skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was going to make a snarky remark like “Researchers are just going to have to write on Substack”.

Then I read this: http://mmcthrow-musings.blogspot.com/2020/10/interesting-opi...

I think the alt-economy that you describe may turn up soon. at least the one that I’m imagining that doesn’t involve registering for Substack.
It's an example of Zuck's curiosity. When I refer to curiosity-driven research, I mean curiosity driven by the researchers, where the researchers themselves drive the research agenda, not management.

To be fair, though; Facebook, I mean, Meta is a publicly-traded company and if the shareholders get tired of not seeing any ROI from Meta's VR initiatives, then this could compel Zuck to stop. Even Zuck isn't free from business pressures if the funding is coming from Meta and not out of Zuck's personal funds.

Back to Bell Labs and Xerox PARC, my understanding of how they worked is that while management did set the overall direction, researchers were given very wide latitude when pursuing this direction with little to no pressure to deliver immediate results and to show that their research would lead to profits. Indeed, at one point AT&T was forbidden by the federal government from entering businesses outside of their phone business, and in the case of Xerox PARC, Robert Taylor was able to negotiate a deal with Xerox executives where Xerox's executives wouldn't meddle in the affairs of PARC for the first five years. (Once those five years ended, the meddling began, culminating with Bob Taylor's famous exit in 1983.)
What happens if you drop your glasses and they break. Will you squint & hunt for your scrollbars ?
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The numbers are pretty different, though. A subway driver might make $50K/yr and the train has a thousand people, with short runs at high frequency. A long haul flight will have 300-400 passengers for hours and 3-4 pilots each making $250K/yr.
Cars now have cell modems that you can hook up to select telecom providers to turn your car into a hotspot, so those cell modems/SIMs do have an APN for internet data
The hero we need will write a tampermonkey firefox script that'll hide any HN post that contains the following keywords:

- in X Hours

- With no knowledge

- no code

- AI, Sonnet, GPT

This is what happens when the barrier to writing applications is zero, and the levee hasn't even BEGUN to breach yet.
It's not why. That's just a talking point that gets repeated all too much. In most places you don't need a license to operate a boat and they go as fast as you can afford.

Despite what the other poster is saying, there's no law of physics that says speed can only be unlocked by licensing.
I don't think it leads to productive conversation to simply say that people who think there is a problem here are entitled.
I remember trying to use 4chan once and i couldn't even pass through the captcha.
The process of reading it into their training data is a way of copying it. It exists somewhere and they need to copy it in order to ingest it.
At the time Ford was looking to build EVs, and all manufacturers were trying insane things leading into the 1970s, where an oil production crisis severely impacted American drivers. Chrysler made a turbine car that could run on either Jet Fuel or Soybean Oil, some of these are still driving, and are amazing in their own right.

Exxon responded to the 1970s by recognizing that data was going to be a huge part of the world going forward. I'm guessing their early experiences with what was "big data" at the time to do oil field exploration clued them into what was about to happen.

Then the 1980s happened with massive shifts in geopolitical borders and in the energy sector in particular so both companies got cold feet on these long shots that previously seemed existential to their futures. This isn't a particularly surprising story.
> To illustrate, consider if we rewrite the title: “Goodbye, Phillips head screwdrivers, I wish you success, but I’m back to flat heads”. Seems silly, doesn’t it?

you could just as easily say "goodbye allen, but i'm going to torx" or any <insert-things-here> pair. it's only silly if both of the interlocutors happen to agree on the relative merits and that the difference is large enough to be called "silly".

the problem is responses like that amplify the vibes of "well, it's clear that everyone agrees that rust/phillips is just objectively better in all ways". i don't think this discussion would be occurring if that were true.

the right thing is to drill down into the specific trades, and i'm scratching the surface.

oh, you have a greenfield project where manual memory management in C or C++ is burdensome and error prone and it's kicking your butt. perhaps rust might be a good fit?

or perhaps you have a problem where you need to maximize the code interchange with a few million lines of existing code and a large set of existing experienced developers? well, maybe not then...
I remember using it before it had a captcha
These days my main problem when learning is coming to terms with the development environment.

Python, how do I install and work with venvs? What is poetry and why is it better?

Scala, what is sbt and how do I make it work in Intellij?

Things I have learned under way, but still more of a headache than the actual language, since most ideas there are recognizable. And problems in the dev env can make you get stuck for several hours.

Docker helps a bit as an abstraction, but not all the way to the development environment.
I was just joking but surely I can revert a commit on a feature branch, no?
> it is slowly getting planted by LLMs and also for years has been gamified by SEO.

