skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can interact with and study a Quake bot.

I, currently, cannot interact with and study LaMDA.

Also your position is falling close to "Well if this entirely other thing, wouldn't it be this other thing?"

There is a vast gulf of difference between LaMDA and StarCraft bots. And way more than a character in an audio book. Claiming an audio book is on the same level of sophistication as LaMDA feels like claiming an apple and the Bolivian navy performing maneuvers in the South Seas are the same thing.
>It's kind of refreshing to see something that hasn't passed through a public relations filter.

That was a big part of Trump's appeal to his fan base as well...however that kind of talk is not becoming of someone in a prestigious position like president (or CEO) and ruins their credibility to get things done.
It's funny that you believe the nation states' excuses for de-basing their currency. People just use fiat because it is dominant and has a legal system attached. They de-base because they can.

The fact that they thought M2 and its equivalents across the world could rise faster than inflation in perpetuity is just silly in retrospect. They're the same thing in the long run. It was used to get around the lack of ability to enact fiscal policy and to make old people rich, and you bought it, hook line and sinker.
A few of the other sub-commentors here are talking about a good bookshelf as a solution to Herb's problem.

I think it's a great idea. But, as always, determining what is on that bookshelf is a tough one.

The Harvard Classics was a great attempt about a century ago [0]. 'Dr. Elliot's 5 foot shelf of books' was what an undergraduate degree at Harvard in 1909 included. Harvard University President Charles W. Eliot put together about all of the great books that those Gilded Age scions were supposed to digest.

Personally speaking, the greatest thing about the Harvard Classics was the 15-minute-a-day Reading Guide to the corpus. I went through it all a few years ago, and man, that was a really good idea. Like, I like Shakespeare now; he's really good! And I read through that philosophy finally, and that was really good too! And, lord, the poetry; I never really liked poems, but now I really love them. Most days were like that for me. I'll fully admit though, there were some real stinkers in there. But only once in a while.

If you'd like to read along too, you can download scanned versions of the books here: https://www.myharvardclassics.com/categories/20120212 . For example, today's reading is:

Vol. 2, pp. 31-43 : Plato's Crito -- Socrates unceasingly strove for beauty, truth, and perfection. Sentenced to death on a false charge, he refused to escape from the death cell, even when opportunity was offered.

As an aside, I'd love for an updated version of the Harvard Classics complete with 15-minute-a-day type readings or other media. I really did look forward to that dose of mind-training every day when I went through it. Does anyone know of a good place for daily mind training that is like this?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Classics
care to share what sites were causing your "crashing"?

no? then hello downvote for just making unsubstantiated claims that goes totally against the grain of typical experience.
This article seems to be written assuming that you already know how professional golf reached its breaking point. With no pre-existing knowledge of the subject all I got from it was that there's apparently some sort of dispute between the PGA Tour and LIV golf (which I've never heard of before) and for whatever reason someone named Phil Mickelson is seen as a centerpiece of this dispute. Apparently LIV is paying the golfers more? It isn't clear to me from reading just this article why that's a problem or what the big deal is.
This isn't a conventional social network. This is a knowledge-graph system, building conventions to link to other knowledge-graph systems.

This effort is to enhance an already existing cherished information system, to make it more expressive, and to seed some very basic interconnectivity which was not possible. Logseq is a wonderful digital garden[1], a personal place people tend, and I don't think anyone in this space would tell you this is a solved problem, that we are done exploring & understanding how to do this knowledgebase work, how to digital garden.

These personal-knowledgebases are rich & personal platforms. But so far, they have largely been alone & isolated. Different patches. FedWiki[2] is perhaps the lone counter-example, of an interconnected knowledgebase, but it has it's limitations with what it is & how it interconnects. Taking another best-of-breed product, like Logseq, and layering in some minimal, small conventions for how to define interconnect, how to make a blogroll: it seems pure & un-objectionable to me.

