skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> because the idea is trivial in hindsight (always is) so publishing fast is important.

Unfortunately I've also seen papers get rejected because their idea was "trivial", yet no one had thought of it before. Hinton has an edge here though.
It's not the same, but also, the 12pin connector melting issue affected well under a single percent of owners, closer to 1 out of thousands. AMDs defective coolers are, making a forgiving estimate based on polls and anecdotal info, affecting well above 1% of the first wave of those cards, and maybe reaching into the double digits.
ChatGPT is quite capable of generating content in Spanish. Not sure how many good lectures are available on YouTube though.
Future historians are gonna look back at this time and wonder.

A once in a century pandemic leading to a unique situation where workers, finally, after decades, had power over employers, and those workers used it to fight for remote work? Remote work that reduced their pay, reduced their advantages over people from countries with worse labor protections making them cheaper, transferred costs from the employers, to the employees, reduced chances of the workers building industry connections that would potentially allow them to apply for new jobs, etc?

The real problem workers faced was bad commutes. Instead of fighting for better commutes, they decided to fight to make themselves increasingly disposable and pick up an increasing amount of the costs of working.
I like the Sal Khan model personally, but given the difficulties with online school w/ regards to adherence and attention I'm not sure it universally scales. Add onto the fact that students might have questions and will have to save them for the day after, leading to being behind overall -- I'm not sure it extends that well.

Essays aren't fun to write and are obviously trivial w/ LLMs, but the in class solution could definitely work. In high school they're obviously shallow and formulaic, but idk if there's no benefit at all. Even writing shallow comments on internet forums benefit from practice writing coherent sentences lol
It's strange to me that bedrooms/living rooms take in fresh air directly from outside. Wouldn't that incoming air be very cold and have super low humidity? And in the summer you'd have enormous amounts of hot, humid air coming in?

I suppose that in a way, American-style forced air is kind of like a heat exchanger between the return air and the intake air...except that instead of using a thermally conductive plate or heat pump to move heat from one mass of air to the other, it just redirects the return air itself with all its entrained heat energy straight to the intake.

I am a bit curious how the different solutions deal with issues of air quality. American houses often have small ~50W fans in the kitchen (over the stove, sometimes integrated with the microwave, called an "exhaust hood" and engaged only when the cooking gets smoky) and in the bathroom, engaged only when someone's showering and wants to remove the steam or defecating and wants to remove the smell. You often don't put cold air returns in these places, because you don't want those things to be immediately plumbed to the rest of the house, you put cold air returns in living rooms, hallways, and bedrooms. But that means you're re-breathing the same air over and over again. It usually passes through a filter in the furnace, but still... I think new builds with terrific air sealing often need a little 3" PVC direct vent to admit fresh oxygen.
Dunno but you know how you can do a single big wave on a long skipping rope traveling down the rope? You like whiplash it.
Mini splits don't have to be installed high up on a wall, indoor handlers come in a variety of form factors, you can get thin "console" units that are floor mounted against the wall.
Auto-Tune Destroyed Popular Music
Exxon Scientists Predicted Global Warming, Even as Company Cast Doubts
Essays might not be the best way to assess reading and writing skill, but this article's reasoning leaves a lot to be desired. The author seems to value an essay insofar as it demonstrates reading comprehension, and not as a vehicle for teaching writing skill. Students need to understand what they are reading to write an essay, but the writing itself is another skill entirely that the author here doesn't seem to address. I read a lot of my peers' works in college and came to the conclusion we need to encourage more writing skill, not less.

> Students get more points for good typing and clear sentence structure than they did for actually thinking deeply, questioning the status quo or changing their minds.

I hear this all the time from engineering types. Writing well means finding a clear, compelling way to communicate your ideas. Sure, we should try to avoid hiding bullshit behind a façade of flowery prose, but a great idea communicated poorly is useless.

> If you grew up in a household with verbally agile family members, you probably did way better on essays than your peers, but not due to much effort on your own.

And? If you grew up in a household with engineers, you probably did better at math. I don't get how this affects any one given assignment type over another.
> Does labour have market force to set wages?

If your unions haven't been systematically gutted for a century, then yes, to some degree.
white people are plenty criticized, rightfully, for their past transgressions.
This happens in Canada for credit unions and some online banks.

Fun fact, there exists a bug with EQ Bank where a deleted savings account still counts towards the maximum of 5 savings accounts. The customer service agent indicated this was a known bug and had been for some time! I'm planning to leave within the next year.
Considering the power of these AI models, it is quite clear to me that companies like Microsoft and Google should ABSOLUTELY not have the monopoly on them because they simply cannot be trusted as is, let alone with powerful AI.

