skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fortnite V-Bucks are nonrefundable (at least they're still marked that way on their site). Their Epic Games Store policy says: "Also, most in-app purchases are non-refundable", so that seems to extend to other games in their store. Epic used to ban Epic accounts after parents used chargebacks (so you lose all your other games, even ones you paid for); it became a big enough controversy (since chargebacks are the only option) that they softened it and now they just ban the credit card. In comparison, every Apple IAP is eligible for refunds and Apple is pretty liberal about granting them.

I assume that one of the reasons Epic isn't as hated as EA is that "the TotalBiscuit audience" is too old to be in the target market for Fortnite.
FreeBSD has a(nother) new C compiler: Intel oneAPI DPC++/C++
AGI arrived in 2017.
What if intelligence is an product of consciousness, and consciousness is an product of something that can never have a physical definition and is always ethereal... i.e. a "soul".

If we can achieve AGI simply through more and more computation, no matter how novel it is, its ultimately ifs, loops and arithmetic... then surely the human experience is ultimately just a 'wet LLM' (or whatever we end up calling the machine learning technology behind AGI).
I personally use libro.fm. They have a lot of things that aren't audible exclusive, but not everything sadly. Also no non-English content
The FDA's process would be much better if learned which substances are unsafe faster and responded to the knowledge that a substance is unsafe faster. PFAS were introduced in the 1940s. We started getting an idea that they were harmful in the 2000s. Six years ago the term "forever chemical" was coined and it entered mainstream discourse.

It took us ~60 years to start to realize they are harmful, another ~15 to be certain, and another ~5 to ban them.
ChromeExtKit: Streamlined Chrome Extension Starter for Manifest V3
Ah, not really. I worried about this quite a bit at first, but there are quite a few mitigating factors.

The first is that I have an audience of a few thousand people at this point, and that's enough of a network that I will probably find work if I get laid off. And, you know, they're not going to kill me, the worst case is I've misjudged things and I'll need to enter a new industry.

The second thing is that my writing has reduced my employability at the kind of company I would hate anyway, but increased it at the truly excellent places. I've been in touch with the CEOs and directors at high-functioning organizations, and I'd rather work with them anyway. They wouldn't find work for me instantly, but they might eventually.

The only reason I remain employed at this place is that they agreed to give me a three day a week permanent contract (because they pissed the engineers off so much that four of them left in one week). It's a convenient deal, and it gives me time to focus on my own business, but I'd survive without them. I'm already looking elsewhere but don't want to land in a similarly toxic environment.

But I think, most importantly, I used to be very inauthentic at work (which is almost half my time and most of my daylight hours!), and it made me miserable. I'd rather be who I am and get forced to work at McDonald's for a bit. So I'm a little bit afraid, but I'm more afraid of what happens when I don't say what I think.
Source?

Europe produces a ton of chemicals and I seriously doubt they wait 20 years for long term and wide spread studies before putting products out.
50m is a lot. Somewhere around 25-30% of the world's population lives below 50m MSL; if something were to happen that even threatened a facility at 50m, semiconductors are pretty far down our list of concerns.
> Running companies is hard, keeping teams aligned is hard. Sometimes keeping things going requires doing things that we don't like.

A mandatory four hour meeting that boils down to "do the thing" is a waste of everyone's time. It's organized by someone in love with the sound of their own voice.

A meeting like that costs thousands of dollars in person-hours. It's then a few thousand more of lost productivity as everyone scrambles to figure out what the meeting means for their deliverables.

It could be an email. Then all the employees would have an extra four hours in their week to actually get shit done.
I've seen that in American grocery stores as well. I think it's pretty standard. The main issue is that you constantly have to be alert and remember prices across trips.
You said "admirer of Stalin". And France won WW1, no doubt about that. Saying France lost, well, do you also think the US won in Vietnam?

