skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, this is a project I've been kicking around for years! I have an old red rotary phone (a bit newer than yours) held aside just for it.

Definitely bookmarking your post
On the other hand, trying too hard to shoehorn semantic descriptions on names ends up with pathological cases (yes, chemistry, I’m looking at you!).

Jokes apart, words are symbols that even if they have some semantics through etymology, in general they are quite arbitrary. I’d rather go with outlandish names that help mnemonics, if I were to choose. Names from people can serve that purpose; I still remember what a Kohonen map is, back from Uni, because of the childish resemblance with “cohone” (Andalusian for cojones), and a silly joke from a close friend.
I enjoyed the series for a while. But it was around about the detective mystery story one that I got bored and wandered off to read the Bobiverse books by Dennis Taylor.
I have used it now for almost 7 years running a law firm. It's worked great for exactly our use case: privileged emails, including attachments, can be time and passworded with legit TNO encryption. I initially used nextcloud/webDAV for our own calendar, but switched over recently to protonmail and it hasn't been an issue. Some storage space is useful. Haven't used the VPN. It's a boutique firm. We have only 4 employees. YMMV
I listened to the version narrated by Kevin R Free, which I enjoyed. It was my first experience with audiobooks so I don't have much to compare but I did read some reviews of the Graphic Audio versions which suggested they were not considered good by some listeners, even those that liked other productions from the same source.
I get what you're saying, but I think confidence is actually more important than enjoyment.

A lot of people confuse enjoying [x] with enjoying being good at [x]. This is why so many students switch subjects later on in life; when a field suddenly doesn't come naturally to them, they seek to play to their strengths elsewhere. Problems occur when they quit too early, and building confidence early on is important for stopping this.

In my experience, when you think you're bad at something, it's almost impossible to enjoy doing it, which makes preliminary mastery actually the first step to enjoyment and therefore downstream success.
Aaand you’re saying humans don’t do that? There are plenty of humans who will just make shit up with whatever information they have. There’s plenty of humans who wouldn’t even know the British don’t use dollars and would just put a dollar sign there.

I’ve seen a senior engineer at a FAANG confidently interrupt another engineer, who was giving the correct answer, to provide an incorrect answer. They mixed up facts and confidently stated a conclusion that sounded good, but was utterly wrong.
No, I still prefer remote identity even ignoring "cloud" storage.

It is nice having my desktop session just be able to negotiate the permissions with my NAS seamlessly without needing to have a separate user account for the NAS. Same with accessing file shares on any of my devices.

On top of that it's also nice having that same identity work across all of my computers. When I change my password on one computer it is changed on all the computers I use. I never have to think "what was the password for this computer again?" The same account on my gaming PC is the same account on my personal laptop, my main home server, my wife's tablet when I use that, other gaming PC's at friend's houses, etc.

Personally, I really prefer using an IdP in my personal life, especially when its pretty stupid simple to set up and use. It can make a lot of things easier.
> dial back the pronouncements.

No. Maybe have an argument instead of pointing and shrieking?

> What you are advocating for was a disaster for Windows, btw.

No it wasn't. I think UAC is a waste of time, but the type-your-password-into-sudo camp is advocating something strictly worse than UAC.

I don't need to type my god damned password to install a program on iOS or Android.
Subhead is clearer:

Publisher Spines will charge authors between $1,200 and $5,000 to have their books proofread, designed and distributed with the help of artificial intelligence

So it's not a new kind of scam publishing crappy books written by AI (at best retreads of existing books). It's automating the old scam of vanity presses.

And if they're being honest-ish about it, I'm OK with that. Vanity presses don't have to be scams. Tell people that nobody is going to buy your book. You'll get your handsomely-bound copies of your text, lightly edited because you were just going to fight them on editorial decisions anyway.

I'd be skeptical of how much they can help in distribution. Brick-and-mortar bookstores don't want your book. Maybe you can convince your local shop to stick a few copies with a "Local Author!" sign, but AI isn't going to help with that.

