skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't realize when I first replied that you're Vlad who runs Kagi.

Thanks for taking the time to try out the new Andi Q&A features and give us feedback on some of the trickier types of NLP queries.

As someone running an alternate search engine who has domain expertise, that explains your example queries. They are all good examples of the types of natural language queries well-known as edge cases for mis-triggering nlp intent detection. Because we don't log searches, it's really helpful for people to try out these sorts of edge cases and let us know where Andi can do better, so I'm grateful for the comment.

It raises a really interesting point that I missed before though. So I thought I'd post a quick follow-up.

Folks have learned to search Google over the last 20 years using Google's language - keyword searches. That's because otherwise it gave them bad results. So people speak "googlese".

With recent advances in NLP, it's possible to better understand natural language, and this will keep getting better. Natural language queries have some huge advantages when you're searching. Humans are smart at communicating subtle signals and clues to each other through language, and we can use this talent to get better search results.

"Tricky" nlp questions are mostly about using missing context or linguistic implication to fool a system. But as when you're talking with a stranger, as humans we can get around that by providing the information explicitly. When you combine that with language models and semantic search techniques, the quality of the results can go way up.

Part of building a new search application like Andi is teaching users how they can get better results by asking questions with more specific information and "clues".

Unlike Google, with Andi you can get way better results by asking questions with more specific information. Your "tricky" example nlp queries actually make for a great case study in this.

So it's worth looking at how someone can ask those questions in a way that a search engine using language and language models would get the best results.

For the first one "who is the current president" Andi already gets this right, so I'm guessing it was just timeout or glitch and it fell back to search results.

Let's step through examples of how to ask those questions well, and the answers Andi gives:

Q: who was the most recent president of the united states before biden?

A: I found this deep answer on wikipedia.org: Donald Trump

Q: is 2022 a leap year?

A: No. 2022, is not a leap year. Source: Wolfram|Alpha

People learn how to use tools to get done what they need to, and google pidgin is an example of that.

As people discover that they can save time and get better results with a new tool where you can ask more naturally, we think they will adapt quickly.

Thanks again for the chance to talk through this. Your question was a great lead in to the topic.
Yeah a RAW image is like a 'digital negative' so it preserves all the data that the sensor in the camera captures. A JPEG or similar is processed and compressed so the camera makes some decisions and 'bakes in' stylistic choices which are much harder to fix in post.

You can read a bit more about it here: https://photographylife.com/raw-vs-jpeg
Probably fine in something like english but maybe not circuit design.
"Stress Makes the Most Empathetic People Less Kind" when others do not help them relieve their stress.

Acting out when under stress is a call for help.

Please do not go around controlling yourself, it only prevents change for the better, as they implied in the article;

"But it helps to have scientific evidence to bolster the case for public and workplace policies that might make our lives less stressful — and thus, we hope, more compassionate.”

We do not need better people, we need a better society.
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Removing grades might be the best thing for teachers, is probably the best thing for students, but is very challenging for one specific reason unmentioned in this article.

School is competitive and bureaucratic. The best classrooms/schools have less seats than students that want to be in the classroom. Grades are a valuable tool for matching students to classrooms.
I don't quite understand how that would be less stressing for the students. As long as you teach in a way that even someone starting without specific knowledge could understand everything, small graded tests along the way are nicer. That's because you can build up your final grade instead of everything depending on one big exam. Also it forces you to study along the way, instead of delaying everything until the final exam.
>This “trivial” stuff is often not trivial when done well.

I loathe to say it but you've been got. Reread the OP in a sarcastic tone, you'll see what I mean.

I agree with what you're saying but in the spirit of disagreeing with OP, I would devilishly advocate:

When evaluating extracurriculars, there is a chance that the type of extracurricular may matter as much/more than the degree of participation, which can be problematic.

In theory, colleges are just a place where you go to learn. So it doesn't make much theoretical sense to me that an admissions officer would probably think different things when they hear "rugby captain and president of the debate club" as opposed to "full time brother and avid programmer." That's because traditionally, colleges are also where children of privilege learn what the status quo is and how to fit in with one another. Of course we have to measure something other than SAT scores (i.e. IQ), we have to measure how nice they are/capable of leading/willing to learn (i.e. how white they can act/how much their parents know about and push them towards traditional leadership positions/how much free time their family can afford). To some degree, it isn't in the interest of the college to admit someone who isn't also a cultural fit; but the more important culture is in your selection process, the more problematic that process is.
With secret voting you can deflect responsibility and not really hold anybody accountable, with a benevolent dictator... er, well it can't be anybody but Linus' fault as all decisions flow through him.
What My Kids' Roblox Addiction Taught Me About the Metaverse
> Instructing students to seek discomfort increased their persistence and risk-taking in the exercise – they made more progress and learned more

> We reasoned that seeking discomfort changes the meaning of discomfort to a signal of growth, which is motivating (...) people should seek the discomfort inherent in growth as a sign of progress instead of avoiding it. Growing is often uncomfortable; we found that embracing discomfort can be motivating.