[1] https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history

[2] http://fed.wiki.org/view/welcome-visitors
My assumption is that HR would be irritated to find out he was doing that. Legally, I assume 'at will' handily covers it as long as nobody being targeted is a member of a protect class.

Personally, I do sort of understand his view. He does not like to put anyone on a PIP, and by the time he gets there, he has already concluded that the relationship is not saveable. In his mind, everyone involved should know that the PIP is a formality, and ideally they'd use the time to find another job and have a smooth transition. HR probably would not agree to firing someone with a few months of severance.
Beneath Antarctica, Scientists Discover River Full of Marine Life
> I actually think it would be a perfectly good language without all the lifetime stuff, with lots of improvements over C++ (destructive move for a start).

I'm not sure what you mean by this exactly. Do you mean Rust would be a perfectly good language without its safety guarantees? Because it can't have them without lifetimes. It could instead have GC like Go/Java/etc, but now it's a GC language.

Lifetimes aren't a feature of the language. They are the implementation details for a couple features of the language. It's how it gets there. And I don't think Rust would have anywhere near the interest it has without those features.
I agree that the step from simple molecules like amino acids to life is far from clear. A nice candidate is the RNA, because it can have enzymatic properties and also store information and somewhat self copy. More details in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_world
Reminds me of that quote I once heard (Leo Polovets, some guy twitter; great quote, so still remember the name)

"Most advice is basically people mistaking correlation for causation."
Thanks - good suggestion - I'll try asking for a refund and see where it gets me...
You think directors feel safe? I highly doubt it...
I will never understand how Apple doesn't realize bringing a screen limited vertical interface isn't appropriate for a large computer display with a large amount of horizontal space. This interface just sucks to use.
Let me be clear, I'd want good labor conditions and healthy work environments and condemn Amazon for failing in certain regards, but even that is blown out of proportion to support Unionization.

We should pass laws that provide safe working conditions. OHSA is the body that governs that.
> on wildly different hardware, on many releases ten years in a row

Is the problem. Plasma has been my daily driver since 4.4, on Debian testing, on systems which I know beforehand wouldn't have any random issues (Debian-specific also).
Was wondering the same, looks quite suspicious
Writing Is Hard
I thought the point of vfork is that they do not share an address space. But there are other things still shared and they should really just have a CreateProcess.
In theory maybe, in practice I don't find speculation on financial products any more substantial, like stocks where they are not owned with aims regarding dividends or the governance of the company (which is the point of a stock) but only to be unloaded on someone in the future at a higher price. The nature of the token doesn't matter in that case only the sentiments of other traders.
I believe MS removed windows borders (on Windows) quite a while ago, and you don't even get a choice there. Maybe they've just copied that.
Ryanair gives you what you pay for, nothing more nothing less.
For the record, the case in question has nothing to do with crypto...
Never use unmature technologies. They just lead to frustration.
Your conjecture is quite reasonable, possibly accurate. Tracking bigger goals has definitely been a problem for me.

I love computer science and programming in general, so I am not about to give that up. I guess once in a while I need someone to consult or do stuff together with—like when I've been stuck on a bug for a while.

I will try to create that "custom" overarching framework. Hard to get right, but it might be fruitful.
RyanAir advertisements are often misleading (tickets often end up costing a multiple of the advertised price), so I'm not going to believe anything they say.
An approximately 30 percent increase in incidence rate ratio that reversed upon discontinuation of methylphenidate is was was reported here. I would be interested to see what the data would be with a nonstimulant like atomoxetine, which has a structure very similar to that of fluoxetine. Could use in combination cancel out this effect?
Ryanair is actually a totally solid airline. They're among the most timely in Europe, if you pay them a few bucks you get an exit row and a meal. Honestly they're among the best of the low-costs (and every domestic flight in Europe counts as low-cost).
I posted this and went out for the day, so I'm a bit late now to comment but here goes.

