skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> with nobody hiring, a stagnating economy, and a terrible source of data, it's just confirmation that it's time to pick up a job at McDonald's or something, because things don't look so great out there.

The jobs market is burning hot https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/05/job-growth-totaled-303000-in....

Tech is oversaturated, but tech is just one industry in the whole economy. People having trouble getting a tech job need to stop acting like their experience reflects that of other industries. Right now, manufacturing will hire pretty much anyone with a pulse.
Yup, that's non-standard alright.
The prevailing view right now appears to be that limiting CO2 is no longer sufficient.
Well, I mean, China has probably already stolen it. Given the nature of espionage it's highly likely the U.S. has the details and can build it on their own.
Don't we all do this in our vimrc though with direct links to GitHub plugin repos. PlugUpdate?
The amount of content about JS frameworks is certainly down. The hype cycle trend is very predictable I would hardly call it “dominating” in usage, certainly hype. Are we at the point yet where a knitting business is using AI?
mksh/oksh and simple setup for life.

For instance:

alias ls='ls -F'
You'd be surprised. Joseki are corner shapes, which might interact with other corners in the medium to long run, but whose interactions are way too difficult for any human to understand well. Therefore, you have 4 corners, and it's quite likely that you'll see 4 joseki getting played in any game. Joseki sequences have been studied for a long time, so they can be relatively long: Say, 15+ moves of an avalanche joseki, memorized by both players, and that's just one corner. So even before computers were any good, you could still see pretty iffy players using memorized patterns in every corner for a total way past 20 moves.
It sounds from your analysis that "better as evaluated by AI" would be true even if it wasn't really objectively better. All I'm saying is that yes, it does mean objectively better in this case.
The roles are not actually analogous, the soviet one is very predatory, the western one is structured more like a partnership. Bulgaria is part of EU and NATO and does have voting power that they did use all the time. The market is also a true open market, which means if Bulgarian companies have to truly compete and if the deal no longer work for Bulgaria one day, they can leave the partnership and not lose everything overnight.
I usually click the links because I'm curious about how the scams work, and then cut and paste the url to my laptop as I hate mobile browsers.

There are usually quite a few give aways:

Iffy url, not the same as the real one though semi plausible often - say app-usps.com

Usually no personal info like your name / address

The one that finalizes it is that of fields like tracking number or credit card no they usually take anything without checking, like "rubbish12345".

At that point I usually get bored with it.
StableLM-2-12B
Biome – fast JavaScript linter and formatter
Wonderous is an app we've pointed people to in the past. I believe the current iOS release on the App Store uses the newer Impeller rendering engine instead of Skia, but I could be wrong.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wonderous/id1612491897

Code: https://github.com/gskinnerTeam/flutter-wonderous-app

(Disclaimer: I work on Flutter)
> Most car manufacturers take some efforts to try and ensure residuals stay reasonable

lol, walk me through the process at Maserati.
https://online-go.com/ is the easiest place to get started as a western beginner. The far more active go servers are Asian and have a higher barrier to entry in terms of registration, downloading the client, and dealing with poor localization. (Fox Weiqi, Tygem, etc.)
The alternatives are being explored. It's not a long list, and this is the approach that is most readily implementable and cost-permitting as of right now.
The author "found out" that sama = Sam Altman nad pg = Paul Graham, by his surprise.

It is well known that Hacker News owner company, Y Combinator had Altman as his CEO before he joined OpenAI.
Football (Soccer) did something similar.

Before that is was 2 points for a win, 1 point each for a draw.

In 1981 they made it 3 points for a win, and the sport has had substantially more offensive play since.
Well in principle, sure.

And yet here we are, reading an article about "a total loss of power [...] following a reportedly simultaneous failure of four [...] switchboards serving all of Cloudflare’s cages. This meant both primary and redundant power paths were deactivated across the entire environment."
Here’s a thought experiment: would you turn on traditional cruise control during a snowstorm?

