skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Before we panic and start wailing and gnashing teeth let's find out if there is an opt-out. You probably don't want “fuck” in your sales pitch to your local archdiocese.
This may be a healthy long term outcome but a lot of people have a good portion of their value parked in their home - if there is a sudden oversupply how will you cousin the economic and social shock as millions of middle-class folks suddenly lose their wealth while upper class folks mainly invested in the stock market come out the far side with even more wealth?

This is not an easy problem - and as soon as you try and alert people to the fact that you're going to fix it the market will respond and the problem will occur.
I think you are spot on about this. Different communities and regions have varying definitions for words, and there are probably thousands of such cases. Trying to dictate one "correct" usage for each is extremely arrogant and disrespectful.

Not to mention that meanings can evolve over time a great deal. If these types of corrections become common place I'm not sure what all of the ramifications will be but I suspect they will be bad on the whole.
Scientists Invent Device for Optimally Separating Oreos
Having spent a lot of time working on the codebase... Far more is opensource than Google needed to make open, and the development model is far more open than androids. In the chromium codebase, there are even some modules where the key technical decision-makers aren't Google employees.
In an email to you, in what ways are you being referred to in a non-gendered form? I'm straining to think of how I would include "they/them" pronouns in an email to someone.

EDIT: I did assume English, and it is fair that other languages treat genders differently. I was wrong here! That being said, I think the likely answers are, in order, 1/ mass-sent emails 2/ just not being worth offending someone.
You can be actively anti-status seeking by valuing, rewarding, and praising people who are not seeking status. In this way we can be the change we wish to see.
> there have been stories here before about e.g. blocking of far-right Mastodon instances.

See:

> they can't disconnect you, they can disconnect the account you have on their server

There's nothing stopping you from having an alt on a different server that does connect to fascism.social or what-have-you, and the apps these days are pretty good about switching among alts so the UX isn't bad. I will also note, the "stories here" tend to focus on corner cases: instance blocking is predominantly reactive (with Gab being the big exception) and you can always just run your own instance if you want to control your own moderation. I run my own and haven't had any problems with instance blocking.

And again -- if you do end up on a server that implements a block you don't like, you can just move (which transfers your followers) https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/#move
As far as I know, OpenAI has not made this dataset publicly available. IIRC the dataset is images scraped from instagram and their corresponding captions. Check out the CLIP paper for more details:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.00020

Theoretically, you could build a web-scraping tool to do something like this, but even storing that data would take an absolutely insane amount of storage.

I would assume OpenAI has some deal with Meta to make the creation of datasets like this easier.
[Google employee, opinions are my own]

This was 'fixed' by Signed Exchanges[0] which sites can implement. This is (imho) a cool new web tech that got drowned out in the AMP noise.

[0] https://web.dev/signed-exchanges/
Google doesn't want you to use URLs. Google wants you to use Google. Makes sense.
Former eBay Security Director to Plead Guilty to Cyberstalking
Just throwing my two cents in here from the Bay Area and in a similar market. The things that are wrong with real estate aren't headline producing or interesting.

- Blind bids sound completely unethical. Why are real estate agents enabling this? Are they not bound to a code of ethics?

- Allowing buyers to offer cash on top of the value of a home should be illegal. You should be allowed to sell your home for what it appraises for, no more. Again, why are real estate agents enabling this behavior?

- Requiring buyers to submit letters, photos, and videos in order to buy a home is insane. They did away with this in California, but is it gone everywhere else? Another question of real estate agent ethics.

- Stop allowing companies to acquire residential real estate. This just, doesn't even make sense.

Patch these things up and you'll have major progress in freeing up a lot of real estate transactions and overvaluations.
and it was only a matter of time before they were captured

during a peace parley, the Modocs shot and killed General E.R.S. Canby

This stood out to me. Given the attitudes and norms of the time I'm surprised shooting the general under a flag of truce didn't result in the army massacring the entire group after capturing them. There might be an interesting story or person behind that which we'll never know.
This is why I warn everyone to only buy devices that use a standard like Z-wave or Zigbee and ideally use a hub that works locally. I first got into IoT/SmartHouse stuff with SmartThings but I only would buy Z-wave/Zigbee which paid off in spades when I moved to Home Assistant. All my devices came over and the manufacturer didn't matter.

Wifi IoT devices are terrible IMHO. Yes, they are easy to add and cheap to buy but you are left juggling 3-4+ apps even if they all talk to Alexa/Google/Siri. Also you are putting god-knows-what on your network. Yes, you can put them on their own vlan but still, I do not like devices in my house that can phone home even if they can't see my local devices.

