skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
isn't this the same origin of the flat earth society, a joke that ran out of space for people to all be on the inside of?
> But then house prices will fall, the economy will falter

Does not follow. Whether house prices fall and/or the economy falters is not out of your control, nor are they certain. It depends entirely on the choices made in the size of payout, the payout schedule, and enumerable other factors that can be managed to some extent.

Home buyers weren't innocent in all of this, but the worst predators were the ones that were bailed out, so the moral risk argument doesn't justify the choices made IMO.
It seems to be largely focused around very recent American politics - well over 10% of entries contain the words "trump", "biden", "obama" or "brandon" (I just learned about this last one a couple of days ago, it's incredibly stupid and esoteric yet it makes up 3% of all entries).

And just eyeballing through a few entries it's very clear this is only targeted towards American toxicity - "fux news" and Alec Baldwin and Fauci and "LIBFUK DEMOCRAPS". This is not a useful dataset for any project that needs to filter beyond US-centric toxicity (to the extent that a dataset of 1,000 comments is useful at all).
(Disclaimer: I'm a Haystack maintainer and I helped creating this demo)

I had to try it out the questions you asked, because your first seems totally answerable to me. And indeed I do get the right answer in the first position (60 million). Did you ask exactly the same question you posted?

For the second, unfortunately we included only country pages and capital city pages, so it's likely that the information about the population of Cambridge simply wasn't there.

In general though I agree this task is not perfect for a demo. It's hard to tell whether the model is wrong because it doesn't have enough info, or whether it does have the data but couldn't find it. The best way to evaluate it will always be to try it out on your own data :)
> No one would try to ruin your reputation this way and so forth

The problems that you're describing only come up if there's a centralized oracle for a globally consistent reputation score. But the only angle where we need global consistency is re: who has what token. Reputation can be ad-hoc and only locally consistent. And since you're trading goods for NFT's you're probably co-located with all of the right people anyway. After all, an NFT for filling a pothole is worth more to the people who had to deal with that pothole than it is to people far away.

If somebody is out to ruin your reputation, then they're unlikely to be involved in the transitive trust pathways that are used to validate tokens, so unless you're trying to do business with them I'm not sure why it would matter.

Yeah, there's always the possibility that somebody you trust has decided to trust a bad actor, but someone's going to know about the deception because the alleged impact is nowhere to be found, so get together as a community and figure out who the liar is and revoke their trust.
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It's in the same milieu as "problematic".
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I bet most answers to this question will conflate IPO problems with simple growth problems, and the two are hard to separate. After all, a constant drive for growth combined with accountability to a public board usually makes strong leadership and strategy challenging - it's easier IMO for public companies to fall into "we must do what is easy to hit our numbers now."

On the flip side of the same coin, the ability to offer liquid equity and essentially pay employees using the company's projected growth (RSU issuance) is often financially lucrative for employees old and new and if done correctly, can attract a different group of really strong people who aren't in a place to take the startup gamble.
Who on earth has appointed themselves as the arbiter of "toxicity"? Half the comments marked as "toxic" are just political opinions or sentences with bad language in them.

I tend to align with the person who suggested that the word "toxic" was just a secular isomorph of "sinful".
You can probably use the term clan as in Scottish clan in place of tribe.
For Matt Levine, there's always time to generate an archive link:

https://archive.md/SO0gX
Not the person you replied to, but let's talk about "global supply chain improvements" for example... When Amazon launched 2-day shipping with Prime, it was truly a landmark milestone, in terms of technology and operational prowess. I certainly wouldn't argue with you about the great impact that something like that had.

But what came next? 1-day shipping? That's a 50% improvement, when the previous benchmark was 90+% improvement going from 4-6 weeks down to 2 days. That's exactly the kind of stagnation the author is describing.

And what else happened in the past 30-50 years of supply chain optimizations? A worrying lack of investment in resiliency, in durability. COVID-induced supply shocks went from transient to semi-permanent, because by design much of our supply chain infrastructure has very little "slack" (because extra unused capacity is waste, and waste is lost profit), and thus no good way to catch-up, no good way to quickly retool, readjust, to shift manufacturing from one region to another, etc. (because, fragility is actually specialization which equals profit).

I think the person you responded to sees more of the iceberg than you give them credit for. I think there's no reason to fall victim to lowered expectations, when pretending to be futurists/futurologists... why can't we have 1-/2-day shipping, "agile" supply chains, AND resiliency and durability and ability to recover from supply shocks? Why settle for just 1 aspect of remarkable changes, and stop there?

