skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Coming in at number one is “family assistant,” which usually involves some combination of cooking, cleaning, childcare, running errands, coordinating schedules and handling other household administrative tasks.

So we have a new term for "home maker" or "house wife" again. And a pay scale.
I was indeed in the wrong when I made this comment four years ago. I have since apologized for it. I don't intend to re-litigate anything on HN at this point, but I have good reason to believe that this incident is unrelated to the reason I am presently banned.

The linked comment was indeed out of line, and perhaps you feel justified in thinking that it should be sufficient grounds for a permanent expulsion from the community. I won't argue with that, fair enough. However, I don't think it's reasonable to use it as grounds to suggest that anyone should have their servers DoSed by Google with no recourse, and I think blocking Google is a reasonable move given two years of inaction from the Go team to resolve the issue.
The majority of requests for money come from a minority of people with sad stories. You are clearly a member of the majority.
Values and objects in programming languages (1982) [pdf]
What does a local cache even mean at Googles scale though? Some of the cache nodes are likely closer to Sourcehuts servers than to Google HQ. I guess local would mean here that Google pays for the traffic. But then it is not a technical problem, but a "financial" one.

If you disregard the question who pays for a moment and only look at what makes sense for the "bits", the stateless architecture seems not so bad. Just a pity that in reality somebody else has to foot the bill.
I lost respect for Valve after they discovered cash cows that are Dota and CS:GO skins, hired economists to hyper-optimize milking their customer base and subsequently abandoned making good single-player games like they used to. Their greed culminated in an "Artifact" which flopped hard in large part due to its monetization model.
I remember when that article first made the rounds. I had been doing something like that for a few years already and the article did a good job making all the same points I would have made.

In hindsight, the biggest challenge that I've found is getting your "do-nothing script" to become the authoritative source of how to do something. The fact that the steps themselves are still manual means that it's easy for people to create their own manual side paths to cover new situations and it's hard to get those added back into the script.

If your CI/CD server is running all the steps then the only way to make something happen is to get it into the build script. If there are humans in the loop then there will always be new things that come up, people who do them in slightly different ways, and stuff that doesn't get committed back into the scripts.
Same. Several years ago I had an ex-GF of sorts reach out to me in SF. She was passing through and wanted to say hi, etc. I had a couple hours before my shift at a bar I worked at so I swung by where she was, bought her a drink, etc. Immediately could tell she was in a bad place, looked like her occasional drug use had become a permanent, more hard kind. About halfway through the drink was a clumsy come on and a push for some cash, she was out of gas, couldn't get home, whatever. I ended up giving her like $40, a big hug, said goodbye. The whole time she is swearing up and down she will be back next week, will pay me back, etc.
I got to work and told a coworker what had happened. She thought I was crazy and was laughing cause I had been conned by an ex. I then explained if I never saw my $40 again it was money well spent. One less person in my life bringing with it their chaos, and our history had made it hard to totally write off.
Sure enough, never heard from her again...
Ask Max Schrems how easy it is to sue tech giants.
The Bronx Tale strategy: https://youtu.be/78-4RobJQ0Y
Why would McGee be the one paying Carmack back after all these years if that were the case? Can you imagine Walter White paying back Elliot for some long forgotten debt out of his drug money?
I read it more like saying that we should teach "Russian roulette has a 1/6 chance to kill you, which increases every round", rather than "Russian roulette will definitely kill you."

The former puts the information into the hands of individuals, and let's them draw the appropriate conclusions. With the latter, you risk someone saying "I played Russian roulette and it was fine, this whole safety thing is BS”

This risk is even bigger if millions of people have tried and survived the purportedly deadly activity, such as home wiring shocks.
And specifically, the idea is to make sure that any kind of effort at writing a bots-and-fraudulent-likes-as-a-service platform is such a moving target that it becomes uneconomical to maintain. It's never perfect, as efforts like the OP's attest, but the incremental advertiser trust (and brand trust from a valuation perspective, as we've seen with Twitter's bot problems!) from being ahead in this "arms race" is likely considered worth the cost of hiring obfuscating-compiler engineers.
It's nice to be able to run the same commands locally as you do in CI. Having the deployment logic outside of the pipeline specific format will allow you to do this.

