skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The absurdity in the UK is that it's a License fee and that there is this whole absurd enforcement system. In other countries it's a tax if you don't pay it, you are essentially not paying your taxes. I am OK with a universal tax for a universal service even if I don't use that service. What I am not okay with is fraudulent threatening letters, weirdos creeping in the bushes trying to see if I am watching TV and goons showing up at my front door to collect what they think I owe them.
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Also not all species of mosquito transmit malaria, or have a much smaller chance of transmitting it. I remember watching a BBC programme where someone was researching whether malaria mosquito had returned to Britain (they hadn't).

So even if you would somehow introduce a few busloads of Malaria-stricken people, that's not likely to re-introduce Malaria.
Can we? Is there a way to test this assumption? If not, then it's not science, right?
I'd argue that you should be seeking a used car if you're cost sensitive. That's sort of outdated advice in this absurd market, but the monthly payments for a car off the lot (new or used, if that's a thing) will probably be worse than saving that monthly payment yourself for 6 months and buying a beater to hold you over.
hello fellow hackers u aren't as smart as me
Mind wandering (or more precisely the activation of the default mode network) and dreaming are hugely linked. Interestingly the “direction” of the mind wandering during rem sleep is the inverse of anxious mind wandering. When we are anxious we have high levels of the neurotransmitter norepinephrine, but during rem sleep it’s 85% below base waking levels.

In 2017 I wrote a paper discussing the implications for dream content and functionality. Here is the link for it:

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/k6trz

And it was discussed on HN here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19143590
No, Apple is notorious for not caring if they upset people for presenting a default they consider to be superior.
Or they could be ignored entirely and resources could be diverted into more effective measures

Do you see the nonsense of your own argument? You’re advocating for surveillance installations into a place that you think is easily ignored
It'd be interesting to see how quickly relearning it to ~the same level would be in terms of % of time spent originally.

I found something similar after going through several different keyboard layouts ~15 years ago. It turned out it only took a few hours for it to all come back so I make sure to use Qwerty and Dvorak at least once a year in case I ever need them (I landed on a 3rd).
What I think is interesting in your point number 3. is that a social framework be the reinforcement mechanism. Growing up in an isolated environment could presents one reality growing up in a strong social environment presents another reality.

The coping skills in one reality my not translate to the new reality.
Wow what a nightmare. I try to time it so I'm lucid before landing, but that's a horror I hadn't even considered!
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Actually, it is. From the dictionary:

An ad hominem attack occurs when someone attacks the person making the argument rather than addressing the argument itself. For example, saying "You're always wrong, so you're wrong about this too" without addressing the current claim would be ad hominem.

That's exactly what the person I responded to was doing.
Show HN: SAU (Scriptable AUdio) language, saugns cli program rendering scripts
A command-line program that runs scripts for it as audio files, this project has been my main hobby project on and off in 2011-2012 and 2018-present. I'm the sole dev and there's fairly little discussion about it on the web.

In case of interest, this is the only audio synth program I'm aware of that combines FM & PM with the use of smooth noise (of various types) as both carrier and modulator.

In 2019, before the noise oscillator work, this project was linked on HN (without the "Show HN" part), but no discussion followed. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20663824

2022, I put up a Show HN back when I was just working on a new PRNG algorithm underlying the later noise oscillator. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30787317
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> The movers just do what the stickers said.

I'd be pretty pissed if movers ignored instructions and tossed any of my stuff away of their own volition. I keep some non-functional belongings that may appear worthless to others, and my judgement should be what matters when moving or discarding my stuff.
If you do it for a while it becomes a thoughtless process though. I no longer have to think about when to start paddling to catch the wave, I just know without any active thinking. Same with the balance, my muscles just know what to do.
No, this is a bad idea.
> sick to tech and information freedom

Do you not understand that the tools the government uses to control non-citizens are turned inward all the time? Military tech is tech, surveillance tech is tech. They are not chiming in on 'immigration policies', they are chiming in on technology used to actually implement those policies. If all you care about is not having tracking pixels in your personal consumer browser you're going to miss the most dangerous encroachments on your freedom.
I'm not a topological expert, but I'm pretty sure you can have a surface without an interior. A unit sphere would be a good example of a surface without an interior.
What counts as gaming? In my physics degree, for coding courses, we were allowed to use library algorithms directly provided we cited them. We were mostly tested on how (not) buggy and usable our program was. If you don't care what tools were used or how the solution came up, then that shouldn't be a problem.

If someone writes "perfect" code from a take-home, you can ask them to explain what they did (and if they used GPT, explain how they checked it). Then ask them to extend or discuss what the issues are and how they'd fix it.

