skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But what you describe is basically done by any human on Earth

You don't simply learn on training data, you are taught by other humans who were in turn taught by more humans still. When you do learn genuinely new information, you know exactly how it makes sense to you, and you can share it with others in a way optimized for them to incorporate it as well.

LLMs aren't just learning to speak and read, they are developing from scratch a framework for comprehending the training data thrown at them. An LLM has no concept of phonetics because it has no ears with which to hear nor a mouth with which to speak. It derived english from pulses of electricity.

Leave a child in a box with no human contact and a library of books and perhaps it will ascribe meaning to the symbols written on the pages, but it will never know what they actually mean. Even if they lived a million lifetimes, and were able to recognize that the symbols appear with certain regularity and could infer some rules of the language, they would never know what concept the string "comprehension" refers to.
Google Play purchase verifications annoyances
> but according to the reports we have so far

Reports from who? The auction, especially with the media coverage of the auction, was very public and publicly listed [1]. The bidding was sealed and under an NDA, which is exactly what you'd want when selling such a controversial property.

> Since apparently there were only 2 bidders, it's most likely going to the actual highest bidder. It would be highly prejudicial to hold 'another' auction, as now we know what the original bids were.

Prejudicial to who? And again, we do not know what the original bids were. We know what one of the original bids was and not the other because of the aforementioned NDA.

> Jones is alleging the DOJ has been orchestrating this from behind the scenes. We'll see what's going on once Trump takes office.

Jones also alleged that nobody died at sandy hook. He alleged, on multiple occasions, that the parents of dead children were crisis actors working for demons. He also alleged that the democrats would steal the election and that the DOJ/CIA/FBI/CDC/FEMA/etc were all planning a coop. Jones alleges a lot of shit. Why do you believe him?

His MO is to say 10000 lies and then whenever anything in reality comes anywhere close to 1 of his lies, he brags that it is absolutely proof that he's correct about everything. He's literally predicted that Trump, Biden, Obama, Bush, and Clinton would be assassinated. He's predicts riots and civil unrest every year. Every single time there's a mass shooting event he calls it a false flag.

I urge you to think critically about this. For starters, what exactly would the DOJ do in his lawsuits? Let's assume that Jones' claim is correct and the CIA/FBI/NSA/DHS/DEA all got together to go after him.

1. Do you believe that the DOJ somehow strong armed not only the 2 Judges of his case, but also the appellate judges and the supreme court judges who have each ruled against him on appeal?

2. Do you believe the DOJ somehow strong armed the 2 juries against Jones? And do you believe after that strong arm those Jury members decided to stay quiet?

3. And if you believe both of those things, why do you believe that Trump can somehow make a difference here? How can you believe that a DOJ with enough power to literally strong arm the supreme court is going to just roll over for Trump?

4. Do you believe that the DOJ somehow managed to fully cover all of this up, yet somehow the one person who figured it all out was the alcoholic Alex Jones? The very target of the conspiracy? There was no other corroboration?

And one further thing to consider. The lawsuits against Alex Jones started in 2018, very much while Trump was president. Why do you believe that Trump would be the person to "get to the bottom of this" when if we believe Jones, it was Trumps DOJ plotting against him.

[1] https://360assetadvisors.com/events/fssmh/
Yes, that's my point. Nobody ever managed to associate the pseudonym with a specific company or individual conclusively.
His cameo in The Postman was the best part of that movie.
BASIC was my programming mother tongue in my Swedish high school in 1975!

It took a while before I let go of my suspicion of languages without line numbers :)

Maybe I would have picked up programming later some other way, but I'm not at all sure. So BASIC may have set me on a very rewarding path in life!
In the US, a full round of IVF plus transfer will be around 20k on the low end, up to maybe 40k on the high end, including all medication required if paid for fully out of pocket. Genome sequencing costs a few k per embryo.
The main advantages are the lack of bots (for now) and the lack of the paid blue checks. The former is a major improvement because it improves the overall quality of the tweets.
They mean this is what _in practice_ they give up. In theory they can give up more, but this is the actual money difference from what they would have gotten otherwise in reality.
Yep. I get why some companies would want to use it to select for that. It's just funny because it's so much the opposite of the original purpose of white board problems/old school tech scene culture.
A smart stethoscope won't monitor consciousness and lucidity, which are vital signals.
Nobody is going to pay candidates for their time during the hiring process. And honestly nor should they. You are not doing work for the company when you do some test to demonstrate your skill.

I'm not in favor of take home "go write this thing" projects, but what you're suggesting isn't a viable answer at all.
Programmers also write something like *[3]int instead of "pointer to array of 3 integers" in most PLs.

(Modula-2 tried the latter, but it didn't stick.)
How have I never heard of this before? Thank you.
Oops, sorry, I think I mangled my conclusion a bit. I'm not against standardizing tests. If it doesn't get in the way of other attributes, standardization is very valuable. It's just that those results aren't enough by themselves.