I think that is basically what they are complaining about, from a content creator's perspective. They are upset that their quality content (according to them at least) is losing to ML generated garbage, and that google engineers don't even seem to be able to understand why that happens.
That doesn’t matter. The content each user sees is multiple orders of magnitude less.
Embarrassingly I reused my email password. So my email was compromised, someone logged into my Best Buy account bought $500 in gift cards using my PayPal account. It took several days for Best Buy to email the cards so by then I changed my password before the gift cards showed up.

I was able to get PayPal to reverse the charge but Best Buy refused to cancel the gift cards. I now have 2 factor auth turned on for everything I can. I tried several times for Best Buy to cancel the cards and return the money to PayPal to no avail. They just wouldn't do it.
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> If you start telling people off at work, there is a good chance that you will be perceived as being the problem

The whole concept of a PR is to review the changes you ask your team to pull into the repository.

What do you think PR comments are intended to be? Pats on the back and public announcements on how awesome you are?

No, the whole point of a PR is to allow others to review the changes you proposed so that the mistakes you are trying to introduce are easier to spot and prevent.

What do you call comments that flag a problem with your code changes? Do you call it "being the problem"?

> If there's a team agreement and someone continues to violate it (...)

How will they tell if you do not point out those violations in the PRs? That's precisely why they exist.
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> Can you name a crash which occured because the FO was in the bathroom?

I don't think that's a strong argument. The only time a pilot goes to the bathroom is during the most boring portion of the flight when everything is going exactly as expected. Planes so rarely have excitement occur at that phase of flight that the odds are really low of it happening at the exact moment one of the pilots is using the head.
I prefer the trivial cat, because the < redirect puts the source in the middle of the pipe.

cat foo.txt | bar | blah > out.log

vs.

bar < foo.txt | blah > out.log

It looks more like what it is. Also, with cat you can add another file or use a glob, that's come in handy more than once.

Furthermore, it means the first command isn't special, if I decide I want something else as the first command I just add it. Pure... concatenation. heh.

It's useful to know both ways, I suppose. But "don't use trivial cat" is just one of those self-perpetuating doctrines, there's no actual reason not to do things that way if you want.
American traffic is expensive and they scarcely do peering agreements. And the backbone providers are probably jacking up the prices to boost revenue in these inflationary times. Eu users are not affected because the Eu invested heavily in the internet backbone and everybody peers with everybody there. In the US the isps cripple any effort to improve the internet infrastructure for profit.
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Hello! This was a fun little project to help me explore the OpenAI API space. The questions are generated by GPT 4o and refreshed daily! The project is hosted on CF Pages, with CF Workers as the backend and CF KV Store as the database.
I would love any feedback! Cheers (:
They are paths to discovery, but are they actual drivers of traffic?

My impression is that if you aren’t listed on google, your site is pretty close to dead. In any case, if you somehow managed to drive traffic via other social media, you are one underpaid moderator’s hasty decision from ruin.

The point isn’t about deranking spammers it is about concentrating a huge majority of traffic (and therefore power) in the hands of a single entity which is unaccountable to anyone.
Advertisers are locked into an arms race for attention with each other. Even if you were stuck with the same slice of eyeball time, you can still grow by selling it for more, and in many ways that's what google's auctions are set up to do. But google's investment in youtube in particular has steadily grown the eyeball-time they have access to as well. I'm not ruling out fraud but I don't see how these facts prove fraud, it seems more like google continuing to naturally benefit from the decline of traditional print and television media.
Misleading and against hn attitude
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You can revert and even force-update the branch to rewrite it's history, but GitHub still tracks the old commits and even lists in the PR the events that rewrote the branch history.
You can try doing a press release, for example through PrWeb or similar, that will send your announcement to multiple outlets that might write it up if it fits their audience. It’s kind of a shotgun approach though.
This is a fairly high level overview of linkers, most of which you can find for yourself if you look up `ld` documentation [0] (mentioned in the article) and walk through it step by step in a tutorial fashion.

A more comprehensive look would be, at the very least one would hope, to have a reference manual of your favorite MCU and write the corresponding linker script for the memory sections it expects and provide stubs/thunks and other things of that nature. It's the praxis and application that brings the scary things out.

[0] https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/ld.pdf (nb - after you've gone through the page count of some IC and MCU datasheets, 164 pages of ld will seem like a walk in the park)
There's plenty of mischief potential with "deepfakes".
> only time a pilot goes to the bathroom is during the most boring portion of the flight when everything is going exactly as expected

Planes don't have something go wrong to the point of running checklists in an expected way.
> Should I be paying a proportion of my salary to all the copyright holders of the books, song, TV shows and movies I consumed during my life?

you already are.

a proportion of what you pay for books, music, tv shows, movies goes to rights holders already.

any subscription to spotify/apple music/netflix/hbo; any book/LP/CD/DVD/VHS; any purchased digital download … a portion of that sales is paid back to rights holders.

so… i’m not entirely sure what your comment is trying to argue for.

are you arguing that you should get paid a rebate for your salary that’s already been spent on copyright payments to rights holders?

