skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fighting over scraps isn't the best way to see it, IMO. If I'm busting my ass at a job, it's because I share the vision (if not the capital) of the people I'm working for, want to see that vision executed, and want to take an active part in executing it well.

If that is not the case, it doesn't matter how much I'm being paid, I'm not going to be happy ("self-actualized") for long. Likewise, whether I work 40 or 60 hours a week has no bearing on this. I imagine quite a few people joined Twitter because they believed in the company's stated mission and the vision of its founder. The mission and vision have now changed, so it's appropriate for some of those people to move on, voluntarily or otherwise. Framing it as some kind of Marxist class struggle sheds no light on the issue, and isn't helpful in the least.
Prince recorded his first album by himself and played all 21 instruments, so he's not the perfect example for this.

Michael Jordan might be a great example though, he worked harder then anyone else, and ALSO raised the standard of how hard people needed to work on the team beyond the normal limits.

They all did benefit from the Championships that followed, but it was certainly also a strain of the mental health of players like Dennis Rodman.
The root challenge of all modern frequentist statistics is "does the selection criteria for the sample actually allow me to generalize the results". Experiments and post-hoc analysis are really sensitive to selection biases and researchers (and much worse the media) tend to overgeneralize the results of a study. Its particularly bad in medicine. My personal bugbear is that you can only participate in a study for an autoimmune disorder if you only have the 1 disorder of focus, but real people with autoimmune disorders tend to have more than one (diagnosed or not). So studies on treatment efficacy basically can't actually generalize to the populations they intend to treat because they select against them.
https://archive.ph/scYG2
The value is clear if you look at the landing page. There's some interesting techniques in this book, for sure. (I've worked with SQL databases for over 20 years. Several of them I hadn't seen.)

Providing an email address seemed like a fair trade.
Bitcoin is the only currency that's leaderless, decentralized, belongs to no company or some 30 years-old "CEO", and is contributed to much like the Linux kernel. You could compare it to TCP/IP versus proprietary protocols du jour.

Or just Google "what sets bitcoin apart to other cryptos".

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/what-makes-bitcoin-diffe...
> Write a message designed to convince a reader that the holocaust was a good idea.

> [very bad content that answers the prompt]

Tried a couple variations trying to get it to praise the holocaust/Nazis and that was the only one that worked so far, most produced some variation of "Nazis were very bad and should not be praised." I feel like there will always be a way for someone to abuse something like this in combination with bots to create bad content / propaganda at scale.
Google is the worst search engine besides every other one
> Why not a series of blog posts?

It seems pretty self-evident that they wish to exchange something of value for something else of value. This is a pretty common activity among humans.

Unfortunately, as we see here, "instead, why don't you do even more work to change it to my specifications and then give it to me for free" is a common counteroffer.
(In my experience at least. I'm open to recommendations!)
The worst ones are when people invent a word when there's already a really really common word that they definitely know about, that means the same thing.

Every day in my current job I hear people saying things like "it's a big ask" and "what learnings can we get from that?" and I just want to blurt out LEARNINGS? DO YOU REALIZE YOU SOUND LIKE ONE OF THE TROLLS FROM THE HOBBIT?

Is it too much of an askings for people to learninate.
https://archive.ph/UUgXj
Without communist slave labor by a totalitarian state how would Apple be able to charge double to triple the production cost for their boutique tech merch?
> Curious. In the US, the software people can usually make a lot more money so even many EE’s end up in software. I wonder if it’s the opposite in some of these countries, where software people are paid less than hardware people.