I'm Scottish and I voted no the first time round. My arguement was always "I've more in common with people from Manchester, Liverpool or London than I do with Highlanders and 'nationalists'" (I'm in Glasgow, which is the third largest UK city and the largest in Scotland). But then we were taken out of the EU and since then the UK has become (been unmasked as?) very right wing, led by a deeply unpleasant right wing of the nominally centre-right Tory party. Centre-left politics (primarily social but also economic) have been ruined, as a result of various factors at play in the last 5 years or so. My kinship with other UK cities is no longer reason enough to support the union.

I manage a company registered in Scotland and it is now as difficult for us to do business with France or Spain as with India or Canada. Unlike those business owners who like the idea of a captive UK market, I want our company to compete and export globally, and we have been deprived of simple access to the world's largest trading bloc.

As for the prospect of an independent Scotland joining the EU, I see no hurdles to that. Now that the UK has left the EU, it is absolutely in the EU's interest to allow Scotland, having left the EU unwillingly, to rejoin.

For these reasons I'm inclined to vote yes if a second referendum is held, but I'm not 100% sure and could change my mind depending on the economic and social plans put forward.
And iOS 16 will also have this feature coming this fall, can be linked to a triple-click of the side button
Cockroach Labs 2022 Cloud Report [pdf]
Well it's $250k per depositor per bank, and you can have single and joint accounts which doubles it. You can have more than a million that is FDIC insured, and that's good enough for most people, and if you lose your money beyond that then to be honest people don't need more than a million to still live a comfortable life that you can "restart" from.
Why is the ONDC significant and how is it going to change the way Indians buy things online? These are the questions that we will be answering in this article.
"Unprofessional" companies like tesla and ryanair are the only companies where I put even the slightest faith in the sincereness of their public statements. I know that the truthfulness of a public statement by any "professional" company is completely incidental to the actual internal state of the company, and is calculated to communicate as little useful information as possible, while managing PR expectations.
Coinbase lays off 18% of workforce as CEO braces for 'crypto winter'
Looks like it's already in v101.0.1. It's under the Settings | Privacy and Security tab with a new checkbox to allow you to "Test Pilot our newest..." It is not automatically checked for me.

I think the change might just be they will be setting that checkbox to on now? Although I don't remember seeing this option until now.
The Case for Dataset-Centric Visualization
That's interesting. It doesn't agree with the results most published tests I've read found, for example https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a28565486/honda-cr-v-v...
This also applies to market research - read in incognito: https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerdooley/2012/10/04/market-r...
> press release mentions only glutamic acid and valine, 2 simple amino-acids which belong to those 10

"Proteinogenic amino acids such as glycine, D,L-a- alanine as well as non-proteinogenic amino acids including b-alanine, D,L-a-aminobutyric acid were identified. The chiral amino acids are present as racemic mixtures (D/L ~ 1), which is indicative of extraterrestrial, non-biological origins."

https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2022/pdf/1781.pdf
The personal connections are huge - and if your personal connections don't mention how something is a scam, or even actively encourage you to get involved with a scam, there's little hope of resisting ads, etc.

And people have fewer personal connections these days, which makes it even worse.
These are the exact conversations happening in boardrooms everywhere, but most executives are terrified to be direct and honest in public. I respect the guy for being so open about his thinking.
You have only so much time – are you using it right?
I'm not sure if this is the right conclusion. All companies on the list went on a hiring sprees with the VC money. It is still not clear if they are not profitable because of the business model or the because of the hiring practices and the extra projects which they tried (Uber's self driving cars is one example).
Ask HN: How to Manage Group Texts?
I'm in about 20-30 group texts on both Signal and Messenger. Some of them I don't even want to be in, others are family/friends mega groups, and then there's the huge permutation/combination of all the different friend and family combinations.

How do you all keep track of these? How do you manage them so they don't waste your attention?
@dylan604 That sentence can be applied as well to your own opinion about wide browser compatibility.
China FAST has found suspected signals of extraterrestrial civilizations
I haven't found anything that makes this "excess profits tax" only affect airlines with excess profits, so it does sound like your typical government naming scheme.

