skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks really nice, but I tried it:

import sketch
import pandas as pd

data_pd = pd.read_csv("input.csv", sep=';')
print(data_pd)
print(data_pd.sketch.ask("Is there any PII in this dataset ?"))
print(data_pd.sketch.ask("Which columns are integer type?"))

With this input.csv:

name;age;address;phone
Bob;34;106 DOYERS ST. 8 ARLINGTON DR. 599 NW BAY BLVD;1-541-754-3010
Anna;34;694 Short Street, Austin, Texas;001-541-754-3010

And I have no results (and no runtime error as well) :-(
Here is the console output:

name age address phone
0 Bob 34 106 DOYERS ST. 8 ARLINGTON DR. 599 NW BAY BLVD 1-541-754-3010
1 Anna 34 694 Short Street, Austin, Texas 001-541-754-3010
<IPython.core.display.HTML object>
None
<IPython.core.display.HTML object>
None

Am I missing something ?
The "ask" interface doesn't seems to need external OpenAI credentials right ?
Depends on when you visit them. If you go at peak, the wait times get pretty bad. If you go not too long before the peak, things usually go much faster as it may be fully staffed already. If you go between peaks, things get slow because the kitchen may not be fully staffed or is also working on prepping for the rush.
I confess my first reaction to this is one of revulsion. Like a lot of GPT-related things, people are using it to cheapen something valuable.

On the one hand, I get that people find journaling prompts worthwhile. So it seems to me that ways to generate them might be worth doing. And indeed, you can find a great variety of products that provide that: https://www.google.com/search?q=journaling+prompt+products

So I get that some sort of AI-driven way to provide better or cheaper prompts could be good.

But to me this is drawing on our built-up reaction to actual humans writing actual prose. And in the process, undermining that. Sort of the same way that spam is not just a problem because of the individual pieces of spam, but because they degrade the perceived value of the medium as a whole. Or like how the artificiality of a manager-driven icebreaker read off cards can push people apart rather than bringing them together.

So what I'd rather see is some AI product that solves the same problem without pretending to be human.
"Ancient DNA reveals admixture history and endogamy in the prehistoric Aegean"

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-022-01952-3
Recruiters here typically take 10-15% and I don't care as long as I'm getting what I want in revenue.

Most recruiters are absolute snakes. They can be very useful and you don't have to let them negotiate for you.

At the end of the day, as long as they get their cut they don't much care.

Saves me endless hours at $X/hr searching myself. It's more cost effective for me to bill a client for those hours than market myself.

If you know the industry and find good recruiters they'll break their back to place you.
While I'm all for making non-competes for employees unenforceable in general, I think their role is overplayed notwithstanding your anecdote. Otherwise you'd have a tech industry in Oklahoma and wouldn't have one in Massachusetts, which until fairly recently fully allowed for non-competes. (EMC in particular fought against legislative change but there's now a somewhat weak garden leave requirement--but it at least makes companies put skin in the game.)
Ultimately, you will protest and we will build. And we will both get what we want: we will get our rockets and you will get your protests. Everyone is happy.
It will be interesting to see if the cost of maintenance remains super low when these vehicles need battery replacements.

Just like what happens to the cost of maintenance when fossil fuel vehicles need engine and transmission replacements.

Anything is possible but there is no indication that a battery replacement will be a typical or expected repair during the normal lifetime of an EV. An 8 year, 100,000 mile warranty on the battery pack is quickly becoming the norm.
It was an example to point out that people may behave vicious to increase survival chance of their children or themself even if conflicts with survival chance of human race in total.
I think though that there's an apex all game engines reach where technological progression just slows down even when you have millions of developer dollars to throw at it.

It's the reason why something like blender can catch up with state of the art commercial offerings and I think Godot could go through the same thing.
It depends on the typewriter. The Remington 12 has the carriage return lever on the right side: https://typewriterdatabase.com/Remington.12.42.bmys
> The lifetime limits are currently 11 million

$12.92 million currently (2023), actually. $12.02 million last year. $11.7 million in 2021, $11.58 in 2020.

