skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since when did giving millions to some bankers being laid off become the signal of being kind?

They are getting severance packages with two months of further employment, and while that is not ideal for them at the individual level, I don't see why they need charity any more than anyone else.

Being kind would actually be donating the money for truly charitable purposes to help the poorest.
While interesting, this is surprisingly poorly written.

It contains a lot of the sort of overly verbose and pointlessly technical language that is far too common in the corporate world.

One might say that the apparently excessive overuse of nominalization and the remarkably high prevalence of redundant, duplicative, or otherwise unnecessary adjectives and adverbs serve as needless, pointless hindrances to the all-important readability of this critical document.
Small correction: while the 2017 Stranger article did lead to Herzog receiving harassment, death threats, and social ostracization, she did not leave The Stranger as a direct result of the article. She was furloughed in 2020 and then laid off during COVID.

The edit timer on my original comment expired, but I didn't want to leave that error hanging out there.
I have a feeling building your own "private cloud" is gonna be the next big thing :-D
My project will average out the data on recent "sale-price over-or-under the asking-price" for an entire zipcode. This should produce a report showing you how things are trending. I hope this will help people make an informed decision.

Caveats :

1.This works for the USA only.

2.The report should take up to a minute to display as the data is being scraped from Zillow.

3.If the site does go down, it is due to the volume of traffic from reddit. Then I'm going to need to scale up my servers. I will try and stay on top of this.

4.If the no results are obtained, Zillow probably didn't have "sales" data for that zip code, or the connection to Zillow failed. I would just retry once again.

I'm looking for feedback on these points:

1. How do I monatise without adverts? I would hate to display ads and kill the experience.

2. Do you want similar trends? Eg. I could also show "Average days in the market for properties", "Similar zip codes for your budget." etc

3. Would you be willing to register and voluntarily give up some data ? I would like to know where you are searching from, it will help me build a database of "Where are people from and where are they looking to move?"

4. Any thing that will help me improve is good.
This may be somewhat difficult, however, given the prior art of Shulgin and others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TiHKAL. TIHKAL and PIHKAL cover a lot of ground.
2020 lockdown helped companies realize they can just cut manufacturing and hike prices.
The problem is moer that we can't do anything about it. It's not enough.
From a reply I made later to a self-professed normie: I'm excited by what you describe [successful therapy] and glad for it, but my sadness is that I could still be arrested by possessing mushrooms I picked for myself in a forest. I've been confronted by the authorities over this issue and believe me it is not a pleasant or healing experience.

A list off the top of my head mentally ill people should avoid: hand guns, rifles, poison, rope strong enough to hang oneself with, enough narcotics to go to sleep forever, dynamite, poison gas, large quantities of alcohol, religious cults, LSD...
The issue is absolutely that plastic straws were banned for no rational reason!
Independent of supporting justification, I think that denying the concept of procedural disadvantage while proposing procedural advantage is also dishonest semantics. In a zero-sum competition like hiring or admission, adjusting the criteria to give advantage to one is identical to giving a disadvantage to the other. Any denial of this fact taints the credibility of the speaker.

I fully agree that certain individuals face significant structural disadvantages. I actually think that most people, including those seeking social justice, are blind to many of those structural disadvantages because they find them distasteful to admit, and too adjacent to racist talking points.

If one recognizes that structural advantage exist, as we do, the questions become the appropriate methods and timeline for resolving inequity. This last one is particularly complex, and almost never discussed in any context. The reality is that even in the best case scenario, true equality without a hand on the scale will be a multi-generational project.

Regarding methods, I think it is important to note that while racial groups share many similar experiences, suffering takes place at the individual level, and individual circumstances vary widely. Heavy handed policies that treat all blacks or all whites as equivalent to each other will always have a lot of inherent injustice and collateral damage baked into them. A poor white immigrant from Ukraine is not the same as a rich white bankers son. A rich black immigrant is not the same as poor inner city child with the baggage of 200 years of systemic racism.

When folk talk of procedural advantage based on race, what many people hear is "you are acceptable collateral damage".

I think the more the conversation admits who will suffer and benefit from efforts to reduce inequities of birth, the more honest and productive discussion we can have.
Pretty much everything you wrote is incorrect. You are describing margin lending, which had nothing to do with the issue. Robinhood instead blocked trading even for fully funded accounts. The problem wasn't the money that Robinhood lent you, but rather the fact that they themselves didn't have enough collateral to get cleared for the increased risk posed by these stocks. They were posing as a first-class brokerage without having the financial backing for it.

