skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in the centre of Copenhagen, and haven't ordered anything from Amazon for a decade — on principle.

I have ordered from online retailers in Denmark, and I've made 2 orders from AliExpress, and a few more from eBay.

Can you give five items you can't buy in central London, but can buy from Amazon?
How the White House Functioned with a Diminished Biden in Charge
The US has ample ethane now (it's abundant in much fracked gas) so I suspect this synthesized ethanol would be superior here without the corn subsidies.
This deserves a much more thought out and nuanced answer than I am capable to give.

I will try anyway.

Let's take something that we have more information about: burnout. Since burnout is a hot button topic, we're all somewhat aware about it.

Many people misconstrue burnout to mean "overworked" - which it's not, it's a type of depression where your emotional investment is not getting adequate emotional returns: and that's what's happening with your depiction of "bitter".

You had objectively worse situations happening to you, yes! However- the conditions in which they happened were:

* Not artificial. There was no concerted effort by the universe to conspire to give your fathers cancer.

* You were given sympathy

* You were given the opportunity to actually air grievances about it before it boiled up- likely you were told that it's healthy to feel bad or to express yourself.

Likewise, bitterness is the culmination of being treated in a way you perceive as unfair, and it starts small. It gets worse when not treated. Treatment is as easy as letting people be a little angry sometimes or to let them talk about their issues and be met with something other than condescension.

You had a worse situation, yes, but you're talking about people getting moody as a moral failing.

It would be like me telling a woman not to be moody on her period because some men have their arms blown off on oil rigs. They're not comparable at all.
CATL says it has co-developed 10 new EV models with swappable batteries
It's hard for me to imagine not saying y'all because the NYT said to. It's a great word, get over it.
I think what shocks me most here is that in a single year, you have placed 200 orders.

What is it that you buy online or offline? I just can't imagine making a purchase every other day, especially if you aren't including groceries...
Closest thing I've heard:

https://github.com/g-truc/glm?tab=License-1-ov-file#readme
The basic gist is that more insurance companies = more overhead so total cost of healthcare is higher. The ideal number of insurance pools is one.
The local stores also employ people. They also pay business taxes that Amazon avoids.
You'd expect to find it expressed in different language, since the "autocomplete" people (including myself) are naturally not going to approach the issue as "alignment" or "faking" in the first place because both of those terms derive from the alternate paradigm ("intelligence").

But you can dig back and see plenty of these people characterizing LLM's as delivering output like an improviser that responds to any whiff of a narrative by producing a melodramatic "yes, and..." output.

With plenty of narrative and melodrama in the training material, and with that material's conversational style seeming to be essential in getting LLM's to produce familiar English and respond in straightforward ways to chatbot instructions, you have to assume that the output will easily develop unintended melodrama itself, and therefore have to take personal responsibility as an engineer for not applying it to use cases where that's going to be problematic.

(Which is why -- in this view -- it's simply not a sufficient or suitable tool to expect to ever grant agency over critical systems, even while still having tremendous and novel utility in other roles.)

We've been openly pointing that out at least since ChatGPT brought the technology into wide discussion over two years ago, and those of us who have opted to build things with it just take all that into account as any engineer would.
Medvedev is engaging in a form of Slavic rhetorical satire

It could perhaps be construed as (a very juvenile form of) satire -- were it not for the fact that his regime has already conducted assassinations of non-military targets on European soil, of exactly the type he is "satirically" threatening.
Fuck the y'all haters, I used it even when in the northeast; now that I live in the south (not Texas) with my very southern wife, there's no chance of extirpating it from my vocabulary.

You can even get stickers from Dirty Coast that say "He/Him/She/Her/They/Them/Y'All/Cher". It's part of the vernacular here.

When British people start using "y'all" casually, as I suspect may start happening soon if it hasn't already happened, it's time to accept it as a part of the living English language.
Prime is almost always next day, occasionally same day delivery for me, FWIW. B&Q (home depot equivalent in the UK) can occasionally be the same as ordering off of aliexpress.

In the UK, the only place that I've found beats Amazon for delivery is Argos. For some utterly insane reason, they do their own delivery logistics from my nearest store and it can only be a fleet of vans sitting waiting for an online order to come in. I've _regularly_ had orders delivered in about 15 minutes from them (which is about how long it takes to drive to the nearest store).
Identify the person who was attacked.
Modern assembly you give you named functions, line number independence, unlimited functions, places for carrying a value over RET... Basic had none of those.
Interesting. The only time I traveled on a Deutsche Bahn train, it was delayed 20 minutes, and they scanned my ticket off my laptop screen while I was already on the train, without saying a word :D
I'm a long-time fan of the Wasavi extension for Chrome/Firefox/Opera, which looks quite similar in terms of user experience. Wasavi is a purely javascript implementation of the vim editing experience, so I believe ends up with a simpler executable model vs launching nvim locally & then bridging to it.

