skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are social animals. Sociability, communication skills and demonstrating that you "show up" have a lot of merit. I'm not very good at either of those things, but I appreciate them and try to improve on them, because they are important.

In my eyes the real problem is not whether there is an "in group" as you say, but whether there is gatekeeping and what it is based on. Do people just happen to have the right surname, gender or skin color? Or is it really about engaging, kind, fun personalities who are competent and hard working. If it is the former, then it is not a good group to be part of at all. But the latter describes a group that is based on merit.
Yeah, I'm constantly surprised at Microsoft's lack of investment in Access. The world clearly needs a really great, easy to use personal database.

Datasette isn't there yet but it's a useful ambition for the future.
An idiomatic Erlang/Elixir implementation of validation for a binary format would also give you decoding for free — see e.g. https://zohaib.me/binary-pattern-matching-in-elixir/. So I guess it's the encoding part that's unique to how Prolog works.

Which makes sense; my understanding is that in Prolog, insofar as a function encodingOf(A, B) is defined by using A and B on either side of a bind expression to equate B as the encoding of A, if encodingOf(A, knownEnc) would act as a parser for knownEnc, then encodingOf(knownDec, B) would act as an encoder for knownDec — essentially swapping the question "what would this parse to" given an encoded binary, for "what would parse to this" given a decoded term.

Erlang can't do exactly that — a given variable's "bound-ness" is determined during compilation, and head-clause variables can't be indeterminately bound — but if it could, then you would indeed get an encoder for the same format "for free", since binary-pattern matching in Erlang becomes a binary-building expression depending on whether the variables in the expression are bound or unbound.

(Now I'm curious how hard it would be to add indeterminately-bound compile-time function polymorphism to Erlang — i.e. generating bytecode for the powerset of bound-ness-es of the variables in the head clause, only where at least one generates valid bytecode, probably name-mangled with a bitfield suffix of said bound-ness-es; and then being able to bind function parameters from such functions as new output variables in expressions, where the call sites also generate a call to the equivalent mangled name. The usefulness of this would probably be pretty small, without the other aspects of Prolog, but you never know...)
I have five people in my household. Only one of them, not myself, doesn’t regularly loose important stuff. We are super adept at key replacement, Drivers License replacement, passport replacement, debit card replacement, etc. I travel with two phones, two laptops, and two kindles.

At this point if I haven’t lost my debit card in six months, I will just report it lost to change the numbers.

I have worked at financial institutions; while they are not infallible, they are all better at this stuff than my family, and usually work in teams for important stuff.
They'll get cut eventually. Just like META London part of 11k just got the cut yesterday, not last year.
No, the bypass air in a turbofan is still directly driven by the fan, it's only bypassing the turbojet that powers the fan.

This is using the coanda effect to use a little bit of driven air to move a much larger amount of air for thrust. While quieter, it is only efficient at low speed and it takes a physically much larger engine to produce the same max thrust.
Ask HN: required maths content in a Computer Science degree
I'm a self-taught UK-based web dev finally going to university in order to round out my knowledge with a degree in CompSci, trying to decide between London and Birmingham. In my research I've noticed that the best unis in London - Imperial College, UCL, Queen Mary, King's College - all require at least an A-Level in Maths (final years of high school in the US). By contrast, the more mid-tier unis - Greenwich, Brunel, East London - only require a passing grade in GCSE maths (early years of high school in the US).

As someone primarily going to uni in order to learn the CS theory that I'm hoping will both make me a better programmer and give me a good enough understanding of AI/ML to apply it to my business ideas, this leaves me wondering what the reason for this requirement might be and which type of course is right for me.

Are the top unis teaching more maths than I need - maybe to prepare students for a career in advanced computer science research - or are the mid-tier unis not teaching enough theory/maths for a reasonable understanding of computer science?
As I started off saying, the Republican party has recently started having some very poor direct effects on everybody's lives, so the answer to that question has become yes.

My original comment wasn't as a blue partisan, but rather a leave-me-alone libertarian. In 2016, yes "both sides" just channel popular frustration into corporatist policies. Abstract abortion vs abstract guns kayfabe, but really centralization and corporate welfare uber alles. I was the one telling my blue tribe friends why Trump was going to win, while they didn't want to hear it. I had never voted for a major party candidate in any national race (until 2020).

But in 2023? The inmates have solidly taken over the Republican asylum, in a way that the extremist wackos in the blue tribe have not (yet?). The only intelligent reason I can see to support the insanity is that you want to see the system run aground and crash. This isn't meant as an indictment - 20 or even 10 years ago I would have been right there with you.

If you want to explain another intelligent reason to vote Republican, I'm all ears. I'd love to return to my prior state of understanding the merit in both tribes' points of view. Just please don't base it on opposing cherry picked blue tribe insanity that hasn't actually captured the Democratic party, or things that are still basically symmetrical (eg Biden's student loan giveaway vs Trump's Covid giveaway).
> Seems like Apple using EU to subsidize the US market.

