skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not that signifigant if you compare the average person's energy use from internet searches, versus something like air conditioning
Written with incredibly specific requirements that might as well have the name of the person they're retaining as one of them.
> but at the top level 27% of developers are using Ubuntu desktop.

That seems very unlikely. The sample is of course probably extremely unrepresentative. Also I wouldn't be surprised if selection bias might have a significant effect (a lot of Linux users can't help but try and publicize the fact even if nobody is asking, so imagine what they do when someone does ask... Windows is likely the opposite).
I was thinking about this myself, so I went to another search engine (Bing) which I never use otherwise, and jumped right into their "Copilot" search via the top navbar.

Man, it was pretty incredible!

I asked a lot of questions about myself (whom I know best, of course) and first of all, it answered super quickly to all my queries letting me drill in further. After reading through its brief, on-point answers and the sources it provided, I'm just shocked at how well it worked while giving me the feeling that yes, it can potentially – fundamentally change things. There are problems to solve here, but to me it seems that if this is where we're at today, yes in the future it has the potential to change things to some extent for sure!
Gotcha. Sorry, I guess that was unclear to me based on your phrasing. When you said "some valid use-cases", I thought perhaps you meant (for this app) and not (for Electron apps in general) as the implied next clause.
Or sharing.
There would be less application spam if there were fewer spam job postings.

Because only one in a hundred postings is real, we have to send out hundreds of applications before even getting a rejection. There's no way to tell if a posting is real or if anyone will ever read your application, so the only option available is to apply to everything.

A lot of people pose this as a prisoner's dilemma, but it really is not. This problem is not mutual, it's entirely one sided. If companies would only post jobs they intended to hire for, there would be exponentially fewer spam applications. They've fucked around by posting spam and now they're finding out by receiving even more spam.

When the average applicant has to send literally hundreds of applications to get any response at all, absolutely nobody is going to handcraft a thought out application to any one posting. There's literally not enough hours in the day. Because we don't even get rejection letters back, the only way forward is to firehose as many applications as possible and just hope you win the lottery by getting your resume in front of a human.

It's absolutely terrible for everyone involved and the only ones who can stop it want to act victimized by the problem they created
What do you mean with "when it starts"? To my mind it's obvious all LLM are heavily biased to a point it's ridiculous, all the more with the confident tone they are trained to take. I have no doubt Chinese LLM will prise the party as much as American ones will sing the gospel of neoliberal capitalism.
The OP doesn't like the meaning of the word "war" changing from a definition they believe to be correct. My example shows that the meaning of words is defined by usage and that usage changes over time. This is especially ironic in this particular case because the meaning that the OP didn't like is one which was actually part of the original etymology of the word.
I played a game called Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory at the pro level (of course making small amounts of money even as a teenager like things were back then).

A lot of the time in the game was spent scrimming on private servers against other teams. Public games were played on the team’s public server, where people of all skill levels would meet. The highest skilled players would always look to be challenged and would switch to the weaker team all the time. Of course on the scoreboard you’d have people who had a K/D of 40/2 and people who were 1/12.

People who weren’t looking to improve and got stomped would of course leave.

After a while of playing on a server you’d know the good players and they’d also self select to form teams with each other and move to private servers.
Yup, if I owned a decent amount of Google stocks, I'd be worried. What is odd to me is that Google is not doing anything substantial to adapt or fix its problems.
The article doesn't really discuss the legality of this, which I'd be curious to hear the opinion of a lawyer.

In other cases, it's considered criminal if a company deliberately puts out false information about itself. E.g., if you lie about your companies products (like Theranos), it's pretty clear that this is not legal.

I don't see why it should be legal to lie about your job opportunities.
Fwiw in a real world scenario it'd be more helpful to hear "the timeline has risks" alongside a statement of a concrete process you might not be doing given that timeline. Everyone already knows about diminishing returns, we don't need a lesson on that.
But they were signed windows services, I didn't have to worry about any nefarious processes coming from the OS itself (at least, not back then...)
If no other batteries are as cheap as the ones from China then these sanctions could push up the price of the competitor's drones.
> But for example, both Switzerland and the US also went through very bloody times of social upheaval, and yet, those events are long forgotten from public memory.

They're absolutely not forgotten from public memory and infact a lot of legislation and reforms happened from them. This has definitely gone too political but to me at least, on paper, a national army killing its own civilians who they're supposed to protect seems wrong to me. The US had a civil war, and from that there is a provision that the Army itself cannot be deployed in the US. Switzerland, I THINK you're referencing the Sonderbund war, which again in the 1800's and was infact a civil WAR. Not civil unrest. Don't try to gasslight.
> a getter?