German soldiers knew the war was over when the Kaiserschlacht failed, before the US showed up. Heck, even before that. Leadership did, too. There were mutinies before 1918, on both sides. The German Navy sailors caused a revolution, without ever seeing a single American. And the likes of Luddendorff and Hindenburg wanted to save face, and waited until a new civil government negotiated the Armistice, so they could later claim Germany was undefeated in the field. Please tell, you din't believe that crappy piece of propaganda...

And no, a national servide mandate, or whatever FDR propsed (a speach is hardly well defuned policy, is it?) is not forced labour... Forced labour is what what the Nazis did for example, with POWs and camp inmates. Also, forced labour is unpaid, not sure where you assume FDR didn't want to pay peoole. After all, the US would never do that, free market and all that, right?

The loss of people has no impact on the height of future generations... Where do you gt that idea from? And while Verdun was a brutal battle, in which Germany had equal losses, it was not the main source of cassualties on the Western Front for either side. Same for the Battle of the Somme.

Seriously, France lost WW1? Small soldiers in the next war are caused by cassualties in previous one? It took well equipped and well fed Americans for German soldiera to realizebit was over?
Or, I don’t know, don’t add $3 trillion to the national debt in 9 months.
Good point. And "Sinzyuku" and "Hukusima" not only correspond more closely to the kana; they also match most native Japanese speakers’ mental representations of the sounds. For example, most Japanese speakers perceive the し syllable as consisting of a single consonant phoneme followed by a single vowel phoneme, so si makes more intuitive sense to them than shi. And they perceive the consonants in は and ふ as being the same, so transcribing those kana as ha and hu seems more natural than ha and fu. (This doesn’t apply to zyu for じゅ, however; ju is better.)

When I was teaching English academic writing at a Japanese university fifteen years ago, I was struck at how inconsistently the students wrote Japanese names and terms in English. They had been exposed to multiple romanization methods, and most of them couldn’t stick to just one system. I ended up writing a set of detailed guidelines for them [1, 2].

An excellent source for even more information about the intricacies of writing Japanese in English is the Japan Style Sheet [3].

[1] https://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/eigo/UT-Komaba-Romanization-o...

[2] https://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/eigo/UT-Komaba-Nihongo-no-rom...

[3] https://japanstylesheet.com/download-jss/
Thanks for the feedback! https://github.com/daytonaio/daytona/pull/105
How do you use GPT to estimate salaries?
what happened in 2017?
It's the English long s. I'm not aware of any OCR that recognizes it. Distinct from the letter F by it's lack of a horizontal bar.
Heidelberg Inaugurates 3D Printed Data Center
We already have machines that are generally intelligent and require as much energy as a few light bulbs. Why wouldn’t it be eventually possible to replicate them in silicon?
>That level of self-regard is narcissistic to such a degree that I have screeched so far past horror that I've looped around to arrive at a grudging respect.

It'd be nice to find someone complaining about narcissism at some point who doesn't also have too much self-regard to proofread their opening paragraph.
By joining the web of trust. Meeting people, verifying each other's identities and getting keys signed.

Debian seems to be quite good at this.

https://wiki.debian.org/Keysigning

https://wiki.debian.org/Keysigning/Coordination

https://wiki.debian.org/Keysigning/Offers
Given that the "Ko" is actually pronounced "Kou" (i.e. hold the "o" sound for a beat longer), I'm not sure how the downward accent helps? The bigger thing than "kon an" vs. "ko nan", IMO, is that the romanization rules don't capture these kinds of repeated/extended vowel combinations.

Honestly, anyone who is sufficiently capable in japanese to know that 港南 is something close to "Ko + nan" is going to know hiragana and be able deduce the onyomi readings of each (or at least, of 南, which is the most common reading of a basic kanji), and will not need romanization. The real value of the romaji is for people who know nothing of the language, and it's just weird that the common romanization leaves these important vowel details out.

(I'd personally love a unified syntax for tone that doesn't involve drawing squiggly lines over the word, or a number next to it, but that's a pretty specialized need, I think.)
Absolutely, I'm keeping an eye out. Unfortunately, due to path dependence in jobs, it takes a while to find a better place. Plus this company culture is very typical in Australia, so you're looking at a small percentage of the market.