I think asking some probing questions about past projects is normally enough to discern bullshit. You do need to be good at interviewing though. If you really want an excellent candidate then there's the FANG approach of (perhaps unfairly) filtering people who don't perform well in timed interviews, provided your rubric is good and you have enough candidates to compare to. There is a trade off there.

Grad positions optimise for what you can test - people are unlikely to have lots of side projects or work experience so you end up seeing how well they learned Algorithms 101. For someone who's worked for 10 years asking about system design in the context of their work is more useful.

Note that PhD and academic positions very rarely ask for this sort of stuff. Even if you don't have publications. They might run through a sample problem or theory (if it's even relevant), but I've never had to code to get a postdoc.

Otherwise you put people on short probation periods and be prepared to let them go.
I would instead think of the llm training corpus as being equivalent to the physical laws that govern our reality.

LLM training is training an organism to "survive" in an environment consisting of languages/lexicons.

Not getting eaten by a tiger is equivalent to being able to produce a semantically and logically correct sentence.
download the 1.5.2 version of Minecraft.
But you can do the exact same thing with a postpaid plan.
You don't need to go for the cheapest phone, but I find the midrange, around $300-$400, to be the sweet spot. Sure, you could opt for something more expensive, but unless you have a specific need, the benefits won't be that noticeable. I'd rather put that extra money toward upgrading a PC instead. I chose a midrange Samsung for its practical customization options over stock Android, plus it comes with 4 promised updates. While it's not as long as the 7 years of updates from a Pixel, realistically, the battery will likely swell like a pillow before it even hits the 7th year anyway.
You can get medical care there. You just can't end the life of a baby, unless the mother's life is in danger.
> Her mom watched her write the essay.

I suspect there is a product opportunity here. It could be as simple as a chrome extension that records your sessions in google docs and generates a timelapse of your writing process. That’s the kind of thing that’s hard to fake and could convince an accuser that you really did write the essay. At the very least it could be useful insurance in case you’re accused.
your mom. GET OFF OF THIS NOW
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Microsoft maintains its own Windows debloat scripts on GitHub
It's all part of the proceedings. Even on the SCOTUS the dissenting option is allowed to be posted for why they went for the other decision.

Also, I don't think this response is really the same as an appeal. It's just another legal footnote to keep in mind if/when other parts of the court comes in to block this (as they are so likely to do this year. Can't let the working class have good things).
Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveler%27s_dilemma
Yep, same in Canada. A phone contract shows up on your credit report (since you pay at the end of the month for the service received during the month) and if you were to not pay the penalty, the outstanding debt would show up there.
There is a literal, autistic sense in which you are correct. But there is a practical, pragmatic distinction between measurements that we call absolute versus those we call relative, and pedantic correctness misses the point.
Isn't our evolution directed by both the (fixed) laws of physics and by the (random) efforts of all other life forms on this planet?
I liked the presentation and it worked great on my phone.

I'm sorry you have issues but I'm glad the world doesn't cater to a single individual's issue.

I can't swim because of a whole in my ear drum from when the Nun at the free clinic my poor mother took me to popped that bad boy with a enthusiastic squeeze from an ear syringe and my tinnitus rings like a son-of-a-bitch when I wear ear plugs but I don't demand they fill in every swimming pool with concrete. I just walk by on those hot summer days wistfully jealous of the guy doing a cannonball and the lady doing the hand stand thing where your feet are in dry air but your head is 2 feet below the water level.
Years ago I tried starting out with 5 wpm and 'working up', and just barely passed the 13 wpm test to get the 'Advanced' ticket. Only thing that stopped me getting Extra was that 20 wpm code test, that was still a thing in the 80s.

I let it all lapse for about 35 years and just got back into radio in '22, and tried copying some 5 wpm from W1AW, and could copy maybe 20 or 30% of that at best. So it came as something of a surprise, playing with Morsle for a few minutes, to discover I can do as well or better at 35 wpm as I can at 5.

You really get too much time at the slow speeds to engage the frontal cortex. If you learn to think your way to each letter, that doesn't scale very far.
Not sure why this is a problem.

VS Code doesn't have a lock on market share for IDEs the way say Google does on search.

There are plenty of other options either with or without CoPilot.
I agree, this is abysmal ux. Doesn't even remotely work on my phone. All those stupid animations literally removing information from my screen before I've had a chance to read it. Drastically reducing the "reading surface" of the actual information attempting to be conveyed. Animations are cool and useful but they too could just be placed on a static page.

The whole thing seems like some over excited marketing person enshittifying the literal idea of static pages of informative just to make something "new".
> “just tell me what to build, I don’t need to understand why”

I suspect that insofar as this exists, it's because when junior engineers question the utility of the requirements or user stories, they are told specifically to stfu because nerds don't understand business. Over time, the message get received?

