skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's why it isn't true of your home. The cost of storing an item in your home (assuming you didn't buy a bigger house just to store the thing) is 0.
Why should old WMs/DEs add support for Wayland, why not just write new for Wayland specifically?
> Most of the time, those over-achievers from the outside lead a very unhappy, constantly unfulfilled life.

Common, yes, but “most” is a great exaggeration in my experience.

I am surrounded by people who have or are achieving above a standard deviation from the mean (completely qualitative). They are just regular people who happen to thrive on their projects (work or personal).

I don’t know why or how our experiences can be so different.
As if companies weren't doing it to prospective hires including but not limited to
* Fake job postings[1]
* Unpaid take-home assignments that take days to finish to only then never hear back from a company[2]
* Ridiculously gruelling interview loops

Don't get me even started that the cost of a wasted hour is MUCH more devastating to someone unemployed vs your multi-billion fortune 500 corp.

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[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fake-job-listing-ghost-jobs-cbs...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36446770
Why does a vacuum cleaner need to connect to the public network?
Firefox on X11 works fine if you enable media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabled in about:config
Social Parasites
What has C# got to do with... anything in this article?
Yes! This is the other point is that it is also just distracting as you are thinking through a hard problem to have code just popping up which you inevitably end up reading even if you know what you planned to write.

Just had a glimpse at supermaven and not sure why that would be better, the site suggest it is a faster copilot.
Norway, Sweden and Denmark are not socialist by normal definitions; they’re social democracies with market economies coupled with strong welfare states (in particular, they are _not_ democratic socialist states; social democracy means something different).

There does seem to be a tendency in the US these days to use ‘socialism’ to describe anyone who doesn’t actively want to kick poor people, but the Nordics are far from any formal definition of socialism.
Apparently quantum computers still aren't powerful enough to run Doom wireframe
> This matters because the "tragedy of the commons" concept has been used to suggest (successfully) that communities cannot manage commonly held resources, which is false.

This is not my impression. I’ve always heard “tragedy of the commons” invoked precisely to
advocate that commonly held resources must be regulated.
AVX Bitwise ternary logic instruction busted
How to stop advertisers from tracking your teen across the internet
In the interim it could be quite disruptive for humans (flooding, extreme heat in once livable places, etc.) but on the whole warming has typically been very good for life.

Global cooling would be catastrophic.
> For context, almost all of our developers are learning web development (TypeScript, React, etc) from scratch, and have little prior experience with programming.

To be fair, having non programmers learn web development like that is even more problematic than using LLMs. What about teaching actual web development like HTML + CSS + JS, in order to have the fundamentals to control LLMs in the future?
Wow that's dark.
For people who like me mostly do Backend/Network/System development and who disagree on how helpfull LLMs are (basically a waste of time if you're using it for anything other than rubber ducking/writing tests cases/autocomplete), LLMs can basically write a working front-end page/component in 10s. Not an especially well-designed one, but "good enough". I find it especially shine in writing the html/css parts. It cannot write a FSM on its own, so basically when i write a page, i still write the states, actions and the reducer, but then i can generate the rest and it's really good.
Good for him. Rupert Murdoch needs some counter balancing...
In all honesty, the screen sharing situation (and other stuff) in Wayland is currently so brittle that I consider XFCE (my daily driver) lagging behind in its adoption a feature.
The useful range of FM is much shorter. The reason why AM transmitters remain so useful in geographically large countries like the USA is that you need far fewer transmitters to reach everyone.
The copy-paste programmer will always be worse than the programmer who builds a mental model of the system.

LLMs are just a faster and more wrong version of the copy-paste stackoverflow workflow it’s just now you don’t even need to ask the right question to find the answer.

You have to teach students and new engineers to never commit a piece of code they don’t understand. If you stop at “I don’t know why this works” then you will never be able to get out of the famous multi hour debug loop that you get into with LLMs or similarly the multi day build debugging loop that everyone has been through.

The real thing that LLMs do that is bad for learning is that you don’t need to ask it the right question to find your answer. This is good if you already know the subject but if you don’t know the subject you’re not getting that reinforcement in your short term memory and you will find things you learned through LLMs are not retained as long as if you did more of it yourself.
Painted roundabouts will be invisible when it snows.
> The question is whether their actions were misrepresentations. This is unclear.

Accepting the facts in the indictment at face value, I really don't see how this is unclear. The contract between Smith-the-artist and Spotify was that they would pay him royalties for legitimate streams which were not the result of manipulation, and that he would not deliberately manipulate the streams.

