skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a beautiful website with awesome anime-style cartoon formatting. The palette is really nice, well-selected too.

Sadly, the writing style interpersed with the cartoon dialogues is so insufferable and distracting that I learned absolutely nothing. My ADHD didn't help either.
Any idea how well it might or might not work for more complex situations like rental depreciation? I'd like to stop giving my money to TurboTax/Intuit.
not knowing when to engage is as important as knowing when to do so. some people learn from their mistakes. some people don't, they look for reasons that make them feel vindicated.
As part of code that runs when the application runs.

Always write migrations that can be adopted gradually, and always use transactions where possible.

RIP to those not using Postgres who can’t use DDL in transactions.
I saw a distant figure running straight towards me through the woods and thought this might be one of those secret horror games, until I realized it was multiplayer. :P
People who seek vaccination may have a higher than average interest in their own health. This may cause them to live longer.
I sometimes notice my nervous system relax a bit when I log out of this website, because I know I won't get sucked into anything (he writes on this website)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons just with more people and less space.
Yours is nice. I think the behavior of clicking where the night goes is a bit better.
Except it strips some characters in the BMP, too, such as U+262D
There is actually a spot on tax forms that indicate the form is being filled and filed by a 3rd party.
The standard of evidence for violating the principle of innocent until proven guilty is not satisfied by reasonable risk, it is satisfied by beyond a reasonable doubt. Since they are violating that principle without trial I would argue the standard is actually much higher. This idea of innocent until proven guilty via a trial of your peers is one of the basic building blocks of western society and a pivotal part of what makes the West great so if we aren't going to uphold this idea, wtf are we even doing? Might as well just name someone the king and start trials by ordeal again.
This doesn't make much sense. I agree: the instance won't be mobile. It'll be hosted, the same way Blogger was. It'll be provided with the same economics as Blogger. Manage a domain? Most people will be "theirdumbname.mastohost.com". For like 20 different values of "mastohost". Those "mastohost.coms" will make all their money on the subset of people who will provide a credit card to be "theirdumbname.com".

People are sleeping on how well the blogosphere worked, and how much Twitter and Facebook were able to divert it purely through a catchy UX. The blogosphere now has that UX: it's called Mastodon. Meanwhile, Twitter and Facebook are collapsing, because the centralized social network is inherently unstable and susceptible to gaming.

RETVRN! As the kids say.
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/386/

It's solid advice.
Thanks for you concern.
Are these photos in true color? What do the RAWs look like? I can't tell if the coloring is real, or if it's more along the lines of astrophotography where the colors are fake, but illuminate something key about the photo (in this case, body structure).
Quote a really high number and then don’t return their calls.
Even if large animals triggered them 50% of the time, that would still be a 50% savings.
> Twitter was profitable before Musk’s buyout

My mistake. Last I looked was 2020, when they were down about $1B.
Fun style to read, but without knowing what level of sarcasm I'm supposed to assign to the peanut gallery characters (or to the main author voice), I'm left wondering whether there is a point beyond "sudo should be written in Rust?"
It produces text that at a glance or with loosely defined parameters seems like it could have plausibly been written by a human.

I think something like automatically generating dialog for characters inside of video games in a way that's more dynamic and scalable than the clearly hardcoded dialog we have today.

People have mentioned using it to cheat on high school level English papers and blackhat SEO spam / fake social media accounts.
That's an interesting career turn. Thank you for these stories from a younger engineer just starting out. :)
The perhaps surprising thing about theorem provers is that you do not use them to prove theorems. That is, you only use them on theorems you have already proven, and the use is to persuade other people that your proof is valid.

Otherwise I guess you would call it a "conjecture prover".
If other energy sources were regulated like the NRC, they would also be more expensive. Coal wouldn’t have been built at all. Nuclear regulation is not “the easy part.”
Yeah. I am the exception, but once I got into the industry I have gotten luckier due to connections.
Functions are universal. Choose them over everything else.

Functional F# syntax or bust.
Are SBOMs Good Enough for Government Work?
Yes, that's exactly what the parent comment in this thread linked to.
1) I'm sure every one of these companies got 0% interest rates in 2021 and 2022 from the Federal Reserve. I'm going to wager that the terms of those interest rates had certain hiring quotas. Now that interest rates have increased, I'm sure that the Fed now has lay off quotas.
They're talking about various rumors that Heinlein had an unconventional sexual lifestyle, as did characters in many of his books.

I personally hadn't heard of any of those rumors being proven as fact, but there were always lots of people who took them at face value anyway.

Another mystery (to me) is that I could've sworn that Heinlein had at least one child, but last time I checked, I couldn't see any trace of that on the web, not even rumors. Maybe I just have a faulty memory about that.
> In this particular case, what is this quote supposed to imply?

