skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had mine actually replaced once, and then had a repair ticket for a second, but didn't end up sending it in for the reason you state here.

I wonder which group I'll fall into.
> I know people who made a good living being the layoff/callback dude for years.

That's hilariously inefficient. I would be mad if I were a shareholder in this business, but good for those employees in question who were savvy.
> only a small drop in shareholder value, for example, that could be considered a net win.

only the shareholders can decide if this is worth a drop. And i would imagine the majority of them would not accept a small drop like that.
The name isn't straightforward, is it? :) The project name "urllib3" is an unfortunate joke on "urllib" and "urllib2" in the standard library, since it's made to supersede both of those modules in functionality.

The original author of the package likely didn't know it'd grow to be the most downloaded package at the time!
Who's building these robo armies and maintaining the supply chain? All automated you say? Sorry, I think that's the pipe dream of privilege software engineers and armchair dystopians. In practice, there are too many opportunities for sabotage. Sure, post-singularity some Skynet scenario is possible, but to say that will happen in "a few decades" is a big bet I'll happily take the other side of.
That sounds like a huge fuckup on the government authorities that made this decision. Such mandates should give at least 5 years notice for owners to have time to upgrade their apartments.
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Maybe not an appropriate question, but after searching the comments couldn't find someone asking something similar.

If I made my blog GPL licensed would this be a decent way of "protecting" myself? I write programming articles for the sake of it, I'm not trying to turn them into a book to sell just basically collecting my thoughts. I don't even run analytics on it, basically no will to sell this info at all.

Would such an action be a good way to prevent companies from monetizing my writing without complying with GPL?
It will do ASCII art, kind of.

“Draw the moon in ascii art”:

> Here is an ASCII art moon:

> ,#####,

> #_ _#

> |a a|

> | u |

> \ = /

> |_/|

> ) )) )

> / / \ \

> /... _/ ..._/ ...

> () () (_____)

> I hope this helps! Is there anything else I can do for you?
You're reading too quickly and inferred the wrong meaning of "labor" here. The meaning here is "give birth to a child" not "engage in work" so the 13th amendment is completely irrelevant.

Edit: It didn't help that "including" was probably an autocorrect from "inducing"
There are over two jobs open for every layoff.

People haven’t realized how crazy the labor market is about to get with a collapsing workforce population over the next many decades.
> Silicone Valley

I think Silicone Valley is, uh, another type of valley.
More like "Linux systems under attack from newly-found WordPress trojan"
Not as part of ChatGPT, you need to write/use a tool that takes a test and a prompt and re-runs the prompt until the output passes the test.
Work laptops do/can.
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But random.shuffle also operates in place despite being a free function
GPT-4 (still not released) is supposed to be multimodal (text, images, audio, video)
Another thing that makes calculus hard to teach today (and not unrelated to the points being made) is that while a couple generations ago, every calculus student also took calc-based physics, that is no longer true today. With the way we compartmentalize teaching today, it's hard not to teach entry-level math abstractly, and that's only going to work for a small subset of students.
The best productivity hack is to get a keyboard with programmable QMK firmware and remap the keys however/wherever you want.
I think what author is saying is that Rust won't let you have any type-specific behaviors in generic code, on principle. Generic Rust code is meant to rely only on the trait bounds, and nothing else. The compiler will eventually know concrete types, but it won't let you depend on that.

This is in contrast with Rust macros and C++ templates where the template code can perform operations that work only on some concrete types and not others, without declaring that upfront with trait bounds.

In other words, Rust's generic code is type-checked at the definition time (while the type T is still a truly abstract concept), rather than type-checked at use/instantiation/monomorphisation time when the type T can be substituted for something specific.
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I created a website to analyze chess games. By connecting your Chess.com/Lichess account you can access all kind of statistics related to your chess games. You can even link more than one account.
It happens everywhere. It's all information, and it's all communication if it's moving from one body to another (whether that is their stated intent or not). The medium is the message [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message] —if you pay attention you can understand what is being communicated above the "raw data".

You're not required to follow suit.

That said, a bit of attention paid to colour contrast in the text content makes me believe you want me to read the words, at least. :)

It might be worth asking the question: what exactly are they trying to communicate with such a forceful utilitarianism and then plan your own actions accordingly.
Yeah, I hear that. "As an adult" indeed, I think it's more a function of youth/age, than of location.

There are older people who still have this social circle. Some artists, for instance.

Sometimes I think that _I_ must not be as interesting as I used to be, or maybe I'd get invited to those parties!
I assumed that Mein Kampf was commonly read in high school at schools with a strong great books program. Is that not the case in the US?
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I’d prompt the AI to write the unit tests too. I know what the corner cases are. It doesn’t (yet).
>And he didn't even harm anybody else.