I also am reluctant to just outright write a post that says "find me a job" unless I'm in a dire circumstance, as that seems like an abuse of my reader's email list, so I'm doing it the old-fashioned way.
I also think the right conclusion to take from this is that the validation you've seen in just this one side project of yours should encourage you to be more open and sharing of those ideas. Now you at least know what the next steps are from there, and how aggressively you should pursue those steps.

Ive been ripped off in the past. While it doesn't feel great, it should fuel the irrational confidence part of you.
Capitalism is a system of private property and voluntary exchange. There's tons of accountability - people can stop buying and interacting with these companies.
I'd rather they mandate uniform unit-volume price labeling. This feels like micromanaging.
Dying Earth and the Book of the New Sun would be the big two I'd recommend, though their settings are very similar they're very different in tone. Book of the New Sun would be better if you want a more serious read about that kind of world while Dying Earth is more of a collection of (very) humorous and whimsical short stories about a bizarre setting and it's even more bizarre inhabitants.

Hard to be a God was a good read I enjoyed and feels like it falls into this category as well, from the point of the "higher beings."

A lot of famous early pulp fantasy didn't make as much of a concrete distinction between science fiction and fantasy either and tended to blend the two freely. I think most people would think of Conan as pure fantasy but there were a handful of stories about him encountering otherworldly alien beings and sci-fi technology, or ancient highly advanced civilizations whose progress is incomprehensible to (in Conan's world) modern inhabitants. IIRC there was at least one Fahfrd and the Grey Mouser story where they come across an interdimensional traveler.

If other people have recommendations too I'd love for them to chime in. It's a genre I feel is definitely underrepresented.
> aimed at addressing the limited supply of human-generated training data.

Does that mean that we’ve reached a point where they’ve consumed all information that humans have created (and that we have in digital form) and yet they do not approach human intelligence and self-awareness and common sense?
ASML is in Eindhoven, an hour's drive north of Maastricht.
What? Isn't こう/コー supposed to be "kō" under Hepburn?
Again, yes this is all very similar to the things I think as well.
Running Windows in a Docker Container [video]
I'm fascinated by the design of the rewinder. Could someone provide me with some guidance on where to begin learning how to design a board like this?
Agreed, one of those books you wish you could forget completely and read all over again blind for the first time.
So how did PFAS get into EU food packaging if they use the whitelist approach? And why are they only now starting to ban it?

https://www.food-safety.com/articles/9292-eu-poised-to-make-...
Ironically, congress shouldn't want this because companies use shrinkflation to hide inflation, and congress is just as likely to get the blame as companies if people notice.
I adore this, though I have to re-organize my brain a bit to parse it after defining management and leadership so differently. Thank you for the lovely recommendation, and I'll be sure to give the whole thing a read/listen.
A family member uses Abott Freestyle libre 2 CGM and buys it OTC. In UAE.
Doot doo doot doo doot doo doot doo doo doooooooooooooooooo!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVlcADaT94o

The sudo-curl-pipe-bash pipeline makes me raise an eyebrow, but otherwise this looks like a step up in ease from faffing about with DevPod. Then again I'm a command line guy all the way, and DevPod is more GUI centric which may play well with other hackers' sensibilities (but it has a hidden CLI of its own).
Is this better or worse than saying everyone is an "engineer"?
This gets even more interesting when one considers that the iris actually does change with age.