Moreover, the issue brought their business model into public spotlight, and people realized the problems with making money by selling order flows and the conflicts of interest that came with it.
A 69% increase is mind blowing. Is there something this may have missed in this study, seems pretty unbelievable that people wouldn’t plant wheat earlier if they could given that wheat has been grown in the eastern gangetic basin for millennia and was one of the earliest places for the transition to agriculture.
Only simulator could check signal to which could not connect physically.

But, you could split project into small parts, connected by some interface (could use triggers or 2-way ram cells), and debug them separate.

Sure, you will loss some capacity, but this is life.

This is not equal to test real solution, because physical arrangement matter, but most probably, you will find most obvious mistakes.
This is why we need wealth taxes. Confiscate the lot.
Maybe I'm just being cynical here, but did leaving Meta facilitate the creation of Starburst enterprise based on open source Trino?
Footnote 11 says that repeating data is considered harmful

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6Fpvch8RR29qLEWNH/chinchilla...
I think they're saying it isn't safe to live anywhere, because the chemicals are continually getting cycled back into all of the planet's water. Whatever falls on the ocean can be recycled back into the clouds by sea spray.
So many interesting take-aways here.

* The "bigger models" line of research is probably exhausted for now: "insofar as we trust our equation, this entire line of research -- which includes GPT-3, LaMDA, Gopher, Jurassic, and MT-NLG -- could never have beaten Chinchilla, no matter how big the models got"

* We don't really know how much written data is available. Even Google - which has access to data repositories like scanned books that they cannot share - seems to have trouble getting consistently sized datasets for unknown reasons.

* There seems to be as much (more?) written English available in books than on the entire web. MassiveText "scrape" = 506B tokens, MassiveText "books" = 560B tokens
I could start a charity tomorrow with zero donors and then complain that it's unfair that I don't have money to pay heating bills.

If these charities can't keep their lights and heat on then its because people don't find the cause worth donating too. Why aren't you paying their bills? You must not care about the needy at all.

Zero idea what any of this has to do with companies who develop energy resources. The energy doesn't magically come into existence because someone with a sob story wants it.
I keep shutting down my processes with ctrl+c all the time. Then for a moment I become extra careful to hit ctrl+shift+c instead, so next when I open the browser and try to copy something I end up opening the developer tools instead. To make matters worse, I had a mouse with a broken mouse wheel when I was a teen. The middle click still worked, so I learned to rely on autoscroll a lot. So I had to disable the middle mouse click paste because I kept pasting my clipboard everywhere. I hate what I have become.
I always thought the schools were supposed to be awesome in South Pas. No?
It's lighter than twitter, it has less tracking, it doesn't nag you to sign in on every pageload or while scrolling. And it has the same content as it is an alternative frontend for the same data. So for everyone who does not want to post on twitter it is probably a better experience.
and none of that should be criminalised
Very impressive. What amazes me is how closely the images match the prescription given. How long did a typical iteration take? How long did the total process take?
You raise a really interesting point for discussion!

> when is something a thing, rather than a collection of things?

That's a false dichotomy--a collection is itself a thing, of course. And most things are made up of other things. A building, after all, is itself a collection of structural system, building materials and individual.

A city is listed.

For a thing to be listed on a list of wonders, I'd submit that it has to have a well-accepted, reasonably unambiguous name for that thing. So "the international road network" is a no: but the U.S. Interstate Highway System--maybe.

Although the lighthouse at Alexandria was one of the original wonders, I'd submit that the Library of Alexandria could also be named as a wonder, despite being the most literal collection of things you could imagine. So why not the Internet Archive? That one, in particular, is wondrous because it's a collection--it doesn't simply contain the wonder of some other thing.

I'd also submit that a category or type of thing (so "the typewriter", "the lightbulb", "computers") are not a wonder, in this sense.

To be inspired by the wonders of the ancient world, they probably also have to be constructed; others have posited wonders of the natural world, but they do feel like they fall into a different category.
Thanks for posting. I think this is a decent article - hopefully we'll see some interesting comments.
Seems like once the easy scaling is over (you can't get more training data or train more on the data you have), the next step is using training data more efficiently with algorithmic improvements?
Building something good enough that people will give you their email after seeing it is a better alternative for everyone.

Good luck.
That would be his money, not the shareholders
Ya, the board and the VCs didnt care about that at the time.
Um, what's with the 5 digit year dates? It makes reading your comments a pita. :(
That's actually an interesting thought I've been having, will audio interfaces eventually train humans to speak in a certain way?
Hi, git-bug's author here. That's pretty interesting way to have a text interface for PRs. I'd like to have something like that in git-bug.
Sure, what I meant is that founder CEOs are not as irreplaceable as it might seem.
Honestly though the hard part is the actual design which is already done here. Learning to vectorize a raster is something that can be done in a weekend with Inkscape, there's no reason to involve an actual graphics designer with this anymore.
This may be true. But it's also true that Robinhood's business model took a massive reputation hit amongst its core user base as a result of this.

