skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To be sure, comp-sci majors from top-tier schools can still get jobs. Pay, projected to be at about $75,000, is at the high end of majors reviewed by the National Association of Colleges and Employers, or NACE.

Uh, this sounds like they must be citing an aggregate statistic that is definitely not for "top-tier" CS grads. $75K does not sound like a real number for people landing jobs at tech companies (as opposed to tech jobs at companies whose primary value is something else).
How is antenna pod? My experience with these kinds of open-source apps aimed at end users is that unless there's any kind of actual product or design direction saying yes/no to every little thing someone in the community wants to add, it turns into a bloated mess for everyone except for the community experts in open-source podcast apps.

It's pretty much always developers that are the main contributors in communities like this and they want everything to be configurable. So you get things like a bunch of inputs and sliders for configuring various buffer sizes and timeouts and whatnot.

I use Pocket Casts and love it because it's simple and looks nice and works great.

How is antenna pod?
I don't believe they are talking about a VS Code extension embedding PDF.js but rather an Electron app that has PDF.js embedded by default. My guess is Slack.
You're making a lot of arguments and linking a lot of things that are only loosely related and definitely are not actually supporting evidence for your argument.This article (and event in general) also have very little to say about whether or not black holes exist.

The galactic center is one of the noisiest portions of the galaxy and most difficult for us to look at. (Relatively) high densities of gas further obscure things within them. It's a pretty huge leap to go from the fairly obvious answer - we weren't quite right about everything inside of G2 - to "Black holes as we think of them don't exist."

And, the most recent evidence we have is... that we got the composition of G2 wrong. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.04543
For those who believe that billionaires are a policy failure, the answer is they should be taxed more to the point that there are no more billionaires.
Copilot+ PCs
Airbus' high-speed helicopter made its first flight
All the examples of shadows mentioned by Douglas in the video [0]:

Traditional Shadow from Sunlight: A tree casting a shadow in bright sunlight during the summer, characterized by the typical darkening on the ground.

Snow Shadow: Occurs in winter when a tree intercepts snowflakes, resulting in an absence of snow under the tree despite being surrounded by snow. This is likened to a shadow because it mimics the visual absence typical of shadows, even though caused by a different kind of blockage.

Rain Shadow: Explained with the example of the Cascade Mountains, where the mountains block rain clouds leading to dry conditions on the leeward side, effectively creating a "shadow" where rain is absent due to the geographical barrier.

Car Shadow by a Truck: Described during highway driving, where a large truck casts a "shadow" by preventing cars behind it from passing. This "shadow" is the area in front of the truck where cars tend to stay clear due to the difficulty in passing the truck.

Shadow Cast by England Due to the Gulf Stream: This is a metaphorical shadow, where England blocks the warm Gulf Stream from reaching certain areas, resulting in colder temperatures on one side, while allowing it to pass above to northern Norway, warming it. This is referred to as the "shadow of England" on the coast of Norway, influenced by the flow of water rather than light.

These examples use the concept of "shadow" in various physical and metaphorical contexts, showing disruptions in different types of flows (light, snow, rain, traffic, and ocean currents) caused by obstructions.

[0] : https://youtu.be/LnTVzB5S8m4?t=973
The executive summary says it reduced the number of people running through the red light, but it doesn't indicate the impact on accidents or safety.
Caterpillar is putting 240-ton electric haul truck to work in Vale mine
a8a would be the typical numeronym
No. Microsoft aren't even clear with their own copilot branding in the core MS products. In MS-land, anything to do with AI is just labeled Copilot right now.
Good luck finding the beneficial owners.

The simplest solutions are best: target the corporate officers. C-suite execs are richly compensated on the basis of their social connections. The Boeing CEO, for example, will be walking away from the dumpster fire with almost $100M.

Introducing some additional risk would add minimal costs relatively speaking.
Getting OCaml Through the Eye of a Needle
And how you use it...
Well I know which model to avoid should I need to pick up new hardware. But to be honest, more then likely I would pick up an old Thinkpad.
That's not an ad hominem, and your initial reply to his comment was extraordinarily rude.
Copilot is Microsoft's branding for all things AI for their products.
Wright’s rebrand of the Bitcoin codebase named Bitcoin Satoshi's Vision includes support for a central authority to receive a court order or “document of equivalent force” in order to freeze or seize any output. BSV is essentially worthless however ($66) and very thinly traded, so making any claim to coins you do or do not own is rather irrelevant in the scheme of things.
> As for the law enforcement question, it doesn't matter. If they want to get info from your computer, they will and they don't need AI to help.

This is a poor take. Law enforcement needs a warrant to seize your computer to get your data normally. Law enforcement only needs a compliant and willing corporate person to willingly give over your data to law enforcement. It's about who owns it and where is it located and the protections around it.
Thoughts:

Requiring a purchase creates friction for kids.

