skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do most people really need to learn college level writing

No, but only because college level writing is really bad (or, at least, the gen-ed writing courses are. I've had plenty other courses that didn't have writing in the curriculum, but still expected actually decent writing.)

Even if we ignore the entire "college is not job training" view, writing is is probably one of the skills most universal to knowledge jobs.
From the post:

> This feature is available at no additional charge in all AWS Regions, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and the AWS China Regions.
Have you tried changing the scale through Settings > Plugin > Scale ?
I do. These days, I'm all in on Obsidian. It's been a great tool for thought that ebbs and flows with me, and helps me see how things have been going.

Without peeling the whole onion, I've been dealing with a series of autoimmune issues in combination with complex PTSD. I'm working with some really great people to address these issues on all fronts and I'm much better these days than I've been in the past, but it's a work in progress that I'll have to manage for awhile.

A huge +1 to the importance of core habits. Focusing on this has been a key aspect of recovery.
A service that charge $79 for 1 month and $89 for "lifetime" is simply not serious.
Didn't he buy Twitter to not make money but to save humanity? So it should not be measured in financial terms, but humanity points that he smokes. Applauses to his investors for joining the great cause. Edit: this is a rant.
And after the years of insurance premiums going through the roof, you still consider Obamacare a success story?
Sure, maybe we could have that conversation if noncompetes actually required that...but they don't
That’s true for tech workers and other highly paid folk. That’s not at all “usually” true - I think you should go and look up all the cases of fast food workers, veterinarians, dentists etc that are slapped with non competes with no severance. They’re 100% abusive, and the majority
> ...and with the Indian Tribes;"

and Aliens, they forgot the Aliens.
I agree, but a five minute drive is about a 30 minute walk (for an able-bodied person), which is way too far between bus stops for a non-express bus. Especially if you have to catch a connecting bus going along one of the major streets your bus skipped by.
In practice there is a difference because FFT would have more edge artifacts at block boundaries - lowering visual quality - and DCT has better energy compaction into lower frequencies meaning longer runs of zeros of higher frequency coefficients after quantization so better compression. Another plus is the DCT only needs real numbers.
Companies have always picked the venue where their employees work. It’s really only in the last couple of years that certain employees have adopted the attitude that their company cannot tell them where to work for their company. You can certainly exercise your right to quit (at least in the US which is at will…even in Montana for the employees)

At the start of my career nearly 4 decades ago, I worked for a company that was 10 mins from my home. A year in they moved the location to a building almost 50 mins away. They literally asked no one in the company if this was ok by them…they basically said “The office is here now” and expected you to show up there. Reality is for some it was probably closer, but for others like me it was a worse commute.
This is a war and it’s long time the only people who can operate the machinery start treating it as such.
> You can get moderate UV exposure while wearing sunscreen.

Indeed, some of us count on it. My wife loves the beach/pool. So we take a fair number of vacations like that.

I’m a natural redhead. Sun and I are strangers.

But, sunscreened-up, and under an umbrella, I can sit outside and enjoy tropical drinks and reading a book. And still get what passes as a tan for me.
For a software engineer, or really most professionals, $2M really is not _that_ much in terms of retirement.

It’s absolutely enough to live a frugal retirement on, but not some sort of massive nest egg. You can safely withdrawal about $80k/year from that without it diminishing.

Don’t get me wrong, that’s the average income in the USA, but most deep career professionals would be taking a step down in terms of purchasing power. No real source of income means you can’t really finance anything. Major purchases are essentially pulled straight from that nest egg.
I'm growing up in the West and I can't find any impulse within me to be a man. It was never prioritized or taught in a tangible way. Im 25 and I still don't have the essence of a man like my father. There's that aura that older men have that younger guys don't. Its missing from me and I think that other cultures do it better. I have a friend from Kuwait who is only 2 years older than me and is strikingly masculine. He acts completely different from me and has a clear boundary of what is childish and what is not. I can't help but think there is no male role model in western culture.
I agree. We're seeing great results for very narrow use cases using smaller LLMs too. It's no different than classical ML and emerging AI over the past 10 years. If you don't have a well scoped use case, you're not going to succeed.

Now the one API wrapper projects that I love are my meeting transcription and summarization apps. You can tear those from my cold, dead hands.
> Universities will not confirm or deny if a particular party got a degree, citing privacy laws.

