skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I respectfully disagree Jtsummers.

Firstly, there are not "plenty of jobs for CS grads" -- if there were, you would have supply (us cs grads) matching up with demand (us tech jobs). Yet you see tons of unemployed CS grads. FAANG mostly has hiring freezes, and you have to be part of the inside club to be let in. Many cs grads go into bs jobs way under their potential (random government agencies, contractors.)

Walk into any US tech area and you wont see any Northeastern CS grads, or many non-Top-4 grads. You will either see Top-4 CS grads in leadership positions or at their own startups -- or you will see foreign grads. In some offices, 90% or more of the workers are foreign grads, not US school system grads.

Tons of job postings are fake. There was an entire HN post on this last week, companies posting fake jobs. Sometimes it is just to show a best effort before an insider is hired.

I think LLM copilots are a factor, but they are just a convenient distraction from the real problem -- a supply-demand-price mismatch. ZIRP conveniently hid the problem, but now it is out and visible.
Didn't know about the SmartDesign/OXO vegetable peeler, very interesting rabbit hole to go down.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90239156/the-untold-story-of-the...
Brutalism is a form of unapologetic minimalism, specifically the kind that does not spend effort covering up structural components.

Adding visual crap and animation isn't minimalism at all.
NYT: Some Raw Truths About Raw Milk
> I think the answer quickly becomes nothing

That's exactly what I'm talking about lmao, people like you just completely lack the imagination, as if uber food delivery, 4 hours of netflix a day and buying a new iphone every year was the end game of humanity...

What about job security, healthcare, a community, a fulfilling job, &c. ? None of this requires soon to be e-waste tech gadgets, cheap cloth made from the most vile fabric known to mankind, huge SUV doing 0-60mph in 3s

Sure we got saved from polio and famines, instead we now die from lack of exercise, depression and obesity, that's not even the worst part, we're doing this while permanently fucking up our planet.
Implementing Streaming SSR with React Relay and Vite
On their website, TfL says both things:

1. The map is covered by copyright.

2. The only way to get a license is to buy one from their map partner.

> We protect the map under copyright and officially license it for brands and businesses to reproduce it.

> To use the map in your design, you must have the permission of our map licensing partner, Pindar Creative. This is the only way to officially license the map, no matter how you'd like to use it.

Yet, they don't even mention the case you might be a third-party developer providing a non-profit service.

https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/business-and-advertisers/map-lic...

> For registered charities and schools, the licence is royalty free, but we still charge an artwork fee of £352 + VAT

https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/business-and-advertisers/using-t...
I've restarted a blog one year ago. I think it's worth having a platform, but it's not necessarily worth spending much time on it.

In my case, I enjoy having a personal space. I had multiple posts I really wanted to write and share with my friends.

I don't want to spend time and energy promoting the blog and competing for attention. But I know some people enjoy following it. That said, I also shared a few posts on HackerNews and Reddit and some of them went viral (10k+ views).

But most posts get very few views. So it's worth it only if I do it for me and my friends, and don't have much expectations.

(https://laurent.le-brun.eu/blog/)
The Orion is the proof of concept. The metaverse that Mark is thinking of is as ambitious as Musk's Mars plans. And it is something that requires large amounts of capital and time.
Wouldn't they need consistent, reliable data from before the influx of imports as well? I can imagine Syria's hospitals have been too busy with casualties and injuries to have as good a record of lifestyle-linked illnesses as you'd need.
I'm fascinated by the dichotomous view on them. I love my setup, haven't had more than the usual connecting-headless-device-to-wifi problems, use them every day as an alarm clock, am listening to them right now...

I guess I use the macOS app more than iOS, which might contribute?
So you refuse to use a common in your domain communication concept because? Who does that help? Do you make sure not to use the following 'problematically sourced' terms either?

"Grandfathered in" comes from the "grandfather clauses" in post-Reconstruction U.S. laws that allowed white people to bypass literacy tests and poll taxes for voting if their grandfathers had the right to vote. This excluded many Black Americans whose grandfathers had been enslaved and could not vote. This seems like a way more problematic term to use especially when you use it in public facing policies (such as keeping old pricing levels) that apply to your potentially black customers. That could actually be offensive. But it's not because that isn't how normal communication works. People don't go looking to take offense, they take offense when offense is given. Though I would happily expend the brainpower to replace this one.

"Rule of thumb" claimed to come from an old law allowing a man to beat his wife with a stick no wider than his thumb. This saying comes from normalized misogynist physical abuse in our society. Again, this one should go way before cargo cult.