With how cheap discount airlines can be in Europe, this 10 euro tax can easily be a 30-40% raise in ticket price on some flights.

Its funny looking up other sources where the government is seemingly shocked that Ryanair just increased their prices to compensate.
Common brands: Quillivant XR, Daytrana, QuilliChew ER
Coinbase has over 5000 employees. They hired 1200 employees in the first three months of this year. That's about the number they had in total just 2 years ago.
I am not sure if this is kept up to date. I did interview at DoorDash and they definitely do leetcode style interview.
Nor is the structure of life after school. (Offices? 9 AM start times?)

Kids with ADHD can go on to find incredible success in breaking the rules.
I guess it's because:

- Copying something old is kind of embarrassing, especially if

- Seriously, macOS isn't/wasn't clearly superior at everyhing. For example, I think the dock is a rather terrible idea.
> there is a certain tension between wanting to be an independent country, and then also wanting to join the EU

Not necessarily. For example, regarding official languages, there's no way that Gaelic would be an official EU language if Ireland was not directly part of the EU.

And if Catalonia gained its independence, then Catalan would likely become an officially recognized language in the EU (which it isn't, due to spanish interference). Actually, this is one of the most important motivations for many pro-indepencence supporters in Catalonia (of which nearly all of them are pro-EU).
The PGA TOUR is in a precarious position. It does not run, or control, any of the 4 major tournaments -- Masters (Augusta National), US Open (USGA), Open Championship (Royal & Ancient) or even, ironically, the PGA Championship (PGA of America, a different entity than PGA TOUR). PGA can continue to run relatively meaningless events (Valspar Open, Honda Classic, etc) but the game has concentrated around the majors (same as tennis's Grand Slam events) and PGA TOUR has no ability to keep the LIV players out of the majors.
Exactly. It's even worse than the belief that privacy is unnecessary unless you have something to hide, since it enslaves you to a positive obligation to informing others, and despite the risks. If you have something interesting to say regarding humans, then you have to judge that there doesn't exist someone sufficiently threatened by it to do you or your interests any harm, and thinking through that is both stressful and uncertain. The safest default assumption is privacy.

Just getting some of your thoughts down in writing is a first step, like a diary or journal. Maybe a few of those thoughts should be public soon, or maybe not. But getting them down helps your thinking and is useful.

Writing is not a public good by default, but merely a physical manifestation of thought, and thus private.
Ever since I read about the Panic status board project [1] I've been looking for similar projects. This one looks pretty cool.

[1]: https://panic.com/blog/the-panic-status-board/
I wasn't aware that "crypto-bro" was considered an attack of any sort. If you took it as insulting I'll avoid its use in the future (Edit: and I apologize for the inadvertent insult).

Edit: I though "crypto-bro" is just a short hand for "ardent cryptocurrency supporter". Does it have some other negative meaning/connotation that I am not aware of?
For what it's worth, as an undiagnosed (and unmedicated) ADHD kid, I was depressed from age 8 to $current_age. Doing much better now with therapy, Adderall, and an SSRI.

Trying to conform to a neurotypical world is hard.
Eh, maybe. I don't care either way anymore. If it works for you — great, I haven't been so lucky. Everything else has been running smoothly (even gnome), and as a fanatical Linux user I'm usually very careful in my choice of hardware (no nvidia/broadcom/etc).
None of those things are rioting, nor is it rioting to express an unpopular opinion loudly.

Honestly, it sounds like you just really dislike the "truckers" and are mainly getting irate when you see mention of them that doesn't express a similar opinion by being obviously negative and condemnatory. It's indisputable the Canada froze the accounts of many of the truckers, which is frankly the only bit that's relevant to a cryptocurrency discussion. The OP of this sub-thread expressed that clearly and concisely, and going into too much detail about the protests themselves is a derail.
> your expenses (salaries, rent, hosting, etc.) are paid in USD.

nobody (sane at least) would mix expenses and long term, high volatility investment as crypto. I own some crypto and I don't care today's price, it's a 10y investment.
Hasn't been a problem for Musk or O'Leary when it comes to getting stuff done.

