skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmmm. A few points.

First, I've never heard of program synthesis, and it seems like an interesting topic. Could you point me to some resources so I can learn more about it?

Second. I take issue with this statement:

> "trying to generate new code by modelling old code has the obvious limitation that no genuinely new code can be generated"

I disagree. We've seen GAN's generate genuinely new artwork, we've seen music synthesizers do the same. We've also seen GPT-3 and other generative text engines create genuinely interesting and innovative content. AI dungeon comes to mind. Sure, it's in one way or another based on it's training data. But that's what humans do too.

Our level of abstraction is just higher, and we're able to generate more "distinct" music/code/songs based on our own training data. But that may not hold in the long term, and it also doesn't mean that current AI models can do nothing but regurgitate. They can generate new, genuinely interesting content and connections.
Often times you didn’t. I missed at least one flight waiting for taxis that never arrived. Had to wait 30m and take a bus then walk in the rain a few times, etc.
Movie theaters have a financial incentive to show old films if audiences are interested in watching, because the theaters get to keep a larger cut of the box office revenue compared to new releases. If the theaters aren’t showing old movies, I don’t think it’s because of a lack of imagination on their part.
makes sense, thanks ^^
Well, a large part of the difference in how they are treated is probably down to how Facebook didn't spend their first decade or so claiming to live by a motto like "Don't be evil".
Did they consider adding an equity comp on top of the wages they are advertising?
Isn't it said that there are only seven actual stories? That every story is a variation of those seven plots with different names, places, times, etc?
Listening to the album now, thanks for the recommendation.

Here's a few great psydub artists:

Ott: https://ottsonic.bandcamp.com/

Shpongle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S99IKbu8eyE

Emancipator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCSN4DLG6Ng&list=PL7669BCCE5...

AES Dana: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJnWNxSWjIs&list=PLRpXl5QdzS...

And not really exactly psydub, but credit to what started it all:

Aphex Twin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw5AiRVqfqk

The Psychedelic Muse YT channel has a better curated selection than I could provide:

https://www.youtube.com/c/ThePsychedelicMuse/playlists

Also, checkout the Ultimae Records YT channel:

https://www.youtube.com/c/ultimaerecordsofficial/playlists

Cheers.
Why do comments exist in every programming language?
Interestingly all my worst Uber experiences are in SF. Drivers abandoning rides and peeling out in front of me, parking on the wrong side of the street for pickup etc. I generally try to make Uber drivers' lives as easy as possible too, requesting pickups in spots where they can park, being ready to go, etc., so it's not like I was being a difficult passenger.
Good validation that Google Trends gets the quick and dirty job done for some queries for free.
This seems almost akin to the tragedy of the commons. Society needs for various reasons (e.g., to maintain and promulgate culture, to power welfare and labor needs, to generally exist in the next century) for people to have children at least at some level above replacement rates. However, each individual couple has a lot of disincentive to have children. I am not convinced this disincentive is due to a lack of benefits from the state - I don’t see benefit-rich Western Europe doing much better than the austere United States. I think we as a society and as individuals simply don’t value creating and raising children as one of the most rewarding and important activities to be performed enough to outweigh the financial, social, and personal implications.
You get "clean and DRY" at the expense of "not beginner-friendly" and "you need be to very careful".

Thanks, but no thanks. I'll take clear, understandable code over clever footguns any day.
>(Perhaps I should have said joules, not Wh? Units are confusing.)

1 Wh = 3600 J, so you're not wrong.

It's the same thing as talking about using tonnes instead of kilograms, only the conversion factor here is 3600 instead of 1000.
We used to communicate by email, which hasn't changed and is still valid. They have reems of personal data about me including my bank routing number, my phone number, my driver's license, etc... I got one email from Lyft offering a $200 bonus for 10 rides in a day, but nothing from Uber. $200 for 10 rides is not exactly incentive to get off my retired butt and do some driving again. I'm now looking at python freelancing for a little extra cash.

