skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>they're postulating for a copyright position

The article starts with:

>I’m trying to change fields from copywriting freelancer to something in the admin assistance sphere.

But either way, these questions are iffy at best.

Does this really tell you something about the person applying? What about people who game systems like this? How do you weed them out? I went to a career building workshop and the instructor gave us ways to get around tests like this and those automated resume readers.

Did the person applying really think the question through?

Who's morals are they using for the "correct" repsonse? What if the person applying has no opinion on prostitution and ranked it higher than most but the HR person/AI/automated system doesn't agree? Who's right? Does this really matter for an admin assistant job?

There's too much subjectivity in a question and response for this.

>and it doesn't hurt/offend/make a fool of the candidate.

People get hurt/offended over stuff like ethics all the time. There's no "proper" answer for that question, so it's about guaranteed that someone will get hurt/offended/feel like a fool, especially if it's for an interview.

Just like the MB test, things like this shouldn't be used for employment. Skill tests, sure, but not ethics "tests".

I will say, maybe for higher-level jobs they _might_ have some kind of bearing. But for the vast majority of jobs, like an admin assistant, it really doesn't help. Unless you're trying to limit your app pool, but even then, it would be better to increase requirements than to use some pseudoscience.
It was not that OVH is competitive for streaming , it is that even likes of OVH is orders of magnitude cheaper than cloud, let alone actual setups for streaming companies whose cost data no one in this thread has access to.
Meanwhile in the real world people are doing just that.
I can have a second DB server with replication and still forego the DevOps team.
They claimed they hired someone and they can't tell you who it is but pretty please trust them that they hired someone.
CodeCrafters (YC S22) Is Hiring a Remote Influencer Partnerships Manager
it's a "fundamental transformation of the OS itself", you see
If you haven't touched a product in 8 generations and your only experience was on a gen 1 version, your review is useless.
Vampire Survivors and Among Us were both out for years until they got traction, IIRC. That could have easily continued forever for both of them.
Why do people think they need an actor? You can recreate a voice from just a few seconds of audio today. Do that and then mix in some fair use modifiers to CYA.
I wish nushell had a similar compiler. It would help with using it on servers.
> haven't seen it do something that isn't already possible using a "not-intelligent" solution

This is dismissing time and resources. I think things like this game maker project are extremely impressive, because it enables an individual to do in hours what it would take a team to do in months. Just '5 different cats' is impressive, because most game studios would just do one and repeat it, because their time is limited.

I don't know if this experiment will end up producing 'real' games, probably not by most people's definitions. But I can see it being used as an amazing toy by individuals, such as kids. Generating a custom game in hours, much like they can already do in months or years using other products like RPGMaker.
The fore-coming v1 release with the fix will for sure be on the front page
You are right, that is not clear. I've added a note and link (https://github.com/breck7/breckyunits.com/commit/61792237c0b...)

"The M1 laptop was the first consumer machine I tried where the performance of this system wasn't abysmal." - https://breckyunits.com/building-a-treebase-with-6.5-million...

Thank you!
OpenAI caved immediately because they knew they would lose a lawsuit and be looking at a minimum of an 8 figure payout.

Voice impersonation has been a settled matter for decades. It doesn't matter that they used another actress. What matters is that they tried to pass the voice off as SJ's voice several times.
Posted earlier on HN as "FAANG support" - prolly fishing in the end
Nuclear power plants take a long time to plan and build. China started a nuclear building boom about 12 years ago, ages before it was clear solar and wind will become so cheap. Now, your point is that given the knowledge that solar and wind are where they are, why is China not stopping building nuclear? China is building every year more than the rest of the world combined? Why?

We don't know for sure, because there are lots of things in China that we don't know.