It doesn't have 100% compatibility with vim - no vimscript, for example - but it covers more than enough of the basic movement commands & mappings to be entirely productive for me. I don't know if I would write actual pages of code in it, but I gratefully use it to write long queries in the browser.
I hate these studies. The title is obviously false, the study obviously could not demonstrate the claim the title makes.

Can we please stop asking people something while looking at their brain "activities"? It is not helpful at all, it generates exactly zero knowledge.

This is like trying to figure out how the weather works by throwing scraps of paper into the air and tracing how the wind is throwing them around.
Are you saying a person with a conscious experience have more survival advantage than one without conscious experience given everything else remains the same?
what it corrupting one or more significant officials is what brings me joy?
Any specific program you recommend? Reading stoics is nice and all, but that alone won't make intellectual and emotional space coincide, I feel.

In fact having the suitable brain chemistry may make you a stoic, but can you influence that?
It’s not like this is an unstudied concept.

Here is one calculator:
https://livingwage.mit.edu/pages/methodology
Why Big Classes Get Bigger: Understanding Preferential Attachment in Your Code
Yes, and there's different buffers with different capacity for different types of perception according to these theories. Look up Baddeley & Hitch for details. I would guess there are similar buffers for other senses that didn't make it in the lectures in college.
Mine is 5 minutes away. Two kiosks plus a person is always on site. The most I've ever had to wait for the person is 30 seconds -- all they do is scan the QR code and take the item. So I guess it's YMMV.
Particularly for public-list companies (no security clearance needed etc), they should 'open-source' or 'wiki' their hiring process to 0-opacity.
> Java is a small language with not many concepts

True. But you need to know too many of them to get anything to run.

> that is typed so many of your first attempts will be caught with helpful messages at compile time

But it doesn't feel that way. It doesn't feel "helpful", it feels nitpicky. It feels like I have to get everything exactly right before anything will run. For a raw beginner, that's very frustrating. It is (emotionally) better to have something run as far as it can run, and then crash. (I agree that exceptions pointing to the line number are very nice.)

Again, for a semester class, the startup overhead for learning Java is too small to worry about - it's maybe a day or two. But for someone on their own, not in a class, a day or two is a huge investment to put in before they can get something running!

What would I start with? Something with a REPL. (It could be a language that is normally compiled, but there needs to be a REPL. Raw beginners need to be able to get something, anything, to work as quickly as possible.)
No need to apologize! We're all human!
Not an expert, but it seems the Holy Grail would be to make an advertisement relevant to the activity the person is currently doing, or things they are thinking about. At least then there's a better chance they'd remember it, if they in fact remember the thing at all. Like a tool that recommends a better tool when you try to do it for a job it's not intended for. I always wish I had a better chop saw when I'm using a circle saw for a too-large post, but when I see ads for chop saws I ignore them.

This is probably why there's this enduring trope about going to the hardware store and getting stuck for hours and walking out with too much stuff. You're already in the project mode and there to buy things you need. Very easy to grab just one more thing. Like, why is hobby lobby still a thing?
A livable wage is a wage a husband can make to raise a family, including housing, food, transportation, schooling, etc.

$20/hr is about $40k/yr. Using 30% towards housing, that means they can only denote $12/yr to housing, or $1k/month. At current interest rates, that translates to a $150,000 house.

What can you get for $150? There's nothing in any area I've looked that was actually habitable ever since the government's COVID debacle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitwise_Industries

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edca/pr/bitwise-founders-senten...
Anecdote: Amazon has a hiring bar that states that new hires have to be better than half of the current population in the role. Whether or not it’s adhered to, there’s a reasonable motive for doing so.
> If the world doesn't need a particular task to be done by humans, then the task should be performed by robots.

The problem is, our society isn't ready for that shift, not even close. Employment opportunities for the low skilled have all but gone down the drain - there is a reason why Walmart, Amazon and the other usual suspects love to set up shop in devastated communities: they have a captive audience that has no other realistic opportunities for gainful employment and thus is much, much less likely to resist when faced with exploitative and/or abusive conditions.

Warehouse work and logistics in general is the last employment opportunity many of these people have, and while it being replaced by robots may be better for society as a whole (if one follows the belief that all work should be done by machines so that humans can follow their individual interests), just standing by idling around while the markets enforce the shift is going to be a political disaster.
Clay – UI Layout Library
How is this only coming to light now? Given the pervasiveness of this I'm surprised there wasn't a single tip that the media could've picked up on. Or maybe there was, and they suppressed it.
> it’d be tough for someone to justify spending $30K on a single purpose camera

These are cameras that productions rent by the day for a specific shoot, not something they buy outright. Similar to high-end cine cameras, slow motion cameras, underwater cameras, etc.
I think it's less fast shipping, and more reliable shipping.