I don't know that it's supposed to imply anything but rather shine a light on the different acceptance criteria for a study reactor v. one that generates power for, in his case, mission critical needs (though power for homes and businesses would be life-critical, so it's up there).

If a study reactor breaks, even though there's a possible risk to life depending on how it fails, you can endure the downtime for a bit while bringing it back up. If a practical reactor breaks, people are far more likely to die.
This article is horribly naïve.

We can start with the obvious part, everyone, literally EVERYONE, from the part time intern janitorial contractor, to the demigod CEO are completely replaceable.

If you dropped dead today, the team you’re on will have already divided up your tasks and recovered by the end of the week. Your division, let alone the company, will never even notice you’re gone.

That’s just the honest truth.

The second hard truth is, getting laid off is not your fault or a reflection of your abilities. It’s about an edict that came down from the c-suite. This is why entire teams are laid off. There’s very little rhyme or reason to these things. Don’t beat yourself up about it. It’s inevitable that you’ll eventually get hit.

If anything, it reflects on the incompetence of upper management. Microsoft admits to hiring 10,000 too many people? Whose fault is that, Jake in SRE? No! It’s Satya Nadella’s fault.
$42? joke is on us. i would pay less for it. will stay on the free plan and bear with it not being available all the time. which, it does already.
Sounds like the whole point is you don't have to take anything special into account.
Edit: Except determinism?
There is tons of old crappy software that cannot understand anything else, so it persists. Like fax machines.
> Even if you are a formal spokesperson for a company, you don't have to engage.

This is key! At a lower level, if you're modding a Discord server or whatever, you can ignore people, and if they become a real problem you can just ban them. You don't need to engage with their drama, you don't owe them anything.
That small, modular, cheap reactors have been promised many times for decades and have never panned out.
I guess the fun parties are reserved for the executives and sales staff.
They don’t share the culture of the US, but they lack the stringent taboos on risky sexual activity that exist in Asia and the Middle East. The unmarried birth rate in China, India, North Africa, and South Asia is just around 1% https://archive-yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/out-wedlock-birt.... In countries like Kenya which have high AIDS prevalence rates, unmarried births are around 30%.

Similarly, the only Asian country with high levels of unmarried births, the Philippines (what is it with former Spanish colonies) is contending with an AIDS epidemic: https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/philippines-hiv-cases-cou...
I had the same issue when I tried at first (on Firefox), but I waited a while and when I tried again, it worked correctly and gave me a controllable character. Not sure if something failed to load the first time or what.
> foo : A -> A

> since we know absolutely NOTHING about A, all we can really do is give it back to you, so foo turns out to be identity, or id.

> another might be bar: [A] -> Nat we still don't know anything about A, but we know a little about lists, so a good suggestion might be length.

Certainly a good suggestion, but, unlike `foo`, not the only one—e.g., `bar xs = length xs + 1` or `bar xs = 2*(length xs)` also work.
It's worth replying if someone gets a key detail wrong or simple misunderstanding and you can set record strait
> To provide more context, wind and solar were both in the low $30's/MWh of LCOE (levelized cost of energy) 3 years ago[0], with that number predicted to continue falling rapidly.

This is like comparing cost of water during a flood and during a drought.

London water authority can purify rainwater/river water for $0.1 per tonne, or can desalinate seawater for $2 per ton. Why would they go with expensive desalination?

Obviously when there is a drought there is no rainwater to purify, and it has worked out cheaper to install a more expensive, reliable source of water, than it was to create water storage for all of London to last through the worst possible drought.

Water and energy are similar in that, if they really run out, people start dying.

They are different because you can easily store a week's worth of water in your house, but try store a week's worth of energy.

Some countries, like India, Australia and US, can really rely on Solar. But northern countries really cannot. In UK solar panels give 10x less energy in the Winter than in the Summer.

And some countries don't even have good wind sources.
> From a worker perspective, line and middle managers look like bosses.
From an executive perspective, they look like workers

THIS.

I used to think that managers had some sort of secret knowledge they hold close among themselves. Then I became a manager.

FYI: Your manager is often just as much in the dark as you.
The list only contains US citizens?
The only way to get so good they can't lay you off is to be in the room where selection criteria happens. That's typically middle management (not line management to be clear).
There's a lot more to the relationship between pathogens and neurological conditions. This article has some good information: https://return.life/2022/05/endemic-pathogens/ (Please ignore the clickbaity tone, there's actually good stuff here).

We know there are a ton of correlations. We don't have causal links, although there is quite a bit of speculation about inflammation.
the skills you learn in Big Tech are somewhat distinct from what you are taught in CS 102: modern distributed systems engineering and cooperating within a giant org.

The Ivy League filter feels and kind of is unfair, but for new grads it's really really difficult to find good signals and big tech gets two or three orders of magnitude more applicants than open positions.
> run a HTTP server that serves static content in a datacenter

It's not static content!

