skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was my example that somebody screenshotted and cropped. There was more to the goof, that the cropper missed. For some reason the author at MIT cited the tweeter and not my post.

It appears galactica interpreted bear to be a type of dog. Laika was not a Karelian Bear Dog. I also think there are something like 8 species of bear, not 250.

It also as far as I can tell, named the beardog Bars, itself. "Bars the dog" and "dogs named bars" doesnt google well. There is no way to tell google I am looking for the proper noun, and not drinking establishments.

I made the original query because it was easily verifiably false. The correct output should have been "there is no publicly available documented history of bears in space."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33613676
I think the bigger problem here is 50% for women. Mind blowing.
Not only that, but it provides a good economic incentive to improve water quality.
That's not really how these things tend to go.

More likely: you start out with a smallish company trying to compete with a behemoth. You do well for a while, but as soon as you become an active threat, you start hearing a lot of "we'd love to work with you, but we just signed an exclusive deal with the behemoth that gives us access to a lot of high value stuff they won't allow otherwise." Your company is starved of revenue and dwindles. Eventually you decide to sue.

That gets real messy real fast, since no matter how strong your case is, you're going up against an entity with deep pockets to keep lots of lawyers tangling things up. You don't have the cash to fund both an expensive litigation and keep paying your employees to run the actual business that is being slowly starved of oxygen by the same monopolistic practices that you're suing for and can prove are happening.

The behemoth's objective now is to make you go away with the least total cost to them. A large settlement alone would not result in you going away; if you manage to hang on for that long by borrowing against everything you own, then the cash infusion could revitalize your company enough to compete for real. But if the behemoth gets your IP, the threat to them is mostly neutralized (assuming you retain the rights to use your own IP, you'd be competing on a supposedly even playing field, but with a gorilla that can do everything you can do and set prices just low enough to finish starving you out.) So the behemoth offers you a sweet deal: a large lump of cash in exchange for handing over the IP and going away. You will try to stand on principle and refuse for as long as you can, but the writing is on the wall. And your employees' families are hungry. How willing are you to hurt them in order to hurt the behemoth?

So sure, money is speaking, but it's not saying what you think it is: it's not whispering enticements.

It is yelling threats.

[I know nothing about this specific situation, but I have seen this play out in others.]
Do you mean Flux?

I've had to define my own gradients in Flux before, but that was two years ago, maybe things have improved?
> "10% of people do 90% of the work."

Those 10% quit the moment they were offered an ultimatum. If you're one of the 10% of people who are holding up a company, you quit when an asshole boss comes around. You got plenty of other companies who you'd rather work for.

If you're an engineer of any caliber, even in this economy, you simply don't have to put up with any of this crap at all. And there's no reason to sign on (or stay on) to a company that treats you like this.

> So, when you continually slice away the bad portions of something, all that you're left with is 1 of 2 potential outcomes:

False dichotomy. There's #3.

#3: Everyone who was holding up the company, the "10% who do all the work", switched jobs and is now working for Facebook across the street.
No one there seems to be over 40. I feel excluded, and am being entirely serious here.

Also - Twitter have offices in Ireland, don't they? How is religious diversity coming along in the Dublin office? The Catholic-Protestant conflict is less bitter in Dublin than in Belfast, but one cannot pretend discrimination and division is about race everywhere.
Not just the diversity page - it looks like they removed a bunch of pages from the careers site - e.g the "early career" page that is in the header is also removed. Only the "search jobs" button remains.

See the header at https://careers.twitter.com
> They said "willing or able"

I was referring to this part - “It's quite clear”
> This state of affairs makes it difficult for anyone other than the original author to contribute to these code bases, further cementing the one-maintainer policy.

Who wants to fix other peoples code mess? This is a no-no if you want to promote a job opening.
I liked this article. I think more about friendships than any other philosophical topic. I moved to a new city at 22 where I knew almost no one. It turns out that it's orders of magnitude harder making friends without a few seed connections. The nuances of meeting people and building relationships are so arbitrary and idiosyncratic; some things, like sports, happen to be really conducive to making friends, whereas conferences and tech meetups for me proved less fertile. Even acquaintances often simply aren't looking to change their group of close friends.

It was frustrating and discouraging for a long time and then suddenly I found myself with people to call on and spend time with. Half a decade later I moved and had the opportunity to try the experiment again. This time secondary connections made finding my network almost trivial. Maybe age helped too, being further removed from the university cliques.

I was relieved to find out, albeit way after the fact, that many have this experience. One friend recently quit his job to start a company focused on this phenomenon [0]. I hope he can displace the zombie of Meetup.