"Cakewalk" originates from the 19th-century practice of enslaved Black people performing exaggerated dances that mimicked European ballroom styles, often judged by plantation owners. Winners were sometimes awarded a cake. This one is just straight up racist and should go way before cargo cult. Especially to represent something being 'easy'. I can't imagine it feels 'easy' to dance funny to entertain your violent owner. The only 'easy' thing was that is was a brake from the slave driver out in the field. You know what, f' using that term (damn I just reversed the point I was making on myself on this one but f' this term).

Heck English itself is problematic/racist at it's roots with it's tendency of saying the french sourced word is proper, and the non-french version is low class. When are we going to take back English from the imposed by violence for French conquerors French influences?

The world is already exhausting. Adding in this level of constantly self policing our thoughts/communication that, in the end, leaves us poorer with less tools for communicating concepts is lose/lose. If something makes people feel bad, yes we should change it. But going looking for reasons to be upset about things and reducing our vocabulary/communal communication over 'researched' outrage is a net negative and seems an Orwellian dumbing down.
Silly me, I thought there was ethics beyond The Profit Motive.
I suggest you all to compile the C examples with -O3 -ffast-math on legacy systems.
Glass doesn't need to be poorly insulating. Double and triple paned glass are great at insulation. Some even use vacuum, at which point you're basically building a giant Thermos. Getting a good seal is still tricky. Unwanted solar heat or unwanted heat escape via infrared can be modulated with windows that have adjustable reflectivity in the infrared. Unfortunately, it's expensive to build that way! But there have been a few attempts at this approach in the last decade, mostly in places like Norway or Quebec.
The only problems I've ever had with glare are when I use my home laptop for FaceTime with family/friends. The lack of options from Apple may be a reaction to the market's general indifference.
the biggest thing I've always told myself and anyone ive taught: make sure youre running the code you think youre running.
Recognizable repetition can be abstracted

... which is the whole idea behind training, isn't it?

The question that matters is: will businesses crumble due to overproduction of same (or lower) quality code sooner or later.

The problem is really the opposite -- most programmers are employed to create very minor variations on work done either by other programmers elsewhere, by other programmers in the same organization, or by their own younger selves. The resulting inefficiency is massive in human terms, not just in managerial metrics. Smart people are wasting their lives on pointlessly repetitive work.

When it comes to the art of computer programming, there are more painters than there are paintings to create. That's why a genuinely-new paradigm is so important, and so overdue... and it's why I get so frustrated when supposed "hackers" stand in the way.
competing on price is generally a bad idea. its an inevitable race to the bottom. Plus now you're running on less profit which limits yoru ability to grow. you're much better off adding features that your competitors don't have or optimizing for a subset of the userbase that would prefer a simplified workflow.
No.
I’ve built and maintained data centers for FAANG. I’m familiar with power requirements of Ai.

The amount of power needed to train and operate AI are staggering. You literally wouldn’t believe me if I told you. If you are curious I recommend that you start slow and ease into it. Jumping right to the answer will just cause your brain to bonk.

We regularly throw out millions of dollars worth of equipment that is still perfectly good because the new stuff is 15% more efficient. Which means we’re spending labor and equipment costs to depreciate working infrastructure early due to power cost concerns.
Well it was either sugar water or democracy and... you know.
>It’s not a lockfile because it’s a snapshot of what you have installed.

I didn't say it was. I said that it solves the problems that many people mistakenly think they need a lockfile for.

(To be clear: did you notice that I am not the person who originally said "'pip freeze' generates a lockfile."?)

>It doesn’t handle environment markers nor is it reproducible.

You can write environment markers in it (of course you won't get them from `pip freeze`) and Pip will respect them. And there are plenty of cases where no environment markers are applicable anyway.

It's perfectly reproducible insofar as you get the exact specified version of every dependency, including transitive dependencies.

>Given any non-trivial set of dependencies and/or more than 1 platform, it will lead to confusing issues.

Given more than 1 platform, with differences that actually matter (i.e. not pure-Python dependencies), you cannot use a lockfile, unless you specify to build everything from source. Because otherwise a lockfile would specify wheels as exact files with their hashes that were pre-built for one platform and will not work on the others.

Anyway, feel free to show a minimal reproducible example of the confusion you have in mind.
If the output is so amazing why leave out a link to the generated library?

Why leave out an explanation of why you needed, or how you’ll use, this Haskell audio api wrapper?

In the absence of these this just feels like resume slop.

If it is, do recruiters see “I asked a thing to do the work for me” as desirable in a potential hire?

The original library’s license is Apache 2.0. Does that have any bearing on the authors opinion on sharing this generated code?
"People distrust things that they do not understand, and they especially distrust machine learning algorithms, even if they are simple."