Not at all.

The price difference is due to the out of control taxes Europeans countries impose on goods.
archive (kind of) https://www.unddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/10f8042/ba...
I trust my ability to keep a small file (or more realistically: 24 random words that can be committed to memory with some effort) secure more than I trust any corporate entity that treats the penalties for screwing their customers as a mere cost of doing business.

Crypto has many failure cases but a generalized loss of all transfers for all wallets is simply not one of them.
I wish Amazon recruiters would honor my perennial request to permanently remove me from any of their hiring systems and never contact me again, but I think that process has steadily taught me just how much recruiters aren't operating from a CRM-like centralized system and are just directly using LinkedIn to source prospects.
Bun v0.5
Looking at the code, it looks like you're maintaining context by re-serializing all previous responses as "ChatGPT" and "User." Out of curiosity, do you know that this is how chatgpt is done, or your take on it? I assumed from this tweet, there was more of a "special sauce" for maintaining chat context:

https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/1615160228366147585?s=20&t...
Even worse, neoliberal policies have taken things developed with public dollars and gave them away to private firms for them to close off and take ownership of.

Look at what happened to NSFNet and how it's no longer a network that's open but now a part of a large, billion/trillion dollar oligopoly with no obligation to serve anyone who won't make them a profit.
Sure, but that's not exactly news either. "Appropriation art" has been in debate w/ regards to fair use and copyright for decades. If you are coming at this issue as an ignorant layman, then yeah you'd probably be like "but Andy is an artist, how can that be!?!?" Fair use is a really complicated analysis and, frankly, whether or not Warhol's Prince paintings should qualify, is in my opinion, a legitimate question that your response belies.
US has a naval base so near to Indian peninsula?? Damn never knew about it. Guess big brother likes to be everywhere.
Can you elaborate on budgets realigned? Wouldn't that have happened in Q4 for the new year?
There are thousands job cuts and hiring freeze in this industry. While 1.2% is nothing, that 1.2% won't have easy time to get re-hire when there's a massive layoffs in the specific industry they're on + hiring freeze + recession coming up.
The text-davinci-003 model is not GPT3.5, and this does not really replicate ChatGPT since that one is fine tuned based on human feedback.

Edit: I stand corrected, sorry for Dunning - Krugering.
I read this 3-4 times and realized why people stick to python though
If a simple git-based CLI solution is appealing to you, then try https://www.passwordstore.org/. I wouldn't recommend it someone non-technical, but personally, I've never looked back.

There are iOS and Android clients, too. Not especially polished, but they do the job.
The Windows team probably has laptops with high-speed SSDs, and tons of RAM, a fast CPU, and a fast internet connection. So now already with that, 13 seconds is probably down to 3 seconds, and they are probably also okay with (sometimes) waiting 3 seconds while the search box opens after pressing the windows key.
No, not to host paperless-ng for me. I also don't mean send them physical documents. I'll be scanning the documents myself of course. I mean a hosted service that I can use from my desktop or phone to upload documents quickly. It should also provide integration with my email with the ability to add rules regarding certain email senders and converting email content to PDF where possible (for the cases where the sender doesn't provide a PDF attachment already).
SEPA instant payments are pretty new but yeah even Europe has that now.
Not just gambling. Any debt.

I worked at a place that sold expensive things. Sold a thing to a guy. Had two guys show up a couple days latter to talk about exactly how he financed thing and etc. Turns out he was an just a middling engineer on the F-35 program, but they confirmed everything he told them using us.
Create separate contacts for each of your parents with their real names. Then, go into your contact card (aka “My Card”) and relate your parent’s contacts, one as mother, the other as father under “related names”. This will let Siri, and the rest of the system, know who your parents are. Also make sure that in Settings -> Siri & Search -> My information, you have the right contact card selected for yourself.
The inflation rate in 2020 was 1.4. And MSFT is laying off less than 5% of its workforce.
I love notion, it just rolled out something like that: https://www.notion.so/product/ai
I never said white people are favcing a prejudice equivalent to Jews. Thats obviously a stupid ass take to have.

Im just saying that it doesnt make sense that chatgpt would just refuse to tell the truth in this instance because that truth could be used as propoganda. And the same argument can be applied to its statements about white people but since white people are on easy street according to the political zeitgeist it will cough up facts about them all day long regardless of how those facts paint white people.

