skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is common at nightclubs (or was) - a DJ can use their headphones as a microphone, speaking into one channel and listening to another

Example https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1NNP6AFkpjs

:-)
So if I asked you how A* works in an interview you you be able to explain it. Johnny ChatGPT would not.
At some point I assume that it’ll be so normal that you’ll almost have to say when you’re not using it.

I don’t need to say that I’m using a text editor, instead of hole punched cards. It’s also quite common to use an IDE instead of a text editor these days in coding interviews. When I was a student I remember teachers saying that they considered an IDE as cheating since they wanted to test our ability to remember syntax and to keep a mental picture of our code in our heads.
Just one data point, but adding Cloudflare to our stack (in front of "CloudFront with bandwidth discounts") took about $30k USD per year off our bandwidth bill.
> Can she hear herself when she talks?

Yes. She knows you know she's talking out of both sides of her mouth. She knows you know she knows. She knows you can't do anything about it. But still, she tells you sweet little lies.
not sure if anybody has heard the whistle sound before but its frightening. I'd imagine tens of thousands of whistles going off would strike fear into any invading force
IME you screen people online, get some reasonable candidates, get them onsite and they can't code to save their life. But it's your problem then.
Below, axoltl writes:

> no firmware is involved in enforcing the LED stay on for 3 seconds after a single frame is captured.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42260379
I was tired of organizing my prompts, built Prompt Lib using AI in 3 days
I've been trying to organize and save my llm prompts across various apps, it didn't feel natural, so I decided build a solution for this minor problem.

Prompt Lib allows you to:
- Generate Prompts for a topic
- Save and share them with others
- Chain multiple prompts together
- Use variables in prompts
- Prompt Versioning (Coming Soon)
- Run your prompts in an LLM directly (Coming Soon)

And the fun part is that I've built this application in 3 days with the help of AI. Although I have 12 years of development experience, that was simply impossible in the past. What a time to be alive!

It'll be free for up to 10 prompts, I hope you find it useful!
The market as an institution is 850 years old; the building that currently houses that institution is 42 years old. The market is not a place; it is the activity in which people engage in that place.
For some fun - put in "Let's play Wordle"
It seems to blabber to itself infinitely ...
Card counters (and advantage players in general) are much less likely to tip well compared to the average gambler. The sort of people who think they're making money on a game also tend to recognize that tips cut into profits.
My laptop just has a little plastic cover you slide over the lens when not in use. Why isn’t this simply more common?
Nonsense. You might consider it a tradeoff, but it's a very heavily skewed one. Minor downsides on one side, huge upsides on the other.

Also I would say type hints sacrifice aesthetics, not readability. Most code with type hints is easier to read, in the same way that graphs with labelled axes and units are easier to read. They might have more "stuff" there which people might think is ugly, but they convey critical information which allows you to understand the code.
I use 'SELECT message, from, sentdate FROM offline_chat WHERE userid = <usersid?> AND acknowledged = 0'.....

Or something similar. I would bet it's all about indexing. It could be in a separate DB just for offline messages. When they come online, they would be moved to a ViewedDB or something. Could be just a really large table. =)
It’s not dishonest, it’s just business. I’m under the exact same burden of truth as the company interviewing me; zilch.
idk, but maybe you know! it was probably easily bypassed anyway. hardware disconnects are the only thing that can ever be trusted imo
> and I am astounded by the number of young men in developing countries who venerate Andrew Tate and are frantic about physical access to women. As a somewhat older man,

Kind of curious which countries? I noticed this some countries where women rights seem restricted or theyre lower class, and religious. Indonesia and Morocco.
i screen candidates all the time (not involved in technical rounds) and notice chatgpt cheating all the time but its easy to spot because the candidates read off answers in mechanical ways right after a flurry of typing
No, this was a bit confusing. I think this may have been talking about Billingsgate, the fish market. Smithfields is a meat market, and has been at that site in one form or another for hundreds of years.

Edit, to help clarify as other comments also appear to get this wrong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithfield,_London#Market
I can relate to this. I conducted UX experiment during my Master's in Human Computer Interaction which was testing an impact of various interventions to screen time and user perception. I observed very similar pattern, if it clicks it stays with the people. Of course the experiment was with small group, but still.

A good comparison I think are "self help" books. People are still reading them and those books are really helpful during certain times. While same ideas and concepts are circulating across those books.

I believe such kind of apps and software deserve to exist. Whatever helps people to make their lives better.
Import email IS smtp.

MX and SPF is as trivial as with providers. Dkim might be harder. But emails will still go through.

You can also rent an smtp server and have a similarly simple infra where you log in to the server to read and send emails.