Smith then knowingly violated these terms, attempted to conceal his violations from Spotify, and continued to accept the royalty payments to which he knew he was not entitled. Aside from the misrepresentations required to initially set up the scheme (e.g., signing up bot accounts under fake names), he also repeatedly and directly denied participating in the exact sort of scheme he knew he was perpetuating: "I have never done
anything to artificially inflate my streams". The allegations in paragraphs 26-30 cover several instances of this.

> If I upload a song to Spotify I am not promising anything wrt to who listens to it or how.

I'm not sure how you are squaring this with the quoted portion of the indictment from my prior comment. Smith did, in fact, make promises regarding who would listen (and how) to the songs he uploaded: namely, that he would not personally or via a third party listen to the songs in a manipulative manner.

> There's a real problem in saying that whatever BS a company puts in its TOS defines fraud and if you dont do that you're defrauding a company. If that's true, then you're probably defrauding companies all the time, as are many.

That's simply not the case here. Smith was not inadvertently running afoul of fine print buried deep in TOS that he never read to trivial detriment of some corporation. He was engaged in repeated and deliberate misrepresentation with the intent of inducing Spotify and distribution companies to pay out royalties in excess of $10M to which he knew he was not entitled.
wish the entire thing was downloadable
I can see how you want to feel thats true, but the stats don't seem to say that's true. There's plenty of car theft and burglaries happening in the state, page 37 and 38.

https://www.dps.texas.gov/sites/default/files/documents/crim...
Perhaps looking into the issues with uncongeniality and multiple imputation may help, although I haven't looked at MI for a a long time so consider my reply as an attempt to be helpful vs authoritive.

In another related intuition for a probable foot gun relates to learning linearly inseparable functions like XOR which requires MLPs.

A single missing value in an XOR situation is far more challenging than participant dropouts causing missing data.

Specifically the problem is counterintuitively non-convex, with multiple possibilities for convergence without information in the corpus to know which may be true.

That is a useful lens in my mind, where I think of the manifold being pushed down in opposite sectors as the kernel trick.

Another potential lens to think about it is that in medical studies the assumption is that there is a smooth and continuous function, while in learning, we are trying to find a smooth continuous function with minimal loss.

We can't assume that the function we need to learn is smooth, but autograd specifically limits what is learnable and simplicity bias, especially with feed forward networks is an additional concern.

One thing that is common for people to conflate is the fact that a differentiable function is probably smooth and continuous.

But the set of continuous functions that is differentiable _anywhere_ is a meger set.

Like anything in math and logic, the assumptions you can make will influence what methods work.

As ML is existential quantification, and because it is insanely good at finding efficient glitches in the matrix, within the limits of my admittedly limited knowledge, MI would need to be a very targeted solution with a lot of care to avoid set shattering from causing uncongeniality, especially in the unsupervised context.

Hopefully someone else can provide a better productive insights.
I prefer his autobiography (https://xkcd.com/917/).

Seriously though, this question is unanswerable, but your answer is probably one of the few books I'd get behind as an answer to this.
It is kind of opposite to me. I do a lot more side projects now, because I enjoy building, and I enjoy using LLMs as this multiplying tool so I build more with the same amount of time. I think integrating LLM with your workflow is also problem solving and an exciting novel way to problem solve at this. It gets my imagination really running and it is awesome to be able to exchange back and forth to overall see things from more perspectives since LLM can give me more different and varied point of views than I alone could have come up with.
Let's say 10 jobs over 10 years. Not a lot for a contractor
> Portland, where I live, is the last major city to not have fluoride in the water.

Kind of depends how you track things I'd think. New Jersey, the state with the highest population density in the US, largely doesn't put fluoride in the water outside of a few municipalities.

There's no fluoride in the water in almost the entirety of Hudson, Essex, and Bergen counties, which are located near NYC and include the cities of Newark and Jersey City. Combined population of those three counties is over 2.5 million people.
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Wow, now I'm sad I don't live in that reality.
> If it kills someone or causes grievous bodily harm, it's still on you. Yes, even if it's a burglar.

Honestly, the laws in your locale are unjust and need to be rewritten. There should be absolutely no liability to the owner (or renter) of a property if someone burglarizing it gets hurt accidentally.
This is an interview with Terence Tao, the world’s greatest living mathematician, about AI.

> I’m not super interested in duplicating the things that humans are already good at. It seems inefficient
"Voting with your wallet" works for small and frequent purchases. The bigger and less frequent the purchase, the less impact it has.
LLDP-MED actually has fields for location information, though they were designed for E911 on VoIP (so the switch can tell the phone where it is) and might not be detailed enough.
Don't look now: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/wayland/
Very cool. The tinkerer in me wanted to see how quickly I could come up with a function that wouldn't be approximated well.