Which imo is good, a fact is a fact. Just saying the same thing should be true across all races if we want chatgpt to be a legitimately useful tool for anything other than propogandizing.
Jeez, I hope this person didn't write this blog on a device made by a corporation! And I certainly hope it's not hosted by any corporation in any way!
It lets you bypass the step of “I sent my resume and never heard back” which is the reality for many junior candidates. There’s a huge difference between getting to go through the motions as often as you please versus not being given the time of day.
Source availability.
Prepending “Hi I’m ChatGPT” to the prompt of another model is hardly a recreation :/
While I've seriously thought about it, it wouldn't mean much. I'd be some rear-echelon POG sitting in a cubicle somewhere. So unless it comes to full-scale nuclear war, my personal risk wouldn't be much different than what it is right now.
Does anyone have context of the content as the original post is gone from Reddit?

Also on my BoA App, I have the notification:

> Please Note: Zelle transactions made between and January 17 may be delayed in occurring and posting to accounts as requested. Transfers will be completed and will appear in your account activity and balances as soon as possible. We apologize for any delay or inconvenience.

Not to discount the stress that it induces, and our expectations as customers, but hopefully it's a blimp in their servers.
Are there any programs that work in ReactOS but not in Wine?
As someone who's always heard that US pays much better but never verified it, this was interesting to look into.

According to levels.fyi, 90th percentile in the Greater Seattle area [0] is $344-363k USD while 90th percentile in the Greater Amsterdam area is $162-170k USD [1]. Taking the mid point of both ranges, you make 2.13 times more in Seattle before tax. After tax, you get $244,933 in Seattle [2] and $118,078.95 in Amsterdam (with requisite conversions from/to USD when using the linked tool) [3], bringing the difference to 2.07x more take-home in the US.

The next step is to compare cost of living. I don't know which source is most reliable, and not all sources include international cities, but a Reddit comment suggested Numbeo so that's what I went with [4]. It reports that local purchasing power in Amsterdam is 18.1% lower than Seattle, while categorized prices in Amsterdam are anywhere from 18.8% (restaurants) to 39.3% (groceries) lower in Amsterdam. So it seems you would need to have to be paid quite a bit more than 50% of your US total compensation to achieve the same standards of living.

I'll spare the details because I didn't look too deeply, but I also did look into the cost of major purchases that people value - houses (3 beds) and cars (specifically the Polestar 2, which is an EV more on the luxury side). These things are definitely not half as expensive in Amsterdam as in Seattle.

So, I can only conclude that US workers do end up with higher purchasing powers despite less worker protection. While European workers do get a lot of benefits, many I probably don't even know about as I don't live there, Big N-tier companies (besides Amazon) usually have generous benefits like employer-paid health insurance that lessen the gap in benefits somewhat.

[0] - https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/greater...

[1] - https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/greater...

[2] - https://smartasset.com/taxes/washington-tax-calculator#L3MFa...

[3] - https://thetax.nl/?year=2022&startFrom=Year&salary=900&allow...

[4] - https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...
From reading WW II and earlier books: service members' time-honored custom is playing poker. Richard Nixon was reputedly an excellent poker player.

I think I read that the Roman legions played dice games, using knuckle bones from animals.
Natural gas and cooking, for most people, add the most indoor pollution.

The EPA page on indoor air pollution monitors: https://www.epa.gov/indoor-air-quality-iaq/low-cost-air-poll...

If you do have a problem companies such as E. L. Foust Co. sell air filtration systems and HVAC filters which contain mixes of activated carbon and various minerals to reduce indoor air pollution. The one we've got is marketed for 500 square feet and eats 75 watts when on, so I'm not sure the plus/minus on the energy efficiency. Still, if you live in a place with wildfires or industry it is useful even if you lived in a non-sealed house.
> it's very likely that more people quit in any given month

18k quit in a given month? Nope.
I believe you can set it with PowerShell:

Set-WindowsSearchSetting -EnableWebResultsSetting $false -SearchExperienceSetting NotPersonalized

Link to the Docs: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/windowss...
It wont be a popular answer here but Facebook Pay now Meta Pay is a great product. It is instant, as in, you can send someone standing in front of an ATM money, and they can pull the money out seconds later. Not pending, but completed deposits. For free.

It is the "it just works" way to move money between peoples debit cards in the US. It is rock solid, a large network of us use it all the time, and it is significantly more frictionless than Paypal/Venmo/Cashapp/Zelle when you already talk on Messenger. 4 clicks and the money appears.
> who get all this stuff "easily" (previous practice, exposure)

I've graduated in Eastern Europe, my experience might be different, but I CONSTANTLY heard my peer bitching&moaning about the materials to be hard.
I found them to be "easy", as in easy to score 7/10 to get to 9/10 you'd have to apply yourself or be smart and to get to 10/10 you'd really have to apply yourself.

Granted, I did have "previous practice" -- meaning I was highly interested in programming and electronics.
There were some infamous professors that made things "hard" for students -- those were the reaaaly boring, ultra-math-heavy-showoff-pricks I'm glad they had a car accident and died.

