skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I picked that movie because it is considered one of the best movies on IMDB. However, it did very poorly on release. It was years later it did much better.
Gems are made. But they also do not always get the recognition they deserve. With AI we are about to get a lot more rubish to dig thru. However, we may be surprised too. At this point is kind of too soon to tell. But my gut reaction is 'a small bit of good tons of bad'.
I'd guess they are certainly safer than a laptop, but it depends on a manufacturer... (I've seen lots of "balooned" laptops, including many Macs)
today I learned a new thing:

https://www.bikelaw.com/2017/07/punishment-pass-defined/
It is unclear to me whether you're praising the article as particularly easy to understand or complaining that it contains equations like

h_t = A h_{t-1} + B x_t
y_t = C h_t

(which the author attempts to illustrate in the "My name is Jack" figure below)
Most people won't get anything close to what they had. That's because bankruptcy claims are locked in USD on the date on the filing, which was pretty much the bottom of the market. And they certainly won't get any returns on the investment.

Let's say you had 1 BTC at the time of bankruptcy which was worth $20k for the sake of example. Your claim is now $20k and you won't get more than that. And even if you get 100% of that, it's only 0.4 BTC at current prices.
I wanted to do the same a few years ago, but was nervous about throwing away all the security of salaried employment for the uncertainty of contracting work.

I ended up joining a software consulting firm and have been very happy with the decision. I receive a salary and full benefits, even when I’m “on the bench” (ie not actively working on a client project)

The pay is not as lucrative as if I was just doing this on my own, but I also have an enormous support team that goes and finds contracts and just deploys me to projects. It feels like a good transition to full time contract work, while I learn the ropes of this field.
Spotify is the largest music streamer by far, being over twice as large as its next biggest competitor, Apple Music. It's natural that the company would be the biggest target for criticism, both for Spotify-specific problems and as a stand-in for the whole industry. Also, speaking as a mostly-satisfied subscriber, Spotify still has a lot of issues. The quality of the desktop client in particular is poor and it never seems to improve.
I don't doubt that you feel the difference between the two - but that doesn't mean there is a difference.

Without a double-blind test, it's just conjecture. Audio is notoriously subjective, and existing research shows that 320kbps audio is indistinguishable from lossless.
Because now the competitors have caught up.

And this will happen to NVIDIA as well, but it might be a slower pace as NVIDIA tech is more expensive to develop than Cisco's
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hello! engineer who worked on the new Table component here. the grouping actually happens client side, so there's no generated sql. it's compatible with any data you bring into Retool, and is configured by simply selecting one or more columns in the Table you'd like you group the rows by.
> Spotify Premium is already hifi

Hard disagree.

I do agree that for the majority of people, the 320kbit/s is absolutely enough for most people (arguably 160kbps is).

But it's not "hifi". And I don't mean "With extremely high end headphones and a dac, a trained ear, and holding your tongue at the right angle you can just barely make out a difference" - it's very noticable even with mediocre equipment. It's a rather lossy 320kbit/s too.

That's why a "hifi" tier makes sense, they don't currently serve that market at all.
I don't think patents are what is making this specific hardware expensive. Rather it's just a lack of market and supply chain scaling.
Aren't semantics considered off-topic or not contributing to the conversation at HN?
I surprised that poodles were called out as a less obvious smart dog.

My dog learned on her own that me holding keys + wearing glasses = car ride, while keys + no glasses = walk. It took me a while to learn how she knew what we were going to do.
we have no idea what the large players in the space are doing
Sure, the owner has a duty of responsibility, but that doesn't mean it can't be outsourced or that liability in the event of failure transfers back to the owner.

It does make sense to include everyone, because it isn't necessarily clear if this was outsourced properly.
The problem women have is that they get a tsunami of likes and it is up to them to figure out who is serious and who is just casting a wide net.

When you have 2000 guys in your inbox, it's hopeless to try an find the right guy (who also isn't the "right guy" for every other woman).
It’s funny that this is getting downvoted when it is true.

It is more complicated though, the bankruptcy lawyers had to come up with some system to pay people back, and if not for the huge run up in crypto prices, which happened mainly after the policy was locked in, it wouldn’t be so bad.

Still though it does seem a very generous to the other FTX creditors (I doubt the equity holders are getting anything).
I agree, micro bots would be best to handle the dirty jobs.
Commercially successful, huh?
I can't recall which reader app I used, but I've seen this done before in ages past.

No AI, so no big concept of inferred identities, but if someone's referenced by name you could long-tap the name, and get a list of all previous references in the text. Super useful for referencing secondary characters in super-long epics like The Wheel of Time.
How can you know this is watermarking?