Perhaps the world needs a few shocks to realize how much it is undervaluing the value of resiliency? In the grand scheme of things it was probably healthy to pop the stock market bubble of 1929, of the 2000s dotcom boom, and the real estate bubble in 2008. Will COVID pop the supply-chain bubble that we've built for ourselves, where we've incorrectly assessed the value of (i.e. actually the cost of), fragile supply chains?
The data set contains both right wing and left wing vitriol. As well as non-politically motivated hatred.
As much fondness as I have for the pure separation-of-concerns CSS Zen Garden style, I have to admit I've yet to actually see it leveraged on a real project. In 20 years of working on the Web. I'm not sure I've ever seen a significant re-working of CSS to re-theme a site without also changing the markup substantially.

In practice, maybe coupling the two doesn't actually do much harm, provided consistency of approach is maintained and it doesn't go quite as far as inlining CSS all over the place.
I'm not even trying to rebut OPs argument. If they have evidence for their claim I would love to see it. I see the claim that there is an epidemic of police violence and extra judicial punishment in many different places on the internet. When I press for evidence, I typically get a response like "bro, don't you see the videos on social media". That seems rather anecdotal to me and I'm interested in real numbers. I am genuinely interested in how people are coming to the conclusions they are coming to.
> Speaking as a non-cargo culting developer

Remember the HN comment guidelines?

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
A good article, I appreciate all the discussion on prompts too. However the author is a bit too underestimating of the language model and math:

> GPT-3 is quick to learn that the narratives should include these comparisons, but often gets the maths wrong:

> > During these runs he has climbed 62,599 feet, that’s the equivalent of climbing Mount Everest six times (but a bit less steep)

> Everest is ~29,000 feet, so this runner has climbed Everest roughly twice.

I think it's the author here who gets the math wrong. An Everest climb is closer to 10,000 feet, making the GPT-3 math alarmingly accurate.
Why would we not expect trolls to overtake as much of VR and AR as they have anywhere else? I’m more concerned about AR because that intersects the real world.
I am shocked by the plethora of posts by people surprised when -ffast-math breaks their code (no insult to the pspdfkit folks intended).

If it were a harmless flag you'd think it would be enabled by default. That's a clue that you should look before you leap.

We have a few files in our code base that compile with -ffast-math but the rest don't. Those files were written with that flag in mind.
Could have fun constructing some toxic contexts for the "non-toxic" examples, too. Think of all the jokes that used the phrase, "That'll do, pig" which were so great because the original context was so lovely.
>>I think the only way to get drastic action is if a large % of voting population demands it. Sadly the defeatist attitude reinforces the powerless cycle by not voting and not participating, because they think it doesn't matter. So therefore it doesn't.

Yeah - its the definition of a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's maddening that so many people are upset with how things are going, but refuse to vote..I don't care how or who you vote for...just vote! Nothing will change until people get off the sofas.
Well it's not like they're expecting people to pay for...oh $279 for the UI kit eh?
Wrong link? That's an ad for a book on graph algorithms.
I think it's the confluence of three major trends that are all going to hit concurrently, within the 2020s.

Global warming, as you mentioned, which is going to cause widespread droughts and crop failures, a redistribution of habitable land, mass migrations, and increased frequency of natural disasters.

A demographic bulge that is all hitting prime young adult & family formation age right now. Historically, societies get more violent when there is an excess of young unmarried men with poor prospects for finding a mate or raising a family. And this is exacerbated by...

Systems and institutions that have become rigid, complex, and too inflexible to change. The rational response to a large number of young adults reaching family-formation age is to build more housing. Zoning laws prevent that. The next best response is for all these young people to move to new cities and settle new land, building their own housing. You can't do this when all the land is already owned, and you need a job to have any hope of getting enough money to buy it. That forces all the people to cluster where the good jobs are, but the good jobs don't want to leave areas where skilled workers already are, and those are the same areas with a shortage of housing.

Perhaps the reason people are acting like the party is going to stop soon is because they're right. People aren't stupid; even if they haven't studied enough history to rationally analyze it, they emotionally know that something's wrong. When you switch from an abundance to a scarcity mentality, the rational response is to grab whatever you can personally, because by definition, there isn't enough to go around. And unfortunately this results in chaotic behavior that is very difficult to plan around. It'll be a great time to build long-term things after the crisis reaches a climax and everybody who's going to die and every institution that's going to fail already has. Until then, the priority is surviving to that point.
Hacker news provides its own api, but it's not as easy to use as you would like.

https://github.com/HackerNews/API#design
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While i'm not sure i agree with the parent, i know a lot of people who left the US and a lot of people who arrived, so i think i can square the circle.