It has other downsides sure, GSD isn't one of them.
with restraining orders he probably had no choice. at that point the only way to for the kids to see him would be court-ordered visitation rights.
I like this syntax better than the new lambda syntax, but I think it's good that a proper lambda syntax exists now. Not all higher-order functions accept formulas (they have to wrap their function arguments with rlang::as_function or equivalent), and there are probably some obscure cases where the distinction between a formula and a function matters.
Homelessness is highest in the areas with the tightest housing markets.

It’s maybe comforting to think that “protecting your assets” isn’t harming anyone else, but there are plenty of places with higher rates of drug abuse than California, yet California has the largest homeless population in the country, followed by Hawaii and Oregon, two states that also have short housing supplies.
Ryanair is low-cost. The 10 Euro are a large proportion of a lot of tickets.
Sometimes I wonder how my life would have turned out if my parents hadn't believed this so strongly. I didn't even know. I never could finish anything I started, never accomplished anything I set out to do, never achieved any of the things I wanted for myself. From outside it looks like laziness and lack of ambition and I internalized that. It predictably led to a lifetime of depression and shame. Would I have started drinking if I had been medicated properly the first time adults around me noticed I could benefit from it? Could it have prevented the years of homelessness, mental institutions, and jails?

We'll never know of course. But decades later now that I have access to these medications I can actually achieve my goals enough of the time to feel ok about myself.

But yeah, complacency in school, totally.
Most of them, yes, but there were some serious geezers wandering the halls before the pandemic. One of my coworkers started at NASA the same year I was born, and she doesn't show any signs of retiring any time soon. These folks don't usually end up directly in management positions, but they often hold advisory roles that give them the ear of those calling the shots.
But the big difference is this time the country is more secular than ever before
Who gets to define hacking vs playing? The bot is executing the game code with exactly the same behavior as a human would experience.

Yes, the bot is taking advantage of hidden state with the RNG... but there's nothing stopping a human from doing the same. It's possible for a human to take enough RNG-based actions and observe the outcomes to derive the current state of the RNG seed. Maybe that number is in the thousands or millions of actions, but a human could do it the same as a bot, we just don't choose to try.
You've used the warranty?, did they make you jump through hoops?
It's already out of touch with reality. Expecting privacy - in any form - from a device rooted by a behavioral management company is juicing a stone.
With Mercury you can:

- host multiple notebooks,

- you can easily hide code,

- you can schedule notebooks,

- you can download notebooks as PDF,

- you can easily add authentication to the notebooks.

It all depends on your needs and project requirements.
At some level, being constrained and pretending is part of being civilized. People admiring "unhingedness", specially coming from people in positions of power, just sound immature, at best.
How Do We Utilize Chaos Engineering to Become Better Cloud-Native Engineers?
I guess Sergey and Larry weren't "smart" then because they never went through a leetcode interview.
I don’t think that’s an irrational take it all.
And they aren't afraid of making that clear. I don't think it's shock advertising at all, it's just their brand, product and messaging being in perfect sync.
I asked this a year or so ago. Interesting to read this article in light of that discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=863871
(13 years? Yikes!)
Isn't that a simple metaphor for a ponzi scheme
Should also note that the return to baseline was only after discontinuation of the MPH. Can't really tell if it would return to baseline if the medication was continued without digging into the study more than I have so far.

Also worth noting for those less familiar with medication names, methylphenidate is sold under the brand names Ritalin and Concerta.
IBM should be on everyone's "never work here" list along with companies like Amazon and Oracle.

In my opinion, IBM only cares about patents, not actually solving any problems or accomplishing anything.