skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The great extinction events are just icing on the cake. We get hit by rocks quite often, one of the most recent notable ones being the one that caused the Burckle Crater in the Indian ocean. The crater is 29km in diameter and the impact happened roughly 5000 years ago. The ocean impact would have created a mega-tsunami that devastated the coastlines of Australia, India, Africa, and South Asia. God knows what the fallout from it would have looked like but it would have vaporized a lot of water and also flung masses of ejecta into the atmosphere. Land impacts can be a lot worse since the damage isn't just limited to the impact site, that ejecta again creates a large radius of splash damage. Then there are the fires, the smoke, a nice dusting of radioactive material, and don't forget the shockwave and overpressure.

We've been lucky so far but you'd have to be a fool to rely on luck forever.
7 in 10 Canadians worried about protecting their online privacy, survey finds
I guess it's an edgy joke writer but I was still taken quite back after it suggested this as a punchline to my prompt "It just started snowing in norway, and my wife just called me trying to explain why shes so freaked out"

Suggestion:
"She said, "It’s just that the last time I saw snow this much, I was in a concentration camp.""
Symfony. It's just so much fun to work with.
> The second point, a job is always transactional

Precisely. Corporations made jobs always transactional. Now the employees and the public are making corporations transactional by affording them no sympathy or loyalty whatsoever.
"Move fast and break things" should be followed by "commit criminal negligence and go to jail!"
Infectious disease epidemics certainly affects the commons.

Typically spreads through the atmosphere even.
All of the comments so far have talked about mechanical things (researching investment vehicles, what percentage to save, etc), but in my experience to move beyond a paycheck-to-paycheck lifestyle the biggest change you need to make is psychological. You can do all the research you want, but if you don't change your mindset around money it won't make any difference.

In my case I was lucky. At the age of 25 I was also living paycheck-to-paycheck, and did an obnoxious 5 week trip around Europe which left me broke and unable to make rent. I had to ask my father for a loan to get me through, and the whole experience of that was humiliating. Especially because I had built up a self image of being financially independent. Within a week of that humiliation I had set up a planning spreadsheet and set up savings goals to never have to beg for money again (and it worked).

Point being that, for me at least, setting up the spreadsheet was the easy part - the hard part was deeply having the psychological shift of "I really need to save money".
That's wrong. If everyone is doing something irrational that is a big inefficiency in the market and whoever does the opposite eg. hiring will get better outcomes as opposed doing it when all do.
Many years ago, I built a calendaring system and I ended up implementing iCalendar but in a database instead of a file. I would not recommend doing it the way I did, but I did come to the conclusion that if you want to support the same types of recurrences, you really should be very familiar with how icalendar handles things or you'll forget something important.
Not central Manhattan, but the average American could absolutely manage to live in NYC.
That's not what the rest of the world considers a "regulation"
I think deep knowledge of any assembly helps with any type of programming. You'll have very good perspective of how the CPU and RAM really work, even if modern CPUs are more complex and you have caching and out-of-order in the mix.
Thanks for this response. One thing that would make it even more compelling is citing sources.
Hemmingway [0] or Deepl Write [1] already help you with this. Fantastic products.

[0]:https://hemingwayapp.com/

[1]: https://www.deepl.com/write
At the very least the right to get a dump of your data after they close your account.

Also, for money things like PayPal, they should only be able to hold your funds for a reasonable amount of time, then they have to transfer them to your bank account. They should not be allowed to just keep your money.

For sales of digital items, they should not be allowed to revoke your access to the items you have bought. Maybe they should just have to provide a basic file download for a certain amount of time.
Probably the same reason it's bad at writing code, it just puts text together without knowing more about context.

Same thing with midjourney, it's just with images you dont notice it as much.
It's not just that the market will punish you less. Companies are hoping that the market will actually reward them for layoffs. Unfortunately, these moves can and will be damaging to long term prospects at some companies. But long term thinking isn't something markets generally care about.

It's up to companies to push back against market pressure to maintain long term progress, but it's a tough balancing act to do that while avoiding being punished by investors.
Maybe a dumb question, but how do you train a model that has already been trained? What is that process like?
That’s nowhere near analogous because between every working algorithm are massive gulfs of syntactic and semantic failure zones. This is not the case with human language, which is the whole power of both language production and language interpretation.

