skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't exactly mean superficial style, but properties like creativity, liveliness, and consistency. I hesitate to say that these are things LLMs can't do, because I'll provoke somebody into telling me that they totally can, but weaknesses like this could be ways for human intuition to detect an LLM. It might have to be a long competition, because an unusual set of prompts (or training, even) is likely to initially impress the humans: time should be allowed for novelty to wear off.
Yep I’m never doing online dating again.

Totally not something I want as part of my life.
Is discrete maths a good starting point if I was interested in cryptography? Certainly better than analysis right?
The problem with online dating sites is that from a financial perspective, their incentive is to keep you from finding someone who causes you to stop using the site. Every single A/B test and algo run with revenue or engagement as the metric to be optimized is actually doing the opposite of what users want and preventing really good matchups.
I'm curious about the community's thoughts on whether learning C is still valuable in today's world. Here are some of my personal points in favor of learning C:

1. there's a lot of literature on the fundamentals that use C/C++ in examples, and the Linux kernel is still primarily written in C

2. as Dennis Ritchie said, "C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success." I believe that's the Lindy effect at work

3. learning C can open up a deeper understanding of how things work
1. I don't have any strong interests. I like to dabble in many things, but nothing is interesting enough for me to stay with it if I don't have to.

2. The fun part of programming is conceptualizing (e.g. figuring out a new algorithm for 3d shading). Putting that concept into code is more or less a drudgery though, and it takes 90% of time. It's less of a drudgery in high-level languages and APIs (Scala, Apache Spark), and much more with anti-human things like C++ or Direct3D 12.

3. I'm not a great programmer. I can code for maybe 20 hours a week on average, anything beyond that requires strong caffeination and is basically a debt on the future.

4. It's much better to be invisible that to be famous or recognized. Fame draws so many idiots that have little to offer. Similarly, it's wiser to not flaunt wealth and have only people closest to me know that I'm actually fairly wealthy.

5. I am risk averse. Give me a steady job and steady investments over crazy startups or investment schemes.
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Then funny part “stronger US economy” has stock crash not related in any way to events in Ukraine or Middle East. It crashed because finance guys had scheme borrowing Japanese currency and buying stocks with it.

So it is always that you might have illusion of knowing what is going on.

I love talking heads “experts” making assumptions but it is just talking and real stuff is always deeper.

So I rather people voting on their core values whatever those are than “perceived wisdom they are so informed”.
Yep, exactly. Twitter makes no sense at all from the perspective of a non-user. Posts are all over the place, no coherent order.

It only motivates me to avoid the platform.
Open-source tool helps you convert PDF documents, web pages, etc., into Markdown
Reading anything on Twitter is (subjectively) miserable. The platform is good only for since thoughts / sound bytes; not long articles (spread across many posts) and discussions. It's _worse_ if you don't use an account so you can't see anything but the first post... but it's awful even if you can see the whole thing.

I don't know who was the first moron who decided to post the first "long form writeup" on a platform that only supports blurbs... but I am absolutely amazed that people thought it was a good idea and followed suit.
More than once I got asked on interviews why react is faster than vanilla JS and I had to tell them no, it isn't.
This post is specifically about definitions. What you describe only applies to predicates (properties, theorems, conjectures), not to definitions.

See the top answer which explains this well:

> Absolutely. The definition will state that we say [something] is P if Q. Thus, every time that Q holds, P also holds. The definition would be useless if the other direction didn't hold, though. We want our terms to be consistent, so it is tacitly assumed that we will also say P only if Q. Many texts prefer to avoid leaving this as tacit, and simply state it as "if and only if" in their definitions.

Emphasis mine: in a definition, "if" somehow can't mean anything else than "if and only if", so we can leave out the "and only if", and we usually do (probably for conciseness - if and only if is quite verbose and having to write and read it when it's useless would be quite boring in the long run).

I remember a teacher starting a definition like "a X is called Y if and only if... ah no, we don't put the 'only if' for definitions", and she erased it from the blackboard. It made me wonder why at the time. It was a useful teacher's mistake.
How do you figure? SpaceX needs about a billion dollars of new capital injection every 18 months or so..
Also, I'm done talking to you because it seems like you are here to troll and just argue in bad faith. I need to learn to identify people that like to shift goalposts faster.

I hope people care more about the things you value than your apparent lack of care of others.
You are talking to humans. If there is dysfunction at the company, they are not going to let you discover it directly by asking questions.

I'm thinking back to all the places I worked at, unless the interviewers were being completely honest, there was no way to figure out the actual culture by asking questions.
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More thoughtful design? Not incurring technical debt?