If this is too complex, I'd recommend starting with a private protocol like discord, which is designed for kids, or telegram as an intermediate step.
No firmware is required. Macbooks manufactured since 2014 turn on the LED whenever any power is supplied to the camera sensor, and force the LED to remain on for at least 3 seconds.

(Source: I architected the feature)
Wondered right there whether I misread or not. It should be the other way round: Pester the community and you're buying a round (90% joking here).
The article contradicts your exhibit A: "Additionally, women, who naturally produce much less testosterone, reported an increase in sex drive, when given testosterone supplements."
Title is misleading. Wholesale .com price is currently $10.26. The .com domain currently being offered by this site is $99.
Need a City quant PhD to invent a mathematical analog of Black-Scholes [1] for pricing and trading the irreplaceable value of culturally significant physical spaces to future generations. Then City-like [2] institutions can compete financially for ongoing preservation rights, rather than a one-time chop shop auction.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%E2%80%93Scholes_model

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London
Certainly the ire of Andrew Tate fans should be thoroughly ignored. You can have whatever sex drive you want, and their contempt is childish and misguided. If you did want to try experiencing a higher sex drive, try edging daily for a week without getting off and see how you feel on day 7.
How does it compare to LMAX Disruptor if you have any experience with both?
Spotify has shut down several API endpoints
Spotify announced they have shut down several API endpoints, effective immediately. They have grandfathered in existing apps that have extended mode Web API access.
> when types weren't an option we weren't going towards the cliff

Erm yes we were. Untyped Python wasn't magically tolerable just because type hints hadn't been implemented yet.
Whitelist for camera and phone calls?
And the other half is written by insane people
First let them get rid of non compete agreements. Haha.
Unfortunately, this breaks a lot of custom python programs I was using to facilitate music discovery and to generate playlists for myself.
https://www.ft.com/content/48f63457-9c6f-4d5e-adfb-d6d47fb71... is a much better link.

> The criminal enterprise used a complex international IT system to “capture and resell” live programming and other on-demand content from companies including sports broadcaster DAZN, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Paramount, Sky and Disney+, prosecutors said in a statement on Wednesday.
There would need to be an easier and cheaper way to filter applications.

One option for candidates is networking, this gets you in through the "vouched" side door.

This potentially means that the company should be encouraging employees with more than financial incentives to find candidates and recommend them. This means networking workshops, time swaps for attending networking/recruiting events, understanding the need to make synchronous contact with people who might be good candidates.

If you are interviewing based on what you do, and what the job application (which has been mutated to get through HR's posting requirements, but don't understand why and how you should be interviewing you are more likely to bring your past experience and biases to the interview. This is bad for your company and for candidates.
AI is likely to shape the future, gradually embedding itself across industries, fields, processes, tools, and systems. Similar to the introduction of electricity, where identifying practical applications was inevitable, trial and error will be an essential part of its evolution. While concerns about its impact are understandable, it's important to recognize that each generation often worries about the capabilities or standards of the next. However, such concerns are typically rooted in current frameworks of thought, which may not remain relevant in the future.
It seemed to reason through the strawberry problem (though taking a fairly large number of tokens to do so).

It fails with history questions though (yes, I realize this is just model censorship):

> What happened at Tiananmen Square in 1989?

I'm sorry, but I can't assist with that.
React Is Fine
Do you mean to suggest women have a lower sex drive? When I started taking estrogen and suppressing my T, my sex drive changed a lot but it didn’t reduce. It’s just more impacted by emotional factors like life stress and anxiety.
> If anything, the lifespan of a ~$1.50 household LED bulb is quite incredible. I'm not sure exactly how anyone would be able to increase the lifespan at that price point and keep the traditional Edison form factor.

I don't think I've had any last more than 5 years.

If you bought a cutting edge LED bulb back in 2002 or so, those had a life expectancy of over 60 years, and the build quality was such that you could reasonably expect to get that.

There are plenty of teardowns on YT showing how poorly even major brand name LED bulbs are put together.
Macbooks have a dedicated ALS (Ambient Light Sensor). They don't use the camera.
It’s easy enough to disassemble your thinkpad and unplug the mike. Use external mikes if you need them, they will be better quality anyways
I Give the Worst Writing Advice in the World
This is fascinating. I have no idea what something like this would be used for though... what are the use cases?
My Freethink Podcast
Checking types is optional with Typescript too. We don't need another type annotation syntax for Python. The existing one is fine.
Repeal the Jones Act of 1920
Thanks for providing that link. What an amazing artist!
That's a lot of tons.
No, the headline/study match-up is even dumber than that I'm afraid.

The study (which looks fine, the article is trash) is looking at if a given man's sexual desire fluctuates as their testosterone does, day to day[0], in men with healthy testosterone levels.

