skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you knew everyone would ask gpt before doing anything, you would make gpt say what woudl generally be considered the better option. Not going to war, not committing suicide, etc. In this way even if war was the optimal decision according to some other utility function, the behavior of people is directed in a positive way. (Presumably)
Not as a goal within itself, but when the audio quality is so bad that you cannot understand the dialog without closed captions turned on.... That is a problem...

I find this often the case with streaming. I used to think that this is just how they make movies now, but when trying out the same movie in Bluray, every word comes out crystal clear.
Reasonable. I find anodizers are easy to find, good ones hard, and great ones almost impossible. I found a great one in Auburn and I feel lucky I did.

Iirc you’re paying for the batch. If you pick a color they don’t do a lot, you’re paying the same for 1pc or 2000. The dye and handling is pretty much the same.
Agreed.

But when you see him being duplicitous in some situations, it's hard not to suspect it bleeds into other situations.
To be fair, people did this before ChatGPT. It's just the thing they point to as evidence now, and they'll always find something. The underlying problem is much bigger:

1) people confidently arguing with domain experts about topics that they have little to no experience in.

2) people valuing the opinions of arguers from 1 over experts.
A bunch of the other automakers had similar 'defeat devices', and they're called out on the Wikipedia page.
Vaccine: never take war or politics or religion for granted. Not that all of the problems in polio eradication would have gone away absent war, and specifically the war on terror (tm) -But a lot of this has been fuelled by people's suspicion of the US intent behind vaccination.

I hate conspiracy theory. But the role of the C.I.A. in politicising vaccination programmes in the hunt for Bin Laden cannot be discounted. It led to court action in Pakistan, the foundational qualities of what the C.I.A. does in public health isn't the point here (you actually want an external strategic intelligence body looking at the problem. it affects the USA) -the point is, it was "weaponised" in marginalised people's minds as a reason to reject vaccination.
> while cigarettes do still exist, they're now considered socially unacceptable for students to use by all involved parties, and the percentage of students using them is negligible.

Cigarettes have been almost entirely replaced by vapor products, which are arguably more popular than cigarettes have been in decades.

The bans weren’t effective; by the time they were in place, an new generation of products had already arisen and replaced the targets of those bans. Meanwhile, vapes are banned as well, but are ubiquitous.
> I ended up being very happy just getting a direct replacement

I so wish this worked for shoes/clothing/etc

You get really comfortable wearing it, then... you have to do a bunch of research next time.
I just discovered that, somehow, having a YouTube Video embedded on my website is allowing them to block a totally separate link on my page. It then emphasizes the "Go Back" button, which does not take you to my site, but takes you to YouTube!

Tested on Firefox, Chrome, LibreWolf and WaterFox for Mobile
https://archive.ph/Rd5EA

Probably something similar happening in the US
> While responding to replies, it seems that Graham was informed — and later confirmed — that Altman had, in a pretty clear conflict of interest and obviously unbeknownst to YCombinator leadership, invested a tidy sum of $10 million through YCombinator into OpenAI’s for-profit arm.

The emphasized phrase doesn’t make sense. At the time, Altman was YCombinator leadership. Graham had retired to England by then; it’s hardly unusual or surprising that he wasn’t keeping track of every single YC investment.
>But Gnome has been burning user and developer trust for more than a decade

People complained in the exact same way when GTK2 and GNOME 2 were released. There really isn't anything different this time around as to how they approach changes and incremental improvements. It's the same minority of loud complainers blaming GNOME for everything when they could just use something else. It's not like there's a lack of forks and alternatives. And hey, a certain percentage of KDE users complain and fork stuff whenever a new version of KDE comes out too. That's just what happens.

As with anything open source, you get what you put in: if you don't contribute anything upstream, and you're not willing to maintain a fork, and you don't want to compromise, and you expect someone else to always "manage" everything to your liking all the time, then you're setting yourself up for disappointment.
Echoing my sibling commenters here, I’d love to hear more about this situation. Usually “inlining” and algorithmic complexity are juxtaposed as orthogonal types of optimization, with algorithmic optimization typically even being the reasoning for why the level of abstraction doesn’t matter very much. You typically get a much better speed up from going from O(n^2) to O(n) algorithms than from implementing e.g. Duff’s device, etc
That's genuinely horrifying, but it explains why SMTP made a decision that I would otherwise categorize as "insane" - it was forced to by constraints of the time. Thank you for explaining!
> Not how the Fed works. (And given recent deficits, the Congress isn’t worried.)

Yes I’m aware. It’s the battle between monetary and fiscal policy. So far fiscal policy is winning.