The last time $11 million was correct to the nearest million was 2019 ($11.4 million.)
Outside the US they still typically make significantly more than other workers in their own countries. Especially if they work remote for a western company.
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Right, but there exists software that would be robust to noise, e.g. ...neural networks. I'm curious if not-quiet-perfect adders might be beneficial in some cases.
> Trust me, we would not want to live in a world where you can't kick someone out of your business

To the best of my knowledge - this is the case in big chunk Europe, with a "for no reason" added on the end. You can't kick out someone out of business unless they are actively malicious. And no, working for a company that is suing an owner is not considered malicious.
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Based on some of the home building and HVAC videos I’ve seen on YouTube, it seems pretty common for high-end new home construction in the U.S. (especially the south) to have separate AC and dehumidifier units.
Especially in the day of fairly abundant credit where one is often spending against future income and not what is currently in the bank.
>first priority for the project would be to make it easy to integrate into other applications, instead of building a full fledged browser

That's the case. From homepage:

> Servo’s mission is to provide an independent, modular, embeddable web engine, which allows developers to deliver content and applications using web standards.
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Related question: is this done on my machine or do I end up sending possible pii to a cloud service for evaluation?
They are working on it. The streaming section in the article mentions it.
Godot is pretty amazing and certainly a Unity killer for me. It's just that I don't need Unity either.

The problem is that Unreal exists and that's so far ahead it's hard to imagine how the OSS world can catch up. Glad to see that Godot is already thinking about streaming assets.

The licensing model of Unreal for small businesses is pretty attractive as well as they don't charge until you made 1M. If I made 1M with my game I certainly wouldn't mind paying 50k to Unreal on my next million.

On the other side, if I'm doing something for fun (read hacking on unfinished code) and I want to have the perfect abstractions, Unity and Godot are certainly not what I envision. I'd probably just work on something like Bevy.
You are missing the point. "Where you live" IS a material barrier to your getting sued, or arrested.
I believe it's being developed on the master branch at https://github.com/godotengine/godot
I spent about two weeks having "morning meetings" with my AI life coach, which was essentially just a GPT-3 prompt that I continually tuned, and fed (summaries of) the previous days' conversations. There were major advantages but a few things missing.

It was probably most useful as "rubber duck" technique. Forcing myself to articulate all of the things I needed/wanted to get done that day was itself extremely useful. Sometimes the agent would help me by identifying the highest-priority next action, but usually it was just recognizing what I thought was highest priority from implicit context. This can still be psychologically valuable, as a lot of procrastination can be caused by the logjam of not being sure which thing to focus on.

The main missing ingredient, which caused me to ultimately stop the practice, was that it didn't really remember past conversations. I would feed past conversations to it and tell them to summarize the key points, then feed those summaries in as starting context, but this workflow was not sustainable. First of all, the summarization lost too much important nuance. Second and more importantly, even that summarization context block became larger than GPT-3's context window within a few days. This lack of persistent context destroyed the sense that I was talking to a real person, someone who could reliably recall information about a project that I last worked on 10 days ago and apply that context to the current conversation.

I suspect we are not far away from both of these issues being mostly solved. The trend is obviously going in the direction of LLMs with different types of memory and/or much larger context windows.
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I'm not familiar with the German system, but I would guess not. Government departments often have a separation between career and political leadership. Career leadership consists of professionals selected for competence. The minister is a politician selected for political considerations. There may also be some political staff who serve the minister directly and are familiar with the subject matter.

When a government coalition is formed, each party gets some specific positions, and it's generally free to choose who to appoint. Within each party, gender balance and geographic balance tend to be important, as the voters are otherwise likely to punish the party in the next elections. Some people also have personal priority, for example because they are in the party leadership or they reliably bring in a lot of votes.

Not all minister positions are equal. Some (such as those dealing with economics, finances, and foreign policy) are important, while others (such as education and culture) tend to be low status. Top positions go to high-priority people, while low-status positions are often given to people with specific combinations of traits.

Defense has been a low-status position in Germany, largely due to political culture shaped by losing WW2.
I did, but that blog was taken offline the beginning of this year when the company I was a part of when I wrote it went out off business. It was horribly out of pace with modern setups though, I did that ~20 years ago, it used a network manager that no longer exists.

I'm not sure how it'd fit into a Network Manager or systemd world. There really wasn't any particular trick to it, IIRC I used link monitoring to detect link failure, though I might have used ARP, and set the ethernet as the primary interface, just using the standard Linux bond driver.
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> Basically the position that "businesses shouldn't use tech to help them bar people, but should still be able to bar people" seems confusing to me.

It's a combination of things. The high scalability and lower cost make it much easier to ban people. Big companies are already demonstrating they're willing to ban people for unreasonable things and the continual reduction in competition between businesses means people that get banned have fewer alternatives, so being banned is a much bigger deal than it used to be.

Take it to an absurd extreme and imagine if you walk into a store where they have facial recognition identify you, look up your bank account balance, and decide you don't have enough money to be worth letting in. The potential profit is less than the average cost of serving someone from your demographic, so it makes business sense to refuse service.