Is it more problematic than this person 1) not being represented, 2) having to pay exorbitant fees to be represented, or 3) having an extremely overworked and disinterested public defender?

I’m not convinced.

The idea that we need to wait to do this stuff until the people whose profession is under threat give “permission” is dismissible on its face and is exactly why we should be doing this is as quickly as possible. For what it’s worth, I mostly agree with you: I’m doubtful the technology is there yet. But that’s a call for each defendant to make in each new case and so long as they’re of sound mind, they should be free to pick whatever legal counsel they want.
If a leader makes poor decision after another, they will be penalized by the board (either in job prospects, having this job, or compensation).

Ultimately, the comp for the CEO is set by the board and that is determined by supply/demand (which inputes performance of the CEO). Penalizing someone for one mistake in anticipating the future would make a company so risk averse that returns would be very low - not a good outcome for the owners.
I wish I didn't learn geometry / poetry / accounting / biology in high school and instead learnt sales, marketing, web dev, and YNAB
The advocates of multi-member districts in the United States usually prioritize three- or five-member districts, or a mixture. Ten-member districts are unwieldy for voters, and the marginal increase in proportionality drops off quickly.
I feel that the original post rubbed me the wrong way. The whole "others have it worse, so toughen up" doesn't serve to help anyone.
No ultra sonic sensors, no real blind spot monitoring system, no summon function because of sensor removal(which is still advertised).
Definitely no mvc or mvt bs. No frameworks. All from scratch, because I enjoy coding.
I don't hate leading underscores on _private_function or _class variable, in fact I think it's a great way to semantically signal intent

The double underscore for __super_private_function doesn't make much sense to me though. I can't see a reason why this shouldn't just be a single underscore, especially when __double_underscore__ signals very important python internals
Freakonomics recently did an episode about popular financial literature vs what academics say:

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/are-personal-finance-gurus-...
Those are the essential steps, yes.

(Spoiler: I worked on this feature @ Slite) But in practice, the effectiveness of your pipeline will depend greatly upon exactly how you implement each piece.

Here are some of the things we've had to consider and develop, in order for the Q&A to be production worthy:

- at which level is it best to encode documents (sentence, paragraph, whole doc) and how can those tiered embeddings be weighed effectively?

- how to use the natural document hierarchy in the workspace?

- where to add NLI, so we can actually compare in-model "does this statement imply that statement" rather than just comparing vectors

- how to prioritize passages using additional fine-grained ranking against the question (cross-encoding, etc)?

- how to compute a "confidence" score so that we actually take the generative (GPT) part out of the equation and bail out early, if the documents do no contain anything which strongly implies an answer to your specific query

These are just a few of the pieces. But what we learned quickly is that solving the problem of building a great Q&A means first solving many problems that are deeply intertwined with search algorithms, natural language understanding, and other text problems in general.
Back-end:
- Python 3.10 or 3.11
- Cloud functions 2nd gen as first choice (most pipelines & simple APIs)
- Cloud run for (more advanced) APIs with FastAPI

Databases
- Firestore for front-end related data
- BigQuery for Analytics

Front-end
- ReactJS with Hooks
- MUI Material
I'm clueless on the topic but was wondering: Does everyone have to have the same job title?
> Enough that email has had multiple attempts at becoming encrypted

But all those attempts have failed. One presumes that this is because people like email the way it is... simple to use.

> mailing lists are very defunct for any sizeable group.

Hmm... I still subscribe to at least half a dozen mailing lists, some of which have hundreds or thousands of members.
That CIO is brilliant. That's the kind of wisdom you get with experience. Always good when stakeholders ask for additional features because the MVP isn't completely throw-away and then my team doesn't know the language. Then they learn the language, but we need to hire new devs and grow, and no one in the market knows the language. I always tell the new hires that we have a lot of learning opportunities - Go, Ruby, Python, Elixir - you name it. All the fresh college grads can't wait to jump in and contribute within 2 hours of getting hired. My grand-grand father always said "If you can't pick up a new language in a day, you aren't a good programmer and don't belong on Hacker News." He also said using C#/Java/Python is "sus booomer ** fr".
I mean it's not like the sex worker spends the entire session talking about how they're all in it together and they're a team and then at the end releases a public statement about how difficult the decision not to cuddle was for them.
Surely you could see a case where an unwell person coughs on you or around you being comparable, right?
Neuropsychiatric researchers rethink what depression might be
By what specific measure are we sicker than ever?