How much drift from the original does this allow?
And if it can be updates, can that be abused or can people be coerced into handing over their accounts?
Interesting perspective about possible Jax optimizations. Assuming these models are trained and deployed on non-TPU hardware, are there any real advantages in using Jax for deployment on GPU? I’d have assumed that inference is largely a solved optimization for large transformer based models (with any low hanging fruits from custom CUDA code already written) and the details are shifting towards infrastructure tradeoffs and availability of efficient GPUs. But I may be out of the loop with the latest gossip. Or do you simply mean that maybe there exist cases where TPU inference makes sense financially and using jax makes a difference?
Does this also mean the end of Death Battle? :-(
That’s why they moved out of Gaza wholesale, removing settlers, just to have Hamas rise to power and attack?
You basically still have the same problem tho. Is it Ko-un-an or Kou-nan? Without accent marks it's unclear without already knowing.
Heap was bought by ContentSquare late last year. Product is still around but I imagine they're working to consolidate the products.
"eventually" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
Turkey and Israel alienated themselves. There was way too much will towards Turkey, and they kept blowing it every single time. And Israel.. well.. is Israel.
Vertical? I doubt that, besides the literal meaning of the word.
The first two months saw a YOY increase of new registrations in Germany but the share of EV did drop. People are stubborn and love the ease of filling up a petrol tank. There were more Ferraris registered than BYD, though that might change.
In November the Austrian state of Oberösterreich did announce BYD being the winning bid for buying a fleet of electric vehicles, but in January it was instead decided to lease BMW and VW cars instead. Sadly still cars instead of a stronger investment into public transport.
US won’t ever lead in EVs because it’s the largest producer of oil in the world. The government has incentives to keep ICE as long as possible, thus, hard to be competitive in EVs over the long run.

China meanwhile, is trying its hardest to remove its dependency on foreign oil.

Europe’s incentives are more aligned with China’s.
duckduckgo. It is getting better. I rarely need to fall back to a Google search. ChatGPT 4 is good at getting to the specific information that I am looking for and I can get the source links.
I suspect they actually meant Terry Pratchett, but David Whyte is certainly a contender. I read The Three Marriages expecting it to be awful because of the title, but came away with an unquenchable thirst for all his material.

(And I read the book after hearing him recite his poem, The Faces At Braga, which is the only piece of poetry that has ever moved me, a very level-headed and unemotional man despite my writing, to tears.)
What would you even do with the information?
I've had the same experience with the books. After I read all Agatha Christie murder-mystery books, I started re-rereading them, and could not recall who dun-it.

I have to say I think it's not great literature if it's so easy to forget the plot.
I have seen this in every store in a bunch of EU member states, so my guess is it's an EU thing
I think they are talking about the transformer paper?
Unrelated but do you believe animals have a soul?
It might vary from state to state. Here in California it's pretty inconsistent. Anecdotally, in Virginia it was almost always there for every product.
I really appreciate that! It certainly helps with a bit of the flak I catch from people with a different point-of-view when something hits Hackernews. And it's great to have team members that you can share this sort of thing with, though I hope you're commiserating about old jobs rather than the current one.
What’s the difference between real consciousness and simulated in silico consciousness? If the fake consciousness is good enough there shouldn’t be any.

Is a soul made out of matrix multiplications and dot products worse than a soul made of neurons?
You would terminate someone for...having an opinion? They didn't mention the company they worked for (if indeed it is their company and not some made-up example).

Little secret: outside of self-proclaimed "leaders" in the Linkedin bubble, most normal people think like the writer, if not put so eloquently. They have jobs to do, and know how to do them, and do not appreciate being dragged into a 4 hour meeting to listen to bullshit. Of course they'll do it if they are told to. But if you are a "leader" you would be conscious of their time and not waste it on self-congratulatory claptrap.
Is Israel fighting Hamas, or every Gazan?

Because Israel has herded Gazans to the border and is steadfastly refusing to guarantee that they may return to their homes if refugee placement and aid becomes available in Egypt.

It’s almost as if they want those Gazans, and not merely Hamas, gone. One of those things is a war crime.
Given that Harry Potter, Jedi Knights and Souls are fantasy items from literature your point with regards to testable silicon based intelligence is what exaclty?
There are plenty of animals with brain. We weren’t able to use them for their cognitive abilities so far. So even if we would replicate the hardware, software might prove challenging.
I'm the author of hnhiring.com, I see you mentioned in another comment. You don't need to scrape Hacker News. You can query Algolia instead:

First search for the "Who is hiring post?":
https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search_by_date?query=hiring&re...

