skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have a problem with the article. I do have a problem with the "every programmer". Not every programmer writes sophisticated algorithms. In fact, in my experience working on web sites most programmers are front end developers coding web sites or back end developers shuffling data around. The most sophisticated algorithm they need is a for loop. Occasionally one needs and algorithm developer to work on scale out.

Next time try, "challenging algorithms and data structures every algorithm programmer should try."
Too bad the ending of Brazil isn't funny.
The slow but welcome death of industrialized education
Isn't eg Austin full of Californian democrats? Made a mess then ran away?
Yeah, and a month sounds more likely than a year. In any case, the article seemed to overstate it, and overall was kinda harsh.
Except, why would it start over? A language model doesn’t actually have an opinion independent of whatever text it’s outputting. The prompt is the opinion. Start over with a new chat session and it will emit different words, causing it to have a different opinion. If you could edit the chat history directly, you would change its opinion and it would continue from there.

It’s true that if the training data contained a lot of text where the authors changed their minds a lot then the language model would learn to “change its mind” a lot in a similar way, but neither the old opinion nor the new opinion is its “real” opinion. It’s just the opinion it’s pretending to have now.

It would be tricky to come up with training data where, when an author changes its mind, the new text is always better than what they had before. Sometimes edits make things worse. It might be fun to try, though.
To be clear, campus security didn’t actually hang out and watch parties. The hosts were supposed to manage their own parties (within boundaries set by the university). And I’m not saying Stanford’s policies were perfect or even close. But I do think they did a decent job of letting students host parties on campus with keeping a degree of awareness of what happened on campus.

Stanford was also known for allowing students to drink with friends in their own rooms, in undergrad dorms, with the doors open. It was quite strongly discouraged to close the doors when drinking. These weren’t “parties” for these purposes. I think this was an excellent policy — it encouraged being social, it helped keep everyone safe, and it steered undergrad drinking in a more mature and safer direction. Sadly, IMO, this is no longer the case:

https://stanforddaily.com/2021/09/20/from-the-community-stan...

I don’t know how the actual bureaucracy and effects of the policies have changed since I was there.
I don’t have much, but if anyone needs some company in Seattle - please let me know.
> It’s highly unlikely that there’s some individual out there that’s in charge of both situations

What a bizarre straw-man. Of course there is no individual. There are numerous democratically elected policymakers. What difference does that make?

> but it’s also unfair that the sun will eventually expand to swallow the earth, and that’s about as connected to SBF as Garner is.

Bizarre thinking again. Both men were arrested for non-violent crimes.
To me, mining has always been about having resources, to buy and maintain hardware, server space, electricity, etc.

What’s the real difference, other than lag time for PoW?
Link between surges in flu and strep
I cant help but think of the millions of animals that needlessly die for human consumption around times like these. Makes xmas look more like a tragedy than a celebration. All the unhappy people being forced to spend time with "loved ones" they cant stand because of marketing?

merry christmas.
> 4kya

I don't know where you got that number, and I apologize if it's something well known since I am in a different field, but my father did his master's thesis and a lot of subsequent work (back in the 70s) on Clovis culture, and he always represented it as at least 10K years ago. I think he would have laughed at the idea that it was 4K or less. You also have to understand that during that time there were a ton of counterculture types who were trying to push ancient origin stories that didn't align with verifiable evidence, so there was a certain amount of well-deserved skepticism in the air.
The Wrangler 4XE has a temp controlled battery. Not sure about other vehicles, but it works.

TBH, I think mankind just needs better energy storage. Lithium ion, and lithium iron phosphate are great, but I do not believe these are going to work for us in the long term. I do believe, however, that within 30 years electric vehicles will be more practical than ICE if some kind of better battery is made at a low enough price point.
Doesn’t matter if you were raised by an alcoholic who fed you beatings for breakfast. Many people will still claim luck and argue that no one should ever try to do great things, much safer to wagemax and invest in index funds and not step out of your lane.

Your story is the correct attitude and the reality of creating real wealth. Unfortunately many will denigrate your story.
Phew. Glad I read the post because I had just started a programming/AI Substack and I was sad for a moment
There's an attempt to wrap NixOS with a GUI configuration tool, SnowflakeOS. Seems really promising, but I believe it's quite new and not well known yet.

https://snowflakeos.org/
A lot of people are going to be surprised when they buy a decent home in Texas and end up getting slammed by property taxes. Or you buy a home in the middle of nowhere and have to deal with the worst infrastructure around.
Could be! I've never had to draw a Bresenham line, but I'm sure lots of people have. :)

In-memory skiplists, I'm still skeptical of.
There are pros and cons to oil, and there are certainly reasons to use it even if they don't happen to apply to you.

