skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would consider paying $150-$200 / month for chat.openai.com access, especially if it continued to improve. It is an astonishing tool for learning and productivity. December 1, 2022 will be a day we all remember.
Profit != value.
> I think transhumanism is a warmed-over Christian heresy.

Christianity covers enough time and space that basically every idea that isn’t Christian orthodoxy is found in Christian heresy, so that’s probably true but not a ground for dismissal except from tbe perspective of Christian orthodoxy.
Seconded, I wish for a way to work with ML models using native code rather than through some Python scripting interface. I believe TensorFlow is there with C++, but it works only with C++ and not through FFI.
Let them eat gay wedding cake.
That's just gatekeeping based on having a degree.
I also always interpreted the beginning of the book as deliberately written to make the reader feel the future shock that Manfred is trying to stay ahead of.
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I think you completely misunderstood what I was saying.

I wasn’t saying that the author of DiffusionBee should make a SwiftUI application. In fact I said the opposite in that I agree that the person who expected a native app is entitled.

I was however refuting the person I was responding to who said making a native app is a huge undertaking, because learning SwiftUI is fairly quick. That’s not to say that the maintainer should learn it but just that it’s fairly quick to learn should someone else want to.

I was also saying that someone (maybe someone other than the maintainer of DiffusionBee) could contribute a SwiftUI front end.

Finally I was saying I would gladly contribute it myself if I could (but unfortunately have other reasons why I can’t)

anyway hopefully that clears things up, and that hostility from your post is unwarranted.
Redistributing that model to end users that violate Attachment A seems like a minefield.
This used to be true. As of 2017 or 2018, it is no longer a bidding system, but a published price that AWS offers based on capacity.

More details here:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/new-amazon-ec2-spot-pri...
This is joe rogan level speculative nonsense.
Small correction: this is correlation operator. Deep learning wise they (correlation and convolution) are equivalent but in probability it will lead to incorrect results.
I often wonder why women do not get into programming, it cant just be because its not seen as cool.
> Most of the people I saw get successful were people were people doing like... extra stuff outside of the classes. They were taking what they learned and applying it.

Is this a knock on Lambda School, though?

You can go to MIT but if you never apply your learnings you won't be a good engineer.
> So you create a product, put it out and have it do unimaginable damage, then pay for the health and environmental damage you did, and then create legislation around what others should do going forward.

The very scary part is how many of these chemicals cannot be "put back in the bottle" so to speak. This generation will be long gone, but these chemicals will not just exist on the planet, but exist virtually everywhere in some measurable amount. And we're not even using these chemicals carefully or wisely, we're just carpet absolutely bombing everyday objects with them because they make life fractionally more convenient.

Nat Geo had a good write up last year: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/pfas-cont...
[I am explicitly not weighing in on whether this gambit will work or not. Could go either way, there is a lot of luck involved in business.]

> Twitter certainly has too many employees for the amount of revenue they're bringing in

This doesn't make any sense given that Twitter's revenue per employee (RPE) was roughly double that of well-run companies like Oracle or SAP and in the ballpark of EA and Adobe. This metric is a red herring currently being used to trim workforces. Which, that's the game and this is where we are in the cycle. But the ratio of revenue:employee doesn't tell the story here.

Granted cost structures and business models are different across these firms, and Twitter likely could have cut some staff (they all likely will in coming months now that it is timely to do so). But that's exactly the point here: the Twitter ratio between employees and revenue works fine at other companies, and has done so for a long time. Expedia has built a sustainable business with a lower RPE than Twitter, and it is similarly a pure-play Internet company. From a strictly financial perspective, it's equally likely that there were other levers that could have equally been tuned to fix Twitter's persistent problems.

IMHO the bigger problem was they are tooled as a high-growth company, but they were not growing fast. Even a modest bit of consistent growth, say 15% y/o/y, sustained for years, would likely have ameliorated their problems. Perhaps they have a large fixed cost to running Twitter, and they simply have not scaled the business enough to make it worthwhile yet -- could they double their business from the pre-acquisition base while only increasing staff 25%? That would be a good business! But I would guess the fundamental issue was that they are tooled for hypergrowth that is likely not on the radar.

Big staff cuts, modest (but smaller) revenue drops, then aiming to grow at a slower, sustainable pace is pretty stock PE stuff (although they typically try to pay at or below market instead of much higher than market). Can only assume people who see this as genius have never observed PE work.
This is generally true but not always. As you can imagine we have loads of data on this.