Make is great because its usually installed everywhere. The downside is that it has a lot of edge cases. Breaking out right away into a better language for the more complex tasks can make sense.
So what’s the problem? If you think ad-supported sites aren’t worth visiting then don’t.
I use a Moccamaster cup one. It is pretty consistent drip, design is simple, sturdy, easy to clean and has a 5 year warranty. Granted it does come at a more premium price.
Identity verification questions are generally based on public records along with the credit report information. Some questions might not be detailed in the report (like how much a specific loan’s monthly payments are) but others would definitely be included, like the name of a creditor on file.
Yeah, I quite enjoyed his first Alice game and that was ages ago.
My understanding is one company holds the patents, and they control the pricing and the speed of innovation.

I don't agree with the other comment that implies a lack of demand. Lots of people would be perfectly happy with an e-ink phone or laptop. I use a Boox tablet, and the slow refreshes are a feature, not a bug, as they keep me from wasting time on Youtube or TikTok like I could with my phone or computer.
My theory is that Iron Man demonstrated that super hero movies are a lot more profitable than comic book movies.
If you're struggling, and get $1000 from someone who made $100M on crypto, would you be in a hurry to pay them back, or even care at all?
I don't think I've ever loaned anyone money, not really. I don't get asked often, but if I do I just give them money.
There's been lots of trailers where I wondered"huh, maybe the plot will be X or Y, but the actual movie was seemingly more boring.

Of course I forget my unassailably genius alternative plot by the time I leave the theater. But I always thought it would be fun to get plot projections from smart / creatives from trailers.

The phantom menace trailer in particular. Man that could have been a great movie. What if the pod racer was for navigating a dangerous raider filled section of tattooine rather than the dumpster fire race.

The phantom menace has all the elements of the first John Carter film plot (yes I know that series underpins most of star wars anyway), but if the phantom menace was some pulp film where the crash landed Jedi had to make their way through a dangerous unfamiliar land while rallying forces to t heir side and encountering Anakin along the way...
"Neural Networks and Deep Learning", by Michael Nielsen
http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com (full text)

The first chapter walks through a neural network that recognizes handwritten digits implemented in a little over 70 lines of Python and leaves you with a very satisfying basic understanding of how neural networks operate and how they are trained.
Seems accurate, had a friend/roommate who I had to spot a couple months rent, after he moved out I never did see him again hah.
What would be needed to run the automated risk detection platform behind Phylum?
He just has 30 years of Hollywood brain rot and feels like he has to atone his sin of being authentic and having fun.
He makes great videos but I wish he’d use a tool like Vall-E to narrate because his natural vocal cadence is like nails on a chalkboard to me.

The way. He talks. Is like. He puts. A period. Every. Word. Or two.
There is a size limit though that quickly gets exhausted if you are storing text (2000 chars)
I've had the same experience, and often(when I'm not too lazy from smoking), I'll write down the ideas to read when I'm sober.

Usually they are correct and kind of insightful(by this I simply mean, insightful relative to the level of my normal "sober thoughts") but not as ground breaking as I thought - in fact it's usually something very obviously true and "known" but not "realized", as in the unique aspect wasn't having the thought, but recognizing the significance of the thought.

The easiest parallel I can think of during sobriety, is when you take something you know like "the ocean is filling with plastics", you're always aware that it's true and really messed up, but sometimes you'll think of it and see the thought from a specific angle that really makes you internalize how serious it is and how crazy it is that this is something happening in the world. You didn't realize anything you didn't already know, but it's still a new and useful insight
Haugeland is GOFAI/cognitive science, not directly relevant to modern machine learning variety of models unless you are doing reinforcement learning or trees stuff (hey poker/chess/Go bots are pretty cool!). Russel and Norvig are the typical introductory textbooks for those. Marks and Haykins are all severely out of date (they have solid content, but they don't have the same scale of modern deep learning which has many emergent properties).