Oil can't explode. Oil can be carried in as low tech as a pail and stored in an equally low tech tank (where a gas pipe doesn't exist or could fail, where a propane bottle requires a lot more infrastructure).

And these are valuable even in developed areas with gas pipes, because it's always valuable to have that flexability to scrounge up milk jugs and drive them in your car, or a bike, when things aren't all perfect. Just on principle even if you never have to do it.

Similarly, there are reasons why the best way to distribute the heat around the building is actually not any form of hot water or air but ancient steam.

I still look forward to outfitting a house with a fancy buried ground glycol loop heat pump and in-floor water, not oil fired steam, but that's because I can afford to be impractical and I don't kid myself that it's anything else.
$150/night is about as cheap as you'll find in the Bay Area. It'll be too small for a family, probably in a shitty area. A few years ago you might've been able to swing that, but now? No.
SQLite? Can you explain? I don't understand how it fits in here.
I hope your recovery is speedy my friend, Merry Christmas
I want to agree… but I’ve seen some truly insane stuff coming out of tik tok. Maybe it just seems worse because these people are “face to face” with us in most cases, vs Twitter it’s just “some crazy writing 120 characters.”
What's your dream, though? To hoard away all your wealth so you die with the highest score?
As someone with a plethora of food sensitivities that still gets hard dinged by hidden corn or wheat gluten contamination hidden under a surreptitious "food starch" label in the ingredients list -- it does matter. Yes, the amounts in ppm contained in starch taken from that food are enough to cause issues. Sometimes them even being on the same machines/equipment is enough for it.

Weirdly enough, food sensitivities and awareness seems to be rising. There are a few good things in the world to me as a result -- Wegmans has gluten free General Tso's chicken that I can have (and gluten free Sesame Chicken -- and both are great if expensive!)

There's so many ways that allergens sneak into food. Aldi's allergen sensitive products for example are a horrendous one for me -- I'm reactive to nearly every major allergen and some cost saving measure or another means it ends up sneaking in.

Thankfully the world is becoming kinder to people like me, but it is a pretty penny for things off the store shelf that approach the comforts of yesteryear while I could have those things.

I hope that helps. I've fallen many times victim of the logical trap of wondering why in the world special provisions exist for a small part of the population until I have to be a part of that population (not by choice) to understand why. It's still hard for me for some of the provisions I don't understand, but having had my bacon saved by a few of them (metaphorically) in the past, I think helped me commit to needing to understand them.

I say this as someone who's gotten "food zoinked" far too many times to count. If I completely purge my stomach in a nearby bathroom I can make the next 3 days more mild, usually, but sometimes it's too late and the reaction has begun.

That's why we're so weirdly picky about it as a country. And I'm glad for it, I think it's truly worth the effort, and it's a thing I feel very positive and relieved about, in the climate today where so many people are left behind in other places. I truly believe it's a good thing.

Much love to you all and Merry Christmas <3 :))))))))))))))))
That would be great. I don’t think it can detect the contradiction, though.

It doesn’t have any logical model behind it.
The Holiday Season’s Wasted Billions
"You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."

And buying Twitter really put him in front of all of the people all of the time.
Bitwarden. I’ve been using them ever since Lastpass discontinued their free version. I simply made a text file export of all my pw’s on lastpass and imported them into Bitwarden. Just make sure you delete your text file!
New house built this year. No 220V in the garage (utility room is inside the house - I used to connect my charger there and run it to garage). However, I was able to easily add 220V, even as a first time DIYer.
Might as well throw ((( ))) around "they" because it's clearly gone far beyond any actual group in society, but instead some sort of masterful controller of things and social movements... the administrators of stanford don't control "wokeness"
The EMH doesn't say these things are impossible, it says you got lucky and won't be able to reproduce the same gains better than chance in the future.
The Democrats were absolutely massacred for passing it in 2010.

Even Massachusetts elected a Republican Senator!

Even now I don’t think the Democrats gain much from bringing it up,
Near me there are 2 or 3 cameras per checkout, plus additional cameras for the area.
I feel like "endangering the lives of other students" is an acceptable reason to suspend a student organization.

There's always an element of "don't get caught" with student orgs.
Merry Christmas kilroy <3
Lobsters hats are not the same as e.g. reddit flairs, but rather something to specifically turn on when speaking in its context: "A hat is a formal, verified, way of posting a comment while speaking for a project, organization, or company. Each user may have multiple hats, one of which may be selected to be worn when posting a comment or sending a private message."
Fair, I totally can believe it. I think between HN and some group chats I have all my “online socializing” covered though :)
This is awesome! I’ve done essentially the same thing but for Trilium, also using SvelteKit.
So when do rents and house prices go down?
Sadly, there was a real pilot on the plane - he was on his rest period when the incident started. He had come back to the cockpit and correctly diagnosed the issue, but was too late to save the plane.
I've heard this reflected the other way, too, in Conway's Law - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
True, it becomes noticeable at night as the winds become stronger and the fog denser.
Of course raw ingredients are cheaper but nobody eats raw ingredients?
TulliusCicero says >"College students are adults, why ... is the college managing what they do off campus at all? ... That Americans have become increasingly okay with colleges being surrogate parents for literal adults is just bizarre."<

Well, college students are mostly not adults. They are young, inexperienced and incompletely developed intellectually and emotionally. This is nothing new and colleges know much more about this than HN does.

