skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HAH, I recall, in London UK, the Colorado potato beetle invaded the UK. A serious pest, soon a 5 pound bounty was offered for each dead beetle - thousands went to the fields. Thousands discovered you could breed them at home on potato greens - which were easily found at any farm. Soon thousands were handed in for the bounty.
This cat soon escaped the bag and the bounty decreased and ended and the DDT was applied...
(apologies - I love cats and never bag them)
>> but otherwise are a fairly trivial item with no "culture" nor politics associated with it

>Why would that reduce their risk? Flipping the question: why would this gun culture bring to more guns being actually fired? (for recklessness, violence, whatever stupid reason)

Availability, if nothing else. See also: Tide Pods
Long term reliability and maintenance costs need to be proven.
Smalltalk JITs do just fine with introspection and certainty Python does not have some magic feature that Smalltalk lacks.
It's illegal to buy dollars.

I am buying an asset that is pegged to the USD dollar. That is not illegal neither is buying USD denominated bonds. In fact the goverment even has sold USD denominated bonds.
This has become a general problem. There seems to be more money in "software services" than in building tractors and motors.

John Deere is not unique. All common rail engines require a visit from a "certified engineer" who has access to the software. This is terrible in the marine industry where you can't get one in the middle of the ocean and you can't repair yourself either. What do you do? Do you sail to a harbor? You can't unless you have a sailboat. Get a tow to the nearest Volvo/Yanmar dealer? You must be kidding, thousand of miles away?

So yes, that lawsuit makes sense.

As for a class action lawsuit some of the comments in the thread misunderstand how it works:
1. Secure one or two plaintiffs. Two or three is better. Make sure they represent owners well: no conflicts, not paid to sue, good/clean plaintiffs.
2. Find the right location for the lawsuit. Location is very important in the US. Not only the state but the county. This is VERY important. Good plaintiff lawyers know where to sue.
3. Get your judge to certify the class action. "this lawsuit is on behalf of all users of John Deere tractors, etc". This is ALSO very important. John Deere will fight that. They will claim that those two plaintiffs do not represent the class, blabla.
4. Fight in court. Other plaintiffs have nothing to do. If the class action lawsuit wins on behalf of thousands of owners this represents a lot of money. It costs nothing to plaintiffs. Lawyers typically get 30%, sometimes less. If they are too greedy (they all are) the judge may object and cut down the fees.
5. Users can “opt out” of the payment if John Deere loses in court after appeals. Most plaintiffs do not opt out because they can’t afford to fight big corporations.

Unfortunately corporations are not always fair. We have seen many, many cases when poor farmer John just could not pay the exorbitant costs imposed by John Deere. Understand that these people have learned to be self-sufficient. They weld their broken massive tools in the field. They call the mobile repair shop to fix and tune their engines. Now they can't do anything. That massive, expensive John Deer is like a beached whale. Nothing you can do about it.

Hence class action lawsuits in the US. Some of them are abusive (i.e.recent att phone bills, 100M customers collect $1, lawyers collect $30M), but sometimes there are no other ways (asbestos, workplace injuries, brain damage near chemical waste from mining). Folks outside the US struggle to understand the system.

It is why today you can enjoy Non-Apple store repairs to your phone, non OEM parts for your car or non branded cartridges for your printer.

I wish that such a lawsuit will force John Deere to change its practices, like it forced other companies to do so.
You've ironically proved my point - there may be resources like this, but they require much more effort to access. Furthermore, like of a mandate means that those who aren't required to take the class may not even be aware that it exists.

If you're a manager who hasn't taken Managing Within the Law or whatever, you may get in trouble, but as an IC you don't even get the option!
To be frank, whataboutism like this reply is really detrimental to the quality of many discussions around any topic, but particularly when it is about crypto.

Any and all criticism is deflected with “but look at x, they do y which is just the same. Well so what?

Bad behavior within another system doesn’t absolve the system under scrutiny from criticism.
Do some airlines not provide details, or is that some other issue? I'm seeing a flight 3C7601 that shows -1 passengers and -1 engines. Same for 4007f3 from British airways and 394a06 from air France. A8060C seems to have something in the way, it's just gray with a black stripe
It would be funny if Medium were acquired by Twitter, given Ev’s history with both companies.

Relatedly, long live Posthaven!
HR should have denoted an asterisk on each entry saying something to the effect of “to comply with hiring policy.”

And to use phrase like “try for more female”, instead of “must be female”.
I don't read everything or for the sake of reading. I read what I find interesting.

Sometimes I just can't connect with the author and their way of explaining things.