[0] https://getopenmat.com/
Musk is pretty vocally anti-"woke" and twitter is his bully pulpit. Why would you expect anything else?
A better question is, why would they have thought to inflict such a cringeworthy thing on the public in the first place?
Yea that’s true.

My point was that the “group X needs to be accepted or they’ll make their own space” is a universal behavior.

If we make it hard for outsiders to make their own space, it will impact queer and similarly marginalized groups. Queer people still need their own space today because they’re still not always accepted. While we should accept reasonable people and allow them into our space, we do need a society that allows people to make their own space.
Tools come and go. I can't even easily remember the names of all the editors I've used over the decades. It's just part of the process.
This is very true and I loved working with bioinformaticians but the pay is so much lower than a normal SWE role which is why SWEs will pick tech over genomics companies.
it depends. I've been in science support roles where people are genuinely grateful for the help, and its _really_ interesting to get to peek in on people's research.

it depends on the role. it worked out really well for me when I got to drop in and do piece work on lots of projects in different fields. working on a larger software development project can be really painful and demoralizing because the people running it don't really understand how the sausage gets made.
Rather than reducing birth rates (which would mean less creative problem-solvers to care for the climate and the broader natural world and human cultures), in the long term we ought to increase energy production. Abundant affordable energy, produced sustainably, will help everyone, especially the poor.
Exactly the point I was making.

Many do not seems to see the fundamental issue at play here, and another way to think of them is what you have hinted at: the role of language. There is no objective way to nail down the meaning of words, like "consistent", "proof", "equal", etc.

Suppose one wanted a maximally rigorous definition of "equal". Does it mean two things that cause people to think of the same thing when they are mentioned? Does it mean two things that occupy the same position in space at all times? It is actually a difficult concept to define rigorously.

This is not to deny that there is an objective reality. But that reality is highly contextual and multi-faceted. We cannot be 100% exact in defining that reality using language (even a math language), and this is where the social nature of that reality becomes apparent.

The role of proofs are in creating, as far as possible, as rigorous a shared context for the reality being described.
That's simply not true at all, and that was my whole point. Leap seconds have nothing to do with precise measurement because they are nothing more than calendar adjustments, just like leap days. They have the same purpose too; leap seconds keep sunrise and sunset in the right place over long periods of time just like leap years keep equinox and solstice in the right place. Note that leap years, an invention millennia old, account for drift on millennial scales, with the 400 year rule for example. This disproves the theory that there is some modern obsession with exactitude which sets leap years and leap seconds apart, because leap seconds too deal with significant drift on the same scales.

Only the madness of "smearing seconds" and other workarounds for broken software with incorrect calendar implementations makes them seem different.
30 minutes and 7 days is not a lot of time to find out if something is wrong.
Awesome. What made it win? Were there any close competitors? Was infrared close to being the winner? I'm also surprised big enough FPGA was already around. Thanks.
My suggestion.. avoid using a framework for now and learn CSS. Become comfortable with it. Then decide if you need a framework and what framework fills that need.

https://css-for-js.dev is a good course.
If I had to make this given no priori information I would use okra slime.
> Each job will always have to run a clone, always pay the cost of either bootstrapping a toolchain or download a giant container with the toolchain, and always have to download a big remote cache.

Couldn’t this be addressed if every node had a local caching proxy server container/VM, and all the other containers/VMs on the node used it for Git checkouts, image/package downloads, etc?
This looks very intriguing, but I'm at a loss for what it is and how it works. Can someone provide an explanation at a level between a tweet and an academic paper?
Ever since the pandemic, many software engineers have become exactly the type of "I've got mine, Jack" people they typically deride.
> But a lot of artists want to sell tickets below market price.

IMO artists should stop trying to sell below market and instead move the market by increasing supply. TSwift tickets wouldnt sell for $1000 a ticket if she played 3 nights... It's also a contradictory goal to what basically everyone else in the industry cares about (eg vendors, venues, crews etc).

Perhaps for super super stars like tswift she'd literally end up playing 24/7/365 ... But for a lot of artists additional nights would really change the curve.

I'm curious how alternatives might effect elasticity, something like simulcast at theaters for less than live in person?
Zoom out a bit more. Part of the same trend.
I've noticed that the same kind of person to make the "would choose to be alive argument" would also make the "but you can't choose your parents" argument. It's completely insane.
This. It is a little bit like talking about politics. People will agree with sufficiently generic statements along the lines of 'there should be some accountability'; they will start arguing over what that means though. If you listen to her songs, it is an equivalent of that generic statements most people can relate to.