I wouldn’t.

A self driving system that only works during good weather is still useful and has non-zero value.
AI doesn't dominate people in Scrabble though. The best humans are better than the best AI.
HashiCorp strikes OpenTofuOrg back and more [audio]
I heard Jia Tan is free /s
I suspect a part of the problem is the they underestimated the amount of compute required.

The vehicles they’ve already shipped have about the equivalent tensor compute as an NVIDIA V100, and much less than that for older model cars.

The Bitter Lesson is that self driving AIs will probably need large scale more than anything. If we look at the capabilities of something like GPT-4V, it’s a good sign of what’s needed as the baseline minimum.

By extrapolating industry trends, I suspect that a future GPT 6 or 7 level AI with true video input might be able to be specialised to perform real time driving with human-level capability to parse complex situations such as construction sites or accident scenes.

That level of AI inference would require at least an order of magnitude more compute than what’s in any shipping Tesla, maybe more.

Elon promised something that will be possible, but not with the hardware of they day.

When Elon made his comments about “every Tesla shopping now has FSD hardware” he may have just been honestly optimistic. This was before GPT2, let alone the current state of the art. I can forgiven him for that, but not for doubling down on statements that are clearly no longer valid.
It's unclear if you are being sarcastic or not.

Apple adopted USB C on their phones because the EU compelled them to. They tend to oppose standards they aren't already using.
Neither that article nor Wikipedia's article on string diagrams does a good job of explaining what they are. Afact, they are dataflow diagrams (aka circuit diagrams) dressed up with category theory mumbo-jumbo.
And what if geoengineering doesn’t work? Just waving our hands and saying technology will solve our problems in the future vs doing what we know works now (reducing consumption and cutting emissions) seems insane to me.
Probably why I used the word "most" here. Residuals matter, even to the manufacturer.

If residuals plummet too much, their lease accounting can go red too. Lease rates have to account for a future predicted value of the vehicle, and manufacturers strangely like making money on leases.

Also, the huge depreciation on a Maserati isn't a surprise, most of the time. A mass produced vehicle selling in the hundreds of thousands annually seeing double digit list price shifts at random did come as a surprise, and has put car dealers underwater on Tesla inventory before.
Nvidia Hopper Leaps Ahead in Generative AI at MLPerf
Maybe not a crime, but you've got to pay attention. Scotland is inching that.

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-42652947
There must be many ways to come at the problem of spotting drones including sound, visual, radio.

Presumably it's just a matter of time once the boffins apply themselves to the task before drones are effectively defended against?

Maybe this is a naive outlook. I can image drones sitting 300 feet above a tank dropping a bomb on it - hard to see or stop that. Or maybe drones that switch off all communication and glide in without radio communication once they spot their target.

Regardless, you can be sure there's absolutely massive money being spent on drone defence right now by governments around the world.
Raise your voice on their forum: https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/how-to-overcome-the-hu...
Tried my luck 2 years ago but it keeps increasing.
Open source Apache Airflow 2.9 advances data orchestration as AI usage grows
At the same time, the familiarity of openings is nice.

Imagine completely random WoW battlegrounds. Part of the fun is knowing the territory and strategies rather than having to make them up from scratch each game.
Nobody is managing a big corporation because he cared about keeping his name on Santa's "nice" list. The donations that big corps do make are carefully calculated performative virtue - aka marketing - which they make only if, when, and where they feel confident of a positive ROI.