Stick with Z-wave or Zigbee (ideally pick just 1 or 1 main one) and if you want a nicer onboarding then SmartThings is fine but Home Assistant is probably more attractive to people on HN. At least if/when SmartThings goes under you can move your devices to a new hub.
Oh, come on. It's not telling you what to change, it's giving you suggestions. Even the suggestions can be turned off. Most paying customers of Google are using it for business communications. This is a useful feature for them. Language (like everything) has become politicized, so people have a stronger reaction to this than when Word added grammar suggestions back in the day, but it's basically the same feature and Microsoft had a more dominant market position then than Google does now.

(Full disclosure, I'm a former Googler, but that has little to do with this)
No one would complain if they offered grammar add-ons in Google Docs. People could turn it on if they liked, and could choose their specific ruleset depending on what they were writing. Pushing it as a default to everyone is the problem here.
Please don't suggest that everyone reading this is a simpleton.

No, it's not going to be okay unless we make it so.
and anyone curious about hometown should read: https://runyourown.social/ :)
I think Microsoft's been getting better in handling reliability and support. My Surface Laptop 3 has been rock solid after almost two years of use.
> Without leverage, its returns are comparable to S&P 500.

whomp whomp
Right, but even that link suggests dark matter is pretty homogeneous around Solar System, right? If it’s simply described as a density number.

Is the suggested experiment just measuring that homogeneous density? Or hoping to find some distribution around the Solae System?
I wonder how far this will go. It doesn't have to stop at words. Machine learning is now good enough to pick up phrases which express ungood thoughts.
> If developers build more luxury housing, that'll reduce the price of existing housing, such that it becomes affordable.

Not really: Say there's one free acre of land in town. You could build one mansion on it, or a highrise with 100 apartments.

Building the mansion isn't going to move the needle on any existing housing at all, as it's just one unit.
It will, being a deterministic machine, generate any kind of wrongthink that is in its training data. Ironically, all of the media coverage of negative stereotypes by well intentioned activists probably even makes it more likely to generate this kind of data.
Ford's technology also revolutionized the transportation industry. Are they a tech company?
> Yea, I don’t get it. This isn’t describing an adversarial process at all.

You might not be able to get it because you're not me and you likely didn't experience interviews the way I did. However, that doesn't make my perception of this practice invalid. What I mean by adversarial is that you have odds stacked against you, where one party knows exactly what they need to get from you beforehand and your only option is to live to their expectation.

> There’s not intended to be any time pressure either, since the task is chosen to be easy enough to finish in half the available time.

This is not an accurate description of what's happening in reality. Unless you know fairly well up front what the solution needs to look like, Amazon, for example, leaves you with 20 - 25 min to propose a solution, start coding, walk through your thought process, somehow not get nervous if you realise you went down a wrong path, somehow not get angry if your interviewer is smirking at you behind your back (around 2 out of 5 tend to do that based on my experience), somehow focus on the next round even though you know you messed up the previous one and someone made sure to make you feel small for not being able to reason through all the edge cases when having to implement binary search in a sorted and shifted(!!!) array, because hey, it would be too easy to let you get away with implementing classic binary search, wouldn't it?

> But this question is just asking for a practical demonstration of a candidate’s abilities. It’s not a trick question, it’s not a puzzle, and there’s no secret handshake.

It's asking for a specific set of abilities that one might or might not have and their capacity to exercise those abilities varies wildly based on the interview setting. Putting a time constraint on it, even if it's seemingly generous, changes the dynamics drastically. If you're the kind of person who gets nervous in such settings, you can totally get hung up for a good chunk of the allocated time because of some missing semicolon somewhere. It's very easy to confuse the compiler / toolset and have it produce pages and pages of cryptic error messages. When's the last time you had to read through the output generated by some mistyped Autotools syntax?

> I can certainly understand having gone through annoying interviews; that’s very common.

Exactly. I refuse to subject myself to any of this again and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
The [redacted] of the CIA will not prevent me from creating HolyForth.

Style warning: You have angered the government
Isn't WebRTC just a voice/video communication protocol?

Seems rather orthogonal to what Hathora is.
Eh, I don’t think that’s the point the OP is making and is something we’ve heard ad nauseum during the pandemic.

Google controls what appears on YouTube. That’s not really very surprising. But the idea that Google’s choices (over words or neighbourhood name) spills out into the offline world and alters it… that’s something else.
Yeah, my petty 6Tb also went fine with pg_upgrade and practically no downtime. Upgrade slave, promote to master, upgrade master and then promote it back. It's a marvelous piece of technology.

It's really just a handful of core people who did most of the work, crafting it so thoughtfully over the years and it has such a huge impact on the world.

Doing huge part of it before postgresql was as popular as it is today, spending countless hours on making some great design choices and implementing them carefully.

It seems unlikely any of them will read that but I'm so deeply grateful to these people. It allowed so many things to flourish on top thanks to it being open source and free.
I'm not sure why having a more diverse applicant pools should even be a goal. Often diversity hinders team cohesion and creates communication barriers. What's wrong with homogenous teams and organizations?

