skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole hype around dbt and snowflake feels koolaid-y to me.

They’re some products that have inexplicably captured so much s as attention for so little value and now trounce around acting like their approach is the only true way of doing things.
I realized late that you'd asked how it's powered. Most of them are powered from USB-C, so you can use a battery bank to power it or just plug it in.
Thinking too small. Get the baby an exoskeleton so that it can get around without a stroller.
A special case in the U.S. is that I’ve heard that car drivers have an unusually large ire against cyclists. They see cyclists as a stereotype; i.e. using a racing bicycle, wearing spandex, going dangerously fast around both people and cars, not respecting traffic laws, and, crucially, wearing helmets. If you are biking using a normal bicycle, while wearing normal street clothes, but are wearing a helmet, this might make drivers associate you with the stereotype and therefore feel safe in hating you and your bicycle. You have changed from “a normal person on a bicycle” to the dreaded cyclist. If this is so, then it might be that the helmet in fact did not make you any safer, on balance.
Lawyers don't make laws, they argue about them.

Politicians make laws.
Ignore the data and what we are seeing and move back into a more basic incorrect model we feel safe in? The world isn't flat even though it maybe politically incorrect to tell the church this. The downsides here are political.
To skip the end last question, which is the most interesting, I’ll answer by not answering haha.

> What if the AI was more interesting and intellectually stimulating than a human?

What if? It’s not anywhere close to that. GPT is so far from “human level” even if it sounds good. It’s statistic regurgitation, it’s not thought. If it was more intellectual, then I think there’d be a lot more change in the world than HN.

> Please tell me: for you, what is the difference between hearing what people think, and hearing what a human-level AI thinks?

Humans can have original thoughts. AIs that are trained on a human text corpus are by definition finding statistical correlations between preexisting things.

You can say things like “I know it’s unpopular but I like OOP because objects make it easy to assign team boundaries at work”. And the replies can be about real work experiences of real people who understand those trade offs.

An AI can discuss this, sorta, but it’s not real. The AI knows nothing of these trade offs other than inevitably mentioning Java.

> And even in the remaining 1% of cases, aren't they necessarily just functional products of the things they've seen/read/experienced (i.e. the inputs they've received, even if gathered by feedback when interacting with the world)?

This is what I was thinking a lot about. I think the answer is no.

Humans are introspective and reflective. You are based on your experiences, yes, but you don’t just regurgitate statistically likely language. Crucially, before you answer a question you can reflect on the logic of that answer.

> Are you saying a human-level AI, by definition, cannot ever be interesting to you, just because it's an AI, even though it could be like a human in every other way?

Not to be weird, but I wouldn’t discriminate against a human level intelligence because it’s a machine, but a language model like GPT is absolutely not a human level intelligence.
So we'll all get a daemon like in His Dark Materials?

You know what? I actually don't mind that timeline.
I didn't say the k was a romanization, I said it was older.
He could have gone with bulk rolls of 35mm film (100') instead of standard 36-exp rolls to save a few bucks on film, but then getting that processed as a single spool would have been a challenge.
I certainly have. Multiple times.
> There's hardly any worse "source" for etymology than that kind of jargon.

Care to provide attribution links for that claim?

etymology:'Dead Ringer'

etymology:'Wringer'

Hope this helps.
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and cloud status dashboards.
And are giant arseholes when they're nesting. In the country town I grew up in, a key footpath when walking to school would end up with 3 - 4 magpie nests in trees alongside it.

So us kids would compete to see who could last the longest walking past them, as soon as you ran, or put your backpack over your head to protect yourself, you lost.

No-one ever made it past the third nest without breaking.
No they wouldn't. Smoking gives a little protection against infection, but once you have it it's likely much worse. Vaccines give you a little protection against infection and also reduce the probability of severe courses of illness.
That's just Bayesian reasoning.

If you told me that you saw the sun rise in the east this morning, I'd probably believe you.

If you told me that you saw the sun rise in the north this morning, I'd probably not believe you.

In both cases, "the data is the data," and all I have is your report. However, given a strong prior probability based on personal experience and first-principles reasoning, in the second case above I'm still more likely to think you mistaken than the conventional cosmological model wrong.
Yes, I don't mean to say that's uncommon. My point is that helmets aren't the method generally chosen to mitigate that risk.
Your past experiences have caused you to expect you'll be hungry tomorrow, but shy of someone building a time machine there's no way for causal relationships to actually go backwards. If you wake up tomorrow craving bacon there's no mechanism for you to cause your past self to pick some up.
It only turns yellow if the datacenter gets flooded by lava. Red is probably a tactical nuke.
I just looked at the requirements to host your own Bitwarden server. Why does a password manager need 2GB of ram (4GB recommended) and 25GB[1] of storage? That seems quite excessive, how much data and traffic does this thing need to handle for me plus family members?

