skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently watched a video that this article reminded me of: I Watch Your Videos But Never Change My Life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj5lA7FfUkI

The premise is that there's a viewer that watches a bunch of self-improvement videos, but never enacts any of the suggestions. The presenter's argument is that change happens when you understand and digest the suggestions you've been given and it naturally comes to mind. In order to digest the changes, you need to avoid chain consuming content, reflect on what you read or watched, and to be patient.

The analogy that really stuck with me is you don't read the textbook over and over again to learn, you read the textbook and quiz yourself. Similarly, to change yourself, you don't read informational articles one after another, you need to sit down and think about what you read at least once right after you read it and ideally multiple times until it's ingrained in your brain. After the concept is ingrained in your brain, then you can start taking the advice. In some cases you can just start doing things differently, but often it's hard because you're not clear on what you need to do differently, you fail, then you become demotivated.
Yes, you can short a startup
White supremacists burned that bridge (or cross) long ago. The idea of being "proud" to be white only conjures up one thought for even the most lightly informed about our nation's history.

Usually, the point of identifying minority owned business is to allow people to perhaps help make up for historical (or even modern) oppression and help people from those groups overcome systemic issues that have likely made success more difficult for them. White people as a group have not been systemically oppressed.
So large language model are great on but have undesirable result occasionally. Hand coded scripts are added to remove the undesirable outcomes but still produce other problems - crashed but less often.

More and more things are going to be filtered through large language model apps and the possibilities for cascading failures will be even more interesting than what exists presently.
To you as well!
Tabnine is my personal favorite as it works with most IDEs including IntelliJ, Vim and even VSCode and the suggestions are high-quality. I actually moved away from Copilot to Tabnine across all IDEs and haven't gone back since.
You do understand that having those miners mean they make money during the time in which your scenario the facility would be a net negative (depreciation, maintenance, labor) while it would be idle or only selling energy at a low premium.
Much more likely: the upvotes are because many people have frustration at this type of thing, and limited places to channel their frustration, so when they see a post like this, they upvote it to express their frustration. Or maybe that’s just me..
It is unproductive when the message politely wrong - or wrongly polite. Example: "It's not you, it's us" when I know for a fact that it is a network error on my side because it's of my own doing..
The code's right there. Anyone want to try it out?
This is awesome and it works!

I did the same thing 10 years ago and it was one of the best morale builders for our team after all the time we spent dealing with these folks.

https://www.brightball.com/articles/waste-spammers-time-to-r...
If you told me 10 years ago that gender would be such a hot topic in 2022 I'd have thought you were crazy.
Change it to "You and this tatoo are enough." and you have closed the loop!
Now do one with 200k miles and needs a new battery.
You might want to check again. I notice a lot of goat cheese options - most of which are $6 or less and eligible for purchase via SNAP/EBT.

The noodles are a bit on the high side from my perspective. One option is $10.50 for a 3oz serving (for one person). That's $3.50/ounce. Another option is $23.39 for 30 packs with each pack being 2.82 ounces. That's around 28 cents/ounce. This one seems like the better option but I'm not into noodles anyway - even if, like these, they're certified Halal.
Been programming for 50 years, and still love it. Can't believe I'm paid to do it! Learn something new every day. I started for real as a freshman at 17; took a CS course taught by a guest professor. The course was taught using APL. If you will forgive the pun, I always thought APL was unique in its timeless beauty. I've always thought that viewing software from an "outside of time" perspective was something of a secret weapon. It is what I think Dijkstra was trying to get at, but I think Iverson did a better job of it. Started writing embedded code for medical devices about 20 years ago, and that has been a profound and meaningful occupation. I'm currently working on convex optimization code for treatment planning in cancer radiation therapy.
Why not decline the managerial role?
It is for certain that.

File under not "Why we can't have nice things", but "downstream effects of why we can't have nice things".
I start with common sense priors or "intuition" but also sometimes write code to try different combinations and assess accuracy.

For example, not too long ago I was trying to estimate and predict ATM usage and considered using days of the week as a feature. The simplest case is a single node tree that assumes every day of the week has similar usage. You just calculate mean and variance.

But then, a lot of ATMs have different usage patterns on weekends than weekdays. So I considered a split into two groups, calculating different mean/variance for weekend days and week days. I could have tried different groupings of days but those two were easy to understand for users, covered most cases I was interested in with less risk of overfitting given the amount of data that I was working with (with more data I might have considered more splits even take into account special days like holidays). The more splits the more data you need to train the model, especially if you want not just a point estimate but an idea of variance (more parameters to estimate require more data).

The decision whether to split or not can be done on a per ATM basis cross validating the splitting strategy by assessing a fleet of ATMs.