For a nominal fee, universities will send a copy of your transcript to anyone you ask them to. Every job I have had since graduating has asked me to ask my university to send them a copy.
The one thing you can count on based on decades of experience living with the anti car crowd is they are uniquely ill-equipped to change the hearts and minds of the average American. Their Modus Operandi is shrill hectoring about how the lifestyle of the average American is a “problem”, when the average American is either quite satisfied with their situation or actually aspire to the “problematic” low density lifestyle. When that argument fails, they devolve to an apocalyptic vision of social collapse unless their vision wins. Hearts and minds? Yeah, US in Afghanistan all over again…

Neither of these anti car strategies will ever gain traction with any but the youngest, most easily duped Americans, who are already stuck in high density housing for a combination of economic and career trajectory reasons. The approach America has taken for many decades with these young people is “they’ll outgrow it”. And they do, when children arrive and these young people, as their parents and grandparents before them, aspire to that “better family life” that low density housing affords.
Disney claims anyone using a Twitter hashtag is agreeing to their terms (2020)
Not being able to exclude people because of preexisting conditions and ensuring children have access to coverage seems like a pretty big success story.

Is it perfect? No, probably not. But repealing it would likely increase the budget deficit according to the CBO and put a large number of folks into a much worse situation than they are in now.
> a bit dramatic. there has to be an adjustment of teaching/assessing, but nothing that would "ruin" anyone's life.

If you don't have the power to just change your mind about what the entire curriculum and/or assessment context is, it can be a workload increase of dozens of hours per week or more. If you do have the power, and do want to change your entire curriculum, it's hundreds of hours one-time. "Lives basically ruined" is an exaggeration, but you're preposterously understating the negative impact.

> is it spam if it's useful and solves a problem?

Whether or not it's useful has nothing to do with whether or not it's spam. I'm not claiming that your product is spam -- I'll get back to that -- but your reply to the spam accusation is completely wrong.

As for your hypothesis, I've had interactions where it did a good job of generating alternative activities/exercises, and interactions where it strenuously and lengthily kept suggesting absolute garbage. There's already garbage on the internet, we don't need LLMs to generate more. But yes, I've had situations where I got a good suggestion or two or three, in a list of ten or twenty, and although that's kind of blech, it's still better than not having the good suggestions.
Rear cameras are required now, or will be in a few years. Dunno if this is a California thing or national, but just like the third brake light, this is already happening.

California is also working on legislation to require cars to be aware of where they are so they can notify the driver if they’re speeding.
This information was needed! I had to travel 2 clicks and 5 scrolls to know that. Should have checked your commment :)
Haven't put much thought on pricing to be honest. I'll probably delete the 79$/month plan in the future and just have the 19$/month plan and the 89$ one off plan
Capitalism includes regulatory capture. It's what the system is
JPEG XL supports lossless JPEG transcode, so it has to offer a superset of the features in JPEG.
> Gas is, on average, 43% more expensive.

If you can do your job remotely, then go for that.

If you can, but don't want to or you opted for hybrid, that's on you.

Otherwise, that shouldn't be a huge factor unless you drive a gas guzzler.
A customer who wants SSO is signaling that they are using this product in their business operations. I.e. they are making money from it. They aren't just learning it, or using it as a hobby. Therefore the product vendor is going to charge the customer at least some approximation of the value the customer is gaining from the product.
Is the family portable? Like it might be cheaper to buy them a house near you.
There is literally Black Mesa and multiple other Aperture companies at similar companies
Bolt raises $450M at $14B valuation
It seems to make perfect sense to me. Prohibiting non-compete agreements makes American works, businesses, and the economy as a whole more competitive... which is a disadvantage for established players, such as those who presumably own Suzanne Clark.
Yes but it crashed because the pylons failed in the wrong way. It was a design flaw.

Also, if it had failed as designed it would have only lost one. The other one was only lost because the first engine hit it on the way out. As well as the leading edge of the wing and the slats. The plane was doomed but not because of imbalance. It just could not fly under 270 knots.
There's calibration, but you can also just see contests where you pit the community aggregate against individual forecasters and see who wins. The Metaculus aggregate is really dominant in this contest of predicting outcomes in 2023, for example. See this: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/who-predicted-2023
I guess different countries have different rules, but my country have classes of roads which are not shared with pedestrians or bikes. There are generally not that many traffic lights, but there are exceptions.

The biggest use of simultaneously acceleration in those situations would be around road maintenance and other situation where road speed or number of lanes are reduced, with heavy congestion as a result.
Any amount of time is ridiculous though.

If you're specialized to that thing, you're out of well paying work for a year.

If there's such a contract, the company should be paying you either equivalent or more to prevent you from working to your best ability
It is a fork of Lite XL, which itself is a fork of Lite. So, it is a fork of a fork of Lite.
Obviously this isn't a hard and fast rule, but in general its safe to assume that any executive agency in the US has been operating under a fairly ambiguous set of rules.

Its always up for debate whether that is a good thing or a bad thing, but without Chevron much of what the agencies have done for decades wouldn't have been allowed.
> the FTC failed to justify why it had banned virtually all non-competes instead of “instead of targeting specific, harmful non-competes”.

