skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like something that should be expected? Every time the WFH battle has come up over the last few years, there are always people talking about how they’re able to do all their days work in 4 hours and spend the rest of the time idle “pretending to work”. Is it really surprising that as a result of this companies are reevaluating how much slack time their employees have? Especially as wages and demand for wages due to inflation have spiked, you can probably shore up some of that demand just by dropping some of those 4 hour employees and using their wages to pay others to become 6 hour or 8 hour employees. Sure it’s unrealistic for a company to expect every employee is 100% engaged 40 hours a week, especially in knowledge / creative work we’re sometimes unplugging and downtime is exactly what the job requires. But it seems equally unrealistic to crow about how the pandemic has demonstrated that WFH is perfectly fine and had no negative impacts because everyone was already only putting in 20 hours a week and not expect that to have caused companies to make a shift.
I don’t know what the point of this comment is. I guess you’re at least happy.

Can you elaborate on how being happy is a skill?
Wiz Hits $100M ARR in Just 18 Months
Try https://webscraping.ai/ if you need rotating proxies and JS rendering
I agree and I see a lot of people concocting additional premises to make this seem like humanity's largest challenge. I would suspect many people are starting from where I am mentally on this topic. In my household we want to move to one gas/diesel vehicle, and one electric. If everyone did that it would be a significant shift in just about any related metric.
You could leave everyone in rentals with gas vehicles, and if you have every single two car household with just one EV that's a massive change from today.

No reason to go further than that at this point in time. Even if we do go beyond to create a doomsday scenario for EVs, it will be worked out because few of these things are unanswerable open questions. If this were hinging on some technological homerun like figuring out fission or the Alcubierre drive then I would feel differently about it.
This is why core CPI exists, to remove volatile components. It was above headline, but also slowing.
Apple designs the object made up of those components, selects the suppliers and QAs the components. They're directly involved in the manufacturing.

Dewalt (Stanley, etc.) is doing none of that, they're just white-labelling. Essentially in this relationship Dewalt is a marketer.
Kazam has the option to record a single window. It can also optionally capture microphone and speakers audio and mouse.
What we have now has the same legal-political texture the same as the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. A state like California is compelled to assist states like Nebraska in the enactment of punishment of an act which is legal in California but which is illegal in Nebraska.

Make such assistance illegal so that Facebook doesn't have a choice in the matter. Facebook certainly has the political power[money] to successfully lobby for such a legislative change, but it doesn't have the will to do so.
Is there actually anything wrong with normalizing eating bugs? Like, get meat if you want but don't be a baby about insects?
The difference is that those investments will be usable by anyone who wants the service and can setup the antenna. Where-as a half mile fiber run to your house in the boonies can only ever be useful to you.
a read the piece as a barking tantrum. that they, a company so magnanimously capable of eschewing everything from taxation to even cursory efforts at regulation could be tricked into delivering a very public, very negative publicity event by not a nation, but a middling state that generates less GDP than the annual revenue of meta.

It also felt like a shot across the bow for Nebraska that a correction was mentioned at all, and so tersely as im sure legislators in the state of two million were expecting business as usual.

either way this is a 117bn company that owns the eyes and ears of nearly the entire planet. piss in their cheerios and 'the algorythm' might make your next re-election a lost cause.
Do you mean prices, perhaps? Inflation is a derivative and can go down to zero with prices being unchanged
In case you are unfamiliar, that was a reference to an old cliche about gun bans:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ethics-everyone/2018...
> I thought the point of inverse square laws was that we have a point source, area increases with r^2, energy is radiated symmetrically in space, and thus energy at any given point has to drop off with 1/r^2 in order for total energy to remain constant.

This explains an inverse square law for intensity of radiation, but why would you expect it to apply to forces in general?
I don't buy a lot of pasta, so can't speak directly to that example, but in many cases if you compare like quality, Costco will tend to be cheaper or equivalent, I've found. Although maybe for some of the staples there just isn't really that much difference in quality.

There is also the problem that some folks have (cough, me, yes, I'm talking about me) that even if I go into Costco for 3 specific items, I walk out with 5-10 at least. That's another place to watch for cost and try to be strict about sticking to a list.
Almost all of the most popular rock music was made with Stratocasters, Telecasters, Les Pauls and SGs. Because of the desire of players to emulate their guitar heroes, these guitars (and their knockoffs) still make up the bulk of guitars made and sold.

Unfortunately, it seems that all attempts at significantly improving on these nostalgia laden designs are doomed to be relegated to an "uncool" fringe.