> The multiplier effect from credit contraction more than outweighs the new money of marginally-higher rates.

Feel free to back that up with a source. I’ve updated my comment with mine.
> A person is assigned work, and they need to be able to do it, without being a deadweight on their peers.

I wouldn't call this "wreaking havoc", but I think only wisemang can explain what exactly they meant by that.

> You expect negative returns for a new employee like the first 6–12 months.

Wow, I wouldn't expect that. In my opinion, an experienced programmer should be able to start contributing something within weeks. If they can't, then "can" them.

Think about open source projects: nobody takes 6-12 months to "get up to speed" before contributing to a project. That would be ridiculous.
I usually keep a minimal Windows partition on my machines by reducing the Windows install that comes with my machines down to 100 gig or even less.

But over the last few years, the Windows 10 and Windows 11 installations are being booted occasionally merely to update the Windows itself.

More and more I'm considering that to be a waste of time, because I don't use Win 10 or Win 11 for anything practical. I only use Win 7 when I do use Windows.

It's probably time to blow away those Win 10 and Win 11 partitions entirely, I think.
Falun Gong owns a very large anti-China media empire outside of just the Epoch times called New Tang Dynasty TV (NTD). Popular youtuber's like China Uncensored are managed by NTD. Falun Gong also runs Shun Yun that Chinese dance performance that gets advertised everywhere.
If they talk about in-game currency, probably they mean mudflation. It's like inflation, but in games. If you can produce in-game currency out of nothing, the value drops.
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I like to add `--upgrade-deps` as well. This automatically updates pip and setuptools within the venv after creation.
That's not the hypothetical presented.
I remember being annoyed by those text buttons, looking at the latest iteration of Material, it looks like they keep the "text" button style but as a secondary option https://m3.material.io/components/all-buttons

Looking at the examples I think that it works in some contexts, but is a personal feel that I have.
I believe that’ll be deprecated by `gio open` soon.
A straight line would extend into space.
Oh man, that explains why every damned thing was gelatin in my 50's and early 60's cookbooks.
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If Great Britain is a tiny island I’d love to hear what regular-sized islands you’d recommend.
But surely if it's artificial intelligence then it'd know its limits and would respond appropriately? Oracle use no problem?

It is it because it's actually shit but it's the best thing we've seen yet and everyone is just in denial?
The fundamental problem here is the contracted block on resale.

I don't understand how this can stand, not to deny it does, but the idea anyone aside from government can really sustain "I sold it to you, not to you to sell on" is a bit wierd. Wierd, but alas, not uncommon. It happens with concert tickets, with books, with music, sometimes with real estate. Usually with real estate there is a stated purpose behind it like 'first home owner grant' type initiatives.

With Tesla, it's purely commercial: "we don't want you stagging the buy price or undermining the integrity of our sell price after the surge"

Ticketmaster and Tickettek would be watching anyone changing that rule, as would the book and music publishing industry.
> Here's a simple question: was every person in the 1100s woefully depressed/anxious/angry to a far greater degree than any modern first-worlder dissatisfied with their station in life?

Again, I like the logical rigour in your argument. The only problem you have is that the underlying point is stupid. The answer is yes. The 1100s is woefully depressing/anxiety inducing/infuriating compared to the modern first world. Nobody would choose to go back to the 1100s. Trying to defend that position is dumb and a disservice to the very real problems in the present caused by low real living standards. There is an urgent and pressing need to get poor people (indeed, all people) cheap energy, more goods and better services. Telling them that they'd have had to suck it up and cope in the 1100s isn't a path to good outcomes.

I think you're probably trying to make a point about hedonistic adjustment? It isn't a bad point in the abstract but it doesn't work in this argument. The people who account for that usually end up taking vows of poverty or Epicurean-style hedonism. Which is cool and all but the logical end of that philosophy is maximising inequality. The wealthy are still wealthy but the adherents are as poor as they can manage because they'll be happy regardless of what inequality is present.

> This is quite literally incorrect. This has been studied.

You've asserted that twice, but I'm pretty sure you're wrong. A fairly cursory glance at reality and the literature suggests that people can't actually detect inequality with any reliability [0, 1] and I don't think people are at all consistent on defining what the word means. It is hard for the average person to get worked up about something they can't detect. You have no idea how equal we two are, for example. And even among peers in meatspace it's a struggle to estimate any real metric - credit is a huge confounder.

People do get worked up by being in a lower class or in an unpleasant spot in the status hierarchy - but that isn't inequality as much as 10% of the population is going to be in each decile as a statistical matter of fact. It isn't possible to change that.