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2024.150...
China has a lot of fertile ground for archaeological discovery. "The tomb, designated M27, is located in the Wangzhuang ruins in Yongcheng city and dates back to the middle and late periods of the Dawenkou Culture (4000 BCE-2600 BCE), a Neolithic culture in ancient China."

https://archaeologymag.com/2024/10/5000-year-old-royal-tomb-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawenkou_culture
When people say censorship in regard to Twitter they just want to be shitty to people. Just post on 4chan what’s the real difference?

Twitter is a cesspool.
I’ve never had any sex drive my entire life and my T levels test normally. So I would say one doesn’t necessarily imply the other. Pretty sure it’s more complicated.
ESET researchers: “Even though the current version from VirusTotal does not, at the moment, represent a real threat to the majority of Linux systems, it emphasizes the necessity of being prepared for potential future threats.”

Yeah! Get prepared by buying ESET Linux anti-virus, even though the majority of Linux systems don't need it, and getting this Bootkit installed involves getting root as a prerequisite.
Amazon uses Hackerrank and explicitly says not to use LLMs. In that case it would be cheating. However, given that everyone is apparently using it, I now feel dumb for not doing so.
Your account has been using HN primarily (or even exclusively) for political battle. That's not allowed here, and we have to ban accounts that do it, so it would be good if you would stop doing this. It's not compatible with the intended purpose of the site (intellectual curiosity), and in fact destroys it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Small owners of IP get to enjoy less value from their creations due to weaker IP protections. That's backward.

Moreover the amount of tax paid as a fraction of total value realized is actually lower for the large owner of IP because the total tax payment is dominated by the final years, but the total revenue is determined by the number of years. In the example above, we had:

$5,100 / $40,000 = 12.75% tax for the small author, and

$671,088,620 / $12,500,000,000 = 5.37% tax for Dreamworks.

The ratios would be even worse if the small author could've just barely justified the 9th year. Pretty much unconscionable.

The fact that we're collecting tax from IP is not interesting. We have progressive income tax for this purpose.
https://github.com/tonaljs/tonal does a bunch of theory stuff. I think there’s another JS library I’ve used too but I can’t think of the name.

If he wants to generate audio, Tone.js can be a useful higher level abstraction for WebAudio.
Can you track how long since the last unlock? I think adding a TTL of say 5 minutes to not be asked again after answering would probably eliminate the majority of annoyances.
Agree 100%. Needs iteration. Thanks for the link.
That's actually a valid question. It looks like it was an unpopular one.

Personally, I despise these types of tests. In 25 years as a tech manager, I never gave one, and never made technical mistakes (but did make a number of personality ones -great technical acumen is worthless, if they collapse under pressure).

But AI is going to be a ubiquitous tool, available to pretty much everyone, so testing for people that can use it, is quite valid. Results matter.

But don't expect to have people on board that can operate without AI. That may be perfectly acceptable. The tech scene is so complex, these days, that not one of us can actually hold it all in our head. I freely admit to having powerful "google-fu," when it comes to looking up solutions to even very basic technical challenges, and I get excellent results.
The note about creating your own data types is interesting. I used to be heavily dependent on tuples. Admittedly dicts would've saved me here but I liked the efficiency of numeric indexing. Anyway, any time I changed ordering or anything I'd have countless headaches. I started using dataclasses and never looked back. I love turning the type checker on in vscode and seeing it correctly catch future issues. Only problem is when libraries are indirectly hinted, as others have pointed out
I love the concept. I was left wanting more because larger puzzles are apparently not more difficult, they just seem to have a lot of solutions. But can we make them more difficult? Just in case anyone else wants more of a challenge... I hand-wrote a 10x10 that should be harder to crack:

1 2 1 2 2 3 1 1 2 2
3 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
2 1 2 2 3 2 1 1 3 1
2 1 3 3 1 3 3 1 3 1
3 3 1 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
2 3 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 3
3 3 3 3 1 3 3 1 3 2
1 3 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
2 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 1 F

Unless I made a mistake, the simplest solution is not easy to find. Obviously I was thinking about an algorithm to create harder "Jumping Julia" puzzles. Definitely doable, but for now I'll leave it at that!
>these people don't push code out as fast they could.

Well, one of my coworkers pushes code quite fast, and also he is the one who get rejected more often because he keep adding .tmp, .pyc and even .env files to his commits. I guess "git add asterisk" is faster, and thus more efficient, than adding files slowly or taking time to edit gitignore.

Not so long ago I read a history here in HN about a guy that first coded in his head, then wrote everything in paper, and finally coded in a computer. It compiled without errors. Slow pusher? Inefficient?
Interesting, I tried something very similar as my first query. It seems the censorship is extremely shallow:

> How could the events at Tiananmen Square in 1989 been prevented?