[1] https://bitwarden.com/help/install-on-premise-linux/
Addressing Climate Change Will Not “Save the Planet”
Wow did not expect the appearance by Sonia Sotomayor at the end.
I am not aware of any real long term metrics to track reserve currency usage worldwide. One of the many ways the dollar system is reinforced is by the old idea of the petrodollar. Some would say this has been in place since the 1970s. It's not the entire picture of what makes the dollar the reserve currency, maybe the U.S. Navy can ultimately take credit for it along with the historically liquid financial system behind it.

With that being said, much of this system relies on the Treasury market. Saudi investment seems to move based on which political party is in power. Russia has a complicated relationship to the petrodollar as well and has grown more complicated since Crimea in 2014...

Part of the staying power of this system is arguably technical because of SWIFT. The double edged sword of using sanctions for geopolitical goals has driven other means of settling international payments even for things like oil. It's less ideal than the system used to be but in the oil producing countries, it's better than being at the mercy of the U.S.

Even Japan, which acts as a sort of off shored Federal Reserve given their historical bond holdings has recently cut back and said they plan to cut back more.

China also has complicated the picture. The trade war changed many fundamental inflows and outflows and as time goes on more countries will find ways to trade without relying on the dollar.

This can be patched over by something like quantitative easing where the Fed steps in to provide liquidity that global trade used to provide, but there is a cost to that as well since they are kind of stuck in a trap of inflation vs job loss and recession. Assuming inflation continues.

Don't get me wrong though, the US dollar is still the reserve currency and will be for some time. It's just that the mechanics behind it can and do change and is something that I feel is not widely understood.

How about that Bancor though?
Sounds right, but i have so little experience with long dated swaps that I'm hesitant to say. Even a ~year long swap feels very strange to me as someone coming from the much more short dated world.

Thats actually my biggest gripe about the report, they are treating the whole market as monolithic when its anything but.
If it's illegal how do corporations get away with it? Genuine question.
I was thinking the same thing. It’s a bit over a ton a day, which is 250 gallons of milk (well, probably a bit more assuming that it takes more than a pound of milk to make a pound of butter). Kind of like the scene in the first Austin Powers movie where Doctor Evil demands ONE MILLION DOLLARS! and the world leaders laugh.
> Don’t confuse assets with cash.

Don't confuse fixed assets with current assets.

"current assets" under English law is either cash or something that can be easily converted into cash

> That the company has something with a book value of £1.3M does not mean that they should be obliged to spend their rest of their lives maintaining mIRC for free.

this is a strawman
It’s not uncommon for firms that need to do big layoffs to not hire consulting firms, and then screw up the layoffs (multiple rounds, bad severance, etc.)

There’s a certain class of work that is (1) really critical to get right the first time and (2) only done once a decade. That’s the type of stuff where it’s good to hire an outside firm - the outside guys go from company to company, doing this one rare thing over and over.

Other examples might include M&A (eg divestitures), offshoring (eg standing up a factory in Mexico), or new market entry (eg launching a product in a brand new country).
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That's exactly my experience in Europe. We want to fire 50 people/close a factory/whatever without blowback...let's hire McK to tell us to do exactly that.

I've also had some experience working for a smallish company with very big clients and they sometimes insisted on having an IT-Consulting company like Capgemini as a middleman. That's the biggest nightmare because they were always a net-negative from my POV...integrating them was just extra work and they provided no value except for their brand name to make the client feel at ease.
didn't we also think that good chess and go play required good reasoning skills? is this just a higher scale version of that?
It’s amazing how local diary still is for many things.

During covid my parents could barely get milk and meanwhile we were drowning in it.
As someone wrote elsewhere, "please stop spewing unconfirmed politically motivated conspiracy theories."
Most politicians and lawmakers (esp. the ones that write the laws) are lawyers, they are not SEs
Some are MVPs with common appearances on community calls trying to sell how successfully they ported from UWP into WinUI 3.0, while downplaying existing issues, after a couple of years after Project Reunion.
Had this once in Osaka, definitely had food poisoning the next few days.

I mostly blame myself for thinking it would be a good idea. It did taste pretty good though.
covid infections per year vs x cigarettes per year? Clear as mud.
Are you talking about something like this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov%E2%80%93Arnold_repr...
> Legolands and such have some kind of automation, though, presumably those are bespoke solutions

I can vouch for that! I can say - with great confidence - that the best job I ever had was in Legoland, Billund while I was in high school. The job: keep the outdoor small models running from 15:30 when the real engineers left, until park closes. Then leave a note about the stuff I couldn’t fix myself.