But one possibility is that China sees a possible learning curve for nuclear that will make building nuclear power plants much less expensive in the future. They already got to levels unheard in the rest of the world. They have built 2 nuclear power plants for Pakistan (Karachi K2 and K3, [1]) in record time, for $6.5 BN that they have financed themselves (i.e. Pakistan got the loan from China, and paid with the loan for the construction of the power plants). For 2.2 GW of electricity, this comes at $3 BN per GW. This is stunning if you compare with Vogtle or Hinkley point C, or any Western nuclear power plant. It's not too bad even compared to solar. According to NREL [2], the cost of solar is about $1BN per GW, however solar has a capacity factor of about 30% while nuclear has one of about 90%. Still, in China it is very likely that solar is much cheaper than in the US, so solar still wins.

Solar wins as of now. But technology can and does evolve. China has hooked to the grid two helium high temperature reactors [3], which are basically SMRs. There are so many good things to say about this design, but I'll leave them out for now.

Is there room for nuclear technology to achieve a reduction in cost of 10x, or 100x? It's just technology after all, many technologies have achieved that, including solar. It looks to me that China thinks there is, and they are investing some solid money into this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karachi_Nuclear_Power_Complex#...

[2] https://www.nrel.gov/solar/market-research-analysis/solar-in...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTR-PM
Oh, definitely that aspect of the RealThunder branch is good work, and hopefully we will see it (or something like it) ported across.

Though I think the sketcher improvements that have gone into 0.22 (and aren't in RealThunder's work) are absolutely more valuable, and I'd rather see the facilities you mention reimplemented on top of those.

I'm not convinced by the automatic subshape binder bit; I think that is better handled explicitly.

Maybe we will see something that formalises the master sketch workflow, but I don't think it is particularly universal as a design technique. To me it seems it would maybe be better to see some kind of improvement to the selection mechanism for importing geometry from other sketches. I find that a little opaque.

I would like the built-in part design wrapper facility. And I think there are improvements in the cross-section view; I think Persistent Section Cut is often more hassle than it is worth.

As interesting as the RealThunder branch is, it's one guy's fork of experiments, and he didn't have to get agreement from anyone else or follow anyone's coding standards but his own. And for better or worse that fork is now (edit: likely) a dead end, and all the energy (edit: and money) is elsewhere.

Some great stuff has come from that branch but I don't think there's any reason why it should just be automatically blessed.
They said so, and it’s what I would have done. I have no reason not to believe them.

Unfortunately a commenter pointed out that there’s legal precedent for protecting people’s voices from commercial usage specifically (thanks to a court case from four decades ago), so I probably wouldn’t have tried this. The cost of battling it out in the legal system is outweighed by the coolness factor of replicating Her. I personally feel it’s a battle worth winning, since it’s bogus that they have to worry about some annoyed celebrity, and your personal freedoms aren’t being trodden on in this case. But I can see why OpenAI would back down.

Now, if some company was e.g. trying to commercialize everybody’s voices at scale, this would be a different conversation. That should obviously not be allowed. But replicating a culturally significant voice is one of the coolest aspects of AI (have you seen those recreations of historical voices from other languages translated into English? If not, you’re missing out) but that’s not what OpenAI did here.
Does anyone have a recommendation for a small form-factor computer like one of these that has a PCIe M.2 slot for a 4G/5G card, where cost is the primary factor? I don't need performance, but I want a cheap little machine that I can throw a WLAN network card into.
“If you don’t want to maintain your own terminal app, don’t criticize”

The “love it or leave it” of the open source world. Sorry, I don’t buy that framing. No one should be immune from criticism.
TL;DR

- OOP obsession is a common python developer phase. it's a dangerous phase.

- maintainable code is not minified code. minified code is minified code.

- stoopid code is often stoopid enough when it satisfies real world / human concerns, not technical concerns.

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I've done all of these, and I see other people repeating them.

1. hyper optimised and utterly fragile class based inheritance / abstractions. Not optimised in performance. Optimised in terms of minimisation of code. avoid ABCs like the plague. YAGNI so save yourself some heartache and keep it stoopid.