Or, very occasionally they are de facto buying software support with "donations".
It still was when I last tried it a couple of weeks ago. Not sure if it was ever updated to the new rendering engine.
Lee Sedol continued games until the summer of 2019, more than three years after the match. He quickly dropped in strength while other players who already were stronger than him during the challenge were further rising in strength, surpassing all previous players according to the graph shown at the Go Ratings website. https://www.goratings.org/en/history/

Just like in mathematics many professional Go player peak before 40, after which the slowly become weaker and weaker.
Nobody has mentioned ATS yet. For one, it's totally opaque to the applicants. Second, it's an egregious from of discrimination for the sole purpose of laziness. If a company won't even look at your resume if it's missing some silly programs. It eliminates all critical thinking and causes non traditional background applicants to be ignored. Not to mention that whoever sets the ATS rules could share them with select people to give unfair advantage.
There are a few attempts here and there in various stages of progression. But right now, nothing matches Nvidia+CUDA in speed and usability.
> Even with good design, w/o tests you will fear change and so the code will rot. With good tests, there’s no fear, so you’ll clean the code

Has anyone ever actually found this to be true?

I work in a place with 99% test coverage requirements and it's honestly still a super brittle system that everyone is afraid to make big changes to

In my experience, automated tests don't promote quality engineering, they just calcify whatever quality exists

And before you get into it, TDD is not a panacea for this problem
The sheer irony of you citing the vietnam war, which for the americans, was literally defending a nation against an unprovoked invasion, hurts my brain.
> Dating sites can do a "DEI" and brute force more variety into skew percentages of click throughs through mere exposure effect.

Why stop at forcing people to choose different races? Let's force women to date men who are short, bald, unemployed or homeless. Let's force men to date women who are overweight, elderly and annoying. Let's take the 'market' out of the dating market.
Here’s a blog that breaks down how large different pieces of CUDA are:

https://carlpearson.net/post/20231023-cuda-releases/
And yet nobody cares that lottery products have names that imply winning, prizes, pots of gold, etc even though almost nobody wins statistically.

Again, I just think that marketing is marketing and everyone knows that. Everyone knows that a trash bag isn’t indestructible and that a paper towel can’t absorb a tsunami.
If the way someone is rejecting a trans person is considered a hate crime, maybe that someone is the problem? If someone were to beat you up or misgender you just because you're Southeast Asian that would kind of also be a problem.
> Among non-professional players, it is really common to see game play being not as exciting as before because there's now an easy way: just memorize and copy what the AI does

This is just… not true.

Unless one is playing at high dan ranks, it’s trivially easy to induce a “memorized sequence” that your opponent either will not have memorized or will leave them with a situation that they don’t understand well enough to capitalize on.

The “slack moves” in the openings that pros talk about are often worth 1.5 points or less (often a fraction of a point), and that assumes pro-level follow up.

This pro-level follow up is laughably rare outside of strong amateur dan levels and pro levels (and even within those ranks there are substantial differences).
It's getting hard to believe anything in this world anymore. A million shells fired by the Germans in Verdun in a mere 8 hours and now the entirety of Europe can't make that number in a year.
It works in many competitive fields
> not just yaml toml and JSON

those are the formats available for configuring rotz itself; it's agnostic to the content of your actual dotfiles
As I remember, Russians once even launched "Soyuz" (R-7) on Pentaborane, achieved some additional kilograms of load. Fortunately , all finished ok, but they don't repeat these experiment "because of expensive".
> Chinese industrial policy is quite a bit more sophisticated than just dumping money and subsidizing industries. They only do that in the beginning.

> All this to say by the time Yellen or anyone has started complaining, the subsidizes are gone already.

Just because the subsidies are gone doesn't mean they haven't had their effect. Once you've already paid to develop the technology and build the factory, the incremental cost of making more units is much lower and you can outcompete companies that never received subsidies to do that.

> The US is starting to reconsider the idea of industrial policies now. The recent op-ed by Marco Rubio suggests even the traditional free-market party is rethinking it.

One of the big problems the US (and Europe) have is that subsidies aren't just money. We keep passing rules the cost of which can be absorbed by large established companies, but make it harder to get new companies off the ground. Meanwhile developing countries don't impose those rules.

That isn't a short-term disaster when you already have a lot of large established companies that have already recovered their startup costs, but it's a long-term disaster. New companies form in places where that isn't the case, and those companies start to take market share from your own established companies.