If there was a feasible crowdfunded solution to this and putting it in the hands of the people - I would certainly be prepared to lay down up to £5K.
Let's be real here for a moment... american kids aren't spending 5 hours at school learning. Maybe 1-2 at best until highschool (where it could range from 0 - 4 based on the student). It's a big daycare.
$100 to mail documents?
This is interesting (from the Bloomberg article)

She sent Frank’s Director of Engineering an email with a link to an article entitled “Generating Tabular Synthetic Data Using GANs.” The article notes that “[t]he goal is to generate synthetic data that is similar to the actual data in terms of statistics and demographics.” The article suggests that “it[’]s fairly simpl[e] to use GANs to generate synthetic data where the actual data is sensitive in nature and can’t be shared publicly.”

Javice, Amar, and the Director of Engineering then had a Zoom meeting during which Javice and Amar asked the Director of Engineering to help them create a synthetic list of customer data. She asked the Director of Engineering if he could help her take a known set of FAFSA application data and use it to artificially augment a much larger set of anonymous data that her systems had collected over time. The Director of Engineering questioned whether creating and using such a data set was legal, but Javice tried to assure the engineer by claiming that this was perfectly acceptable in an investment situation and she did not believe that anyone would end up in an “orange jumpsuit” over this project.
> Seems like WhatsApp isn't the problem here, but rather the solution.

It's a quick patch that potentially creates many more problems however, since the product isn't rated for that work and cannot guarantee any uptime. Also the touchscreen can be quite distracting and therefore dangerous. If the problem is that the communication infrastructure doesn't work reliably, but cellphone coverage does, the answer, aside restructuring the existing infrastructure, should be small 4G capable SBC boards with audio and text features, one per train, not a cellphone with WhatsApp.
There have been some wonderful advances in cancer therapy, such as immunotherapy. For example, Rituxan (rituximab) only dates to 1997, but it's already in a number of chemotherapy protocols, leading to a clear improvement in survival rates in previously difficult-to-treat cancers such as aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rituximab

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6398399/

Flashier, and something I've already talked about, is CAR T-cell therapy, the first generations of which were approved in 2017. This therapy has definite risks of severe side-effects, but it can result in complete remission of cancers that have survived multiple lines of chemotherapy, as happened with me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAR_T_cell

Immunotherapy isn't just promising, it's here, and, because of it, so am I, but even more exciting is that it gives us more avenues of research to build off of known-useful therapies.
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w30794/w307...
Finding Neighbours in a Hex Map
What Economists (Including Me) Got Wrong About Globalization (Oct 10, 2019)

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-10-10/inequa...
> - They have a big appetite for adding complexity to systems

This is a bad thing and will lead to it being unmaintainable. Good engineers make simple systems.

> - Their code has no consistent style

Weird. They should have consistent style if possible.
Doesn't seem to be pay-walled at the moment although DN does encourage you to log in.

I archived it on the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20230112191438/https://www.dn.se...
Sure, but how do you justify that?

Why would it be moral to farm cows but not horses, and pigs but not hares?
I saw this over the holiday period last month. James Cameron commissioned a study because he got sick of people yelling at him for killing Jack.

https://www.insider.com/james-cameron-had-forensic-analysis-...
Ask HN: Data pipelines testing, which best practices?
I don't see a grammar I could use for an external standard there. I could be missing it. And I assume there must be one implied, since it appears to be a read-write format. However such things have a nasty habit of turning out upon further inspection to not be as generic as supposed and have local idioms buried in them, often in surprising places. Even JSON, simple as it is, had that problem, and it is after all a subset in an attempt to squeeze out those localisms.

Is it compatible with Common Lisp, such that all such s-expressions will be compatible with it in some natural way?
Last time there was a System76 laptop announcement on HN I said I was going to be in the market for a new laptop in the coming year but wouldn't consider a System76 laptop because of the giant logo on the lid. Some people said the logos on their System76 laptops were stickers which could be removed. I contacted System76 and was told that was no longer the case.

If anyone from System76 is here, I am currently looking for a new laptop and will not be buying a System76 laptop based entirely upon the giant logo on them. I don't want to put a skin, a cover or stickers over my laptop. My preference would be no logo at all but that seems to be impossible. If you are compelled to use me for free advertising post purchase, at least make it somewhat discreet.
Speaking in absolutes is never useful even though I think this advice might apply when looking for a new role, but small companies tend to grow if you help them succeed so it would be difficult to say your fit is at 10 person companies when that means you would have to jump ship every year just to stay in your comfort zone.

I joined my current company when it was 40 people (and around 10 developers). Almost 6 years later we're ~1500 and the engineering org is something like 200-300. I think I was most comfortable around 20 or so developers but that doesn't mean I can't make continue to have meaningful impact now that there's an order of magnitude more people and the org has completely changed.