This ignores that he broke the law. Being punished for breaking the law isn't a revolutionary idea.
My girlfriend volunteered with a program that supplies books to children and teenagers in juvenile prisons. As you might expect, those facilities tended to take a very paternalistic attitude. In general, young adult literature dealing with drugs, crime and gangs was not permitted. In other words, inmates were not allowed to read books reflecting their own life experiences. Often it was single administrator in charge of banning books and that person would operate without any formal policy. It was difficult to appeal individual bans, because that administrator usually also had the power to ban the program from the prison entirely and didn't respond well to people questioning their decisions.
I agree that GPT modernization consulting and such bullshit will emerge. It always does. That's neither here nor there though. It's just noise.

Re: Tesla autopilot. I think this is the more serious. Obviously I'm speculating. It is definitely possible that GPT is one more example of AI doing cool tricks, and convincing us that is it farther advanced than it is.

That said, I don't think this is another Tesla autopilot for two reasons.

Reason one is robotics. Autopilot is robotics and robotics sucks. It's incredibly difficult, frustratingly physical and painfully hard to do the last 20%. The economics is even worse. It's very rare that robotics finds the unit volume necessary to achieve realistic prices. When version 1 is a $10 million dollar replacement for a $50k employee, there's rarely a version 2. It's just very hard to move the ball forward in robotics.

Reason two is that GPT is a solution looking for problems. It's more general. Autopilot has one job: drive the car and do the robotaxi thing. There are few stepping stones. Mistakes can kill people and kill Tesla. It either does the job or doesn't, Elonmagic notwithstanding.

GPT just needs to do something useful, not any particular thing. It can be used in low stakes applications. It can be bolted on to stuff for shots and giggle. Marginal costs are already zero. Basically, it's software. Software spreads faster and easier.
The list is cool and full of interesting things. But as someone who has done OSINT a lot for journalism and legal investigations and built tools for the space I can say that people rely most on custom internal tools or the simplest/ most popular tooling among the community!
Same reason hammer manufacturers don't put weird stuff on hammers. It's designed to do a task. Every animation, every extra menu level, every loading spinner, is a loss in productivity. Readability, discoverability, and other first-day concerns are completely gone after the first day of use, then it's 100% waste.
So I should die because those billionaires are in a dick measuring contest?

The war in ukraine is a proxy war between nato and direct for russia. Some random Vlad and Boris have had nothing to do with it, didn't start it but now have to die, so that elenski, ursula, macron and biden on one side and putin, xi, whoever the iranian leader is on the other side measure their dicks.

Sorry, but not sorry, fuck them.

If they want to start wars.. sure, but if more people were like me and not like you (who I guess is also not in a battlefield but being a smartass behind a keyboard), the battlefields would be empty, and the only way for a battle to be won would be with putin riding a bear, biden in an old peugeot and biden eating icecream.

You are free to die for whatever you deem necessary... I don't need to die for politics and want a way out, even if that means leaving everything behind and going away.
Did you just see what happened with Covid? The government, the same one who liberals thought was horribly oppressive for decades, restricted people’s ability to move, work, and regulate their own bodies and the people cheered. In some highly “advanced” countries like Australia they arrested you for leaving a small zone around your house, arrested you for leaving your home after certain hours, and arrested people who dissented in online comments. This was all applauded by the masses.

All you have to do is use the media to invent something more scary than you, and then present yourself as the solution as long as the people do what you say. If this was a parent everyone would say they’re abusive, but as a government they’re leaders of science. It’s likely a reflection of the state of our collective parenting.

This is the result of a decades long campaign by vested forces to demoralize the public by reducing the value of the family, and reducing the value of national identity until no one feels any allegiance to anyone but the state. Today, people will rat out their family to the state immediately. This is not how a strong society operates. The state should be afraid of the people, not vice versa.
Databend is one of a few DBMS modeled directly after ClickHouse.

It currently does not approach a similar performance [1], and the RRIR motivation is dubious [2].

[1] https://benchmark.clickhouse.com/
[2] https://clickhouse.com/blog/more-than-2x-faster-hashing-in-c...
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Sure.

I don't just offer to have a call when someone says "Hey I need help"

My approach is to have them write out the issue in text, and say what they've tried.
Then I judge the urgency and if it's a barn burner I get on a call immediately. If it's a Junior blocked on something that I think they can solve I will tell them we can have a call in a half hour or something and very often they do solve it on their own.