I wonder how the FTC would do that? "Targetting specific..." sounds to me like addressing people's contracts individually. That is a job for a lawyer not a commission (I am not a lawyer - I know little...).
At some point an AI first programming language will have to come along which will integrate well with the AI models, Editor and Programmer input seamlessly.

Im not sure what that is, but Im guessing it will be something along the lines of Prolog.

You will basically give it some test cases, and it will write code that passes those test cases.
Sure, there's more demand than there is supply at the moment for sense urban areas. But in the end, most Americans don't choose to live in denser areas even if it's more affordable than NYC and SF.

I do agree we should build more density, but there is also still a large amount of convincing people to actually allow it and move there.

It's not like these zoning laws just appeared on their own one day. People vote for these things. People show up to city halls and fight densification. People fight against transit, they don't want those people coming in to their nice quiet neighborhoods and the undesirables in their apartments.
I don’t think it has to be, but if we keep going this direction — and we likely will — it will breed a lot more of this sentiment. Very dangerous.
AI for effective video content creation and optimization
The alternatives are sadder:

1. We stick with the current wasteful and expensive models and have less money for everything else the government does.

2. We don't buy cruise missiles at all and Putin and friends gleefully march across eastern Europe/whatever land they believe is theirs.
I feel like I'm living in a different universe sometimes. The consensus on HN seems to be that you can be pretty productive with LLMs as coding assistants, but every time I try I find it borderline impossible to get functional code even for pretty straightforward prompts.

I decided to fire up GPT-4o again today to see if maybe things have gotten better over the past few months.

I asked GPT to write code to render a triangle using Vulkan (a 3D graphics API). There are about 1000 tutorials on this that are almost certainly in GPT-4's training data. I gave GPT two small twists so it's not a simple case of copy/paste: I asked it 1) to apply a texture to the triangle and 2) to keep all the code in a single function. (Most tutorials break the code up into about a dozen functions, but each of these functions are called only once, so it should be trivial to inline them.)

Within the first ten lines, the code is already completely nonfunctional:

GPT-4o declares a pointer (VkPhysicalDevice) that is uninitialized. It queries the number of graphics devices on the host machine. A human being would allocate a buffer with that number of elements and store the reference in the pointer. GPT-4o just ignores the result. Completely ignores it. So the function call was just for fun, I guess? It then tries to copy an entire array of VkPhysicalDevice_T objects into this uninitialized pointer. So that's a guaranteed memory access violation right off the bat.
There seems to be ever increasing talk about communism vs capitalism, free markets, competition, etc.

I think more and more people are asking "what has the 'free market' done for me lately", and are open to other ideas. It's a dangerous road. I see it a bit like the "defund the police" movement, people admit that police are good in theory, but the reality is a lot of people believe the police will never actually do anything to help them, thus, they want tear most of the system down and start over. Likewise, everyone agrees a free market with competition is great, but they see that the people upholding our "free market" do a lot non-free-market things which will never benefit regular people.

What does it mean when the things that happen in a healthy free market aren't happening?
That would be the ideal scenario. We've pitched this to the grandparents and they aren't biting.
Sorry about that! edited to

> What we're observing is X, but we want to see Y instead.
Where did I say I didn't?
That's how our legal system has been allowed to operate all the way down to civil court unfortunately. I've seen much the same happen first hand in civil matters. I've also seen a person convicted of a crime when the case took 4 years to be tried, a charge that had max of 1 year in jail mind you, and the only evidence offered was eye witness testimonials that disagreed with each other and photos of the scene (aka a room) taken days before trial and having nothing to do with the crime in question.

Our legal system is far from infallible.
The fact that control settings were not synchronized between stations and cleared when turning over control is sure a blunder. The checkbox is not to be blamed however, it's a sane design choice.

Fun fact: on some airplanes if you pull on the captain's yoke and push on the first officer's, the elevator will split, the left part doing the nose up, the right one doing nose down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EgyptAir_Flight_990
This is disgusting.

> we can make sure the United States is prepared to stop a conflict and save countless lives

> building something incredibly cool and want to make a positive difference in geopolitics

Someone has never used their critical thinking skills. MLK Jr said the US is the greatest purveyor of violence in the world. These missiles won't be used against rogue states, they'll be used to kill innocent people and children in the poorer countries that aren't behaving like the empire wants.
Not a lawyer, but I read the full opinion (I highly recommend making a free PACER account).

It's a summary judgement essentially saying that even though the FTC has a long-established history in both the law itself and legal precedent for making rules to protect people from "unfair methods of competition" apparently that was all an illusion and the FTC has no power to do that at all. This was based on (IMO) flimsy reasoning that a 1975 law[1] that granted the FTC some new, explicit rulemaking powers over warranties (including a provision that says something like "nothing in this law is meant to restrict powers already granted by the FTC Act") actually caused the FTC to lose all other implicit rule-making power, even though obviously that wasn't Congress's intention and isn't supported by the text.

