skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. I have several "hi end" purses, watches etc that I have been trying to get rid of. Think Gucci, et all. The listings are removed or shadow banned within a few hours. I gave up on marketplace.
That keeps them from contributing to your competitors, i.e. against your business.
That may be true, but it's worth noting that the length of a "generation" of stars varies wildly depending on the type of star. Stars like our Sun might only live 10 billion years or so, but red dwarfs live 100 billion years or more so we could presumably live around them long after all the Sun-like stars have burned out.
I see nothing wrong with the complaints of the two topics you called out. We've been promised both, and yet don't have them. I understand it is complicated/hard to solve, but don't go promising something with dates and then get all upset when those promises not being met results in anger from those the promises were told.
> The cost of fertilizer has gone up so much due to the Ukraine War that some farmers are not even planting.

The rising fertilizer cost and impending food shortage has been in discussion since 2021 due to the global supply chain crisis. Surely the reason for it now is not suddenly because of Ukraine.
That’s a trade off. With the traditional approach you may introduce bugs into production when your dev environment isn’t a perfect emulation (works in dev!). With this approach dev and prod are much more identical.
To be fair to Mikrotik if you just want basic/intermediate switch they have SwOS, which is FAR easier to set up. I also find RouterOS to be extremely unituitive, but SwOS is a breeze. I think most of their switches can run either and even dual boot.
They made it better and wrestled the position from the others.

Yahoo and AltaVista weren't great and Google Search was far superior.

Making things work better is way easier, than creating a completely new market.
Throw the excess power into on demand carbon negative activities and call it a day.
"Good returns" are what you'll make of your time that's worthwhile to you. The interpretation that this means only money is entirely your interpretation.
> “GPT-3 is not necessarily well-calibrated in its predictions on novel inputs.”

I don't thing even humans are well calibrated on novel inputs. We just put a LOT of effort via training into preventing inputs from being novel.

Honest to God "novel inputs" break people too.

Honestly I think the AGI problem will end with us admitting humans are a lot dumber than we like to believe they are more than it will require AGI getting smarter.
Is there any evidence that GPT-3 responses are edited/filtered before being returned to users? My understanding is that some GPT-3 responses are annotated post-hoc, and this data is used to fine-tune later versions of GPT-3 (InstructGPT). This article seems extremely misleading.
You get that passwords over first-time SSH from untrusted computers or untrusted networks aren't safe at all, right? That posting those passwords is literally a sport at hacker conferences, and has been for over 2 decades?

This whole thread is a little alarming.
Depending on what you want to build, have you tried Space Engineers? (Very different from Rimworld, though.)
Kids who aren't coached on the test strategy do worse. My high school did no SAT prep, and my parents weren't really aware of it. I was lucky in that I had an AP History teacher whose goal was for every kid to get a "5", that meant incorporating test strategy into the flow.

You needed to know stuff as the ante, but knowing the magic bullshit that would give you a good essay score was the key to get the top score. I increased my score ~120 points from taking the PSAT blind in 10th grade to the SAT because I understood at that point that strategy was key and found out about it.

All of this stuff is a red herring though. The nut of the controversy is that standardized tests correlate to IQ. IQ, rightly or wrongly, is perceived to be culturally biased.
That’s a great question! I do scan titles from an RSS feed more often than one might expect but ignore what I think of as “froth”. More example while a “show HN” might be like catnip to me, in reality I skip most of them (sorry, brave show-ers, you guys are great).

I’m not much of a social media conversationalist but I do find the discourse level of HN in the topics that interest me typically high enough that I often learn from it, thus it’s worth it and fun to participate.

(Discourse quality is bimodal but that’s true at a cocktail party too, even one full of nerds)
> unbiased discussion here about something that you had intimate knowledge of? [...] threads on here about higher ed are full of very short-sighted/anecdotal/ignorant statements.

You are spot on!
Succeeding in sports means you have put out focused effort over a period of time to accomplish something that nobody made you do.

This is worth something.
Their former CFO has an active twitter account and is fun to follow.
>remarked that had such an incident happened in relation to another religion, the social media platform would have been more careful and sensitive.

I must have missed Twitter constantly blocking anyone who says negative things about Christianity. What alternate universe are these people living in?
Are Medical Care Prices Still Declining?
People are always playing the "I Never Actually Said" gotcha-game these days. Someone says A, B, and C, which strongly, and obviously imply D, but when you push back against D, the retort is "Ha! I never actually said D... You're putting words in my mouth!" This often happens when D is some abhorrent viewpoint, but A, B, and C are benign when taken strictly at face value.