So, it's not that "seeking discomfort" that gave the personal growth. Being comforted, assured that you will feel discomfort while improving yourself and that's ok is what increased the persistance during the challanges.
Apartments don't need to be cramped and noisy.

We could build roomy apartments with private outdoor areas that would still be more space efficient than a normal house.

I wouldn't mind living in an apartment, a backyard isn't a huge priority and these are perfect for single people, couples and small families.

The key thing is that an apartment and what your perception of an apartment is aren't the same. There's nothing that says it has to be this way.
With records now being supported in Java, wouldn't Lombok be less needed?
I found it always fishy that telegram applauds itself for being a secure messenger but decided against encryption by default. With the flick of a switch every doubt would go away but alas.
Shooting RAW gives you much more freedom to choose how a photo will be processed than letting the camera make some set of default choices about color rendering so it can spit out a JPG.
Ask HN: Tips for Immersive Working?
Things I am trying to improve:

- Reduce distractions from external sources (eg. people interruptions, noise)

- Reduce distractions from computer (eg. emails, messages...)

- Increase number of 'flow' states each day

What tools or gear do you use that helps your immersive work?
> And of course, I have my car (and uber as a backup)

Do you have your own paved road infrastructure, or are you relying on others to pay for that? Road infrastructure for low-density housing is a net drain on the public purse (unlike e.g. free healthcare, space exploration, etc. which are a net win, economically)
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They tried in 2018, but couldn't pull it off. It's unclear what Telegram agreed to in 2020 to get officially unblocked though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocking_Telegram_in_Russia
On the one hand, that amount would be life changing for me several times over, so it's hard to look at and say "that's not enough." On the other hand, Apple makes an absurd amount of profit and really should pay everyone from the janitor to the CEO six digits.

Getting hecked over starts with little things. It may feel like a small thing, but you deserve to get what's normal for the position, and it's worth pushing for if you can risk losing the offer.

>> "The answer didn’t make sense to me at all, but I did not have a good come back in English at the moment."

Here you go: "If you can retain me for subsequent years in this market, then you're worth working for even if I have to advocate harder for raises."
I feel like there must be some innovation coming if it hasn't already with thermoelectric cooling and ebike batteries.
It's kind of amazing to contemplate that the lack of an electron can, itself, have spin.

If you are in the field, it has probably become a commonplace. But it seems like it ought to mean something deeper about our reality.
I'm not pessimistic about the general EV outlook. Bolt simply isn't a good poster child for how much better they are.

Why wouldn't Bolt owners be happy with their new battery? The new battery isn't the issue, it's what made it necessary that is the problem. With 100 mile reduction in range and safety issues I wouldn't have kept mine long enough to get the replacement. It wouldn't have been possible for me to keep it under the limitations imposed. And I doubt the many thousands of Bolt owners still waiting for a replacement are not very happy about it.

On a much smaller scale, I was happy when I got about $200 in a class action settlement from Apple for it's faulty iPhone liquid sensors. I was still pissed off that I'd had to pay for a replacement years earlier. And years before the settlement I had already switched away from Apple as a result.
Facebook got a lot of criticism for repeatedly doing new option dialogs on sharing settings. There's really no way to win here since it will be interpreted in the worst possible light.
I part time as smm and I have came across few professional wikipedia article writers. They even have connections to networks of blogs that validate citations for wikipedia references. It is a well known phenomenon. That is why I looked into the author rather than reading their content.

Suppose you want good PR for your CRM/SAAS and a wikipedia article. You contact a blog chain to validate your SAAS in whatever adjective your thing suits your SEO objective. The blogs will sell you a slot for their generic listicle or review articles. Then they will list your CRM in the "top 10 CRM of 2022" or whatever. Now you can mention that in your wikipedia page. There is also a snowball effect going on as the content of that blog article will be used in other blogs of that network.

This strategy naturally applies to people as well.
> stability gap got wider and wider as the years went on

no mention of virus here?
This is a thought of science denial. Using mice as proxies for human biology has been a tool in medical science for decades and has led to many great discoveries.

Is there a specific issue you see where the usage of a mouse model is devastating to this study?
Ironically, he deleted this tweet, but not the one that got him fired.
We have other tools that are self hosted and they require regular maintenance to security patch, write storage retention policies when some stupid log fills up, have backups, migrate cloud images, stop using plugin with deprecated api, etc. This stuff can also be unplanned and even scheduled becomes a regular chore taking time away from customers.