That said, I've very rarely seen an engineer like this. In fact, I frequently encounter the opposite: the sterotypical asperger's who doesn't know when they're being rude with their probing.
Weekly in a private jet, while still having an at-home office for days he isn't in Seattle. All because he didn't want to relocate.
You speak as if a phone is gold bullion, which has no other value than to store value. Also note that time is also valuable, and can't be easily bought.

There may be a really good reason for a not well-off family to get a new and advanced phone from the phone company, for a small monthly payment. They can't afford the upfront cost, and will pay more for a depreciating asset. On the other hand, they now may have a phone with a great camera to record their kid's school graduation, or other such event that only occurs once. Or they may finally use a smartphone with 4G / 5G to have good-quality video calls with some faraway friends or kin, which were a pain with their old phone. Etc.

This still beats buying a new phone with a credit card, at 29.95% APR.
? It by definition has a radius of 1.
Still, lasers on a buoy?
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I’ve said this so many times now. Contemporary physics would greatly benefit from reading Kant. The extent of his influence on contemporary physics, especially with regard to space and time, is so great and the knowledge of his work so little in the scientific community of today. Almost all the great physicists of the 20th century were familiar with Kantian philosophy and were heavily informed by it.
I think it's straight forward. They made a decision to pay top dollar because they had ambitious plans, and wanted the silicon valley types.
All went well.

Then, as this part of the company grew, some bean counter decided it was a huge expense, and something had to be done.

I suspect these walmart labs people were costing triple the standard walmart webdev, and so to the bean counters, the path forward was obvious.

It's really unfortunate when non tech people make decisions like this. I've worked at a FAANG for 10 years, and before that was at HP and other mid-sized companies. HP's average principal engineer would be outperformed by our interns.
Weird, I would think it would be much less hand-holdy at that level.
VW only offers significantly overpriced electric cars, still expensive and mediocre quality ICE cars, and the company tries to push the government to extend the phasing-out date of new internal combustion engine cars. In addition, we still remember VW's cheating in the Diesel affair... what can go wrong?

VW had an attractive and relatively affordable small electric car, the E-Up, but its production was stopped last year.

So, good riddance, German car industry. Let's concentrate on future-proof technologies like... IT, cryptocurrency, NFTs, AI... wait...
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Isn’t Elon illegally paying people to vote?
I'm no fan of Google but I have always vastly preferred Meet to Zoom.
There is actually a large volume of research on what would work better than walls and surveillance systems. Scaremongering politicians don’t care to mention it.

The number one observation is that ports of entries are the largest area for illegal entry and violence and drug smuggling. Expediting bureaucracy there and improving the staffing of these areas would be far more effective than cameras watching the desert or god forbid some idiot’s delusion of “walls”

I’m not even arguing the politics of this. Focus the efforts on areas that are actual sources of problems. Stop appealing to idiots who want imagery of guns and fortifications. That’s not effective operations. The southern border patrol is underfunded. Adding more people to help manage the hotspots is more effective than cameras in cold spots.
...alternatively, the cell companies will just sell unlocked phones with the subsidies, since you're still locked into the same 1-or-2-year contract that was paying for the locked phones. This won't stop them from making those precious fractions of a cent from bundled shitware. They'll still make their money.
> If I were to write a swe body of knowledge, it would be in koan form, more than likely.

Please do! You can continue with standalone HN comments, which can be upvoted to enlighten human and AI bot alike.
Net migration between the US and Mexico is small. Pew research numbers:

An estimated 870,000 Mexican migrants came to the U.S. between 2013 and 2018, while an estimated 710,000 left the U.S. for Mexico during that period. That translates to net migration of about 160,000 people from Mexico to the U.S., according to government data from both countries.

That's 160,000 net in-migration from Mexico over 5 years. How much would you spend to bring that to zero?

You might think a bunch of tech people would profile performance before deciding what to optimize.
When we talk about an ethical core, that sort of behavior exists between individuals. People in a family, or people who are friends, hopefully will and typically do adjust their behavior according to some sense of ethics. When we put people into a classroom, however, we’re implicitly putting them into competition with their peers for a limited set of opportunities that determine the extent to which their basic human needs, and those of their family, will be met in the future. Let me ask you, what is it about one’s ability to perform well in some arbitrary social role that makes them more entitled to their needs being met than another who lacks that particular ability? If you wanted to argue that a cheater is behaving unethically, you’d need to show that they do, in a moral and ethical sense, deserve less than their peers.
The build on my last large project took about 12 seconds total. That included installing self-signed certificates into the OS trust store, installing certificates into the browsers in Linux, compiling from TypeScript, via SWC, creating a universal command available from the command path, consolidating JS and CSS assets into single files, and some other things. I bet it could be faster, but I was happy with 12 seconds considering the project was quite large.

