skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting paper. Nice to see things laid out ba, and examined in data. Seems like this would have a lot of important implications.

It seems like their basic framework (ironically) could be extended to include other things, like incentives (eg for apparent production of "ideas").

One thing about these models is that they don't necessarily get into why things start to be imitated. It seems like the ability to imitate would be related to the spread of the ideas? That is, even if there's a valid idea if the imitators can't or won't imitate it, it won't be imitated. I guess it speaks to whether ideas have value outside of the social milleu they are presented in at a particular point in time. This might seem self evident, but then you have to think about the diffusion dynamics being a property of ideas vs imitators. The authors discuss this in terms of experts not being able to produce novel ideas fast enough, but how would your distinguish that from imitators not understanding how to imitate novel ideas?
The English word is pedantry, not pedanticism.
> but remember that when push comes to shove a company will never show you loyalty beyond what makes economic sense and what is legally necessary, and you should do the same.

I don't know if I agree with you. I've had big successful companies give me way more than I believe I deserved. I've had small companies screw me over (or at least tried to). I don't know if a hard-and-fast rule like that works for everyone nor every situation. My suggestion is to treat a company only as well as it treats you -- which is probably a good thing to do in life in general. Relationships should be reciprocal. For many of us who've worked for a while, I am sure there has been instances where companies or managers have gone out of their way to take care of us. Even at the company that tried to screw me over, my manager cared for me beyond what his job entails. For new offers though, since there is no history with the company, no one should feel obligated to accept an offer if there is a better one that comes along or if the potential employee have any misgivings about the company.
Bought a smart tv, but don't use the smart parts. The invitation to use the smart features closes itself after about 15 seconds, no problem.
Yeah, I want to discourage people from asking the naive question: "Why don't people solve <problem> for me?!"

Do it yourself, or at least examine why you won't, and then recognize that the people involved are also humans, and many of those reasons you and others here have listed apply to these "special" people too.

Discussion is nearly worthless; so many people can generate so much of it for so little cost, it must be worth basically nothing. There's far too much of it, and far too little action.

This site is literally the social media arm of a startup accelerator, go start something up!
> Your reactive armour will be worthless in the face of my active measures.

Suddenly [1] isn't so ridiculous anymore...

[1]: https://youtu.be/k7YVxLLIuGM?t=149
I've loaned out way more than $10k over the course of my life, but this is the oppression of growing up poor.

If you grew up rich, you didn't have friends or uncles or aunt's constantly asking for money and never paying it back so parent poster's mindset seems dramatic/extreme. It is not.
>Seems like a good idea. But no one (AFAIK) is trying to "excuse" criminal behavior even as we try to understand the causes.

I think the knee jerk response would be about perspectives on poverty and class, but I think the more interesting response is that the criminal justice system already takes causes into account.

Provoked Crimes of Passion are treated differently than premeditated ones. Questions of mental capacity are relevant to sentencing. We have things like the twinkie defense and temporary insanity. We have Justified homicide due to self-defense.

In reality, the justice system almost always takes causes into account. Just not all causes. The interesting question is why some but not others.
> My local rite aid keeps the ice cream fridge and soaps (among other things) locked. There's no way this actually helps them. It might make more sense to just not carry these products if they're being stolen so much.

An you have invented a dollar store, welcome to food desert without nutritional food and most necessary items.
The point is that these planets orbit extremely close to their star: much closer than Mercury is to the sun, never mind Venus. That is what matters. It has literally nothing to do with any sort of magickal moonityness. Mercury is not special; it is just not locked 1:1. Yet.

Moons in our solar system orbit closer to planets than planets to the sun, so get locked much more quickly. Venus and even Mercury have not quite got there. Earth is in a more complicated arrangement, which helps us avoid it. That might even have been essential for life.

You may read up elsewhere on what determines the tidal forces, friction, and rotational momentum and energy that determine how long it takes to get into a locked state. That would be smarter than word games.
I use https://github.com/davetron5000/gli for this, since I work in ruby. Adding something like just or gli to your project is a huge win. Every dev can just `just update_db` to refresh their dev db, `just update_secrets` to update dev secrets. Whatever. So much better than putting snippets in a wiki or whatever.

I like gli because it gives you subcommands, like `gli database refresh` etc.
The main difference is that they haven't (yet) secured a banking license. But they were not far from it, FTX bought a U.S. bank that it probably wanted to use for legal fractional reserve.
Both of the local Walgreens I frequented previously, have just stopped… stocking stuff seemingly arbitrarily? Like lots of it. If you want milk, you’ll get whatever they have in stock or nothing at all. I don’t think they were being robbed of milk. But a broken window and you’re lucky if you can find milk is what they’ve decided to do. Same goes for a bunch of other products not being stolen en masse in any timeframe.
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The inflation over the past 5 months is 1%, so 2.4% annualized.
Job pipelines - it's easy to say that the build-release step requires the test step. Admittedly this is still possible in a shell script, but it is either messy (folder of helper scripts?) or requires code duplication.
you are the only person here
> You put a bid om[sic] a home and then try walk away usually means you get sued.

