skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently had to solve the Entity Resolution Problem at my workplace, and here was how i went about it.

Problem Statement:

- Find the right entity for a query among ~50m entities.

- Queries could be few of the entity attributes (If entities have n attributes, query can in 1..n)

- Queries can mention attributes in various ways (Partial information, Typing errors, abbreviation, Extra information etc)

Existing Solution:

- Elastic search based match, using complicated heuristics overfit on a small training set. Gets worse over time as number of entities increase, the top-20 search retrieval accuracy was around ~40% on current number of entities.

Implemented Solution:

- Embedding search using a Sentence embedding model (pretrained Deberta finetuned for current problem) trained via Contrastive Learning, where positive pairs are generated using augmentations for each attribute which best mock the queries (after going through many user queries)

- Top-20 accuracy was around 98%, filtering out right entity was through hueristics and other business logic with proper confidence measure (hyper-param tuned on val set), after final pipeline we could get the high confidence top-1 accuracy to around 99.995% (precision) and 86% (recall).

We ended up going with pinecone for the embedding search, and the search latency was around ~100ms (top 50 among ~50m embeddings)
TLDR: In this study, we found that hate speech increased in absolute volume, and also as a proportion of total tweeting activity, at temperature extremes. The quasi-quadratic shape of the temperature–hate tweet curve was robust across varying climate zones, income quartiles, and religious and political beliefs.

…daily maximum temperatures of more than 30°C were consistently associated with substantial increases in hate speech.
That's not reporting.
obnoxious about what? c++ is so brittle that a gentle breeze could cause a cacophony of soundness issues
I remember installing windows 95 from floppy disk. It was only 13 disks but with MSDOS it would go up to 16. Some drivers here and there, 20+ disk installation would take hours.
Because in the common case you assume that, if your code is correct, all of your indexing will be in bounds, but for memory safety reasons we need a bug to be reported if memory safety would have been violated. So we allow direct indexing with a panic on out of bounds because it's the most ergonomic for that common case
> What actually matters is that those breaking the constitution, be it written or not, can be held criminally liable. Can you be held criminally liable for breaking "a set of customs and principles" in the UK?

Not exactly. If there's enforcement, it will be done by other actors in the system will cooperate to enforce those "customs and principles." There's no appealing to some higher authority for enforcement (and especially not criminal law, which would be a lower authority).
Option 3: form a worker owned co-op and distribute profits between members instead of shareholders and management.
What kind of legal fight would you be up against? If John Deere wanted to put up lets say 100 million to fight, what kind of money would need to be put up to defend, if its lets say 10 million or less, then maybe that's worth it if the market is 4000 million.
Not sure I understand, is this common knowledge?
Pay, work-life balance will suffer if you work for yourself. You will have to think about many more things than just coding and accrue more expenses (taxes, business structure, marketing).
> The twitter poster is a buzzfeed news politics journalist.

I would say, that this sentence is meaningful expresses the gulf in perspectives on the question quite well. To me, that statement doesn't mean anything. The twitter poster was being small and bullying, and if I'm a conspiracy theorist for making a comment that embarasses some people who got off on it, call me Fox frickin' Mulder.
The argument is not about righting historical wrongs. It's about righting present wrongs. DEI is not slavery reparations.
If you haven’t read Will Larson’s writing before, congrats - you have just stumbled upon lots of great content! Not many people write content specifically targeted at the Senior->Staff transition.

He has a book called Staff Engineer which is partly “best hits” from the blog and partly expanded material, which is a good place to start; I find it a bit more focused and well-ordered than the blog (which I also dig, to be clear).
You’re Descended from Royalty and So Is Everybody Else (2018)
Luckily, one of the first criteria for if a place is habitable or not is ‘easy access to large quantities of water’, and building code wise, access to large enough quantities to put out fully formed full structure fires is required too.

It’s also relatively simple training and equipment wise (‘spray it with water until the bad flames stop’), and most locations have teams of people on call and ready to do it.

Not perfect, but it’s the best we’ve been able to come up with outside of specialized industrial environments. shrug
I’ll have to watch the video later to see how good their argument is… but I don’t but it.

“The market” has seemingly deemed low value SEO spam to be what’s valuable. If Wikipedia didn’t exist, I imagine the alternative would more likely be garbage rather than quality.
There is a funny story that my Computer Science teacher used to tell. One day a friend called him saying his floppy drive was not working as expected. He went to check and found two floppy disk crushed inside the floppy drive. So my prof asked his friend why have pushed two floppy in the drive, broking everything. He answered: "computer said to insert disk 2, I have done something wrong?"
There already are competitors with less aggressive software, but building massive machines like Deere does requires a lot of capital. Kubota's largest tractor is like 200 HP.

