skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Luck is an excuse.

One can choose to try a lot of different things, and another will choose to have a single few shots.
One can choose to accept the “truth”, and the other will refuse to do so.

We get feedback from the world, and we choose how to analyze it and interact with it.

It’s easy to be fooled by the fact that we have only one choice. Or that the feedback reflects the absolute truth.
Funny timing - I just switched all my email newsletter subscriptions that I used to read on Gmail Web to Inoreader.

The reason was fairly simple - I wanted a better way to organize my newsletters and make it feel more “reading list” like than “task list” like. On email, unopened newsletters always felt like tasks.
At its peak Tesla was valued more then the worlds nine largest car companies combined. This high stock price was mostly driven by retail investors. It became a kind of meme stock like GME or cryptocurrencies, whose value was not based on economic prediction but mostly hype and stories. A large part of institutional investors actually did bet against the stock. Tesla profited from that high valuation by selling extra stock to build up a nice cash buffer, this diluted the holdings of investors. Also Mr. Musk has sold some of his stock into the market. But more importantly the retail investor hype has died down now when people have to be more careful with their money because general economic outlook has tightened and stimulus checks have stopped. I think the Tesla stock price coming down to a more realistic level is actually a healthy thing for the company and the market in general.
Meta i think reported the first period without user growth. The stock was still valued with an expectation of continued growth, so people now realized that their might be an end to that soon.
The venue is privately owned, how is it public?
And if you can't get the budget have that decision in writing.
"Luck favours the prepared mind" - Louis Pasteur
A snippet of my conversation about cobalt mining in the DRC with joerogan
Hardly, the culture wars have been hitting in both directions for decades. The extreme right has been less successful at growing huge online companies, but giant companies can’t afford to kick off 1/2 their customers.

It’s really smaller website that can kick people off without consequences.
For me the biggest selling point of RSS is never having to rescan over feed items I've already read, or decided to skip, to find the new stuff. Another big one is that there's an end to the list. Neither of those are a huge deal for low-volume feeds but for HN and Reddit, they're priceless to me.
some previous discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34066965
Custom Memory Arenas/Allocators in Golang
If everything being luck-based is generally acknowledged, I wonder if that generally leads to nihilism since there isn’t anything that could be done.
Also I find this YT channel very helpful, the video about substractive synthesis is probably a good starting point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfJ9Dbjz6cs
Congratulations!

>>[...] now I'm "responsible", of the cybersecurity of a 30 people startup/scale-up, on top of actually building/maintaining features.

>>[...] we're going to raise more money soon, but for now I'm +/- the only guy with cybersecurity experience.

>>We have huge clients, a big leak/hack would be [...] disastrous for a lot of people.

You've just outlined the business justification for you to be the defacto interim full-time CSO and drop/transition feature development duties "until the next round is raised, Soon (TM)". Have this (potentially difficult) conversation with your CEO today to help set up both yourself and the company for success, not failure.
They pay for it by spending the money - which induces higher production, higher sales - and higher taxes without ever changing the tax percentage.

There isn't a fixed amount of stuff, nor a fixed amount of money. Otherwise turnover, ie GDP, would never rise.

Don't get your stocks and flows mixed up.
As someone who has used RSS since NetNewsWire looked like this…

https://ranchero.com/images/nnw2/nnwtoolbarhidden.png

…get off my lawn, kids.

And then let grandpa here hitch up his britches even higher: people still lament the end of Google Reader for a reason.

In retrospect, it was the least toxic social network. You added your friends, their recommendations bubbled up in the interface, so you saw cool new stuff. Was that perfect? Of course not—you were still in a filter bubble, and what bleeds, leads. But, it surfaced interesting stories, it let you follow news sources you wanted to see, and it did so without the screaming madness of Twitter and Facebook.
You're an investor of time, so the following quote applies:

The lesson for investors, Buffett says, is that you don't have to swing at every pitch.

"The trick in investing is just to sit there and watch pitch after pitch go by and wait for the one right in your sweet spot. And if people are yelling, 'Swing, you bum!,' ignore them."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2017/02/02/war...
China Downgraded Covid from 'Devil' Virus to a Common Cold
When “digital nomad influencers” say it’s easy, they are mostly referring to selling the idea that it’s easy.
If technology was at the service of the individual rather than the other way aroud, RSS would have been a centerpiece of our information universe, with something like ActivityPub the path to enhance information exchange in a bidirectional way when that is applicable...
maybe try some embedded development, like raspberry, light up some leds. Embedded development is fun, educational and one of the last bastions of programming where C makes sense.
Scam or not is determined by whether or not you deliver what was promised, not by how much you raise. I'm not sure why you bring it up at all.

A project that raises $100 can be a scam if it doesn't deliver. A project that raises $42 million can not be a scam, if it does deliver.