How times have changed :)
it helps to be smart and have credentials, which all those authors are/have
In a desktop, couldn't you assign a GPU to one video machine and in that scenario would there still be a security problem when there is only one VM using it?
yes, I made a typo.
That depends on your context. 12,000 VMs is enough to a fairly large chunk of a small countries healthcare infrastructure, if not all of it.

It a pretty decent amount of VMs, but not close to being unmanageable. I think it's more down to how the rest of your infrastructure looks, if we're talking about ease of migration.
I often see "recycled" or similar as a signal for more expensive.

My favorite was when I saw a jam that touted "upcycled" strawberries. When I looked into it, it basically meant that it was made from beat up ugly strawberries that would have been used for animal feed. Surely there would be cost savings in using reject fruit, right? No, an 8oz jar retails for over $8 compared to about half that to an organic no sugar added alternative (I think its cheaper since I last looked though)

They even get certified that they use the most undesirable fruit that they can find!

https://mleverything.substack.com/p/what-are-upcycled-strawb...
Not in China.
Everything will become boring looking with a profit-oriented society.
Ironically, imho the use of the term virtue signaling has itself become a virtue signal, as I pointed out… seven years ago??

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15069187
Add Gnome3 and you can have that too! Source: me, a arch+gnome user, who recently had to turn off the search indexer as it was stuck processing countless multi-GB binary files...
There are so many different versions of Oregon Trail, you might have played the old version first but substituted the graphics and game play you remember with a later version you also played. Not to mention that imagination fills in a lot of the details when you're playing those games, usually as a child.
classic NN takes a vector of data through layers to make a prediction. Backprop adjusts network weights till predictions are right. These network weights form a vector, and training changes this vector till it hits values that mean "trained network".

Neural ODE reframes this: instead of focusing on the weights, focus on how they change. It sees training as finding a path from untrained to trained state. At each step, it uses ODE solvers to compute the next state, continuing for N steps till it reaches values matching training data. This gives you the solution for the trained network.
As one of the comments below the article states, the probabilistic alternative to epsilon-greedy is worth exploring ad well. Take the "bayesian bandit", which is not much more complex but a lot more powerful.

If you crave more bandits: https://jamesrledoux.com/algorithms/bandit-algorithms-epsilo...
“It appears, from a 1942 document… that Hergé gave publishing rights for the books of the adventures of Tintin to publisher Casterman so Moulinsart is not the one to decide who can use material from the books,”

( in Dutch )

https://www.livreshebdo.fr/sites/default/files/assets/docume...
It's not completely necessary. But I will say, as someone who began their career as an 18 year old "self-taught developer" then completed a CS degree at 30, I found linear algebra to be the most useful bit of knowledge that was missing from my kit.
> even on the Pi

Only proprietary ones, so not for everyone...
This is particularly galling because TfL never credited or compensated the designer of the map, Harry Beck, until long after his death.
I think it's more like AI-assisted than 100% done by AI
Because a lot of interested people do not want the images and style to be destroyed by A.I. usage.
Did those women found men in general "disgusting" as article claims? I did not seen that specifically. I do not know how exactly they would rate the men around, but disgust is very strong negative emotion waaay beyond "not attractive" or "not my type".

As I read the article, I would NOT ever want to date or go out with a guy that talks like that. Overwhelming majority of men I met were not like the author of this article. And I believe that it is not the case of them just hiding it. Plus, they tend to use more logic in their reasoning.

Nice example is the sentence of "the typical man pesters you" ... the typical men are not actually pestering. Some men are occasionally pestering and annoying. The typical average guy around is perfectly fine to be around regardless of whether they currently have attraction for me or not. Or "The problem is that almost all women think they’re out of his league.". What I certainly don't do is to put myself into a hierarchy, then men into hierarchy and then trying to find visual equal.

Look, I am getting ick about whoever wrote this article, but not because they would look badly or because they hygiene would be bad. It is just that as I am reading the article, some red flag in my brain is blinking and telling me "steer away, you do not want that in your home".
These links should be in the main post. Could maybe automatically added. I didn't know about it and the person who posted the comment also did not and so many more... saying "it's been discussed for years" does not bring anything else than showing that you have some knowledge that some does not have...
I think it's absolutely worth it. I recently reflected on two decades of blogging[0], and -- as I elaborated there -- I feel the rise of static site generators has made it more worth it than ever. We talked about this further on a recent episode of Oxide and Friends[1], but I have found that SSGs encourage me to write more because they eliminate all of the WordPress dreck. I think that discussion will also answer many of your questions in terms of why it's so important to write, and why it's further important that your writing be truly yours and not sitting behind someone's proprietary platform. Finally, for more on this, I would recommend Writing for Developers[2], which is loaded with very concrete advice on what to write about.

[0] https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2024/11/16/blogging-through-the...