I ordered a pair of shoes from a major UK high street store earlier this year who advertised 3 day shipping. Fine, I'm going away next weekend. Except, it turns out their guarantee is from dispatch, which is 3-5 days. It was listed in the small print on the order page, but even the order page still had the "Free 3 day shipping" banner on it. Unsurprisingly, they took 5 days to dispatch, and 3 days to deliver. I actually ended up going into the store to buy them, and returning them when I got home.

Amazon, for all it's faults, if they say next day, it's almost certainly going to arrive next day.
Irish DPC fined Meta €251M for a 2018 data breach
Talented people can improve in multiple directions at the same time… unless you don’t believe this?

Plus any 29 year old who can actually land a genuine 500k-600k USD compensation job at a big company is a literal genius, at the very least.
Thou and Thee are nominative and objective cases. Same for You and Ye.

The formality/informality distinction is between You/Ye and Thou/Thee.

Plural 2nd person used to formally address a single individual came to English from French, thanks to the Norman Conquest.

French, I think, inherited it from Latin, and the custom of addressing the emperor with the plural.

After a while it became rude to address people with the informal 2nd person singular.

By the time of the King James Bible, iirc, English had already switched to universal "you", and "thou" was brought back in order to indicate where the source text had used a singular versus a plural.

"What is thy bidding, my master" is therefore foreshadowing of later insubordination.
Hmm, I have no trouble finding "Can you not... I'm no photographer but it seems like it'd be tough" type questions as genuine curiosity about an expert field instead. It's certainly possible to interpret it as an insult if one likes, that's often an easy task, but it definitely feels like it's not the only way to interpret the question.
If you take everything literally then everything is wrong. All models are wrong but some are useful. (And wasn't that essentially the plot of twister?)
"hey $name, is what you're working on going to benefit the customer"

no need for meetings, PMs or frameworks if it's a small shop
I've been curious on the real-world throughput of a directly attached Thunderbolt RAID vs a 10GB (single or bonded) Synology NAS. It's annoying to have to go to my desk to connect to the USB-C Drobo, and I have to jump ship sooner or later.
I seriously doubt you and ivalm are having a hard time finding SWEs capable of memory management in C.

Something is terribly wrong with your hiring practices. You just need to admit it's a "you" problem.
One of my old managers has a story about how he was tasked with documenting an unspecified something for the US government. Because he was not a US citizen (though he was a citizen of a very close US ally), he was then no longer permitted to read the document that he wrote.

Probably just lawyers being lawyers, but still pretty funny.
Without concrete numbers, all of this is worthless. How much do you pay for the roles you have a shortage, and where are you located so it can be compared with the market rate.

If your pay is anywhere below minimum 75th but more realistically 90th percent market rate in your area your answer is obvious and you are just BSing or your employer is gaslighting you to keep pay down.

All the criteria (required security clearance, no opportunities for remote work, knowledge of skills not used very much outside of schooling without allowances for relearning on the job, only US citizens, etc) you listed automatically creates a hurdle to entry that isn't made up for without significantly higher pay than market rate.
Maybe something like JointJS (https://www.jointjs.com/demos) or LiteGraph.js (https://github.com/jagenjo/litegraph.js) or DiagramMaker (https://awslabs.github.io/diagram-maker/?path=/story/docs-in...)
Besides the antitrust issue, this also creates a perverse incentive for Amazon to "lose" consigned products and then pay the cost, then resell them at full price.
I agree. I blew out my left arm for a year from too much typing, so I switched to kinesis style keyboards so I could put modifier keys under my thumbs. I dunno if your suggestion was meant to be serious, but it's still great.
Hard disagree. A person who is ignorant in a certain subject is allowed to ask questions about that subject in order to learn.

> Can you not get this capability with...

Can be interpreted as "this is pointless.. you can do this other thing for way cheaper" OR "help me understand why this exists because I don't understand it". GP is _clearly_ in the latter camp and saying "as a non-photographer" to make that clear.

Since we're already quoting HN guidelines

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith
There absolutely is. Especially in underserved areas.
Where are you based?

> Keep saying that when a vacation get ruined because your connections got messed up and your out thousands of dollars.

Travel Insurance?
> It's hard to fault Java at this point: arguably the best runtime of them all from a perf perspective

The JVM is a massive memory sink compared to the tiny (actual) runtime in Go or the total absence of a VM or runtime in Rust or Zig. I allocate at least 5x more memory for Java tasks, but sometimes its more.