Usually the other way around. You can’t make someone buy but you can make someone sell. The buyer may lose their downpayment if they walk, but the seller can be sued to achieve “specific performance”, forcing them to sell if they get cold feet.
The difficulty of switching from English to Spanish is far, far beyond that of switching role-playing games. Even learning a new RPG from scratch is far easier - who would play them otherwise?
My son and his friends are already doing their homework using ChatGPT. Teachers will have to get used to this and hopefully embrace it.
How much does this differ from PyPy's RPython in terms of how the language is restricted?
It's probably better for the company, cash-flow wise, to lay employees off after their vesting cliff. Some of them might exercise their options, using the severance you just paid them, reducing your total expenses. You can always increase the option pool in the next round (if there is one.)
> This story was originally published in January 2022. It has been edited slightly for clarity and to reflect new research.

January 2023 not 2022.
A partial guide to cartoon nepo babies
Here is a more nicely formatted version: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220177801_Values_an...
Looking at the thread, most of the replies are kissing Lex Fridman's ass. The dude went searching for haters and made a video whining when he found some.
There's a shortage of 2-in-a-hundreds that I can hire (because people like that don't hit the street all that often). There's even more of a shortage that I can hire at the cost I'm willing to pay, which is what I think the real (unstated) issue is.

But yeah, that's just like everything. There's a shortage of luxury vacation rentals that fit my budget, too. There's a shortage of fine steak at McDonald's prices.

If you want these people, you have to pay them the way they're accustomed to be paying (most of them are smart enough to know their value), and you have to give them something to do that they actually want to work on. Won't do one or both of those, and now you're complaining about a shortage? It's hard to be you, I guess, but nobody else cares.

(Note: "You", above, does not mean the parent. It means the would-be employer.)
The steering part has long been automated. Captains are still on board ships to make decisions and to serve a management and diplomatic role. They're there to be the line-boss of the people repairing the engines and doing maintenance. They are the human responsible for port paperwork, and are in many ways the fall guys should something happen. They can fulfil both those roles because automation and that most of the paperwork and diplomacy can be done remotely though it still needs a human present for the important bits.

The Navigator used to be a position, and sometimes still nominally is, but it's now an officer position for management reasons and not because of a high degree of specialized skill.
Since TFA mentioned ChatGPT by name, it’s worth noting that OpenAI itself is developing software to detect text generated by ChatGPT https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/09/in_brief_ai/
> The labor force is approximately 164 million people which sounds like a lot but half of the people in the labor force have IQs below 100.

I wish people would stop making claims that mathematically cannot be true in normal distributions.
In your country, perhaps so. Not in mine.
How teachers are facing up to ChatGPT-“No 11-year-old knows the word tumultuous”
Wickr was decently popular but unfortunately is now owned by Amazon
For a company that likes to pretend it's a champion of open source, it's not very open source though, is it?
Please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments, which you've unfortunately been doing repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

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Qualcomm must face consumer antitrust lawsuit over chip monopoly
Get back to me as soon as any "builder's remedy" project breaks ground.
If google lost 40% of their revenue it would only kick them back to the same numbers they had in 2019 and 2020.

Maybe Meta would have to stop spending a fortune on VR if revenue declines, but it would take a lot to hurt them.
I'm one of those people!

Naming and shaming, Insomnia Cookies in Philadelphia, PA didn't want to pay more than $100k for me full-time, which was already a non-starter, but they baited-and-switched an ostensibly full time job with benefits into a 90 day contract-to-hire arrangement.
You broke the site guidelines extremely badly here. Please don't do that again, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are.

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We ban accounts that can't or won't stop doing this, so it would be good to stop.
Here’s how many EV chargers the US has – and how many it needs
You can build your own Pipe Organ emulator, using a raspberry Pi, Linux, Arduino and 3d printed parts. See: https://openpipes.org
What’s the issue with that if the infrastructure and devices support it?

You could have made the same argument 20 years ago.
I am in California and am currently shopping for deep-dive CCPA enforcement services as that is a lot more work than not creating the data in the first place.

Friends have used https://privacyduck.com with success.
No, it doesn't : to be able to lie you need to have expertise. You can bullshit though. Or, and so far this is my impression here, you can also take the expertise of others and present it better (that's what the best science journalists do !)
The key is that the person writing the log message is in no position to judge whether it's right.