People optimize different things in these kinds of problem. Here https://www.saedsayad.com/decision_tree_reg.htm for example they try to reduce prediction variance. Oftentimes decision trees try to optimize information gain or gain ratio (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_gain_(decision_tre...)
Gain ratio seems like a pretty ad-hoc technique to me so to prevent over-fitting and select the correct model (to split or not), I sometimes use a relative entropy penalty on the trained parameters kinda like described here: http://www.inference.org.uk/mackay/itprnn/ps/343.355.pdf. I've never used it but apparently if you have problems where you can't calculate that parameter relative entropy, there are approximation techniques such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_information_criterion.

Then there's things I sometimes do with hyperparameters to improve performance like mixing into individual ATM data fake data points that represent the prior for a wider group or class of ATMs. Again using common sense to adjust those priors (and always cross validating my tweaks against real data).
Gods I miss the halcyon days of pulling the entire file directory down and rooting around for interesting stuff like that.
Why?

Are you unable to believe someone might think differently than you do, without it being explained away as "artificial voting"?

Edit to add: Nice, they edited their comment. Previously it accused HN of having an artificial voting conspiracy. So that is what my comment was about. I will not edit my original comment above.
Having a useful error message in all cases requires understanding all possible error conditions in sufficient detail (vs a catch all). Most system don’t have a clear enough grasp of all possible error conditions.
That is exactly who I thought of immediately after reading the previous comment.
It doesn't work on Firefox.

I too am a lone developer but (not to judge) I consider any website I work on to only be complete if it works on Chrome and Firefox and maybe Edge. I mean, it's easily thousands of times easier to do this now than it was in the early 2000's when we were all forced to do IE5/6/7/8 compatibility, and the tooling wasn't remotely as good... so I won't have any sympathy for you LOL
What type of thing? Asking for genuine curiosity.
Yeah I call BS. The "word filter" answer was selected as the valid answer by a third party (not OP).That's what the OP replied to another comment :

> Heargo 24 days ago
> Thanks, I'll try as soon as I get the problem again (somehow it's not bugged anymore...).

Looks like it was just a temporary issue with no evidence that's it's due to a word filter.
gsender

might work here
Some quick googling says your full of crap and misrepresenting. Sure maybe gas went to 1.80 at the bottom of COVID! But most likely that was from a previous value of about $3. Georgia had a high of about 4.60 and now gas is 3.70 up from $3 a year ago.
There is a whole Wikipedia article for it!:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postgenderism
Imagine having a coworker like that.. But he's fully remote, and basically generated in real time by AI (appearance on video, voice etc). Maybe that's where we're going? :) then humans would be hired to occasionally pop in and pass some heavier scrutiny.
Thanks for hanging around and answering questions. I too was wondering how the shipping affected the sample while it was in transit because part of what I read indicated that the sample was frozen upon arrival potentially (my impression here) to prevent degradation of the things that you hope to quantify.

Recognizing that the sample is not frozen before shipping and is therefore not "fresh" - 1) how much degradation occurs and 2) how have you quantified or measured the effects of a long strange trip through the postal services?
Just compare to animals. They went from an about an elephant weight of waste to about half a donkey weight of waste. That has the benefit of giving people something to help them visualize the difference.
Why is this barbarian still using paper to smear his shit around his asshole instead of installing a bidet and washing up after he shits?
I agree the old BSOD's were too verbose. I'd like a return to "error [number]: [short description]".
Ask HN: What's up with these DoorDash dark patterns?
I'm in the Bay Area. We don't order using apps often, but when we do we find that so much of the selection consists of mediocre looking Chinese, Indian, pizza and Mexican.

Using the current Android mobile app, you can't actually drill into and read reviews which makes assessing the actual quality of the restaurant difficult.

And I've found that restaurants will run their own "ghost kitchen" shadow restaurant out of their main (poorly rated) location. This delivery specific restaurant has good reviews on DD, but when you Google that restaurant name nothing comes up aside from listings on the app. And then the food arrives and it's terrible and you match up the physical address and realize it's a poorly rated Indian restaurant by a different name.

Or, you order from one of these weird ghost kitchen brands and the actual restaurant doesn't actually get your order (despite the app telling you they confirmed it) and your second driver finally tells you to cancel the order.

Is it asking too much to have a service that's transparent, functions well and have the end product taste good?
> It’s just interesting how unsubstantiated allegations are getting so much attention

Why make it about my opinions?
* in my experience you basically have to write every call anyway, in other words, getting GraphQL set up on the backend is at least as much work as writing API boilerplate. Again, correct me if I am wrong. It's been a while since I last used GraphQL and I keep hearing about hearing about magic libraries that make it "effortless".
Observer bias and detection probabilities for moose pellet surveys
> over the course of a week, render some high quality NTSC video.