I read multiple times. First time, I skim quickly over everything to see if it's worth it and I want to dig into it. Second time I read a bit slower and take high level notes on areas I want to dig more on. Third time I read but make it an emphasis to pay attention to the areas I took notes on and dig into those with more references if I need to.

I expand my notes. I don't expect my head to retain it all. Make it easy to search. Figure out what works for you. If you go written on paper, figure out how to organize things.

I figure out a project in which to try new things and I try them. This goes back to, I don't read everything or for the sake of reading.
Farmers are equipment nerds. It comes with the territory. They aren't an ignorant consumer market, which is why we're seeing a big push for right to repair from that industry - hopefully they carry the torch for ignorant consumers in computers and cars and other markets.
I understand it caused some issues for other emulators because fan made patches and such were sometimes coded to work with the quirks thereof, but I agree that I never noticed such when playing games.
It's interesting to see the edge cases where the algorithm struggles to find the last letter.

> shave: [slate: 20202, share: 22202, shame: 22202, shape: 22202, shake: 22202, shade: 22202]

I guess it needs to find the right choice of [r, m, p, k, d, v] to get "shave" (since 'v' is so rare it takes 6 guesses!). Trying "marks" and "paved" would narrow that list down in 2 guesses (and a third to actually try "shave")

Anyone code this up yet? (I haven't, I took a greedy approach too [0]). Wonder how to generalize such a plan.

[0]: https://github.com/jdan/wordle.ml
This isn't a casual question, this is a question about hiring practices. Who do you think dictates the hiring practices which this person's boss is putting into spreadsheets, etc? Going to HR first is going right to the source and saying, "is what you're doing legal?" This is not a smart move IMHO.
If it's too hard to deal with this puzzle without being racist, work up to it!

Here are some practice puzzles:

https://www.cafepress.com/+anti-racism+puzzles
Who wants to bet that Russia has an intelligence programme trying to foment anti-nuclear sentiment in Germany?

You heard it here first.
I don't know but my manager was a non-technical guy with passion for fashion and even his shirts weren't as nice!
I would consider who's working against you since an act of God can more easily turn a forest into a desert.
Efficiency comes from mastery.
Hmm, looks like HN hugged it to death. I'll open an Issue. Probably on archive.org though.
That's interesting. Sure they were late, but how was it worse than nothing?
Yeah, I think my average is closer to 4, ugh! But the program has shown me some strategies that seem interesting. It always guesses "slate" first, and if that has no greys it guesses "crony", and that one-two punch seems to do me well fairly often.
Reminds me of BBS.
All of civilization needs a never ending supply of greater fools to keep operating and reward the early investors.

We call them children.

If you don't want to participate in this ponzi, then chop wood and carry water until you can't anymore and let your body return to the earth.
You can follow a link here to get full access to the paper (the HTML button):

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C45&q=Sex...

ScienceDirect paywalls papers unless you arrive via Google Scholar.

Edit: this only works if you're logged in to a Google account.
Why not simply choose a guess which narrows the set of possible solutions the most?

This could be improved by looking one step further, but this would probably require some kind of optimization / heuristic / approximation to make it computationally feasible.
Perl has a similar syntax, it is quite nice

sub my_funct{
my($x, $y) = @_;
#…
goto &my_funct($x, $y);
}

In Perl this is convenient because effectively with just adding the goto keyword you reduce all the memory use and risk of blowing your stack (recursion is otherwise super inefficient in Perl).
Would you mind telling me exactly which patchset you are referring to?
Somebody had already tweeted about solving it and finding that 3 guesses suffice, using alpha beta search (though he didn’t use the term “alpha beta” because he might have reinvented it).

Unfortunately, I can’t seem to dig up the tweet.
Side note on web design: uBlock blocked nothing. Usually when a page that looks like this comes up, I notice 10's to 100's of blocked requests.

On top of that, I disabled JS out of curiosity, and the site worked completely fine, sans expected failures (the only thing that stopped working was the little videos by the libraries)!

I think this is the first site with this level of "Design" (Which I usually hate, but they did a really good job of here here) where both of these things are true.
> useful social information

Academic language for gossip?
That is untrue for native arm apps. The OS actually requires signing. If you are running an x86 app through Rosetta you can currently avoid code signing requirement.

https://eclecticlight.co/2020/08/22/apple-silicon-macs-will-...
What about .&= for default arguments?, inspired by Ruby.
Since you're still a student, I feel like maybe I can offer some advice:

First, I think you're getting the wrong lesson from this. The key takeaway is stay to away from IBM. Almost everyone in the field has known that Watson is a bunch of marketing hype since day one. It's no surprise that Watson Health didn't work out. That doesn't mean that everything is overhyped, and it's important to develop a good sense for what is and what isn't when deciding where to work.