The measure of logs is whether you can put them in front of a smart but unfamiliar persons and have them figure out what's happening. At a minimum, they should understand generally what's happening and specifically what each message is saying (though perhaps not its significance).

(i.e., same as when writing code)
What is the point of Zig? I mean, this looks approximately like code I would write in about a dozen other languages. So, what is this?
As someone who is both an organ nerd and... I'll say very religiously conservative (although that's only relevant to some points), a couple things people in this thread might find interesting:

- If you're looking for pipe organs and are in the US, check out https://pipeorgandatabase.org/ . It's very comprehensive, has stoplists for most organs, and has pictures for many of the larger ones.

- I see quite a few people calling organ music boring, particularly in association with church music, and I'd like to challenge that assumption. Off the top of my head, a handful of things that come to mind:

(1) Hymns are meant to be sung with, usually by people who are not trained singers. That leads to significant limitations for the accompaniment. That said, there is a lot more variation in preludes, postludes, etc.

(2) Organ is hard. Being able to play boring hymns well with a week or two of preparation can easily take 2-3 years of daily practice, even with previous background on piano.

(3) Many recordings fail to capture the full magnitude of organ music. To repeat something that I think is a bit oversaid, but is accurate nonetheless: the building is the instrument. The building is the instrument.

(4) One thing that it's hard for me to tell is how much of the difference of opinion is that I have unusual tastes in music, and how much is that a lot of people haven't had the opportunity to hear good organ music played by a good organist.

(5) Yes, you can be expressive on organ. Yes, it's hard. Depending on the song (and the composition itself plays a big role here - don't think that a composer can't be expressive) that may come across in rubato, opening/closing the swell box (and potentially others), articulation, manual changes, etc. (I've heard just a few pieces with people one foot on the swell pedal for most of the song. They were very impressive, although I suppose a lot of that comes from the perspective of an organist. It's also very hard. See point 2.) Also:

(6) Choosing registration in and of itself is kind of an art (and a lot of fun, especially on big organs). There are so many different timbres you can get on an organ that it's really beyond comparison to most other instruments; using this alone it's easy to express everything from mournful to bombastic fanfare.

That became more of a jumbled mess than I intended, but hopefully there's something of interest to some of you.
I’ll say it. When Black Shoals won the Nobel prize and business people started seeing PDEs, the new physics and applied math grads they hired were five years away from restructuring mortgages into unsupportable securities. Very few were smart enough to predict the eventual problem. Maybe the only people who can justify the inflated compensation should be those who can prevent collapse?
I think the more boring the company, the safer you are.

So, doing java for a retailer in a more or less recession proof industry? You'll make less money and have a less flashy career overall, but you will probably weather storms like this better.

But is it worth it? Kind of depends on how risk tolerant you are and how well you can save when things are going well.
As a hiring manager I don’t hold it against someone for making a decision they think is right. I always see the candidate’s decision as also the right one for me. I do think it can reflect badly on someone if it’s handled poorly/unprofessionally but this is rare in my experience.
Another piece of the puzzle to add to what you've said, is the feeling of helplessness/hopelessness that can get locked in at a young age. When I was growing up, there were a lot of kids that didn't view their future with any kind of optimism. So really, what difference does it make if they go to jail for selling drugs, armed robbery, running from the cops, etc. That's pretty much how I viewed things, except instead of leading a life of crime I just wanted to do something much more drastic. Of course, I was super young when that viewpoint permeated my thought process, so that viewpoint is still there but not to the same extreme.

It's a lot more convincing as a preteen (or even younger), seeing your friend's friends and family members making "a living" from crime, and then looking at your life with what seems like no opportunity or a respectable future.
There is always some trust with private communication apps. No way one can get a completely trustless system. Signal tries to build trust by being open source and by publishing the same documents it sends in subpoenas[0] (i.e. transparency in how they respond to government requests). The lack of understanding how the information was obtained is worthy of increased suspicion albeit not abandonment. There is added suspicion in that I cannot find an official response by the Threema team. We do not know if the encryption was broken or if there was access (physical or remote) to the phone. Do note that Threema is open sourced[1]. But there can still be concern if access to the phone was gained through other means and then access to the app was gained. There's a brush off of "if physical access is gained, not our problem" but that's not nearly enough (it still shouldn't be trivial). Assuming user error first is not a good methodology in response to these types of attacks (which there is some brushing off in this manner in Threema's response to this thread's link). People are still probing a black box at the end of the day.