You are approaching this like an established natural sciences field where old classics = good. This is not true for ML. ML is developing and evolving quickly.

I suggest taking a look at Kevin Murphy's series for the foundational knowledge. Sutton and Barto for reinforcement learning. Mackay's learning algorithms and information theory book is also excellent.

Kochenderfer's ML series is also excellent if you like control theory and cybernetics

https://algorithmsbook.com/
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262039420/algorithms-for-optimi...
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262029254/decision-making-under...

For applied deep learning texts beyond the basics, I recommend picking up some books/review papers on LLMs, Transformers, GANs. For classic NLP, Jurafsky is the go-to.

Seminal deep learning papers:
https://github.com/anubhavshrimal/Machine-Learning-Research-...

Data engineering/science:
https://github.com/eugeneyan/applied-ml

For speculation:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possible_Minds
Whether Drew's right or wrong, this is disappointing. At the very least, it's going to make recommending Sourcehut as an alternative to Github harder to justify.

This is really unfortunate, especially as sr.ht isn't free (any longer). As far as I know, it's the only remaining managed source hosting/CI option for Mercurial users.

What a depressing way to start out 2023.
Funny. They closed stores and put in annoying security measures in high-theft locations and shrinkage dropped, and now they're walking it back a little bit because the additional security measures are costing them money in expenses and lost sales.
No, for those people who would “ride for me” and vice versa I have loyalty and don’t mind helping them with money, but I’d expect to stay involved in their lives.

If they scuttle off, then they weren’t real at all, and I got played. I guess this supports OPs point, so I kinda get it.

However this group of people is not very large, most people I know aren’t getting money willy-nilly.
pożyczyć is both borrow and lend :) In English there's a difference of direction.

"Kuba pożyczył moj długopis" - Jakub borrowed my pen

"Kuba pożyczył mi jego długopos" - Jakub lent me his pen

I'm learning Polish slowly, living in Warsaw...
I think of a "chicago dog" as a hotdog with (among other things) a pickle on top instead of relish. Not sure where I got that idea though.
I like the article title from the BBC, "US farmers win right to repair John Deere equipment", far more than this Wall Street framing.

Deere fought this tooth and nail and will probably still not play nice. They are being forced to do this and must continue to be forced.
Depends whether you're optimising for the bank balance or conscience.
I'd honestly hope that person wouldn't make it seem like it is a loan. I'd hope they just said "hey, here's money."

Seems like a major jerk move to structure the "loan" in a way where you remove these people from your life.
I can certainly sympathize with not liking the extra layers, but if you put the steps directly in CI then you either duplicate local/CI steps (and they inevitably get out of sync), or CI becomes the only way to deploy (which, depending on your situation might be fine). It can be a reasonable thing to do, but it's a pretty sharp tradeoff.
You can also just say "no." Presumably Carmack has learned that lesson now.
With sufficient staffing and instant mobile checkout, stores can implement a fully secure experience. The caveat here is "sufficient staffing" of people who can use a mobile checkout solution.
The same formula appears in rational trig, e.g. in section 9.3 of Divine Proportions http://www.ms.lt/derlius/WildbergerDivineProportions.pdf#pag...
Yes but we can only speculate what happened.

My speculation: most of the power went through the light and only a part of it shocked the OP.
SQL Interview Guide
I understand these examples are zero-shot with short samples--which is impressive, but would the output quality improve significantly with longer input samples?