The venue matters too. There probably wouldn't be a lot of complaining if a Rolex store discriminated against poor people, but what if grocery stores did it?

I don't want to have some algorithm giving me a pass fail score that determines where I can go and what I can do and it sure feels like that's the direction we're heading.
I had a related idea, but

> I'm sorry, I am not able to provide you with horoscope predictions as they are not based on scientific evidence. It would be best to consult a professional astrologer for personalized advice.
I did it when I found my people. And after I did it once I could recognize the feeling and get back to it.
I’ve always been quiet, bookish, social events are draining. But I found a way.

The key came when I attended the velocity conference a decade ago and it was full of people interested in stuff I like, with interesting stories to tell and thoughts to share. I went out to dinner with a colleague I’d passed a dozen times but never spoken to. I’d just spent the day chatting to strangers and rather than feeling drained like normal I felt energized. We talked for an hour and I realized that it felt great.

We talked tech and how people fit into technical processes. It dawned on me that this is how extroverts feel. It’s not that we don’t like connecting with other people it’s that we like a style of connection that we often don’t get. Once you identify the type of interaction you like you can go and get it. For me it is 1:1 deep conversation about interesting things.

So I started to lean on that. Find something interesting and likable about the person I’m talking to. Discover the thing they care about. Learn about it from them. Dive deep into a the thing they care about. People love to talk about themselves, dig around till you find the thing they love and they’ll open up. Those things are probably also the most likable things about them.

I also realized that certain behaviors are more successful so I wear them on purpose.

Imagine it as a prompt for ChatGPT. “As a professional with confidence and poise what would I say now”
For example I was traveling alone to a vacation destination. I realized it’d be more fun if there were people to share it with. So I made a point to talk to every person I encountered: Person on the plane next to me. Person struggling to close the overhead bin. Person at baggage claim, person on the boat to the island. Once we arrived there were 8 people I knew by face or name and I simply invited the group to anything I found interesting. I have funny pictures of what looks like a group of old friends on vacation together. But they were all new friends who I met by delicate choice.

So to recap:
Find your people. Figure out what you’re passionate about and attend group meetings of those people.
Use the character prompt: “as an outgoing, friendly person I’d say the following”
Practice deliberately talking to strangers. (This is a huge life hack)
Realize that beneficial personality traits are available to dawn as they suit you.

Extroverts reading this will chuckle at how conscious and deliberate the tactics are. I suspect because extroverts simply do all this stuff intuitively. Well just because we have to work harder at it doesn’t mean we can’t get the job done.
Does anyone know how much this Every.to subscription costs? I dislike how it lets you do a trial but won't tell you what the actual monthly cost is. Dark UX.
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing this! How long have you been using it?
But if it makes a logical mistake, it would take a real power user to notice it.
> The entire value proposition of hybrids is that they both reduce the amount of required maintenance on the ICE part (plus the brakes) ...

Is that a net win? It reduces maintenance on the brakes, it may reduce maintenance on the ICE, and it adds a whole bunch of new stuff to maintain. Does anyone have data on the net effect? Does anyone have data for trucks?
I'm not just backing up my data. I'm colocating a whole server that does lots of different things, some which I'd like to keep private and safe.
I use my name to differentiate different suppliers of my information. I have a spam-only email account but my name is what I use to differentiate between different companies because there’s no way they can filter that.
>The automobile business, a uniquely American proposition

Sure, they do not exist in other continents.

>So the cost of filling your electric car at home will be the cost of the electricity that you can buy. Is this less than the equivalent cost of gasoline? Everything in my research says, “Yes, by as much as 2x.”

Well, the article is exactly about this not being true (anymore) in several US states (here in Europe, in many countries, cost for recharging EV's is already the same as the cost of fuel in an ICE car).
Ublock makes it trivial to block the panel. I have a rule set to automatically hide it as if it were an ad (which, in some sense, it is)
What is the advantage of Apple supported Linux over XNU?
Cant tell if this is a joke, against big tech, uses youtube
> If I form a group of people who attend hockey games to heckle and accuse Ovechkin of being a genocide supporter, can MSG kick out a new member of my organization after learning of their joining?

In my opinion of how it should reasonably work - MSG should be in their right to kick them out, but only after that person who joined your group gets caught disrupting the game by heckling and accusing Ovechkin. Just like any other person who gets caught doing the same.

Only associating with you should never be a problem on its own (unless we are talking of group memberships that are criminal on their own, e.g., organized crime gangs).
For sure - I would like to see non-competes banned outright, of course.