Math.cos(x * Math.exp(Math.cos(x * x))) is the best I got so far as it is highly composite, which leads to rapid oscillations and steep gradients that can't easily be approximated by Chebyshev.
Wow, this is a great overview. I’ve been playing with Gleam a bit and this was really helpful. I’ll definitely refer to this later.

I’d like to dig into the OTP library (I’m curious if anyone has worked with it much?) and create a state chart library with it, but I’m still firmly in the “I don’t totally get it” camp with a few parts of Gleam. I don’t deny that it’s pragmatic. Maybe it’s more so that I’m not up to speed on functional patterns in general. I was for years, but took a hiatus to write code for a game engine and supporting infrastructure. It was so Wild West, but I kind of liked it in the end. Lots of impure, imperative code, haha.
I've been working with a CS student that often does not understand why her code doesn't work, does not want to understand how to improve herself, nor want break down a situation to it's bare components and apply them to new situations.

I could give a bunch of long (and probably butchered) stories of my sessions with her, but in short, she's expects to be spoon fed the answers without properly digesting why they are the answers. She turns to ChatGPT because it will just automatically give her the answers without forcing her to do any thinking, just copy + paste in order to tick off another assignment.

There's probably a middle ground where you could use ChatGPT properly, but I've had her reach towards ChatGPT once for what essentially amounts to spelling errors that she never notices herself or pay attention to errors telling her that she spelled something wrong. It's kind of hard to be supportive of a tool when the tool itself can essentially act like a replacement of your thinking cap and can't say no.
I was 55, when I was looking for work.

I won't go into detail, but it was made clear that "my kind" was not welcome.
Pear AI: according to NdBdM's original* scheme, Nang et al were foxes, who had schemed, yet could not defend themselves from the wolf (according to russians, wolves are the "paramedics of the forest", for despite not being doctors, they take care of the sick and elderly...). YC? I suppose they should, if it isn't already there, add some legalese to closing documents so founders bear full responsibility for bringing a clean venture to the table. (there could be a different split of responsibility, but since YC is running a retail operation I wouldn't expect one)

* Had Machiavelli, in writing (1532):

> You must know there are two ways of contesting, the one by the law, the other by force; the first method is proper to men, the second to beasts; but because the first is frequently not sufficient, it is necessary to have recourse to the second. Therefore it is necessary for a prince to understand how to avail himself of the beast and the man. This has been figuratively taught to princes by ancient writers, who describe how Achilles and many other princes of old were given to the Centaur Chiron to nurse, who brought them up in his discipline; which means solely that, as they had for a teacher one who was half beast and half man...

been referring to Cicero, De Officiis (44 BC)?

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...

> ...there are two ways of settling a dispute: first, by discussion; second, by physical force; and since the former is characteristic of man, the latter of the brute, we must resort to force only in case we may not avail ourselves of discussion.

(I'm surprised I've not read this work until now. With a little skimming, it confirms my reverse-engineering of the cardinal virtues as arising as oppositions [albeit not strictly pairwise]:

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...

and has interesting things to say about Castalia:

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...

about immigration:

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...

Gemeinschaft vs Gesellschaft:

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...

and even Pareto Optimality:

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%... )

EDIT: no, lifted, negated, and expanded to chapter length!

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...
Ask HN: How Do You Discover Interesting Articles for HN?
I'm curious about how people find the articles and posts they share on Hacker News. Do you have specific websites, newsletters, or tools that you use to stay up-to-date?
You think you're making a joke, but many countries do regulate that cars come with basic safety equipment. France is just one example.
The X-Files Game
> I just don’t understand the childish motivated reasoning behind assuming the skeptics are scared. Maybe if I spent “three sleepless nights” talking to ChatGPT I would be more enlightened.

A lot of people are very invested, whether emotionally or financially or both, in this stuff not being a flop. There’s a lot of motivated reasoning going on. It is necessary to believe that the heretics simply haven’t seen the light yet - to question that gets too close to questioning whether there’s any light to see.
Great choices!

I've read Vonnegut sporadically and decided this year to read through all his books. Sirens of Titan is an old favorite I've read multiple times, but I reread it about two weeks ago, and Slaughterhouse Five a few months ago.
But an average one cent coin is involved in more than a single transaction - if you amortise the cost of the coin over every transaction it is involved in, then it’s much less than one cent.

If the cost of metals in a coin is more than its value, you do have a point.
Popovers are one of my favorite things ever to happen in in web dev.

Conversational dialogs are so clear and obvious, and they seem to prevent mistakes by limiting what objects you can interact with at any one time to just the selected ones that the dialog is attached to.

They're also mobile friendly, and let you pack an incredible amount of features, because you can structure interactions like a tree, and only one node needs to be visible, and they're cleanly separated, not like a page full of collapsible accordions or nested tabs or something.

