skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He may be right or he may be wrong - it's great that we're having this conversation.

One thing that is overlooked here is that we're in the business of creating things to solve problems in the world. Code is simply the medium of creation.

Perhaps writing code does get scaled down over time and replaced with AI to a large extent. But the basic business and human needs that the code is solving doesn't necessarily disappear. Product management will still exist and there will be a need for humans that can talk to their human customers to understand their human needs. If the next step in that process of creation is prompt engineering and reviewing AI-written code, so what?

As creators and problem solvers, we need to always be reinventing ourselves anyways.

This will be a particularly painful and uncertain time for anyone whose job is going to look drastically different in the future, which is most of us. But I don't think that these arguments necessarily apply any more to software engineers than they do to a lot of other careers like writing, law, art, or movie production.
It's not contradictory to simultaneously hold the positions that (1) porn consumption is bad for minors, and (2) adults who watch porn should not be forced to upload identity documents to insecure systems managed by unwilling operators.

And that's just assuming the law could even be perfectly enforced! In reality, it will not be, and there will always be sites without the requirement (which will also be the "seedier" sites), or kids who work around it. So the end result is that kids end up watching even worse porn, while adults get their identities stolen and linked to their porn browsing habits.
Reasons for my attractiveness:

1-A pulse

2-Not currently incarcerated

the bar is low
Regulatioms change faster than we can track them. What if there was a way to automatically track these obligations in every market you operate? That's what AutoComply is solving by automating tax processes, obligation discovery, AI powered PEP screening and lots more
i can't even get discord working for what its supposed to be good at: chatting with one friend while we play a multiplayer game together

"can you hear me? I can hear you but not the game? ok now i can hear the game but not you? ok now i can hear the game bleeding through your mic? did you set up a virtual audio cable? is your mic patched through correctly?" every single time.

sometimes i just want to scroll reddit with friends, or watch a part of a dvd with friends, or play pubg mobile with friends, but i dont want to break out a display splitter and ask them to log in to a centralized service and accept an endless barrage of cookie banners and "Do you accept our new terms?" checkboxes and watch ads just to watch some memes with me (after i spend 30 minutes figuring out how their API changed so i can keep streaming the way i figured out how to already do it without issues just last week)

why cant i just send my pixels to my friends via bittorrent or some other protocol
By application do you mean vCenter? It's in an entirely different league than proxmox.

https://i0.wp.com/williamlam.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/...

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd....
The linked US poll findings are interesting.
Just as a snapshot of the general sentiment, not saying if they're suitable to derive any further hypotheses:

https://imaginingthedigitalfuture.org/reports-and-publicatio...

For example:

> Those with higher levels of education are more likely to say the impact of artificial intelligence will be more negative in some areas of life

Or this one:

> Comparing general public views with expert opinions on the future impact of AI

Edit:
the fact that it's all images instead of SVG and/or HTML could be worth a tangent about data visualization. But for this particular topic, it seems irrelevant. Everything is zoomable, loads fast, is discoverable and readable on mobile, which is a merit on its own.

Edit edit: since I'm commenting on presentatation and tangents already: it's funny that tapping the poll results yields a "lightbox" which is broken and unzoomable on mobile Safari, but the original image is already hi-res enough for the normal zoom function to do the job
Next time you want to write a few lines of C# to verify a detail about syntax, count how many clicks you need to go through to create a new console app project / solution.

It's much faster to just hit the + in LINQPad.

It's quite useful when I'm reviewing someone else's code, or if I'm "in the zone" in a large change. I can verify some syntax in a few seconds, as opposed to the minutes it takes to make a throwaway console app project / solution.
I'd be more interested in the dirty personal laundry of the author of the article.

Are they a model boy scout in all aspects? Did they ever lied in a relationship? Did they ever cheated? Did they back stab some colleague to get a leg up? Do they write hypocritically about things they don't believe in because they sell? Do they ever call their aging mother who sacrificed her life to raise them? Have they hurled abuse at their ex while drunk?

Sadly we will never know. We could really use some quality journalism such as this.
This technique had a very recent resurgence via https://txt.cohere.com/int8-binary-embeddings/. Hugging face also covered the technique here https://huggingface.co/blog/embedding-quantization. It seems like a very good tradeoff compared to the shorter embeddings which require fine tuning via the matryoshka technique. On the other hand, Nils Reimers suggests that trivial quantization of the full precision embeddings is not as good as using “compression friendly” embeddings like Cohere’s Embed V3. Does anyone know what’s the difference in precision between trivial quantization and optimized embeddings?
VPNs will be highly regulated at some point.

I'm somewhat surprised that this hasn't occurred already. I suspect the reason is that there's not been a catalyzing event that governments usually need in order to make restrictions palatable to people.