But it's a hard problem to solve because the inefficiency doesn't have a single cause. It's not some specific individual rule, it's the existence of thousands of separate rules that require teams of compliance bureaucrats to operate under, and identifying and eliminating the ones that can't survive a cost/benefit analysis is specialized detail-oriented work not easily turned into a sound bite. Meanwhile the ones who most know how to identify the least efficient rules are the compliance bureaucrats, but they want to keep them because that's their paycheck.
Why should academics torture each other with poorly formatted papers?

We don't like reading these newspaper-column style papers any more than lay people do.
Yes. But one danger is once we start geoengineering, people will give up on trying to limit carbon emissions
Off the top of my head, I’d say the staged demo video: https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-video-promoting-sel...

I’m sure I could come up with many other examples. The meta issue is that if you blow past estimates multiple times, you should at minimum stop providing estimates because you’re very bad at it. If you keep providing estimates that happen to prop up your stock price, I don’t think you deserve the benefit of the doubt.
Seamless? How long was it that you couldn't even run Docker?
stow was a really useful tool for me once at work. I had a "local" usr/* in my home directory for custom packages I'd install. Occasionally I'd need to swap different versions of the same library, etc. stow made the process a lot more manageable.
This shows the last 4 hours, which looks great right now.

Is there a way to "permalink" to these four hours in the future?
> What would society look like if extreme wealth wasn't driven by key entities within the system putting their thumb on the scale to benefit The Few?

Are you proposing we should outlaw the putting of the thumb on the scale?

That's a wonderful idea. Do you happen to have any details? Maybe some references.

The only thing I could think of is called "checks and balances". The reference to that is fairly standard, it's called the US Constitution.

Are you saying that's not enough? Ok, then the fix you are proposing is what? An amendment or a replacement? If it's an amendment, what would it be? If it's a replacement, I'm honestly not that interested.
One issue with this is that it encourages collusion. If you're a top GM playing someone of equal skill, it's +EV to agree to flip a coin beforehand to determine who will win (and then play a fake game) rather than playing it for real.

Some chess tournaments have experimented with giving 1/3 point for draws instead of 1/2 and it didn't really change much. Mostly it acted as a tiebreaker, which you could have done by just using "most wins" as a tiebreaker anyway.

My favorite idea (not mine) for creating decisive results in chess is that when a draw is agreed, you switch sides and start a new game, but don't reset the clocks.
> this applies to every single game

But it did not used to apply for every single game. In fact in Go it was famously true just a few years ago that the best humans were waay waay better than even the best computers.

At uni I hung out with Go players and they had all kind of theories why Go is particularly hard for computers. Some of them well quite well reasoned, and some were just a bunch of magical thinking. What was not in doubt is that even at that admitedly medium level the players were better than the computers they had access to.

Just a few years ago it went from “we are competing to be the best Go players period” to “we are competing to be the best human Go players”. That is a change in mindset, and it seems at least for that one particular player they couldn’t make the change.

Imagine that you grew up in a world where aimbots are just worse than mediocre players, always. And you build up your personal motivations with this fact. And then suddenly the aimbots get better than even the best players. Some systems of motivation will crumble when this happens. Some will manage to adapt. This is just how it is.
I wouldn't. Black refers to a specific ethnicity: the diaspora of African people brought forcibly to the Americas, stripped of their original cultural heritage, and intermixed with other similarly situated people. It's capitalized for the same reason you'd capitalize "Irish".

(I also probably just wouldn't refer to British people as "black", for whatever that's worth).
I’ve had (and honored) plenty of those types of conversations with subordinates I’ve never met in person in any of a number of global offices. Physical presence isn’t a prerequisite for being a good boss or worker.
But isn't the UPS only expected to last for 15 minutes or so, to give the backup generators time to start up? Or to perform a fast-but-graceful migration when the generator doesn't start up?