Not saying there was anything abhorrent in this thread, but I agree with you that I'm seeing this pattern more and more in today's hyper-sensitive climate.
This is completely different to an MVP as defined in The Lean Startup. It's absolutely about proving whatever needs proving.
This reminds me of an old trick from the Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare days. You could edit the player model skins locally if you had the correct Photoshop plugins installed. Players would just spray over the character model skins with blaze orange so you could pick people out from across the map, even if they were hiding in deep vegetation. Eventually the 'pro-mod' developers caught on and implemented some client side hash checking but the public non 'pro-mod' servers were never protected against this afaik
I don't disagree with any of this - have been using JunOS since the M40 was the absolute apex of service provider core router technology. Lots and lots of weird bugs in various versions of IOS and JunOS on all their platorms.

Big difference between what you might get spending $15,000 for a Juniper MX204 running JunOS and a Mikrotik $800 router. I mentally categorize Mikrotik RouterOS and similar ultra low cost things in the same tier as VyOS. It's cheap but there are tradeoffs to going cheap. One has to understand the risks and tradeoffs of running a lot of your traffic or important things through cheap routers. Sometimes it's a risk worth taking.

Foundry, as we've seen, was a straight knockoff of the IOS 12.2/12.4 CLI and interface. Used plenty of Foundry switches in a previous role.

Everything does suck. Some things suck less. Sometimes you can pay money to get things that suck less.
Those places are sadly lacking even in the most basic standards of education, so their potential ACT scores are frankly irrelevant as is admission to MIT. You gotta learn to crawl before you can walk, and walk before you can run.
This, or some other source of grant money focused on health. Clearly not every good idea is able to be monetized through its users.
As an MIT grad with many friends at other Ivies, I can tell you that it is more rigorous than pretty much all of them. Princeton is probably the closest.
Tanenbaum did not make the inaccurate interpretation of the:

sort < infile | uniq | wc -l > outfile

line. John Day, the author of the linked article, was the one who misunderstood it.
Good luck quantifying real world risks. What’s the risk of getting sick from a rare burger? Well, it’s the probability of a bad bacteria being present, then it not being killed by the cooking, and then actually taking root in your body.. good luck getting a number
This is pure gold, thank you! I've been wondering what to do about my VMware machines. Some run various windows apps, and one runs Aperture, the only way to access my photo library after Apple screwed me royally by abandoning Aperture. I didn't know what ESXi was.
This is fascinating. Do you have any recommendations for sources so I can learn more about megascale engineering projects to maximize the life of a star?
Seems like semantics - maybe they don't explicitly prefer perfect scores but it sounds like they're filtering out using a minimum bar, and I'd bet it isn't too far off perfect.
Over the last 20 years I've consulted with maybe 30 entrepreneurs, and what I find is that some of them get too caught up in the dream of some day being rich and famous. The ones who are successful are the ones who remain pragmatic and stay focused on what they need to do today. The irony is that, even for the dreamers, all their dreams can come true: they might some day be rich and famous and yet, perhaps paradoxically, the best way to make that happen is to not think about it, and instead stay focused on what you can do for your real customers, right now, today. (At the risk of too much self-promotion, I recently wrote a book, "One on one meetings are underrated; Group meetings waste time" and I devote a long chapter to 2 stories of pragmatic success contrasted with 2 stories of failure due to dreaming.)
Results in a spongy, ready, thick product that doesn’t look, taste, or feel like pizza, and lacks the structure to hold everything together.
>When you truly internalise that last fact is when you become an adult.

When you truly internalise that last fact is when you truly internalize capitalism. Congratulations. There will be no prize.
Intention is irrelevant, the outcome is the same. A parent driving a kid to lacrosse practice every Wednesdays and Fridays shows as much potential to accomplishments as a parent asking their kid to help them with their under the table car mechanic job every weekend. Yet I bet only the former is evaluated as significant. I wonder why that is.
> Google once did a retrospective study and found that interview scores for people we ended up hiring were not correlated at all with people's on-the-job performance.

This sounds like an unsound result. If you select based on a criteria the correlation with the criteria is usually diminished and sometimes even reversed in the selected sub-population.

Like if you select only very strong people to move furniture then measure their performance. Because they're all strong, you won't observe that weak people are bad at it-- plus you'll still have some people who were otherwise inferior candidates who were only selected because they were very strong, resulting in a reverse result. But if you dropped the strength test you'd get many unsuitable hires (and suddenly find strength was strongly correlated to performance in the people you hired).
This isn’t tangential annoyance. This is a social media post that was to be treated as an article. If there was a link to a single article that’s what should have been posted.
I'm not ignoring them, they are exactly the people I am referring to as "high skill labor". There just are not very many of them relative to the population. Small business owners are a dying breed which is it's own problem.
I am all for reinstating the SATs, but it’s a stretch to say that it’s not impacted by socioeconomics. While test prep may have limited value, a lifetime of wealth provides more educational opportunities.
Tuples (or namedtuples/dataclasses if you must have named fields, which in Haskell too is additional syntax) are product types, enums are sum types.