> I still try to standardize the interview process, but we have enough different kinds of interview phases to capture different strengths and weaknesses of candidates.

100% agree with this approach.
Hey that seems like an interesting tidbit of information. Do you have more details or do you remember where you learned about that? I would be interested to know why it did not happen.
I never used Twitter but I left Facebook for exactly that reason. I just want to keep up with my friends. I don't want to constantly see whatever narrative some corporate media entity is pushing.
This might be our greatest differentiator.

We are trying to make it as personalized to you as possible. Currently, it is still limited, but we seek as much context of the user and the matches to personalize each message over time.

Please apply to check it out!
FYI, this reads as a very aggressive response to someone raising legitimate privacy concerns and doesn't engender the trust you very likely deserve.

Rather than talking up the value of the tool as superceding the concerns, a more constructive approach might acknowledge the concerns and emphasize how you already do minimize risk or commitments you're willing to make towards doing so.

Being dismissive doesn't help worried or skeptical people feel more secure, and worried and skeptical people make perfectly good users too.
First programming language for me was Apple Integer Basic on the ][e. Got me hooked on coding.
I’m waiting for a refrigerator that does this and uses grid for backup/high demand.

Refrigerator is an almost ideal use case because newer ones are inverter-drive and run around the clock. And inverter drive means it runs off DC at some level.

A fridge is the one thing I really want to have work at some degree in a grid outage. Everything else I can work around pretty well.
Yes, it's basically Twitter without the paid blue checks.
If you can't stand the heat then stay out of the kitchen.
I like "Xitter" because it's pronounced the way it is
Agree with the occasional relaxed "coffee chat", and having a repository full of good documentation, but...

>If you aren't having at least one video call a day something is probably wrong.

That seems excessive to me, especially if everyone is also staying connected via chat, emails, etc. Weekly meetings are about my limit, considering I also have work to do, meetings with external stakeholders, ad-hoc meetings, etc.
This is the name of the city today, but this has not always been the case. In the past, Leuven was a bilingual city, and to many of the people who lived there, the city was known as Louvain.
> a spongy interior and range in size from a coin to a dinner plate, have been found for miles along Placentia Bay

For a moment I misread that as washing up on Placenta Bay, which would have added a whole extra level of odd.

Come to think of it, that blend of unsettling reproductive metaphors and coastal desolation would fit in the game Death Stranding.
I get your point: condescension against low-information voters doesn't help.

But I think that your argument that the term "low-information" has no use just because it's been used with condescension by some is incorrect.

Instead of wasting cognitive energy of finding a new term for the same exact group of people, I think we should focus on treating them with the respect their sizable number of votes deserve.
Many of these alternatives are piggybacking off the parent site. Google at pone point made anyone with a Gmail account a default user for its own social network.
Could this be paired with geothermal power generation in order to make the lithium extraction process potentially self sufficient?
The B in BASIC stands for "beginner." AppleSoft BASIC on an Apple ][+ was my first programming experience -- in kindergarten (1979). I was 5, and with help from my brother and my dad, I was able to learn and program independently. When you turn a machine like that on, its default mode is just a blinking cursor and a BASIC REPL. But you could do amazing things right from BASIC with the ]['s colorful low-res graphics (and slightly less colorful hi-res graphics) using the family TV as the monitor. All the motivation I needed. Thank you Dr. Kurtz! (and Woz!)
this is a bit of a mischaracterization of what's being claimed in the post, all they were saying about binary sizes is that their updates have resulted in SMALLER binary sizes when compiling compared to the previous versions, i.e. they're noting an improvement. nowhere on this page nor any linked from it do they claim they make "small binaries" (that i can find! could be wrong), and you even had to click through their example dedicated to noting this improvement to find the 58mb number you keep mocking.

if you wanted to argue that point, I'd suggest you compare the other solutions that exist today to compile nodejs projects into single executable binaries to be able to have a discussion on why you consider their progress lacking. it's a reasonable point that disqualifies a lot of use cases for these types of tools, but I don't think the conversation was framed from that perspective.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42139640
Well at this point there are two plausible possibilities. 1) The circumstances around covid and last minute election rules changes made it possible to cheat in ways that slide beneath the high evidentiary standards of the courts. Or 2) Joe Biden was by far the most popular presidential candidate in history; easily getting many millions more votes than Barrack Obama, Donald Trump, or Kamala Harris.

Given that we are reliably informed that significant electoral fraud is impossible, we can only conclude the Democrats made a catastrophic own goal by forcing the greatest candidate ever out of the race.
Chegg: Bay Area tech company, down from $12B to $159M in value, lays offs
I believe the current best practice in the Art of Hiring, is to hire based on vibes.