I am aware of her and I am very detached from US pop culture. It is catchy.
I've been guilty of using not only permille but also permyriad (‱) in certain work where it made sense …
> not properly parking scooters

Where? In a car parking space? On the sidewalk? There is no "proper parking" for scooters because our cities aren't built for non-car individual transit. Hell, even the hip places in my city barely have bike racks. It's truly frustrating.
Maybe this is what Musk thinks he’s doing, but he’s not. I’ve seen this done; it’s much more formalized, rapid, and surgical. (And still rarely works, with a high human cost.)
This happens in all infrastructure, particularly power and water; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_pickup
Maybe they realized that 71% of Silicon Valley being foreign-born H1b visa holders isn’t really the best image for ‘diversity’?

https://slate.com/technology/2022/11/meta-facebook-layoffs-h...

Bonus: almost half of Meta employees are from Asia.

Reminds me of a screenshot of WPengines ‘diversity’ pledge on their website that proceeded to state nearly 80% of their staff were female. They changed it not long after.
Exactly. I see people of both sexes and various shades, who all look the same.
No, it shouldn't, from my quick glance.

Here's a quick summary to help make things clear as mud. Graal is basically a compiler (very very incomplete summary but fine). Oracle is contributing it to OpenJDK as the JDK compiler. Truffle is a normal Java library and API for implementing programming languages in Java (again very high level incomplete summary) and it uses Graal to generate code. So you write your language in Java using Truffle as an API to do that, but get native code generated for it. They were developed together. And actually, you can actually use Truffle as a library without Graal in the mix, since it's "only" a Java library; it runs on a compatible JVM -- this is very useful for example, because the JDK running behind IntelliJ for code completion may not have Graal, but is just a normal JVM otherwise, and you really want code completion, test bench runners, etc, that require running your code under a normal JVM. But if Graal is there, it gets interesting, because fast code gets generated. This is again an incredibly incomplete summary but sufficient.

It's important to understand that Truffle is the library for programming language authors, and the "source" of the polyglot capabilities -- while Graal is the code generator.

The languages that the Graal team have implemented, such as JavaScript, are just clients of the Truffle library. Most Graal languages are just clients of Truffle and don't depend on the underlying JDK build or anything. If two languages are clients of the Truffle library, loaded into the same JVM, and properly implement the Polyglot API protocols, then they can also communicate, too.

You can just have a dependency on the Truffle JavaScript implementation, like any normal Java dependency, and it will run on the Enterprise or normal open source JVM.

The only reason you would force a dependency on the Enterprise Edition of Graal is if you relied in some specific Enterprise feature of theirs at the code level, but I don't know of any off hand; they're probably there, though. I believe you can detect this at runtime anyway and just do feature detection, too.

There are more technical details, but that's the summary. It's unclear how this will all shake out once Graal is part of OpenJDK and developed there; I suspect the Polyglot languages developed by the teams at Oracle will be moved around, but the above description should (basically) still be accurate.
You could be a so-called “supertaster”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supertaster

It definitely tastes off for me, but I can tolerate synthetic tastes.

My kid, however, I suspect is a supertaster and absolutely hates cilantro and also truffle oil.

It thankfully nipped the truffle oil obsession that my wife had a couple of years back.

Edit: That stuff is still
in the refrigerator.
What's the difference between being prevented from lying and beyond prevented from lying about your identity? If you're going to advocate for absolute free speech, you should be ready to commit.

And frankly, if this was a concern, maybe eliminating the way to tell whose account is who they say they are was a terrible business move.
> largely due to people fleeing violent and property crime, especially once they have children.

If I have to guess, what I think you're actually talking about is

1) after middle-class suburban kids leave home to go to college, then

2) graduate and move into gentrifying areas to take internships/jobs in big cities, then

3) get married during that period in their 20s while their income is rising into six figures, and

4) they purchase their starter house in the latest gentrifying neighborhood, then

5) get pregnant and get a dog at the same time, so

6) muggings and property crimes in their new neighborhood turn them extremely reactionary, then

7) they move to a massive palace in the suburbs either shortly before or shortly after the kid pops out.

i.e. the universal American experience.
If Russia doesn't want military buildups near its borders then it should stop invading its neighbours.
Fake saffron is the only thing I’ll disagree with here. It’s nothing like the real thing, and since most of the coloring in fake saffron comes from turmeric anyway, might as well use turmeric (and maybe something floral like rose water) as a substitute when you don’t want to splurge for the real thing.
I use "Stop The Madness" extension in Safari. Similar options available for Chrome.

But this shit is so dumb.
This reads a bit like “what can this place do for me?” instead of “how can I make the place I work at better”.

High potential areas like genomics that are behind on software are amazing places for talented software people with a givig attitude to have a big positive impact.
They might be a Linux desktop user or a free software person in general. If you stick to F/OSS you might still live in a world where that stuff is pretty much entirely absent, experientally.

Then the outrage comes in full force, as a kind of culture shock, whenever some external situation requires you to do something like set up a proprietary desktop operating system.