Furthermore, when did the (highly subjective) masculine/feminine coding of a word become more important that its actual definition? What if you do in fact need an "independent" person? Does that mean you need a man? Aren't we just back to stereotyping then?
Well, it turns out people are more interested in avoiding upsetting people through gendered language than through non-gendered language. You can't please everyone, and your worries do seem less important if you ask me.
I use a Reolink NVR and then I pull the feeds into Home Assistant for viewing. I ran ZoneMinder for years but you really have to make sure your hardware can support it and you are using the right disks. Moving all my cameras to their own dedicated hardware was the best decision I've made when it comes to cameras.
If I have it generate a “bowl of soup” will I find an identical bowl in some clip art collection somewhere? How much does it deviate from the source images?
I think the null hypothesis and the burden of proof applies to a specific claim that "this is how it works". There are plenty of phenomena "officially" unexplained by science yet, and that's ok. But claiming that some cards have some magical meaning doesn't make sense.
This looks sweet, I'll definitely play around with it a bit.
The design was fantastic. They just made bad choices about parts vendors, in my opinion.
Sure you can.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/whataboutism-o...
> The history books will not be kind to those that supported lockdowns, nor should they be.

The history books won't be kind to the people who resisted them either. IMHO, if this era has any particular significance at all, it will be a story of a crack up before a long term, shambolic decline. The future belongs to the societies that can come together.

If this were the 40s, the lock-down resisters would be agitating against rationing instead of mending and making do and collecting stuff for scrap metal drives.
True, but artists also sell artwork - my question could be reframed as, if Dalle 2 can produce a Rembrandt, is a Rembrandt worth anything, even emotionally?
> Though I honestly don't know why you'd expect an account migration to work if the old server is not available.

That is the whole point of federation, doesn't matter where you sign in your data should still be there and can migrate between instances freely. Without this, Mastodon does nothing to solve free speech or replace Twitter.
> Google has open sourced only as much as they had too for using Webkit's GPL codebase

This isn't remotely true. Most of Chromium code is BSD-3-Clause.

> have been notorious in close-sourcing bits when they are able (like the DevTools WebAssembly debugging tools

I'm not a fan of that either, but to be fair it's a Chrome extension[1], not part of Chrome.

> and a ton of other stuff).

Like what? The trend has generally been the other way. Flash was removed, PDFium was released. Video codecs? But they've always been that way.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cc%20%20-devtools-...
So why bother cutting off foreigners if you want your real estate to keep appreciating in value?
The USA is about 12% immigrants, Japan is around 2%. I mean, it is definitely no China, but it has the lowest immigration rate of the all the developed countries.
Unrelated: I've noticed the common use of underscores for emphasis in HN comments. Why use that when italics are supported via asterisks? Like this?
As a European who moved to San Francisco a few years ago. I almost know how to use the 3 shells.

(for anyone who doesn't get the reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7nFEnFtvCM)
> I work in Japan, and this is so hard for non-native speakers. An example, an HR staffer meant to say "female empowerment" but said "woman-power" instead.

Were they thinking of "joshiryoku"? That's a Japanese word that literally means "woman-power", but it's not feminist - it doesn't refer to "girl power", it means you're good at looking pretty.
Not really, at the time the science suggested that was the best path. Youtube is a private enterprise and has every right to remove material that they consider dangerous based on their research teams. You were perfectly free to make a video and release it on you own website or peertube or via torrents/usenet. You have a free voice but you don't have the right to mass distribution, that is up to you (the hypothetical generic "you") to see that it happens.
Aren't you an owner and not an employee? Co-Workers in this context are employees that could sue.

You probably generally care but if you didn't it would be foolish and perhaps costly to not play the game. Your situation re-enforces the need to.
Maybe you could retrofit freon lines inside of hot water pipes?
There is no law yet so no implementation that shell companies can skirt. You are getting ahead of the horse. This is a signal from the Canadian government to foreign investors that Canadian housing could no longer be a safe investment for their money shortly.

https://pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2022/04/13/helping-yo...
I have been a few months into PyNeuraLogic because of its focus on Relational Deep Learning (in particular Lifted Relational Neural Networks). I would say the main selling point is extending GNNs (Graph Neural Networks)

From what I can see on the Scallop website, the focus is on vision and NLP.