Edit: I logged into my Uber driver app. Nothing beyond the usual promos (bonuses for driving in San Francisco.) Nothing like, "Hey, we noticed you haven't been driving. We want you back! How can we help you get started again?"
Same here. Had experience working with an Ukrainian shop that did fantastic job prototyping some very niche kernel stuff. Very knowledgeable, felt like they knew Windows better than Microsoft. Made you wonder though how they managed that ;)
In order to get the energy credit on install of the geo system the install had to include a hot water heater as part of the install
You can drink beer without getting drunk and still be productive. Just sip it. This is why I buy craft beers and make it last over the course of like an hour-ish. This is also coming from a regimented ex religious who has never been drunk until I was 26. I still retained the non-drinking thing afterward losing my faith but then picked it up a few years later to see why people do it.

On a rational level I've discovered it's solely an excuse for people to get away with something socially that they normally wouldn't. I don't chase getting drunk. I drink beer the exact same way and reason I drink any other beverage: because I enjoy the taste, not the "high" it brings.

All these teetotalers on here sound like they're chanting some sort of weird praise that quitting alcohol is the panacea of fixing yourself. Like losing weight, having a better life, or wrestling with demons when in actuality it's just your own individual inability to have self restraint. The fact that people on here consider an edible as less destructive to beer is nothing but astounding to me. A drunk with one beer at like 5% alcohol maybe lasts an hour. An edible can last several if not all day.
Indeed, AES Dana bringing it hard!
On Android at least this seems to be the case. Bluetooth leaks data that can be used to locate you, so Android just ties the two permissions together.

https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/160479/why-do-i-...

IMO this is counterintuitive for users. It would be like telling people on windows “This app wants to wipe your C drive” every time an app asks for admin permissions - it could wipe your C drive, but that’s not what it’s asking for. IMO the permissions should be separate, but the approval modal should note that info about leaking location.
Not least because downvoting disappears in a day but you can upvote stuff no matter how old.
If absolute values are a concern then why not replace the unit with % change? One could, assuming linear scale, reverse engineer that onto this plot anyway. Some plots, of course, might stand better on their own without a y-axis scale (histogram distribution probably).

To be honest, this plot is pretty useless either way; who cares about the trend it took downward since we have little or no context on what happened at any given point?
Wow, this seems like incredibly valuable information for traders and hedge funds. There is a well known retail analyst (Mathew Boss) who famously said they take aerial photos of mall parking lots to estimate traffic and sales. This data is even more granular.
It's built on Docker's BuildKit which you can also enable with some config twerking (lol, not fixing this spell check because it's probably more accurate). That's how you get caching and DAG solving. BuildKit doesn't have a great wrapper or interface a.t.m.

Earthly is one of several companies building on BuildKit and providing a better DX
That explanation doesn’t make sense because people with limited economic circumstances, such as Latino immigrants, have the most children. There’s been a major cultural shift among a particular group of American and that explains the disparity.

I don’t think we end up in a Japan situation. The immigration boat as already sailed, and will dilute the cultural changes that are limiting birth rates.
I disagree. Virtually no one who worked even a little with these algorithms has used math symbols in their code. For better or for worse it messes up people's pattern recognition.
I looked at their main page and got the impression this tool is not very / not at all useful - except perhaps for some niche I'm not in.

> Earthly is a syntax for defining your build.

I already have syntax for defining my build.

> It works with your existing build system.

If I have a build system, or a build system generator, why do I need to redefine my build another way?

> With Earthly, all builds are containerized

Huh? What? Why? ... That's already a deal breaker. I don't want to be limited to building within containers.

> With Earthly, all builds are ... repeatable

Isn't that true for any decent build system?

> With Earthly, all builds are ... language agnostic

An ambiguous statement. Especially since a build process does depend, to some extent, on the language of the source files.

> Get repeatable and understandable builds today.

(shrug) more marketing talk.

> It's like Makefile and Dockerfile had a baby.

I don't want Dockerfile in the family, and as for Makefile - it's too low-level. Makefiles get generated these days (and have been for over 20 years for most software packages, IIANM.)