> If a Hollywood writer says she "learnt a lot about writing by watching the Simpsons" will Fox have an additional claim on her earnings?

no. that’s not how copyright functions.

the actual episodes of the simpsons are the copyrighted work.

broadcasting/allowing purchases of those episode incurs the copyright as it involves COPYING the material itself.

COPYright is about the rights of the rights holder when their work is COPIED, where a “work” is the material which the copyright applies to.

merely mentioning the existence of a tv show involves zero copying of a registered work.

being inspired by another TV show to go off and write your own tv show involves zero copying of the work.

a hollywood writer rebroadcasting a simpsons during a TV interview would be a different matter. same with the hollywood writer just taking scenes from a simpsons episode and putting it into their film. that’s COPYing the material.

—-

when it comes to open AI, obviously this is a legal gray area until courts start ruling.

but the accusations are that OpenAi COPIED the intercept’s works by downloading them.

openAi transferred the work to openAi servers. they made a copy. and now openAi are profiting from that copy of the work that they took, without any permission or remuneration for the rights holder of the copyrighted work.

essentially, openAI did what you’re claiming is the status quo for you… but it’s not the status quo for you.

so yeah, your comment confuses me. hopefully you’re being sarcastic and it’s just gone completely over my head.
Vancouver has driverless trains, but you pretty frequently see staff at the stations.

Oddly enough, you almost never see them on the trains unless someone has pushed the silent alarm.
No, you can be on the receiving end of a lawsuit alleging discriminatory behavior without documentation to the contrary.

I'd like to be snide about this, but the problem is that there really are an amazing amount of shitty companies out there and forcing at least some documentation is likely a good thing, in general.
How many people are there like that, and how much damage are they collectively likely to do? If you're a random spammer, how hard will it be to hire that person? Again, not aiming for impossibility, just reducing the damage.
Central bankers can be too independent
Well, there's https://getsession.org
Bluesky is the most refreshing thing I’ve seen on the internet for a long time. The feed actually shows stuff based on my followers rather than just rage bait and another countries politics.
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> Be it through voting for Hitler, supporting nazis in other ways, or simply ignoring the threat and not uniting and voting against Hitler before it was too late.

You seem to be ignorant of how badly democracy worked in the Weimar Republic. The Weimar Republic never had an elected government, every attempt to form one failed. While the elections had an effect on the composition of the Reichstag all positions of power ended up getting assigned round robin style. The Nazis established their control of the country through emergency legislation passed to deal with terrorism, which let them bypass the Reichstag almost entirely. When the Nazis called for a vote in the Reichstag at gunpoint to establish Hitler as the Fuhrer they had to fudge attendance records because most elected members of parliament where either dead or in prison.
>Rust creators do not have the ultimate authority to say what is the right way anyways. No one does.

If you feel that way, you are free to take the reigns and put unsafe blocks everywhere. Languages by design need to be opinionated (even stuff like machine language), and most of them do not let you say "it's cool, I know what I am doing here" to begin with.
Agree with this. Calling SIMD superscalar is a misnomer since it is single instruction (multiple data) with very wide data paths. Superscalar implies multiple different instructions in parallel, such as adding a pair of numbers, while subtracting another pair (or even dividing).
Users aren't wrong (tangentially, I strongly believe they don't like it)

Bravely flattening a root cause analysis to one agreeable-sounding villain, I'd do Goodhart's Law. Click-through rate not being a great proxy for user satisfaction.

i.e. I always clicked reddit first, I used to append reddit to my searches. But I get a very uneasy feeling now that everything has reddit 3 times in top ten. Impossible. It's a big world. It'd be like if Encyclopedia Britannica started just including the snippet-sized version of Wikipedia articles. Not what I'm looking for from that product.
Before leaving Twitter, my feed was almost entirely American politics, street fight videos, and content farm bots. Yet I only followed Australian artists and Australian furries. I watched someone else scroll Twitter and they had the exact same slop posts on their feed.

Now I’ve switched to Bluesky and my feed is immensely better.
Similar to my own thoughts on the issue.

It's a lot like the credit card issuing banks. Two notable big names, Wells Fargo and Bank of America both "illegally used or obtained consumers’ credit reports, and then applied for and enrolled consumers in credit card accounts without consumers’ knowledge or authorization." [1][2]

Banks had each employee need to sell 50 credit cards a month. Employees sold 50 a month.

Banks needed "line goes up" for every quarter. Banks had each employee sell 100 a month. Employee's tried to sell 100 a month.

Banks needed "line goes up." Eventually market was saturated, yet banks said sell 1000 credit cards a month. Employees replied, "we cannot, market is saturated." Bank said "sell 1000 a month." Employee's responded with "make shit up, open accounts without consumers knowledge." Fraud.