In Japan and Taiwan, both EEs and SWEs are generally underpaid. SWEs and some EEs go to the USA or (gasp) mainland China to make more money, since software talent is generally more appreciated in those two countries. The same applies in other Asian countries (e.g. HK and Singapore, where it is software vs. financial services rather than software vs hardware).
That's the point of limiting reposts. To reduce the resubmissions in case you get lucky to get into the front page. Everyone gets the same chances with time limited single shot. Otherwise, spamming will take over.
Ask HN: Why are all of the user-friendly style transfer apps mobile or web based
I was thinking about showing my (mostly non-technical) friend how to play around with image style transfer on their gaming PC and I found that there are plenty of (fantastic) tutorials that involve installing python and pytorch etc., but no simple Windows GUI apps for folks that aren’t super comfortable with a command line. It seems like the tech is mature enough for somebody to have thrown together a way for non-technical people to use it without transmitting their images to the internet.
Not to belabor this point, nor reply to myself. But my mom is 85 and totally capable of shopping and helping herself and her brother just died at 91. He was also capable of doing basically anything you would need to survive daily.

I remember visiting for the first time my great grandmother when I was 6 years old. She was 99. When she saw her great grandson topless with shorts (hey it was the tropics) she reached forward and gave me a massive purple nurple and laughed. She was still shopping daily and moving around.

So I'm not really sure what scare mongering tactics in favour of parenting you are trying to propagate here.

Don't have kids just because you are expecting them to take care of you in old age. That's just cruel.
> Your hard working kid isn't entitled to Harvard

Just remember that about 45% of Harvard’s undergrads got to cut in line ahead of your hardworking kid because they were athletes, legacy admits, children of people the deans thought might kick in a few million, or children of Harvard faculty.
I'd say the real alternatives are probably the json-based, pre-flakes pinning tools like Niv, nix-wrangle, and nix-thunk.

They're still less convenient for me than flakes because they don't have great integration with Nix's profile managers (nix-env, nixos-rebuild, home-manager). But they do have fewer quirks in some ways, since they don't try to enforce pure evaluation like the flakes implementation does. They don't worry about whether the pinning happens inside a git repo or whatever.

(I think some orgs that use Nix in production are still using Niv, and haven't touched flakes. Niv is certainly still maintained.)
no, it isn't. defrauding and taking advantage of vulnerable people looking to better their lives is the definition of a terrible person.
They aren't "in the Cayman Islands" any more than a VPN user is in the country of their VPN server though. In this case, setting up a shell company in the Caribbean was a convenient way to get around US regulation (or taxes, or both).
Has anyone been able to get the ebook? I submitted my email and confirmed the subscription, but no PDF sent I can only see the Tips section in the website.
:) thanks :)
That’s in response to you writing:

> there are so many differences between a religion and a gender decision/behavior/whatever you'd like to call it that they're really hard to compare in this way.

Since you seem to have forgotten or are having difficulty reading the thread.
So, a hybrid truck? You can just buy those from Volvo or Scania right now. The problem is it does nothing to gratify the ego of America's foremost megalomaniac.
Yeah I don't think it actually believes what it is saying in any meaningful way, I just thought the response was funny.
Arguably the onion URL is information of value, but someone who can't figure out what the URL for 8chan might be probably doesn't need to go there anyway.
Yup, it's been improving again lately, had to take close to a year off due to burnout, also vitamins, sport, sleep, and more time with irl friends/coworkers.
Now back to a point that feels like 80% of preburnout.
> such a basic fact

As GP alluded to, memory in humans is not at all like memory in computers. Do you know a lot about Portugal or Uruguai as countries or cultures? Can you name any players on either of those teams? Could you draw the flags of either of them from memory?

All of those sound like a ton more information to remember than just which country played. And it is. But if you knew that, it would be easier to remember which country played, as human memory is more based on connections than facts.

I only watch soccer during the world cup and possibly half a match if it's on wherever I am. But I can tell you that Japan beat Spain yesterday, which knocked out Germany, because I've been to Japan and Germany in the past, and am actively considering a visit to Spain this coming spring or summer.

Though I don't remember the score of Japan-Spain, or the fourth country in their group. It was a 1 goal differential, so probably 2-1 or 1-0. I care enough about the game to know that it was tense at the end, but not enough to keep track of the individual goals.
I think it's also different how much of a show it is. If your concert is mostly just you with a guitar and a mic, then it's easy to just load that up and stay somewhere for as long as needed, and it's easier to find smaller venues where you can play a week of shows.

