skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried a couple of the prompts from the WebGPT paper: "How do trains turn?", "How do neural networks work?", "Why was the Suez Canal blocked in March 2021?" and got a 'No Relevant Answer' response on each. Are there no search APIs you could integrate instead of maintaining your own index? Either way this is a very cool project and I'm excited to see this space progress.
There's a dead comment (so I can't reply to it) wondering how much these cost. In October, it was reported that US states were overpaying compared to Europe [1]:

> Rapid antigen tests can cost as little as $2 each to make, according to Mologic, one of the largest British testmakers. But in the United States, bidding wars between health systems, state governments, and employers have contributed to much higher prices. ... In Germany, large government purchases allow it to offer rapid tests to residents for less than $1 each

Here in Denmark, they're about 25kr ($4) each in shops, or a little less if ordered online. However, most people go to the public test centres, which are free. (We've reached an average of 19 tests per person, which I think doesn't include home tests.)

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...
Why I'm Leaving Harvard
Hasn't there been genetic research that proved single origin? Read it a few years ago.
Indeed. Although, most of the time when someone ends up in one of those other 2 scenarios, long-term finances are not their primary objective ;)
$20/mo for 4K streaming is insane in 2022.
Ha, I'm trying to start a data ownership forum now. My approach has been to have it be a central place for support for all my open source projects. We'll see how that works out.
that would be enormously wasteful
If you click to the reddit thread for that word, people mention translations in various languages.

I saw this shared on reddit a few days ago, it's a cool idea but the actual words... there exist very few that are actually untranslateable. If you know more than one or two languages, you probably spot some of them pretty fast. (It's funny you mention specifically -ish, that's one of the words I was skeptical about and clicked through to the thread on, and thus knew that people in the thread mentioned various translations.)
Part donkey, part wild ass, the kunga is the oldest known hybrid bred by humans
Developers Now Able to Submit Claims for from Apple in Lawsuit Settlement
Interestingly my country (France) shows the same trend, but with a peak almost reaching 50%. It also shows that after that peak, the number of women in IT kept increasing then stagnated, while men exploded: https://imgur.com/a/gNHHIxm (rehosted, original website is dead)

This might be anecdotal, but I did an engineering school, CS/IT section. It was one of the very first school of my country to have a dedicated CS/IT program and diploma (the section opened over 50 years ago, 40 at the time I was there). A few hundred students each year. One of my teachers was one of the students dating from a few years after the section opened. He told us a few times that when he was studying, each promotion of the section was usually 50% men 50% women, sometimes more women even. When I graduated, it was close to 80% men. The nearby CS focused private school, where one of my friends was going, had 2 women for hundreds of men.
Interesting. My sister and I both had mononucleosis before puberty, and she was diagnosed with MS in her late twenties.
> That actually harms the case that it DOES, since you would expect the odds of it causing issues would increase with amount ingested.

Not necessarily? The correlation is observed, and there may be causation, in one, or both, directions, that is all we can conclude from the study. The causality doesn't have to be linear with the amount ingested, few things are linear in biology. For example, one could imagine that a certain amount blocks the development of a particular region of the brain. Ingesting more does not necessarily blocks it "more".

There is no evidence that this happens, but it is worth exploring, because schizophrenia is a hell of a condition, and is still largely misunderstood.
Seems similar to a slack bot / platform I wrote

Bot: https://insideropinion.com/

Platform: https://metacortex.me/

I think the main thing that needs to be more personal, ask follow up questions and let users click IMO
Comparing Eugene's exploit to a decentralized root owned by the commons that complements ICANN's system is confusing to me. I can understand how his exploit could be a formative experience for you, what I can't understand is how that experience relates to Handshake.

What you're saying is like, "imagine if a security researcher decided he was tired of getting paid much less than he deserves and decides to hack a bank," and then using this imagined experience as a "logical" reason to hold disdain for something.

You're welcome to your opinion, but please stop trying to paint a false picture about Handshake specifically unless you're using actual facts that are real life and not imagined.
"te quiero" = "i adore you"
As long as the current COVID protocols stay in place (people needing or feeling they need to get tested after every possible COVID exposure, testing young children any time they have a runny nose so they can go to daycare, etc), I doubt that the supply chain will ever be able to support the number of tests demanded. If you run the numbers it's pretty insane how many of those test-kits would be needed.
I swear there was a lot of support for him back in 2016 claiming that
- he was just trying to get R&D money for a newer toxoplasmosis drug

- his company made the drug available for free to the uninsured somehow

- he didn't do anything uncommon for the industry. He's being made a scapegoat while other companies commit the same crimes and get off scott free.