I still remember I didn't even bother going to the course of such a prick professor after course 3, just repeated the course the next year with a much more down-to-earth professor, and my blood still boils when I think how much fun I had just studying opams mathematical circuits with the second professor's materials and how bad the first prick-professor made us feel with his showoff maths.
I didn't even go to the second professors in-person courses, I could tell from his study book he was a down-to-earth guy and his interest was conveying cool stuff to his students and not how much of math guru he was.

So when things were "hard" it was usually because the professor was an actual showoff prick and not because of an unfortunate missunderstanding on his part about our capabilities as students.

Those pricks know very well what they're doing and how scared students are about them and how many they are failing, they just get off on that stuff.
The entire finance industry has a disdain for "lifestyle businesses", that just generate enough profits for the founders and employees to live on, but will never generate an exit beyond that. I get why, but for utility products, a solid lifestyle for the employees and a useful product for users is enough, and should be enough.
Modern temperatures in central–north Greenland warmest in past millennium
> Is it better to get any job than keep searching for the job I'd be most suited for?

When you're first starting out? Yes, absolutely. The job for which you'd be most suited (however that's defined) will in all likelihood toss your resume into the nearest trash can without some actual work experience on it.

> Who are the best people/kinds of firms to reach out to when the industry is slowing hiring?

The more boring-looking, the better. You say you're about to be a PhD in AI? Find some small/medium business with leadership whose eyes gloss over at the mere mention of "neural nets" or "deep learning" or what have you, get into some boring technician or analyst role, and start using those fancy AI chops to blow their expectations for the role out of the water. If they don't rapidly promote you with the newfound success they're seeing, then you're in a much better position to pursue something that actually corresponds to your degree, with a resume item along the lines of "used machine learning to classify inventory by predicted velocity and rearrange inventory locations, improving warehouse picking throughput by 115%" or somesuch.
Alternative headline: OpenAI hired workers and paid them money to help with RLHF training for their GPT-3.5 model.
There is a major difference between dedicating your life to developing a highly portable skill that you can do from your house and dedicating your life to physical labor that could get you killed and has ever decreasing opportunities for work.

Yes, it's super lame if someone loves their job somewhere and gets laid off. It's a bit less lame if that person is highly paid and can find work doing almost the exact same thing somewhere else without leaving their house.
No, he did it because at the time, oil was in backwardation, making the move very profitable. It just makes sense economically for anyone who stores oil.
> UI design is a profession totally separate from software development

> ... trying to contribute design work is a miserable experience. This is the reason independent open source alternatives will remain alternatives and never become standards.

These statements contradict each other and show how design is not separate from at least some aspects of software development (frontend application development).

Most open source projects may leave the GUI as an afterthought or not even provide one. It makes all the sense in the world to separate the frontend from the backend especially if the goal is standardization.

You might want to try your hand at frontend dev after working for so long on the backend. The discipline sorely needs people who understand both design and backend. You sound like you'd do very well.
What? The comments here are very on-topic as far as I can tell.
ChatGPT like assistants are going to be commodity that you can use on your devices, applications, home. Amazing times ahead in the next 2 years.
How can I be concise when explaining complex subjects?
When I communicate verbally or in an email, I try to explain things in depth. Generally, if there are a lot of caveats my pattern is:

* Explain the problem

* Explain the solution

* Cover caveats, exceptions

* Re-explain the solution in case they forgot

* Answer any questions

* Re-explain the solution to solidify what I explained including their questions to make sure they got it

This leads to me being very wordy, and I can easily reply to a simple question by talking for 10 minutes. I find my behavior problematic, especially since I'm an SME for a bunch of different things, this leads to having to explain a lot of things daily.

I don't just do this for technical questions, I do it pretty much for everything. My significant other, which is a lot more socially adept than me, thinks that I have an inherent assumption that other people won't get it, so I repeat myself. At times this comes across as condescending, I think.

However, when I try to explain things less, it becomes obvious that a lot of times they will make wrong assumptions, which leads to me having to explain the same thing in 2-3 occasions.

Part of me thinks I miss-calibrate people's competencies so I go too deep or not deep enough. Regardless, the primary problem is explaining too much or repetitively.

Does anyone have a good heuristic, book, thoughts I can use?

PS. I on purpose wrote this in the way I would normally explain something verbally to stress the point of what I'm struggling with. Consider the meta of my post :)
Actually yes you literally did in your original comment that I replied to.
It is GPT 3.5. It's not ChatGPT, though. From https://beta.openai.com/docs/model-index-for-researchers

> GPT-3.5 series is a series of models that was trained on a blend of text and code from before Q4 2021. The following models are in the GPT-3.5 series:

code-davinci-002 is a base model, so good for pure code-completion tasks

text-davinci-002 is an InstructGPT model based on code-davinci-002

text-davinci-003 is an improvement on text-davinci-002