[0] https://signal.org/bigbrother/

[1] https://threema.ch/en/open-source
This is a fairly fancy induction cooktop for chefs. You can get a simple one for ~$50 -- it won't have the same level of temperature control as this one, but it's also a lot more affordable.
Thank you for posting a joke to HN. Thank you for making me laugh today.
A major type-incompatibility not mentioned in the linked blog post is this, from[1],

* Strings: Codon currently uses ASCII strings unlike Python's unicode strings.

Judas priest, after all the effin' grief we went through to learn how to handle Unicode strings in Python 3, and to finally begin to realize their value, you take this step backward? Forget the i64 limits, the lack of native Unicode strings is a flat deal-breaker. (For example, will Codon warn if it sees an "open(encoding='UTF8')" call? Or a normal open(mode='rt') if the default local encoding is UTF8?)

It doesn't help that the same doc also mentions that

* Dictionaries: Codon's dictionary type is not sorted internally, unlike Python's

Current Python dicts are not "sorted"; rather they "preserve insertion order, meaning that keys will be produced in the same order they were added sequentially over the dictionary."[2]

This is new functionality added only recently (3.7) so its lack would not inconvenience a lot of existing code. OTOH, why did they not plan to reproduce this useful feature from the start?

Possibly they were thinking of the pypi package SortedContainers[3]?

[1] https://docs.exaloop.io/codon/general/differences

[2] https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#index-30

[3] https://pypi.org/project/sortedcontainers/
Sure, but - Binance will successfully be able to clear their liabilities right up until the first person tries to withdraw a single dollar and it fails because they don't have any left. At which point it will probably go to zero in an unrecoverable way.

One of the big issues with Binance (as I understand it, as a mere tourist) is that /nobody knows/ how much actual money they have. They might have $12B + $1, or they might have $60B, or whatever. There is a lot of faith, backed by little evidence, that they have enough actual capital to cover their liabilities.
No judgement here, but I'm curious how they're using it and what your feelings are. It seems like you've embraced it
All Clad is made in the US:

https://www.all-clad.com/d3-stainless-7-piece-cookware-set.h...
Ok, I've put that bit back.
Is it AUM if Binance doesn't "manage" anything for the vast majority of its customers?

It's just a custodial wallet solution until a position is opened by the customer and even then Binance doesnt trade anything on their behalf.
It turns out that securing a cryptographic key is super hard especially when the payout is huge.

Luke Dash Jr is an original Bitcoin core developer who understands Bitcoin deeply (he proposed the idea for the practical implementation for segregated witness), and he was able to lose 200 BTC (all his money) just recently by a hack.
Even without a rip, swimming where the surfers are is just going to get you knocked in the head by a board or yelled at.
Even if there weren't legal protections, screwing people over would erode the attractiveness of that form of compensation. Fool me once and all that.
I do not live in the United States, but these measures are difficult to understand.

In the East Asian country where I live, most people cook with gas. Induction is becoming more popular, but there is no alternative other than gas for high-heat cooking. (And we use charcoal outdoors.)

I understand that there are concerns about using gas in the kitchen, but it can be improved with proper maintenance. For example, in our country, gas safety is checked through home visits twice a year. Natural gas is very safe. Even my car runs on LPG. The life expectancy of My country citizens is 83.4 years, more than 6 years longer than that of the United States.

It is excessive regulation for the state to regulate cooking means. Why not go against the government? How much do you think life expectancy would increase if gas was banned? Wouldn't it be the first thing to do to regulate guns, drugs and fentanyl?
There might not be intercompany blacklists, but there are definitely intracompany blacklists.

But it also depends on the size of the industry. Smaller industries where everyone knows each other, people will talk about a candidate pulling out, and stop extending that person offers.
You have a debatable point, but "since Facebook did it, it must be totally ethical" seems weak support.

The often mercenary attitudes in tech aren't great, but not all companies will behave the same.
As a hiring manager, a 4-month stint will raise questions, multiple ones won't even get you an interview anymore with me.

On-boarding new people costs time and effort, it's not worth doing that for someone who bails 4 months later.
humans are natural "copy-cats". this is how kids learn.

so why are ideas imitated? it's human nature.

and not only humans, other apes are known to do this "monkey see, monkey do"

there was an interesting experiment in that human children, as opposed to chimpanzees, would imitate the nonsensical aspects of behavior, making it as though chimpanzees are more 'rational' or more 'logical' than human kids.
I really hope they do this. This sort of overreach will galvanize push back.
In the end, (ideally) it's the students that are losing out on education, though. That's unless there's a competition dynamic among students. Maybe embracing it is removing competition among students.

EDIT: On second thought, one can just put more emphasis on exams taken in-premises with supervision.