> I've ran moderately popular websites before and it's zero work most of the time.

I run a service that gets ten million requests on a bad day. There's almost always work to be done.

> Where are all the static HTTP websites that are ran by dozens of people?

Most static websites don't allow anyone to sign up for an account and mutate the content.

> At most SaaS companies, keeping the lights on for the HTTP server is the least work you do.

Most SaaS companies aren't serving a multi-terabyte mutable dataset to billions of people a month. They also aren't dealing with tens of millions of pages of user-generated content. Or a huge volume of legal requests because of all of their user-generated content.

> zealous belief in FAANG overstaffing.

Which FAANG company has only 300 employees?

Seriously, 23 billion page views per day. That's like if each of their employees oversaw a service that got 76M page views per day. That's a quarter million page views (not requests!) Per second. Half a billion pages on Wikipedia alone: that's a few million pages per employee.
Wall Street is where the decisions are made about whether to invest in domestic steel production or whether to direct corporations to import more steel. (2014):

> "U.S. steel imports increased from 28.5 million net tons in 2011 to 32.0 million net tons in 2013, an increase of 12.3 percent. Imports have increased not only in absolute terms, but also relative to domestic production and consumption, seizing more of the U.S. market and thwarting the domestic industry’s efforts to recover from the Great Recession... The import surge has depressed domestic steel production and revenues, leading to sharp declines in net income in the U.S. steel industry over the past two years (2012–2013), layoffs for thousands of workers, and reduced wages for many more."

https://www.epi.org/publication/surging-steel-imports/

Note this hides the real level of steel imports, since a lot of steel goes into things like imported vehicles, which are counted separately. For example, the Ford Focus (2017):

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/20/business/ford-focus-china...

> "Last year, the company said it planned to shift Focus production to a plant under construction in Mexico, primarily because of lower labor costs... Ford’s head of global operations, Joe Hinrichs, said the company would save $1 billion by building the Focus in China instead of Mexico."
ceos get fired all the time https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/19/success/ceos-getting-fired/in...

aside from those numbers, i suspect a good chunk of ceo drama is underreported, because if you publicly PIP them and kick them out, it will hurt the company.
It is not built yet. So it is theoretical. ... And Academic.
To me it just comes off as apologetics for more extractive/rent-seeking arrangements. Of course capitalists would like you to pay a subscription for everything you use.
WEF: "But...we want to put electrodes on their brain..."
Moreover, just a few years ago I was in a position where none of the free services I tried would allow me to report a specific form of taxable income I received (a stipend paid by a university in the form of a reimbursement that wasn't reported as W-2). I literally spent 12+ hours on my otherwise very basic taxes just trying to navigate the interfaces for the "free" services.

I ended up switching to the fillable forms after that; lo and behold it turns out it's a tiny adjustment to one line on the 1040 and is clearly explained in the instructions. If your taxes don't change much from year to year it's trivial to work out the form each year. Like you it's always taken me about 30 minutes after gathering the various forms together.
Here I am, a network security consultant, dreaming of quitting and being a bartender or owning a hookah bar.
Sensationalist might not have been the best word choice, I just kind of feel like the title is clout hunting or something by using the word choices it uses.
Where I live every house has a garbage can in front, trucks pick it up once a week, and every public space has multiple garbage cans that get emptied on a regular schedule. I didn't set the system up, and other than paying a bill every few months I'm not involved in running the system. Nobody is. It's provided for us and we take advantage of it. I visited Mumbai and Pune last year, and I saw the trash problem first hand, but I have a hard time pinning the problem on apathy versus simply not having a functioning sanitation system. In other words, if you take the most well-meaning person, leave them holding a piece of trash, then deprive them of anywhere to dispose of it, where do you think it's going to go?
arguably wall street shifted to investing in other hot sectors like computers (this was the 01960s and 01970s) and made capital more expensive for the steel industry, but then again the steel industry wasn't really posting the kinds of profits it had in the days of carnegie
Langchain has been a good project in the area: https://github.com/hwchase17/langchain
Never heard of durable execution until now, but I've wondered about it. When I write backend code, I have to keep asking myself "what happens if the server goes down during this line of code?" This is often an issue in the middle of a customer order, like the example here. I end up relying on the database for very many tiny little things, like recording the fact that the user initiated an order before I start to process it.

But how fast is this? IIRC each little insert in my DB was taking like 5ms, which would add up quickly if I were to spam it everywhere; I assume durable execution layers are better optimized for that. Do they really only snapshot before and after async JS calls, treating all other lines as hermetic and thus able to be rerun?
I think the spirit of the book is what you described as "be as generous as you can". The former reads like a Robert Greene book.
Tu-154 was hit by S300 rocket filled with TNT, not by S200 rocket filled by hexogen. Ukraine had no S300. End of story.