As guitar oriented music seems to be sunsetting, I assume that these tired old designs will continue their dominance. As a guitar player who cares much more about ergonomic design and technical innovation than the trapped imagination of nostalgia, I hope for a new wave of guitar music and a guitar technology renaissance, but I doubt it.
There are 10x engineers on teams. They just empower everyone
IF you only have a couple minutes, this video actually sums up a lot of the comments present here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIho2S0ZahI
I dare say we got very good outcomes with smallpox, polio, and HIV. Aside from that? https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/above-or-below-extreme-po...
Like mentioned, I was more interested in the impact on the subtopic specific results because of what we discussed. Giving a quiz on American history to judge your knowledge of French history is obviously not a reasonable idea, even if the skill-set overlap would probably give at least some weak correlation. In the field-specific binarized case (which removes the -3 to +3 noise), the impact is 0.09 points. So that translates to a fraction of a question difference in results.

And while I'm aware trimming extreme outliers, regardless of the side they end up on, I'm unaware of any study entirely removing a segment from their sample, from one side only, which is critical to your entire hypothesis, and doing so without any explanation, let alone justification, whatsoever. One thing I'd observe is that the observed effect is small enough that if this culled group had a knowledge specific score below the mean, then it's likely that their entire conclusion would be invalid.

One other issue we have not discussed is the methodology not only resulted in a very non-representative sample, but also was indirectly testing something else. The surveys were done on the internet, and all of the general knowledge questions (besides the covid ones, which were just...) have answers which can be looked up in a matter of seconds.
> Texts and apps like Signal are a different story.

In what way are they "a different story" from Messenger?
Sure, at face value you're right about that, but I think the main difference is a lot of people don't get annoyed at , for example, Ford's customer service and turn around and start an auto manufacturer, and for most non-technical people I think they'd consider the two nearly equal in terms of feasibility and effort.
Bayes' Theorem Is Trivial
How do you know? People are notoriously bad at predicting what will make them happy/unhappy.

(fwiw, I'm not saying you're wrong)
Because they are a group of people who have a set of common problems often not addressed as they are believed to do better in life due stereotypes. In reality many perform poorly in academic results and abandon any studies, the largest majority suffer from bullying and most of them struggle in getting a successful life by social standards.

Why aren’t smart people and their problems studied as a particular subset of society?
You should also have a high-rated chest cooler ("marine coolers" are great for this) in case of power outages. Move the freezer contents to the cooler, pack with dry ice, place in a cool shaded area, do not touch. It will stay frozen for close to a week.
Facebook was a media darling until they became profitable and ate the media’s lunch. When it became clear that FB would swallow a large chunk of online ad dollars that the media companies coveted, their attitude changed rather suddenly.
Your numbers are way off. The MSRP for the cheapest Nissan Leaf with 200+ mi of range is $36K (plus sales tax and registration fees, so total cost out the door is significantly higher). And that's if you can even find one; most dealers are out of stock, or are gouging customers with additional mark-ups. Federal EV tax credits can bring the net price down for some customers but that depends on their individual income tax situation.

https://electrek.co/2022/07/29/which-electric-vehicles-still...
It’s pretty simple; stop coddling some peoples figurative identity. Rather than make a social game of merely “seeing” normal humans who are “special” in politically correct traditional terms, end specialness.

Subject Powell, Bezos, and the like to the same material truth as the masses.

Electoral turnovers improve economic outlooks for public: https://www.nber.org/papers/w29766

Give everyone equal policing authority: https://aeon.co/essays/game-theory-s-cure-for-corruption-mak...

End the long game of abstract agency control used to coddle they who control the interpretation of scripture from a long dead past: https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/27/business/job-insecurity-o...

Shift the real burden of providing something real to a bunch of non-contributors who stubbornly demand control of our agency so they can sit and engage in meta-analysis.

Make the con men yank on their own boot straps.

Economists and the likes real contribution is a whole of qualifying daily life that will occur regardless of their meta-analysis existing. History will have happened regardless of historians observing and writing books on it. Make people actually support themselves rather than ride on book sales of figurative stature. Such folks tend to use a lot more resources for output of insignificant value to keeping their meat bag alive. Why do they get to live in a bubble? They can grow some potatoes in between book deals.
? he was on a 5 hour podcast and talked the entire time
For things like regular expressions, it's useful to know that Python has a "-c" option which can be passed a multi-line string as part of a CLI pipeline. You can do something like this:

curl 'https://news.ycombinator.com/' | python -c '
import sys, re, json
html = sys.stdin.read()
r = re.compile("<a href=\"(.*)\"")
print(json.dumps(r.findall(html), indent=2))
'

This outputs JSON which you can then pipe to other tools.
I don't bother to watch the linked video but traditional car is a poor choice to be an electric vehicle. Because it's simply too heavy.

Recent improvements on the hub motor and battery made it possible for the various light-weight toys to be a practical city commuter. Kick scooter, unicycle, hoverboard, skateboard, onewheel and such.