If Sanderson provides products that many people value at a collective $42 million+, why should I not be fine with those people giving him that much money? It's their money, they can spend it how they like.
Sure, but there's a fundamental difference.

Asking Google is like asking a well-informed and well-intentioned colleague at work - there's a presumption of correctness, but you're still going to verify the answer if it's anything you're depending on.

Asking ChatGPT is like asking a question from an inveterate bullshitter who literally can't tell the difference between truth and lies and doesn't care anyway. They'll answer anything and try to convince you its the truth.

This difference isn't just due to the immaturity of ChatGPT - it's fundamental to what they are. Google is trying to "put the world's information at your fingertips" using techniques like PageRank to attempt to provide authoritative/useful answers as well as using NLP to understand what you are looking for and provide human curated answers.

ChatGPT is at the end of the day a language model - predict next word, finetuned via RL to generate chat responses that humans like. i.e. it's fundamentally a bullshitting technology. ChatGPT has no care or consideration about whether it's responses are factually correct - it's just concerned about generating a fluid stream of consciousness (i.e. language model output) response to whatever you prompted it with.

ChatGPT is impressive, and useful to the extent you can use it as a "brain storming" tool to throw out responses (good, bad and ugly) that you can follow up on, but it's a million miles from being any kind of Oracle or well-intentioned search engine whose output anyone should trust. Even on the most basic of questions I've seen it generate multiple different incorrect answers depending on how the question is phrased. The fundamental shortcoming of ChatGPT is that it is nothing more than the LLM we know it to be. In a way the human-alignment RL training it has been finetuned with is unfortunate since it gives it a sham veneer of intelligence with nothing to back it up.
https://archive.vn/oSfA4
That kind of cynicism is also a seedbed of authoritarianism, ironically.

It's rocket fuel for demagogues, who swoop in and exploit it and turbocharge it even more (see Trump). They say the old system isn't working, they promise to disrupt it. The old rules aren't working anymore, give me all the power, I alone can fix it.
At that point, why even use Java?
Did you just comment on the wrong article?
My point was that while the actual weather event has presumably been happening for all of human history, it is only in the last decade or so that the term "bomb" has been applied to it, which I conclude is solely for clickbait reasons.

here is some evidence:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=bomb+cyclone&y...
The ads themselves may or may not be useful but the service that's showing you them is probably useful to you, else why are you using it? The company who paid for the ad gets "use" out of showing you the ad, the service gets money from that, and you get a useful service in exchange.

I don't really like ads either but would you really be okay with paying out of pocket to remove every ad you see?
So how is daisyui different from bootstrap?
You are right but calling this 'obfuscate and save face' is a pretty uncharitable take. "let's take this offline" is just a polite jargon for 'this is off-topic or inappropriate for this venue'.

I generally find hacker news interpretation of business jargon as uncharitable and unnessarily hostile. Not sure why such an innoccous expression like 'circle-back' sends people into fits of rage. There is good reason to be circumspect about heavy project-management overhead as its often misapllied, but that really has nothing to do with this jargon.
Ah, you mean those influencers that make money through talking about how they make money? That only works for them as - not the most perfect analogy but it does the job - the top of the pyramid.
Yes… and upon reading the post, I think that’s a very unfair characterization of the author’s app. This is a highly targeted niche convenience app. The activity is controversial, so is skill-based matchmaking in multiplayer games or CG in anime. That doesn’t mean the author is some heartless knob out to destroy society one watch app at a time!
>Metacognitive Therapy. Effectively, when dealing with persistent unwanted thoughts, it teaches you to let them pass without judgement / evoking response, and to divert your attention elsewhere. I find that this complements CBT well if one has already done the work of recognizing that some thoughts are unrealistic distortions. Proponents of MCT seem to bash CBT needlessly; they needn't be mutually exclusive, and at any rate, evidence suggests that CBT is generally effective (and there's a much larger body of it than for MCT).

Thanks for the explainer; I feel like I've heard of this modality before but not by name.

>The other problem is, as with personal trainers, whether you'll have a good one is a roll of the dice.

True, though at least there are some measure of professional standards in therapy that act as a heuristic - I don't know the situation in the States, but the 'standard' PT certification in Canada, the CanFitPro, has no educational requirement and can be achieved over a weekend in which you watch some videos, do a workshop, and write an hourlong exam. But yeah, as you said, intrinsic motivation is necessary.
ChatGPT.
Inferences which cost a dollar today cost a dime next year.
> It's time to head back to RSS.