The judge went further to claim the rule was "arbitrary and capricious", even though the rule was published alongside 570 pages of analysis[2] (that I also read), and the relevant Supreme Court decision[3] explicitly requires judges to defer to the expertise of federal agencies in these matters.

Once again, we can't have nice things, even if the law literally says we can.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnuson%E2%80%93Moss_Warranty...

[2]: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/05/07/2024-09...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_v._Prometheus_Radio_Projec...
> your food that magically appears in grocery stores comes from those useless rural yokels that use these roads

That's fine. Roll those costs into the price of food. That way, the amount of road tax you pay is proportional to how much goods and services you consume.

Meanwhile, the status quo is that everyone pays into the road system regardless of how much or little they use it - even if they don't own a car.

Roads have to get paid for no matter what. The only choice we have as a society is between taxing everyone versus taxing only the users.
In my case:

CPU: 12th Gen Intel i7-1255U (12) @ 4.700GHz

GPU: Intel Device 46a8
Lite XL which is a project Pragtical forked on has been tested to run on browser. You can try it here :

https://lite-xl.com/playground/
"She was the first African-American woman federal judge nominated by President Donald Trump", judges being appointed by politicians is a complete joke.
that's a great demo and UI. if you like 3d cellular automata, here's a 3d cellular automata voxel shader:
https://github.com/kchapelier/cellular-automata-voxel-shader
"Until the next action taken" doesn't solve your "accident" scenario either, where you likely smashed multiple buttons.

I don't think a toast or any confirmation feedback mechanism is supposed to replace a log or undo list.
The most valuable thing AI has done for me with coding is commenting my code and creating documentation from it. It saves so much time doing a task that hardly any of us actually want to do - and it does it well.
Neat OP - have you seen the autogen FSM implementation? How do you think it compares?

https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/blog/2024/02/11/FSM-Grou...
That was a part of the reasoning of open sourcing my AI assistant/software dev project. Companies like Google have strict procedures around access to customer data. The same can't always be said about a startup racing to not run out of cash.
It's good for everyone except the company that the person leaves (more tax revenue for the public).
Obviously that wasn't the question, but you know that's what it's over. A bit naive to think we'd all love to have these nice things if only we can do them in a procedurally correct manner.
A Basketball Statistic Changed How I See the World (2021)
Oh The Urbanity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7FB_xI-U6w , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wlld3Z9wRc
A couple of quick suggestions:

* Provide some example feeds in the left side bar when the list is empty, so people new to RSS aren't just looking at an empty, black page. Maybe https://news.ycombinator.com/rss ?

* Provide an OPML import option so experienced RSS-using users can quickly populate their list of feeds and compare your project with whatever they are currently using.
This is particularly annoying on Gmail, where sometimes while you type in the search bar, a few of your keypresses will trigger keyboard shortcuts instead.

Did you just archive or delete a couple of unread emails? You may never know!
How worried are you that it's giving you bad advice?

There are plenty of, "Just disable certificate checking" type answers on Stack Overflow, but there are also a lot of comments calling them out. How do you fact check the AI? Is it just a shortcut to finding better documentation?
Fair enough in some cases, not sure he's getting much benefit in Fresno though.
Improve the ratio of compensation to workload in the hiring employer's favor.
Give it another shot but with Claude Sonnet 3.5. It’s my daily driver for coding tasks.

It seems especially strong with Python but a bit medium with Swift.
It might be already kosher to reply to pjc50 (or tovej) directly ;)

They are moving towards what i had in mind for Bluestein/gvicino

Sorry, need to dig out Society of Mind, i thought i had a annotated copy somewhere but its been awhile..
The sort of transformation needed here seems achievable. There are various roadmaps to success whereas there were not any roadmaps to general language agents just a few years ago.
The less labour rights a country has, the more competitive a country's businesses are. If you can keep your workers in quasi-indentured servitude, you're going to be more profitable than a business that can't.

It's a prisoner's dilemma because even though the economy would be better if non-competes were banned, any individual business makes more money by forcing employees to sign one.

Workers' rights need to be an essential part of any trade agreement specifically to prevent a scenario where the United States can't legislate workers' rights because it'll put American companies at a disadvantage globally.

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF10046/24

This is already being done with USMCA (NAFTA replacement) enshrining collective bargaining rights in the auto industry, so companies won't outsource to avoid dealing with a union.

Maybe banning non-competes is something the USA should prioritize in future trade agreements. That's something that would address the problem she's pointing out and benefit the economy.