More than 90% of performance in JavaScript comes down to:

* comfort with events and callbacks

* avoiding string parsing: queryStrings, innerHTML, and so on

* a solid understanding of transmission and messaging. I wrote my own WebSocket library

None of that, except figuring out your own home grown WebSocket engine, is complicated, but it takes some trial and effort to get it right universally
You buy a phone for $1k, but you do it through your carrier, along with a $50/month plan. Because you’re on this plan, the carrier offers $600 off the phone price, paid in account credit over 24 months ($25/month), so your total monthly bill becomes $67/month for 2 years, then $50/month at the end of 2 years.

If, 3 months in, you find yourself unhappy with your carrier, you can still pay the remainder of your phone cost ($875) to own your phone outright and walk away. In that time, you’ve saved $75 off the full price of the phone.

Arguing that US carrier prices are exorbitant is not relevant to whether carrier locks and phone discount credits are worthwhile or cost effective.
It may be funny but it's one way of funding public broadcasting which is, at least to a minor degree, independent of government interference.
The challenge, then, isn't can you get an LLM to write something like that, but can you, as a presumed human, write something like that, that isn't like that. Now that we're scrutinizing that bit of text, I don't think there's a way to write it without it looking like it's LLM generated.
It's a little more nuanced than you're making out. I spent way, way too long working out the totals from the various methods of getting a new phone and getting the free phone as part of a 24/36 month agreement ended up being cheaper than many alternatives, primarily because you're paying the monthly plan amount whether you take the free phone or not. I personally think upgrading my phone after three years is a reasonable timeframe, but of course everyone is different.

It wasn't cheaper than all alternatives. There were a bunch of virtual operators offering better monthly rates than the big networks but I've personally had bad experiences with network deprioritization on them. Depends very much on your individual circumstance, I'm in NYC and the network is clearly pretty saturated.
This was an instant deduction, thank you.

I tried some flavors of primes but you'd think the most intuitive one by a magnitude would be listed on the Wiki for proofs.
> You misread the post.

No.

> He is asserting that if ChatGPT can execute basic programs, then it is Turing complete. This is true since you can make a turing machine in basic.

This is not true. OP demonstrates with one BASIC program which does not implement a turing machine. It's then true that ChatGPT can "execute" BASIC programs, for at least some subset of all BASIC programs. It does not follow that ChatGPT can execute a BASIC program which does implement a turing machine.

> Whether or not ChatGPT can "execute" basic programs is the crictical point of the argument.

Yes, and OP fails to reason for that critical point in a way that's logically consistent.
Why is std::is_object even specialized here? Isn't it always true regardless?
That link is for the CTO of Walmart, but TFA is about the CTO of Sam's Club.

It looks like they're one rung down the ladder so I'm sure they're doing just fine even in California, but they're probably making quite a bit less than $15M/year.
If you know that you'll be buying a new phone every 3-4 years, you might as well start saving towards it, regardless of it costing 200€, 500€ or more. It's harder to do that with a car or a house.
These are happening this time of the year where I live. I like to go out at sunset to watch them dance. It's amazing how they coordinate so well at such close quarters, looks like a single organism from afar.
One of my teachers implemented a system like this. What they ended up doing was making it so that you had to score a (effectively) 9/10 on major assignments to pass the class (minor assignments were graded on completion), but had an infinite number of revisions with which to get this grade with feedback being provided each time you tried. Pretty much everyone passed, with more work required from some than from others. The only issue it ran into was with the final paper, where you (realistically) only had time to receive and make one to two revisions
before the end of the semester and the deadline to submit grades.
You can get the discount and an unlocked phone by purchasing directly from Apple and utilizing a carrier deal
But are we bullish on Google in general, financially speaking? They are doing cool stuff with waymo but way behind on AI
This entry inspired me to write this javascript implementation to test my high-speed GIF encoder, which I used for animations in the pre-canvas era. It needs keyboard arrows to navigate.

https://xyzzy.github.io/jsFlightSim

I tried to reverse-engineer the code to understand how the model in the simulator worked, only it raised more questions than answered. I did uncover that the author had flight simulator writing experience, so the mechanics were truly obfuscated. Carl, amazing piece of craftsmanship, tipping the hat!
It looks good, but in the Fortran tutorial at

https://www.cheatsheet-plus-plus.com/subtopicTutorials/fortr...

it would have been better to use an allocatable array instead of a pointer.