Second, every technology looks stupid when it's new. Airplanes, computers, the Internet, mobile phones -- they all had drawbacks that made them vastly inferior to the alternatives for most tasks for the first years/decades of their existence. It takes a lot of iteration and improvement to make something that's useful for everyone. Chatbots will probably get there some day - but it will take some big improvements in NLP. Perhaps this is the time to be working on them since we have a good idea of what we'd like them to do, and we just need to solve the challenges to get there.

Finally, realize that you're not the typical user. I doubt if very many people take the time to go through the menus like you did.
Yeah, I don't want to give the game away on my next program but its along those lines, and there are some challenges to making it work that I'm still figuring out haha.
Theoretically, if the government became abusive enough, factions of law enforcement and military would take sides. Not that I see a civil war as being likely, although some experts see signs pointing to the possibility. It's certainly an interesting topic to research - a 1st world government abusive enough to cause the people to fight, and would they actually fight or would it be resolved through succession etc.

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-close-to-violent-conflict...
> But how long is this trend away from tech going to last?

Nobody knows. It’s a non-answer, but the only truthful one.
How would you know if they worked? By their virtue they are used for privacy
These tools make me want to build command line tools!
This is the real decentralized web. Current web sucks because your data touches servers you re supposed to "trust". Trust nothing
These apps look wonderful, only taking a casual glance at the repo, has anyone used, or would one recommend using Skate (https://github.com/charmbracelet/skate) as a personal PW manager or even keychain?
Watch this space :D
Congratulations, Torsus, you have made simultaneously the best and worst thing ever for an eight-year-old boy. You get to ride to school in a monster truck... on days that school would've normally been cancelled.
IMO years of experience is not the right way to determine who belongs at a level. I've seen an effective L5 with 2 "years of experience" (AKA 2 years out of school) and with 10 years of experience.

People develop at different paces and focus on their career to varying degrees. This discrepancy can be possible for a variety of reasons:

- Different amounts of focus on career development

- More success/effectiveness in focusing on career development

- Luck of being in the right or wrong place at the right time

- Development of other skills that are unrelated to what makes someone a successful L5

I realize after I type this that this does not really address what you said - I don't mean to nitpick your use of the word "experience", and as you can tell I do agree with what you're saying that L5 can be career/terminal position.
Despite being a totally different language based around message passing with no control structures?

None of those are insurmountable, they merely make writing a JIT harder if you want to support them: it’s hard to inline a function call if the inclining can have a visible effect.
Or dylan or julia
If you right off the bat guess "bound" and then positions 2, 3, 4, and 5 all come up green, then your goal needs to then be to use words like 'morse' to rule out (in one fell swoop) words like 'sound', 'mound' and 'round'. Then, if it's not ruled out, you can then choose words that just have m and s, or s and r.
Thank you for answering.

I lived in a area where there were a lot of small and fairly poor farmers. I also had a machine shop. You can see where this is going: come harvest time tons of stuff that had been sitting for a year suddenly had to work 16 hours per day and predictably quite a bit of it would break in the field, usually simple stuff, bearings, shafts, welds. So once word got around that I was an ok welder with a machine shop every year a couple of farmers would find their way to my door with broken balers, older harvesters and s on. Fixing those would keep us in produce and meat for months. But I never ran into a Mahindra, though they were in use.
Ancient Crab Had Unusually Large Eyes
not really, the basic mechanics for most companies are

1) The CEO was consulted on a particular comp plan for the new year with budgets for promotions/new hires/retention etc.

2) The CEO was almost certainly given a "generic" plan that the investors of the company + whatever data the HR team has indicates is warranted.

3) The CEO has to decide between going to bat for the employees with the investors (his boss), pushing back on HR with no data, or just accepting it.

Unsurprisingly the CEO always takes option 3 - everyone is breathing their own exhaust on what a good raise for the year is and the investors will often present a generic comp plan. You'll usually hear things like "we pay the median" or similar to justify this, but the root cause is always the same, bad data driving bad decisions.

Also note that generally these comp plans are made regardless of role. Engineering being more cyclical tends to have rapidly increasing comp on the up-cycle and struggles to match this model. On the flip side we all may be great full that HR doesn't mark comp to market.
There are organized programs and support at principal
Private 5G is coming soon to a business near you
What if I told you that PI contains child porn?
My son thought the result of that court case was a load of BS.

Probably most of the people who'd get picked for a jury would automatically pick the side of a game developer over a gamer.
> Is Soft Serve for people who don't want to use GitHub?