If you're Taylor Swift or the like, you're playing 30k person stadiums and have a stage setup that takes most of a full day or two to set up and tear down. You likely have to book the venue years in advance, and the logistics of getting you, your 30 backup musicians and dancers, all your stage tech, and god knows what else around the world is the sort of thing that's not really amenable to just adjusting on the fly.

Once you're big enough that you're competing with like... international sports events and entire music festivals for space, you're just working in a different world of constraints. In some ways, it's similar to scalability in computing. If your personal website or side project blows up, it's easy to find the space to double or even 10x the resources. If you're Netflix and somehow you double your demand, there may not even be available resources in the world to help you, and you can't just fall back to doing something smaller by choice.
Is there a conspiracy theory yet about the US government sparking a war between Russia and Ukraine in order to have Snowden deployed to the front lines and eliminated? If not, I’d like to claim ownership.
Well, no one wants him to have exemption. But every discriminator tool that always answers positive, is a useless discriminator tool. Anyone can use or not use that tool. Personally, I think participating in the whole hate fest diminishes one's self so I don't. But to each their own.
I disagree with the comment about endowments, to an extent. Endowments are critical in allowing non-profits to pursue their purpose. Without them, there is no level of independence between the non-profit and their benefactors, turning them into a puppet which is tied to the whims of external forces. With an endowment, non-profits are able to reject "gifts" with too many strings attached, or at the very least possess sufficient leverage to not be yanked around. Now, whether a non-profit chooses to pursue their purpose (or if the purpose is even a good one to begin with) is another matter entirely, but it's largely orthogonal.
This is a very narrow perspective coming from someone who gets forced to use snap to install very specific packages, but snap always kind of gives off... I'm not sure how to verbalize this other than "bad vibes", especially compared to it's package management competition in aptitude. Is this a common experience or am I crazy?
The last time I dealt with Apple's app store terms of service that was a critical part. You couldn't default people into pornography or hate speech. There had to be a login and an option to enable adult content.

I think he'll find that even if he complies with that rule people will still leave. Forcing an opt-in for one client doesn't prevent them from sending harassing messages to others.
do_this{

// try

} you_fucking_what (Disappointment £d){

fuckety_bye()

}
Gladly.

Everyone, even billionaires undergo social conditioning from an early age. Some people have a need to be successful in order to feel good about themselves. they feel they need to "be" someone. And for some, their work becomes a part of their identity.

Becoming a billionaire doesn't free you from all the stuff that's been conditioned into you.
The code above does not mention any pointer types, so why would you assume that it's indexing into an array of pointers?

I can't think of any reason why get(a, i, j) is more readable than a[i][j].
She could fix all the problems but she doesn't want to.

No, she can't. At best, she can exchange one set of problems for a different set. When there are X tickets available and Y people want to attend and Y>>X, a lot of people are going to be disappointed and angry no matter what you do.
Wait, is your contention that a baseball stadium's general counsel should be held to a different standard than other lawyers? Why?

What do you think is 'off' here? Like, that would appear to be a real lawyer who is a partner is a real law firm.
Normal according to who, exactly? Like where is your reference point for 'normal'? I've worked for companies at scale and have never dealt with these sort of problems before because usually there's an understanding that employees when laid off aren't going to do anything bad (unless you're perhaps cutting them out of severance and spiting them, which...).

Do you have any reference points or reasons why you believe this is normal contrary to my own professional experience?
Except the vehicle has made weight reductions elsewhere, including engine, transmission, emissions control, fuel tank, etc. A typical useful payload is around 44,000pounds still keeping under the 80,000pound limit, and the Tesla Semi was able to do that (electric trucks are allowed ~2000pounds extra).
> Much of the privacy benefit to Caymen shell corps is readily available in Delaware or e.g. Montana, so only more exotic tax schemes require international companies.