This is probably designed to be that event. Enough people will buy the "think of the children" angle used to ban porn. And that legal framework can then be leveraged to regulate VPNs. First, to stop them from being used to bypass these porn restrictions, but then expanded to prevent content restriction bypassing, then to preventing online piracy, then preventing "subversive activities."

Pornography is at the vanguard of free speech.
Counting fingers is how humans do it, not necessarily how AI does. On a five-fingered hand, fingers are more likely to have neighbors than not. Why wouldn't the default be infinite fingers?
I mean, faces are faces, right? If the training data set is large and representative I don't see why any two (representative) halves of the data would lead to significantly different models.
I'm anything but a major mail provider and I don't have any issues. I did have some hiccups around 2008 and had to implement DMARC-DKIM. I use strict delivery so my mail server must delivery all mail directly.

Occasionally people have a vanity domain email that bounces back to me. I have to search the headers for the actual email address and re-send.
> I think in Afghanistan's case, the goal was clear but it was not achievable.

I suspect some people thought it was achievable because they looked at post-WW2 Germany and Japan and concluded that:

1. Cities reduced to rubble in a war with America and its allies.

2. Lengthy occupation, plenty of money & loans for rebuilding.

3. Occupation transitions to an democratic government. Some American forces stick around just in case, but they don't have to fight anyone.

4. ????

5. Successful, stable, western-style democracy with an aversion to armed conflict, a strong economy and a renowned car manufacturing industry.

Obviously it didn't actually work in Afghanistan or Iraq, but I can see how politicians surrounded by yes men and pro-war types might have thought they had an achievable plan.
Destructive devices license. Minimum artillery shell size: 150mm.
This is great podcast! Frida Kahlo series was the best IMHO
According to google search, captcha solving companies charges 0.3c per captcha[1], which basically translates to half an hour of PoW for digitalocean instance. So if the PoW is less than half hour, spammers would need to pay less with PoW.

[1]: https://2captcha.com/pricing
What more do you expect from a project from Peter Thiel, which is named after the most evil guy's magic all seeing orb from LoTR, which is explicitly made for governments to target whatever they want to call "bad guys" by slurping up as much data as possible from people who shouldn't be collecting it in the first place?

Dude has a dictator complex. Of course he fully the embraces the "just fucking lie and make money" ethos
I happen to love subversive behavior on the grounds that a certain amount subversiveness is good for society. It is the natural push and pull that keeps the ship of state gently trodding on the waves of history. I want more companies to engage in "taking their ball and going home". Good tactic - please do it more!
No, they're doing that because there's no way to actually do what is being demanded safely. Again, parents should be (1) explaining porn to their kids when they get to the age where that might matter, and (2) be involved in parenting their kids.

Alternatively, how would you propose a porn site do age verification that doesn't involve every porn site having giant databases of IDs and user photos? Moreover, as the big - trying to do things right - sites have repeatedly stated, all you're doing is ensuring that the only sites minors can access are the ones that have little to no controls on content.

I get that you may feel that hardcore porn is bad for children - I think the issue here is that that's the only stuff kids can access because less hardcore stuff generally has more aggressive access controls - but the solution here is to explain what pornography is, and how it does or does not match reality, etc. Pretending it doesn't exist results in kids accessing it (because hormones and failure to monitor what your kids are doing online) and not understanding that it does not accurately reflect how real relationships or sex work. It's similar to "protecting" children from sex by pretending it doesn't exist, and making it really bad/sinful, which is super effective at enabling abusers.
Yeah, the thing that kinda annoyed me about the article is that it even acknowledges this fact ("even though life expectancy at birth as I’ve used here isn’t the best proxy for this"), but then for some reason refuses to make the next rational leap that there were plenty of great grandmothers in previous generations, totally invalidating the article's main thesis.

Obviously there have been huge changes in family size, parental age at first birth, etc. over the last few decades. I'd argue the lack of great-grandmothers is going to be the least consequential of these changes.
> the musical ear is attuned to human voices and that’s what instruments are trying to emulate.

That's quite the claim, do you have anything to support it beyond your intuition?
OSL is fine too. And it's not like there's a huge number of large hubs in Scandinavia…
I actually kinda enjoy the distance between terminals. After a long international flight, I deliberately take the tunnel, and skip the moving walkways. As long as I'm not rushing to make a connection, the walk is really nice.
In recent versions:

virt-customize -a disk.img --inject-virtio-win <METHOD>

https://libguestfs.org/virt-customize.1.html

However they'll also be missing out on all the other stuff that virt-v2v does.
Great recommendation, thanks for sharing!
"they'd lose the war and possibly be killed"

Not really. The US was safe behind the oceans.
More meta is that, when people in aggregate are stressed and not all that wise or informed, they tend to look for convenience and expediency rather than effort and mastery. Unfortunately, this can also happen when people are apathetic or not stressed and slack off on reasonable skepticism or fail to dig into the details.