There's no web UI for soft serve, it's strictly a command line and config driven git repo manager. It's more of a direct comparison to look at gitolite (also a script/CLI driven repo manager).

If you're looking for a run your own web UI for git, check out gitea.
Very helpful, thank you. Which part of Sweden are you in, by the way.
“The committee”. Directors sit on it. I have lots of good relationships with most directors in my org.
If I had to guess, it might be this assertion:

“I think it would be very difficult to overvalue that”

Most people I speak with feel that the market, and tech especially, is overvalued. Put differently, the expectations of returns is so far in the future that they’d rather hold their money back for a nearer term bet.
Going for greens is a good heuristic, but the general solution is to seek guesses that shrink the size of the set of compatible words the most. https://langproc.substack.com/p/information-theoretic-analys...
How do you prove the long-term reliability of a new engine design?

An electromagnetic motor and drivetrain is incredibly simple
Sounds nice and self-affirming, and of course it's a free planet so in principle you can ask for anything you want (including that they calendar you in to speak with other team members whom you hypothesize to exist)... But in practice, you often just aren't granted a lot of time to ask your own questions, and usually I find that the time you do get suffices for at best the barest of basic questions that one has to ask (like all the basic stuff about working conditions they were supposed to tell you but usually don't unless you ask, etc).

Also, this strikes me as rather weird:

Having zero representation of someone like you can be a very bad sign of how the team respects diverse perspectives.

It's known that tech is disproportionately male - and not surprisingly, quite a few teams are all male. In fact, going by one easily findable statistics some 84 percent of software engineers are male. Which means that a team of size 5 has a 41 percent chance of being all-male.

And yet she is literally saying that -- should she encounter one of these 41 percent of 5-member teams which are all male -- this "can be a very bad sign of how the team respects diverse perspectives."
What is the demographic you think this is perfect for?

Just curious who this appeals to. It's not for me but that's OK I like opinionated things and recognised that that this is aimed at someone who probably will love it.
I think there's a nomenclature problem there, people who advocate for capitalism are arguing for more freedom (e.g. against interventions like this), so it sounds to them like it would if someone said "don't pee on the electric fence" and someone replied "we already have that rule, but people are peeing on it anyway and it's causing terrible wounds" and then they go "what? that's literally what we're saying not to do."

Then you can see why "well, it still happens anyway even in a system where that's a rule" leaves you kinda talking past each other.
Visualizing America's Electric Vehicle Future
An idea for someone. Set up a site "adiosmedium.com" or whatever with a list of these blogs, and an RSS aggregator link of all of them. Take submissions based on old medium link and new blog link. Proof being a post on the medium link saying "i'm moving to ...", and a clear history of good posting.

Fun low/no-code project for someone maybe!
There is so much study of human nature in this short remark.
Because of Thiel's lack of ethics and his support for the political far right?
Thanks!

Even if gun obsession is a cultural thing, how that translates to gun violence? And to gun recklessness?
What Is Blue/Green Deployment
It really depends on what you are trying to optimize. Least guesses on average may not want a 50/50 split it might want say a 60/40 split where the 60% is 2 guesses and the 40% is 3. But that loses to a 48:52 split which gives 2 guess 80% of the time etc.
I agree completely. I disable all comments on my blogs and if people want to discuss then Twitter or Reddit seem to make much more sense.

Otherwise you end up spending a ton of time just removing spam, never mind trying to make sense of and respond to the comments that may get randomly left years after the original post.
diabolical!
I don’t get it - I clicked on about 10 sites and none of them look anything like the screenshot picture?
I'm not sure that it would be necessarily the doctor that would actually gets condemned in this case. Could as well / instead be the programmer(s) that made the AI.

But this is why the current crop of AIs (which Watson itself might NOT be part of) is problematic : they're too much black boxes.

So they directly clash with the laws that assume on one hand perfect transparency of the tools used, and on the other perfect responsibility of the people using them.

How long before the use itself of a neural network is deemed to have been illegal because it broke one of the laws mandating the explanation of the algorithm that has been used to make a decision to the person that this decision targeted ?

Eventually, way down the line, this might involve giving some kind of civil status to computer programs so they can actually be made responsible.
You all need to get out of your echo urban chambers.
Migadu has been great so far.
It will be interesting to see if this affects the famous "friend zone"
https://quillette.com/2021/06/28/mate-selection-for-modernit...
There is a wordle parody (absurdle) [0] that does exactly this.

[0] https://qntm.org/files/wordle/
Chud came from the movie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.H.U.D. ), it entered the political "discourse" through the Chapo Trap House and became a generic word liberals use for conservatives/trump supporters