skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've replaced most of Zulip's Python linters with Ruff, and it's hard to understate how big of a difference it makes for linters to be lightning fast.

Ruff has essentially all the features of major Python linters (pyflakes, flake8, pylint, pycodestyle, autoflake, even isort), and it runs more than 100x faster than the fastest of them. In practice, this means this portion of our Python linting toolchain, which previously was a thing you had to wait for on a codebase of our size (or even when linting individual large files), now completes in under a second even when checking the entire codebase.

(It can't replace `black` or `mypy` yet, though the linked post describes plans to replace `black`, which I'm very excited about).

I can't recommend it enough.
I feel you - last time I decided to move jobs, back in 2019, I had a week where I had an onsite every day, and by the end I was just done.
Why are you discrediting the authors points based off of a fluff sentence in the introductory paragraph? Typically the arguments themselves are evaluated based on their own merit.

The "popular" in pop culture and the "public" in publics understanding are referring to the same thing, so I don't understand your confusion. The only thing that's really being implied by the sentence is that scientific understanding doesn't dominate the public understanding of artificial intelligence as much as pop culture does.
Ask HN: Are older programmers/computer scientists more impressed with ChatGPT?
One might expect this since they have seen chatbots fail to impress for a longer time.
I'm a bit more cynical. I think it's perfectly in line with reality.
Plenty of such stuff is going on. [1] is the list of reactors designs the Department of Energy is working on.

[2] is the legwork the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is doing to prepare for the approval process on non light water reactor designs.

As for the slow wave reactors, it looks like that idea was put on a back burner. Fast reactors are much more exciting anyway.

[1] https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2020/05/f74/Advan...

[2] https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/advanced.html
Isn't that chalked up to the normal distribution? Can you really blame people who fall under the left side of the curve?

Look at page 9 of this PDF.

[1]:https://www.westga.edu/academics/research/vrc/assets/docs/th...
My friend immigrated from Ukraine in her 50s, without any money and with very rudimentary English. She became a millionaire by opening a network of cheap kindergartens. Now retired with a nice portfolio of real estate properties.

Generally, any immigrant from a poor country starts from a much worse place than yours, but they have a huge positive gradient in their lives that serves as a motivation.
Maybe you're having a bad day, but expressing yourself in such sarcastic terms isn't going to win you any friends. These things are hard to control for, but perhaps you can suggest a better method, bearing in mind that respondents to this survey are self-selected and presumably care about managing their own light sensitivity to some degree.
> a best-of-breed piece of future predicting code called Spark

You read it here first, folks: Apache Spark is software that predicts the future, not just a distributed job runner for in-memory datasets.
Seriously? That's Orwellian.
People miss flights all the time. You have to get really unlucky for a one-off flight miss to result in a ban
I don't consider non-beef products real food. Everything but the beef is just seasoning. I'd say beef has been my main source of nutrition for... not 2002, but a long time. Including a couple times of carnivore, but that wasn't quite for me. I miss the seasoning :)
Type annotations and runtime checking for shape and dtype
I agree. This paper also has issues in the areas I'm familiar with (e.g. Jukebox: being "limited to English songs" is the least of its issues). I don't know why it was randomly submitted to HN.
> The U.S. Senate exists to protect the interests of landowners against the overwhelming interests of population centers.

No? There's no special property qualification to vote in a senate election.

The Senate exists protect the interests of states as independent political units. That's why senators were originally appointed by state legislatures (i.e. the state governments).
I think Lewis Hamilton and Phelps — really, any athlete with household name status — are not just one but multiple orders of magnitude better than other professionals in their field.

I agree that the consistency is the hard part. I heard a take on this once that argued "10x" is more of a contingent state than something inherent to an individual, but if someone can consistently outperform their peers labeling them as such doesn't seem at all unfair.
Notebook (and occasional vent) for me too!