Leadership, pride, excellence, empathy, and fairness must not fail into the decay of jingoist buzzwords and remain values with intent and actions that remain unwavering.

The greatest danger is dishonesty when words stop having ordinary meanings, when people stop talking to each other, or when they're a lack of agreement on the obvious intersection of a shared reality.
Companies that are not launching successful products and don't have competition pushing for innovations on their current products are firing R&D people.

I'm really tempted to add an ironic "News at 11!" at the end, by the way. But in case you are one of the large majority that didn't notice, currently the software market has a problem. And we can expect more bad consequences of it.
Definitely agree, but man, the sheer number of folks who leave just horrible comments on videos/posts people make about how they lost weight on a GLP-1 agonist is so disheartening.

In addition to saying that its cheating, they will actively wish harm to the person by saying "just wait til you get X" where X is some side effect (real or imagined). Or just the "well once you stop taking it you'll just get fat again".
> I was surprised that I had to pick an option for CPU type instead of it defaulting to host

I believe the rationale for this is to prevent issues when migrating to different hosts that may not have the same CPU or CPU features. Definitely a more "conservative" choice - maybe it should be a node-wide option or only default to a generic CPU type when there is more than 1 node.
Economics since the mid 1900s hasn't been solely focused on mercantilism, but rather has had a significant focus on choice under various conditions, assumptions, and constraints. Game theory, mechanism design, contract and auction deisgn, and focus on individual versus collective behavior (e.g Arrow's Impossibility Theorem) have strong overlap with psychology.

Though there is certainly daylight: my subfields of Industrial Organization and Computational eocnomics are way more related to quantitative finance, ML, and similar than voting behavior.
I am so glad I waited until my late 30s to have a kid. It sucks not being as physically capable as I would've been, but being calmer and more understanding I think is a big help in child rearing.
Those ships would never have been permitted in the Baltimore harbor. They presumably still aren't, since there's no reason for them to be there.
Yes, that's correct. Let's say you only want to see product manager jobs in texas that aren't remote. In the job title, you'd put:

product manager texas -remote

If you only wanted to see product manager jobs that mention egypt, you could use:

product manager egypt

Right now, it's coded specifically to handle most countries and the individual united states.
I've been toying with the design of something similar here and there over the past couple of months. It never made it past the pen-and-paper stage though. Pleasantly surprised to find this today and will have to try it out for a work project.

My original motivation was the lack of OpenAPI definitions across projects, despite everyone agreeing their existence is a "best practice". As you suggest, developers just truly hate writing them. Unfortunately, even the "generate it from code" approach tends to be complicated and often feels duct-taped together.
I guess so, but a $15 toll vs whatever it is now isn't going to impact the price of goods materially unless all those trucks are mostly empty, in which case, good?
Only thing is they should charge more for heavier and for less eco-friendly cars.
This implementation is missing a lot of the usual tricks.

By slicing a single array you only need O(1) not O(log n) overhead. This does of course means dropping down to amortized insertion due to the occasional large reallocation (but if your OS supports `mremap` and your language allows you to use it, that goes away ... but the merge means you pay anyway). It never makes sense to allow a "null" array except for the smallest items (which I tend to put at the end, not the start). Also, if under N elements (16?) you should fall back to a linear search.

Also worth noting that tombstones are a legitimate way of deleting elements. If your elements are (or contain, if structs, especially map-like entries) pointers you can just use a pointer to a private static variable (since you know nobody else can access it); if integers you can use the smallest integer except for the very first element of the array, which you can avoid turning into a tombstone. The trick is never to insert one at an intermediate level of the "tree", but instead bubble them down. (Bubbling down of self-invalidating elements like weak pointers is also quite possible, but turning all reads into potential writes complicates thread-safety if you care about that). You should also keep track of the number of deleted elements and perform a full re-sort if it exceeds the number of real elements or so. That said, there's enough branch-predictor overhead in this that you probably want to implement the delete-allowed version separately from the no-delete version.