> I hope there's a future (or alternate universe) where dark patterns, such as this, result in economic loss rather than economic gain.

I agree. I wonder whether that can actually be achieved through end-user savviness alone.
>But wow on the woman quota, I can’t imagine how easy they had to make those interviews to hit that number.

:/

They said the same about MIT (50-50 gender ratio). In reality smart women just like studying with other smart women. I doubt it's different in the workplace.

In other words, there's a positive feedback loop.
> who want to go the most.

And then there is the difference in means. I barely want to go to tswift, but it's no skin off my budget. My friends 15yo daughter is dying to go but its like 100% of her income for the next 3 months.
People accept the logic that smaller facilities = more restricted capacity = higher prices in pretty much every other context.

A Ferrari dealership has to turn away the vast majority of folks who want to test drive their cars, a B&B, or boutique hotel has to turn away customers, or price rooms very highly, on a busy weekend, etc.

They are still very popular regardless.
"Let me make a tweet of a screen capture of a JSFiddle"...
There is a simple definition for what consistent means, which naasking is referring to: is it impossible to derive "false" purely by applying the rules of the logical system?
> What is tech debt, really?

It's gotta meet two criteria for me: 1) code that's unusually hard to maintain or extend that 2) could've been designed much better initially. So "uses a weird library" wouldn't necessarily qualify unless it's very cumbersome. "Uses a weird language" qualifies if there aren't many employees that know the language. If it's a situation in which the code could be better, but the current needs of the code were not knowable at the time of authoring, I wouldn't call that tech debt.

I don't like to talk about "good code" or "bad code". It's rarely grounded in evidence, and more often a sneaky way to say "it makes sense to me personally". Maintenance cost isn't easy to quantify but it's a step in the right direction.

> Is the phrase tech debt being misappropriated to justify rewrites?

This seems to focus on the terminology aspect more than the underlying problem -- many engineers are just more enthusiastic about new code, and some will make up whatever argument they need to spend their time on new code rather than old. So if it weren't a misuse of terminology, it'd be a misuse of something else.

I'd suggest asking people to quantify it at least a little -- could someone estimate project completion with/without a refactor to get a general sense? When I've asked my people to do that it helps us talk about whether it's worth X months to save Y% * Z features.
She has a monopoly on some of her recordings. (Famously she doesn’t own the rights to her early recordings)

But she also doesn’t have a monopoly on other artists performing her music, or making recordings of her songs.
I liked this book too. It was a good introduction to fractals.
To clarify, you can have a completely race- blind Merit system but still have inequality of outcome due to differences in the applicant pool. The whole point of affirmative actions is to make a race conscious selection system to achieve equality of outcome, not a quality of selection
Maybe it’s just the trained operator in me but the whole time he’s describing the depressed metrics and blip I’m screaming in my head: it’s exogenous! Check the news! He finally gets there.

For us (at normal company scale) I would actually go look at recent activity, new customers, new workloads we are running, but I guess at a Facebook scale it’s a lot harder to do that.
You would have to split vertically then horizontally. If you only split horizontally each business will continue to monopolize their segments.
Where it started VS where it ended though. You're looking at the end of the journey not the start of it. It was completely possible to run your own email server 20-25 years ago and diminished after that slowly with the advent of Hotmail/Gmail.

Similarly IRC was run for the longest time by federated servers from peoples basements. It only really started to diminish at all with the advent of Slack.
You make a subtle point.

The human mind is tightly coupled to language. The existence of humour is the most prominent -- yet not fully recognised -- example of this coupling.

We can share images and enjoy interpreting them. The image can be as random as splashes of paint. But throw random words at humans, or words that fail to cohere, and disputes arise.

To modify one of the criticisms already made: The entire WWW is "little more than statistical nonsense at scale."
I sincerely hope they don't repair it and instead focus more on building up infrastructure around renewable energy sources.
> Constantly feel like other industries read like 1/4 of a book about how FAANG does stuff and then adopts the laziest worst implementation of the part they skimmed.

I think this is less wrong than you think it is. In the P&C insurance industry, I saw a handful of initiatives that seemed like they were started because a senior manager read about something that sounded cool and high-tech in an industry publication, and/or heard it in a sales pitch from a Microsoft rep, without actually checking to see if it was feasible or even useful.
Using the Brave browser and I didn't see a single add. Looked like a simple forum page from the early 2000s to me. I see that Brave blocked about 8 adds so that's probably what you saw.
Look, I did this at multiple places for a number of years. The issue is that you often form an adversarial relationship with the scientists. They don't really want you there. They are perfectly happy just organizing everything by hand with post its and excel spreadsheets. They do not want you to mess with their flow with your software, even if it would help them to be more efficient.