Some of us never left.
If you have a billion dollar company there are better sources of entertainment than binge watching tv.
I would assume half literate serfs are watching the most tv.
Any recommendations for an RSS reader?
Why wouldn't you use C++?
Are you trolling? It's just a toy for messing around, it's not that serious
Business model!
The dotted line is false for the variable. If you have an outstanding trade, puzzle is you have to sell on the last day. So, false for that day would not be allowed if you have an open buy, right?
Not a problem for a startup surely, they have debts not wealth.
Absolutely, and this explains largely why most of the massively successful startups we all know comes from the Nordics and not from places with poor social security like the USA
Identical twins raised separately in the US and Korea have IQ differences
I worked for a few years at Audible as a dev. Based on my experience, I'd say the culture at the company was good, in that we were not trying to exploit people, neither externally nor internally.

One thing that was pretty clear was that our audiobooks were at the mercy of publishing houses / content owners, and a lot of restrictions came from licensing deals (geographic reastrictions, time-based, formats, etc), so I'm inclined to assume that the low cut for authors may be due to publishers wanting a big cut of the sales.

That said, there was a floor which we were not allowed on, and I believe that was the sales floor, so there could have been a whole other side to this company that I was not exposed to.
Or this Chinese example

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/09/08/professor-sus...
> Even the relatively lax enforcement of anti-competitive laws we do have is likely to prevent that particular scenario.

Maybe in the US, but in Canada and elsewhere, anti-competitive behaviour is basically seen as a national policy objective.

“Strong & powerful industry is good for you” (as they no longer even need to collude to raise prices and reduce competition for labour).
I've seen a video showing something like this, of a shop clerk refusing service to a customer because he had a maga hat (or some other sort of trump paraphernalia, I don't recall exactly.)

As far as I know, that was legal. But the clerk did lose his job when his boss found out.
I don't think I've ever seen anybody call it a "dialogue box". Feels like at this point, along with "disk", "dialog" is a separate word with a separate (but not unrelated) meaning.
From the top of my head: laziness, marketing...
It’s a very old banner, I didn’t mean for it to be patronizing, just to mock the absurd cookie law which had just passed.

I’m trying to go cookieless, actually, I hope to finish someday, Google Analytics was removed already. I’ll need to ask for explicit authorization for disqus commenting only.
Beyond everything else, I think that the Twitter thing has _really_ damaged Musk’s public image. Before Twitter, a pretty common mainstream view of Musk was that he was an, albeit eccentric, magical genius. The signs of trouble were there, of course, but the general public gravitated towards the Tony Stark interpretation.

That has now changed _dramatically_. Very few people now think of Musk as being a magical genius.
Luck doesn't mean you didn't work hard. It's just that intangible that explains why 2 people can work and hustle the same amount and have differences in results.
Rights are different than acceptable social behavior.

Even if they are well within their rights, this is not acceptable behavior, and they should be boycotted for it.

It's not force to choose not to associate with a business you don't like.
> In a case like this, private property rights are probably more important. It is an entertainment venue, there are plenty of alternatives out there, and entertainment is not necessary for society.

In principle I see where you're coming from. Nevertheless I disagree in this case.

While a property owner should have the right to say who can or cannot use his property I think this becomes a lot more fuzzy when you own a venue, which runs performances open to the public.

You can absolutely stipulate conditions upon ticket sales like accepted behavior or actions that a ticket buyer is prohibited from doing (no recordings or no smuggling of your own booze come to mind).

I think it's a hell of a lot more sticky if you exclude visitors based on totally arbitrary factors, which I think happened here.

If you provide a service, which is generally open to the public, this should come with the obligations not to exclude patrons for capricious or even frivolous reasons.
The main problem I found with RSS in these days is the lack of access to they. I want access the RSS of NYT, where I find it? I want X blog, where? After the web migrated from RSS to paywalls, I have no option to just choice some news webs/blogs and focus on that.
How a 100-Year-Old Animated Film Is Restored
I recall a talk at passwordcon by Per Thorsheim where he pointed out that not only does the password: "Password2022" meet most "strict" criteria (three different character classes, longer than eight characters) - and -it's amenable to yearly demands for changing (increase the year) - but in large organizations you're actually very likely to find a user or two with this password (as seen in audits that ran simple brute force against the user directory).

PS: in the rare case it's not "secure" enough, add an exclamation point: "Password2022!"
Maintainer of the list here. Thanks for mentioning it.
I have not heard of Microsoft's analyze. Could you paste a link here? I will add it to the list, then. Alternatively you could send a pull request to the repository. ;)
https://github.com/analysis-tools-dev/static-analysis
you should have associated yourself with other people rather than going solo all this time.
Simple and powerful. Gotta love it (until your customer doesn't, big-time).
Reader: https://readwise.io/read
Do you need GPT-3 for this? Maybe semantic search of your docs would have been more effective at finding real answers?