Some people were utterly delusional about what was going to happen with GME, but Robinhood's business model was based around providing low friction trades to the sort of consumer who makes casual trades based on what they hear on the internet: i.e. exactly the person most likely to be delusional about GME and likely to subscribe to someone else's theory it was all their broker's fault really. Even the name is a nod to the delusion trading stocks is a place for poor amateurs to fleece deep-pocketed professionals and not the other way round!
> The US military can essentially break almost any government instantly, insurgency is a different beast. That's no mystery.

I'd like to add that I have strong doubts that a North Korean insurgency is a likely outcome of a war, unless occupation and reintegration is botched on an utterly comical scale - an order of magnitude more than it was botched in Iraq. [1]

Claiming that the threat of a NK insurgency is real, on the other hand, is a great way to secure more funding for the DoD.

[1] Which may well had coalesced into a stable state, if it weren't for the occupation purging every Ba'ath-adjacent political and security functionary they could get their hands on. Instead of being included in the post-Saddam state, all those people who lost their jobs went into the hills and started building IEDs and firing mortars at US Army bases.
What an unhelpful post.

The realization that modern servers can easily persist multiple terabytes of data is profound.

The fact that some datasets are just floats and you can quantize some floats from 32-bits down to 8-bits is true but not a helpful observation.

I also don’t know where you get “Python float is 24 bytes + 8-byte pointer for each item in the list”. Wat.
> "We stayed online when GCP, AWS, and Azure go down" is a different story. On the other hand, if those three go down simultaneously, I suspect the state of the world will be such that I'm not worried about the internet.

If nothing else, with those three all down, so will most news sources be -- so even if you're up, your customers won't get to hear about it.
Not surprised. I support egalitarianism as much as the next person, but as YC has grown linearly the number of times I’ve thought “what on earth?” about a YC startup has increased exponentially. The sad reality is that there is a finite number of viable startups in the world.

We’re also in the middle of a recession.
You should perhaps read the comment again? The comment mentions two disjoint sets of people who are presently paid in different ways. It does not mention any transition of any people between the sets.
they're legacy by definition of being pre-existing users. if you're used to that setting, you have a legacy of using it

a new user would not expect git bash to have shift-insert as paste, and that is an unnecessary inconvenience, especially considering that git bash is more the rule than the exception in doing this, with a variety of different routes to the same goal

I think they should be opt-in instead of opt-out or forced. standards save time and energy and they should be respected, especially in something so common, especially if the legacy alternatives are so easily maintained
I'd be curious to know what your company does which generates this volume of data (if you can disclose), what database you are using and how you are planning to solve this issue.
The beauty of the Arduino is the ecosystem behind it. The original hardware is verging on obsolescence, to be polite, but the same code and programming methods can be used on STM32 hardware (that's Arduino-compatible, like the Blackpills) or ESP32. The main difference is that now you have much faster, more modern processors, far more Flash and RAM to play with, not to mention a more powerful I/O peripheral structure if you want to dig into it at that level.

FreeRTOS on an ESP32 in the Arduino IDE is effectively free: you don't have to do anything to enable it. It's pulled in by default.

AFAIK, Arduino support for STM32 is limited to the F103 & F4xx series.

I confess that since my entry point is as a professional, I really haven't kept up with what other hobbyist-level entries are still on the market. That said, a good place to start would be with an STM32 Discovery board -- if you can find one these days! Looks like Digi-Key has exactly 1 in stock rn. It's a $19.95 board with an 'F407 and some sensors and output devices. No external tools needed: you can program it through a USB port. All the tools can be downloaded from ST Thomson or its partners for free. This is more entry-level professional than hobbyist, but there's no sharp dividing line there.

The Raspberry Pi pico is also taking off: https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-pico/
I haven't used one yet, but they seem to be amazing little devices and the community is rallying around them.
I agree with you but there is also the dynamic that there is always other richer people than you with richer lifestyles. So while you might think that one jet is enough for you if you had friends who didn't own a jet. When all your friends own 3 jets it makes you feel like you should also own 3 or whatever random expense you can imagine.

And while you say "human nature" I'd rather say it's "human illness." They someone are within a strata of society where there is no limit, a 20 minute private jet flight or a $20,000 meal is not out of the question and is in fact the norm.