If it isn't broken don't fix it is not an inherently bad way of operating despite what Big Tech would have you believe. Move fast and break things has for at least the last decade been accompanied by the hidden rejoinder of "and I'll fix the problem I created by breaking things, but only sort of, in a way that financially benefits me and fucks everyone else".
In many organizations, I've observed disparities between different business units (BUs), where some maintain high hiring standards and strong cultural values, while others may struggle with talent gaps or cultural misalignment, often due to factors like poor acquisitions or leadership gaps. What specific questions should I ask about the company, the role, or the team to ensure I avoid landing in a BU with such disparities?
> I thought we were supposed to never answer this question.

It is legal to ask what they're looking for or "expect".

It is not legal in many US jurisdictions (California, New York as notable ones) to ask what they made at their prior job.

The first question is necessary since the numbers have to start somewhere.

The second question tends to perpetuate any comp bias the interviewee may have been subject to previously.

That said, as the interviewee, it's fair to turn the order of setting expectations on its head: “I hear your question, but first, what are you expecting to spend to fill this?”

If they object you can try again: “You are a differentiated business with differentiated priorities, meaning your roles provide different returns on investment relative to other companies. What value do you put on this role?”

If they object again, and you are confident in your value creation, try: “One of us has to start with expectations, so I'll start with this — based on my prior roles, I expect to have fully paid for myself within the first X days/weeks/months. My expectation is that will be true here as well.”

Reality is a candidate's dollar "value" to a firm does in fact depend on the utility the firm can make of that skill. This is largely out of the candidate's control. As such, the firm should reveal the range they have in mind first.
1. You will notice Hacker News does not require a login to view content - this simple approach is a big reason why twitter links are looked down upon. The platform used to foster simple sharing, and now does not. It is in effect, telling you to stop sharing things publicly and only with twitter users.

2. Because you are basically linking to a deep link in the dark web.

3. We all get to make our own decisions, and the person calling out shitty websites that you should not bring to the group has my support.
If you have a graph database that is 700x faster on real world use cases than the next nearest competitor, why aren't you selling it? Given the current AI gold rush, it seems like a no brainer to get some VC cash, hire some sales people, and start selling shovels.
It really depends. The company I work for - doesn’t even have a time-keeping system. Taking vacation is a matter of sending a slack or email, or simply verbally letting your manager and team mates know that you won’t be available. So far this year I’ve taken more than 3 weeks at least. I know it’s not a ton, but the point is - that I don’t know the actual exact count, I strongly suspect that nobody really tracks it in any way, and I am planning to take few weeks more before the next year.
> It used to be fine

It was always awful, in my opinion. Twitter does a good job at letting people publish "sound bytes"; little bits of what's on their mind. Past that (into longer form and discussion) it has never been good.
They probably should yank chrome and the app store while they’re at it then.
With generative AI for text, images, and now even video, it must be harder than ever to know if you are even talking to a real person.
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I wonder if the development of maternity leave sort of happened backwards from how we typically think of it happening.

Like most people talk about it as if culturally we used to expect 0 accommodations for working mothers, which was bad, and the expectation has increased over time.

But, actually in the past the mother would have spent many dedicated years with the infant/baby/toddler/child, until they entered school. If the mother has multiple children, it’s not really practical for a company to hold their spot open for like 8 years and I don’t think this happens even in the most progressive of European countries.

So, culturally speaking, does the rise of maternity leave actually come from an increasing cultural tolerance for the mother spending less time with the child via daycare?
Hi HN! I wanted to share a Chrome extension I’ve been working on. It’s an AI-powered video summarizer that pulls out highlights from any YouTube video and gives you a quick summary in seconds.

The original goal is to help you avoid going through hours of content to get to the good stuff. It's one click, and it automatically creates short, highlight-packed clips. I built it for busy people who want to save time and get straight to the point.

It’s in beta right now. I’d love to hear your thoughts. It’s free to use, so give it a try and let me know what you think.

Let me know your thoughts, good and bad!
The UX to people without accounts is actively hostile. That's why.

If someone was telling me to look up information from a print edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica from the 1970s, I'd have the same problem: it is an absurd thing to ask of me because there are better, more frictionless ways to obtain the information.
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In short, Yes. Think of it this way.

Once you know C... You appreciate programming in any other language.

A C Programmer
What sort of mating strategy are you optimizing for?
I don’t think there’s really a good model. If the app charges when a match is made, the consumer is paying without really knowing of the match is good. As I understand, this is the model early dating sites used. If the app charges for access at all, then it’s incentivized to keep you from finding a match, and the overall pool of people shrinks from the barrier to entry. Charging once you’re satisfied with a match isn’t practical without some kind of binding contract, which I imagine most people will not want to sign.