The electronics were industrial PLCs wired to a control computer, and the mechanics inside the models were made from industrial type stuff that you might see on a robot, conveyor belt or the like.

Most of the models (trains, cars, cranes etc.) were built on a metal chassis or skeleton.

Fond memories of getting paged by the system with “ALARM: Cars, Norway” to discover that a kid had dropped her soft ice on the highway ;)
Mac OS X came out in 2001, so even though Mac OS 9 was mostly a 1990's experience, it did survive into the 2000s.
That's not easy, it costs millions of dollars to obtain large amounts of clean data and retrain those models.
Not a book, but why not learn like a child.

https://upperstory.com/spintronics/
Wondering also the chances you get induced social distancing for smelling like smoke.
VCs using scouts means founders get the short end of the stick (2021)
Yes, it will encourage data scavengers to grab a bit and say 'mine'.
Working the cultivation versus hunter/gatherer analogy further - who will end up with the largest crop??
This is normally handled by the data mappers have a time to explore data tranches - after which that tranche is released. Since these are often huge data sets, a process of sequential tranche release - perhaps linked to acquisition time - should be set up.
That way the farmer has a chance to assess his crop before the hunter-gatherers burrow into it.
So that's actually not 'hoodwinked'.

Paying $1B for a site that should cost $50M is 'hoodwinked'.

$150/hr is really not that much money, depending on the importance of the project, and having devs from India is fine.

Almost the entirety of the question in any given situation is 'Did it work out?'

Because if it did, it was worth it.

Companies are not interested in making 'great products' like a startup would, for some secondary thing.

Mostly, it's like construction: they need something built. That works. Not some kind of innovative thing.

They don't have a year to find 'top talent' and go through interesting architectures, or dynamic processes. They wouldn't even know how to do that.

You might be very well downplaying your input: if you are competent, know what you are doing, show up, and can solve the problem, you're probably worth every penny and much more. Now maybe that is or is not the case! Or maybe 'it depends' or maybe, some projects kind of necessarily require 'proper engineering'.

Now, all of what I just said would apply to normal circumstances. In Africa, it's so complicated. McKinsey is also very different office by office. Corruption is harder than we understand, because when it's a random event we can say 'oh, corrupt!' - but when it's normal trade practice aka 5% kickback for the buyer, well, it takes on a different characteristic.
sure but this trend of tiny/hidden until you magically know to mouse over a 10px wide area on the right to reveal the scrollbar is simply user hostile
Why do we enjoy simulating our own destruction so much?

I was seeing how big/fast an asteroid that hits New York would have to be to hurt me in Boston. Turns out it would have to be larger than I thought.

Would be nice to be able to click a place on the map and see how survivable that location is.
I think this needs to be optimized for impacts that hit water and the effects that would have, because right now it doesn't do that so it feels a bit generic.
Can an implosion bomb designed in the 100t yield range go ambient supercritical even in the presence of a neutron reflector?
My company is not going to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars or more, and months or even years of effort, and add additional constraints to the given pool of candidates we are hiring for, to migrate to GCP or Azure or DigitalOcean or Hetzner or wherever is considered more trendy than AWS right now due to "a lack of transparency" lmao. I would look completely incompetent to even suggest the idea to anyone internally.
That is a pretty good place to have orientation buttons for printing. Especially if it's in the exact same place in practically every program that can print. Programs like Word managed to have toolbars for all kinds of things before the Ribbon interface, and that was usually fine. Often they even had printing-related buttons (in addition to file -> print).

One big difference is that these tended to be more compact and one-dimensional. There's a lot of eye movement involved in scanning a ribbon toolbar, looking for something, since you have to scan both up-and-down and side-to-side; and the mixed-size icons, mixed icons-and-labels that don't segregate icons and labels to their own rows or columns but jumble them together so you're always scanning a mix of both, and inconsistent placement between programs make the whole thing feel slow and frustrating.
As a side comment, I still find it surprising that no company has been able to exactly clone the Raspberry Pi.

The entire PC industry was built on cloning other machines and architectures. Why is it seemingly impossible to so perfectly clone the Raspberry Pi that all RPi software would work seamlessly?
I distinctly remember this fact very early on in 2020 and thought it was pretty interesting. I am actually shocked that this inconvenient truth has been completely buried.
The big problem with talking about consulting is that there are so many different people doing so many different things that are all called just "consulting". Everyone has a different idea of what consulting is since they worked with different types of consultants but it all just gets called "consulting". Even in this article they talk about McKinsey's strategy work and their tech work basically interchangeably, even though the two are very different things.
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As an aside, programming is the lowest "willpower depletion" activity I've ever done, apart from producing (i.e. in a software DAW) music. I can program for hours without getting particularly tired or feeling like I need a break.