I was just replying to OP for implying that a worker should get a reduced (i.e. proportional) payout for being denied employment at a competitor. The "losing" employer should pay substantially for such a egregious act and the employee should benefit.
What is the actual risk here? That it’ll be publicly posted? Integrated into their next model? Leverage for some unknown evil action?
> just keep on making completely new aliases

The problem with most of those tricks is that they can be countered in some way, so I feel this is one of the areas where your security has to rely to some extent on obscurity (or the fact that it's too rare in the wild to be worth countering).

But I do have a question, have you found a programmatic way to create aliases / a provider that offers an API for that? Because that seems like one of the main usability downsides to your approach.
Am I the only one freaked out by

1. The privacy implications

2. Any bias in the model slowly but surely pushing an entire society towards the ethical and moral values its creators trained it with

The sooner we can train/run these models locally the better.
No they shouldn't.

For non-classified contexts, they should be properly regulated. For example, there should be a term limit that is something reasonable, like 18 months, and there should be a provision that the duration of their enforcement is paired with ongoing compensation at the same terms as during employment. So if you made $200k cash plus $100k Stock options per year, on the moment your employment contract ends if they want to make you unhirable from their competitors it should cost them ongoing money.

For classified contexts, it should be a longer term for some fields based on national security concerns and ongoing renumeration should not be provided, given it is literally national security. This nonsense where British pilots were training non-allies on UK flight tactics right after leaving the RAF is bananas.
I've had quite good success with hibernate on Linux. It was a long time ago but I accidentally tried it on a laptop ~13 years ago & it just worked. The appeal was immediate- 3-5s boot/sleep rather than near instant but no battery drain!

I had one laptop where the wifi would only come up every other boot, but that did eventually, after many years, get resolved with a new kernel.

It's been really nice having no power drain on personal laptops! Agreed, I too see pretty excellent power consumption on Linux. The new connected Windows stuff looks so awful, unbelievable power drain. I hope it largely remains a Windows problem & doesnt Linux greatly. To be honest, 20% after a weekend is much less than I'd want.
I have also come to believe this. It's something that emerges in the moment - the moment of crisis, or the moment of need. You don't see it day-to-day, usually.

I suspect it's over-represented in populations like nurses and firefighters. It's sometimes easier to see who doesn't have it - the people who "stay out of it" - those bystander effect exemplars who nonetheless remain nearby recording on their phones.
Strangely I vastly prefer youtube's short recommendations tiktok's. Guess they know more about me.
They might be assuming that aircraft will already be avoiding areas with powerful thunderstorms. Still, I'd assume a $2B laser goes a long way; you'd have to be pretty clear to pilots about where the danger zone is.
Eliza on steroids, and we fell for it again.
Yes recruiters, and outside IR35.

It isn't true that they set rates and dictate terms. Push back, negotiate with them.

If you have recruiters who know you deliver, which drives more business for them and makes them look good, they'll listen to you and break their backs to place you even at rates higher than other people. They become your marketing team.

They're salespeople. Make their job easy and make yourself a tool that generates more long term commission for them. They'll bank on you and you'll be first in line.

All they care about is an easy win and their commission and sales targets. If you're their easy win, you're golden. The higher the rate they can place you at the more it works for them because the commission is percentile.

I interview really well. I'm a salesman too. They know if they can get me in the door I'll get the gig and they can get their cut of 50% above market rate.

I get to strike terms from contracts, set my notice period ... whatever I want really.

Build the relationships.
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I wonder if someone has started a list of tools for our field which are not adversarial to the user intention like this…
This is very cool! I've literally today been noodling with ideas to use probabilistic data structures in LLMs.

And TIL you can embed mp4s in a GitHub readme. Is that new?
What courtroom? Such contracts always come with binding arbitration.
I haven't compared because they're apples and oranges. The radix sorts do not allow a custom comparison function.

I would assume that they're faster, especially if using SIMD.
The M2 Air is basically perfect design-wise IMO. My only mild complaint is that it feels almost too dense and heavy given its size.
Same for where I live. And in fact it's arguably a simpler setup since where I live you also need air conditioning in the summer, so many homes already have 90% of what they need for a heat pump setup (which is after all just an AC running in reverse). Installing some other heat source alongside the AC you already have instead of just installing a heat pump for year round needs is arguably the more complicated option.
That’s a name I hadn’t seen in a while. When you browse his Wikipedia page and see “succeeded Ed McCracken,” the initial impression is well, how bad could he be?
On the contrary, bindless means less work for the CPU. Bindless basically means the GPU is responsible for querying image and buffer resources from a global heap or descriptor table.