[1] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/technical-b...

[2] https://www.manning.com/books/writing-for-developers
concrete and glass. It's truly an awful way to build in so many parts of the world but as building regulation gets exported so does this style of building. Displacing more localized and efficiently cooled/warmed building styles
Well but the modern Mini and Beetle are related to the classics in name only, not in spirit.
Wouldn’t mean much. Civilians from Syria are hardly a representative sample of “normal”. I wouldn’t count on the country being “normal” going forward either.
Do you really need a study like that for diabetes? Is it not kind of well known in the general case?
I think that example says more about the company that chose to put that code as a demo in their homepage.
That alternative approach is basically what happens in Dishonoured and Dishonoured II where there is a “chaos” meter which determines how much the world descends into disorder based on your choices to kill people or let them live. There are multiple “clean hands” options and there are always ways to complete any particular mission or level with clean hands. There are some elegant ways the world’s chaos state are revealed to the player. For example in Dishonoured, the child Emily’s drawings[1] are more or less happy reflecting the chaos of the world.

[1] https://dishonored.fandom.com/wiki/Emily_Kaldwin#Emily's_Dra...
You could try something like this: https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/improve-video-playback-performa...
people say this a lot, but I think at some point it is nice having the writing be read. That too is a positive or plus.
"Men are different than women" predated even that, hah!
Incoming Trump team is questioning civil servants at NSC about their loyalty
> Alledgedly

If you can't agree on our brains being chemical in nature, you're engaged in magical thinking and we have no more to discuss.

> A pass is a model with no human training data input that is able to reason on human content.

What does it mean to "reason on human content"?

Both "reason" and separately "human content"?

The former because some argue that "reason" is the mechanical application of logic, where a single transistor alone would be sufficient to pass; others require it to be a conscious application, at which point you've got to deal with there being about 40 different definitions of "consciousness".

The latter, because a model with no human training data will not be able to read any human language for the same reason that no human alive can read Linear A… but also, our content includes the games we play, and AI trained on the rules of Go with zero examples of our games beat human Go players at the game of Go, which definitely seems to me to be doing things on "human content".

> My test is simple to understand and conceive. We just don't have any valid candidate to put through it. My requirements disqualify LLMs.

Where did you write this "simple to understand and conceive" test? Because what you've given here is not even a test.

If you can't come up with a test, there's nothing to distinguish you personally from the AI that you're dismissing.
>was

>began

You're very obviously missing a key point here. It's rather simple: pirating is integral to "AI", as it is of the utmost importance with regards to its optimization and even to building its basic functionalities. It will never cease to happen nor is it part of some "preliminary" process in which executives "ignore silly legal matters" in order to kick-start their projects only to discard those practices once they eventually take off. Comparisons to YouTube, Spotify, etc., are invalid for this very reason.
Through the Darkness
I'm a 22-year-old, jobless girl from a middle-class brown family where being a girl and not being conventionally pretty feels like a curse. Since childhood, I’ve only seen fights, struggles, and stress—my childhood memories are just trauma. I’m the darkest-skinned in my entire family, and that’s something I’ve been judged for my whole life.

By 9th grade, I hit the peak of my depression, and honestly, I’m not even sure if it’s gone now. Anyway, I’m currently doing my bachelor’s, and my mom is the one paying for everything because she works. The thing is, as time passes, my face is becoming more and more asymmetrical, which has started bothering me even more than my skin tone. My hair used to be so thick, but now they’ve thinned out so much that it brings me to tears just looking at them.

Another huge issue is that I forget things so easily now, like my focus is completely gone. When I think about yesterday, it just feels like a blur. All I have are fragments of painful memories from childhood—harassment, family fights, people making fun of me, leaving me behind, all that stuff.

I don’t have the money to go see a specialist or afford any treatment. My pictures are awful, no one even likes me, and honestly, I’m just exhausted. I thought I’d give this a shot. I’m Muslim, so suicide is haram, and I just want someone to tell me what to do because I feel stuck.
ultimately its because skyscrapers dont attract customers, they are occupied by employees. Employees will always come to the office, they dont make decision whether to walk-in based on building's aesthetics.

buildings where you want customers to walk-in and leave money look completely different: macy's building in NYC or Galeries Lafayette in Paris or many interesting skyscrapers in Dubai
You can use a logo to refer to the entity in question. Is it not fair use if you refer to a subway station using the subway station logo?
Author here: Yes. You are right. I was meaning to paint a picture that instead of the next token appearing magically, it is sampled from a probability distribution. The notion of determinism could be explained differently. Thanks for pointing it out!
Vacuum insulation isn't made from glass plates and is wayyy more expensive, it only makes sense when you need good performance at low thicknesses