You should look into functools.singledispatch if you're doing business logic with isinstance. But you should also learn about object-oriented programming, inheritance vs composition, mixins, etc. People get sour on OOP because they should have learned FP first and then imitate/translate FP idioms -- instead of doing something like modeling domain ontologies in object graphs. Likewise, people get sour on FP yadda yadda instead of trying to literally write their programs as proofs to theorems.
Caltech is probably the closest to race blind in the US. Their current undergraduate enrollment is 44% Asian American [1].

[1] https://registrar.caltech.edu/records/enrollment-statistics
I've been on the other side as a buyer. Although I work with 'main street' companies, not high tech, I think there's a lot of generalizable lessons. One thing to keep in mind is that some buyers have substantially all of their eggs in your basket and others will constantly have multiple deals in the pipeline. When you enter into the LOI phase with someone, you want them to be very motivated to close in order to make the time / disclosure / trade secrets risk worth it, so I would encourage sellers to attempt to enter LOI only with motivated buyers that have a high likelihood of closing the deal. A few hallmarks of motivated buyers per my experience:

- The buyer will also be the CEO: the more the buyer looks like he/she will package your business up and pass it along, the lower the likelihood that they close (and the worse your earn out is likely to perform)

- Good buyer / company fit: similar to point one, do not let people tell you they can run this company. Grill them just like you would if you were hiring a CEO to replace yourself. Buyer / company fit is huge and when they say 'the owner is too important to the company' what they often mean is 'I don't think I can run this well'. Someone who knows and is building a portfolio in your space will often be a better buyer than someone looking for 'diversification'.

- Avoid tire kickers: Background in your space is good, but being a competitor to you is bad. If they could potentially gain valuable insider information as part of diligence, be wary of moving forward.

- Small team size: smaller firms have less in the pipeline and more motivation to close on the deal in front of them. Remember that they have the same KPI (IRR primarily) and runway problems that startups have. For them, no company = no ROI.

- Ensure they're well funded: The caveat to the above is that small teams or solo buyers may not have the funds lined up, so be very sure that they actually have the investors / NW to buy the business before moving forward.
The entire comment is him explaining exactly how to interpret the you are a company statement, elaborating on the ways in which he intends the metaphor to be used. Extending it with your own biases and arguing against those biases is reactionary and not super useful.

You could have phrased much of your statement as "this should not be extended to mean...", or "If you are also implying X then Y", and it would have been totally valid. The counter argument framing is the issue, because it's just not a counter argument.
P.S. Many people dropped out of Caltech because of the stress of exams.
The far right and far left share a surprising amount of common ground in their beliefs. Vaccines are bad. Science is a conspiracy. Big tech must be strictly controlled by government. Speech must be tightly controlled. Individual rights are less important compared to overall societal benefit. We must not be race-blind but rather use race as a critical factor in deciding outcomes.
I think this is a brilliant idea. Couldn't figure out how to sign up for the service though
If you don't feel you are missing anything without 120hz then don't try it. Once you go back to 60Hz you feel as soon as you move the mouse cursor; you can never be content at 60 again.
I've met people from elite private day schools. Their education in a different world than 99.99% of public high schools, except maybe a few like Stuyvesant in NYC and Lowell in SF, or the fortunate few where 3/4 of the kids have parents who are doctors or college professors (why not both?).
You will likely not have to wait long to see, given that the supreme court is most likely going to strike down affirmative action next year
Not just 40k, also the opportunity cost of the time spent on the startup, which is more than $30k/mo in lost income. so $40k + $270k (9 mo, estimated) = $310k lost

Not saying it wasn't worth it. People should take risks. Just be sure to fully account for them.
Who is doing the promising? Sci-fi writers? Popular science magazines?
Ah so when OpenAI codes fizzbuzz, it's returning human tweaked fizzbuzz from the lookup table? https://twitter.com/sama/status/1503820489927495682
My first job, someone used the Rational Rose diagram tool to print out their diagram (on a huge wide format printer) and it was amazing…ly awful.

There was a bar of lines three inches wide along the top of the chart. They connected a bunch of rectangles on the left side of the chart to rectangles on the right side of the chart. How on earth you were supposed to trace those lines I have absolutely no idea. But we got some good gallows humor out of it.

I used to joke I’d hire some game engine designers to apply their path finding algorithms to solving this problem.
The current population growth rate globally is 1%[1], which is definitionally not exponential. World population has doubled since 1970, but the rate has been declining since.

[1]https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/WLD/world/population-g...
Every scientific associations in the recent past have said that sardines, blue fish are the proteins of the sea, we need to eat them, few years later the same say that are full of poisons. Few years earlier eggs are the best nutrient we have, few years after eggs are hard to digest, full of "cholesterol" [1]. Long story short "dietetics association" means mostly lobbyist associations on sale to the best offer.