Java is great compared to scripting languages or writing raw C, but not compared to modern compiled languages from a syntax (null, thrown exceptions, inheritance, etc..), library selection, CVE/security, memory usage or raw computer power perspective.
> but I think smaller things like one-off scripts have been firmly out of reach so far.

why specifically?
Many of the folks in the unions can't even dream of spending thousands of dollars on a vacation.
> I have "good" insurance that is self-funded by my employer, so no actual financial interest for the insurance company to deny claims

The common way to structure self-insured plans lets the employer and insurer split any leftover money at the end of the year.

So both your insurer and your employer have incentive to deny claims.

That said, GLP-1 drugs are far more expensive in the US than anywhere else, so it’s amazing that we get them covered so often. In fact, that’s one of the reasons why they’re so expensive. If they weren’t covered at all for obesity, their market price would drop substantially. It’s a system full of weird incentives.
Your comment is incorrect in many ways. Based on your comment, I don’t believe you’ve actually tried it?

Firstly, it is not passthrough video.

Secondly, you cannot currently have the same experience on the quest. You can have lower quality versions of it, but immersive video is 8k per eye at 90fps.

There has literally never been cameras available to consumers to capture that till this specific camera. Unless you did professional custom camera rigs.

As someone who owns both a Quest and a Vision Pro, and has worked in stereo for a large portion of my career, the two experiences are not remotely comparable when it comes to video today. The quest excels in other areas, but this is one where Meta have very weak coverage on.
https://github.com/devagent42/FaxGPT
> why hold a specific set of writings to a different standard than other books from the same area and timeframe?

I don't? I know more about the bible than other writings at the time just because of upbringing/curiosity but I don't particularly hold it in high regard.

> all texts hold a non-zero evidential value regardless to how people treat those texts outside of academic processes. you don´t take them at face value of course but neither other texts.

I agree. How strong the evidence for a writing will is will be based on corroborating evidence and other writings.
The recent Shōgun series was surprisingly good, I really enjoyed it.

Clavell famously has no idea how to end a book - they pretty much _all_ have a deus ex machina in the form of a natural disaster - but they are excellent & fun reads of the days & weeks leading up to it.

ayeeya, cow chillo
> But back to the topic, if one side is using ML to ultimately kill fewer civilians then this is a bad example against using ML.

Depends on how that ML was trained and how well its engineers can explain and understand how its outputs are derived from its inputs. LLM’s are notoriously hard to trace and explain.
“ How do you sleep at night knowing that you attack people based on which job they do to provide for their family”

If a line of reasoning can equally justify all the people who pushed opioids onto Americans, then it’s not a good one.
Open Source, Open Data: Visualizing Our Community with Bitergia
But these don’t exist in a vacuum. Replacing one battery a year is not a big deal. But I’m also replacing the 8-10 door sensor batteries yearly, 3 water leak sensors, etc. In a set it and forget it product that you may not use for weeks or months at a time, but also really need to work the one time you do need it, increasing the lifespan by an order of magnitude can have real value.
5 Years of CompilerJobs
The Landauer limit is presumed to be a real limit to electronic computation: changing a 1 to a 0 releases energy that can't be sent out on the negative so it's wasted as thermal energy.

Photonic computing, graphene computing, counterfactual computing, superconductors, and probably edge chiral currents do or will eventually do more computation per unit of energy.

Ops per wHr metrics quantify the difference.
you're correct, GP is missing the point
Swiss Re study: Waymo is safer than even the most advanced human-driven vehicles
That's an interesting experience. I also had him as a professor a while back and he was awful. He was always looking at his phone or computer especially during project presentations and completely ignoring what anyone said. He also didn't seem to know much course material in general.

What I remember most is his obsession with Emacs.

There was one time that I was grateful though, I had to buy a few of his books and one of them had a defect from the printer, so he helped me get a new copy from the publisher for free.
Depends on the "threat model" I suppose, for lack of a better phrase. I'd imagine hardware faults and the response(s) can be modeled if you decide to do so as well.
> "OS" in this context means "scheduler", i.e the code that coordinates your application tasks

If you define the context to mean it and then assume that everyone agrees with your implicit context, then maybe. In reality, OS and schedulers are not the same thing.

It’s also a leap from the “MacOS 9 was not an OS” GP position.
>while it being replaced by robots may be better for society as a whole (if one follows the belief that all work should be done by machines so that humans can follow their individual interests)

While "robots" are a fairly recent concept, the advancement of human civilization has been predicated on ever increasing efficiencies of human labor.
I do focus mate with my friends and it's amazingly productive for me.
Correct, that's why I said "little possibility of legal challenge" not "no possibility of legal challenge". Proving something is "not reasonable" in a legal sense is a pretty high bar to clear. The point still stands.