I remember those days. :)
If a moose poops in the forest, and no one sees it. . . ;-)
privacy.com perfectly solves this

They abide by KYC so not good for true privacy, but they are very very good at containerizing your recurring expenses
My brother, 4 years ahead of me, learned programming in college, and came home on breaks full of excitement about it. My mom, a high school science teacher, took a programming course at the community college. She ended up teaching the course a year later. I took a class in BASIC at my high school, around 1981.

We used this IBM machine that looked like a keypunch but recorded the data onto an 8" floppy. Each of us got a floppy. We'd edit our program, then hand it to the operator, who would run it and give us our printout. Batch programming enforced a certain discipline -- you might get only a couple edit cycles every day.

I wrote a program that made little mazes, using the built-in random number function RND. Then I made the maze a bit bigger, until I figured out what size would fit on a piece of 132 column green bar paper. I had little inkling of the order of algorithms, mine might have been O(N^3). Anyway, the next day I received a stern rebuke from the teacher, apparently the operator found it still running the following morning, and shut it down.

I still love to program, though I'm not a software developer, but a so called "scientific" programmer.
This particular issue was hit by my friend previously on copilot.
How long do minority owned businesses get this benefit? 10 years? 50 years? 100?
> While it is true that unsustainable tourism has skyrocketed since Hawaii has lifted COVID-19 regulations, the effects of settler colonialism are an insidious rot that spreads throughout Hawaii’s statehood and colonization.

On the other hand, mass immigration to countries that haven't been colonized is entirely beneficial, and completely unlike what is happening to Hawaii. Because of.. uhmm... nuanced reasons.

> For years, kānaka maoli (Native Hawaiians) and non-Indigenous longtime residents have advocated limiting outside influence on the islands. [..] Hawaiian culture is deeply rooted in land stewardship. Hawaiians see the land not as property owned or sold, but as family, something newcomers often fail to recognize.

Right. Blood and soil. A uniquely Hawaiian idea.
That Black Mirror episode was disturbing.
I truly found programming is fun after discovering Haskell and functional programming. OOP is fun, too with .NET, Java, Ruby,...
Even the Irish?
I think the point the WSJ is trying to make is this: Today you tell the IRS how much you think you owe them and then pay that much. And it's incumbent on the IRS to figure out if you're wrong and prove that to you in the appropriate venue.

With automatic filing, the IRS will tell you how much you owe. And it becomes incumbent on you to prove them wrong. Under this model, taxes will calcify for poorer cohorts of filers who lack the means to contest a possibly unfair tax bill.

Personally I feel we need free filing. But I don't want the IRS doing my taxes for me each year and sending me the bill.
Sometimes, procrastinating can be a good thing :-)
There are a fair number of papers (start with Dart/dropout, Bart (bayesian sampling of the whole gbm) but they start to look like global optimization problems and part of the reasons trees work so well is that the local greedy optimization can be made super fast on modern cpu caches.

So even if you can fit a more compact forest that performs well through clever regularization its usually better/faster in practice to grow more simple trees with more randomization and let overfitting average out.
They made an unsubstantiated allegation about an unsubstantiated allegation. The allegation was upvoted, the allegation about the allegation was downvoted. Surely you understand how silly that is?
i feel the opposite
So immigration is bad in some places? Isn’t this a deeply racist right wing ideal? Or is there nuance to this? Who decides where immigration is acceptable? Isn’t Hawaii part of the US?
This thread needs a call to Rule 14: do not feed trolls.

The bugs apparent trigger word is close to hot-button poli-sci issue. Can we please focus on the Technology.
Worldviews Limit Perspective
Why should I care what white-supremacists (other people who happen to have a similar skin color to mine) think? I have nothing of any substance in common with them.
Is 4Mg that confusing?
Massachusetts banned scooters (just like they did Uber for a long time until overwhelming complaints made them change)

SF has Lime scooters and they seem popular. I rode one yesterday.

I have no idea about NYC. It might be too dense at least in Manhattan.

[0] https://www.sweeneymerrigan.com/blog/massachusetts-scooter-l...
1/100th the concentration of the Sahara desert...
I've been thinking about how to solve this problem, which Konrad Hinsen calls "software collapse". I think we can define an "archival virtual machine" specification that is efficient enough to be usable but simple enough that it never needs to be updated and is easy to implement on any platform; then we can compile our explorable explanations into binaries for that machine. Thenceforth we only need to write new implementations of the archival virtual machine platform as new platforms come along: JavaScript, WebAssembly, PostmarketOS, or whatever.

Here are some of the things I've written about this in the recent past, though I seem to be suffering from profoundly pathological levels of analysis paralysis:

https://dercuano.github.io/notes/uvc-archiving.html

https://dercuano.github.io/notes/archival-vm.html

https://derctuo.github.io/notes/veskeno-outline.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32218329

I think there will always be a hard core of explorables that really need the performance of a modern computer to express what you want to express, but I think there are a huge number that aren't, and for which the penalty of running 10x or 100x slower than they would in JavaScript with WebGL is worth the benefit of lasting forever without any maintenance.

