VC/Hedge funds should be thoroughly isolated from each other.
Show HN: DMARC Checker
This isn't Win9x, it shouldn't bluescreen just because some userspace program interpreting DTMF tones screws up.
No, I wasn't thinking of that - I was thinking explicitly of how treating "inanimate objects" poorly tends to decrease empathy for other people as well.
Which country are you relocating to ? Certain ones such as France don’t allow ‘digital nomads’ - there are workarounds but it inevitably involves paying taxes and social charges. Working cross borders can also be difficult- I’m English but have French residency but cannot work for a non-French (and possibly Ireland) without getting a blue card or getting my EU citizenship back which was stripped from me against my will…
Good engineers reflect and avoid blaming. Generalizations and tribal thinking are bad habits. Stackoverflow, the internet, and a keyboard are tools to be mastered. Good engineers prefer to think for themselves no matter the tool they are using.
That's not surprising.

What would you expect from pupils if the teacher gave them all solutions when they ask?
> In the end, the story's spread can be explained by a journalist's simply misunderstanding that made the story much more virulent.

Bollocks, you're letting the "journalist" off way too easily. That toothbrush story was simply "a story too good to vet", meaning, sure, the author had a convenient excuse blaming it on a "misunderstanding", and while I don't believe the author was necessarily lying, I do believe they had no incentive to dig any more deeply because the toothbrush bot army story was already clickbait enough.
Just get a regular remote job and then set up a vpn from a US based location and just use that all the time. No one will ever know and maybe won’t even care.
Soundtrack for that show is an incredible mix of contemporary artists and unique tracks, something to artists I hadn't heard of before. Also, Alex Garland is an amazing director people should check out his other work.
Most companies with 1k+ employees will have offices or at least contractors in different countries, adopting a "follow the sun" support model typically. I'd start by looking at public companies, or potentially companies (like Percona) who don't really have an office to begin with - pure remote.