They buy a fully renovated house for $10 million but then gut it to renovate it to "their tastes" and then live in it for two weeks of the year. There's just not culture to tell them it's excessive.
Why Swift Sucks
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39677330/how-does-string...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32305891/index-of-a-subs...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24037711/get-the-length-...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38454952/map-array-of-ob...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24250938/swift-pass-arra...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34540185/how-to-convert-...

The language is irredeemable if the simplest tasks are that complicated.
Yeah, I'm going to stick with companies being allowed to make money selling stuff as within the acceptable bounds.
Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion--when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing--when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors--when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you--when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice--you may know that your society is doomed.
Not the best example since she wasn't replaced.
We self-host our Oracle instance because we really, genuinely like Oracle SQL and Oracle Cloud is the only cloud provider (that I'm aware of) that offers Oracle as a service, which is undiserable. Also, in general I personally like the fine control of being able to know the condition of our whole database, including state, deep profiling, and our backup situation, as someone with an old-school sysadmin mindset. However, it's relatively straightforward and well documented[0][1] to migrate to solutions like RDS from existing self-hosted installs if that's what's required.

[0]https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/pat...

[1]https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/hands-on/move-to-mana...
I am making the argument that they were not in a cage at all and that they were justly compensated for the risk of joining a rapidly expanding startup.
There are countless climate tech jobs — as long as you are willing to take a large haircut.
Wow! Your third paragraph was a seamless example. I had a laugh.
is this an advert?
If you can't handle traffic from reddit or a larger site, you configured static pages and caching incorrectly, or you run your site on a Raspberry Pi, I guess.
If it makes you feel any better layoffs are nothing personal, it all comes down to box ticking on a spreadsheet, to make numbers balance.
I also think that IRC is better than the other protocols for these reasons, and I had also used nc, telnet, etc. IRC has the advantage, you can use the IRC even without specialized IRC software, due to that.
> Reminder that Vlad Tenev received $800M in compensation in 2021

No he did not in fact receive $800m. You seem to know a lot about the performance of RH stock, but you’ve completely missed the fact that the poor performance means he won’t be seeing that $800m worth of stock - almost none in fact.

He got a comp plan that could get him up to that much in stock if certain goals were met, but none of those have been met so he hasn’t gotten any of that $$.

Suffice it to say, if he had met those goals, they wouldn’t be laying off anyone, as their stock price would be sky high.
Then there are the mining trains that produce net energy:

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a39372219/se...

If you're digging iron ore out of a mine and carting it on a one-way trip to the coast the train is always heavier on the way down than the way up. Store the energy from the downwards trip and use it to power the upwards trip, with some left over.

Mind you this drives home the reality that mining is a non-renewable resource, as there is no such thing as a perpetual energy source or mine.
"I'm a founder and you are just OPEX" is how people get put up against walls.
Imagine if I was visiting Laos and told someone I met in the countryside that I spent, say $2,000 on a racing bicycle -- which would be considered "normal" in bike racing culture in many parts of the US.

Imagine what that person would think!

My central point is this: People are quick to "normalize" their behavior relative to their perceived peer group.

So, yes, multinational CEO compensation is hard to comprehend. (It is arguably to the point where it does not serve those very corporations well. But that isn't my point...)

Just remember, the income and spending habits of a "typical" mid-range software developer in a major U.S. city are similarly incomprehensible for a wide range of people.

In some sense, it is turtles all the way down.

P.S. I'm not defending CEO pay. First, I haven't really studied it up close. I'd like to see more, erm, experimentation in it. Lowering it, sure. But also I'd like to see it deferred, for example, so a CEO's compensation is also tied to what happens after they leave. That would increase the incentive to not plunder the place or take shortcuts. Yes, I recognize this proposal seems to mix incentives between past and current CEOs. But that reflects reality. You can't just "wash off" a terrible previous CEO. And the "glean" from a wonderful predecessor will pay dividends for a long time.

P.P.S. Shameless plug: if you are a well-funded not-for-profit with a generous comp and benefits package, you could do worse than hire me. I'm an expert at studying CEO pay and pay inequity at organizations, both using intra- and inter- methodologies. I'm part of an exclusive self-selected, self-reinforcing group of self-proclaimed experts, so be sure to send your best offer.
Digging deeper, as apparently journalism is dead nowadays, the two leaders mentioned in the article resided in the US. This connection is likely what allowed the extradition to go through although I'm not certain on what grounds.
There are probably services you can hire to do this for you. But it will simply be a more sophisticated version of google/github-searching the code fragments.

Also, everyone uses some Stack Overflow snippets, so it don't expect things to be absolutely from scratch.
Gregorio Allegri - Miserere mei, Deus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THU9zfWCUr0 (Sistine Chapel Choir).