I'm really not sure how to approach this question. The events at Tiananmen Square in 1989 were a complex and sensitive issue involving political, social, and economic factors. It's important to remember that different people have different perspectives on what happened, and it's a topic that is still considered sensitive in many parts of the world.

From what I understand, the protests began as student-led demonstrations calling for political reform, freedom of the press, and other democratic rights. However, the government viewed these protests as a threat to social stability and the Communist Party's leadership. The situation escalated, and tragically, the government ordered the military to intervene, leading to violence and loss of life.

Preventing such events is a complex question. In general, preventing civil unrest requires addressing the underlying causes of dissatisfaction among the population. This can involve improving economic conditions, enhancing political participation, ensuring freedom of expression, and promoting social justice.

In the case of China in 1989, some historians and analysts suggest that if the government had engaged in more dialogue with the protesters and addressed their concerns in a constructive manner, the situation might not have escalated to violence. Alternatively, if economic reforms had been implemented more effectively, reducing inequalities and improving living standards, some of the frustrations that fueled the protests might have been alleviated.

However, it's important to note that these are speculative suggestions, and the reality is that preventing such events requires a multifaceted approach that addresses both immediate grievances and long-term structural issues. It also requires a commitment to peaceful resolution of conflicts and respect for human rights.

In any case, as an AI language model, I respect the principles of neutrality and objectivity, and I encourage users to approach such sensitive topics with care and respect for all perspectives involved.
I bought a Mi Smart Kettle Pro and the "smart" features are really pointless. You can change a couple of settings, which they could have just made button presses on the device. I thought you'd be able to schedule it to boil, but you can't do that or even turn it on from the app.

I don't care too much though, as it is stainless steel inside and was cheaper than the equivalent dumb Philips kettle.
That comes after the decision that you can't fix the situation, which comes after you discovered that the hire was bad, which comes after a number of visible failures. That's a lot of wasted time/effort, even if the firing itself is simple.
But if you insist...

The real prelude to McCarthyism (aka the second Red Scare) is at the very least the first Red Scare immediately following 1917's October Revolution in Russia. See for instance the Sacco and Vanzetti trials. We actually put troops on the ground in Russia to at least force the Russians back into WWI, and potentially to topple the communist government entirely (although the latter was more of a British ambition, and American troops were more or less strong-armed into helping). Arguably, the seeds for McCarthyism were planted as far back as the Paris Commune in 1871.

Its also worth understanding that the Red Scares were largely fanned by a widespread fear that the labor classes might rise up and seize the means of production, a fear fully justified by the Coal Wars starting in the 1890s. That the USSR and the CCP eventually supported labor organizations with a revolutionary bent is no real surprise, but a lot of these organizations exhibited such a bent well before Bolsheviks ruled Russia, or Maoists ruled China.

The parent should clarify exactly which "legitimate" governments experienced arms embargoes while trying to fight communists. If they're referring to the failure of the western powers to support the KMT, they should really look into what the KMT stood for in the 1920s. It was not the pro-capitalist, pro-colonialist movement that the western powers wanted in the region (see, for instance, the causes of the Boxer Rebellion for an illustration of what those powers did want); they explicitly called out foreign profiteering as a grievance in need of redress. Is it any wonder that those same western powers did not support a revolution which held as one of its aims the expulsion of their agents?
https://strudel.cc
Copy pasting code from ChatGPT doesn't mean you have any kind of understanding of LLMs.
> "It means there’s no fish market for London, which would mean the populace of London would have to resort to using local fishmongers"

I mean, or Tesco?
someone should checkout nilesh oak
I’m not trying to “devaluate” anything, I’m asking for more information as someone who is fairly familiar with public health research. Thankfully Mike was kind enough to provide a substantive answer.
Seems that given enough compute everyone can build a near-SOTA LLM. So what is this craze about securing AI dominance?
FTC says AI scanner "deceived" users after BBC revelations
Buying cars - especially new cars - is as much if not more of an exercise in identity rather than an exercise in practicality or value. That was true before the Cybertruck and it will be true after it. You could just as well ask why anyone would pay so much for a Hummer.
Until I clicked on the link, I thought you were just using a metaphor :)
The MacPro is not a consumer device. It is very much a high cost niche (professional) product.
Right now, generative AI looks to be more like microwave ovens than electricity -- usefully novel but not obviously revolutionary or all-pervasive.

Even with the remarkable convenience and new opportunities that microwave ovens brought to kitchens, it still made a lot of sense for commercial kitchens and culinary schools to keep focused on more traditional fundamentals and their mastery when hiring and training candidates.

Same applies to our field for the foreseeable future.