Plus there's very little need for good spatial working memory. Pages are small enough to quickly scan, reducing the tiny 2 second delays from looking around the screen for things.
The greatest power of BEAM-based languages is the fully preemptive actor model. Nobody else supports it. This is a superpower, the solution of most problems with concurrent programming.

In Erland and Elixir, actors and actor-based concurrency hold the central place in the corresponding ecosystems, well supported by extensive documentation.

In Gleam, actors and OTP are an afterthought. They are there somewhere, but underdocumented and abandoned.
Wouldn't be a terrible idea.
How I Am Setting Up VMs on Hetzner Cloud
AM is useful in emergency situations, like the hurricane that wiped out Appalachia a week ago. The range of FM is shorter, so it’s more likely to be affected by the disaster.
I'm guessing not defibillators but many countries require emergency first aid kits, hazard triangle markers/flares, fire extinguishers, spare bulbs, etc. to be carried in the car.
Isn’t manual ser/de pretty common? I like it personally. Being explicit at program boundaries usually means far fewer bugs inside the program. In JS I can pile whatever JSON I want into an object, but eventually I need to throw Zod or something at it to tame the crazy.

Maybe a generic “pile this data into this value and pretend it’s safe” tool might be nice for prototyping.
It’s only been thirty years, but keep waiting. I’m sure that solution is just around the corner for you.
> Everyone has the potential to do something horrible; the problem of evil isn't that it's present in a certain group who we can imprison, the problem is that it's present in us all.

But some people are actually more predisposed towards criminality than others. We aren't blank slates.
Code School employee says: AI is an impediment to learning web development
Firstly is extremely expensive. To give you an idea, my 200Gb/month 5G uncapped speed plan costs me 14 euros a month here in France.

Amusingly this plan includes 40Gb/month in Germany at no additional costs which is much cheaper than a German plan.
> Since when did “not illegal” become the bar we’re aiming for in the tech industry?

That ship sailed years ago. Uber et al were “should not be illegal”.
Wonderful, wonderful book. One of my favorites.

It's old, but the beginning especially is just a non-stop adventure. It always drags a bit for me after the first third, but picks up again and continues to be great throughout.
You are not the audience for an academic research paper. The audience is other researchers who understand the norms of the field, and are used to the notation and idiosyncrasies.

Re: code. I don’t think any research paper in any field of CS includes source code verbatim in the paper, it’s usually snippets like you want. Sometimes source code is not linked from the paper, but that’s a different issue, and common in industry too (eg closed source code).

Re: references, it’s not about explaining a topic (though that happens sometimes), it’s about providing a pointer to a resource that a researcher who already knows the research landscape can go look at and confirm that yes, the claimed fact is indeed in a previously vetted resource. That is, it’s more about provenance than explanation.

Re: optimizing for PDF output as opposed to optimizing for, say, HTML output/web reading, I only have this to say: I can easily read papers produced 30 years ago in PDF form. I cannot say the same for some websites even 5 years old.
Gleam runs on the BEAM
“AI companies avoid using AI data for training like the plague”

That’s not accurate. All of the big LLM training labs are leaning increasingly into deliberately AI-created training data these days. I’m confident that’s part of the story behind the big improvements for tasks like coding in models such as Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

The idea of “model collapse” from recursively training on AI-created data only occurs in lab conditions that very deliberately set up those conditions, from what I’ve seen. It doesn’t seem to be a major concern in real-world model training.
why the hell are you using airdrop??

upload it to icloud and have icloud client in the computer sync it.. It will just show up there automagically..

That is what i do, i have not plugged an iPhone to a computer in ages.. my last three were likely never plugged at all..
Show HN: Built simple Startup Directory in 3 days – 300 users in 72 hours
I was experimenting and asked Gemini AI for an idea inspired by the Million Dollar Homepage but for SaaS and Startups, it suggested creating a startup directory. I thought, “Mmm, what harm can another directory do?" but, I tried to add a unique twist. Make it really simple to submit.

Users can simply upload their icon, short description (I’ve added that later) and web address. The app displays their startup immediately, making it easy for anyone to display their project without hassle.

Posted on Reddit and in just 24 hours, I attracted over 80 users, then over the next couple of days it got to around 300. Now I’ve capped it to 419 and more users keep submitting (submission keep rolling, new ones go to the top and old ones get removed).

I'm glad to share this with the Hacker News community to get some feedback and suggestions for improvement. Some people have suggested monetization options and I’ve tried that but it may not be time for that yet since it didn’t work out.

You can check it here: https://maze.do/saas-directory

Background: This was somewhat of an impulse project comming from my desire to create something useful for Saas Developers. I focused on making it real simple to submit, aiming for a low barrier to entry.

I look forward to your thoughts and any suggestions you might have!