"Lessons" is probably a better term than "700 slides" and/or "content."
It's also notable that Qualcomm is officially upstreaming kernel support for the Snapdragon Elite platform that Microsoft is pushing, so those systems may actually not suck at running Linux.
They made a big deal of saying how private and secure it is, all running locally. However, nothing prevents that from changing in the future.

And for the law enforcement, I presume if they can log into your account, they can likely extract and view everything if you have the feature enabled.
No. It's more like ChatGPT
Seems like I should be the one apologizing; it's hard to know tone online, and I thought you were trying to assert it wasn't a swarm like the other people. Sorry about that.

(P.S. they're not the right numbers; just the right orders of magnitude).
The current CEO as well, IIRC.
Nvidia's next big competitor might be a company you've never heard of
> many white people from certain backgrounds

Sad Eastern European noises, aka "You are on this council, but we do not grant you the rank of master"
It takes more than just money though. Apple couldn't for example make self-driving cars with despite all the money in the world. It also takes special raw materials, talent, and culture, with the combination being too difficult to materialize.
I worked in Apple HW for several years, and it's not nefarious like that...but I understand how it could look that way.

It's more like placing an order for N units of whatever, but the total global capacity (emphasis: total _global_ capacity) is < N.

That leaves open the speculation that shady business was going on, but it's just that they ordered early because they're at the moment first to need whatever, and businesses expand footprints to try filling as much capacity as Apple would like to order, when Apple needs more than is available.
And if they had used PDF.js incorrectly in the browser, it would allow XSS attacks on the domain used for MS Teams.
Ultimately, markets are driven by the need for exchange of risk. On one side are parties who wish to hedge their risk (oil producers, farmers, companies with Forex exposure, etc). On the other are speculators who will take on that risk in exchange for getting the positive-expected-value side of most trades.

Sports betting is a bit the opposite, in that there are gamblers who want volatility, and sharps/books who will provide that to them, again, in exchange for the +EV side of most trades.

Prediction markets offer neither - there is minimal gambling demand and essentially zero hedging demand.
Unclear about the details of this project. Is there an overview or paper related?

Superficially it seems to be an interface for ChatGPT or other similar generative LLM service.
Manufactured with a toxic chemical
Don’t forget that tech jobs at real tech companies exist outside of Silicon Valley.

If you work for a tech company in the Midwest or the South, $75k is a perfectly reasonable junior salary.
Right, and if I didn't have an emphasis in statistics?
> Relativists about metaphysics say that these disputes are merely verbal. There is no fact of the matter to discover and expound.

As a relativist myself, I'd say that this description misrepresents Relativism, out of a misunderstanding. It's not that there are no facts to discover, but that whatever you discover is a mental construct that is mediated by how you think about it. This "nihilism" is popular because it's rationally sound.

"Whether or not there is such a thing as a chair is simply a matter of convention", true, but that's because _being_ is not an essential property of the universe that you can get to know, but a metaphysical concept that you think about; as such, the facts you get to assert about it are dependent on how you define the concept. As different schools of philosophy have their own ways to think about the concept, they'll arrive at different conclusions about its characteristics.

In the end, all philosophical enquiry is a mental exercise that produces knowledge in the minds of us fellow humans, and it's mediated by the capabilities and limitations of our brains.

In the same way, all rational discourse takes the form of discovering new facts that are derived from some stated axioms and following defined rules of interference. There are no metaphysical axioms and rules of interference existing outside our brains, so rational thought necessarily depends on the shape of -and the consequences implied by- the particular principles you chose to use. Choose different ones, and the shape of your reasoning will vary (even though, as you said, it is often possible to translate between different initial perspectives).
> Now is the time to do that.

Sigh.

https://www.amazon.com/Essentials-Programming-Languages-MIT-...

> they have lambda defined as an axiom

"They" is me -- I wrote that article. And no, "they" do not have lambda defined as an axiom. There are no axioms in that article because there are no proofs. It's just a demonstration of how you can do math using lambda calculus, with pairs being built along the way (and ultimately abandoned in favor of Church numerals) along with an actual implementation of a serializer for lambdas called lc-expand. If you don't see how that refutes your claim that "If you have a list defined "al la lambda calculus" as a lambda term, you can't really write it down fully" I'm not going to try to explain it to you. You are apparently beyond my ability to help.
Here's what worked for me on my palms and sole: I gently scrape off the upper layers of the skin on the affected area with a skalpel, close (but not reaching) the point of bleeding, which then I cover with a generous amount of table salt. The salt sucks the blood through the thinned layer of skin resulting a small redish heap. After approx 10-20 minutes I wipe off the salt with alcohol. During the next 24hrs a relatively thick scab develops which falls off during the next couple of days.
It's not that Xcode's UI is great, it's just that the others are so bad. Xcode usually stays away from the unlabeled button mess that IntelliJ IDEs have become and is overall more Mac native. Of course, some of that is that it's lacking the features that drive complexity in other IDEs, so it's entirely possible it would be worse if it was more full featured.
Ok, we've changed to the second link from https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/05/uber-dynamodb-ledgerstore....

Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Something like 60% of Americans own atleast some stock
There is an official link now so hopefully it can be changed as it has more clear details,

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/05/20/introducing-copi...
Ok, a bit more detail then. :)

Architecting for performance means picking your data structures, data flow, and algorithms with some thought towards efficiency for the application you have in mind. Details will vary a lot depending on context. But as many folks have said, this sort of thing can't be done after the fact.

As for "doing something dumb", I've often seem fellow engineers do things like repeatedly insert into sorted data structures in a loop instead of just inserting into an unsorted structure and then sorting after the inserts. If you think about it for just a minute, it should be obvious why that's not smart (for most cases.) Stuff like that.

What do I mean by "micro-optimizations"? Taking a clearly written function and spending a lot of time making it as efficient _as_possible_ (possibly at the expense of clarity) without first doing some performance analysis to see if it matters.

Nobody's saying to pick suboptimal solutions at all.
I'm wondering whether:

* Johnson thought Hansen knew everything she needed to know;

* Johnson had been incentived/threatened not to say anything;

* Johnson told Hansen something more (possibly NDA-violating), but either Hansen didn't tell the journalist, or the journalist didn't write it; or

* Johnson was too troubled (emotionally, or physical health problems triggered by the stress) to think of where this left Hansen.
Show HN: SynerGPT, A way to let OpenAI and Anthropic collaborate on a project
My big thing is there’s no personal contact possible via the application process anymore. Every form I fill out results in the same response from a ‘no-reply@‘ email address:

> Thank you for your interest in COMPANY NAME and for applying to the JOB TITLE in LOCATION.

> Having reviewed your application, unfortunately, we won’t be proceeding with your application at this time. Due to the high volume of applications, we are unable to provide individual feedback at this stage. We kindly request that you wait 6 months before reapplying to this position.

> We wish you all the best in your job search and future professional endeavors.

All I ask is 15 minutes on the phone with any technical employee - team lead, cto or vp of tech, engineer team member, even a junior dev - I just want to talk to somebody about what tech your working with, and what the day-to-day looks like on your software dev team.

Instead I get a list of demands in the form of a job position, an arduous application process of correcting your AI’s poor parsing of my resume, a few weeks of waiting, and a polite fuck-you-form-letter at the end turning me down. It’s an awful experience. It makes me wonder whether I need to be looking at a different industry at this point.
IIUC, they're using the word itself correctly, but they mean "double precision is often used with the intent of it being a panacea".
> "Makes ffmpeg easier to use by accepting plain English."

Interesting, any testing? Applications? Efficacy demonstrations?
Done (https://peerlist.io/vivek9patel/project/vscodecsscompatibili...)

Thanks for the suggestion!
You just saw a first-hand account personal experience as evidence, in text, from me, yet here you are explicitly denying that fact. Nothing short of literal personal experience is going to convince you of something everyone knew for thousands of years, because you make no room in your head to unpack the thought. It's like there's a hidden filter in your mind that automatically associates spirits with nonsense and it never reaches your consciousness.
The author is presenting a plausible enough theory without any evidence that it is actually more accurate than the actual historical texts.

As one example, the author goes on and on about the importance of the conduits into London - but here's how actual documents from the time describe them:

"A certain conduit was built in the midst of the City of London, so that the rich and middling persons therein might there have water for preparing their food, and the poor for their drink"

Kind of an important bit of context to leave out!
You couldn't have made his point better.
I'd rather my PC forget.
The iPod saved Apple, the iPhone made it the powerhouse it is now. Everything else seems like marginal impact. The new chip is nice and helps them have more control over and lower prices but as of yet doesn't seem to be an immediate game changer.
30% of children attend a home-based childcare which is either unlicensed or has minimal licensing requirements.
>I am intrigued by how a physical reference book can evoke wonder, curiosity, and excite one to the extent that they wander through.

Exactly the same case for physical books as a whole. They are still unsurpassed for unstructured, idle browsing- they definitely inspire wonder and curiosity.
The article makes the assumption humans will be deciding what software needs to be produced. I foresee a future where machines digest ongoing streams of data and decide what societal adjustments / refinements should be made to accomplish the meta instructions given to the machine (e.g. keep humans alive while maximizing their happiness, health, peace, and equality).