My understanding is that the Clean Air Act now largely requires manufacturers to ensure consumers can't modify the software to run if it fails emissions checks, but I haven't researched the law myself.
Hello :) The free version is fully featured, so you just limited to number of users in the free tier (three).
Oooo are they? Report them to the software freedom conservancy: https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/help.html
I'm not picking on you deliberately, only choosing to reply to this thread because your wording succinctly sums up the underlying mistake in most people commenting here:

> so bad at her job

Her job was as a fashion journalist. Not a news reporter, not a war correspondent, not somebody who was remotely trained or prepared to deal with a situation like this. How often do we tech people get irritated by pointy-haired bosses saying "hey, you're an IT person, can't you just do (this thing that is not remotely related to your skill set)".

It's irrelevant whether you or anyone else here thinks fashion is valuable, or interesting, or worth writing about. It is relevant to question whether all "journalists" are, or should be, interchangeable in the eyes of people working in a completely unrelated profession.
Guide to F1
Sounded like you were disagreeing with me on that when you said

> but it never seems to make it to the mainstream
I think as a Scala developer, my expectations/demands can't be matched by Gleam unfortunately. But if it could, then yes!
Curious to see how well it translates to controllers. I know there is limited support on the Steam Deck, but I'm guessing it's still subpar to traditional mouse/keyboard controls.

From the link:

Factorio was developed for 10 years with only keyboard and mouse in mind, so making sure the game is fully playable with controllers was no easy task. Playing with a controller is slightly slower, and will take some getting used to (just as it does when playing with keyboard and mouse for the first time). After becoming familiar with it, I find it very comfortable. I recommend everyone to play through the first levels of our tutorial campaign, as it's a great way to get acquainted with playing Factorio with a controller.
> why does everyone want computers to be faster when their sludgy brains are the weak point in the process?

Maybe because you can buy faster computer today and save few second per compilation right now. Also you can learn some new skill and get +/- same result but... later, after accomplishing some learning.

upd:

> how DO you get faster at computers? my theory is that the faster you are, the more you get done, so what does it take?

learn touchtyping + vim to get faster typer and stop distruction into keyboard which may be slower than all compilation I have ever experienced (I did it and I promise it works).

learn some magic utils like: grep, regexp, sed, awk, etc for never searching that can be searched by machine (I am having this as future goal).
thank you fellow brogrammer, i would only trust Real Code™ written by Real Coders™ in a Real Programming Language™ such as c, as god intended
I couldn’t help but think about this video https://youtu.be/y8OnoxKotPQ while I read this.
The page links to its source for that 70%, and the source says… 52.95%

I wonder what counts as a parked domain. If you use flarabba.com and have flarabba.de/fre/es/it/… but don't use them, are those detected as parked?
If at all possible, I route around the advertiser funded algorithms, and do my own curation when I do use social media. For instance when I use Facebook, I do so through a web browser with adblock, and through the url ending in ?sk=h_chr which forces reverse chronological order.

If I notice one of my friends or subscriptions getting noisy with stuff that doesn't align with my desire to actually know more and enjoy life... that feed gets muted or dropped.

Curation is the key to all of this.
Alphabet's Verily banks $1B to double down on precision health
Do you have any examples of this actually working?
> dysautonomia

Unfortunately this seems to be a "catch-all" desperation-diagnosis with a huge range of mental and physical symptoms. Diagnostic procedures for it seem to range between esoteric over so very specific, that it would be extremely hard to find a doctor who does them to plain dangerous (lumbar puncture).

How do you propose private individuals that suspect they suffer from it and GPs deal with it?
Could counsel have appeared instead?
Windows 10 Floppy Install...

Please Insert Disk 1 of 4166
Depends on whether we build machine capital fast enough to compensate for the fewer hands required to make things.

All in all everything gets way more expensive or stops being made because you need certain economies of scale to make it worth the time to build something that would otherwise be completely unaffordable if you reduce demand by 50%.
> You can't and couldn't possibly know that. Nobody could

Not with that attitude... Yes you can, there are plenty of ways of comparing regions or countries with high and low vaccination rates, or vaccination uptake. (Of course only while demographically adjusting, but the people who do these studies surprisingly often do think about the basic gotchas.)
I work for myself and love it but it isn't for the faint of heart. If you want to work for yourself I recommend first working for other people for 5-10 years—basically, get paid to learn your industry. Then when you can't rise any farther, that's the time to go work for yourself.