[1] (Wells Fargo, millions of accounts, $3B civil settlement, $3.7B CFPB judgement, 2020), https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/wells-fargo-agrees-pay-3-bill..., https://www.forbes.com/sites/anafaguy/2023/07/11/bank-of-ame...

[2] (Bank of America, unspecified # of accounts, 2023) https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/bank-of-am...
On the flip side, a subway/bus ticket is usually around $1-$10, while an airplane ticket is $100-$1000.
Yeah, its the same stuff that I've been told for decades now. TBH, it is probably less true with a lot of EVs than it was with the gas cars. ECUs are pretty strict and sometimes hard to hack.

Meanwhile, third party motor controllers for Tesla motors exist, and the batteries aren't exactly magic.

There's really nothing about electric drivetrains that makes anything vastly more locked down.
Impostor syndrome was real at that joint!
I think this is largely because of zoning regulations forbidding multifamily homes. If you have to build only a few single family homes on land per zoning regulations, you maximize your profits by building really big homes. But it's hard to separate out how much of it is zoning versus genuine consumer preference for larger homes at larger costs (+ easy access to cheap mortgages for many years) because of the ubiquity of these zoning regulations.
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The graph and syntax, individually, inform the answer succinctly. No.
Yeah, i agree that, on principle, generative AI should be a good got for these kinds of things. But, the results are... idk, uncanny. At least to me.

For example, if you were to ask a human artist to draw this image with two crabs, and this artist didn't know how many legs crabs have, what would they do? I think they'd probably google how many legs crabs have, and how they look in general, and at the very least draw two crabs with the same amount of legs.

But these generative models don't know how many legs crabs have, and they are not clever enough to ask, or even count it seems. So you end up with results like these. The main crab has 8 legs (6 + 2 claws), while the little one seemingly has 10 (or at least it has 5 on one side), and it's also missing an eye for some reason.

A human artist can also make mistakes, for sure. But i don't think these kind of mistakes would be expected from an artist.

And i agree with the other commenters that said this reflects poorly on the author of the book. Didn't they care to check the cover for obvious mistakes? Attention to detail is a very important trait on a technical writer.
>If clients wants language XYZ then XYZ it is.

I don't care how much you pay me (well, not in a practical sense), I'm not going to bash a bunch of screws in with a hammer. In my industry, the languages and tools do in fact matter and impact the quality of the project. It's hard enough as is without some unreasonable clients saying "oh yeah, can you make this in powerpoint?"
The very next sentence is

> But it is nowhere near how fast the Java compiler can run.

And then it explains why that initial build was compiling only 32k lines per second.
Very impressive features! HTTP/3, WebSockets, and DNS+TLS improvements! Will be giving this a try next project.
Anecdotally, the biggest driver I've seen in California is the large pushback against multifamily housing and large apartment buildings. In many of the hot real estate markets they would be able to get so much more value out of a parcel with these larger buildings but are forbidden to build them per zoning regulations.
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My guess is that you experienced margarita burn, so not from the lime juice alone but its reaction with UV. As long as you’re not in the sun, probably fine to handle.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytophotodermatitis
Related to your question, but not responsive to the “speed” aspect: Here is a nice article from Ars [1] on the impact of starship on large space telescopes. This is focused on Webb successors (which in NASA fall under astrophysics, not planetary, like Clipper) not “planetary probes” per se, although a linked and more technical article [2] touches briefly on that.

One coauthor of [2] is the chief scientist for astrophysics at JPL, so it’s not just idle speculation.

The ability to launch an 8m telescope definitely has space mission designers interested. However, probe velocity itself is not addressed.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/10/astronomers-say-new-te...

[2] https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article/76/2/40/2869438/Ac...
I doubt many will see this, but Yandex (yes, the Russian Google), is basically 2006 Google in the sense that it shows you what you want versus what Google’s lawyers and a bunch of SF dweebs working on their promo packet have in their best interest for you to see or not see.

Perhaps there’s domestic Russian things that are censored but that’s far outside my use-case.
Maybe it's rare to do curiosity driven research.

But from the days of Bell Labs, haven't we greatly improved our ability to connect between some research concept to the idea of doing something useful, somewhere ?

And once you have that you can be connected to grants or some pre-VC funding, which might suffice, given the tools we have for conceptual development of preliminary ideas(simulation, for ex.) is far better than what they had at Bell?
> under the Putin regime a lack of property rights and the rule of law drive its innovators and entrepreneurs abroad

I imagine "property rights" means "property rights for all, not just for oligarchs" in the above. Similarly "rule of law".
I skim it, but I typically only see maybe 2-3 roles in my domain. And these days, maybe 1 is in the US and the other 2-3 are in the EU. Such a rough market.
Yes, from the perspective of a Russian.