Sketch of the `get` code as I'm familiar with it:

def get(array, elem, start, end):
len = end - start
chunk_size = round_down_to_power_of_2(len)
while True:
assert start + len == end
if len < SMALL:
# note that, after the first iteration,
# len can be 0, 1, etc. even if chunk_size is still large
return linear_search(array, elem, start, end)
assert chunk_size <= len
assert start + chunk_size <= end
rv = binary_search(array, elem, start, start + chunk_size)
if rv != NOT_FOUND: return rv
start += chunk_size
len -= chunk_size
chunk_size /= 2
I guess my question was more related to taxation and legal structure

1. Employees (eg people who get a 1099(?)) would seem to require a green card or visa.
2. A contract employee is more of a business relationship but avoids the above requirements (if any, I am no expert which is why I asked :)
3. A Canadian entity would issue a T4 slip and also avoids any visa requirement and has none of the downsides of doing things as a contractor. But it requires the parent to have created and registered a company here.

I currently work for a US parent with the 3rd option (we were acquired). Engine Yard (not me, but I knew people there) used option #2.
I grew up near Dulles. Everybody seems to hate on the mobile lounges, but I've never not beaten my luggage to the baggage claim, and I haven't found it any quicker to get from my gate to the exit at other similarly large airports. In any event they are being retired in favor of below-ground trains.
It would not speed up evolution at all.

I remember seeing a talk by Steve Jones[1] where someone asked a question like this and he said the human species has basically not evolved at all for I forget how long he said but it was at least hundreds of thousands of years. He said specifically if you took the children of someone like this dude[2] and put them in a modern school system they would not perform noticeably differently in any way from a modern child as long as they had decent food etc all the other benefits of modern society.

[1] https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/7056 (emeritus professor of human genetics and evolution at university college London and the author of a fantastic book on the subject called "In the Blood")

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96tzi
When value is above 1, it's not really ambiguous anymore as only one interpretation makes sense. But I understand that it could still be incorrect, if it's not well defined term in English.
This would be like a rule that prevents trade with Iran Energy Sector. Except on insurance companies who do business with fossil fuel companies.
So they're not paying sales tax?
I've been managing remote (and local) servers from my smartphone with RDP and SSH for almost 2 decades, not sure why I would use anything else.
Ahh yeah, I can see how you did that, it's all good :)
I'd imagine it was mostly just watching the automation systems run, and waiting to talk.

I might be biased - but the tail end of the beautiful music era was probably a high point for FM Broadcast audio quality - it was the last point before the emphasis towards loudness started.
So that combines both the quad decoder and the counter?

That would have saved me a chip :) as my project was basically an encoder-driven 8-bit binary counter.
No? I thought I specifically addressed that. They call you on the phone and ask for a code you won't have, even if you hit Allow.

What I find interesting is that Krebs didn't do any legwork to verify the claims before publishing.
It was satisfying to come to the conclusion that unions can effect job security and then have that conclusion validated later in the article.

The problem is communicating the vitality of engineers in this symbiotic relationship, but the power dynamics and ownership models obscure dependencies.
Added it!
Glad that you liked it. Will do that in future. I'm still trying to organise the info in a meaningful manner without being overwhelming.

My intent is to make a collection of just the impactful players (influential typefaces, designers and foundries) in a concise manner. I have many other lists in the pipeline (other files in the repo). Finding it really difficult to be objective/professional about (some silly) typeface when writing about it. Although I don't want to put my opinions on a list about fonts but still feel so strongly about it that most descriptions are still left blank. Hopefully I'll be able to compile a (not so long) list about fonts very soon.
Nobody Told EV Owners How Quickly They Burn Through Tires
It's not a straightforward answer to the issues you're presenting -- they're exempting the West Side Highway and JFK, and of course, the line at 60th is basically arbitrary. I predict that parking garages on the upper east and upper west are about to get a lot more expensive.

This is social engineering in tax form, intended to redirect traffic (or really...just to raise money for the MTA), without a great deal of thought about how it will impact the people actually living here (beyond "cars are bad", or, "New Jersey sucks", in any case). It is not "having drivers take ownership of the costs the produce" -- that would be, I dunno...raising the gas tax or tag fees or something. And don't forget that drivers already pay a toll to use the bridges or tunnels into Manhattan.

I'm generally in favor of making externalities real and specific, but this plan sucks. One nice thing about congestion is that it is inherently self-limiting, so the stated problem was already captured in existing economic incentives.
Absolutely, and sorry for the UX annoyances. We'll add a way to quickly share this kind of thing from within the app.
I've been writing a profiler in egui, and so far have been very happy with it. Comes with the nice bonus that I get both native and web UIs:

https://legion.stanford.edu/prof-viewer/?url=https://sapling...
BBC chooses AI over human voiceover artist
DeSantis-backed New College board scraps 5 professors tenure
Sara is an actress with years of experience in musicals including in Lindon’s West End. She recently posted on Twitter that she’d lost an opportunity with the BBC because they have decided to use an AI-generated voice instead.
Thanks for the link, reading it now. :)
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