I also wonder how many people that are trying to make effective products out of this stuff are fronting it with a more rigid approach (like the intent/entity/slot approach of Rasa/dialogflow) and then leverage gpt-3 or chatgpt in specific/partial sub trees of the dialog.
If the system asks for the old password before allowing the user to enter a new password, it could then simply save the old password in plaintext, so that the saved password can be used for similarity checks in the future. In the same way, the system could easily store e.g. 10 previous passwords in plaintext.
pypi delivers wheel files for pre-built binaries, and that's the only way one is supposed to distribute pre-built binary executables or shared libraries. the issue of "runs malicious code in setup.py" does not apply in that case because setup.py isn't invoked.
I feel it is misleading to call d2 "an open-source alternative", when it is developed to support proprietary rendering engine, the diagram examples given in documentation were rendered by that engine and the reason given is that the free alternative is inferiour.
You are describing technical vocabulary, not jargon.

Jargon has a slightly pejorative sense, just like in the article.

The article does not say, "Do not use the correct words for your discipline." It says, "Do not use meaningless words or overdramatize."
Uh, have you heard of open source software?

The world is full of software that people built because it’s interesting and/or useful. Linux for example was created as a hobby project during college.

People love to create. Just because YOU wouldn’t touch software doesn’t mean it’s true for everyone.
I can't even read the full article without subscribing so I wasn't surprised. But I found this list of feeds https://www.wired.com/about/rss-feeds/. I think there's some value in just getting the headlines but I'm sure HN already catches the worthwhile ones from Wired.

There's another RSS related post on the front page without a paywall https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34105572
Newsletters and RSS feeds are not the same thing. If I send a newsletter to a list of subscribers then, as long as their email server receives the email, they can retrieve it and read it whenever they want. But most importantly, if I don't set up an archive of all the newsletters, then only the people who subscribed will ever be able to read it.

On the other hand it's impossible to achieve the same level of one-timeness with RSS. You either publish the feed for a limited amount of time (and the subscribers have to get lucky and synchronize their feeds during this time window), or you publish the feed indefinitely (which maybe you wouldn't want to do)
Is that necessarily true? Is it not possible to use the extra information you have with hindsight to construct correct causal narratives and simultaneously also not be able to use such techniques to predict the future because you wouldn't have the requisite information?
But then we have to raise our kids in this culture and explain to them why just because it’s okay for their American friend doesn’t mean it’s okay for them. It’s frustrating for us.
I like The Old Reader: https://theoldreader.com/

It's largely a reimplementation of the Google Reader experience.
LexGrep Grep through all of Lex Fridman podcasts
I built LexGrep as a way to see how quickly I can prototype a working ML based project using the APIs which are widely available and hosted online.

- I first started with whisper to generate the transcript but eventually found a dump online where someone did the same thing :V (first step done)

- Next I tried speaker diarisation which is really easy to do in this scenario (as there are mostly 2 speakers at any time) and I could see Lex saying "welcome to my podcast" in almost all of his podcasts which made annotating the transcript easier.

- After this, its the usual create mini embeddings from a single podcast (I used OpenAI's text-embedding-ada-002) to generate the embeddings. I had to model the text in a specific way "This is a transcript between Lex Fridman and John Carmack.." (this adds the context for the conversation and helps powers query like: What did John Carmack think about {blah}) as the embeddings from the podcast with John Carmack will be closer than say some other podcast.

- Pinecone DB provided a free tier for doing cosine similarity of the generated embeddings which worked out perfectly for my use-case and I could generate with a high enough accuracy the related embeddings from the transcript.

- The final piece here is using davinci-text-003 which takes in the transcript and context and after a bit of prompt engineering (more like getting the LLM to give me the right thing and also say "no" when it can't), I have a working end to end search.

Its really exciting how this all comes together and the APIs allowed me (someone who has been a systems engineer for so so long) try out Machine Learning and quickly see it being beneficial and also fun.
That's... illuminating. Really. It's a sad take, but could completely be true.

It's not "I am a engineer, thus I deserve to have more", it's "I deserve more, what part of my life can I use to say this?".
I think it’s cultural. The US places a lot of value on striving out and doing new things. It’s a frontier culture. Older cultures tend to be more conservative.

You can see this effect inside the US. The most “business friendly” states often do not lead in entrepreneurship because they’re culturally more conservative.
thanks, ive put my secondary email there
Be humble grandpa! There were people who used to use Google Reader without any of its social network shenanigans. And of course, there were people who have been using RSS readers before Google Reader was even born. But, no RSS reader has ever reached the ceiling of common usage, which is not a bad deal.
> ...the researchers note that the sister raised in the US had suffered three previous concussions...
Google killing of Reader was the symbolic point where the business plan of the internet moved from "Let's sell stuff to users!" to "Let's sell users to advertisers!".
That is the most useless poker app that I've ever seen.

1) with the modern GTO strategies push/fold starts around 10BB. with 12 BB you need some range for min-raise

2) it's not realistic that everyone on the table has the same stack(f.e. 10BB).

3) the push/fold strategy on the bubble and on the FT significantly differs from a pure EV strategy.

It's insane that someone actually paid for this BS.