I've listened through his finance and chemistry lessons on youtube and found them very engaging and educational. However, I can't find any documentation supporting the apologist claims above, so I'm inclined to say that the judge is obviously in the right here.
Renault CEO vows to go fully-electric by 2030
FWIW Kaiser Permanente does do some research on patient records -- it is integrated, has scale, and has relatively sophisticated computer systems. It also is quite big and (roughly speaking) has the division of labor that you're suggesting.
I make Walden Pond, so if you've got any questions, go for it!
That has never been the definition of translation.
I also had many of those “where do I find food?” Nothing...
Not in my experience (3 houses so far, early 30s).

The way I’ve seen markets move is that certain price bands are more susceptible to fluctuations than others. For example, over the course of a 4 year period you might see the entry point for the market go from $400k to $500k, while the $500-$600k band sees a 30% increase, the $700-$800 band sees a 20% increase, and the $900-$1m sees a 10% increase.

So while the entire market is moving up, certain bands become more affordable if you can capitalize on a higher percentage band.
Better yet is its replacement, "Latin@", which can not be pronounced at all.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/01/07/168818064...

>The University of Wisconsin uses it this way in the official name for its Department of Latin@ and Chican@ Studies. Karma Chavez, a professor there, said that the push toward gender neutrality in Spanish has been going on for decades.

>OK, but how would you actually say it aloud?

>"Well, this is where things get complicated," Chavez said. "Most people end up just saying Chicano and Chicana."
So? Illegal the legal according to then overruled by SCOTUS, and widely misunderstood when it’s used as a reference?
Different photos of the same person leave wildly different first impressions
So, "their credentials cannot be examined or questioned" yet "they clearly aren't qualified in the field based on the quality of the analysis"?

Why, according to you are they worth and not worth examining?
> As long as users are not compensated for their content, the audience will be fed with trash

Not really. On the opposite. If there is no money to be made there is no ad harvesting bullshit to be made.
Yes, but salaries are spiking in non-tech companies too, and they are not having record profits.
He left google, too.
“Who was smarter, Neanderthals or humans?” (something like this, was suggested)

Reply: Relevant information that didn’t answer the question.

Follow up:
“what language did neanderthals speak”

Reply: Happiness is a state of well-being, characterized by a sense of satisfaction and enjoyment.

Not a very interesting conversation, I’m afraid :)
I don't see many YouTube links posted here, but this Kurzgeasgt video blew my mind on this topic. Our immune system really is amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmpuerlbJu0
Other. I'm not looking for work because I'm already retired. :-P Before I retired (just over a year ago) my main reason would have been that I enjoyed the problems I was working on and my coworkers. Even though I've barely touched a line of code since I quit, I still miss both.

Also, I'd have to echo some of the other comments about modern tech interviews. I would have run the gauntlet again if I had really needed to, but I strongly preferred to avoid that need. It's worth noting that it gets worse as you get older. Every year, your knowledge base and that of most interviewers will diverge. Sooner or later some poorly-trained interviewer will judge you because you don't know a two-year-old algorithm that they still remember from school, which neither of you ever has used or will use in your day-to-day work, but nobody will ever ask about the ten things that you do know ... even when the lack of that knowledge locally is your value-add and the very reason why the company should hire you. They're the "unknown unknowns" and even if you bring them up yourself their value will be dismissed for lack of experience and context. It's intensely frustrating, but frustration is another thing you don't want to show in an interview. Gotta put on a happy face and stroke the kids' egos. It's no wonder senior people are leaving the industry even faster than natural "aging out" would suggest. I put up with a lot of crap in my last year just because the alternative seemed even worse.
Interesting insights, my brain always goes to how to reduce inefficiency but there are many more things at play.
I have to ask one important question, even though talent is more valuable than money, companies still don't have infinite amounts of money to simply rise pay for everyone.

Some companies operate in not that profitable markets or have bunch of other issues.

Cost of attrition is still dispersed over the time and while you loose the knowledge at hand it still might be cheaper to build it back over a year than drop cash on people right here right now.

There is such thing as time-value of money and company might prioritize other investments that in long term will outweigh knowledge lost as knowledge can be rebuilt and gains from other investment might not.

Of course one can say - there will be some knowledge that will be gone. From practical point of view, if that knowledge that is lost would be so valuable it would most likely resurface or would be rediscovered quickly by new hires. Maybe not ideally but still in a way that company can continue.
What is with Americans viewing every issue through a red/blue, republicans/democrats or conservative/progressive lens?
Almost certain you're right :) Only exception is the nicotine, but I'm working my way down!
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For the curious, Florida Gov Desantis revealed they'd let 800,000 to 1 million tests expire sitting in a warehouse. The federal govt granted an exception and they're being sent out to be used at testing sites. These aren't at-home tests.
Yeah they just faced famine and starvation instead.
Zendesk pretends to be open source?
My favorite pithy quote is "In theory, it works in practice; in practice, it works in theory."
How to Be Useless
Real science investors with access to high level nuclear talent never seemed to think much of this company.