Obviously you can't do that publicly because it would affect the company's image, so you still need to have leetcode/coding/takehome steps to keep appearances, even if they don't contribute to the final decision.
The legacy of BASIC is outstanding. I learned BASIC because there's a BASIC ROM in the hardware of the Atari 800XL that I was fortunate to have access to when I was very young. The language was easy enough to pick up from sample programs in the back of its instruction manual, even for a kid who didn't know anyone who knew anything about computers.

I never met Kurtz personally but I owe a lot to that language for the access to virtually limitless creativity that computers and computer programming have offered. My life would be very different if I didn't have the opportunity that the language provided, especially because it is both approachable and (somewhat) capable.

Sure, it's not the best language for large scale or complex efforts, but it was enough for a child to be able to build text adventures and blit pixels to the screen (it would be another decade before I found out that INT was about interrupt, not integers). Then, as a teenager fooling around with writing games for the class calculators in TI-BASIC, even though that's a bit farther down the language family tree, that also had a positive impact on my growth as a developer and it was the first of many "same but different" experiences that you so often get in the realm of programming. I was also quite fortunate, that launched an early game dev career for me.

To be honest, I wouldn't have recognized the name Thomas E. Kurtz before yesterday, but my mind will light up with dozens of fond memories at the mention of BASIC. I'm not surprised that he was so involved in instructional computing (but I am surprised I never looked into the author(s) of BASIC before, a little ashamed, but I'll remember his name). I actually still have the same Atari 800XL from my childhood and I'll think of him when I see it now.
This looks really useful. I'll definitely be using this in the near future. However, I unnecessarily downloaded the sample loan estimate PDF and uploaded it again in order to view the report. Please make the "view sample report" button more prominent, or add another "view sample report" button within the blue "Try it out!" box.
Sorta kinda. The sub could be stopped, in the sense of "badly tangled in our equipment, and will need to stop and get untangled", without actually hauling the fishing boat along after it. Maybe the equipment wasn't well secured to the boat. Maybe your savvy crew realized the problem and cut loose. Either way, you're out some expensive equipment.
I'm literally "sittin' on the dock of the bay" with my relaxed dog sipping a hot tea watching the ferries leave. He doesn't even know what X is.
Basically every single sentence above is pure fantasy.
Very cool. I’ve sent to our CTO.

I’d like to test this out for sales, via the website. As a more frictionless way of capturing inbound interest and fielding questions.

I’d also like to see how we can capture product feedback / issues via our product.

Questions:

- can the link be cnamed so I can use our own domain, rather than ‘OnAir.io’

- are there any docs / demo of how the widget can be customised?

I see your demo. It looks like it also captures the name / email of the customer.

1. That’s a value prop on the sales side, and except for the demo, that wasn’t clear to me.

2. Can we prefill those? (Again wasn’t clear) This would be valuable in the support / feedback use case, as we know who the user is.
> It's better if this chat has history which expires in 24 hours.

Probably wise to run that by counsel.
Eloquent. Brought tears to my eyes, in fact.
I'm pretty sure that evolution would select out anything that could not generalize pretty quickly.
TypeORM gets new maintainers after long uncertain future
I refuse to do algorithmic and / or timed coding challenges during interviews and I'm glad to see such articles pop up more frequently. These days, I get a kick out of pointing out to recruiters and managers that both my LinkedIn and GitHub profiles state clearly that I won't accept such interviews and they need to stop wasting my time if this is part of their process.
I think there are ways to tell by simply asking deep questions about the system someone claims to have built, critiquing the design decisions, diving into why this technology over that technology.

When I've hired or been a part of a hiring process, I always place emphasis on a candidate's past projects and ask deep technical questions around those. I also always review their GitHub repos if one is provided in the profile and I will ask them deep questions about their repos, why they chose this tech or that, interesting pieces of code, design tradeoffs they made, etc.
On the other hand, spending huge amounts of money to become a Presidential advisor and then advising in a way that favors your own companies arguably is anti-competitive.

Next time Democrats are in control he may be looking at an antitrust lawsuit.
Wood frogs only live 3-5 years, so they probably only go through a max of 5 of these cycles. I wonder how much cellular damage they accumulate during these cycles that they can tolerate due to short lifespans. They also have ~10,000x less neurons than a mammal.

Even if you had the biochemistry that was able to do this, how many cycles could a higher life form tolerate this, assuming it would even work? Complex life seems to sacrifice some resiliency, such as the ability to regrow limbs. Amphibians already seem to be particularly adept at regeneration.
I know it's popular to hate on PHP. But when you do it right, you can turn pages out fast enough that single digit milliseconds are important. I'm not a fan of Hack or how FB structures their PHP; but some of their pages are pretty quick. Personally, with just regular PHP, my baseline is about 10 ms for a minimum page, and 50 ms for something that's complex and maybe has a few database queries. That's not the quickest thing in the world, and not all of my PHP goes that fast, but single digit milliseconds are still significant at that scale.
> It's better if this chat has history which expires in 24 hours.

