skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This my feeling as well. Maybe I’m thinking too logically about all this:

A) spend paternity leave enjoying your newborn, but in the second half gearing up and remotivating to go back to work, getting back to work and being let go with a “we didn’t want to dismiss you while you were gone, thanks for coming back, here’s the door”

vs

B) you’re on paternity leave and the company lets you go, but still your leave is fulfilled (I.e you get the payout and time off). Now, instead of investing energy on the return to work, you can just move on with a “best to quit while your having fun” attitude.

I fully support paternal leave. As a father of four who despairs at a fatherless world around me, anything we can do to strengthen fathers (and equally mothers) is a great thing.

But there is a sad reality to extended leaves as well. We hire people with 6 month probationary periods, but rarely are people filtered by this. But I have been in meetings where a person on extended leave (medical, parental, whatever) and it becomes group apparent that the individual hasn’t been missed for a variety of reasons, and the consensus emerges that this “individual not being here” is actually a net win for the company and its aspirations. Do we know that that’s not what happened in this case?

Remember, “My Job” is an oxymoron.
Conclusion: the majority of HN never saw how a non-technical person uses a computer.
Gotta love HN.

> The '-ize' prefix...

Since we're doing flagrant pedantry, let's go all in: don't you mean suffix?
I'm genuinely confused. This current crash is not nearly as bad as several recent crashes. The fall in price in the big coins (Eth, BTC) seems downright modest. A bunch of new meme coins got obliterated, which is also normal and completely predictable. Why are people treating this as if it's going to be the fall of crypto? Because a peg broke? Have people not heard of Mt. Gox?
Yes, that's what I meant. Specifically the minimal-coupling of the galactic spin parameter \lambda (for galactic discs) and the Kerr(-Newman) spin angular momentum parameter J.

J reflects the entire history of the black hole, including mergers and infalling matter. The entire history of the galaxy includes outflows driven by jets from the central black hole, and one expects J (and available inflows) to determine whether the jets increase or quench star formation. So the pecularities of the history of a large well-fed central black hole's J can shape the distribution and composition of stars around it. A forthcoming paper goes into this in detail : https://par.nsf.gov/biblio/10322445-which-agn-jets-quench-st...

The inverse is relevant too: what's the angular momentum of things falling onto a central black hole? In a spinning galaxy with significant \lambda, visible matter is entrained (via gravitational minimal coupling, and possible weak-scale interactions with halo dark matter) in such a way that most of what falls onto the central black hole has a correlated spin, so if J for a well-fed black hole drifts a little from correspondence with \lambda, infalling matter will tend to correct that. (central dark matter might also contribute weakly).

The mechanisms for correlations between the spins are ripe for even more study. Chandrasekhar dynamical friction is a probable component. There may be other components. Jets are probably relevant, and jet strength depends on black hole mass and spin, and the environment surrounding the black hole, but the action of the jet itself on the matter distribution immediately around the black hole is through electromagnetic interactions (so we may introduce Pauli coupling, and thus our spins may not be precisely "minimal"ly-coupled). We need to see more central black holes in more galaxies to answer fun question like: can the size and spin of M87* over time and the consequent strong jets, if allowed to tumble, have randomized the orbits of star-forming clouds (and thus M87's abundant globular clusters) in nonspinning parent galaxy M87? Or is it much more likely that galactic mergers drove out M87's bulk spin? If the latter, why is M87* still strongly spinning?
I mean, he apparently sold $1.5M worth of Twitter stock last week, and is estimated to hold (based on some super basic internet research) ~500k more shares, which is ~$25M in stock[0].

I think he'll be able to weather the financial impact of a recession and having a kid.

[0] Note that this is Twitter only, and wouldn't include any other form of diversified holdings.
I see lot of CSVs generated with LF instead of CRLF as line endings. Blindly following the RFC is still probably not advised.
Amazon’s biggest drop since 2006 caps dismal month for tech
My uncle used to brag about how good of a blackjack player by talking about how he would win enough to pay off the cruise he was gambling on. We never had the heart to tell him that all that does is prove that he got lucky; professional blackjack players only average a return of 3-5% profit.