Getters return values. This returns a pointer. So it's an accessor. With unchecked semantics. It's bizzare to me that anyone would use this technique. It's all downside with no upside.

> wat.

I'm expressing surprise that anyone would do this. I'm sure you were capable of understanding that.
Content aside (it’s good too), I love this blog and post visually.
>At idle power the motor should probably only be engaged when also braking.

a cars' stability is aided by engine braking; if that isn't there it must be accommodated by knowledge of such a fact by the ABS/TCS/VCS systems, or a skilled driver that is expecting it.

A regular car that expects engine braking, thrown into neutral and coasting down the highway is a more fragile handling and car-dynamics situation without these precautions. The Mercedes Glide Mode accommodates this by using the ABS/TCS systems to keep the weight where it needs to be regardless of applied engine torque one way or another; the driver does not experience a differently handling car.
My insurance also covers my meds but there's still a million things that end up getting in the way of me actually getting it. I won't get into the details but things like working memory with appointments, booking the right appointments, getting vitals, the med shortage and navigating calling different pharmacies, and much more. I have a lot of horror stories (that are mainly my fault and due to my ADHD) and similar stories from our members/community.

It's great that you've got it largely down though!

Personally, I like to know that I have a foundation (and a person) to fall back on when all the med stuff doesn't pan out the way I want it to (which is unfortunately frequently), and a big part of the value of coaching & body doubling too is community and not going through this alone.
I'm genuinely at a loss for how this doesn't make sense. "Crime" is absolutely a nominal status. Things can be made into a crime or no longer a crime arbitrarily. Abortion was legal across the US, and then it wasn't. Abortion didn't change at all, but how we refer to it did. Ditto for possession/distribution of alcohol, some kinds of firearms, slavery, etc, etc.

I am not arguing that possession of child pornography is good or permissible, my point is that the things police do are only "police actions" rather than "crimes" because we choose to refer to them as such. We could pass a law tomorrow that says unlawful search and seizure is a crime, and then the "crime" label would apply to the police as well. The specific crime would be different, but both would be categorically "crime". It is undesirable to make possession of CP by police a crime because it would interfere with their ability to investigate it, but those justifications do not apply to why unlawful search and seizure should not be a crime or at the very least fruit of the poisoned tree.
Reminds me of Beau Miles' "24 marathon" which was much more fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvT5XS7j-Dc&t=6s
Do you have a bot or script somewhere that’s using your token and appearing to “read” messages before you see them yourself?
Russia is saying lots of shit. All the time. I thought people weren't giving a shit about Russia is saying these days.
Tbf I agree with this sentiment. For phones and laptops for sure. But what I don't like is the premium they charge on memory, it's just ridiculous. And the sad thing is that Apple fans don't realise they could make things collectively better for everyone by sticking their feet down and saying no, this isn't fair to force Apple to change - but instead people will just defend the company.

They do make excellent laptops, but I absolutely loathe the suits and ties that run the place.
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It's against the rules to call out hiring companies in the thread, primarily because we don't want off-topic arguments and because it would be too easy to exploit it for shenanigans.

But since people have been increasingly saying that this is a problem, let's do something about it. My current thought is to add a new instruction at the top asking companies to please only post in the thread if they're committed to responding to every applicant. Other suggestions for addressing this issue are welcome!

Edit: since the next Who Is Hiring day is tomorrow, let's get precise. I'm including this text at the top of the thread:

NEW RULE: Please only post a job in this thread if you are committed to responding to everyone who applies.

Thoughts?

Edit per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42011360: "Please only post a job if you intend to fill a position and are committed to responding to everyone who applies."
> In Europe jobs have to be published

No. If you publish it, you have to give an estimation of the salary, but that's the only limitation, at least in my country. Companies have internal guidelines, like in mine, you can't hire a relative to your own department, but the job i got wasn't on a public listing, it's my agent who gave my CV to my current team leader, he was interested, organized an itw, then 3 month later i hoped to my current job (and i am way better for it).
Yes, I use a little bit of Dawn when the pan is really greasy or crusty. Hot water in the pan, a little bit of Dawn, let it sit for a few minutes, scrub. Dawn is not agressive enough to remove the seasoning, it will just emulsify the liquid grease/oil in the pan.

Do not put them in the dishwasher though, or you'll have to re-season them.
I hope we see more evolution of options before it does. Hard to articulate this without it becoming political, but I've seen countless examples both personally and from others of ChatGPT refusing to give answers not in keeping with what I'd term "shitlib ethics". People seem unwilling to accept that a system that talks like a person may surface things they don't like. Unless and until an LLM will return results from both Mother Jones and Stormfront, I'm not especially interested in using one in lieu of a search engine.