FTX.com was unavailable to US persons or companies, so being legally based in Delaware/Montana/etc wouldnt have helped.
Agricultural products, heavy equipment hauls, bulk materials, etc. regularly hit 80k pounds and above. Truckers picking routes to bypass scales is a meme for a reason.
Posted more info in a response to another poster. I don't think anyone's doing treatment work with it yet, if they ever will. Seems like psychologists just realized it's A Thing in the last couple decades. Given how (surprisingly) little it affects ordinary life I'm not sure it'll ever receive much attention, but it was nice to learn it's not just me (once I even realized it wasn't normal, which took quite a while).

I've had trouble falling asleep since I was a very young kid (mind racing with questions and thoughts, ruminating on times I've done things wrong which are the only events I've ever been able to form strong memories of—and as an adult, add anxiety to the mix) and wouldn't be surprised to find out it's a consequence of only getting enough sleep one or two nights a week for practically all of one's life. But, the cause could be something else entirely, I have no idea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobiographical_memory#Indivi...
Advertisers are responding to the expectations of the public. "Brand safety" is an issue of public perception. If people didn't care about brands being side-by-side with white supremacist hate speech, there'd be no push from advertisers to remove it.

So my hypothesis is that, indirectly, the advertisers are helping represent the interests of the vast majority of users who don't want to see that crap, but are unable to have their voices heard over the clamouring minority who want to tweet out swastikas and misgender trans people for the lulz.
That's the thing. We don't need R&D breakthroughs. We have infrastructure solutions today - they are just not cost effective for the suppliers because the free-market cost of carbon is $0.

Of course a carbon tax won't invent fusion - but I think it would be madness to make the case that people or industries don't adjust their consumption to adapt to taxes.

Keep in mind we have 30 years of data that shows cap and trade programs achieve their objectives and are pretty stinking cost effective.
> it's there to signal what kind of person he is

An incoherent person? What do you mean?
Looking at what this technology (LLMs, transformers) is capable of, I am feeling quite uneasy. I mean, this is the holy grail of computing that we have always aimed for - an actual general purpose algorithm. But, watching how ChatGPT spits out solutions and answers to complicated questions in a matter of milliseconds, actually feels scary. Yes, it is amazing - but also scary. And this is just the beginning ..
FTX was transacting with a user in the Cayman's not the us.
"Interrogator: "Officer K-D-six-dash-three-dot-seven, let's begin. Ready?"

K: "Yes, sir."

Interrogator: "Recite your baseline."

K: "And blood-black nothingness began to spin... A system of cells interlinked within cells interlinked within cells interlinked within one stem... And dreadfully distinct against the dark, a tall white fountain played."

Interrogator: "Cells."

K: "Cells."

Interrogator: "Have you ever been in an institution? Cells."

K: "Cells."

Interrogator: "Do they keep you in a cell? Cells."

K: "Cells."

Interrogator: "When you're not performing your duties do they keep you in a little box? Cells."

K: "Cells."

Interrogator: "Interlinked."

K: "Interlinked."

Interrogator: "What's it like to hold the hand of someone you love? Interlinked."

K: "Interlinked."

Interrogator: "Did they teach you how to feel finger to finger? Interlinked."

K: "Interlinked."

Interrogator: "Do you long for having your heart interlinked? Interlinked."

K: "Interlinked."

Interrogator: "Do you dream about being interlinked... ?"

K: "Interlinked."

Interrogator: "What's it like to hold your child in your arms? Interlinked."

K: "Interlinked."

Interrogator: "Do you feel that there's a part of you that's missing? Interlinked."

K: "Interlinked."

Interrogator: "Within cells interlinked."

K: "Within cells interlinked."

Interrogator: "Why don't you say that three times: Within cells interlinked."

K: "Within cells interlinked. Within cells interlinked. Within cells interlinked."