I know the on-prem sharks smell blood in the water but on-prem is not all upside and not the default answer to hosted services having downtime.

For example we could be on another DevOps SaaS and have zero downtime in March.
I hate the exhausting run-on sentence this article has become.
Does anybody have an archive of the Tweets in question?
> the materials are from a Zoom partner company that provides a critical integration for the company’s operations?
> Zoom certainly had agreements with Okta that prohibit employees...

Partner? Can you say more about this? How do you know Zoom and Okta are partners?
I teach English but I rarely call myself The Teacher. I'm there to help them on their journey. I explain at the start of every class that their final grade (the uni currency) will rely more on the effort they put in than an actual note. The motivated ones love it, and I have seen this approach help the uncertain feel more confident when their effort is what is noticed, not a grade not lower language ability. Those students then start putting in more effort, and excel. There are still a number who just come, just sit, low effort, and this group is often equally divided into high level and low level language levels. It's not just the "bad" or "poor" students.

By the start of the second semester the class is functioning really well, with students really trying, confident regardless of actual level, participating. It's always so heartening to see former back row students moving up to the front, and the front row making room for them.
This is the most promising path to large-scale quantum coprocessors/accelerator cards. FinFET allows stacking billions of these
electron holes in a CPU.
I'm not sure that the threats of harassment actually came from Debian. Remember: Debian does (nearly) everything in public. People participating on the mailing lists aren't necessarily members of the Debian project.
That UI is excellent, but it doesn't explain why it should be quadratic and not linear. At first glance, it seems actively bad, as I'm penalised for focusing on just a few issues!

Unfortunately the linked article is paywalled.

The motivating example in the QV papers I've just skimmed is more about people voting on a sequence of yes-or-no questions, buying some number of votes and being compensated afterwards each time. That's totally different from this one-shot, multiple-questions, fixed-budget example.
I wrote MPW tools integration for MetroWerks on contract; I delivered it to the VP Engineering for MWerks in person.
Having both, I miss the infinite adjustability and almost instant change when using gas, compared to the preset steps of temperature offered by the induction burner.
It's already in development:

https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/contribute/governance/rfcs/0...
Just FYI "schizoid personality +/- disorder" has absolutely nothing to do with (the spectrum of) schizophrenia, they're about different things on different systems on different axes etc.

And yeah, psychologist REALLY suck at naming things!

And one of the reason to avoid ever discussing about "schizoid personality" with people who aren't trained psychologists since they're 90% likely to think you're talking about the wrong thing :|
This is a huge problem we have in many area's of society.

Cult of personality has taken over more than just entertainment, but Academia , Research, and now it seems InfoSec

That is not a good thing
Derek Lowe: Misinformation and Its Spread
Seems hard to believe that a document dated December 2020 would still be valid. Maybe not everything in it has changed, but to think that nothing has changed from a company like Googs is odd as well. Hell, how many offered services that would be listed in that document has Googs killed in the years since the ink dried on the document?
I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss here.

Collusion in 'linear' voting loses the voter their preference in exchange for some reward, double-dipping is a simple defection.

GP is talking about personal force multiplication through collaboration, it's win-win so you have a genuine prisoner's dilemma. Being unable to verify cooperation doesn't mean it won't happen in other ways.

I don't know that this is actually bad just that a simple comparison to linear votes doesn't hold up.
> I spend about $3k a month through them.

Learn to cook.
Isn't this what unemployment supposed to solve?
>I don't think it's about infighting.

Maybe I used the wrong word? Another comment also disagrees.

infighting: Prolonged and often bitter dissension or rivalry among members of a group or organization. Example: Bureaucratic infighting.

>Debian's constitution says the Debian Developers may vote to publish "position statements about issues of the day", and some developers want to use those for the sort of political statement that might make people angry with them.

I would agree that they used to have a requirement for transparency and this change is an affront to the community.

The problem or reason why this is changing is the real big deal. They have a mass developer exodus. People don't feel safe having a public vote anymore. This is because they fear retribution. That is infighting.
A good argument for some distributed foss search then i guess. Wonder if it could ever be made to have search results return reasonably fast in a distributed large index?
Aaand it's gone...

Sounds like a great way to ensure future employability though.
The age of the traditional phone system is ended.

Years ago, bills were introduced Congress that would've made falsifying Caller ID illegal, but certain people said it would be too onerous for small businesses. One bill passed in the House and was sent to the Senate, where it was promptly ignored (H.R.251 - Truth in Caller ID Act of 2007).

Lots of people, both those who know nothing about technology and those who know enough to know better, say this isn't enforceable because too many people are doing it.