It wouldn't surprise me if some robo-editors could genuinely improve the vanity press quality. That says more about the existing quality of the vanity press than about how much I trust robo-editors.
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Lessons Learned from Burning Things
Not very different from running a game company!
Modern Work Fucking Sucks
I made a webapp for learning sight reading:

https://www.babeloop.com/

It's built mostly from scratch except for the disply of notes that uses VexFlow and the playing of notes, that uses Tone.js

VexFlow is pretty cool.

There are js libraries for dealing with music theory; I can look into that again if you need.
This is the best advice I’ve read so far.

Real Q is, do you care about oil and gas? Probably answer is no. This sucks too.

The skills you gain from autonomy might translate into, you have a good idea for a new business, you ask your rich boss for a $25k-$100k check investing in your new thing when you leave. I assume it will not be in oil and gas because nobody really cares about mineral extraction sincerely.

This deal sounds nice but in reality there are millions of people your age who get a $25k-$100k check every year from their parents to do something they care about, as opposed to some boring ass business.

Your instincts to find mentors are good. The hard truth is you will have to quit to find them, you have correctly ascertained that you are hitting a ceiling, and developing a relationship with these guys is kind of worthless.

This is the real value of “Google” and “Airbnb:” they’re so big and they’re household names, even if you worked on some bullshit meaningless thing there, you can get a lot of people to pay attention to the new thing you want to do that you are actually excited about. The skills you develop will not be useful for getting hired at these companies, unfortunately that is a huge crapshoot right now, and you’d have to do a career reset by taking grad school or something, because I cannot emphasize enough how little people care about mineral extraction.
I'm describing massive investment to fundamental manufacturing infrastructure. Deprecating that capital expenditure takes long time. Exact opposite of vulture capitalism and short determinism.

> Don't know how it works here but it sure sounds like it.

Thank you for being honest and saying that you are describing how things you don't understand sound for you.
Haven't had any issues with it after using it for years on my work and home PCs. I use transparent compression, snapshots, and send/receive, and they all work great.

The main complaint was always about parity RAID, which I still wouldn't recommend running from what I've heard. But RAID 1-10 have been stable.
I have a potted miniature lime tree that spends 8 months of the year outdoors and the NYC winter indoors. It's easy to maintain and every year it produces more limes. This year I got at least 30. They taste unbelievable especially versus store purchased. Highly recommended.
Yes, sounds like, but it isn't. There is no logic inside html templates apart from wicket-specific component binding tags and everything happens in Java.
I'm not, not at all. I'm just pointing out that programmers are people who learn to, and like to, delve into the details. Architecture is fun, but it's a tiny part of the job, ultimately.

The biggest part of a programming job is pinning down the details of your requirements.
Yeah A-Frame! It makes me happy to see my many years of maintaining it paying off
It's an interesting story to me that Apple did not think the ][ was going to last as long as it did; thus when competitors were coming out with much cheaper machines with ASICs such as

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Color_Computer

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64

Apple really should have started on an ASIC as soon as possible so they could stay competitive but they wasted at least two years; they had little idea back then of how hard it is to kill a successful platform. They thought the /// or the Mac was the future, and I guess the Mac was (after several near-death experiences and complete hardware rebuilds) but in retrospect Apple might have moved forward the IIgs release date a few years earlier with a transition to 32-bit late in the 1980s. (Unfortunately, the 65C816 was an even worse 24-bit computer than the 80286 was, the eZ80 is the decent 24-bit microprocessor that we didn't get until well into the 32-bit age)
For sure, yes. But terms of art, like "crash", generally have commonly-understood definitions. And the commonly-understood definition of the term of art "crash" is that it means OS process terminating. Not always! Not all the time. But in general, yes, that's what it means, to most people, most of the time.
Durable all inorganic perovskite tandem photovoltaics – Nature
If a company is profitable they have an earned sense of where it makes sense to spend the profits for betterment of the company. The (I could take this as company earnings to my pocket but choose to spend it on employees) signals maturity while (I am spending someone else’s money on luxuries) signals lack of understanding what’s important for the business.