Unfortunately, the law isn't up to date with these vehicles in most countries. It probably took us decades, if not a century to accept these light-weight electric vehicles.
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Ah, in my case this is mostly replacing buses, so really not the biggest monetary impact either. Still, I will try not to let the excuse to be more active go to waste.
50 years, ha! People who talk like it's all gonna happen next year are wrong, and people who talk like it's going to take 50 years are also wrong.
If you look at his submissions and comment history, I don't worry so much, it's all hyper partisan politically influenced hot takes.

The funny part is he's contributing to the problem, as in not realizing it's the working class vs the rich, not the left vs the right.
A crypto wallet isn't 'insured' either so this point doesn't matter.
Without even actually retraining everything, I would be curious how different the tokens are with your technique compared to using an off-the-shelf solution like SentencePiece with the same output vocabulary size.
Fifty years from now:

"Grandpa lived through the Great Crypto Frenzy. He lost all his savings in the Coinbase bankruptcy of 2023. Still doesn't trust digital money."
Again, from all sources I've ever seen, you can't ignite aluminium blocks and have a sustained fire, whereas you can with magnesium. If the aluminium is liquid then perhaps by spraying it around because of the spark it would give the effect you describe, but it sounds dubious that it melted so quickly in a large enough amount, and it seems somewhat unlikely to me that once it started the sprayed liquid aluminium would stay close enough to melt and burn the remainder, too. When you see pictures of large arc flashes, a lot of metal is sprayed from the location of the arc and then burns, but it burns flying away so it cannot sustain the reaction; the cause of the metal burning and flying away is the arc. In your case you didn't have enough electric power to get such a strong arc (the 10-15 A you get from house hold power before tripping the fuse is not that much), so the energy to sustain burning up the remainder of the metal must have come from the metal fire itself. That is definitely possible with magnesium, but from all I've seen it is not with aluminium.

Magnesium can be set alight even when multiple cm in thickness [1], and lighting up thin strips is much more spectacular[2]. You can hold aluminium foil to a blow torch, what happens is it will melt and oxidize, but not produce any flame or light whatsoever[2]. If aluminium foil doesn't do it, I don't see how a thicker sheet would do it. And all I've found confirms this. (BTW steel wool however does burn continuously. But I agree that a steel lamp base burning this way doesn't look feasible, either.)

[1] e.g. video on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnesium
[2] source: own experiments, and there will be videos from others

Since you say that it was thin, it must have been an alloy in either case. It seems Magnesium alloys need to be cast. I've got a laptop with a magnesium base which looks like sheet metal from the outside but when you open it up, on the inside it has all sorts of structures coming out of the "sheet", clearly confirming it was cast. I've never seen aluminium parts made that way, aluminium cast parts seem to always be relatively thick, not like sheet metal. Aluminium can be pressed, however (think beer cans), but then it doesn't have a fancy structure. I'm not a specialist in these matters in any way, but maybe this might give some further ideas.
Can't read that article because it's paywalled, but you seem to be implying that provoking a physical reaction in someone else is tantamount to an assault. Is that really what you are saying? Is this not an inevitable part of interacting with each other?
You should look up the area that Jared is building his fiber network. These homes are probably 10 minutes from the University of Michigan. It's not a remote country-side, it's just far enough out of reach of Comcast that they won't build out. I understand your point if someone decides to build their house on 20 acres of forest, but this is not that. That's why we need these programs.
I did check [1]. That's where the differences between the four groups can be found. There are 12 effect sizes, only two or three medium (≥0.5). Some of the others are even negative. It's pretty suspicious that the type of training matters so much. It's as if it's training to the test.

But if this is what it is, then by all means, do cognitive training for the elderly: it can't do any harm. But there doesn't seem to be any point in further research.
Then "You are evil unless you stop having sex with men." should pass the sniff test.
It is hard to deny that this is a pretty common thought these days. I hear a lot of people making sounds in that direction, regardless of their more traditional ideological views.

We'd have to figure out how the nukes are divided up, however. Though what is it they say about possession being 9/10ths of the law...
I just pulled my coins out of coinbase. I know it's not the same situation, but "not your keys, not your coins" looks like good advice.
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I launched a new course to help people learn how to use Language Models like BERT + GPT as well as Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-3 and Cohere. I get these questions a lot from YC/startup folks so I figured this was a good way to get the info out there at scale. Anyone who wants to get up to speed on modern NLP quickly should sign up!
Yes, get rid of winner take all...
> But being smart just means you know the awful reality of things. Congrats, you learned about all these awful things you can’t do much to fix, and the reward is you get to experience existential dread.

Ignorance is bliss.
Fed gov doesn't guarantee your wallet if you lose it.
s/begs/raises/
I'm planning on getting a bike to commute to work. I don't have a car right now and also don't really want to buy one because it's a huge expense. My only regret is that it's much harder to get groceries with a bike so I might end up walking instead for that.
I think oversimplification is a major contributor to magical thinking, and magical thinking lends itself to continued failures to understand things, especially in the context where the computer is not operating normally.