It was the same way when I was in college and it will remain so as long as we have colleges. Colleges have always had to keep an eye on students and rein in problematic behavior.
I don't dispute that it's part of American culture, and I have no particular interest in denigrating others' interest in it. But I don't think this would muster taxpayer support, if actually put to a vote among taxpayers. I certainly wouldn't vote for it, nor would anybody I know, and yet my state is putting down $850m in taxpayer money for a new football stadium[1].

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/oct/05/buffalo-bills-...
That sounds like a fun party! Have they registered their meetings with themselves?

Jesus Christ. Kill it with fire before it spreads!
They'd probably still dry, it just may take more energy, depending on your dryer.

Funny enough my internal dryer can cause my clothes to be damp, as the exhaust runs to the attic instead of directly outside, and the moisture can come back into the dryer. (can be overcome by installing an active exhaust fan)
> If you call your variables a, b, c, then it will be impossible to search for instances of them using a simple text editor.

My friends, it’s time we all learn regex. You’ve heard it’s unknowable, but a simple \b on either side of your target search is your friend too! It just means “there isn’t an alphanumeric character next to me!” It wants to get to know you! If you can’t search for a variable named a, it wants to help!
That doesn’t explain why it still provides two answers (getting the number of letters right despite tokenization) and also doesn’t notice that they are contradictory.
And that’s a valid choice if that helps get your app up and running! I think the goal of the parent comment was to establish how making complex technologies simpler helps us deliver more
The number "88" can be. Norse mythology can be. A shaven head can be. Military boots can be. Lots of things can be, but you need look at the context. The entire point of a "dogwhistle" is that it looks innocent and that it can be easily confused as such, and this automatically means there are also plenty of innocent uses of such things. A "X is a dog-whistle for Y" assertion is meaningless.

Plus, "Vaguely right-wing" or even "extreme right-wing" is not identical to "Nazi".
How does one cite a blog in a publication? And how do you track it on Google scholar? Quite curious because this is the first time hearing about this - and as an academic it is quite interesting.

Any chance you have a link to Google scholar on the highest cited example?
Great! So you got all the alky's first!
But you still need a majority to acknowledge the report

> Slashing is triggered by the evidence of the offence being included in a beacon chain block. Once the evidence is confirmed by the network, the offending validator (or validators) is slashed.

It is a powerless mechanic if the majority of validates don’t want to play along.
Also slightly off-topic: I was wowed by the scope of His Dark Materials, and then was progressively disappointed by each subsequent installment.

Read the first volume and stop: he never again achieves the magisterial Armored Bears.

His angels, first conceived as cognizing architecture, devolve to petulant whiners by the end. It seems like he lost all interest after the first volume, but had contracted for a number of words to deliver, so did.
The whole Schedule business is pure propaganda.

The DEA regularly describes it as dangerousness: “Schedule I is the most dangerous!”

But it’s not dangerousness, it’s whether there is a medical use.

Marijuana didn’t have a medical use, because it’s not very powerful. It makes you feel dizzy and hungry. If it was a drug, spinning around in circles would he schedule I.

Heroin is powerful enough to be a legit pain killer, so it’s Schedule II.

This really is a case of reporters not doing their job.
We greatly (grossly?) underestimate the power of relying on external help, also. That's why ANY resource you can get a hold of is important.

In my dad's case he had many false starts toward quitting. He did, eventually, in 2017 but after 45 years the toll on his health was irreversible. I remember a conversation with his pulmonologist just a month or two before he was admitted to hospice: His general health was so deteriorated that he was no longer a candidate for any treatment—including lung transplant. Not that I think he would have gone along with it in the first place.

To underscore Gavan's point, one of my dad's extra duties when he was in the USAF (as an electrical engineer) was health and safety. He used to lecture, ironically, on the dangers of smoking. He knew what it would do, but addiction is powerful.