1. People leave worse places (by some metric, usually poverty or opportunity) to come to US since its big and rich and full of potential. That is why immigrants come here. Its the richest big nation with lots of jobs. You can try to move to china or brazil or india which have massive populations, but the jobs pay better here. You can move to Switzerland or some EU nations that have higher avg salary, but the COL is high and immigration is even harder with less lucrative job openings available.

2. People leaving aren't the immigrants who arrived (not including returning to old country). People who "have the american dream of leaving" are the middle class white kids who don't see their own growth into top 10% of society (because they perceive their social mobility decreasing or gone), and see the exploding debt and health costs across america (often they haven't experienced directly), so they want to move to a socialized nation and "free healthcare". This is almost always a white euro nation, not eg. china or inida. Do they move? Not always.

TLDR. People still want to move to america, but some americans are basically chasing some ideal/privilege they think they can get better elsewhere.
> We were promised

We really were not promised these things. We imagined them and got carried away.
I can feel the sentiment. Movies have gotten repetitive. Storylines are recycled over and over. Characters likewise. Tech stacks copy the legacy which we've gotten bored with, change a few pieces and make a nice updated page, sell it as the amazing fancy new thing and of course hide the messed up parts. The silver bullet still hasn't been found.

It feels like everyone is trying to optimize for something. NBA teams optimize for points based on data which clearly affects where and how often they attempt to score. Companies optimize for profit as they always did. Academia optimizes for citations. Hackers optimize for productivity. Optimization has a clear path and there's no room there for innovation. Getting incrementally better is a priority.

The thing is there is a certain point where incremental steps no longer yield that much benefit. This is most obvious in the differences between athletes in some top sports where timings that used to be measured in seconds are now measured in milliseconds. Once you're perfectly optimized there's no more room for growth or progress. I feel like this is where everyone is congregating today. At the max peak of the growth function.
3ds and wii U were marketing issues in that it wasn't clear that it was the next version of the system, like nes->snes but just a slightly different version of the same thing, like DS->DS Lite.
It doesn't help that Nintendo rereleases their consoles multiple times a generation, or does things like the New 3ds which is only a slight improvement over the 3ds (extra joystick, slightly improved hardware).
But yeah, virtual boy was a failure by pretty much any metric.
Happy to help! - we've got Slack and everything :)
Better for your wallet, but worse for the job. The company changes. The type of people it attracts to leadership roles are not the kind of people you’d start a company with. They bring their “processes and methods” that they promise will scale the company and then they insulate themselves by hiring their friends to report to them. The culture is corrupt at this point and the technologists that built the company begin moving on to new challenges and you see an accelerating attrition. But the new leadership doesn’t mind as it removes credible threats to their questionable abilities. And they can backfill with more friends/lackies loyal to them.

Within a few years post IPO the Composition of the company will have totally changed. The special place becomes a regular corporation. The hyenas will try to move on to the next Prize.
> It computes FFT to decompose the sound into a set of A·cos(2πwt+φ) waves and drops the phase φ to align all cos waves together. This is known as the auto-correlation function (ACF).

How is simply dropping the phase transforming FFT into ACF (according to various definitions of ACF as shown here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocorrelation)?
I used the JIT version recently on a new landing page with code completion for class names in my IDE and found it great. The distance between what I'm picturing in my head and what I have to type to see that on the screen felt so much shorter and less fatiguing than the standard CSS approach.

With the regular way, to style something that's probably not going to appear elsewhere, I'm having to: come up with class names, annotate the HTML with them, repeat some of this annotating in a CSS file, jump back and forth between files to tweak the styles, use the web inspector to figure out which CSS class is overriding another then jump to the right CSS file to fix it etc.

Tailwind classes are also faster to type and flip between when you're experimenting (e.g. editing "mt-5" to "pb-3" vs "margin-top: 4.25em" to "padding-bottom: 2.75em") and you get less distracted because it has sensible defaults and helpful guardrails (you rarely need all the possible attributes and range of parameter values CSS has available).

I also rarely had the super irritating and common CSS scenario where you edit a style and it doesn't change and you have to go investigate to find out why e.g. something is overriding something, your selector is wrong, and even after all that maybe you undo the edit because it doesn't look good. Plus you no longer have the fear that tweaking a shared class to going to break some completely different page.

I feel that beyond some building blocks, trying to create reusable CSS classes with cascading styles has similarities to using excessive abstraction and deep OOP class hierarchies in regular programming languages to avoid a little duplication.