For things that have some direct real-world applicability, like solving a sparse linear system (that isn't too large) or estimating the transmittance spectrum of a slice of the atmosphere, this kind of reproducibility seems even more important to me than for tutorial material.
I added "gender" (an IANA registered JWT claim) to my JWT payload schema and found Copilot will not provide any suggestions after that. Not on the same line, nor in the rest of the file. After removing the word gender entirely, it works again.

https://www.iana.org/assignments/jwt/jwt.xhtml
I belong to a local Atlanta Slack channel - tech404 - that for the longest had an official bot that would always respond with the waving hand emoji (HN doesn’t support emojis) if you ever said the word “guys”. Even in private channels.
The nasty part of reducing waste in labs is that it depends a lot on the type of material that you're handling, so the know-how of one lab won't necessarily help another.

Just for the sake of example. The lab in the article is handling biological material, and the toxins being quantified are likely organic, at worst heavy metals in rather diluted concentrations. In those situations, compostable containers are a viable solution, and the glassware can be easily cleaned.

The same approach would not work for a lab handling organochlorines, where composting anything would be insane - you're causing less harm to the environment by incinerating the contaminated material and forcing the gases through a water column. And if you're handling large concentrations of heavy metals, cleaning will be way more involved than using liberal amounts of piranha solution.
TheQuartering needs to hear this
The dry goods store seems poised for a comeback- no customer access to goods, you order at the counter.

You could do it all with people, you could run it like a giant vending machine, you could do a hybrid thing- but you reduce exposure for your workers, and if things get real bad you can always install those giant bulletproof plexiglass things.
I wouldn't be entirely surprised if something like this was intentional, or that they intentionally filtered the word "gender" and an unintentional side effect was the program crashing.

You literally can't make any statements about gender, no matter how benign, without pissing at least a few of your users off.
Everything about 2020-2022 is unreal
Verboten words that are completely commonplace and mundanely acceptable outside of a certain small but powerful bubble
All the bugs start really showing up after 40 years of uptime.
You’re right, edited.
It's gonna come soon enough. The backlash is already mounting.

I'm just honestly super exhausted by any of the insanity right now, not even only regarding this topic. It's just complete black-and-white thinking these days, no matter about what it is. Extremes only. The stronger your opinion the better, how else would you feel like you exist? Almost no one with a rational, centered overarching perspective. Twenty years ago 50% of the current population would've been considered as possibly having BPD.
Glass also leaches silica, sodium and other materials into experiments (particularly at high pH), it just depends what contaminants are most concerning for your specific work.
Skype seems like a bad offender
Amusingly, I saw an “I did that” sticker on a Plug-in America Electric Car charging unit. I think it was probably more accurate than anything related to oil.
As every fiction author knows, you can't tell people anything. You have to show them.

http://habitatchronicles.com/2004/04/you-cant-tell-people-an...
My first "a ha" moment using lisp, when i suddenly got my first glimpse of understanding the whole code-is-data-is-code thing and what it makes possible, was my favorite moment using computers, and nothing before or since even comes close. Try it sometime, it's great.
I think that must have changed recently (this year, maybe). I know something changed for sure because the method was always there, but it did not return a Future, like it should have, and did not have the optional Map. I don't recall seeing anything in the changelog.

I'll give it a try.
No clue what people use today, but when I worked on a psx game 3D Studio Max was the the main choice, with Lightwave 3D having a lot of fans as well. Doing low poly modeling you basically just live between the edge split, rotate, merge, and vertex move tools, so it's incredibly important they have a low friction UI.
In many places, the plumbing might not be equipped for two-ply.
Residents of places like Venice have to deal with agonizing about the same Faustian bargain with tourism, having to weigh the income boost against the real social and physical costs of gigantic cruise ships and thousands and thousands of foreign people tramping about carelessly. It's easy to think that visitors don't have serious material effects on the places they go compared to residents, but with enough of them, franchises come in their wake chasing the money and the questions get rather difficult. Unlike Hawaii, in Venice's case, also, the cruise ships are literally destroying the city with their presence, too, and in both cases, "authentic" locals and their culture give way to commercialized imitations (tour guides, actors pretending to perform historic/cultural acts, etc.), because the money is too good.

I think, ultimately, it can't continue, the charm of places can definitely be completely, and sometimes irreparably lost when they accommodate masses of crowds, as they transition to a giant stage show/theme park and I do sit and wonder if there's really actual value to having tens of thousands of people drag themselves up a mountain, or similar. Maybe if we all spent some more time looking inward, we wouldn't need to fly somewhere to change our point of view?
I wager this phenomena cannot be replicated. This is like the priming research which couldn't be replicated. But marketing people spend a lot of money on it.