Imagine if people generally understood that automobile combustion engines work by ”combusting fuel” without knowing anything more about their car.

That’s absolutely true in a sense, but if we left things at that, drivers would probably be inclined to think some kind of magic is happening, because that’s what science thought of combustion for a long time! (see ”Phlogiston theory”)

I wonder how those drivers would explain the functioning of the pedals and the shift knob.
I think the truly smart, or perhaps wise people accept their understanding of reality as it is and don't attribute subjective human concepts like "injustice" to it.

Call it "optimistic nihilism", if you will.
I want to do this. Can you explain how to do it please (without exchanging to USD)?
I would love to see them add an AMD (and even ARM) option, but right now I applaud them for being tight-lipped about any future developments. What would they gain by acknowledging that they’re entertaining such ideas? People postponing their purchases, endlessly asking for ETA updates, getting mad when there are delays, etc. They’re much better off saying nothing and doing the work in the background. I also would understand if they choose not to offer a second CPU platform at this point. From their standpoint, it’s hugely expensive and time consuming to develop, potentially doubles their QA and support costs, makes their supply chain and inventory story more complicated, and probably makes their relationship with Intel a little worse. And realistically, they won’t get double the sales from just having an AMD option. So I would be pleasantly surprised if they offer an AMD option within 3 years, but I’m not holding my breath.
Apple's advantage has never been design; it is integration.
I'm quite confident that if you can snapshot the vm/filesystem (eg VMware snapshot, or zfs snapshot) - you will have a working postgresql backup too...
Are you aware of the juliacall package? [1]

The announcement post [2] says "Calling Julia from Python, juliacall seems to have smaller overhead (in time) than julia". The benchmarks below that show the overhead on calling `identity` with `juliacall` being less than half of what it is with PyJulia.

[1] https://docs.juliahub.com/PythonCall/WdXsa/0.9.4/juliacall/
[2] https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-pythoncall-and-juliaca...
Well then it's a good thing that breaking a targeted law is not "ends justify the means".
If we believe all people are equal, 40 people should have proportionally more power than 3 people. Roughly 13x more power. That's all I'm asking for.
> Remember, this is the government that banned peeing in porn

Is squirting allowed?
And par for the course for Weinstein, he makes an interesting point while wrapping it in a vale of needless conspiracy mongering.

Yes, the rate of inflation is slightly different for different products and services (it is a "field" rather than a "scalar"). Yes, it would be nice if the government reported the entire inflation "field" rather than just the top-of-the-line aggregated inflation number.

Does this mean the government or economists are "lying" (his word)?

Well, not really. The government DOES report the entire inflation "field". They have done so every month, as part of literal press releases, for years. All the data is available on bls.gov for anyone who is interested. And many people are interested and have made use of the data, which -- again -- is entirely public.
The USA only has such extreme freedom of speech because of a 1969 Supreme Court decision, Brandenburg v. Ohio.

Technically it's as easily overturned as Roe v. Wade was, but I doubt the Trump-stacked Supreme Court would even try. If it were overturned, we could finally pass sensible hate speech laws even in the USA.
Facebook just gave cops a dump of a teen's private messages so they could prosecute her for getting an abortion in a state that just made those illegal. That incentive to keep the government out of their business is working just fine.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/08/08/fac...
I think site policy is that it's ok to repost something after a year, so the TLS 1.3 post is probably ok.

I also recently migrated domains from ulfheim.net to xargs.org, so you can crosscheck against https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=ulfheim.net for some older posts. We'll temporarily have some "too soon" reposts in the coming year due to that.
> Meanwhile fridges from the 1960s are still humming along fine.

Fridges that you see from the 1960s are still humming along fine. All the ones that broke decades ago get none of your attention. This is survivorship bias. Reliability of products like fridges has gone up immensely over the last 50 years.
The Tyranny of Stuctureless
> Did you know that there are people born every day that haven't been indoctrinated into Mozilla's oh-so-clever inside jokes

Probably yes. And when they see that error and have more questions about it, many will Google "Zarro Boogs" and find StackOverflow links and various other sources.

If the text is changed or made invisible, that search pathway becomes obscured. As inconvenient as it is for making changes to published UI, unique and identifiable strings serve as a sort of "soft URL" in this era of ubiquitous search engines.
Ditto EDF. Is op mixing up kWh and m3 perhaps?
Drop the web app, make a native one like Signal does if they even bother with desktop. They clearly don't want people to use it anyway, they've been implementing dark patterns to push the phone version of Messenger for years.
You appear to have misread my statement.

I was implying that we should rebalance the structure away from purely wealthy land owners to make it more equal, not exclude them entirely.
Its tough when you live in an apartment with no storage. You often are paying more because you dont have room for bulk. Costco is great if you have a garage or basement though