Note the ID of the first (latest) post and then get the comments:
https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/items/39562986
You're not alone, and really the one thing I will give WOTC credit for amidst all the bad they've done is bringing back the 1e/2e books as POD reprints, it felt great to buy brand new hardcover copies so I could shelve my original ones, and not have to worry so much about wearing them out at the table.
It's because nobody is interesting in hiring you otherwise.

That is despite the fact that post-hiring they want you to be a follower, not a leader.
Yes, everything is a trade off. A public health intervention closing schools and businesses will have a cost. Looking an exponential growth curve in the face, officials made certain decisions. Those decisions might be made differently on the backside of the curve.
would be interesting to turn this into something like `npx commandjobs` or `ssh commandjobs.com` so you wouldn't even need to install new software
This is like taking the batteries out of the fire alarm. It's not like there aren't times where maybe you should do that, but they're rare and temporary. How many situations are there where you'd rather have the fire than the alarm?

Reducing morale or devaluing work sound bad, but they can be more descriptive (as opposed to subjective) than they may seem. The work might be poor. It's possible morale should be low. The alarm goes off because it's sensor is better than the average person's. If the alarm is broken, that's a different story, but it would suggest not "agree[ing] with the author."

I don't think you're at all alone in the preference, it just kinda reflects our relationship to work in that people opt for the fire.
If you think that the USA producing oil gives it incentive to lead in ICE cars, I think you’ll be disappointed. The real outlier are the Japanese, they made bets on hydrogen that aren’t panning out, and so are really behind.
Europa more aligned with China? I don't think so. They are very much opposed to evs from China. Thinking about added import taxes to reduce the massive import of Chinese cars. Europe is also on old school oil continent in decline.
The best argument I liked so far to what's happening is that this flooding of Chinese EVs is due to the internal slowdown of EV sales. Essentially, China is producing roughly the same amount of EVs but as they can't sell them at the same pace locally, they are now pushing them to the outside world.

There is no conspiracy here (in my opinion) or attempt to flood the global market; but rather a giant internal economy (that most people ignored because China is kinda enclosed in its own bubble) is now getting exposed and it's showing how far China has come.

Another one is rails: China makes a lot of rails. A shit-ton but since these can't be sold to consumers, China created the "belt and road" thingy so that they can export their production.

China has a lot of excess capacity. They can out build the West, the developing world and India. They were just busy building inside but now that they need new export markets and have mostly finished building inside, they are looking outward.

The next few years will be interesting.
Do OP and I work in the same place?

I can't stand the linkedin-depth-level of leadership anymore. Deep concepts like systems thinking are introduced, workshops are held, but nothing really of depth ever comes: concepts are introduced at blog-post level. There's nothing to learn from these people, they can only 'manage', they have no domain expertise. Yet they out-earn me by a factor of 2 or 3...
https://archive.is/lvwQi
The future is not known to us. But given how inefficient machine learning seems to be, algorithmic efficiency improvements may keep the scaling going for a while? Maybe that's not a "major breakthrough" but it's improvement nonetheless.

It's also going to take a while to learn to use the new toys we already have.
Aren't you supposed to write out こんあん as "kon'an" and not "konan" with Hepburn?

きんいろ => kin'iro
きにろ => kiniro
> Europe’s ==incentives== are more aligned with China’s.
"Why does a practicing lawyer have more thoughts on programming than every CTO I've had a 1:1 with at a big company?"

I mean, it's sort of outside the point of this article (which i understand and agree with), but as a person who once set his job description as "C++, Lawyering, C++ Lawyering" i'm going to offer the answer to this question may be simply that

1. Programming lawyers often are trained at being self-reflective

2. Big-company CTO's have bigger issues to worry about than programming languages, and have to delegate very effectively. So the answer the big company CTO should give you should probably be "I probably should not have thoughts about them, but this highly qualified person x who I ask to help me understand this area when i need to is who you should talk to"

If the article said "small company CTO's", I think it would make more sense.
Then just write to stderr, which is unbuffered (usually).