Note I'm a person who's relatively less motivated by money, and my idea of successful self-employment is to be a consultant with a very good work-life balance. If you're trying to start a billion-dollar company this advice isn't for you, but I wish you the best of luck.
But she didn't even have to do in-the-trenches investigations. Like you said: you wished she had written more about fashion in the context of the attack. She didn't. She wasn't looking at how people dressed or how they used their clothes after the attack. She really didn't even try. The best she did was note that the stores on Fifth Avenue were closed before describing an expensive limo ride. I would bet that if she hadn't been pressed by her editors, she wouldn't have mentioned 9/11 at all.

To be placed front and center to write one of the most important stories of your career and then do the absolute bare minimum at the behest of your bosses is either laziness, apathy, or profound ignorance.
> OP's "better than eight mice" is referring to the rigorous experimental standards used for the safety study to greenlight the BA.5 omicron booster.

Which is bullshit. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32824855)
There is a pretty good reason that the Pfizer RCT doesn't show excess mortality benefit. It wasn't designed to study that. The recruited population is mostly healthy as individuals with multiple risk factors were excluded. For example the proportion of the study group over 65 and the proportion with at least 1 comorbidity is much smaller than the population as a whole. The studied group was very unlikely to experience mortality in the first place so a much larger study would be needed to show any evidence of an effect on mortality. The difference between 17 and 21 is not statistically significant.

In the absence of a large enough RCT we're left with observational studies and there are a ton of these now. The observational data shows a large mortality benefit in the vaccinated population and I'm not aware of a single observational study that shows the opposite, but I suppose there could be one out there that I have missed.

The preponderance of the evidence is pretty strongly in favor of the vaccinated population experiencing lower mortality than the unvaccinated population.
This would take a lot of management though.. What happens if someone is contributing a lot less than the others? Or a lot more?
Is there a chance we'll see it open sourced / a self hosting option?
I think one of the quickest ways to make life easier and less stressful is to try to ignore the ego as much as possible.
We are still in the phase where concepts are settling. Pretty sure nobody in a 100 years will think that Monads are a good idea.
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I seem to recall studies that also showed that physical violence increased in high temperature extremes.

If both these effects are real, I wonder if they share the same underlying cause
I wish I could get a job that pays well, offers camaraderie, fulfillment, and opportunities to grow. I have tried many times to fit in. In a 35 year career the longest I ever held a job was 4 years. I finally figured out that I was not employable. Happy to be working for myself.
It's not surprising that at this point the poll is at 21 vs 22.

Competition will ensure that incentives remain more or less balanced between the two options (the less freelancers there are, the more they can charge, and the less full timers there are, the more they will be paid). Unless we lived in a world where one of them was so much easier to attract talent to that the other just died off.

For specific people in specific circumstances one might be a bit better (small kids at home, difficulty selling your services, etc'), but the differences between people's preferences aren't that huge, so we should expect the poll to be about 50-50.
Sounds awesome, thanks. It just seems so hard to make this work when you factor in the huge costs of insurance, etc.
It's absolutely wild that people complain about 95% efficacy against Delta, or about the gradual rate of decay that successfully kept a lid on COVID until the later, gentler variants dominated.
Working on projects that involve big frameworks with deep and ever-shifting dependency trees. So upgrading an existing dependency or taking a new one could often be a risky move.

Ground zero for most of them was Guava, which I unfortunately could not avoid due to it being a transitive dependency. And, even more unfortunately, Guava types were being exposed on the direct dependency's public API, so package relocation was not an easy option.
Build up that absurd strawman so you can be angry at Rust continuing to eat the software world, yeah! Rah!

You won't use Linux, because it might have a bit of Rust in it, because some microcosm of Linux users will like that it has Rust and trust it more? That about right? Okay, you have fun.
What happens if you lose your phone? There must be some way to transfer the account right?
How desirable they were! Our school had a few small TRS-80s (Level I) for the pupils in my last year, and one full blown one with the floppy drive, but that was only for the staff. We couldn't even afford floppies. How wonderful it all was. It exuded explorability, in contrast to modern phones and computers, which are very accessible, but don't let you feel what it's like to build something out of almost nothing. POKE-ing in memory to change something on screen feels more exciting than having huge frameworks with multiple inference engines available at your fingertips, if only you could manage to read the multi-megabyte documentation.
What bothers me about this comment is that it’s a roundabout ad-hominem rebuttal to the author’s argument. Reading the essay, I have no reason to believe the author has only ever worked on web services. But I would if I was angry and trying to discredit the author.

The author actually does discuss the nuance. They argue exactly your point saying that their “considered harmful” advice only applies in situations where the scope of the component is ambiguous/fluid/unknown/otherwise prone to change over time/etc. In cases where you have a mature fixed design, choose an appropriately descriptive name.

I’m glad you have only ever worked on projects that were perfectly designed up front. Sounds like the dream. For the rest of us, we engineer in reality. And I find the author’s point apropos.
I use ublock origin on firefox and I could read the story?
If you read the fine print…An N95 is the minimum to contain spread from an infected individual.