This sounds fun to have a b.s./watercooler chat channel. It'd be cool if Slack had that feature but I wonder if that's a non-starter for corporate reasons.
One thing I've found useful is to have deliberate google meet calls when having planning discussions or firming up decisions.

I set up the recording and transcription and then up front we define the problem and what we want the outcome to be. Afterwards I give the transcription to ChatGPT and get it to summarise the content, decisions, etc and add that to our documentation with a link to the recording.

This helps you stay on the same page and also gives context to people who werent present about what has been discussed and decided.
Huge bias here as I work for Figma, but multiplayer collaborative editors like Figma do wonders.

We run nearly everything out of a figma or figjam file. Retros, planning, etc. There's something really nice about being able to see everyones cursors at once, and feeling like you're collaboratively creating something. Presos and slide decks often feel very one-direction from a data flow perspective, which becomes problematic for remote-only roles.
Tesla has the highest fatal accident rate of all auto brands, study finds
First off learn to relax. breathe. Just because people aren’t constantly communicating doesn’t mean nothing is happening.

Learn to embrace long pauses in video calls. Learn to accept that a response to a message sometimes takes several minutes or even an hour to come through.

You said everything is going well. Okay, so what’s the problem then? The amount of communication currently happening clearly must be sufficient, otherwise things would not be going well. Right?

Just chill.
There was another comment about the difficulty in installing scooter and in the issues section, there are some requests to add more installation options.

https://github.com/thomasschafer/scooter/issues/6

Not everyone has the Rust toolchain installed on their machine. The `cargo install` installation directive needs to be discouraged.
Are you saying Trump didn’t set draconian sanctions on Cuba and Venezuela causing mass migration and essentially cooking elections?
I unironically love the band Winger. They’re probably most famous now for becoming instantly uncool once Mike Judge drew Stewart in a Winger tshirt on Beavis and Butthead in the 90s.

The thing is though, they’re amazing musicians. Kip Winger is premiering another one of his classical works with the Nashville Symphony in the next few weeks. Reb Beach is one of the most skilled and melodic guitar players to come out of the 80s. They wrote and continue to write some great songs too if you like that kind of music.

Music snobbery is just silly, and robs you of the joy of discovering some great new music while simultaneously robbing others of it too. Everybody loses.
Wow, I see you made SQLWindows too. I am in awe!
While deterministic components may be a left-brain default, there is no reason that such delegate services couldn't be more specialized ANN models themselves. It would most likely vastly improve performance if they were evaluated in the same memory space using tensor connectivity. In the specific case of chess, it is helpful to remember that AlphaZero utilizes ANNs as well.
It's early days, I think.

So far I see good sides of both Threads and Blue Sky. Threads has a lot more users, but I see more 'subject matter expert' kinds of people on Blue Sky as well as smaller more intimate communities. But we'll see what happens if that dynamic attracts more people and it stops being quite so cozy.
The local community college used to show lectures for certain classes on the cable TV. They had lectures on “Deaf Culture”. The lecturer would use the word “hearies” and generally made a good case for the existence of deaf culture. I am a “heary” and I found these lectures eye-opening.
Regular propellers somwtimes feature an rope cutter. If that doesn't work the sub could still surface and dispatch divers to free the prop.
Why would a name and a random property address have value before the transaction, but not after it?
Thank you, Mike for clarifying all of this and providing us with a first-person account of the events described.

I do want to apologize - I meant no disrespect in regard to the technical achievements of the Dylan team. In fact, I share the view that the Dylan project was ahead of its time in many aspects.
Google has deleted the chat from their site but here is an archive. It's at the end and seemingly out of nowhere.

https://archive.is/CXjlp
You're not going to like this. My plan for when I get laid off or fired is to get a help desk job, or even at job at Walmart. If you can't get responses for what you want, you might need to do stuff you don't want to. That's most people's reality anyways
There's nothing wrong with exonyms in principle. However using "Florence" instead of "Florencja" in a Polish text would sound weird.

If you add historical conflict to it then it can get much worse. "Warschau" in a non-German text would make many Polish people angry because of memories of forced Germanization.
You don’t want to live on the shores of anywhere named placenta bay.

There’s guaranteed to be a historical reason for a name that out there, and not in a way that’s good for property value or sunset watching.
> content-based adblocking requires tremendous resources

I don't have the evidence with me, but from what I've seen content-based blocking actually saves resources, both load times and memory. It's because Ads are not actually free or even cheap, you have to make a third-party request, load some content and JavaScript. So, if you spend a little to find and block those requests, you end up saving resources on average.
That was my first problem with trying to install this. But agree that it should be on Homebrew.