I also don't have a problem with styling stuff appearing in my HTML files either as long as the right HTML tags are used around the data. HTML files are already full of class annotations and divs that are only there for styling yet this doesn't cause a problem to e.g. browsers, screen readers or crawlers.
This is really cool!

Can Haystack be used to index structured data, or just text?

Is it required to use elastic as the backend, or can you use a simpler file-based or in-memory backend?
Why would they buy the data when they can subpoena it?
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Take it a step even further and just follow these channels via RSS and watch with mpv. Don't even point the browser to the site at all.
As a self taught dev myself, check out my comment here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29366106
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How about you show me the documentation since you're claiming that he's dead. All we have is his friend claiming that he's been cremated, but only has a picture of an alleged urn and a couple of claims of death with little context. No family members have come forward. No anything, really. It's rather macabre to argue this hard with so little evidence when you should be happy that Byuu is still alive somewhere, living his life.
Bureaucracies are about blame dispersal.

The messenger will be shot.
I agree and think it really is this simple. The elite created instability through complex financial products and risk taking, which caused crashes, which has been resolved through money printing that essentially debased the currency. Everyone holding assets that are not US dollars, but are based in the USA, made out like a bandit. Everyone else lost a ton of money, and their wages lost purchasing power. The metrics through which they measure inflation are completely misleading.
As an active Rust user in both my professional and hobby work, this ongoing fracas is very frustrating: everything thus far has been extremely oblique, to the detriment of my confidence in anybody in the community's ability to just speak their damn mind about what's really going on.

Some of the allegations in this post are worrisome (like the handling of travel costs, and the papering over of legitimate concerns around Palantir). But (and maybe this is just my shortsightedness) nothing explicitly stated rises to the level of "toxicity." I wish the community would be given more information so that we could fairly evaluate and justify the use of that word.
> Design in the browser with browser technology, it’s just boxes, gradients and shadows for industrial level web design at the moment. You really shouldn’t even be designing in a tool like Photoshop or Figma given the current design paradigms.

This is why all but the very best flat designs (which does not always correlate positively with the size or reputation of the firm turning them out—looking at you, Google) look to me like something I'd have turned out for a quick feature demo circa '05, with everyone at the table agreeing that, however nice the feature, a designer definitely needed to take a pass at it before it was released.
Glad it worked for you - thanks for sharing!
Heard the same from other moralists for quite some time about marijuana. They had tons of "data" about the societal costs of it.
And which was acquired by Life360 last month.
Woof, maybe don't build a classifier off this. It's very much a snapshot in time sort of thing.
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The other reason for automating a repetitive task is to reduce errors. When you do the same think 100 times you're bound to miss an instance, or paste the text in in the wrong place, or whatnot.
Right? This idea literally goes back to the Code of Hammurabi.
Right. Madera to Bakersfield by 2035. This project is a joke and everyone knows it - choosing the route for political reasons, appointing politically connected sham contractors like Tutor Perini, declining the SNCF proposal to run this along I-5 instead, etc.

Texas will likely get its high-speed rail well before we do.
The collapse of Tether is likely to be right in the middle of the crash and the exchanges will have suspended withdrawals already, and everyone will be looking for a lifeboat.

You have a database entry showing that you have a large amount of winnings that you can see on your screen.

You are going to have to deal with corrupt human beings on other end, who are outside of your jurisdiction, and are assuming they are just going to wire your bank account money based on that database entry, when you have no leverage over them at all, and when they will be better able to see the writing on the wall than you do.

Even within your jurisdiction, for something like Coinbase, if it becomes completely insolvent then you become an unsecured creditor in the bankruptcy liquidation process.

You'll be stuck yelling into the ether making twitter posts shaming them for not wiring you your winnings. And whatever actual cash you sent them to make those bets will be long gone and you'll lose everything.

Even assuming you could find some form of betting market outside of the crypto exchanges to place bets with other people that Tether would collapse the interest you have to pay should more than offset the eventual winnings. This is similar to how using options for portfolio insurance is a poor idea because by the time you're worried about your portfolio losing value everyone else can see the issue as well and wants a premium to write you that insurance.

And there's no sure bet that Tether/crypto collapses in the near term. I suspect that crypto will likely pop to a new bubble blow-off peak in 2022 and then 2022/2023 there will be another systemic test of crypto that could lead to its failure. But there's many billionaires with a vested interest in seeing the game continue who will do whatever they can to kick the can further down the road. I thought that it would fail in 2018 and was wrong (but the transcripts with bitfinex showed that it was probably on the brink). You could wind up betting Tether collapses for so long that by the time it finally does you've spent more on those bets than you've won back.