Thank you for sharing!
A professor has a personal assistant to handle email?
Your first thoughts on actually explaining things to the user being "How would it help to say, that the reason was their name? To make them feel bad because of who they are? They cannot do anything but to think that all this suffering is because of the name, which will be wrong." reads more like fear the user is a complete idiot who can not possibly comprehend things or take any useful action without engineers doing it for them than concern or reasoning about the issues and problems they are facing. Why wouldn't they be able to comprehend the issue is in the computer system not their person when told it is so? Why would they not be able to utilize this knowledge to seek faster resolution for themselves in the future? Why is a user being explained a problem suddenly a blocker for engineering culture being able to progress? Should we hide all information from a user because some IT person is too afraid to talk to users like they are intelligent people instead of a mindless husks which exclusively require engineers understand and resolve the problems they face in life?

Yes we should inform all users about how existing systems are failing them especially if it's reasonably likely to cause them further problems in the future and yes we can do that without telling them they themselves are the problem and dictating the way they need to live. All it requires is treating them like a person when you talk with them and you can be helpful instead of blatantly insulting. Hiding that information from them only serves engineers not the users.

This also has nothing to do with "cultural misunderstandings" in the first place. Null is by no means some foreign concept name to the stereotypical programmer nor are common names exempt from causing problems. My name is Daniel Smith, it's actually so common it causes many problems in computer systems which use first + initial last name (shortened) + number because they didn't plan on having that many numbers - not to mention lookup confusion. You're specifically seeking a debate on engineers not being culturally aware when it's not even at play or even a requirement in the general sense of the topic.
Probably $500-1000 if you hire an electrician. I did it myself fairly easily (largest cost is the copper wire if it's not a short run; GFCI breaker can also add a little cost if you have to have one - it's code in some states)
Does snow related theme seep down there as most of the largest economy are above the equator?
Web pages, blogs in eye of professor, are just exactly like your ancestors thinking that Native American are not human, so thier lands are open for grabs.
Lay-astronomer and budding neo-pagan here. Is it just coincidence that these two points are relatively close in the yearly orbit or are they related to physically?
Totally agree with this and one of the biggest problems i’ve dealt with at early stage startups is employees from a big companies that couldn’t deal with bypassing certain things like this.
If someone actually believes in democracy, they should try to get politicians to agree with the statement "cars should be more expensive to cover their externalities" on the record. In the US, almost every single one would dodge the question or outright disagree. Even the ones not running for re-election don't want to ruin their and their party's reputation.
I disagree strongly because I’ve made investments in the same industry I work in (biotech).

Despite having domain knowledge, there are too many factors still out of your control.

For example, the science could look great, big addressable market, then some safety issue pops up and the drug is pulled.

Or the government changes the rules.

Or the FDA does.

So while domain knowledge gives you a leg up, you go from 1/100 like an average Joe to like 5/100, in terms of accurately predicting outcomes.
I dont have 220 in the garage. Of course 220 is coming into the panel but there is no circuit breaker, wiring or outlet. In my experience this is common. 220 is only provided for washers, stoves, and HVAC. Can a 220 outlet be added, certainly, but it is not default.
Uber has been a publicly traded company for ~3 years and has a market cap of ~50B.

Doordash has been a publicly traded company for ~2 years and has a market cap of ~20B.

You really have a generous definition of "charade," as I think the public market valuations seem to imply there is some incredibly massive true value in these businesses.
My physics professor would get it wrong too. Something something the amount of work done is 0.
Needing proof certainly can be annoying habit, especially when it comes to matters of meaning and purpose which is what religion provides for a lot of people.

People find meaning and purpose in science too, but of course if you dig far enough you realize that that the proof problem is never really solved.

So, you gotta have faith wherever you turn. One of the reasons I've also become more open to spirituality as time has humbled me a bit.
Chaos Machine Learning
And I 110% disagree or my many and varied investments wouldn’t continue to far better than an index fund.

As another recent example I went hard into oil and gas via ETFs back in May. Why I did this is for various reasons but my conclusion was that demand would surge and supply was constrained. Almost a 2x and that’s in liquid positions. I have taken some profits but still gonna wait a bit.

According to EMH I shouldn’t be able to do this, yet here I am sitting on tons of gains.
Why do we need ChatGPT when I can tell you the fundamental truths of the universe right now? Fossil fuel bad, liberal good, conservative bad, vaccine good, Russia bad, Ukraine good
my diesel car had no big problems with -19°C

It depends on the formulation of your diesel. If you had a tank of "summer diesel" it would be gel at that temperature. Generally the supply chain starts changing the formulation as the weather gets colder and everything is good until you get to arctic temperatures. But if you fill up at a station that doesn't sell a lot of diesel and they still have summer diesel and its an early cold spell, or you are driving a vehicle you don't fill often, you can be in trouble. There are also additives you can add on your own if you know you have summer diesel.
Some software, such as gnu "parallels" requests peer review academics to cite use of their code, on an honour system. Sqlite is citable, if you search Google examples how are visible high in search return.
That's not a valid argument; it's just the kind of nice sounding chain of claims a biological LMM would regurgitate.