I thought most DCs just pause the cooling until the generator comes up, rather than running the cooling on battery power?
I switched to Amarok, then Clementine (Amarok 1.x fork), lately Strawberry (Clementine fork). It's really nice (IMHO).
People who want to get better care. Everyone who plays chess uses AI to improve.
It would be great if its true! Perhaps its really there and we're all just blind to it? Unlikely, but I'm willing to be surprised.
> direct CUDA implementation, which will be significantly faster and probably come close to PyTorch.

It almost hurts, to read that PyTorch is faster.

But then again, with these GPU-RAM-prices, let's see how it speeds up the CPU.

We really need SO-DIMM slots on the RTX series (or AMD/Intel equivalent) so that we can expand the RAM as we need it to. Is there a technical problem to it?
How do vertical tab and form feed relate to "up" and "right"?
There are vanishingly fewer 'low cost of living' areas. I'm in the central valley and the prices here (traditionally low enough for working class to own) have been going nuts.

The problem is that we've opened up real estate investment to professional investors, who have then securitized those investments in risk-adjusted bundles to make them attractive to large investment banks. Money goes in, prices go up. Personal dwellings ought not to be subject to this but hey, anything that increases apparent GDP, right?

"Large City in East Europe" - where exactly are you talking about? If it's anywhere near the Russian border I'll pass, thanks. I consider "having my home shelled" an unacceptable risk.

Working for Google for 50k USD means being taken advantage of by Google in a really gross manner. Wherever you work you ought to make what you're worth to the company, and 50k for FAANG is ludicrously low.
Those aren't the same shells though
Few reasons, one of them is that the Maginot line was built during a time where France was an industrial powerhouse. This has not been the case in a long time.

The other point, is that you are comparing a public infrastructure project with a private company.

Said private company behaves like one and does not want to take unnecessary risks by recruiting and training too much staff and later not having enough orders to keep them on the payroll.
Yep, it seems common for people who haven't actually experienced something from the past to wish it was still like then, not understanding why people decided the trade was worth it.

You might save some bytes but boy how annoying and complicated it can get.
A couple of things are better, but Teams is still a straight up PoS that few would use if their employer didn't force them to.
Sounds like if that’s true then the FTC will get right on it and has a slam dunk case.
KGS is where I used to play, this is the homepage:

https://www.gokgs.com/

and this is the web client:

https://shin.gokgs.com/

The homepage hasn't had a redesign since at the latest 2007, but the community is great an there are top players on there.
This indeed runs much smoother than most Flutter apps I've used in the past!

If it was indeed all just due to the slow rendering engine, hopefully this will sift down to other apps.

In the end I really don't care what framework a mobile app is developed with, as long as apps don't feel janky and/or out of place as far as platform UI conventions are concerned. In that sense, me not noticing that an app is using Flutter, React Native, maybe even webviews etc. is probably the ideal :)

But my experience as a user of apps leveraging technologies like this has often shown that reinventing so many layers of the UI rendering stack inevitably leads to some form of "weirdness". Sometimes that's ok; sometimes the alternative would be even weirder, badly developed and maintained native apps. But I can't say I've ever loved using such an app for, and not despite, not being a native app. The React Native approach just seems like a better level to try platform abstraction at.

On the web, I still can't help but find "rendering text and UI elements to a canvas" incredibly weird. I could see that approach working for games, but for things that might as well be regular old web applications, there are just so many things that can go wrong... (Reader mode and password autofill come to mind, for example.)
So the progress of human proficiency in Go and our collective advancement over time is hindered by dogmatic rules introduced over time. These rules predispose players toward specific strategies and consequently limit the scope of our creative potential within the game. In contrast, AI algorithms operate without such biases offer a unique advantage in overcoming these limitations. They essentially inspire us to get out of established patterns (or local minima) of play and broaden the range of our strategic moves.