Also, I hope that little snippets I've posted to solve particular problems, eg how to post a toot directly from Java which I couldn't find elsewhere and know wouldn't be hard because it's one line in curl, will help others, eg:

https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-68.html#202...

Rgds

Damon
It's a cover-your-ass move. The seller's agent explicitly tells the seller that they shouldn't answer any questions directly, because saying the wrong thing could create a liability. Admitting awareness of a problem can be used against you.
> The UK's chef's union, Unichef, told the Guardian the accounts highlighted the need for greater diversity in kitchens - including more women - to help stamp out what it described as a "playground bullying" culture.

I think women are just being intelligent and self-selecting themselves out of that garbage.
> It's absolutely alarming that a dubious story about viral exposure at a wet market can gain so much undeserved traction worldwide, while the unquestioned use of antibiotics at factory farms elicits barely a word.

There are obvious propaganda efforts here. Plus dubious though it may be, it's also possible it's the truth. Swineflu happened in similar ways.

> A safe and effective vaccine, while welcome and important, only kicks this can down the road - and not very far. The threats of resistant pathogens are difficult to overstate.

How does it do so? Vaccines appeared to be effective at eradicating polio and smallpox

> Let's start talking seriously about this issue. Please. Tell your friends.

Regardless, I do agree it is a concern.
I think there's something bigger going on. At work we have non-Google accounts and it's gotten worse there as well. Like all of a sudden about 3 or 4 months ago, I just started getting bunches of very very obvious spam that wasn't caught by our previously pretty good filters. (Subjects like "Meet Russian Brides" and From fields of "Foo Print Advertisement", etc.) I wonder if someone has figured out how to game the current system or something?
Without the debt Musk put on Twitter they could at least go longer
Yeah, lets see if it predicts Databricks future.
Welcome to socialism. This is what actual socialists want. Everyone to have ownership in the company and participate in it's success. Where the decisions are made democratically by workers.

In the modern world, you will see this in co-ops today.
right as if oops they just accidentally/on a whim filed all the paper work and hired HR and accountants... woke one day with a billion dollar company
> We are aiming for automatic cost of living increases within job grades - to avoid the need to job hob endlessly - and objective performance reviews between grades.

Are you looking at fine-grained grades where the COLA would adjust the pay bad for the grade, but you’d also expect fairly regular grade promotion with good performance? With my (unionized, public sector) employer, COLAs that adjust pay bands are not automatic but are negotiated in each contract, but with satisfactory performance there is an automatic 5% annual increase within the band for your class until you top out.
That was a good one
HCOL cities is a policy choice that is somewhat independent of city density, that seem to be the worst in english speaking countries, pointing to a potential flaw in the culture or shared legal systems. There are many high density cities that are more livable than the USA and significantly more affordable. Cities managed efficiently are the most economically and environmentally sustainable places to have humanity live in by far.
Sounds very similar to my early 2020 - mid 2022. Got a "dream role" at Apple that utilized my niche expertise, was assigned to a high-value component of a high-impact project that sounded like a perfect fit.

2022 comes around and we have a barely functional prototype that was initially due to be shipped in mid 2021, constant turn-over in software engineering and product management, the front-end that had been build didn't align with the back-end due to a complete lack of project coordination, but felt tied to the role due to stock grants.

Left to join a 4-person start-up founded by one of my good friends from college and haven't looked back since :)
InstructPix2Pix: GPT-3 and Stable Diffusion
The Hue Dimmer Switch V2 has standard mounting holes on the back plate. You’d need to remove the existing switch.

https://tweakers.net/productreview/292224/philips-hue-dimmer...
> imagine we didn't have feature X, how would you add it to the product?

I think pulling specific ideas from your actual system is full of traps. These are probably problems you've thought of - both actively and passively - for days, months, or even years.

The person you're interviewing has had no such benefit, and it might be very hard for the interviewer to be able to separate what they think is reasonable and what is actually reasonable.
> More people than you might imagine take Xanax to get through interviews.