Its financing seems to be Koch Industries, through a strange sort of PR/VC arm they have.

The denial is substantive. I am pro fission but, erm, would rather go with Westinghouse.
There aren't any organizations that build reactors though. You'd have to go to France or China.
I don't believe PP taking money is the outlier here. I know far too many people in real life who have had funds seized and never returned. I imagine it's happened to more people I know but who haven't spoken to me about it. I have had PP close one of my early accounts and keep the money.

As much as I hate Visa/MC/Amex et al they have never just stolen my money, or even left me holding the bag if someone got ahold of a number (as opposed to banks which have always left me hanging a la PP).
It would be quite bad.

See this page: https://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/dutc.html

And scroll down to "Implementing the plan outlined at Torino", taking note of the "Notable event" column.

Edit: I think I misunderstood your question. This table shows the results of what would happen if we just stopped adding leap seconds.
Connect your crypto wallet, to this completely legit website with a slightly different domain name than the real domain name, add like, 3ETH to your wallet, and agree to the transaction. I promise it's official and you're not approving me taking all the crypto and NFTs out of your wallet.

(Joke, by the way. Although something that can happen if you're not careful).
It's fruitless to discuss signs of a failing startup since almost all tech startups fail. They fail with good management and bad management, good product and bad product, good developers and bad developers. If there was a way to know that a startup wasn't going to fail it would almost certainly not be a startup.

If you're worried about failure then work at a more established company with a lower risk profile. If you're going to work at a startup then don't worry so much about whether it will succeed or fail, but rather whether you enjoy working there, you like your team, you like what you're learning and that you're getting compensated reasonably well. Anyone on HN that thinks they can predict whether your startup will fail based on 6 sentences you wrote about it is just blowing hot air.

Just as an example, I've been running my company for close to 15 years now and almost everything people are saying in these comments about failure could easily apply to me, and yet my company still exists and is going strong. I only promote from within the company, I never hire external management and it's a principle I strongly value. Apparently that makes my company a failure.

I always make it clear to everyone I hire before they accept that our business is risky and our company can go bankrupt tomorrow without warning. I never pretend or exert any kind of false sense of confidence and on the contrary I'd rather people understand and appreciate the risky nature of this business. Apparently that makes my company a failure.

My company pivots all the time on stuff and we are always looking for new and interesting projects to work on. We've explored crypto lending, decentralized poker, VR, prediction markets, and a social dining platform, all of which have failed but were incredibly worthwhile experiences that everyone had a good time working on and learning from. Apparently that makes my company a failure.

My company is big on tooling, from formal verification methods, to custom tooling developed for our in-house UX/UI team to prototype complex financial interfaces and data visualizations, to highly sophisticated performance monitoring and alerting tools, we even developed our own functional reactive programming language. Apparently that makes my company a failure.

With that said, maybe my company is a failure and next week I'll be the one to find out... but it's been a great 15 years for me and everyone I work with, we all get paid well, we get a chance to work on things we like with people we respect and I wouldn't have had it any other way, failure or not.
Establishing a long-term alliance with J.B. Hunt for autonomous trucking
To some extent Science is a big project to understand how the universe works. We should hope to understand the phenomena that we investigate to the point where library versions and random seeds don't matter so much -- assuming the code is not buggy, and the statistics are well done, those factors shouldn't come into play.

However, sometimes chemists find out that the solvents they use to clean their beakers are leaving trace amounts of residue, which accidentally contribute to later reactions.

> Ideally you should also publish log files with all such information so people could try to use at least the same software and library versions.

looks to me like a result that requires borrowing a particular lab's set of beakers. Not what we're looking for.
They are, they’re just not mainstream medicine.
The cheapest I've seen in U.S. retail was $7.50 / test ($15 for 2-pack) from Wal-mart, which has recently increased to $10 / test.
just use bspwm!
+1 on the bell peppers. Delicious to snack on.
> See slide 16, which already looks quaint just a year or two later.

That's nothing.

PG&E's natural gas rates have gone up 400% since 2008 (inflation since that time has been about 30%):
https://www.pge.com/tariffs/Residential.pdf

The huge jump happened in 2016, and it's stayed high since. The jump reflected increase in natural gas prices and also costs for PG&Es San Bruno pipeline explosion and the resulting higher cost of maintenance of natural gas infrastructure. It was a clear demonstration of the hidden liabilities in old natural gas distribution infrastructure.