The difference isn’t the actual luxuries, it’s the amount of skin in the game from the founder.
To be clear, my complaint here is that we stopped calling it Bloom's filter, and shortened that to Bloom Filter. At least Hoare's sort was shortened to "quick sort". :D

We can leave it as named after someone, but that is a lot easier to understand if you keep the possessive. Plank's constant is a good one, in that vein.
is it a lot more competitive for Nvidia to just keep winning? I feel like you want two roughly good choices for GPU compute and AMD needs a shot in the arm for that somewhere.
> alternative hardware vendors aren't seen as viable competitor for hardware reasons, and people attribute the failure to software failures.

It certainly seems like there's a "nobody ever got fired for buying nvidia" dynamic going on. We've seen this mentality repeatedly in other areas of the industry: that's why the phrase is a snowclone.

Eventually, someone is going to use non-nvidia GPU accelerators and get a big enough cost or performance win that industry attitudes will change.
We find microplastics in foetus brains, if your immediate thought is "meh ok it's probably fine" you're already beyond saving, all of that for what ? Cheap gadgets, some convenience and comfort

> humanity must be punished

We're punishing ourselves right now... look at our food, 75% obese/overweight in the west, 15% of US population on antidepressant, life expectancy going down, testosterone levels dropping 1% per year from the 80s if not before, massive wildlife collapse, nutrients in veggies/fruits massively dropped since the 50s, increasing floods/hurricanes/&c.

> Solutions that do not also punish are rejected on that basis alone

If you're about to get lung cancer because your smoke 1 pack a day you can always tell your doctor you started drinking green tea to get extra antioxidants, as long as you smoke 1 pack a day you're doomed.
As is often the case, Randall Munroe has already delivered: https://xkcd.com/1602/. Perhaps the joke in this context would be if it said "bi-weekly".

"You should come to our Linguistics Club's bi-weekly meeting. Membership is open to anyone who can figure out how often we meet." (I mean, you have a 50-50 shot. I wonder if there's any personality insights one could learn from such a selection.)
How does this relate to the question in my prior comment?

Is there some explanation why your oughts or opinions matter more than any other HN user’s oughts or opinions?
Okay dumb question, why are the images they generate nightmarish nonsense. Why can’t they procedurally construct a diagram
Thanks, yes that's what's planned for the next iteration, directly mounted on a glass wall :)
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Coding is the easiest part of the job. The hardest part is creating resilient, useful, and beautiful software. I advise the following

- Learn the domain you are in deeply. Talk to the experts (not senior engineers, I'm talking about people doing the work) in your company about how the business and industry works.

- The interface is the product. Design beautiful interfaces that match people's mental models. A beautiful architecture needs to support these interfaces. If you have poor engineering, it will show through the product via the interface.

- All good engineers are good architects and product people. They understand the needs of their users. They understand their psychology.

- There might be software patterns for your industry, find them and learn them.

TLDR; The coding part is easy, don't seek the senior engineer to get ahead, look for the industry and business experts. Learn how to build products that are impactful for the people using your software and the business. That's how you become a great engineer.
As far as copyright is concerned, "slavish reproductions" do not pass the threshold of originality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_of_originality#Repro...
I struggle to think of what parallel processing would mean when parsing(!) a newline delimited file. If the file format had offsets specified (e.g. pdf), then I'm on board with delegating the parsing of each declared segment - like a very small map-reduce program

But CSVs are infamous for yolo-ing quoting and EOL treatment so just ripping through and spawning threads for each discovered EOL sequence seems like a recipe for misparse. I guess it's possible to guard the thread worker with the expected number of columns and if their parse attempt doesn't find that many then they can bail out with the expectation that the worker assigned the actual EOL sequence will rescue the error. But what a waste of I/O (and cpu, of course)
No, Sisvel and Avanci are.
Independent concurrent discovery might be better than independent confirmation.
Once you try the demos, the animated image at the top feels misleading. Each segment cuts at just the right point to make you think you’d be able continue exploring these vast worlds, but in practice you can only walk a couple os steps before hitting an invisible wall, which becomes more frustrating than not being able to move at all. It feels like being trapped in a box. My reaction went from impressed to disappointed fast.