If you only selected students who had been tinkering with writing code for 10 years certainly you'd be successful in doing so, but you'd also eliminate ~90% of those who we have seen become software engineers.

The only way we've found that does it well is to have people actually start writing code and see if they enjoy it. That's why we now have multiple free classes, have a free dropout period once you're in the school, and even have a three-week free trial of the school itself.

The notion that financing ISAs removed the incentives isn't really accurate.

First, most of the time ISAs are financed it's in the form of a loan you have to pay back with interest with an ISA and its repayments as collateral, or it's a sale to a neutral SPV with recourse in the case repayments don't hit a certain threshold.

In the rare instance (we've never done that) schools have been able to sell ISAs full stop, it's been at extreme discounts or based on discounted predicted likelihoods of future revenue, and if those ISAs don't repay the buyers bail and the school trying to sell them is out of business.
Your comment is confusing in the same way as the the other guy's is. In fact it is worse.

None of the machinery you describe can be used for anything except specifying files (and line numbers and column numbers) to be visited. An emacs user still needs some way of interacting with the visited file, e.g., a terminal emulator or an X server. This "Emacs server" does not help with that. It's another example of Emacs using unusual terminology!

Have you actually used Emacs or do you just enjoy making pendantic confusing replies?
> I buy 20lb boxes of cheap powder and they last for months.

...is this a commercial kitchen? 20lb is like two loads a day for a year.
> "...comments like "lol" or "That's the dumbest thing I ever heard" teach us nothing.

> Empty comments can be ok if they're positive. There's nothing wrong with submitting a comment saying just "Thanks." What we especially discourage are comments that are empty and negative—comments that are mere name-calling."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
For me, it's not about companies right but individuals rights. If I paid money for a device and if I am willing to let go of warranty and updates, I should be free to do whatever I wish with it. I don't think this statement should be as controversial as people make it to be.
The proportion nationally is literally over 50%. They can't all be older people - that just doesn't factually add up, does it? You must be living in a very strange bubble, completely unrepresentative of the rest of the country.

The reality is most people with a phone use an iPhone. Any tech or academic conference I go to, most people are using MacBooks.
The problem is each photo is 5MB. It’s insane. We should have different levels of compression depending on the album it’s in; My meme folder should only contain 200KB images, my parents souvenirs should be 5MB each indeed.
You carefully avoid saying that "spam" isn't subjective, but if you think it is, your reply wouldn't be relevant, so: I doubt you'll have any luck trying to "objectively" establish a criteria for spam classification that nobody disagrees with.

Or what about the threat examples, since you claim all those categories were subjective? You didn't engage with that one, or many of the others. "I know your kids go to [specific school], watch out"? Subjective? "I'm going to kill you and your family?" Subjective or straight up threat? How about mockery or insults? "Your post is stupid and you are stupid?" Is it subjective that that's insulting? So is it an "idea" or just a particular way of saying I disagree with you? "You are clearly politically motivated and not arguing in good faith?" Maybe that one is actually an idea!
Yeah, you're trying to catch me on a typo, but it's not gonna work cus I already acknowledged it.

I do know I hit a nerve with that particular scenario. I got all I wanted. Ok, so let's just move on. Let's get to the fun stuff.

So the line stopped at her wearing the BDSM gear. Why? Why not cross that line? Why is it ok for the bear to wear BDSM gear and for her not to?
It's one of the reasons I recently ported the Whisper model to plain C/C++. You just clone the repo, run `make [model]` and you are ready to go. No Python, no frameworks, no packages - plain and simple.

https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp
Not if you don't want to get downvoted lol. The people in the protected categories get to force you to associate with them, it's really simple.
ChatGPT Wrote Itself a New Feature (With a Little Help)
All I did was ask for the feature and feed the code back to it with an error whenever something went wrong. The only difficult part was asking it to check for page changes correctly (took a tiny one-line fix on my part, but it did 99%). Code: https://gist.github.com/zaptrem/717b168583a323ef8215ada1fb05...
Honestly I was a little surprised at the cheating too. I think I was a little naive in the beginning that if you actually wanted a job you would understand that you would have to be able to write code. But some folks are in a school mentality that if you get a grade/diploma you're good, regardless of whether you understand the things required to go into that.

Having tried a number of different ways to do admissions, I can assure you doing interviews is possibly the worst.