So both are similar approaches combining deep learning with symbolic reasoning (and both are based in Datalog) but the problems they are tackling are quite different. Also, both approaches have made it to top conferences like NeurIPS and ICLR, so I guess this field is gaining momentum.
I think you are leaping to a lot of conclusions not in evidence. There is a big difference between "centrally planning a city down to the micro-management level" and overriding any ability for a municipality to assert what it feels is needed in a development. Negative externalities are a very real thing and allowing developers to have arbitrarily many of them at arbitrarily bad levels is not the only alternative to complete and total central planning. Believe it or not there are reasonable middle grounds that allow some influence on developments from central planning to limit negative externalities while also listening to market forces. My beliefs align somewhere in this middle ground.
What's a foreigner to a country that allows more than 1 citizenship? What's a foreigner in a country that has a "foreign" royal as head of state? Why were foreigners allowed to buy homes in the first place?

Most importantly, why does a country with a population of 35 million and a landmass stolen from the natives the size of china have problem housing their population? Certainly, even if much of canada is tundra, they don't lack the land/resources/etc.

If they are having problems housing their population, why are they increasing immigration?

Nothing adds up.
I like how you challenged me to listed an example thinking none existed, I list an example, and then you completely ignored that I did. You didn't even try to weasel out of it by saying that example doesn't qualify, just fully 100% ignored that I proved you wrong.
Florida also has pythons, moving north from the Everglades.
Replika.ai was founded on a similar idea. The earliest version was reputedly based on text messages between the founder and one of her (deceased) friends.
The one I really liked was minidiscs.
Yes on "refuse to buy any smart-home devices that I can't control directly and work with Home Assistant" but I'll go a step further. Only buy Z-wave/Zigbee or devices that use a similar standard (ESP32 comes to mind, especially with HA's new-ish core integration with that).

Wifi devices are a mess and you are often still reliant on a cloud/app for setup.
Esperanto is too problematic: nouns assume a masculine form by default and are only made feminine with a suffix.
It will type o'clock so long as you do not preface it with numbers.
Really, really dumb question. I've seen a lot of node/python/etc serverless offerings. Is there something where you just provide a binary and its executed each time?

For example, I write a simple single responsibility piece of code in Go `add_to_cart.go` and build it, deploy it, and somehow map it to some network request. dot slash pass args, and return the result?

No need to have containers or runtime?
> I have never seen anyone complain about the word "landlord".

as long as they remind us about slumlord too, I'm fine with it
My first suggestion, wait it out for an initial period and see how much the “requirements” align with the results. Based on my experience, about 3/4 of the time those stating the requirements have no idea what they actually want. I can usually increase the odds of the result matching the actual requirements by interviewing users / requirement generators.

Anyway, no point on tracking low-quality requirements that end up being redefined as you build the airplane in flight.
Are you receiving letters written in third person rather than second person? Or in a different language?
Some people are genuinely trying to make other people feel included. Some people just do it because of social pressure. One way or another this does feel like a force for the better.
I like this approach.

I'm picturing your migration script looping over shards. It flips it to read-only, migrates, then flips back to read-write.

How did the app handle having some shards in read-write mode pre-migration and other shards in read-write post-migration simultaneously.
I still see vending machines that sell chargers at airports.
It'd be a nice start if they'd let me give them money for their product.
> No, they just don't want to get fired

This is exactly right.
Sounds bad for quality assurance and auditing.
This is why I use https://skiff.org/ and not Google Docs or Notion.
Nice for all those vintage Unix boxes that never had ethernet ports, but had bunches of RS-232's...

I wonder if someone already did the opposite and hung one of these tiny things on a classic Mac serial port and used it to ssh into other computers. I know there are a couple of wifi modem emulators using tiny modules like this.
> In Australia "guys" is a gender-neutral term when used collectively.

It is in the U.S. too.
Guide to the History of Cards Signed by Christopher Rush
Heated floors work best for wet systems because you don’t need huge temperature delta
Why isn't "cream of coconut" the same thing as "coconut cream"?

It's common for similar phrasings to have very different meanings (or, in this case, connotations)
Search for Quake 3 Arena networking, it is what defined how multiplayer networking is done. The source is on github, and there are explanations on the net. With a quick google i found these:

https://fabiensanglard.net/quake3/network.php

https://www.jfedor.org/quake3/
Also take a look at wit-bindgen [1], which is basically a prototype for interface types and supports multiple languages.

I agree we that interface types/components will be a game changer.

And also that progress on all the important proposals (GC, interface types, linking, stack control, threads) has been painfully slow.

[1] https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wit-bindgen
Why would one want to do this? For analytics?
Here are job postings for YC companies:

https://www.workatastartup.com/

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring
Every day?

That's just bonkers.

I had a guy in a previous position that had a manager that started asking for those kinds of updated every Mon/Wed/Fri. After it became clear that he wasn't even reading the messages (The manager would ask about things he had just included in his report an hour prior), he started including gibberish in them.

It was a month before the gibberish was noticed. The boss was noticeably upset when he discovered the last month had been gibberish, but conceded that obviously the reports are a waste of time and stopped asking for them.