2. especially when ^ includes many static methods that could be standalone functions. a good sign the code can probably refactor to functional + objects/dataclasses (and probably be easier to test as a result). You didn't need it, go back to keeping it stoopid.

3. methods that call another method, that calls another method, that eventually calls one of the static methods. often when I see this, none of these child methods are called by anything else. someone wrote multiple separate methods because apparently we shouldn't write methods with more than 10 LoC. because that's how to write clean code apparently. just put it all in a single method so I don't have open multiple different browser tabs while sitting in the doctor's office responding to an incident on my phone. stop optimising for LoC and make it obviously stoopid.

4. hiding how the code will run away from main entrypoint by adding a `className.run()` method. yeah, cool, your main function has been minified. kudos. But now I have no idea what steps your script will run. I have to go and read something else. make it obviously stoopid to someone reading this for the first time.

5. using names of concepts from other languages. don't call classes an "Interface" or a "Controller" because it sounds better. This isn't Java nor is it Kubernetes. It's python. keep names so stoopid that I can understand when my phone has woken me up at 3 am.

6. functional is usually simpler, until you start turning in a mathematician. you are not a mathematician. and neither is the junior sitting next to you. don't overuse recursion or currying etc. keep it stoopid enough that the junior sitting next to you has a chance of taking over responsibility for it one day without going through a PhD in mathematics.

7. avoid using functionality from the last 3x minor versions of python [0]. slow down and let others catch up first so we can all be stoopid together.

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caveat: experience will vary wildly between different hoomans regarding what is considered stoopid enough.

[0]: a good exception here is something like case matching. this was pretty big so I would have allowed that, so long as everyone was aware it was a new thing now (I'd have done a post on slack saying -- Oi, go look at this, it's big)
> If FAANG sets up shop in Milan and pays 80k compared to the local average of 40k

I see this types of claims on HN frequently. This looks "too easy". Why isn't Big Tech setting up offices in large southern European cities to do exactly this?
Shadow Divers was so good. Did you find that via a HN comment too?
It wasn't clear why I mentioned M1. I updated that. Thank you.

https://github.com/breck7/breckyunits.com/commit/61792237c0b...

A number of things have to best fast for this system to be enjoyable to use (at scale) and before the M1 no personal machine I ever tried came close.
Rockman / Mega Man source code (2013)
Why Were Older Pokemon Games More Memorable?
Just going by publication date alone, I think Das Glasperlenspiel (1943) will be concretely different from Demian (1919). Like Zweig's Schachnovelle (1942), the question of how should/could intellectuals share a world with power-seeking anti-intellectuals* was, in the early 1940s, far from an abstraction.

(if you have a personality suitable to attempt inner emigration, you can claim the State, as an object with little intellectual content, is maya, mere illusion, but like Berkeley's [well, Johnson's] rock it usually sullenly refuses to wither away even if you don't believe in it. cf PKD)

* on that theme: "They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert." is another change rung.
> Items include sandwich melts, pizzas and bowls with whole grains or protein pasta.

Sure! Eat more ultra-processed crap, that must be good for you! ;)
I think it means many of us will not use Windows ever again.
Everyone brought up really good points. My general logic is that the average American consumer gets a new car every 10 years just due to maintenance/service burden. You might as well get a "free" genset/powerwall upgrade with it anyways. The car should be viewed as an energy source that happens to move.

For me the powerwall only provides value when restoring/storing power, not for peak shaving. My logic is that eventually once all the legalities/orchestration is figured out. The net value on peak shaving will trend to zero.

Drive to work, plug into grid. You pay the grid for cheap "sun" power at work. While at work, your solar panels at home generate revenue by charging near by EV's via grid (or your second EV). Drive back home. Plug into house and supply the grid with power at night time.