That's how I feel about the crypto (and to a lesser extent stock) bros. The future is unknowable, and even people who trade these thing professionally make fairly marginal gains (that they make up for in quantity); saying you made millions from bitcoin just says "this guy got really lucky!".
I always assume it was that, speculators and ridiculously rich folks making impulse buys.
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As conspiracy theory, it predates Trump/Qanon, we’ve had David Icke with his adrenochrome from children sucking reptilian royalties
Funnily enough, Arcade Fire released a new album this week, which just happens to have a song entitled Sagittarius A*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAUpD4FchZI

https://genius.com/25770411
In before the AJ people start saying “see?! Adrenochromes!”

Surely this will give more fuel to the conspiratorial fire.
The train de-rails about 2/3rds of the way through the article. You can’t argue that more housing supply is the answer to affordability problems and also argue that vacancy taxes are pointless.

If there is truly no housing vacancy, nobody will pay the vacancy tax, and NIMBYs have weakened their position by losing an excuse to block housing construction.

If there are a large number of warehoused homes, and a vacancy tax successfully puts those homes on the market, then housing prices go down, and if they’re still high, the argument for building more homes is even stronger. You will have a bunch of progressives who have seen with their own eyes that increasing supply lowers prices.

This confusing ideological misalignment also happened with AirBnB regulations. YIMBYs, in general, were against it, but the week that San Francisco’s law regulating AirBnB went into effect, a flood of new apartments showed up on Craigslist, nudging the overall price for new apartments down a few percentage points.

Either you believe in supply and demand, or you don’t. We need new housing construction, and we also need to make it extraordinarily expensive to keep homes intentionally empty in cities with low vacancy rates.
> I have been sitting on cash since end of last year,

How do you feel about the recent spick in inflation? I have also been sitting on some cash for a year, and its buying power has definitely fallen. I find it now hard to see if prices will fall or wags will go up, so the cash I have will be of less relative worth.
Turn that to 11; Tad Williams' Otherland is among my favorite reads.
See also cerebrolysin in humans.
Yes google it.
Now.
Ever met someone who despises embedded statements?

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if (condition)
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Perhaps they're paid by lines of code.
Thanks for reporting this. IME-based input is super important to me -- we only speak Japanese at home. I've filed a bug [1].

I manually tested on each of Windows, macOS, Linux, and iOS (where I've done a lot of work specific to CJK input) and was able to correctly input Japanese, Chinese, and Korean text [2], so looks like this is likely an issue specific to Flutter's web runtime. I work on Flutter's desktop embedders, but if there isn't someone who's a heavy IME user on the web team, I'll gladly give em a hand to help get this fixed.

[1] https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/103645

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch/0Bt-c9-h92c
> That feels like quite an awkward way to squash tagged unions into a class structure... But maybe it will work.

It's what Scala and Kotlin do and I think it's a fairly natural mapping. (Swift takes a different approach with their enums).

> defining an entire class for each variant does not sound like fun!

If you come at it expecting the brevity of ML, yes, it's not. But if you accept that those variants are real classes and may also have their instance methods, documentation comments on the fields, etc. then the overhead starts to feel less onerous.
> Its easier to see the flaws in this one because its more general, so spread out more thinly.

I really think this is due to the very limited number of parameters in GATO: 1.2B vs. 175B for GPT-3. They intentionally restricted the model size so that they could control a robot arm (!) in real time.

> these models need a sense of self and relational categories.