Bullshit. Like spam, if you establish punishment for those who allow spam, you have a very simple mechanism for enforcement.

In the old days, when we got spam, we'd forward it to the administrators of the system that sent it or the administrators of the network where it originated. They'd warn, punish, and/or remove the person / system responsible for the spam.

These days, abuse@yahoo.com doesn't work, GoDaddy, Cloudflare and others won't do shit unless you find their web page for reporting abuse, then jump through hoops to shoehorn the spam in to their intentionally shitty web page, and even then they pretty much ignore it. Google just ignores everything sent to abuse@google.com.

Imagine if every spam that's ignored led to a fine. It'd be chaos and mayhem, but within a year we'd be back to how things were in the early '90s. Of course that wouldn't affect spam from the rest of the world, but imagine if large US networks stopped accepting email entirely from Chinanet until they started acting on abuse complaints.

The same can be done with Caller ID. You've got a T1 that lets you set your own Caller ID? Great. You might not get caught, but you can set what you want.

Your upstream provider might ignore it, but they connect somewhere larger, too. So let's say AT&T customers are getting complaints about phone calls with false Caller ID, and AT&T looks in their logs and sees that they're coming from your upstream. Now your upstream is in trouble unless they fix it. If they don't, they get a nice hefty fine.

How do they fix it? They force you to stop. If you don't, it's illegal, so they can contact the authorities. Or, they could just terminate you.

This is just like egress filtering in the networking world. If your network is passing along lots of spoofed traffic and someone contacts you to tell you, and you just pretend it's not your problem, you should be punished. You shouldn't allow traffic to leave your network that claims to be from sources that aren't on your network.

"But routing!" Bullshit. If it's coming on to your network from elsewhere, you should be required to say from where, so the originating network can be identified.

However, businesses don't want to be bothered putting any time or energy in to this. Businesses rarely do a thing because it's the right thing to do, unless they can make it a marketable advantage. They need to be forced to do this by law, by threat of loss of money.

Caller ID spoofing should've been illegal all along, and businesses which do nothing about it should be punishable. Because that's not the case, the old fashioned phone system might as well completely die.
LDtk, 2D level editor, releases v1.0.0
Totally not releated to topic but it looks like the messages that were sent between them can and are read by third party. So whatever we hear about E2E encryption is BS ?
Geist – An open source design system for building modern websites and apps
My favorite dev tool is diff2html - a CLI that opens up your browser with a rich diff. Pro tip: alias `diff` to the command so you can launch it quickly ;)

https://diff2html.xyz/
Yes. It is a very overhyped game. But it will win 'Game Of The Year (GOTY)' anyway.

So, Elden Ring - Definitive Game Of The Year Edition confirmed.
You shouldn't numb it, that's crazy.

The best people on this planet care about others. The worst turn into Putin.
We know consumer software has bugs – that can make them unreliable, insecure and slow. They can become worse over time with more usage (more data/state accumulation). Unless we proactively find and fix them, they can continue to hurt users. We know this. We know critical software systems (medical, industrial, infra) have specially hardened software that are more reliable (but not yet secure).

We also know buildings, bridges etc – can weaken over time due to material deterioration, foundation shifting, earthquakes, machinery induced vibrations, excess load etc. and fail (fall apart). They need to be monitored for signs of structural stress/failure (cracks, leaks, tilts etc) and corrected/repaired or else they fail. When these maintenances are not done correctly, due to incompetence or corruption, they will fail, no doubt.
South Australia does not scale. It is a region with a tiny population, almost 75% of which lives in a limited area.

South Australia is also incredibly sunny and has the advantage of being an arid desert. Again, that does not scale well.
You lose more than quality when not shooting RAW. You are going to want all the data captured by the image sensor of your camera if you are going to edit your photographs later on, it gives you more to work with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_image_format#Benefits.
I recall KDE being a mess but that was during the switch to KDE4. This is something I really need to be better about: losing my memories of trouble with things from decades ago. I have the same hesitancy with FUSE.
I just love the hustle and bustle of the big city
Vanity and the prospect of social media clout?

He even watermarked the documents with his Twitter handle, he can't stand the idea of someone seeing the information without knowing it came through him.
It's really a balance— you can do your best to do right by other people, to do what they're asking of you and behave in prosocial ways, but any therapist will tell you that ultimately other people's feelings are their responsibility to manage and work through, and not yours.

Traditional CBT says this is even the case in romantic relationships, though EFT is a bit more nuanced on this— you're not directly responsible for your partner's feelings and emotions (you don't owe them an apology when you cheat on them in their dream), but understanding their emotions is an opportunity to be a better and more supportive partner, which can be massively enriching to the relationship if both parties are fully committed to doing the work and have the language to communicate effectively about it.