You know, that's actually a great idea I never thought about. I'll see if I can get a script next time I go through interview loops. Might make the process less hellish for me, I hope.
Comparisons of policies between different countries is notoriously error prone because often there are so many differences between the populations.

If you look at the US compared to itself over time, increased policing and encarceration (such as during the 90's) does in fact lead to lower crime. The relative absence of policing and prosecution since 2020 have resulted in a sharp increase in crime.

I'm certainly open to the idea that sentences should be shorter, but I think that would need to come with a corresponding increase in the number of police - and in their willingness to enforce laws. This would be under the theory that increasing the odds that you will be punished is more of a deterrent than increasing the severity of the punishment.
Thermochemical hydrogen — solar or nuclear — has been studied for a while. The simulation thermodynamic efficiency numbers are excellent (beating electricity generation by 1.5-2x), but the reaction cycles in practice tend to leak process chemicals or corrode equipment too quickly to be sustainable (even losing, e.g., 0.1% of your iodine per cycle is unacceptable). I believe Japan is considering a reactor made of tantalum. Canada started such a project in 2010 that was supposed to be online by 2016ish but has continued hitting roadblocks.
I’m not sure where blame is entering the equation. Is it possible to describe a phenomena without assigning blame?
in agda, I think ctrl-c ctrl-a is the "I feel lucky" button. Plfa is definitely good, Connor Mcbride is pretty good too https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqggUNm8QSqmeTg5n37ox...

and yes programming with holes is almost magical. I really like "run as much as you can" then complain when you get stuck. kind of a mind blowing change for me.
I was genuinely glad I didn't get those offers as it would be awkward turning them down. As an example, in one of the cases they were looking for someone who could do a lot more frontend/product work (something I don't have much experience in) so even if I did join, I wouldn't do well. That would suck both for me and the company.

(yes, it is a bit of cope - but hey, it's only through interviewing/learning more that you find bad fits)
>I'm somewhat impressed

Read "Bad Blood" then...
One time a fellow intern and I were isolating single colonies of spirulina (many bright green algae* cells in a spiral [1], which is roughly 50 micron wide and maybe 15 micron tall, if memory serves), and I got one colony on it's own in a drop of water under a microscope (using a special pipette & the wick effect for suction).

I took my eyes off of the eyepiece, and looked at the drop of water. I could see a bright green dot in the middle, right where I'd left my spirulina.

I asked the other intern if they saw it too; they did. It was a magical moment.

I had a similar experience when I was doing something with H. pluvalis (an algae that turns bright red and forms a film under stress [2], you've likely seen it in a birdbath or shallow puddle) and I put this film under the microscope, looked at it, and saw it was 1 cell thick. I'm confident if I had gotten a single one of those cells on it's own, I could've seen it. Can't confidently remember how big they were, but large on the scale of cells you find in a drop of water (maybe 25 micron in diameter?), but smaller than most animal cells.

* Technically a cyanobacteria and not an algae, but if a lay person looked at a pond of it they'd say to themselves, "that's a bunch of algae"

[1] https://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/1-spir...

[2] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/51511761e4b0323b0...
At least two of them already had that background, though. They weren’t blank slates: “billionaire startup alumni founds second billionaire startup with new colleagues” would be a perfectly accurate title.

> Stoica was an exec at $300 million video streaming startup Conviva, while Shenker had been the first CEO at Nicira, a networking firm sold in 2012 to VMware for about $1.3 billion
From your description I’m not sure you understand Mastodon. People who don’t know about it and read your description will get the wrong impression, at least.

You can follow someone on any Mastodon server from your account on any server. It’s not siloed like Discord (which, ironically, actually is a centralized service!) - it’s much more like Twitter than Discord in real use.

There may be no official ‘core experience’, but there is a de-facto ‘core experience’: a stream of posts from people you follow, from any server, in chronological order.
iPhone 14 128GB Prices by Country
Git doesn't have a good concept of a mainline branch when going back past a merge. It simply records more than one parent for that commit and not which branches they were on before they got merged.