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590051X2... - "Moreover, and somewhat surprisingly, the reality is contrary to people’s perception since low (high) actual income inequality in the region is often reflected in its overestimated (underestimated) perception." is a choice tidbit.

[1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/07311214211062... - Leads with "While some scholars suggest that awareness of income inequality is strongest when the actual level of inequality is high, others find that individuals’ awareness of income inequality is largely unresponsive to actual inequality"
Posted this mostly because I just watched Dave Not Coming Back - a great documentary about Dave's last dive. It's tragic but I hadn't heard of the incident before and thought it was worth sharing.
Au contraire, I think those that recognize the farce for what it is are better suited to evaluating objectively, rather than cargo culting the process cribbed from more bullshit artists from faang and others.
> I also love the design of your website, is it a boilerplate/template or did you design it yourself?

Website is painfully custom haha. Credit to the wonderful Iconfactory for the Photon art!
If you were a billionaire you could:

- buy the company and pay the guides a living wage

- complain to the owner about the tipping policy

- complain to the tour guide about the tipping policy

- explicitly ask about tipping before engaging in a leisure activity using a service economy

- tip anyway but demand the company owner pay back that amount

A galaxy of things that aren’t simply “don’t pay and walk away.” I appreciate your position on tipping but don’t thing Mr. Buffer was applying some higher minded philosophy to the situation (unless you have evidence to the contrary).

Edit: spelling
You’re 100% correct that browsers aren’t a viable business model.

But neither is getting 80% of your revenue from a company that probably only keeps you alive so they can show you off as healthy competition.

Both things can be true.

Is there any other reason why Google would do this?
Can it record continously and for how long?
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It has been argued that programming in general has nothing to do with software engineering [1].

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GTK doesn't use semantic versioning.

Every uneven minor version is a development cycle, every even minor version is a stable cycle.

And as it happened so often, every dev cycle things broke down, because of intertwined dependencies of GTK, gjs and glibc (and gobject introspection bindings).

See also: https://blog.gtk.org/2016/09/01/versioning-and-long-term-sta...

I also think you're kind of proving my point. If the project that is supposed to be _the demo use case_ of the _GIMP Tool Kit_ and needs more than a decade to update its scenes, views, and widgets...then maybe this is not the right toolkit for anyone, because pretty much every CEO will go rogue when they see the development time needed to port anything to GTK.

And it doesn't have to be like that. It's an architecture design decision they made, where they also chose vala as their own NIH programming language to integrate things over other more established options.

Same goes for glibc and gjs which meanwhile has so many bugs I can probably exploit it with a heap spraying exploit from 10 years ago, as it conceptually is yet another hard forked project inside the GNOME ecosystem which can never be updated with its upstream project dependencies/origins.

My point is that the GNOME project introduced maintenance burden upon themselves, and that's what's killing the GTK ecosystem. And they themselves could have avoided that.

(Apart from the outdated documentation whose example demos don't even compile, whereas the getting started effect with QML is a matter of minutes, not days)

I don't wanna derail this discussion too much. It's great that GTK is evolving and adapting. I just wish they would focus on ease of use rather than inventing their own tech stack wherever possible.
AIUI xdg-open is the standard tool which then forwards to the (equivalent of the?) desktop-specific tools. For KDE it's `kioclient exec`.

I wouldn't be surprised the GNOME people try to break this standard tool too.
Yes, this is what I meant. I’m guessing these cheap fake Lightning headphones that use Bluetooth are just using off-the-shelf Bluetooth components that are dirt-cheap, and that there are no equivalent “off-the-shelf” Lightning components.
Wind power and solar photovoltaics have higher energy returns than fossil fuels
This is not your answer, but the eating habits of the past are fascinating to me.

Want to live like we used to? Eat way less protein in meats. This is the solution.

I just built a set of chairs that were in a picture from a shaker museum. I managed to get the scale correct because there was a soda next to one in the photo.

It turns out that 1840's people were WAAAAY smaller than they are today. Not fat. But overall dimensions.

Why?

Eat less protein.
The C# UI of the week :D
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This is so much better. I'd remove even more and forget about descending.

You have a perfect paper airplane. It flies in a straight line regardless of wind and never descends, staying a constant height from the ground as it flies.
You get into a hot air balloon over Seattle and launch your paper airplane directly East.
After leaving the USA, what is the next country that the plane will fly over?
Off topic, but all the camera nerds are here, so I'm gonna ask:

I want to attach a cheap camera to an arrow, which may be single use depending on the target. Ideally it would attach with 1/8" thread (presently unknown pitch) or smooth (glueable) 6.2mm shaft. The total weight must be no more than 200 grains.

Any suggestions? I'm pretty ignorant with cameras.