PHEV's are an added bonus, since you can use it as a genset during extended power outage. If you want to go 100% "off the grid", then have 2 EV's that you cycle though. One that acts as storage/energy backup, other as a vehicle.
Dunno, that’s already a fairly big website. The one I was working on in the past with 15k customers did around 15RPS. The large enterprise system I work on with 3k users does slightly less than that. That covers an awfully large amount of use cases already, and then you can get 30x more?
> As an immigrant to the UK I'm continually surprised on how poor life here actually is.

Why do you stay?
"A Guide for the Perplexed" by E. F. Schumacher

It is increasingly important that we not mistake mounds of data for thought. You may not buy off on a theistic basis for thinking about life, but Schumacher's concise argument is at least an interesting one.

https://a.co/d/1arTWrb
You get it ;).
The Missing Piece: Lucidity
Lucidity, or clarity of thought, is vital in problem-solving. As a Senior Developer, I learned its importance the hard way during a project where my tunnel vision caused delays. My recent experience building my website with AI highlighted AI's limitations in achieving true clarity. Despite these challenges, lucidity remains crucial, and while AI can assist, human expertise is (at present) indispensable.
>I am his demographic, and I'm not even considering the game at that price.

That the dev spent tens of thousands of hours on a very niche genre, and that it was better to sell to 10k fans @$45 than to risk selling 25k copies @ $20 (random sales numbers).

It's a common strategy in Japanese game development. Some games are just very niche, so lowering the price doesn't necessarily increase sales proportionately. It just means less money from financially inflexble fans. So keep the price AAA level and target those fans.
I may have read this last year but I really enjoyed John Romero’s Doom Guy
Plenty of companies have meetings with other companies where their executives arrive in front of cameras and parade the meeting's existence usually to alert investors, customers, or competitors.

There are other meetings they don't advertise that they attempt to keep from others by not inviting press, releasing statements, and otherwise publicizing. Those are called "secret" meetings not because their content is secret, as that's true for most corporate to corporate meetings, but because their existence is secret.

Not understanding something as simple as this suggests a feeble or naive mind.
I genuinely think scrolling is more tedious. Have you visited any of apple's product pages lately? Makes me yarf.

EDIT: At least restaurant menu sites aren't that bad yet. Can you imagine? "Hamburger. Redefined." <SCROLLS> Hamburger slowly pieces together across the screen tied to your scrolling. "We think you're gonna love it." <SCROLLS> Pickles slowly fade in and out to demonstrate the difference between Hamburger and Hamburger Pro
This is a fantastic link. Thanks!
Having the data available for download and a paywalled API is pretty standard practice for a lot of this kind of data. Copernicus weather/satellite data is often setup like this. There's a free download option, a free (limited) API, and then if you wanna get fancy you can use a more feature rich paid API. Many other weather services do similar. It seems to work pretty well with the usual caveats.
This is tangential, but quoting the Snopes story:

> according to Reagan, he was at work on 12 May 2017 when a co-worker told him he saw a man attack a woman in the parking lot. Reagan said he heard the woman scream: "Somebody help me, he's kidnapping my kid, he's stealing my kid!" Reagan told us he then contacted police, who instructed him to follow the man as he left the store area: "They said, don't touch him, don't engage with him, but keep an eye on him. Let us know where he is going so we know where to go when we get there."

> Reagan said that after returning to the store he was scolded by a supervisor and was fired four weeks later.

Physical intervention didn't occur.
> Edit: I was unaware of the US military admiring Sparta...but developing an admiration for the ideals of your previous #1 Enemy, whose nation collapsed from within...yeahhh. Perhaps a few service academy instructors need to further explain "Do Not Copy Losing Strategies" to their Military Thinking 101 classes?

The Soviet economic system is a sufficient explanation for their collapse. I don't think their admiration for (a made up, idealised) Sparta made a difference one way or another. And even if it did, we can't tell; no one ran a controlled experiment, and it's at most a very small factor.