> No more git commit -m "try again" .

This has never been a problem for me.

(Well, ok, if there's network trouble, then downloading things during a build will fail; but Earthly can't magically reconnect a broken network.)

> "Earthly is a pragmatic and incremental solution to a thorny problem that all organizations face"

Which thorny problem is that? The "non-repeatable builds"? I'm confused.
A History of Clojure – HOPL Conf 2021
A Group of Scientists Presses a Case Against the Lab Leak Theory of Covid
And if you lived in a busy area, and the cab actually showed, sometimes someone on the street would just take it and the drivers clearly didn't care.
Yeah, this would be how I would react to any formal notification about issues with my performance. I would take it as a kind kick out the door.
You walked to a busy street and hailed one. I remember trying to phone in a cab from Nob Hill pre-lyft, they said one would be there in 45 min and we should be waiting outside because they will not call you.

Also when uber first implemented the uber-taxi option before uber-x, I tried it and would regularly have multiple cabs cancel en-route to me because they just picked up a closer fare.
The F# module system is just as incapable compared to SML. The SML and Ocaml module systems provide higher-kinding which isn't present in F#. And if you don't have functors, you're not SML/Ocaml.
The article alleges that sodastreams produce weaker fizz than commercial carbonated water.

I personally haven't found that to be the case, but it seems like there's dozens of sodastream models and maybe I happened on a good one.
Perhaps it's a bit off topic, but do you mind sharing some recommendations?

I'm always in the lookup for new stuff, but the one thing I think has become worse for me is finding sources of recommendations. The age of old forums is gone and mainstream sites like IMDb are very hit or miss for me.

I'll take both movies/shows, and the places where you discover them :)
C standard proposal: Redefining Undefined Behavior
Notes still require you to build context. Additionally, they have to be useful and up to date. I can't speak for others, but even with notes, it takes a while to get back into the flow.

This study claims it takes >20 minutes to get back on track: https://www.ics.uci.edu/~gmark/chi08-mark.pdf
The effects of notes weren't quantified, but if you have a study on that, I'd be happy to read it.
Sequestration, basically. All of those fossil fuels we burn today have at one point not returned into the atmosphere. An increase in CO2 also leads to an increase in vegetation. Ocean acidification is a concern that I can't dismiss, but that's true of many concerns and I can't cater to them all.

> Those CO2 peaks mark descents into Ice Ages and cataclysmic events during millions of years.

I was referring to the interglacial cycles, these are not cataclysmic per se.

https://www2.atmos.umd.edu/~zeng/papers/Zeng03_glacialC.pdf

As for the descent into an ice age, according to the interglacial cycle, we were right on schedule for that. Perhaps our ancestors will thank us for averting it?
Alamo draft house does this as a core part of their business model. They even usually give you souvenirs and have a themed menu around it.
Hm, yes, missing history isn't as bad, I guess that's true. However, Schufa isn't exclusively about credit. It records all kinds of information like your address, your phone/mobile plans, all your bank accounts. Credit requests (where you get a quote and then not follow through), too.

It's definitely not a bad payer register.
There is a awesome Voxel Editor https://goxel.xyz/ because it is free software and it is coded in C++.

It is close near mature state (or I think it with love).
The paper isn't saying games are spying on you. It's saying that if someone decided to analyse the data about someone playing then they could infer certain things.

I mean sure I guess.

I'm pretty skeptical that this is really occuring though. I mean, to what end?

As someone who runs an online game we have text logs of user actions, yes. They sit there because it's useful debugging info. A server crash happens and we look at the logs of what the user was doing at the time. An exploit is reported and we look at the logs of what the user doing the exploit did so we can fix it. Etc etc.

I really don't know what nafarious thing people imagine is really occuring.
Eh, NYC taxi service definitely hasn't always been great. During my one visit in 2003, cabbies refused to go anywhere but Manhattan or the airport. And in Manhattan, it was impossible to get a cab.