As far as ISAs go, it all comes out in the wash. If you create a pool of ISAs and students don't get hired you may have more ISAs but the average ISA is worth less, so the only thing that matters is whether each individual student gets hired. There's no financial wizardry that can let you sell $1 for $2 in the long-run.
I know you're probably asking it only rhetorically, but it's the way to mark something as reactive for the Svelte "compiler", cleverly using the existing JS label syntax.[1]

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Discord is such a terrible name.

Who wants to create Discord? Or be a Discord creator?
I think the theory is that the payoff comes later. Ideally the system quietly continues working well for decades, but needs maintenance and improvements 30 years from now, by which time most of the existing C++ programmers have retired.

If this hasn't happened for PHP, maybe because there are fewer critical infra projects written in it. If it's just another web service, that can be rewritten (unless it's at the scale of Facebook). Whereas the tens of thousands of firmware code bases and other critical infra - we won't even think about them for decades as long as they continue to work (or appear to). Let's check back in 2038!
Wouldn’t a GC cycle be short if the microcontroller had less RAM? (as a genuine question)
> We've been over this again and again, and I know you understand that this isn't true, but don't care. The misconception comes form comparing two different measures: one that is (hired students making more than $50k/enrolled students), the other (hired students/graduated students)

Your website, September 2019: https://web.archive.org/web/20190930144525/https://lambdasch...

"86% of Lambda School graduates are hired within 6 months and make over $50k a year."

Let's run the math on current outcomes, which I believe you've called, "the best they've ever been." 994 students graduated and 453 got a job making $50k or more. We're already at 45%, and that's before narrowing it down to, "within six months."

You may try to argue, "Not all of those 994 students count as 'job seeking,'" as if it's totally normal that 32% of graduates give up looking for jobs. That's moot. There was no fine print.

Would you mind sharing whether or not your outcomes report includes the upset students you pressured into signing NDAs?

> There was never any attempt to flaunt or "dodge" regulators, and this never affected the experience any student had in any way.

They told you to cease operation. You didn't. After the BPPE news came to light, you told students that no school has ever been shut down for continuing to operate.

One point of the lawsuits are the students who felt they should have been told about the whole BPPE situation before signing up. I get why you didn't want them to know, because according to the law, the ISAs issued before you were in compliance are invalid. Yet you're still trying to collect, which I'd say very much impacts students.

> Again, not true. We launched a program called "fellows" where companies didn't pay, but we paid the students, and if the company afterwards hired the student they would pay us back. It was successful and operates to this day.

When you unveiled the program, it was unpaid. It was right there in the FAQ: "This program is part of Lambda School for the Fellow and as such, is not paid." https://twitter.com/sandofsky/status/1329116385629245440

Within hours of the tech community calling you out on this, you apologized. Then you deleted the apology. I find it amazing that your strategy is to just pretend none of that happened.

> We had some language in the ISA to try to describe that mechanism as not requiring bankruptcy, but the DFPI in California said we should remove that clause.

Your contract said: "this extension of credit is a qualified educational loan and is subject to the limitations on dischargeability in bankruptcy contained in Section 523(a)(8) of the United States Bankruptcy Code."

It was not a qualified educational loan. Section 523(a)(8) is all about how student loans are not dischargeable.

https://dfpi.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/337/2021/04/CFP...

After you tried to spin that settlement, the DFPI called out your blog post as deceptive.

https://dfpi.ca.gov/2021/04/26/lambda-school-reaches-settlem...
Italian here, the reason behind this is that Italy is full of small enterprises, mon and pop shops, ... and until the end of the '90s tax evasion was so rampant that those shops and small companies have basically never paid a single lira in taxes. The people owning those shops are a core block behind the Italian right.

Shopkeepers in Italy are accustomed to dodging a certain percentage of VAT, and it all depends on people having cash at hand. When a society goes cashless, it's often a snowballing process, where people use cards more, and then withdraw less, so they have less cash at hand, and so on.

If people stop carrying cash with them, it will become impossible for them to refuse card payments, and thus dodging VAT would become impossible.
Are businesses required to accept credit cards in Italy or is this a card network rule they're trying to circumvent?
"cleverly"
> This is one I remember https://docs.sciml.ai/DiffEqParamEstim/stable/tutorials/ODE_...

> All of the cost function values are infinite, which results in an empty plot.

I copy pasted the code up to the first plot of a cost function, and works fine.
Free speech doesn't mean you can say whatever you want. It means you can speak with whom you want.

Free speech as codified in Bills of Rights is there to stop the Government from censoring people, usually opponents of the current Government.