The places where I personally see GPT-3 getting hung up on higher level structure seem very related to the limited context window. It can't remember more than a few pages at most, so it essentially has to infer what the plot is from a limited context window. If that's not possible, then it either flails (with higher temperatures) or outputs boring safe completions that are unlikely to be contradicted (with lower temperatures)
In machine learning, there’s a long term trend towards automating work that used to be done manually. For instance, ML engineers used to spend a lot of time engineering “features” which captured salient aspects of the input data. Nowadays, we generally use Deep Learning to learn effective features. That pushed the problem to designing DNN architectures, which subsequently led to the rise of AutoML and NAS (Network Architecture Search) methods to save us the trouble. And so on.

We still have to provide ML agents with some kind of objective or reward signal which drives the learning process, but again, it would save human effort and make the process of learning more dynamic and adaptable if we can make machines learn useful goals and objectives on their own.
i.reddit.com works for the most part on mobile (isn't great with media though).
I don't care about Mona Lisa. Like I also don't care about many things other people seem to care about. They could tear down Cologne Cathedral and I'd shrug.
Back to Paris, I think the Eiffel Tower and Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou is more relevant to me, than a place built to worship something which I'm considering a cargo cult. But that's just me.
I said I want to ban density over a certain number. Or specifically: leave space for modes of personal transportation other than walking or cycling.

Such cities can still be walkable - I grew up in one so I should know.

But I also lived on the outskirts of a very dense (due to historic architecture) city and would never want to move any further inward, because that place was hell.

Bottom line is density is a bad target. Livability is a good one and density doesn't equal livability.

Actually, my whole point is that there exists a level of population density which is actually worse than detached housing.
Really neat! Gives me an idea on using something like this to generate e.g., CURL commands to mimic SSO flows.

Even just documenting an SSO flow as a diagram would be quite neat.
I don’t know, the criticism in OP seems pretty substantive to me. I don’t know much about this subject so I can’t really weigh in on how much the post makes sense but regardless appeal to authority is essentially the opposite of modern science. That’s why nullius in verba has been a motto of science for 300+ years.

On that point, scientists don’t need you to chastise people for questioning their authority online. I think a lot of them would be offended at the idea that you think that is what they want.
I hate outlook blocking that. No idea why you would implement that not working.
A fad basically, fits the dictionary definition pretty well IMO.
This is mind boggling to me. Kayvon is one of the best product leaders / visionaries I know. It was confusing to me in Dec that he wasn't Jack's successor.

Kayvon was a huge driving force behind all the interesting product efforts of the last few years: Spaces, Fleets, topics, etc. Twitter went from not iterating on product (remember when Twitter's only change in several years was to change the star to a heart?) to starting to take some shots. Behind the scenes he was often pushing against significant headwinds that resisted product change (not the least of which was the internal 'sacred cow' that all things must be built with Scala and only run inside Twitter's on-prem datacenters).
I'm looking forwards to buying cheap FPGA mining rigs for my CPU project
Fair enough - I'm using reasonable here to represent the balance of "this is a very risky asset" vs "inflation is low so I can hold onto this for a long time and wait for the right time to sell".

Theres also just an insane amount of hype about crypto is the future of <gestures vaguely at topic du joir>, and therefore it's valuable in the future. Amazon made no profits for so long because all dollars were reinvested into the business. Crypto made no dollars because it's as useful as a beanie baby.
You should only focus on one project.
That's for moving between sites. I'm talking about the link between the antennas to each observatory's main computer.
We get it, you hate America. Just don't come here, we'll be fine without you. :)
This is your opinion... if you believe everyone should agree with you on that, then yes, seeking membership on a military alliance whose aim is to keep your country at bay is not a provocation. But can you maybe consider that Putin and most Russians do not share your opinion? Would an American consider that Canada joining a Chinese-led military alliance to defend its members against USA's increased aggression (in Canadian's and Chinese opinions) count as a provocation to America? Well, to Americans it most certainly would... even if the Chinese disagreed completely with them... this is my point. It's easy to believe our opinion is the only one that counts and fuck anyone who doesn't share it.
And so it begins...