I'm glad to hear it has improved. Almost as glad as I am that rideshare exists now.
> "Any chance I can get an ETA on having that fixed?”

This is the most annoying question in the world.

I usually want to respond "probably sometime before the heat death of the Universe, but honestly that could slip".

Until I write the fix I have no idea that the direction I'm taking will actually work. Very often I discover some $SADNESS while trying to actually do the fix. Some test may blow up in some way I never expected (often on some platform that I'm not actively testing until I run it through CI because I don't have an AIX virt on my laptop). That could derail me for a week or two.

Then there's CI itself which breaks quite often due to how complicated it needs to be (we have to support AIX builds and things like that). I can't give you an estimate on that because I don't know how that is going to fail or how long it'll take to fix it, but if I tell you we can fix it next week that's exactly the time CI gets broken in some way that'll take 2 weeks (often for a different team that I don't have any control over) to sort out all the mess.

The realistic estimate is often closer to 4 weeks for something that might seem like it'll only take a few days at the start. And it doesn't matter how vitally important it is to some customer. I'll try to get it out in a few days / next week, but it might slip for a month due to the unknown-unknowns and breakage outside of my direct control.
I figure there’s 3 possibilities: I’m just dumb, I don’t use it enough, or JavaScript is poorly designed. For some reason, even after 20 years of using JavaScript on and off and reading a dozen books about it, I can’t articulate exactly how the language works, how scope is evaluated, the composition of objects and prototypes which has some kind of turtles-all-the-way-down thing going on with it. When I read explanations in books it’s like hmm ok.. I guess that makes sense. Then a week later I don’t remember. The languages I’ve spent the most time with are SQL, PHP, Bash, and Clojure, and I never felt that way about them. Maybe it’s just me.
>The typical dose of Ivermectin for treating parasites (and Covid19) is 0.2mg/Kg. The LD50 is around >15mg/Kg in human

I could easily be confused, since I've never taken a biology course after high school. However, here is what I get from your link.

It mentions "addition of 5 μM ivermectin".

I believe "5 μM" is a ratio, meaning 5 μmol per liter. Ivermectin is C48H74O14 so the weight of a mole is about 875g. By my arithmetic that comes out to about 4.4 mg per liter.

So, if that can be loosely equated with the dosage "in vivo", assuming a liter is about a kg because everything is mostly water, it's more than 20 times the normal ratio, and nearly 1/3 of the LD50.

I notice this comment:

"no toxicity was observed with ivermectin at any of the concentrations tested"

I may be missing something, but this seems like the comments about proving safety could be misleading or even disingenuous, if ivermectin's toxicity first or mainly applies to the nervous system and not the kind of cells they were experimenting with.

What kind of cells were they using? It says "Vero/hSLAM". Vero = "kidney epithelial cells extracted from an African green monkey" and hSLAM means Vero cells "that have been stably transfected with a plasmid encoding the gene for the human [signaling lymphocytic activation molecule]"

It's quite possible there's something very basic I don't understand, but after doing my best to interpret it, I would personally tend to qualify the results as "antiviral in dosages that are probably nontoxic to some parts of the kidneys of green monkeys".

If was put on the spot, given such a dose for covid-19 purposes, I would not be very confident that it wouldn't be neurotoxic, even if I also believed it was less than the LD50.

However, this all hinges on me understanding the dosage/ratio, and I may have screwed that up.
That interview was rough.

TLDR: The studio and distributor's chokehold on movies is dead.

Hallelujah, good riddance, piss off.

For some historical perspective, 99% had a nice episode about movie theaters. The Megaplex! https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-megaplex/

TLDR: The movie theater biz has always been in flux, now is no different.

PS- After the dust settles, I'm sure new gatekeepers will arise. Same as it ever was.
I thought this was a Gilfoyle quote for a second!
Agreed that syntax isn't perfect (and I'd be fine with `name: type` although the current `name type` doesn't chafe me much), but it's a lot more approachable to a much wider audience (and IMO just easier to read for almost anyone regardless of background) than OCaml or Haskel or F#.