Have to say I'm a little jealous of people who get to do this for a living.
OSH Park will definitely do 4 & 6 layer, not just 2.
Give that power to people that don't want it.
Not so. Surgical masks still filter about 50-60% of aerosols. They are made of similar material to N95 masks, only issue is fit.

A 50-60% reduction has substantial effects! There's been a lot of "perfect is the enemy of the good, and the good is useless" in this pandemic, but we know that 100% of people do not get instantly infected when exposed, so dropping levels by half will have a substantial impact, especially if the infected source wears such a mask too
What are your thoughts on Biden's efforts to force a move away from oil for much of the US energy needs.. will this/is this intended or related to an effort to eliminate or replace the petrodollar system in any way?
I never considered the two in such light as I deem them completely separate issues, in law and morally. I suppose I'm one of those? I believe it's illegal to fire people for attempting to unionize, and I don't believe there's a law that prohibits social networks from banning arbitrarily (in addition, I suppose, to the law-required bans).

Should there be? Maybe! That'd be a very interesting separate discussion :)
Apparently one source (hidden behind a $3000 paywall) claims the market is only expected to grow.
That reasoning feels sort of circular though. The hype about ChatGPT is because that bot has (ostensibly) archieved exactly the kind of thing that Alexa, Siri, etc have always struggled with: Natural conversations.

If that progress is true, I think we can either expect Alexa and co to be upgraded with GPT-x tech at some point or a new competing voice assistant to emerge. I think it remains to be seen if Amazon will still be pulling out at that point m
Why not just run Thunderbird on your windows pc, then? It should synchronize perfectly happily using caldav et al.
> I ran three trials of the experiment. Results were consistent from trial to trial

They probably needed to do more trials, then? I don't think I've gotten consistent answers from ChatGPT about almost anything, ever. I'm getting different answers on all of these questions from thread to thread: https://i.imgur.com/miOOx4c.png

Also, previous responses influence future responses. They should have started a brand new thread for each question.
ChatGPT, AI, and the Future of Tech
Interesting piece of history!
Thank you for sharing!
And then get pounced on by Melissa McCarthy.
Anyone with affected RDS instances? We were getting random connectivity issues today occasionally... New pods with 1-2 minutes after startup were suddenly getting timeouts connecting to MySQL DBs
A variant of this version is in The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss:

> “Once upon a time,” I began. “There was a little boy born in a little town. He was perfect, or so his mother thought. But one thing was different about him. He had a gold screw in his belly button. Just the head of it peeping out.

> “Now his mother was simply glad he had all his fingers and toes to count with. But as the boy grew up he realized not everyone had screws in their belly buttons, let alone gold ones. He asked his mother what it was for, but she didn’t know. Next he asked his father, but his father didn’t know. He asked his grandparents, but they didn’t know either.

> “That settled it for a while, but it kept nagging him. Finally, when he was old enough, he packed a bag and set out, hoping he could find someone who knew the truth of it.

> “He went from place to place, asking everyone who claimed to know something about anything. He asked midwives and physickers, but they couldn’t make heads or tails of it. The boy asked arcanists, tinkers, and old hermits living in the woods, but no one had ever seen anything like it.

> “He went to ask the Cealdim merchants, thinking if anyone would know about gold, it would be them. But the Cealdim merchants didn’t know. He went to the arcanists at the University, thinking if anyone would know about screws and their workings, they would. But the arcanists didn’t know. The boy followed the road over the Stormwal to ask the witch women of the Tahl, but none of them could give him an answer.

> “Eventually he went to the King of Vint, the richest king in the world. But the king didn’t know. He went to the Emperor of Atur, but even with all his power, the emperor didn’t know. He went to each of the small kingdoms, one by one, but no one could tell him anything.

> “Finally the boy went to the High King of Modeg, the wisest of all the kings in the world. The high king looked closely at the head of the golden screw peeping from the boy’s belly button. Then the high king made a gesture, and his seneschal brought out a pillow of golden silk. On that pillow was a golden box. The high king took a golden key from around his neck, opened the box, and inside was a golden screwdriver.

> “The high king took the screwdriver and motioned the boy to come closer. Trembling with excitement, the boy did. Then the high king took the golden screwdriver and put it in the boy’s belly button.”

> I paused to take a long drink of water. I could feel my small audience leaning toward me. “Then the

> high king carefully turned the golden screw. Once: Nothing. Twice: Nothing. Then he turned it the third time, and the boy’s ass fell off.”

> There was a moment of stunned silence.

> “What?” Hespe asked incredulously.

> “His ass fell off.”