With Elon Musk's hand up Parag's jacksie and pressing all the buttons he chooses.
Brain fluid = spinal fluid, sampling it is a somewhat common procedure, just a larger needle and more uncomfortable.
You could also train for this kind of interconnectedness by designing tasks that are explicitly multi-modal. For example, you could:

- Stack boxes collaboratively by controlling your own arm and communicating with another agent helping you.

- First produce a plan in text that another agent has to use to predict how you're going to control the arm. You'd get rewarded for both stacking correctly and being predictable based on the stated plan.
Yes, trailing commas should work everywhere!

JSON is the other one where it annoys me, but luckily I rarely hand-write any JSON anymore (and there are semi-solutions for this like json5).

In code I always add trailing commas to anything comma-separated. It makes editing simpler (you can shuffle lines without thinking about commas). In a diff or blame it doesn't show adding a comma as a change.

SQL is the one spot where this doesn't work, and it's a constant foot-gun as I often don't remember until I run and get a syntax error.
As of last week, there is $7 billion in outside funding -- new money and existing shareholders that will retain their stake. That cuts the amount borrowed on the back of $TSLA in half.
What bank? I’m shopping around for a new one.
Remember, only recently were there "blockchain courses" being offered as minted NFT's... I'm stunned it took hucksters that long to dream up that means of grifting.

I briefly did some side-work for a web3 company and honestly at this point product people / people who don't know any better are the most obnoxious in the space.

By far, the most obnoxious are the people who happened to have a ton of BTC and then decided they were smart enough to start VC funds with the capital. RIP to anyone who agreed to a comp package that included a $COIN.

I'm still holding BTC, ETH and LPT though. I really like that LivePeer is solving a real problem - however it's also absolutely tanked in value.
Do you know of any other way to send electronic cash with no intermediaries (EDIT: financial institutions)? It's the first sentence of the whitepaper and ignored by 99% of people, including highly paid software developers.

Whether or not you need that will depend on where the world goes. A CDBC social-credit system world presents a lot of incentives to use something else.

And if you do need it, you need it ahead of time. Good luck trying to learn and set up networks from scratch when they are considered illegal etc.
Ask HN: My friend's Instagram account got phished
A close friend of mine recently had their Instagram account hacked. Pretty vanilla stuff - they were tricked into clicking a link in a DM from a friend's account that turned out to have been compromised. Via this link the phishers got his password, promptly changed his email and phone number, and are now busy churning out crypto scam nonsense via his DMs, story posts, you name it!

I'd helped my friend set up 2FA on their email and other socials in the past, but this one must have slipped through the cracks, so the password compromise let them take over the kingdom.

Any human review of his account would be able to tell in a matter of seconds that it's a textbook account hack, but he's emailed the formal support channels to no avail so far. If anyone works for Instagram and can help, he (and I) would really appreciate the help as his account dates back to 2012 and of course, the photos aren't backed up! Thanks for reading.
No one is every happy with the fed - they lower interest rates: they're encouraging inflation and de-valuing the dollar. They raise interest rates: they're toying with people's livelihoods. What is the correct action to take, in your opinion?
While I dislike the coiners' "oh, you just don't get it" as much as you, I think a more charitable interpretation of GP is possible that rests on the fact that there are two interpretations of the word "commodity":

1. something (usually raw material or primary good) that can be bought and sold - Bitcoin sort of fits that definition.

2. something (usually raw material or primary good) that can be processed to produce something useful. Bitcoin is not a commodity in that sense, which might be what GP was trying to highlight.
I think the GP was missing a comma or something - they probably meant that differences between the Republican and Democratic Parties (I should stress that this is about the parties, not thr voters), even those as embittered as abortion, gun rights, gay marriage etc, are small compared to the overwhelming amount of policy they agree on almost entirely (foreign policy, medical care, primacy of corporate interests, little will to battle climate change).