Essentially I use the async communication methods as the gatekeeper to prioritize the incoming requests for my time, but when I do give people my time it's on a call so I can give them my full attention.
There are, but the people aren't necessarily where the jobs are. I've got positions in Huntsville, AL that aren't remote-capable, and we cannot get people to even apply.
I love the comments here, especially the ones where people run with the obvious satire and try the idea on for size. The 'nerd-sniping' ratio for this article must be one of the highest I've seen on HN.

https://xkcd.com/356/
No, they offered me Experian monitoring:

> You filed a claim in the Equifax Data Breach Settlement and chose to receive free, three-bureau (Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion) credit monitoring from Experian for four years.
We have plenty of studies about this from body building. What you eat is orders of magnitude more important than when you eat. So while you can measure effects of timing and they are real, they are insignificant to most but the top competition level where 1% can make a difference.
Also, that's not exactly an image, it's a diagram, and there's software that allows to define a diagram with a Markdown style language and render it, maybe it's using something like that
10% is about the number you can layoff without causing a route.
Because it is and has always been intransparent about earnings structure (e.g. what percentage of money of a Tidelift subscription is paid out to maintainers), and thus has never achieved critical mass among maintainers.

It also seems like they have mostly pivoted away towards software supply-chain analytics.
The word "suburbs" describes a different pattern of development from small towns. Small towns can exist as service hubs in rural areas. Suburbs form around cities to allow people to commute to jobs in those cities.
And Ctrl+Alt+F[n] to virtual terminals.

I only mention this because it reminded me of one of my old laptops where Ctrl+Alt+F{1,3,5,7,9} worked, but Ctrl+Alt+F{2,4,6,8,0} didn’t, or the other way round, due to a bad keyboard matrix. That was inconvenient, because I was deliberately using three distinct X sessions at that time (personal, work, and I forget what the third was). For some reason that quite escapes me now, instead of just using every second virtual terminal, I instead added Ctrl+Alt+{1–9} mappings inside i3 to chvt {1–9}. I still occasionally have cause to pull out a second one, though mostly I use workspaces within the one session.
What an odd coincidence. I was just telling someone about this two days ago.

Barbara Walters did an interview with a man that's deaf-blind and uses Tadoma with her. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PmKKfpmifg&t=295s

The interview itself is dated and we've moved beyond a lot of the "doomsday" description of deafness and blindness (and deaf-blindness), but it's still interesting. And Walters herself credits the man as being one of the most inspiring and memorable interviewees she's ever had.
> Although it seems like a real contract would fix most of the issues without unions.

It’s hard to disentangle these, unions are effectively the only way for non-executive[0] employees (in the US) to get an employment contract that isn’t one-sided in favor of the employer. The primary function of a union is to obtain a contract.

[0] I highly recommend reading the “Executive Severance Plan” section of any publicly traded tech company’s SEC filings, they are fascinating.
I have been watching this space since Skip Thought Vectors in 2015. No. No one in 2018 suspected that large language models would smoothly scale up by simply increasing the number of parameters.
There is no clear and obvious path from Attention is All you Need to InstructGPT, which just came out last February without hindsight.

Point at a single person, let alone
"everyone" who predicted we would have AI-based coding assistance and be integrating this technology into a search engine by 2023. Anyone at all. I'd love to read a paper or even a blog post from 2018 predicting half the things that work now. ! You can't.

I've seen some hardcore goalpost moving before, but nothing as obviously provably wrong as "we're basically exactly where everyone predicted we'd be back in 2018."

Is this on the path to AGI? I doubt it. You need some sort of actor-critic component likely, though the RLHF stuff is working way better than it has any right to and already is far more agentic than the pure dumb language model of a year ago.
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A gigasandwich will never be released due to yield requirements. I don’t think occlusions can be handled with variable depth in a convincing way.
Yeah that's what breaks my heart. It's gratuitously meaningless language designed to soften the human blow even though everyone who doesn't rely on Salesforce employment for a paycheck ends up benefiting. So there's no check on over-hiring and then dumping once convenient.
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> It was a little stressful but I had a breakthrough and afterwards I found that I stopped compulsively reliving embarrassing/painful memories.

I'm really happy that you got something positive out of them

My issue with psychedelics in general is that one experience was able to accomplish significant changes. People make this sound like a good thing, but for most people that's way too much. The number of beneficiaries isn't enough to offset the number of casualties

Some people will read this description I've written here and think "this is exactly what I need". Those are the last people who should be doing them. Making them available for "therapeutic use" just fast tracks access to people who are doing them for the wrong reasons

> What were your experiences like? Ive seen people do more and more drugs and fry their brain before but it never seemed like mushrooms were a big part of that.