I’ve experienced some audio glitching with Spotify as well, which usually went away after clearing my local cache. I’d be really surprised if it really was watermarking.
Do you want me to be curious about git or what we are actually doing on the job though? Maybe its different for software engineers where the job is to build tools over use tools. I analyze data, a tool user mainly, and thats where my curiosity is more focused perhaps, also what I am paid for ultimately.
I've always hated this saying, and I think the reason applies here too.

If you take up running and it never gets easier, that means you're never managing your pace and you're always going full throttle. That's a straight shot towards injury if not chronic disability. Most aerobic benefits happen at zone 2, where your heart rate is just above 'easy effort'. When you start out, this might just be walking, so it makes sense to run. But once you are able to sprint, you open up the ability to do more than just walk or sprint. You can jog, skip, run at a tempo pace, run at a race pace, etc., and you need to do those to maintain fitness and build up your chronic training load. That's not to say there aren't hard efforts at times, like when you do a sprint workout or hill repeats, but 90% of the time it should be and feel easier than when you started.

You can bring that to programming too. If it never gets easier, that means you're always pushing yourself and seeking challenges. That's not good for you, your coworkers, or your projects... everyone needs some grounding and to perform at a level they excel at. Not only will your velocity be more predictable, you won't burn out as easily. Challenges that increase that comfortable pace can be sought out, but usually they come naturally too.
Yup. This is the case in the UK too. You're not allowed to be drunk and drive, but you're absolutely allowed to have a can of beer while driving. This surprised me when going to the States - there's nothing stopping you from downing a can then getting in the car, but it's illegal to even have an open container of alcohol in the car (even if held by a passenger and you're teetotal)
My wife is Satoshi too ! insert two spaced salute
One of the relatively rare times being Canadian pays off for online resources - RedFlagDeals.com is still doing well in their forums.
If you put your foot to the floor in a supercharged car, you're going to eventually have to let it up lest you melt things or you burn all your oil because your rings aren't making contact with the cylinder walls any more. It's an apt metaphor since the same is true of CPUs. You can't run a CPU at 400 watts continuously for more than a handful of seconds at a time.

The problem is that Intel has normalized it so much that all their high end CPUs do this, and apparently do it often. It's not unexpected that they might be too close to the point where things are melting, so to speak.

I'd rather slower and more stable any day - I chose a Ryzen 7900 over a 7900X intentionally - but that isn't what all the marketing out there is trying to sell. The fancy motherboards, the water coolers, the highly clocked memory all account for lots of markup, so that's what's marketed. I'm not a fan.

It is worth noting a distinction between the terms "overclocking" and "turbo clocking". "Overclocking" has traditionally meant running the clock "over" the rating. "Turbo clocking" is now built in to almost every CPU out there. One technically can void your warranty, whereas the other doesn't.

Since we're mostly technical people here, we should use the appropriate term where the context makes that choice more accurate. It's like virus and Trojan - we SHOULD be technically correct, but that doesn't mean highly technical people aren't still calling Trojans viruses now and then.
I agree with this.

And going further, it would also be nice to normalize "dating around" where a candidate and firms could learn a bit about each other while if it's not a fit, the candidate can continue where they are.

If we can do parental leave, we should be able to manage life-change leave.

Granted, the logistics, IP, confidentiality, and many other things feel incredibly complicated to sort out. And yet firms work with consultants running around talking to all their competitors, and the world doesn't end.

At the same time, keeping people in roles that aren't satisfying for either party makes little pragmatic or personal fulfillment sense, yet most of employment law seems oriented for that.

Given the asymmetric stakes, seems worth figuring out ways we could prioritize humans over firms.
I'm the editor of that document, and happy to answer questions.
Many do. The founders of Lidl bought the name from someone named Lidl. They were named Schwarz.
There are high-fidelity Bluetooth codecs such as LDAC (~1000kbps), which Android has native support for.
This method of data exfiltration is in Kevin Mitnick's book! He needed a daily pin that banks used to validate intra-bank communications. He called a bank, said that he needed to fax over loan forms from another branch for signing later that day (or something like that). He then asked the bank that he called for the daily PIN. They refused because he called them. He pointed out that he was sending sensitive data to them so they needed to provide the pin... and they did.
> To think about what a really huge transaction load would look like,
I look at the existing credit card network. I found some more
estimates about how many transactions are online purchases. It's
about 15 million tx per day for the entire e-commerce load of the
Internet worldwide. At 1KB per transaction, that would be 15GB of
bandwidth for each block generating node per day, or about two DVD
movies worth. Seems do-able even with today's technology.

So Satoshi would have increased the block size by now.
I don’t know enough about web dev to know the performance penalty that might be incurred but, has there been any experimentation with hiding the voting buttons for the first 5-15 seconds after a comment is viewed (scaled up the longer the comment is, to force the user to actually think about the comment before reacting)?

Similarly to how reply is hidden for the first few minutes for hot threads.
Mostly agree on lossless - frankly most people don’t have gear that justifies worrying about it.