Mercurial does somewhat better in that department by storing the branch name in the commit, so you can pick the parent on the same branch reliably.
We've banned this account for posting flamebait and unsubstantive comments and generally breaking the site guidelines a lot.

Please don't create accounts to do that with; it will eventually get your main account banned as well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yeah I don't understand why software engineers buy into the libertarian pov.. Professors, doctors, nurses, teachers, police, fire, electricians, plumbers and so on are unionized. Not everywhere but lots of places.
As part of the deprecation plans, I updated the look of that site to match modern GitHub branding a little better.
> Yes, there's also abstinence.

I assume they meant monogamy. Or for those who can't go with just one sexual partner, condoms are a thing.
I think that's more of an issue with 'hidden city ticketing'/deliberately missing connections, because it's cheaper than buying a ticket to the layover location.
As others have commented, my team at work use SVN because it's what somebody is confident to manage with svn+ssh protocol and want to keep it internal. Some projects use a "release" branch to which we merge when deploy is sensible, most projects haven't this branch and is just "trunk"/master. No more is needed. SVN works.
It's hilarious that even though I think my comment was misread, it turns out I think we both are right.

You read it as me talking about the military in the UK.

No I was talking about the Canadian military. They are bound to the queen and swear an oath to such, you know the one that lives in the UK.

It really illustrates the absurdity of the situation.
Hacker group incorporates DNS hijacking into its malicious website campaign
If something in your house is unsafe (root problem) and caused you an injury, you still have to treat the injury.
Pay walled, so I can't see your article. This article references a survey with a fairly small sample size. I found one other article that claimed what you are, but they were stupidly comparing millennials' lifetime average of 8 to boomers lifetime average of 10, even though boomers have been around almost twice as long (millennials would likely track to surpass boomers at the same age). That's why I was curious for more (open) data.

https://www.the-sun.com/lifestyle/4479617/average-number-sex...
No Riffusion, no VALL-E, no Point-E either.
Get a 13 mini while you still can the n
New demo available on Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/spaces/timbrooks/instruct-pix2pix
I think we're all affected to different degrees. I've done a few interview loops in the space of a couple weeks and it never got easier. It just got worse as my insomnia got worse. I feel it's a miracle I can pass interviews at all since I'm operating at like 10%.
When you were a delivery driver, were you a W-2 employee? Doordash is not that - it's more like a live service market where you bid for delivery from a driver and Doordash attempts to match your order to a driver, all of whom are self employed (1099). They've got to pay all their vehicle expenses and in theory get something for their time, meanwhile Doordash is a middle-man and trying to squeeze both sides of the transaction. When it works, it is pretty impressive, but mostly it just seems like a Mug's game.
I'm aware of enclosure, but it doesn't conflict with the notion of accumulated capital. Aside from precious metals, wealth in the agrarian world was often measured in fixed quantities of organic outputs - mostly grain, but also raw textile, etc. This is capital. It can be exchanged for goods, services, and real property. A 10th century merchant was a capitalist. He accumulated wealth and used it to expand his enterprise. This had a compounding effect and made some people very wealthy. Owning a fleet of trading ships is a business.
> Also, nice styling here: http://revontulet.org/2023/01/19/lisadesk.png.

That site blocks my ISP.
You don't travel much, do you? Worst case, you loose the money spend on the ticket and you have to buy a new one. Unless, of course, you planned for a pretty long vacation anyway.
You are asking to the wrong crowd.
Yes to 1 and 3. Hard no for 2.
The other common alternative are boiling water reactors:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_water_reactor
Security pros say 3rd parties are increasingly cause of cybersecurity incidents
If they hurry up and release a microblogging feature, then I think it will be Substack.
You’ll have a hard time convincing people to trade lights that make them feel safe right now here on Earth for the ability to see some stars light years away that they don’t give a fuck about.
Nuclear weapons use and nuclear meltdown don't have comparable radiation fallout. It's not even remotely similar. Nuclear bombs release radiation in a bang (usually disappearing in a couple days, IIRC), but nuclear melt downs release materials that continue to be radioactive (for an eternity).