The idea that you can speak whatever you want is ridiculous. There are many laws in the way of this, Assault, Libel/Slander, Perjury, etc
> I keep reading about how great julia, but every time I try it, it just seems to suck.

And how do you explain that? Because to me the simplest explanation is very obvious.
You don't need to go that far to get spyware, they are already available on the play store if you look enough
I should have said is 'Our power is water and nuclear'.
Eh, wasn’t it like Dubai or something that for the longest time didn’t even have working sewage? Like in the slightest. Was all pumped out by semi trucks instead & dumped… somewhere

They have all the money & this part of the city was literally planned IIRC. But yeah, no working sewage.
It was 16% and it sucked.
Microsoft 365 faces more GDPR headwinds as Germany bans it in schools
"However, according to Microsoft, it has not made any adjustments to the actual processing," and that the US Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (CLOUD Act) of 2018 and FISA 702 provided "disproportionate access rights for US secret services [providing]... no judicial legal protection for EU citizens."
It’s also a different epoch. 1990 was all the rage about C. But now that a ReactJS dev can get paid 6 figures and move jobs easily in every big city, it’s much harder to find people who are passionate to build APFS or desktop apps for one vendor based in Cupertino.
It was 16%.
I apologize. ^This comment was to harsh.

Statistics can be summarizes as one thing n -> N. Does ‘little n’ represent ‘big N’. In other words, does the sample generalize to the population. Statistics means something like “description of the state”. It was born out of census samples where larger population samples had to be estimated. “n” could be a handful of fish in a “N” lake. “n” could also be the parameter estimated in a linear regression with the sample of data collected while “N” is the true parameter of the relationship if we had all the data. Point estimation is about finding the needle in the haystack, but much more often statistics is about finding the haystack given the needle. One tool statistics uses to get to the haystack is probability.
I'm late under different circumstances.

My first class in the morning, I'm usually always at least a few minutes late. It's a bad habit. Later classes, since I'm already on-campus, I find it really hard to be late, and am usually several minutes early.

If it's a work meeting, I'm usually always early or right on-time. This goes for one-on-one meetings in any circumstance, or in general events where I'm expected to contribute something.

The thing about being late to lecture is that it goes on with or without you. You're usually not letting anyone down by being late.
I've got a couple of templates where I've aliased the value of a TypeScript enum into a local variable before using it in the template, so I'm pretty certain at that point I was unable to use the value of the enum directly (that's also how I remember it). However, I just tried it and...it seems to just work now. So thanks for making me revisit that :D.
do you know who made this/why they made it?
I was looking for contrary evidence to that, but it appears you're right:

https://excitedcats.com/can-cats-kill-rats/

of course, the cats can induce the rats to move somewhere else. But if it's a big city, they're not going to move out of town.
I would personally get the silenced fans in the largest diameter you can afford / fits in your desired space because it will move larger amounts of air more quietly. The apartment was 700 sq. ft. I got the silenced 6" and it's reasonably quiet at most speeds, and not that loud at the highest speed -- putting filters at both intake and outlet greatly reduced the noise vs. just one side.

If you get the filters and fans in the same diameter they will just slip together without any additional hardware. But it will be quite wobbly. I used velcro (monoprice, laying around for wire-taming) to secure it to a vertical bookshelf.

My BOM:
- $199: TerraBloom 6" Silenced EC Inline Duct Fan, ECMF-150-S, 288 CFM, 36W

- $114: TERRABLOOM 6" AIR FILTER 24" LONG, 1.8" (46MM) THICK,

- $80: TERRABLOOM 6" AIR FILTER 16" LONG, 1.8" (46MM) THICK

I'd probably go 8" if I was buying today, I hedged a bit cheaper because I wasn't sure if the quality/performance would be what I needed. This has been running for 9 months now with almost no noticeable degradation in performance, although I'm not currently quantifying it. Eventually I intend to install 3 VOC sensors, one outside the unit near the intake, one inside the unit, and one outside the unit at the outlet....to measure the VOC scrubbing efficiency curve over time and assist in deciding when to replace the carbon.

We've been running it 24 hours per day, usually about 40% but sometimes at the lowest setting (maybe 25%) and sometimes at the highest 100% setting.

After 9 months, it can still use it for point sources of concentrated smells like soldering and it captures 100% of the odors. And this is operating in a high-VOC environment near a lot (dozens) of chemical plants on our side of the city.
The thread we are in is talking specifically about using cli tools on a remote machine, so that’s why I mentioned it. If you have that you don’t need a hole in the firewall.