I've seen folks who were supposedly "A player"s from small start-ups and FAANG join the company at different stages. Some succeed and some fail but I never noticed any correlation between current size of the company they're currently thriving at and our size when they joined.

Fit is never going to be perfect so don't give up on something just because it might be a little uncomfortable. Give up if you've tried to make it work and it's clear you can't find a way to have impact.
Configuring SPF is easy.

Keeping perfect track of all the various departments, services, vendors, IP addresses, etc sending on behalf of your domain is very hard in many organizations.
Look, I’m not saying XML is perfect but the worthy criticism is more substantial than closing tags. It’s a very easy convention to learn requiring little thought and I haven’t used an editor which didn’t automate that process since the turn of the century. That’s less cognitive load than having to remember a bunch of context-sensitive rules about YAML’s magic behavior - I’m thinking in particular of people I know who’ve burned hours only realize that they’d missed a character somewhere, forgot to escape one value, or had an indentation issue causing something to be ignored.

The criticisms I would make are more fundamental: the XML data model is different than the most popular data structures and the APIs in most languages are quite cumbersome and can lead to silent data loss (name spacing and selectors). Someone probably could have done an XML5 effort 15 years ago but by now I don’t see that happening.

If I had to rank the options for a configuration language, I’d probably go HCL, TOML, JSONC, JSON, YAML + Prettier + a YAML lint schema, YAML, XML. XML could rise up with better tools but so could a low-magic YAML variant.
Why Elon Musk started a school at his house
What is so special about a drone?
I'd advocate that you make a bus factor [1] spreadsheet.

In the first column list every feature of your system - row by row - with a fairly identifiable description. List the current owner of the code supporting each feature next to the description

Then create columns with each engineers name on it. Then ask each engineer to color code each cell in their column based on their ability to support the feature.

Green - Understand the code and could support 24/7 pager duty on it

Yellow - Could probably grok the code after a month and then start supporting 24/7 pager duty on it

Red - Won't ever support that part of the code cuz its a mess

The presumption is that each engineer will be marking green for their features - so they will get 1 point. If an engineer signs up for another persons feature, they get 2 points for marking it green, 1 point for marking it yellow and 0 points for marking it red.

Tally up the points in each column and let the engineers compare themselves. Ideally each row will have at least 2 cells marked in green. Such a spreadsheet will definitely help guide the engineers to write more supportable code as if they don't it will be apparent that their rows are visibly red. It also gives the engineers a reason/reward for delving into Other People's Projects/code (I like to call it OPP).

Share the spreadsheet with the product management teams and engineering management - particularly as they are proposing new features as it can help show that their fancy new feature requests of the month are generating a high amount of bus factor.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor
It's far easier to build a space ship, and outer space less dangerous to pilot through than the bottom of the ocean.
Not waste if they're simulating the path of our civilization to reach those billions of stars.
I was playing with ChatGPT in Norwegian a few weeks ago and the results looked good. Of course, that's not a typical language, but there is at least a lot of source material. I wanted to try it now but they are having issues :)
It is different elsewhere, yes. Your school was unfortunately a rare exception. Most schools everywhere I've been mandate homework and give it significant value towards your final grade. If you have multiple classes (which you do), they will often have no regard for each other when assigning homework, so you are often left with no time to meaningfully absorb any of the assignments (and occasionally no time to possibly so much as complete all of them). Self guided schooling like yours is unfortunately still viewed as a new wave hippy-esque thing.
Sure, but a currency (or, rather, a transaction system) that is difficult-ish to trace has a value on its own.
I guess there's the concern for analytics/data harvesting - but it would be nice to see # of requests for data deletion are, even filterable by country - see who the top offenders are which would make it a bit easier to see who the privacy-concerned are the most concerned about.
this is according to science 50 years old at least, not exactly news.
I hate C

I believe it is subpar tech by modern standards

Also I wish there was more programming / SE
Will any of the executives who made this error be held accountable? Was anyone fired, salaries reduced, CEOs replaced? It seems like losing 15% of your workforce is a significant error. I've never made a mistake which cost 100+ people their jobs.
People start businesses all the time, including coffee shops. Yes, they get loans to start them.

> hourly wage workers do not have time nor education to write one

There are endless books and online resources to help with that. Besides, as a worker in a coffee shop, you have a great opportunity right in front of you to study how the business works.

Besides, it doesn't have to be a coffee shop. There are endless businesses that need little to no capital to start. You can even start with a portable coffee cart, which doesn't cost much to lease.

> isn't discussing this in good faith

It's sad you feel that way. Opportunity in America is all around you. It's why millions of destitute people are desperate to get over the border. What do they see that you don't?