As a parent with a toddler YouTube premium is close to a necessity!
> No multi-line lambdas, which forces you to move snippets away from their usage and come up with a name for them

This is a good thing.

> Modifying arithmetic operators (*=, +=, ++, --, etc...)

++ and -- aren't a thing in Python.
Hah, when? It's always been a random walk.
There is the expression in English, rubbing your/their hands with glee. All context dependent as for the physicality. Someone holding their hands tightly and rubbing them might be nervous for example. Someone fast moving them but not cold could be more joyous.
Yes, because when you are getting 100 matches an hour on dating apps, an AI that can perform triage for you would be incredibly valuable.
He was also depressed at that time.
Indeed. I think this something that people are often confused about, e.g. one blogger[0] comments:

> The key to understanding the fixpoint theorem, for me anyway, was realizing that when it says FG=G, it does not mean that for every F there is a G such that by calling F with parameter G one can get back G. I mention this in the blog post, above. The equality operator in FG=G is the equivalence relation induced by the calculus rewriting relation: that is, it's the symmetric reflexive transitive closure of the rewriting step relation. When you look at the proof of the theorem, it actually works by constructing an expression G such that evaluating G produces, as an intermediate result, FG. There is no need for F to even be a function, and if F is a function it doesn't matter what, if anything, F would actually do when called, because the proof of the theorem doesn't involve calling F.

I think the name "fixpoint combinator" is kindof bad, it it was called e.g. the "recursion combinator" I think people would find it more intuitive.

[0] https://fexpr.blogspot.com/2013/07/bypassing-no-go-theorems....
His wife doesn't think it was him (https://twitter.com/maradydd/status/1364325186372304904?t=yY...) and the original Bitcoin code/executable was Windows based whereas Sassaman was known to Mac/Linux
SPAs were a psyop by FAANG companies to gain a monopoly and mind-share of developer talent.

Are you team Google (Angular)? Meta (React)? Are you a hipster (Ember)?

From there things only went downhill faster.
> Zip ties have an annoying square head, and the tag end is often cut off not quite flush with the head, giving a great jagged edge to lacerate some poor mechanic's hand.

In decades past my hands were cut many times in data center racks because of this. Fortunately, zip ties have gone out of fashion and everyone uses Velcro now. The advantages of Velcro over zip ties in data center racks:

- Even pressure and no risk of over tightening

- Trivial to re-work when cables are added/removed

- No more cut hands!

The only downside is that sometimes the loops can be too loose and slide down to the next loop. This is especially common when very few cables are being bound and the Velcro structure does not want to conform to such a tight radius.
Our dog is not particularly smart but once we counted that she knows at least about 20 words, one of those being "cat", so we use "that furry animal" instead when we talk to not agitate her for no reason.
One could use variable length, as once some player wins the game is done.
Both, we process all the data in several blockchains and make public reports available for our users. Some of data can be processed once, others need to be recalculated on the schedule. So we process every block, every log entity in transaction nature. And also have a lot of data that processed several ways 2nd/3rd/etc times.

We also slowly evolve our internal analytics/intelligence. It is not something that generates high load, but will be at some point. Imagine something like dune.com.
Not really, in fact, the French revolution and the "democracy" (included was a period called the "reign of terror") that followed was closely followed by a empire, and the French people were happy with that newfound stability.

I think that what motivated the transition to democracy the prosperity made possible by the industrial revolution. No longer we need a population of dumb muscle since machines do better. Instead we need a healthy, well educated population, capable of innovation, so that we can build and operate better machines. And that's not the kind of population a coercitive regime creates.
It wasn't clear to me from this that these dogs had any special cognitive abilities, as opposed to neurosensory abilities, e.g. maybe most dogs can't audibly distinguish human vowels and consonants well enough for this to work.
Eh, he had made exactly these sorts of bets before and he won those. Because it is gambling, eventually you lose a bet or two. While experienced gamblers learn to manage risk- mostly by diversifying and betting small chunks of your pot on different, uncorrelated bets, SBF never did. He continually bet his entire net worth- and his freedom- in one big gamble again and again. And it worked for a while. Until it didn't. But if he did get this bet to pay off, then he would have done it again, clearly. And eventually, one of the gambles would break like this one did.
Curious how you determined what she had determined.
Show HN: PortableGit via NPM
The UN has from its founding been anti-colonial. So much so that one of its six principal (or founding) organs was the Trusteeship Council with the sole aim of granting independence to nations that found them selves colonized after World War 2.

Now Palestine didn’t explicitly fall under the Trusteeship, but that is only because Israel declared independence in 1948. Non other then the US (under Truman) actually proposed that Palestine became a Trustee nation under the UN.

The UN has largely been successful in its decolonization efforts (demonstrably for the better). I don’t think we give it enough credit for that.