I get these are early steps, but they oversold it.
I believe Fei-Fei is focused on physical world interaction, https://behavior.stanford.edu/ is a project she works on for more physical interaction with AI
Christopher discusses this problem in architecture too.

[~45 minutes in](https://youtube.com/watch?v=98LdFA-_zfA&t=2593s&pp=ygUhY2hya...) he talks about how to change law, institutional norms, and so on to make it possible for living structures to emerge.

I don't know what that would look like for software but in another talk he was bemused by the narrow-mindedness of programmers who only saw the value of A Pattern Language as a mechanical tool rather than as a way to create a more beautiful world.
Because they don't run any programs and you basically have QT on your automotive screen.
Basically generates links of Google queries to find each job in the company's own website. That helps me find the most recent, unpublished related and non-walled.

Job boards are filled with old posts they repost for the looks, and that makes about 20% or less of the actual job market. After contacting companies I've even got way more recent offers from their HR, that they might not publish, meaning what's published online could be 50% of the actual job market, with lots of timed offers.

So I ask the script to throw a few random and play the job lottery :D
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According to studies about batteries we should have electric planes since 2010 and we should be able to recharge any battery instantly regardless of their size. Ah and these batteries would be very cheap too

And that's if:

- the study can be replicated

- the study wasn't altered to boost publishing metrics

Remember super conductivity at room temperature from a few months back ?
>Is this not a bit too short a time for results to show yet?

Pat so suddenly getting "retired" like this isn't based on the success or failure of the new foundry nodes. You're correct that they weren't supposed to ship yet anyway. With this news most are expecting they'll be (further) delayed soon, but the real cause of today's action is strategic.

Things at Intel are so far gone that there's now no choice but to look at splitting up the company and/or selling/merging key parts off. Pat didn't want to preside over breaking up Intel, he wanted to save the company by shipping the new nodes. This was always a long shot plan which would require the existing businesses to do well and new things like GPUs to contribute while massively cutting costs in other areas.

Those things didn't work out. The GPUs were late and under performed forcing them to be sold near break even. The market for desktop and laptop CPUs was much softer than expected for macro economic reasons and, worse, there were massive, delayed death field failures of the last two gens of desktop CPUs. Competitors like AMD generally took more share from Intel faster than expected in other markets like data center. The big layoffs announced last Summer should have been done in 2021. Those things combined caused time and money to run out sooner than the new nodes could show up to save the day. This is reality finally being acknowledged. Frankly, this should have happened last Summer or even earlier. Now the value has eroded further making it even harder to save what's left.
This work is even more critical given the recent news on copyright restrictions on game preservation.
That's still peanuts, you can get consumer grade HDDs with that capacity in a single drive. A business grade line would have no trouble uploading all of that data in less than a week, even with a bunch of extenuating circumstances.
What would stop me from purging all this CA's certificates from my computet?
For a greenfield project, perhaps that makes it a good choice, but using it to replace established systems needs more arguments than "it's better". Is it really better than a existing, bespoke solution? Keep in mind that the shader language is just one part of targeting a graphics API, you still need a lot of boilerplate surrounding it and Slang doesn't (and probably shouldn't) solve that problem.
I thought you were kidding but World Labs really did raise $230M after being founded less than 1 year ago. Andreessen Horowitz too.

What would have to be true for this to be worth $100 billion after 5-10 years?

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/world-labs
In previous civilizations, it was not uncommon to be killed, disemboweled, or crucified for telling myth.

I dont think that distant kings, state religions, or crusading armies were more faceless.