Regarding the Photon, seems really appealing, but I'm an old Linux curmudgeon. The only Mac I ever had ran debian.
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And it's a lot easy to even fake virtue signal your low salary when in the last three years you've bought:

a $27M home in San Francisco,

a $16M "weekend ranch" in Napa,

and a $43M estate in Hawaii.
I think the answer to the age old problem of "do algorithmic interviews help" is: it depends.

Testing hard algorithms is probably not going to help in figuring out if someone is a good front end engineer who is only expected to build web or mobile apps. It will however be useful to identify if someone who's expected to regularly design system components, like say a cache layer for something, to actually understand the drawbacks of different caching strategies. Algorithms should be tested, but conditionally.

On the other hand, every engineer needs to know data structures and should be tested on them.
In my professional work, I treat chatgpt as a search engine that I feel I can ask questions of in a natural manner. I often find small flaws in technical solutions it offers, but it can still provide useful starting points to investigate. I rarely trust code it generates (at least for the language I mainly work in) as i’ve seen it make some serious mistakes (eg: using keywords in the language that don’t exist)
The gnutella.wego.com guys ran servers called mrclean on the gnutella network and ran most of the main nodes for the network passing the torch later to limewire who ran nodes and also cleaned network spam.
This seems like a very strange take on 174. The author seems to be saying that all developer expenses can be expensed under old 174, but that’s not true (under my reading). My take was that exclusively research and development - where you are unsure of the outcome - is eligible under old 174.

Notice the analysis of big companies and their tax bills. Author notes that Google only expensed software development expenses until the software met some qualification threshold. After that, it’s not research anymore.

What am I missing?
if everyone is a senior, surely we can flatten the hierarchy and minimize waste.

but no two companies taste the same.

instead of “wasting time” on mentoring a junior on how to work at this company, lots of top-heavy meetings where seniors discuss how they worked at the last one.
> LLMs still hallucinate

Keep in mind that there's no difference between what happens inside a model when it "hallucinates" vs. when it generates "correct" output. It's the exact same process.
I've sort of worked out a workflow. Like say I had to write an essay and take a side for/against something. Then I would ask GPT to write the strongest argument for, and the strongest argument against, telling it to make up whatever sources it wants. Then after reading those, I would have some idea of my own opinions. I would write from scratch but with the GPT for/against pulled up alongside as reference for how to structure the arguments. Then I would put it through GPT again for proofreading and grammar (or just spelling, if there is AI detection software).

It is a bit tricky though, there are definitely points that come up with GPT that people would not think of normally. So in that sense it is still distinguishable from writing solely by oneself, but I would argue the GPT-assisted essays are just better writing and more well-rounded.
Korean is easier to pronounce, but Japanese is easier to read. Try reading a Japanese children's book that doesn't use kanji. It's excruciating.
And if they’re well-informed, then they should negotiate their rates, and vice versa.
I don't see the problem with them not wanting to buy it back (though they could probably sell it on to another eager buyer).

But refusing to allow resale appears to be a straightforward violation of the first sale doctrine.
I feel like 90% of AI discussions online these days can be shut down with “a probabilistic syllable generator is not intelligence”
The flying through space graphic is beautiful. Looks like a great product!
ever use nix repl? i found my complaints about grokkability disappeared once i realized i could easily introspect my build (and all my dependencies' builds) at any level.

that + learning the like 5 or so idioms that pervade nixpkgs and you can use Nix quite successfully imo.
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Lack of SATA ports, and sometimes lack of a PCI/PCIe slot which you can put a standard SATA card in mean you often are restricted to 2-disk models of RAID/Mirror filestore.

zimablade, for all its faults (USB-C power FFS. there are pins on the mobo for 12V direct in, if you want to risk it) and the low power budget to actually run drives.. has the PCIe slot. It means its just a tiny PC, intel arch, quad core, 16GB memory and .. a real PCIe slot which means you can run a real HBA.

I get round the power budget using an old ATX psu with the pins set to always-on, in the 24 pin ATX mobo connector.
Phew, crazy stuff, I guess it pays to be a defense contractor.
You are thinking of libhandy, which had similar goals but not the same, hence why libadwaita is not named libhandy.
To be fair; the pressure to use office space again helps US workers. A lot of us don’t like it, but it’s a fair bit better than someone in Guatemala getting your job.

(Better for the US engineers, not for the Guatemalan, who is probably a competent engineer himself. But the topic is the outlook for US engineers).
We typically aren't hiring at that level for engineering roles. We prioritize senior positions (and above) because of our distributed, flat organizational structure.

If we did hire at that level, the pay is $160,333 USD + stock options.