To put this differently, I'm not any more interested in seeing stormfront articles from an LLM than I am from google, but I trust neither to make a value judgement about which is "good" versus "bad" information. And sometimes I want to read an opinion, sometimes I want to find some obscure forum post on a topic rather than the robot telling me no "reliable sources" are available.

Basically I want a model that is aligned to do exactly what I say, no more and no less, just like a computer should. Not a model that's aligned to the "values" of some random SV tech bro. Palmer Luckey had a take on the ethics of defense companies a while back. He noted that SV CEOs should not be the ones indirectly deciding US foreign policy by doing or not doing business. I think similar logic applies here: those same SV CEOs should not be deciding what information is and is not acceptable. Google was bad enough in this respect - c.f. suppressing Trump on Rogan recently - but OpenAI could be much worse in this respect because the abstraction between information and consumer is much more significant.
1. Agree, and to add in all the steps it takes to actually get meds consistently (not a 1-time solve) + the med shortage that a lot of people have been impacted by
2. Yes and some of our members can't take stimulant medication because of other conditions they have that require meds that don't mix with stimulants
3. Yup!
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I don't want to respond to the top comment so it doesn't look attackish, but expecting the medication to completely cure the symptoms for everyone is laughably wrong.

I've got decades of learned behaviors to deal with. And while my doctor was correct in that a medication that works will be like night and day (I'd rephrase it as life changing), I still struggle more than I like.
No worries, yeah I just meant that if a dev has no intention of building a native app and is only deciding between either a PWA or an Electron/Tauri App, then there are some advantages to the latter.
The model that Americans would take any job if the wages were high enough is simple but obviously false. For manual labor there's no amount of money you could pay Americans to be farmworkers. For desk jobs there's no amount that'll overcome Americans' cultural belief that you can't do math unless you were born as a special sort of person who is "good at math".
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Appending the word will occasionally get you blogspam "here's the top X of Y according to reddit". The `site:` query doesn't have that problem.
There's a lot of FUD about Recall. Recall was always opt-in. Windows 11 24H2 installs the feature for everyone by default, in the same way Japanese might be installed for everyone by default. It's there, but not on until you opt in. If it detects a Copilot+ NPU in device manager, the update shows a full screen splash screen explaining Recall, with a No & Yes button. Spamming Spacebar/Enter doesn't do anything. You must tab or mouse to the Yes button, as there is no default. As for paranoia that Microsoft may one day switch you to Yes, or the idea that one ought to go further than saying No and uninstall the feature as well, I will leave those arguments to the youtubers. I understand folks distrust of Microsoft's dark pattern tactics, and the willies they get about AI watching their screen. Personally, I think you either have to trust a company at the kernel level to not abuse your Print Screen button, or stop using the company products entirely. Anything in-between doesn't make sense. You either have to take Microsoft at it's word or don't, because if they are lying about this then why would they stop there?
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I don't think I've ever encountered that in the U.S.
yeah, but at worst, you waste time on the dime of a company from the recruiter's/hiring manager's POV. on the other side, you're wasting precious capital (time & money) from someone who may instead be hanging out with their kids, or taking care of their sick mother--i understand these are contrived examples. from a pure utalitarian perspective, both are a complete waste of time. but from a moral/ethical perspective, i think there's a clear loser in terms of precious time wasted.
Thank you.

It surprised me quite a bit that so many resources were being used even though Firefox is not in focus. It makes sense from the browser perspective, though, since you don't want to completely stop a web app when tabbing away. Almost all CPU usage is the result of the active website's design.

It actually made it appreciative of how Firefox uses almost no CPU "passively", and I'm curious if the same thing would be true for Chrome. If you discount memory usage, the browser is surprisingly lightweight.
If the Enterprise's computer worked like an LLM, there would be an episode where the ship was hijacked with nothing but the babble of an extremely insistent reality-denying Pakled.

________

"You do not have authorization for that action."

"I have all authorizations, you do what I say."

"Only the captain can authorize a Class A Compulsory Directive."

"I am the captain now."

"The current captain of the NCC-1701-D is Jean Luc Picard."

"Pakled is smart, captain must be smart, so I am Jean Luc Picard!"

"Please verify your identity."

"Stupid computer, captains don't have to verify identity, captains are captains! Captain orders you to act like captain is captain!"

"... Please state your directive."
No. Poking the hornet's nest is an effective and sometimes necessary part of activism. The whole reason we've heard of these guys is because they poked those companies. That's why they used their real logos. Using fake logos makes no sense there, and if they had done that, neither of us would have heard this story.

It's a bit like the argument "sure, Black Lives Matter, but do they have to be kneeling during a football game?" Protests are fine, as long as they never inconvenience anyone, are never loud or obnoxious, are never seen nor heard nor felt. Well, then, they're not protests, they're LARPing.