Sometimes the policies both parties agree on are in stark contrast to the will of the US electorate, such as the case of many recent wars, or Medicare for All.
I made some money in 'crypto' over the years.
I had always thought of the whole phenomenon to be one sustained by less than average white men / boys giving away their historically dubiously gotten privilege to slightly smarter Asian/Russian fraudsters.
As a trained computer engineer, I am sad that the technology is deficient.
Didn’t Steve Jobs make that usage of ‘insane’ popular in SV?
Or to put it another way -- Half resulted in deaths, in some cases multiple deaths.
I read about this here few days ago and didn’t really knew it was kinda like sleep apnea - https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/466697/research-breakthroug...
> they could expel Hungary from Nato

I don't think anyone wants that big hole on the alliance's border. Hungary might not be as critically positioned as Turkey, but it's still in a pretty awkward place.

But as you say, Orban could drag his feet a bit. Chances are his party enjoyed direct funding from Moscow, like others in their orbit all over Europe.
First of all, this isn't a diss on the guy who was fired, though it must sting. This is how things go.*

Second of all, for the question "why now?": Twitter's CEO Parag has to "run through the tape": regardless of what he thinks might happen, he has to keep to the plan and in fact can't talk to the potential acquirer. One reason is that perhaps the deal won't happen, but also he's just not allowed to.

If that sounds strange, consider CNN+ which was launched and killed within a couple of weeks. The buyer of CNN couldn't tell CNN what they thought but planned all along to nuke it; the CNN people either didn't understand that, were fanatics, or just didn't give a fuck.

* We don't know the whole story so it's possible he was actually doing something bad. But I think that's very unlikely, as these days those things are usually mentioned rather than being swept under the carpet.
My personal favorite concept is the Toyota Setsuna: https://www.topgear.com/car-news/concept/concepts-time-forgo...
Agreed, I think if they were to drop the real-time constraint for the sake of the robotics tasks, they could train a huge model with the lessons from PaLM and Chincilla and probably slam dunk the weakly general AI benchmark.
Environment can have huge impact on this. With a larger number of devices, there could be more collisions, increasing traffic more than linearly, and then in case of scanning traffic, the modulation used would likely be the lowest available which means the packets take up a lot of wall clock time. So a broadcast storm with collisions, retries, at the lowest bitrate = brief outage.
Yes, blame the EU. It's never the greedy websites that are at fault.
I should think JS itself in the UI is "fine" if it's just JS we are talking about and not the DOM or other "web" technologies (a la Electron and co). After all, V8 is faster than the Python interpreter, and quite a lot of UIs are written in Python without it being a bottleneck - it's just a layer of glue pulling together various APIs and creating some sort of pipeline and none of the actual performance-sensitive stuff is done in the interpreted language either way (except when you're doing things like calculating stuff or sorting the contents of widget in Python or JS, etc. where inefficiencies in your code and in the language you are using begin to show - but those aren't strictly required to be part of your UI markup).
The New Features of Fortran 202x
Reddit is doing this because it works and has real impact on the bottom line, and effectively zero impact on user retention. As long as users continue to behave the way they do it would be fiscally irresponsible to shareholders for the company not to do it, same with Twitter.

If you don't like it the best thing you can do is to bounce and never use the product again. Users doing this en masse is the only thing that will get companies to do anything differently.
> There have been no reports of people that tried to get that and didn't

There were no reports of Bernie Madoff not being able to repay investors until the day he ran out of cash.
Yeah the proposal is basically theater (has no chance, and conflicts with some treaties that the US is currently in), but it is very interesting that anyone in Congress is even thinking that way. Lawrence Lessig's book "Free Culture" discusses the history of lengthening copyright terms and is worth reading. A shortening bill is quite a reversal of past practice.

IIRC, Sonny Bono (of the 1998 term extension act) was Republican, but he was a slight exception to the narrative that the Republicans are the party of finance and oil, while the Dems are the party of Hollywood and big tech. So Hawley's bill (a swipe at Hollywood and therefore at Dems) still fits the narrative.

If the bill passes, the early episodes of Star Trek and the early Beatles songs would enter the public domain around now. That would be cool, I guess.