So, yes. This does indeed exemplify UN policy. And it is a good policy, which has been proven improve the lives of millions, if not billions, in more ways then we can count.
Having worked at Google every single article about them confirms my experience with project management there. By the end of my time there whenever starting a new project my first question is "why did the previous attempt fail" because there always was a previous (and generally unmaintained) service that did pretty much the same thing. About half the time the new project would be "deprioritized" for the same reason as the previous one and half the time it would be a different reason.
In case people are wondering why Mamba is exciting:

There's this idea in AI right now that "scaling" models to be bigger and train on more data always makes them better. This has led to a science of "scaling laws" which study just how much bigger models need to be and how much data we need to train them on to make them a certain amount better. The relationship between model size, training data size, and performance turns out to be quite predictable.

Transformers are great because they can continue scaling and giving us better performance – unlike, we think, RNNs. Probably the most exciting thing about Mamba is the claim that it can be a bit smaller, and train on a bit less data, and still provide better performance than the equivalent Transformer, especially at longer sequence lengths.

For more info, see the scaling laws plot in Figure 4 of the Mamba paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.00752
> What services do you use for lossless music streaming?

- Now, I'm using Navidrome hosted on my home server (local collection). I also have MPD configured on the same server which is connected to my AV receiver via optical.

- I almost always use my Mac (I use ALAC instead of FLAC). I either use the Navidrome interface, a subsonic client (submariner), or local copies with Doppler. I have a pair of Hifiman Sundara for proper listening (JDS Labs DAC and amplifier), an IEM when there's too much noise outside, and various other headphones tied to different devices. I also do airplay to a couple Homepod Mini.

I need the amp for the Sundara, nothing else can drive it apart from the AV receiver. Less than good encoded files sound awful on the better headphones and speakers, especially if you've listened to the lossless files. As an analogy, I can take pictures taken from a phone. On the screen phone, it looks great, but not so good when displayed on a 43" display, but still ok. So I don't mind listening to a 128kbps mp3 file, but I found lossless files are always clearer and fill the space better.
Business isn't ethical unless its a bcorp or a benefit corporation. They have one guiding principle, to make money for their shareholders.
Survivor bias plays a strong role in these conversations.

There were a ton of promising companies back then that no longer exist today. But you don't hear about then in HN.
Strange. About 90% of my windows game library (99% of my windows + dos library) run on Linux.

Only about 50% of my windows game library still runs on windows.

MacOS is even worse: ~33% of my mac games still run on macos; ~90% of them have windows/linux ports that run on Linux.
> Well, with Youtube Premium you can actually download videos in advance and watch them on the go w/o Internet access required.

It will even download videos in the background it thinks you will enjoy, so you don't even need to manage anything.
I adopted an Australian Shepherd from a friend a year ago and I'm absolutely blown away by how smart he is. He even knows the neighbor dogs' names. I can say "go get spot!" and he'll run after the right dog. He knows all my family members names. He knows that "you've arrived" on Google maps means we are there. He knows that "power on" coming from my Bluetooth headphones means we are going for a walk. He gets the concept for new tricks in about a half hour. I do have to practice them daily, but he gets the gist almost immediately.

I knew Aussies were smart and I'm not sure where he is on the bell curve, but yeah, some dogs really have a knack for language.
Oh boy love it!
My dog recognizes different cars by their noise profile. So he'll wake up from a nap and get excited whenever my wife pulls onto our street, but stay down for any other car.

It probably helps that we're the only prius on the block, but still impressive!
They are phasing out MQA and use FLAC nowadays.
Is it really not enough? It seems the same, except its a $40 book when leetcode just has more stuff and its free.
I love this piece. It evokes the well-known idea that "we shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us," drawing attention to the concept that digitally represented information serves as an observer's or machine's recorded testimony of a physical or cognitive system.

What is the value of that?

Language alone, or in this case, information, does not dictate our actions. However, there is persuasive power inherent in language — specifically, language that exposes the subjective gains individuals aim to achieve through their actions, often influencing individual behavior.

There exists an unexplored connection between our contemporary understanding of data and praxeology.
China tech firm claimed it could hack Foreign Office
I had a domain in early smartphone days for a mobile app that served up some Canadian Broadcasting Corporation content. I eventually abandoned the app/domain and the CBC snapped it up - so that's about the best-case scenario.
> The whole thing is premised on buyers (employers, in our case) being uninformed and having no clue about what they're paying money for. Which is exactly the problem here.

> And tech interviews getting out of control is a symptom of the problem, not a solution.

Agree with both of these. "Contentless management" is the worst.

I see I expressed myself poorly when making comparisons to other events either side or both sides invest time to learn information, since both my statements and your responses seem correct to me.
> there are many fun games from the 90's where you must infiltrate some place and every computer has some [sticky note]

"Come to think of it, it's about time to replay Deus Ex again..."