For example I noticed it couldn't quite pick out the accent on some samples because they were so short. But if the model had more example words to hear then I'd think it would accurately understand the accent..
Most trailers give away 90 % of the plot. Therefore, I do not watch trailers.
My sister bought a Bunn VP17-1 with the additional 20216.0000 stainless steel funnel basket after she had ditched her Keurig and older coffee machines. I am not a fan of terms like "military grade" but I think her machine fits that sort of concept, and it is easy to keep in an almost sterile state between uses. My only tweak would be immediately pouring the output of her machine into my Pykel stainless steel carafe. Bear in mind that the Bunn machine is ridiculously expensive for most consumers.
> Non-fiction books are bloated with fluff to increase the page count to increase the perceived marketability of the book.

This applies to many non-fiction best-sellers in the self-help and pop science categories, but is very unfair as a generalization about non-fiction. (And bloat is not restricted to non-fiction, either: do we really need 10,000 pages of Wheel of Time or Stormlight Archive?).

I'm looking at my bookshelves now and see great books like Ryan's "A Bridge Too Far," Peltzold's "Code", Hodges' "The Enigma," Koestler's "The Sleepwalkers," Churchill's "Marlborough." None of these feel "bloated" or "padded" (okay maybe "Marlborough" is a little bloated). None of them were written to convey a handful of ideas to make you look smart at a cocktail party. Surely the information in these books could be condensed, but that condensed form wouldn't produce the same experience.
I don't remember where I read this, but a good compromise strategy for lending money you don't think you're getting back might be this:

1. Assume it's never getting paid back and only lend out money you're willing to lose.

2. Tell them if you get paid back in full, then later, they can ask for another loan.

3. If you don't get paid back, then consider it a gift, but no more loans to that person.

This way, you can continue helping people who are down on their luck but responsible about paying back, and you avoid being drained by deadbeats.
Few weeks ago on my work we spend a week (not all but still a lot of time) to find why sort with libc++ was incorrect.
As result we add similar (but a simpler check).

I think always do such checks isn't good (because performance reasons), but with address sanitizer it's sounds very good for me
The majority of requests for money come from a minority of people with sad stories. You are clearly a member of the majority of people with sad stories.

I think the minority would call you a victim of 'temporarily embarrassed millionaire syndrome'.
I get my task outline in Notion, the details in Teams calls, I request clarifications in GitHub, I get answers in Slack, I get the additional context in a 'quick call', and when all is said and done, I get reviewed based on the severely outdated initial Notion Issue. There's also some order of business that gets discussed in Whatsapp. I feel H.P. Lovecraft couldn't have envisioned this kind of cosmic horror.
I see it as something of a problem that most of the world’s newspapers are “writing some crap just to attract random visitors and show them ads” if we’re deeming that model illegitimate.
Any links? Any peer reviewed publications?
Something that I was thinking of last week as I stood on the top rung of a wet, icy ladder in a snowstorm, clearing wet snow off a satellite dish!
I figured someone would bring that up. However in my version of reality the abomination known as a "California burrito" does not exist.
Only for your edification, as your English is 1/0 (infinitely) better than my Polish. I believe you meant "lending / lent" in place of "borrowing / borrowed." We separate the words, so "to borrow" is to temporarily take the item, "to lend" is to temporarily give the item.
Why would you pay so much just for them not to annoy you? That seems a very high price for some peace and quiet.

I would just cut off contact with those people. I don't really get this much because I'm not rich, but if people ask me for loans just to get money out of me I will be the one breaking off contact.

On the other hand I have a friend of mine who has loaned money and never paid me back, but she is always in a financial hard spot and she is extremely generous to the community she drives. I never really expected to be paid back for that either but in this case I just wanted to help someone who cares more about others than herself.
I think it's not about the value but about the deal (or principles). Some people in trouble really improve after a debt for a friend/family like that (some don't).
If you want to learn more about pipe organs from a completely different viewpoint, this series where a pipe organ is gradually rebuilt by an extremely talented and enthusiastic amateur is great fun!

LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER - I BOUGHT A WHOLE CHURCH ORGAN - Part 1: The Organ Removal

https://youtu.be/8PwwRR8deHk
Ask HN: Did HN just start using Google recaptcha for logins?
In ten years I've never been asked to solve a captcha to login in. Is this new? What happened?

I know that my input into conversations is not some critical feature of HN or anything, but this is enough of a barrier to keep me from bothering to login on most occasions.

Seems odd to enable google to track users logging into HN, but maybe it's always been this way and for some reason recaptcha is just flagging accounts from my network today.
I don’t see how that changes what I said.
Well the piece is mostly about the Western opinions on what Buddhism is, and although plenty of Buddhist's probably call Indifference out as something not to do, there are also lots of "American Buddhists" who seem to espouse indifference. Perhaps because they are confused, exactly as the article and you say.
Not worth the time spent organizing and taking stock, in my opinion. For any given thing, there are perhaps three places it could be and they can all be searched in short order.

I have a good enough memory and not so many objects that I can recall what I own and what it looks like.
Here's what would happen if Stalone played Terminator [deepfake] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71c80ab_TgQ
This mindset achieves nothing.
Lol HR have an arsenal of excuses/bs on hand, always. “Most employees actually benefit” Christ
> just how terrifying it would be hunted by a killer robot

Black Mirror, Metalhead did this for me. Those robot dogs are scary.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalhead_(Black_Mirror)
I rarely loan $$ to ither people but when I do it's usually small and considered as a gift, not a loan. I really hate piggybacking other peoplebto claim my principal.

On a side note, everytime I see the name of John Carmack popping up my heart goes to game programming and I have the impulse to create a game. Masters of Doom really is magical.
> Not sure if they produced anything lately though?

Recently-ish: Coco, Soul, and Inside Out are among my favorite Pixar movies and all compete with the golden-era Pixar classics in terms of being memorable and story-first.

The Disney acquisition seems to have crushed some Pixar magic. You can no longer assume every Pixar movie to be gold, but they can still turn out top-quality content.
This is often not understood of successful ventures.

There’s usually a fairly small circle of close people that get the biggest share of the financial pie, and others don’t get very much.

I’ve seen a few situations where some friends ended up earning a regular salary at startups when the closed circle made millions. So yeah you can brag about working at $trendy_company but that doesn’t financially translate into anything special.
To be frank, this is still self-deception. Your subconscious won't be tricked by this kind of trickery. It's like being both the player and the referee in a game. You still need external feedback to improve yourself.
Why didn't you repay them?
My lived experience is imaginary, does that make me imaginary? But I think therefore I am, so I'm not imaginary, yet my lived experience is imaginary. Is this like imaginary numbers where it is really just a poor descriptor for whatever it is you are asserting?
I just read your newsletter. In an opening, you say "Hi everyone and thanks for subscribing." I haven't subscribed so your usage of "everyone" can't literally apply to every reader. Is it possible that using "everyone" is appropriate in such situations even if the statement doesn't literally apply to every single member of the subset?
This reminds me of the one lady from my previous job that lost her daughter. We held a fundraiser at work. She made a lot of money out of it. Then she lost her niece. It was so sad to have misery strike twice. Until she lost another niece. Then we checked up on it. Nobody had died.
Incidentally, I was given a copy of Peltzold's "Code", second edition (2022), for Christmas. I'd read the first many, many years ago. I'm looking forward to reading it again.
I hate that there are two types of people, people who ask for money and have no issues ghosting, and then those who ask and pay back like it's a loan shark coming for them in their eyes.

I have only had to ask to borrow money a few times, and man it hits so hard. I loath the experience. I sent $50 to someone who needed some cash to buy groceries and they said they would send it back when they could but didn't and I'm ok with it.

It hurts knowing how little (depending on wealth) it would take to change someones life. I'm still paying back a loan from someone so I could afford to buy my first house and damn does it still sting. I had to save every single cent just to afford the down payment, and it wasn't enough.
Damn how does one find such gigs and do so in a sustainable way?