In that context, there will be no translation/compilation from a spoken human language to/from binary code. Machines will make evaluations of the data streams using binary (or quantum instructions or whatever the future holds) - but there will not be a software language or compilation. Programming languages exist solely for humans to instruct a machine what to do and will exist only for as long as humans are involved in instructing a machine what software to write - something that will not last for long (whether that be 1, 10, or 100 years, the time during which humans are involved in "making software" is finite).
Interesting to see this stated in a way I'd never been able to express. In college as I was going through some more difficult post-grad work, I'd occasionally encounter novel problems that could only really be solved by a flash of inspiration. My block was 1 kilometer in a round trip, and I found that I could typically get my answer within at least 3 loops around the block. It also helped me get into better shape.
"Sir, this is a Wendy's" is unrelated to ordering off-menu. It's a response where someone delivers an overly detailed or unrelated speech in a setting where it is entirely inappropriate—such as a fast-food restaurant like Wendy's. It's a brusque reminder to someone that their current behavior or conversation is out of place and irrelevant to the current context. It is often used when someone is being overly dramatic, off-topic, or unnecessarily complex in a simple or straightforward situation.
It's also worth noting that the expectations around 64k got higher. We can do so much more in 64k than it was possible in the past. Compression tools have improved. If you take the famous fr-08 intro from Farbrausch and recompress it with modern packers, you would get back many kilobytes. So I think the time investment needed to make a top 64k has increased.

The source code of all my 64k intros has been shared (the last one was added two weeks ago): https://github.com/ctrl-alt-test/demo-archive/
and my plan is to share more code to help people get started. Creating demos using procedural generation is incredibly fun.
I'm saying, if you want to cite a case as an example of why IQ tests are legally disfavored, the case should be about an IQ test.
A systematic methodology to assess the identity of plants in historical texts
No you can't. Some of it? Of course. All? You definitely can't.
As usual, Apple is ahead of the curve.
>can law enforcement ask your laptop "Has your user done anything suspicious lately"?

The logging already exists. Whether the interface is AI or a command line tool is not so interesting.

Besides the "suspicious" stuff has other touch points like Google, ISPs, AWS, etc, etc. Those logs have been easy to get a hold of (with legal backing) - historically speaking.
I hear there are heckling assholes here too. They talk some shit, but never make a real point. Have you seen any around?

Here's the deal. My elderly mom and dad are being eaten alive by software that takes advantage of their ignorance, and that needs to change. Mozilla's part of that, and they need to change.

Google pays for the default setting because it matters

Yes, it's so non-technical users will get stuck with Google

But that's a problem for those users

What's the problem?

It's inaccessibility caused by corporate corruption. Innocent users get stuck with a increasingly bad search, for a few million bucks a year.

Old people are very dear to me, and seeing them get taken advantage of on every digital platform is breaking my heart.

I have to fight, for the sake of my parents and other old folks, if for no other reason. Perhaps you feel me, perhaps you don't.

Thanks for your comment, it made me think of why I care about this.

Hope you have a nice day, and think of your own old peeps, and get to give them some love!
There was a great article here a year ago perhaps that laid it all out... first time I understood myself. Unfortunately I can't find it now.

But the gist was basically that Walaynd devs built a good core and then decided they wouldn't do any of the integration work between graphics and window managers, etc. The article implied devs had bad experience with the monolithic X and wanted to break most features out to other folks.

Sounds reasonable but resulted in every window manager/desktop having to implement their own integration, with different designs. Which resulted in an inconsistent mess.

Things like screen sharing over Zoom, (which is taken for granted on the Big2 OSs) was impossible for a decade+ until someone else built bridges over gaping ravines of missing/prohibited functionality.

Found this thread that sort of supports the idea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37349270
Unless there is some kind of filter to only show websites where the product is in stock, this might be kinda useless.

What’s to stop somebody from scraping this website and just doing exactly that?
Yup, the fake conversation about LLMs being A.I. is a distraction from a more important conversation about public knowledge and information. OpenAI is not a proper education tool but it presents its presented that way. It also a platform form propaganda and censorship.
Were that the case, several of the largest employers in the country should be getting routinely sued for hiring discrimination. They are not.
> This affects all Firefox users (<126)

This made me chuckle
Most people don't actually care? They (myself included) just trying to make some money.
> Until you report those items as stolen, after which they should be not useful at all.

But if it's all on the bank (and to generalise, the other party trying to authenticate the request) why would you report the items stolen? You've got no incentive to do that.

Im exaggerating of course, but the point is that authentication is really difficult if the party you're trying to authenticate isn't motivated to work with you (and why would you be if there's no cost to you if a mistake is made?)
X: They should invent a task manager that stops f***ing moving
I wouldn't be surprised if the pain was a necessary part of the treatment to trigger a full immunity response. But I'm am not a doctor.