Think about Chernobyl vs Hiroshima. Chernobyl is uninhabitable and will remain so for a very long time. Hiroshima was rebuilt in the exact same spot that was destroyed and is a healthy, thriving city, by all accounts.

Even in some far out place, nuclear fallout in some far out place will eventually make its way into the air and water of the world, count on it.
China’s Global Mega-Projects Are Falling Apart
Violent crime & affordability issues in cities is a choice set by policy makers to make some politically connected people richer, it is not an attribute of cities. Poverty stricken rural places are just as bad, or even worse in many cases.
If I'm dead then being able to run an AI locally doesn't matter anyway
It varies from company to company. For some, usually the executive team comes up with a percentage of costs that need to be removed and then the message for team managers is to identify the individuals. For others, it's silent and it's more crude - based on numbers/tenure/etc. and automatically filtered by HR and accounting teams and doesn't take into account product/operations. Sometimes, consulting firms would come in and recommend team structures and sizes that drive layoffs as well.
Boy wasn’t it fortunate that some of them had done all this paperwork and exec-ing before in successful tech startups! They might have really struggled without a shit-ton of business background!
They just added GoToSocial support [0], and they are adding support for more instance types [1]

[0] https://github.com/Dimillian/IceCubesApp/pull/135

[1] https://github.com/Dimillian/IceCubesApp/issues/16
I disagree. I believe it works much better to start low level and then use higher level languages.

You start by learning how to do math on paper before being given a calculator.
Sometimes there is too much hype regarding new technologies and to add it to your tech stack is worth nothing
It's a silly argument. Me donating half my salary, today, doesn't make any sense because it won't materially impact anything.

If there were a stronger social safety net and everyone had to pay a bit more in tax, then that would actually impact something.
As the article notes, US and Mex have bilateral extradition so it’s doubtful she intended to stay there to escape prison. She was likely going on to another country after that.
Yup, that's how we stole few good people off other departments.
Tell HN: Jan 2023 has already had 1/3 of the total yearly tech layoffs for 2022
According to https://layoffs.fyi/ we have now had 55,324 tech layoffs in 2023 vs 155,126 in 2022.

Given that we are 2/3s of the way through January, at this pace we would eclipse 2022 layoffs around the beginning of march
https://archive.is/Q9ohX
> Twitter can’t go forever at a loss.

But for nonrecurring expenses, Twitter was profitable before Musk’s buyout both torpedoed ad revenue (when it was announced, before it was even completed) and saddled it with massive expenses to finance the buyout.

The acquisition is literally the only reason it is any concern how long Twitter can operate at a loss.
As a layman in modern physics, I struggle to understand the shape and size of a photon as a wave. As far as I understand, e.g double slit experiment would implicate that the size of a single photon wave would be clearly macroscopic in nature. Is there any text available that would discuss this without a need of Ph.D in physics?
JSX has an Async "tag"...

Let that sink in.

<Async></Async>
I went from air traffic controller in my 20s to data scientist (economist as DS is vague in specialization) in my 30s.

1. I realized the hours of ATC were not for me and began graduate school in international relations, while I was finishing that I applied for grad school again this time in economics.

2. Got hired as a data scientist for a labor market economics firm, and upped my skillet. Now work as a data scientist manager for a cyber security company. They hired because of my economics background, needed someone for financial/economic risk quantification of cyber events.
3. You have to realize you'll go from expert to beginner again. You'll have experience in the work force but from a domain perspective you're a beginner.

It was a great decision!
Possibly a light pollution from industrial greenhouse. There is one near Wrocław (Poland) and tourists are constantly asking "what is that spooky light in the sky?".

https://miejscawewroclawiu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/IMG...
the app does something new and requires a new codebase. Of course it's going to cost extra