It’s almost as if you can’t commoditize emergent social behavior.
https://archive.is/S6XxI
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How does that work? I keep hearing this objection but how is the app supposedly stopping you from forming a happy relationship?

Operator would need to know who is a good matchup for you and then not present you that person but present you enough other subjectively attractive (but again somehow not good) matches so that you keep swiping. That's almost omniscience when it comes to dating which they would need to attain from a phone number, pic, couple of sentences, and maybe whatever they can buy via adtech.
There is a (decidedly non-mainstream) idea that brain processes involve large-scale quantum effects, that quantum effects beyond just the normally expected biochemistry are essential to the functioning of the brain. There's not really much empirical evidence for it, and about the only theoretical argument is that the brain is much more efficient than a computer. I think people tend to like it because it makes brains (or more specifically human minds) feel more special.
I despair thinking about this. I long for a world where I could be upfront about my strengths and weaknesses, then receive honest answers in turn, such that a great fit could at least be on the horizon. Instead, everything is saturated with game theory, HR weirdness, and the pettiest of politics.

I'd like to be somewhere that I work I can best do is what is actually needed, and that need is recognized.
You're arguing against my analogy and no analogy is perfect. I don't know why people buy luxury pyjamas but I'd bet it's not a large market and I suspect part of it is related to comfort which has no bearing on games.
I don't think that it's necessarily a binary "empath" or "no empath" so much as differences in who a given culture says you should be empathetic towards, what you should be empathetic about, how empathetic you should be, what obligations empathy entails, etc.

So you might see a society that says that certain races, cultures, or "sinners" do not deserve empathy or deserve less empathy.

Another example are highly free market oriented political philosophies which argue that businesses should be governed by maximizing profit rather than empathy.
Any idea of something like this but for Discord?
Blog post author here - Didn't expect a hack I did 5 years ago to show up here!

This project was a weekend project that I took on. I used to professionally reverse engineer cars for building self-driving research vehicles for companies.

Here's a demo of it using a VR headset that I made shortly after the blog post: https://youtu.be/jfWcgWdSK28

To answer the other questions, I made it work directly with PCs as a USB accessory. It doesn't require the Xbox gamepad in that variant.

I never bothered building out the FFB for the steering wheel - but it would be a nice addition. That said, slightly jacking the nose of the car up gave enough resistance on the wheels but it was still easy enough to turn.

It's still been a great tool for me to get seat time. Recently, I just taught at Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium and the Nürburgring in Germany. I used this sim rig setup to get properly acquainted with the tracks before teaching in person.

Last, along with a production company in NY, we used the same technology in a big rig truck to make it into a super realistic truck simulator for Pilot Logistics. I think there's media on it floating around the internet somewhere.

Cheers and happy to answer any questions!
I imagine it would be spontaneous interaction in places of interest or leisure.
The idea of patenting a filesystem is absurd
P.S. While I dislike microservices or infrastructure based on them, this has become a necessity. So no more software overhead for template rendering.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on this as I did this in my free time and had a blast. Somehow I got caught up in the idea of turning internal tooling into small projects like this one.

All the best, Mark
No, I am not, although 200-300 µm is not a commonplace.

Smaller processes result in chips either becoming very unstable or plainly kicking the bucket when exposed to strong electromagnetic fields and electromagnetic radiation. Radar equipment generates such strong EM radiation that is lethal to humans and to microelectronics no matter how well shielded the chips are. Then there are highly charged particles released during a nuclear explosion, so the electronics have to survive at least for some time at the battlefield.

Chips produced for defence and military use some of the most conservative design and manufacturing processes, and even the analogue processes may still be used somewhere (I have not checked recently though).
I still see new apartment buildings with Sentex or Linear call boxes with the factory master passwords. I don't think these guys are crack security experts.
Teeth belong to extinct walrus-like animal that vacuumed prey into mouth
I think the evidence for this should be extraordinary because it is so apparently unlikely.

Why would the brain store multiple copies of a memory? It’s so inefficient.
> Is entanglement currently being seen as taking part in everything, everywhere?

Not necessarily what they're saying here (I couldn't grok it either), but there's a bunch of woo being purveyed about "quantum consciousness" by Deepak Chopra recently. Some debates with Sam Harris are fun to watch.
How do you think google maps got such a good database of these things? When I last used it, Google maps used to actively ask you for this sort of information.
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Without a VDOM, one way data flow, and diffing, your UI won't just be slow, it'll be full of secret O(n^2) cascades, random ifs to stop infinite cycles, random "let's update this state early so other code can immediately use it" ordering issues, and so on.

you can adhere to the same principles (one way data flow) without vdom. Not saying it's easy at large scale but it's possible. I don't appreciate people invoking fud towards anyone opting out of their tech choice.
not infinitely larger lol

community size absolutely does not matter, it's the activity. a local active community of 2 active persons for every 260 residents is sufficient
Last I heard, it was making a profit despite spending about 5bn on Starship:

https://archive.ph/20230817224420/https://www.wsj.com/tech/b...