Compare: the Soviets also ate potatoes. But you'd be hard pressed to say that we should avoid eating potatoes.
Jup, my main use case for these things is bypassing all the approvals necessary to send stuff to a third party.
But that's kind of the point - in your culture apparently there is a difference between making unrealistically ambitious claims and being scammy, and in my culture there is not. If someone tries to get investor's money by making unrealistic claims, they may be above the line legally, but in my culture they're clearly behaving morally unacceptably, demonstrating that they are a fraudster, someone who can't be trusted or respected by others in the community, "not one of us", and deserve to be shunned even if they were my friend or relative.

In my mind there is a strong ethical duty to ensure that your claims are realistic, and it's a severe breach of ethics to be irresponsible with unrealistic claims, triply so when others' money is on the line. As far as I understand, in USA being a bullshitter is treated as somewhat acceptable, to me being a bullshitter means you're scum that I'd need to warn others in the community so that they wouldn't work for you or with you. So while in every country there definitely are some "hustler-type" people who do try to initiate startups, they also have issues hiring and local B2B sales if word gets around that they are the type of person who routinely make unrealistically ambitious claims; the world is small, most industries even smaller and people do try to check references of potential partners through friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend channels - so while a failed startup won't necessarily be held against you, the factors of why and how it failed (and how it affected others) definitely can be.
The opening paragraph has a major blunder:

> The US - a country with 5x more people and 8x higher GDP

Who cares about "8x higher GDP"? China has the world's second largest GDP and the world isn't clamoring to move there. Why? Because GDP per capita is still low, compared to many other countries. Finally, median income is a much better number to use when comparing countries.
Perplexity launches "interactive knowledge cards" to counter AI verbosity [video]
It's not any and all costs. The court makes the loser pay costs that are proportional and reasonable given the issues in the case. Which makes sense as otherwise Google could indeed tell its lawyers to go on a billing spree to hurt the counterparty if they lose.

(Not a lawyer)
Universal Patching and Remediation for Autonomous Defense
Sam Altman has plenty of opportunity to give his side. Everything he says gets published and repeated. His reaction — pulling the voice — tells us what we need to know, because if OpenAI and Altman didn’t steal Johansson’s voice they could confidently defend against the claim.

Altman’s track record and ongoing behavior make giving him the benefit of the doubt an increasingly stupid decision. He earned the skepticism and cynicism with his own statements and behavior. We need to stop worshipping and enabling sociopaths.
1) it fails to hold its value, due to inflation

2) the price of money is held artificiality low, meaning I can't even invest it reasonably. This fact has deranged society

3) holding large amounts of money is now viewed with suspicion.
Another consideration: could it be that with more children, in an abusive household the abuse is typically spreaded out to more children, so that each individual child gets less abuse than in a smaller abusive household?
I've tried to use some self hosted stuff and ChatGPT like a detached copilot.

I want to avoid reliance on the things; they can be useful to get a second 'opinion'... or lies.

Trying to get consistent information out of an AI for oddly named/poorly documented software can be an art.

I don't find a whole lot of benefit... but I totally recognize that is at least partly due to keeping it distant from my workflows

I'm generally well taken care of by conventional manuals or local references like "ansible-doc". My editor deals with formatting.

I don't see a lot of room for generative stuff with SysAd. Let's be honest, it's generally glorified janitorial stuff.

Train it on my tickets and maybe it'll catch up... maybe it'll take some creative liberties with your core infrastructure. For what little there is to gain, there's a lot to lose

Besides, we already have stuff like SIEM; the machines have been involved.

It has helped me with boilerplate code, but Ansible is barely above that as-is, I can type it. The words representing what I want are hardly any simpler

I'd be silly to say no benefit could be had, but I'll let people sort that out before I get excited
Thanks to your pointer, I was able to explain a bit more about the advances over the SOTA. Thank you! This is the speed at which peer review should happen.

If I'm lucky, I'll wake up tomorrow to someone else pointing out another precursor I overlooked.