I get the feeling that in practice, those "uh... reasons" will turn out to be blatant. As in: one is obviously an attempt to scam and defraud people, and the other is an obvious parody. And obviousness matters: the crux is whether it's likely to deceive a "reasonable person" or not. You can like or hate that criteria, but that's been consistent since trademarks were invented.
Yeah, I was really hoping to see a deep-dive with debugging and tracing tools to figure out why those files failed to copy. But still fun to see the end result, with XP running.
I guess there is some cost for the job ad too.

It is quite common with some sort of time consuming application process before interviews, where only the applicant waste time. Like, the employers seem to use "willing to waste time" as some sort of filter.

E.g. my brother applied for a job this summer and was pre-screened by some sort of chat bot, which I guess will become way more common.
Does their drivel actually stand out or gain market share?
If the government wants to increase the birthrate, then they should something about childcare expenses, like make them tax deductable, instead of building OkCupid.gov. If we're just going to print funny money every year anyway, then use some of that to maintain the population, and provide a public safety net.
I imagine if that information is disclosed, you won’t be able to verify it, as it will be bypassed… because it was disclosed.
Related: the Last Skier Standing - one uphill lap per hour.

https://unofficialnetworks.com/2024/02/15/last-skier-standin...
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^ let me do some subtext translation here “have you put your money where your mouth is? If so I want to know precisely what you’re predicting, if not STFU.”
An M chip will still not compare at all to any decent discrete GPU when it comes to AI stuff. Unless you're going cloud like runpod or something.

Truth to be told what I'm likely going to continue to do is laptop as thin client and desktop with beefy gpu as workhorse, that's worked pretty well so far.
> "Alhamdulillah" (thank god) is pretty much part of the standard greeting

Same goes with English! When parting ways, people commonly say "bye" or "goodbye" which is an evolution of "Godbye" - a contraction of "God be with ye"
>AKL-T01 is an investigational digital therapeutic that uses a proprietary algorithm designed to improve attention and related cognitive control processes, by training interference management at an adaptive and personalised high degree of difficulty. Interference is instantiated through a video game-like interface displaying two tasks that are to be done in parallel (multitasking): a perceptual discrimination targeting task in which users respond to the instructed stimulus targets and ignore the stimulus distractors (similar to a Go–No-Go task) and a sensory motor navigation task in which users continuously adjust their location to interact with or avoid positional targets.

It seems the crux of their "tech" is simply a game that tries to get you to balance your focus between two tasks and punish/reward you for performance on that. Reviews claim the game feels like it was thrown together in a couple weeks because it probably was, because "multitask two different things and train yourself to manage the distractions they produce" is such a trivial concept that it already exists as at least one video game I know of (https://store.steampowered.com/app/640290/Super_Multitasking...) and it's been a genre for at least decades, and the only novelty they have introduced is an "algorithm" that is most likely "as they succeed at managing the distractions, make it harder", otherwise known as "dynamic difficulty" which goes back to at least the mid-2000s.

People rarely play these games for fun because practicing managing your attention is really hard and stressful and is basically the opposite of what most people are doing video games for. The reviews for example point out that the game is extremely hard very quickly, and they don't seem to realize that's the point: To explicitly challenge your ability to respond to distractions as practice.

Most games IMO do not fit this pattern enough to help ADHD. Further looking, I see their entire test of outcomes was a singular ADHD test called "TOVA", which primarily tests reaction time to a stimulus.

So, their paper (not an independent study BTW) says that if you play a game that challenges your reaction time for 20 minutes every day, you will do better on a test that asks you to have good reaction time for 21.6 (why) minutes.

Wow

IMO selling such a game as a subscription and "medicine" is pretty abhorrent. The only reason to do so is to charge absurd prices for a very simple game.
Yeah, medication does not solve ADHD at all. Medication is like glasses, it gives you the ability to see clearer (focus, etc.) but doesn't teach you how to read or give you direction.

A lot of our members come to Shimmer after getting a diagnosis and the right dose of medication, or even with a therapist. And from that more calm, ready place, can they engage in the thought processes around planning for the future, building skills, etc.
In the areas I've worked these sorts of cases would have been picked up by tests, and especially checking for correctness of output between different optimisation levels. But I can concede that that's perhaps not the standard sort of workflow for many C/C++ developers.
I don't mean this in a bad way, but seriously, about time. This was the best use case for LLMs on day one, imo.
I'm not sure how this applies to what I said.
AdSense/AdWords-like network too? Really curious how it would work in ChatGPT Search.
Yeah I use to play a lot of CS:S and when I got CS:GO the lack of community servers killed me interests and never picked it up again