(I count "can make Starship on the side" as a QED of "making bank").

Regardless of how Starship concludes, when it does so it saves them ongoing costs, and turns "small profit" into "huge profit": either Falcon becomes redundant, or the R&D team does.
Well running dbs in containers are generally not a good idea.
Just to clarify, is this Google Play update "upcoming" in that it is currently going through Google's policy review process in order to reinstate your app on Google Play? If so, what changes were made in this release to satisfy their policies?

I'm interested to see what technical hoops you're jumping through to get your app reinstated, if you don't mind sharing. As a developer myself I've had my "fun" with policy compliance and review processes. All the best either way, hope it gets reinstated soon!
I'd assume Ireland has something like bailiffs in the UK.

Delta tried not paying around £3000 owed to a customer. He got a court order and sent bailiffs who went to the airport, closed the checking and said they were going seize the plane to pay for the debt.

There's a good short documentary about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QSj9odUD_c&t=320s . This link starts at 320 seconds, where the action starts. Start from the beginning if you want the back story.

Spoiler: Delta called the police who explained to them that they were about to pay up or lose the plane. Delta paid up. Actually, the managed used her personal card to pay I'd assume Delta paid her back.
Dualists would affirm, though in light of TFA maybe there is room for trialists.
I think it depends on your standards. LLMs are by far the best general purpose artificial reasoning system we've made yet, but also they aren't really very good at it. Especially more complex steps and things that require rigor (chain-of-thought prompting and such helps, but still, they have super-human knowledge but the reasoning skills of maybe a young child)
We invented javascript to ensure that more compute is needed
Should be easy to test by selective lobotomy.
You might not need to ever use C for C programming, but its such an influential language that its worth learning for its cultural impact alone. Eg, any discussion about pointers, compilers, memory management, string handling, or systems programming is going to take place in the intellectual framework grounded by C.

C is to modern languages like Roman civilization is to Western culture today. An essential underpinning of how we think about things, admirable in many ways, but with horrible downsides, and not to be emulated. There are still some Latin speakers, but they are confined to a niche where nothing else but Latin feels right for them. But everyone else has moved on.
Thank you for the source, this is rather interesting. However I believe there’s some level of miscommunication. My original comment was in reference to the inequality within the distribution of funds due to inequality of tax revenue across the country, and how that affects the learning opportunities of less-privileged kids who, I would argue, are in more of a need for better education to escape their lower income bracket.
Hi there,
how exactly does it solve tab switching?
I think the swiping model actually works better for compatibility in serious relationships than the question based ones, because the questions are not actually about anything important (lots of political questions- I don’t date based on politics)- but the simplicity of swiping lets you just interact with a lot of people until you find the right one. I met my fiancee on Tinder 3 years ago, wedding is next week! My advice is to read the bios and swipe based on more than just looks- interesting hobbies, fun, playful, and personal integrity are important also. The down to earth introverted and nerdy women I’m compatible with, like my fiancee tend to spend less time staging flashy photos to look attractive in a bio.
> The problem with keeping the foundry business is they're probably never going to get back to competitive at leading edge and that dooms end products that rely on having the best process to be competitive.

FWIW I feel like I remember hearing similar remarks about AMD when they spun off GloFo. It's easy to assume that whoever is currently in front, will stay in front. On a 1-5 year time scale, it's a safe bet to be sure. Yet, Intel's own loss of process leadership tells us that things can change in the long run.

I posed this question in a top-level comment, but I'll throw it out here too: world governments are more interested than ever in making sure their fabs are on the leading edge. Could this serve to create more parity than we've seen historically?
thanks, that's a great way to put it!
As long as we're redesigning the entire internet, make it so that a computer can request from its upstream that it no longer receive packets from a source. That upstream can request the same from its upstream and so on. I'm surprised this doesn't already exist honestly.
DynamoDb is not a distributed hash map, it is a distributed forest of B-Trees. And B-Trees are what PG uses for indices and MySQL for both tables and indices. You don’t demoralize with it, but rather you build and maintain table and index like structures, they would contain submitted of ids or other data fields but it is the same with normal DB indexes. The difference if you have to maintain them manually. The upside is scale, serverlessnes and maybe less latency.
Lucene which is what ES builds upon is a library with bindings in languages other than Java, and it's Apache licensed.