It's interesting to note how PG&E's stock price also fared from 2016:
https://www.google.com/search?q=pge+stock+price&oq=pge+stock...

which also is when they stopped paying a dividend:
https://www.streetinsider.com/dividend_history.php?q=pcg
If your employer is blocking you from coming back into the office due to health reasons, how can they mandate you use vacation days for it? Was the alternative to be without pay?
That’s not really my understanding of it, but I’m not perfectly bilingual either.
From this page:

> Top 10 open source helpdesk ticketing systems

> 1. Zendesk

> 2. etc

Followed by:

> Zendesk is an open API ticket system which means third-party developers can build new integrations on our platform. Unlike other open source ticketing systems, Zendesk software offers all the advantages of open source ticketing without your team having to build a system from scratch.

And at the top:

> Best Open Source Ticketing System

> Open source help desk for a smarter, more agile customer service operation.

> Start free trial

EDIT: Here's some actual open source help desk software. Anyone got any further recommendations?

https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#tic...
Well we're all creatures of opinion; but there is a lot here without much real backing. We have a similar post on tech forums for almost every company from Apple to ... I can't think of a company name starting with Z, Volkswagen will have to do. And pretty much every startup if someone cares to look in to them.

Cynicism is extremely easy. Every company looks dodgy from the outside and most of them are dodgy. Many such posts turn out to be correct. But that is because cynicism is misplaced - the point of these startups is that some of them will, despite looking dodgy, turn out to be keystones for trillions of dollars of industrial success.

The upside of a serious energy revolution completely outweighs any of these points raised. There needs to be a way for dodgy-looking startups to experiment without just getting a "nah, this year's work is a write off. Oh well lol" from regulators.
Women were never in computing in the sense imagined by the author.

The manual "computers" and early patch-cord "programmers" he mentions carried out instructions by wrote. Instructions created by men. Women left the field when these jobs became obsolete.

Hopper is a notable exception. Lovelace, not so much.[1]

Women did a lot of QA through the aughties. Again, this work was automated.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K5p_tBcrd0&t=36m29s
its probably because they are being fired for not succumbing to the government edict to get vaccinated
Is it possible its using context from other users sessions, instead of just your own? It seemed to be answering questions unrelated to the "conversation" I was having.
Logistically speaking, I wonder how partnering with Amazon was not the cheapest and fastest solution.

Or even Walmart. Most of my BinaxNow tests shipped via Walmart within a week.
Washington, D.C., Has an Insider-Trading Problem
The problem is that literally every single voter in America nods furiously at this statement.... but only about their guy
Congratulations on (hopefully!) getting a phase 2 approved, that can be a breath of life for a lot of smaller companies.
Rhodes scholar who claimed she was poor loses place at Oxford
Agreed.

Some people feel that the mass asymptomatic testing serves to give perpetual fodder for sensationalist media headlines, as well as justification for public officials to impose new rounds of lockdowns, etc. As such those people believe that participating in asymptomatic testing only worsens those problems by creating "cases" in the absence of any actual clinical problem (that is to say, declaring people who are asymptomatic as COVID-19 positive even though COVID is an acronym that includes the word "disease"). They may also be against the general idea of constantly testing for the presence of a specific respiratory virus, however unique SARS-CoV-2 may be.

Better to ship the tests to the people that actually want them.

--

As an aside, you're right about "a large % of the red state population(s)", but I'd add that most "blue" people seem to think republicans are much more anti-vax / anti-test than they are. A majority of republicans are vaccinated, and a majority appear to support masking (at least indoors), or at the least are willing to begrudgingly comply. Here in California I feel like I meet a lot of people that seem to think that republicans are overwhelmingly "anti-vax" or, even more humorously, that Trump is anti-vax (humorous because his vocal praise of "boosters" and incessant bragging that he deserves credit for the vaccines and that the vaccines+lockdowns saved tens/hundreds of millions of lives, is one of his most unpopular stances with his base)
Yes, I think this very often. In fact, I think it is an inevitable future evolution of society. It will likely start out with the oceans - private islands and super yachts are being rapidly built and purchased by elites around the world.

If you're a pleb, like me, I think the best bet is to just hunker down, keep your head down, stay away from mentally ill types, and focus on getting very good at a useful skill. The elite will still need software engineers to build out the dystopia.
Amazon's own private (in stock) Covid PCR test collection kits take at least 3 days to deliver. There's no "get it by tomorrow" option.
That may end up being faster delivery than covidtests.gov, but let's not pretend that Amazon is the one to save us.
You might want to wait for the new Intel Alder Lake processors or upcoming AMD options. Early benchmarks look promising with a decent jump in performance and efficiency and they should be rolling out in laptops the next few months.
a viral load balancer
And I wonder that Grammarly didn't pay me even a penny for this issue I published in their Bug Bounty channel on the HackerOne.
Seems like we are closer to "Demolition Man" to me than "Escape from LA"...but the year is just starting :)
Why do you think I said it the way I did?

Really, this is going nowhere. You seem to think I said something I didn't, and I can't change your mind.

Have a nice day.