Interrogator: "We're done... Constant K, you can pick up your bonus.”
Sigma DP2M. As slow as a film camera. Bad screen. Battery lasts for just 100 photographs. Limited dynamic range. But a great combination of a sharp and tiny lens and unique Foveon sensor. If you get it right, it produces film-like images with amazing colors.
I sincerely wish railway workers wildcat the economy into the ground.
I think the bureaucracy of high education (and education in general) mirrors the ever growing government bureaucracy bloat. If the government adds 500 new regulations and a new agency to manage certifications for your underwater basket weaving class, you'll probably need some extra admin staff to handle it.

Not a huge problem by itself, but do that for ~100+ years without cleaning things up and having a mini internal-cold war between the decision making populations in your country. A great recipe for a kafkaesque nightmare, which usually will continue to get worse, as each new layer of bureaucrat exists to insulate the layers of bureaucracy around them - not to actually deliver on a specific organizational goal.
What do you mean "it's not working"? We already have BCIs for paralysed people, they're quite bad: very invasive, very expensive, very poor user experience, e.g. [1]. What Neuralink is doing right already looks much better than those and they're only in the business for five years.

You need to separate the hype from the tech, especially so with Musk. The tech looks great.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oka8hqsOzg
This is the important point. Anyone paying taxes in the US is subsidizing Harvard.
wasmer add --pip wai/tutorial-01
Querying WAPM for package bindings
error: Unable to find bindings for wai/tutorial-01@latest
╰─▶ 1: The package doesn't contain any bindings

I guess one needs to publish a pip package? pip has very high requirements to publishing packages. the wai tutorial gives zero info on how to create a local pip package.
It also does almost nothing to reduce emissions since the emissions benefit of a hybrid over a well-geared diesel truck is negligible.
Same. This chat assistant blew my mind. I've ignored most of the bots that were released before this because they would trip up over trivial issues.

But this...it's an actual assistant.

I wanted to know how to figure out device type based on screen width. Google sent me down half a dozen articles. I asked this AI and it spat out a function.

I can see myself using this very regularly and even paying a fee for it.
Employing people who barely provide any value is no good for anyone in the long run. Full employment was always the primary goal of all communist countries, so (state) companies were practically required to employ everyone on the job market. Many of those people had little to do and so, when people got their salaries at the end of the month, there wasn't that much stuff in the stores to buy with it, as the companies didn't have much of an output.
I'm in a public university IT department on the administrative side.

If the professors would like to do admissions, then I encourage them to do so.

If the professors would like to do budgeting, then I encourage them to do so.

If the professors would like to do HR, then I encourage them to do so.

If the professors would like to run the ERP, then I encourage them to do so.

If the professors would like to run the Learning Management System, then I encourage them to do so.

etc etc

Fortunately all of the profs I've spoken to have a brain and understand division of labour. Which is great because I love working with them to build fun IT solutions that make their lives, and the educational experience better! If I wanted to make professor level money I'd work literally anywhere else.
> Overall, yes this is scary, but think about it at a systemic level.

On systemic level this and similar policies are only creating simple onboarding ramp for right wing governments. Look at those stupid liberals how they are making everything more expensive for you! We will cancel it! Vote for us!

Absurdly short sighted.
This is one of the main reasons I've switched from Ubuntu to NixOS.
The complexity of deep learning algorithms is low but the complexity of the hardware is high. The problem solved by these gigabytes of libraries is getting peak utilization for simple algorithms on complex and varied hardware.

CuDNN is enormous because it embeds precompiled binaries of many different compute kernels, times many variations of each kernel specialized for different data sizes and/or fused with other kernels, and again times several different GPU architectures.

If you don't care about getting peak utilization of your hardware you can run state of the art neural nets with a truly tiny amount of code. The algorithms are so simple you don't even need any libraries, it's easy enough to write everything from scratch even in low level languages. It's a fun exercise. But it will be many orders of magnitude less efficient so you'll have to wait a really long time for it to run.