Oh, BTW just a bit more time ago most MDs agreed that radioactivity is good for health and they try to determine the best dosage of radium to be put on skin and eat for various purposes like fight baldness or fortifying the fetus in pregnant women. Years later most MDs agree that smoking tobacco is very good for many things, especially useful to fight flu and cold. Few years later we discover that that's was an Eduard Bernays advertising campaign: he created a medical journal that start publishing real studies and he distribute it between medical offices and universities, then he start injecting few false but false but credible studies that praised tobacco smoke. In little time many real researchers have follow claiming other discovering.

I can't really know for sure why there is a push against meat, what I know for sure is that's not a matter of fighting climate change, nor adapting to it. Another thing I know for sure is that ultra-processed foods, like foods based on insects and grains, cost very little for their producers on scale, and can be sold with a very big margin and are complex enough to make them taste good that no small player can compete. Meanwhile I know how sales of statins climbs in the recent years and who profit for them.

[1] witch is a common world and a completely true and false statement since LDL is digested thanks to all animal proteins and pushed up by starchy foods.
This video by Jim Sterling is a good overview of how knowingly sinister microtransactions truly are, with a couple narrated testimonies of people who fell for them despite not being able to afford them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S-DGTBZU14
It's defensive. High salaries and plum projects keep good engineers from building your successor.
Becoming SOC2 Type 2 Compliant
> something that nobody made you do

Uhh, that is definitely not a given
This feels more like a misunderstanding of the problem at root. This is not really "the ledger from the parish said May 1860 but the day field was smudged", so ai can write 1860-05-?.

This seems to me to be a problem such as "we have a letter from his wife to him mentioning the great fire of london , so he was alive in 1665 but then his wife re-married in 1669 so he must have died between this two dates, but if we can find his military record then ..."

This is a problem of recording the evidence accurately and then the uncertainty comes from inferences from the evidence. I don't think the people who need uncertain dates need a way to write question marks - they need digitised and machine readable evidence.

Or did I miss the point?
There are no wind or solar installations that can come anywhere close to providing the base load power for the United States, either.

According to what I'm seeing, there are only 5 solar plants that produce > 1 GW in the entire world. 1 GW is very small by the standards of nuclear or even large hydro installations.
This would be one filter/moderation/ban mode, but the user would be able to choose to disable such mode and get verbatim all messages in time sorted threads or some other mode (namely all the trash).
Today is my first day back in the office at the $DAYJOB, where they've mandated a 3-day-a-week in the office, 2-day-a-week remote policy. It's not the worst thing in the world, but on the drive here this morning, I was definitely thinking a lot about the time wasted on commuting back and forth, that I'd gotten use to having available for other purposes over the last two years.

Not sure if I'd leave here over the issue, but it was a harsh shock to jump back into commuting again. And my drive is only about 30 minutes each way (depending on traffic, of course). But still, an hour a day stolen for driving... it adds up.

There is speculation however, that most people here will come into to the office per the policy for about a couple of weeks, and slowly migrate back to a pattern of working from home more or less all the time. I've heard the line managers have been given more or less carte-blanche permission to just look the other way and allow this to happen, even though the "official" policy will probably remain in effect for the foreseeable future. So yeah, we'll see what happens.
But you can avoid these by following best practices and using tools to find them. These are known knowns and there are solutions. The issue with Rust and others is that there are so many unknown unknowns, because it hasn't had the same number of hours of development time and usage.

Have you ever used a language like Haskell in a formal verification environment? You still get memory issues but there are far less tools to tackle them.
Nature: living every day like you're in a slasher horror movie. Really, really bad. It only seems fun and wholesome to us because we're on top and almost none of us spend much time genuinely engaging with nature in even the way that an apex predator has to, let alone prey animals. And jeez, why would we? It's terrible.

Factory farm: living every day (and probably not very many of them) like you're in Saw or Cube or something. Far worse than even the pretty bad situation that is life in nature. Like, a lot worse. And that was already pretty bad.

Ethical farms, keeping backyard chickens, et c: Like living in a relatively good dystopia. Brave New World, maybe, in the best case. Logan's Run, in the worst.
Ask HN: What websites do you go to for entertainment?
Interesting ... so if I could find a server board with no other network ports and then put this card in, I could finally build a wire-speed multi-gigabit "network slug"[1].

[1] https://john.kozubik.com/pub/NetworkSlug/tip.html
Haskell is very powerful, but I don't think this article presents anything that's widely available in popular languages right now. I'd be very skeptical that TypeScript isn't expressive enough to do Maybe and Either; I wouldn't be surprised in PHP is there already.