I had one trip where I saw a sign that I should stop (in hindsight it was likely a coincidence, but it scared the shit out of me)

I had a close friend who I introduced to them (because at the time I thought they were "good for people"). He dropped out of college and has been between jobs ever since. He still does them and is completely obsessed
https://stackoverflow.com/a/63233379/204381

urllib2 was a standard library replacement for urllib in Python 2. Python 3 further replaced this with a new base urllib. urllib3 is a completely separate, unofficial, alternative library.
No, I quite literally don't work for my union. They don't sign my check, hire or fire me, manage my day-to-day work, or do anything else that constitutes employment.
I was hoping for Magic the Gathering
Yes of course, but there's value in this approach for everyone. Look at Linux for example, there's a real benefit for various orgs in creating and funding a foundation to further the kernel project. It's not that I think these libraries should get something like a fair market value for their product, just a rather small (for a multibillion corp) donation plan. It's worth it for the PR / virtue signalling alone.
Relatedly: is there software / database designs recommended for managing osint facts?
(See what I mean?)
Sorry I got my memories mixed up. The 46°C record was in 2019 (near Nîmes, south of France, where I go regularly on holiday). This year we’ve had the usual 40°C, just in 3 waves from mid-June to mid-August instead of the usual August hot week. The water was at 30°C, though, which was unheard of. We’ve also had a lot of wildfires, even more so than usual, although they were less catastrophic than those near the Atlantic.

They did break records on the Atlantic side, with 43°C near Bordeaux and 40°C in Brittany (!)

> Winters did get warmer, and I don't see how that's a bad thing.

It is terrible for several reasons, for example:

- the plant’s cycles are out of whack, with flowers in January that are then destroyed by frost in March

- pests and parasites are not killed by the frost in the winter, which leads to a whole bunch of them in both spring and summer. Look at what this is doing to forests in California.

And that’s considering only local effects. Ecosystems are getting destroyed in real time in the mountains and in the Arctic, where the ground is not permanently frozen anymore, leading to all sorts of fun things (landslides, methane release, wildfires).

There are absolutely no upsides near the Mediterranean, where it never was particularly cold in the first place.
That the 13th amendment doesn’t extend abolition to prisoners doesn’t necessarily mean that no other rule or law could extend abolition to prisoners.
And much lower wages, no?
That’s the thing, with this labor market businesses might start opening new locations or moving. I see that happening with hardware startups.
Confirmed it was Experian:

> You filed a claim in the Equifax Data Breach Settlement and chose to receive free, three-bureau (Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion) credit monitoring from Experian for four years.
I pulled out my old laptop to get the serial number off of it for this, and man it's almost unbelievable how terrible that thing was.

The newer macbooks aren't perfect (I really wish they had USB ports), but they're a lot better than that one.
Any recommendations for (Rails-oriented) tutorials that are current (e.g. Rails 7/Ruby 3).

Haven't touched either since like Ruby 1.8/Rails 3
It would be good to see more large companies making these sorts of donations. It's not like Spotify is unique in its usage of Urllib.

That would be nice, but I think it would be even better if these companies allowed their employees to contribute. And were open about their policies.

Maybe there should be a ranking site where employees can report anonymously about company policies. And companies can respond with their official policies.

The ranking could be something like this

0 - can't contribute at all

1 - can contribute in spare time with approval

2 - can contribute in spare time without approval

3 - can contribute on company time with approval

4- can contribute on company time without approval.
> Surely some MBA people can turn this around.

Surely some MBA people are the ones driving currently, so you're probably not wrong, but you and I might share different outlooks on anything turning around.
I believe we're expected to be grateful that there was any donation at all.
Incomes are generally lower, but EU residents generally have a higher standard of living than US residents according to Human Development Indexes. Life expectancy is also better, infant and maternal mortality are lower, test scores are higher, etc.

This is because of the prevalence of socialism, which came about because labor broadly won in Europe. I think Europe's example makes the benefits of unions clear.
It was a question back in 2012. Today nobody has any doubts anymore.
Could be a harbinger of whats to come. Reminds me of this Sequoia graphic.

https://twitter.com/PanchalBrinda/status/852947043576426500/....
I am so terrified of the advancements in AI that I've been having trouble sleeping & focusing on work.
What I like about Hubspot is it doesn't try to eat half your org. Salesforce is the ERP of the product world.
Are you not familiar with the Screen Actor's Guild?
Interesting. Are cards banned from jails and prisons?
All the things you mentioned are what I mean by the forces that corrupt work. Yes we should be paid for our work, within reason. And we should get to do things that are inherently useful to others. But if you're doing something that's useless to society and your employer is exploiting that work then you're experiencing corrupted work. Not that it is easy to find in the world, but I am of the opinion that the core essence of work is making order out of disorder. You can do that by building pacemakers or tilling fields. There will always be things that corrupt work, unfortunately. But work, unadulterated, is a good thing. I'd be willing to bet that you have something you like do do that can be characterized as making order out of disorder, even if it's not at your job. That is work and it is good.
The pixel per degree of the Quest Pro isn't uniform. The peak ppd is 22. PPD for headsets typically refers to the peak ppd and not the average. The 49 ppd figure for the nreal air is a peak ppd measurement.