It was always known that respirator masks are required for sars
> As of 2015, almost three of four women globally had been exposed to or had experienced some form of online violence.

> online violence

Oh No No No. Not online violence.
The "Why I hate Wikipedia" video was made by YouTuber and journalist J. J. McCullough. You wanna see something funny? This discussion is from 2008:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...

The J. J. McCullough biography was created and deleted a total of five times on Wikipedia (with two different spellings of J.J.):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...

Each time it was deleted for "lack of notability". I believe he may not be telling the whole story in that video.

Apart from that, his criticisms are quite valid, if not exactly new. The video was discussed here the other day, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32793755
It starts from the top. If they treat their people like crap, their people will reward with all the effort and loyalty they deserve: None.
What? Do you not understand why that tag is there?
Yes it can. The vast majority of crime is done with paper money.

This is also why cops willy-nilly decide to seize it if you have too much of it. There are countless examples of normal people who happened to have large sums of paper money, on their way to buy a vehicle, being stopped and their life savings being taken away through civil asset forfeiture.
It's also about some people do not want a career, they want a job.
They want to clock in do their tasks, and check out.

What is also clear is that a surprising amount of companies does not like this, they do not want a person in the same role for years or decades, or as Salesforce founder is known to say "Salesforce is not a company you retire at". While that might sound cool, you really do need people who have been in a department for several years.

That know all of the weird edge case, all the of the legacy systems, knows your customers, and can when asked just fix shit. Especially in Support/Helpdesk.
A better example might be not learning from past mistakes, or asking the same question multiple times, even if framed in a different context.
I was going through serious medical issues when I lost access to my doctors from Covid.

I got lucky in that the 20th medication they tried just before lockdown ended up working. Would most likely probably be dead if things had shut down a month earlier.

Tons of people in support forums were in a panic over lost access. Needed testing / procedure.

Not fun when brain is swelling and doctors say they can’t see you.
good riddance. the only use case for scala is spark and i'm starting to switch to the JavaRDD. Scala should have never entered the enterprise space.

Anyone thinking about porting Play to another framework?
That was the first thing that came to mind.

Maybe there would be a market for a "data USB port" which would filter away all other kinds of USB devices than storage devices.
Just a JIRA task for next sprint with 2 points assigned !
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> It's impossible to claim there's "no actual memory safety issue" when a program's invariants have been broken: all bets are off at that point.

When the underlying _runtime's_ invariants have been broken, not when the program invariants have been broken. i.e. you can recover from almost everything save for a VM error in a VM language like Java, since there's no way for the program to mess up the VM's data structures in a way that they cannot be brought back to a defined state.
Obscene or not, they’re allowed to protest.
Is the penetrance and severity of the dysautonomia the same with the vaccine and infection? Does it happen with all vaccines types and virus strains?
Man the twitter OP (edit: looks like twitter OP is OP of this thread too) seems pretty unhinged. Naked photos of you somehow makes it OK to post other peoples' emails?? Screaming on twitter at a banking startup I've never heard of??

And while I agree with the sentiment and think PG and co are right (I've had friends go on the show...just don't do it), I really think it's in bad form to post private correspondence in public--no matter what OP might think about the scruples of the author, etc.
I think it was quite different from that in this study. This result appears to suggest that the mRNA remained an effective vaccine vector against new viruses, but suggested that it also slowed the body's immune response to an unrelated yeast infections in the week immediately after vaccination.

If I understand correctly, they then also showed that vaccination pre-pregnancy has inheritable benefit to their offspring in reducing the severity of illness in their children.
In a few years I hope to have a company working like this.
It's real but it's not new - versions of checking out mentally / being over it / not caring have been around for a long time.
A common virus is surging–and it can cause a polio-like disease in kids
Monads are like numbers. You can think they are not a good idea, but they are just a matter of fact and existence.

Also, in a 100 years maybe our brains will be completely different. How do you optimize your programming language for that? I don't think you can.
No, I’m not old enough to remember 8” floppies but I watched Adrian’s Digital Basement’s repair of the TRS model-2 including restoring the 8” floppy drive, connecting it to 24V, using a adapter to hook it up to a PC to make a boot disk. [0] Unfortunately once Adrian got the Model-2 working and booted to TRS DOS he didn’t test any other software on the machine. My experience with Tandy machines was playing Burger Time off a cartridge as a kid, no 8” floppies.

[0] https://youtu.be/TfEzjcG_0gs
From the first sentence of TFA:

> Tom Persky is the self-proclaimed “last man standing in the floppy disk business.”

Why editorialize they HN title? He’s a guy! And “last man standing” is a set phrase. “Last person standing” is not.