Or, to put it another way, I have a positive point of view.
So then close the app, not the window. There’s plenty of times where being able to close all windows and start from scratch makes sense. So much so that there are all sort of apps when you close the last window that default to presenting a new window where you can open another document/project, start a new one or do some other tasks. (Think any app with a start/splash page). Why not just have the ability to choose your new task from the menu and skip the splash page entirely?
Sure, it is aspirational - but at least doable. Others in sibling threads are claiming that CNC machining will never be safe, affordable or approachable due to fundamental reasons. Which I do not agree with.
I recently started that tutorial and this describes how I feel—thought it was just me being unready. The setup is very long and the explanation seems uneven oftentimes, such that getting an idea of what is going on and why has been challenging, to say the least. It is as though all of the setup and configuration is the point of the tutorial and Vulkan itself.
“Man on the Street” TikTokers Are a Public Menace
Even worse, it's standing in our night sky, in periodic plain sight, taunting us with it's waxing and waning, knowing there's nothing we can do to stop it.
How is measuring something in 3 1/16" better than 8mm? Conversely, how is that not worse?

You can measure from 1nm to 1Em using a simple decimal scale, while with imperial you have to handle conversion from twip to inches to foot to yard to mile to league, all using different scales.
Short, non-technical answer: These waves are actually the "sum" of a number of different waves (of different frequency and/or phases). It can happen that many of these _usually_ cancel each other out in the sum, but once in a blue moon, their peaks happen at virtually the same time. Then you get one massive pulse. The moments right before and after could look quite normal.
I would say Mantle jump started the new generation of GPU APIs. Not sure if it predates Metal’s development.
Fitt's law was for mouse (not trackpad) and for small screens where the menu was near the window. Both of these are for less common now.
Also now we have Search function within menus.

Nowadays it's easier to navigate menus with keyboard than pointing device.
It's just a name. They are not necessarily rare.
It should be "certain transition metals", but transition is not what it seems in regard to "changing" in the common sense, either.
There are many shenanigans that startups can play to juice ARR to render it meaningless. The idea isn't terrible, but that's why I invoked Goodhart's Law.

> After all, sales is sales and if you don't have repeatable sales you probably don't have much of anything.

That's right, but you're missing the key that it's a necessary, but not sufficient requirement. When the pool of investments is 90% with ARR are honest and straightforward, then it's good to use ARR as a metric. But when the pool changes to 50% or less who are honest (as Goodhart would predict), the metric loses value.
It's just a name. They are not necessarily rare.
It should be "certain transition metals", but transition is not what it seems in regard to "changing" in the common sense, either. So, certain metals, it is.
Shock value is still very high!

You're more likely to click on a clickbait article, you're more likely to open an app to see "naked man with knife seen running around 14st"(something I've seen on Citizen in NYC)
It's just a name. They are not necessarily rare.
It should be "certain transition metals", but transition is not what it seems in regard to "changing" in the common sense, either. So, certain metal ores, it is.
Yes. Share ~ steady, but GDP growing - tax income growing.
I wouldn't use the word "problem" but to explain it better, cancer rate itself has not dropped necessarily but due to early detection, number of deaths from cancer has dropped. We still have a long way to go to actual be able to cure cancers especially in advanced stages. Still a good win but more work to do.
I can't keep a gun anywhere near my printer, because the printer enrages me enough on a regular basis that it'd probably shoot it anyway.
I took another look and eventually found the bit of the website that they should put front and centre in the Tutorial page. Still difficult to navigate (why doesn't the page tree show up on the left?) but it is at least well written and to the point.

The "learn more" button on the front page should link to that, perhaps with a single paragraph giving motivation.

And the main page breaks the fundamental rule of programming languages/formats. Put examples on the front page!

I assumed they hadn't done that because the examples would be too complex or maybe the concepts were too difficult to demonstrate with small examples but having gone through the tutorial that isn't there case at all.
Ah - thank you. We are looking for a GC that supports (in no particular order):
(1) conservative stack scanning, object pinning.
(2) optionally conservative and precise on the heap.
(3) compacting when precise.
(3) weak pointers.
(4) good multithreaded performance.
(5) finalizers.
(6) ability to create pools of different kinds of objects - especially cons cells (pairs).
Is the derivative calculated by forward-forward as analytic as in backpropagation?
>Lectures at home

Because school is a de facto babysitting division of our industrialized society, maybe the best approach is to have a facility for kids to be supervised by non-teachers while watching lectures. Then bring in the teachers for work. Perhaps the best approach would be to have the teachers be online and on demand.

This certainly solves the problem of metros that don't have affordable housing for teachers. Of course there are a million ways for this to go bad in our current society, but it is already terrible, so maybe worth trying something else?