> Let's hope we can have something like that in the next 10 years!

Agreed. :)
Kava's nice but getting the desired effects can be a bit hit-or-miss. It's milder and more of a clearheaded serene/sedate effect, tastes like dirt-water, and can be a bit expensive, about on par with craft beers. But it's non-toxic, non-caloric, and non-addictive. I enjoyed kava for quite awhile before quitting after realizing that it was exacerbating my seasonal allergies (it seems to have a pro-histaminergic side effect). For awhile it totally filled the glass-of-wine-or-beer-to-unwind-at-home niche (I actually think its effects are superior for that purpose), though I still drank/drink alcohol in social situations.
I have a very simple rule that I adopted when I first became a manager, and it has served me well. I won't ever fire someone for performance unless I have explicitly said to them. `If you don't do the following things in the given time frame you will be fired` I require myself to explicitly state they will loose their job, and I require to have an explicit list of exactly what needs to be done and a fixed time frame for it to be done. I feel if I as a manager can't do that, then the real issue is a failure in management not a failure in the employee.

While I have still had to fire plenty of people for performance even with this rule. I can also say that I have had multiple people actually improve their performance and get off the PiP which as I understand from talking to other managers is not a common occurrence.
Things I did right:

* Tell the girl I had a longtime crush on that I was still into her. (Got rejected, then after a bit we dated, now we are married with a kid).

* Hangouts with friends playing D&D.

* Hangouts with friends sipping whiskey and talking about life and the world.

* Meaningful conversations with people I admired.

* Traveling Europe/Asia with my girlfriend.

Things I would do differently:

* Watch less TV/movies.

* Drink less at bars

* Spend less time arguing with stupid people on the internet

* I should have looked for a well paying job sooner. If i'm not going to love my job, I might as well maximize my returns. I saved a decent amount but I probably could have been making an extra 30k a year 5-10 years earlier. Investing half of that would have meant even more financial security now.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding - how are the first 2 plans "0 SMTP emails per day", aren't all emails going through SMTP? Sorry not an email expert, just trying to understand.

But thanks for the explanation on the AWS/Sendgrid side, appreciate the information. Still curious about your service though, it looks promising.
much worse than regular win 10 insider builds, not much worse than the other previews for unreleased windows versions. Except for a few bugs in the settings menu which I've figured out ways to work around (couldn't switch easily between stereo and 5.1) I pretty much don't notices the differences between 10 and 11
Can anyone explain how this is not a breach of employment law? It reads like an on-the-face-of-it constructive dismissal case: if your manager has future intent to sack you, has no intention of helping you improve, is kpi rewarded for sacking you for reasons which don't actually relate to your performance and doesn't inform you of your status, surely it's premeditated?

I don't understand how H/R and legal can sustain this. (I do understand that they have: I'm not that stupid. So there must be some underlying reason this is legal, but I suspect it's not well "tested" in all jurisdictions Amazon employs in)
Right. And you're not supposed to shoot at them.
My sister went from making $11/hr at a book store to $20/hr staying at home on unemployment. She didn't spend any of it on anything but rent and utilities (we were already providing food for her). She went from being in debt to having about $9k in the bank. She plans to live on this until it runs out and then return to work as a service worker. She moved in with my mother to make that runway longer--she figures she can make it last somewhere between a year or two.

I don't think she's unique in this. A lot of millenials were poorly educated with job skills and personal finance. Accordingly, they dug themselves into debt with student loans and credit cards that obligated them to take shitty service jobs with no prospects. COVID-19 and extended unemployment benefits let them dig themselves out of that hole by doing nothing, but they still don't have an internal motivation that money and assets are good things to acquire.

They work to live, not live to work. They won't go back into the workforce until their personal circumstances force them back into the workforce and I don't blame them at all.
DOOM's health pickups have had the red cross on them, it was released in 1994. DOOM was a widespread cultural phenomenon, at least in the US. Did the Red Cross try to address this at all?
They determine how prominently a comment is displayed in the thread, so they do affect the user experience.