Yeah, it's the classic example of Russian propaganda machine: Russia blamed somebody else for their own error, then no evidence found for that blame, but it is too late to change opinion of peoples.
You're right, but there are real system level dynamics and complex incentives at play, and you don't do the actual problem any justice with such a skin deep dismissal.
Thank you for pointing out the articles. Along the way, I found several evenings of reading that should cover Raskin's ideas for the Macintosh in much greater detail:

https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/sites/mac/earlymac.html
Temporal is an implementation of a paradigm I got interested in back in 2019. I wasn’t at one of those companies that had heard about Cadence, so when I was searching around to see if anyone had actually already built this idea I’d come up with, I stumbled upon Zenaton. It’s no longer around, didn’t get PMF, so I was happy when Temporal came out of stealth mode a few months later - was nice to have my intuition in this area validated.

We’ve been using Temporal quite successfully in Go (and more recently Python) for a little while now. It could do with being a bit easier to get up and running with, but day-to-day usage is very nice. I don’t think I could go back to plain out message queues, this paradigm is a real time saver.

The biggest challenge is deciding how many things are nails for the hammer that is Temporal. You tend to start out using it to replace an existing mess of task orchestration; but then you realise its actually a pretty good fit for any write operation that can’t neatly work in a single database transaction (because it’s hitting multiple services, technologies, third parties etc).

You have to be careful to keep your workflows deterministic, but once you get used to the paradigm, it’s enjoyable.
Looks better than Meta's metaverse.
Destroying the world with vehicles makes a lot of money.
This company fuels the whole region ( suppliers etc ) where I live.

Workers there are paid more than average, however compared to US salaries that's not much.

So it's always perspective.
Chatting Our Way into Creating a Polymorphic Malware
Actually, saving the hashes of the objects into the executable itself, into a new section, would be enough. Then one would need to locate this section, confirm that the hashes there form a permutation of the canonical ones, relink the canonical objects in the same order, and check whether the resulting executable is the same byte-for-byte.
I feel like there should be a LLM architecture which includes "scratch space" - tokens the model can write to and read from which do not constitute part of its output. The trouble with current architectures is that they can only do a finite amount of computation per output token - they get one forward pass and then have to output something. Chain-of-thought reasoning allows the model to devote more computation to finding the answer, storing intermediate results in its output tokens. But this is silly - most of the intermediate tokens are not providing useful information towards solving the problem, they're just wasted computation:

>There are 16 balls in total.
>Half of the balls are golf balls.
>That means that there are 8 golf balls.
>Half of the golf balls are blue.
>That means that there are 4 blue golf balls.

For the number of forward passes being done to generate this text, only a few tokens are actually helpful - most are grammatical filler. Further, the model is losing information by being forced to project its state down to a single output token. Even more, the most probable one-step output may not even be the most informative or helpful!

It'd be much nicer if the model could write arbitrary, continuous-valued tokens to a private scratch space and then attend to those tokens as though they were words in the prompt while generating the actual output, potentially performing several forward passes per output token when necessary.

In short, if chain-of-thought prompting is such a good idea, we should bake it into the model. Obviously all of this is FAR easier said than done.
Umlauts are in Latin1, so it’s pretty shoddy software that couldn’t deal with that.
I love the color palette and music, really relaxing and it was a nice surprise to see it is multiplayer

Works really well on Firefox for Android too!
The Mendocino forest was where I spent the night one time for the Mendocino Rally, sleeping in the back of my truck, and the sky really looked 3D with all the stars.
Or you could not use a scripting language and save 50 times the cost
Not automatically. It requires the use of a (new in Android 12) API. But you're otherwise right.
What is the depreciation on a car in terms of trade-in value? You always get less as a trade-in than if you sold it to a third party. The reason you do it is convenience and inertia.
She also sat on it for seven months so that it wouldn't affect her election bid. She knew all along it was going to be gutted and didn't do her job when it would have hurt her.
You always have private options. They will require payment and may require travel, but the option is there for those who can afford it. And if not, the public option is there, albeit slow and under-resourced.
When entire teams are getting axed all bets are off. But even in that case your manager being buddies with the VP is going to help a little
Really lovely. Reminds me of the Studio Ghibli films.
which, intuit bought mint.com for $170 million dollars, so that's not a bad play.
Efficiency of producing Ammonia is 15%? How is this ever going to be practical?
As an ancillary point, I think ICs and anyone who isn't empowered to influence things should turn a blind eye to them, and do the absolute least you can to get your work done. Obviously exaggerating a bit here, but you should absolutely not try very hard at a bigger company. Distance yourself emotionally from the political powers at play, and just do the things that are asked of you, no more. The idea that hard work == more reward is a fantasy that boomers' retirement depends on.

Your last example is the opposite of this, if there's a clear path between work and outcome, either for the company and/or yourself, then make a call that works for you.