Show your work.
I'd rather have judges at the lower levels rely on some AI assistance. The level of utter incompetence that I've witnessed personally has been hard to comprehend.
If blogging is dead because of AI, videos are not far behind. I'm already curating away a couple channels a week on YouTube that are pure AI spam, either videos that just steal content from others and use AI to drive a collection of clips (which will only get more sophisticated) or put a TTS-driven monologue over something, where the Text being converted To Speech might as well be AI-driven.

And the human videos are already so optimized for The Algorithm that a good deal of them might as well just cut out the middleman and be written by an AI, for the AI. ("This Breaks the Internet - Reacting to Reaction Videos Reacting To Reaction Videos". You can see the thumbnail already, can't you?)

Yeah, they're behind for now, but all the infrastructure is there for this to explode the instant they're not. Video operations putting out dozens of crap videos a week with nonfunctional "hacks" and all sorts of similar things will be in an arms race to pivot to these things and there's no chance the video site's moderation will be able to keep up with this in the end.
How so? It is a theoretical CS paper, what do hardware limitations have to do with it.

>So if their algorithm never converges with your input, it's not a counterexample?

No, if their algorithm never converges when calculated by hand it is a counterexample. If their algorithm never converges only because of rounding behavior in IEEE754 as implemented by Intel, then it isn't a counterexample.
This is not nearly as impressive (or useful) as the other posts, but when ChatGPT was released I developed this toy site almost entirely thru prompts.

http://goodvibeai.com/

I told it to gen a bunch of heartwarming messages, make a website to display them, now make it have a color gradient, now make the text fade in and out, now have the site have a button to play an audio file, etc etc etc

Spent more time hosting it via GitHub than making the site, really blew my mind in terms of the creation process.
It slightly misses the point that actual threshold depends on inflation. 20% annual return on an insured bank deposits is absolutely normal for currencies with 25% annual inflation.
>I'm getting "nuke the legacy system without bothering to really understand what it does" vibes here

Not really. Are you suggesting that it isn't pretty difficult to navigate the legal system? Saying something is wonky and needs to be fixed does not automatically mean "Anarchy Now!"

My point was that I think I do understand what the system does, and what it does is (largely) provide lots of work for people in the legal system. You see this when buying a house. You end up writing a bunch of checks to companies and people and it's not clear exactly what actual necessary service they provide, but it's not like you can NOT do it. Their service is necessary because the real estate laws make it necessary.

In other industries we know this as regulatory capture. This is just regulatory capture of the regulatory system.

>Jury nullification is not an unalloyed good.

Nothing is an unalloyed good. To bolster your example, OJ got to walk as well. This is why there is an entire industry built up around just the jury selection process.
>we also a stronger protections for private entities being strong-armed by state actors.

It's important to note that this also needs (though I suspect that it already does) to apply to hosting providers and ISPs. (We need one for banks and payment processors, too, but one step at a time.)

The whole "just make your own Internet" will ultimately be the death of free thought; in some respects, this has already happened. Cloudflare in particular makes a bundle on flat out illegal content; forcing them to moderate everything or just accept everyone's business (and ensuring ISPs can't blackhole routing requests) would likely be an improvement, and not one the enemy can as easily influence (as there's no viable "our payment processors said so" excuse).

Of course, then the enemy will just amp up their efforts through the banks or the app stores, but one less avenue of attack they have is always better.
I think AI can make people better thinkers for sure! Look at what AlphaZero did for Chess - it basically showed that humanistic ideas can still thrive at the highest levels of computer chess (think like intentionally hanging a piece, dynamic positional play, trapping opposition pieces, sacrifices that don't pay off for several turns, etc...) rather than brute forcing a position. I'm sure the top players all learned quite a lot about the game through watching AlphaZero, and I'm sure they've all implemented those lessons into their own games.
Even most software isn't intended to be absolutely precise, but rather to be precise enough for a given task.
"DoNotPay seems to know very well what they’re doing."

What makes you think that? What they are doing is illegal. It's the unlicensed practice of law.
Ok, but is there also a rational component to this advice?
It’s striking to me how not-funny all the responses it gave me were
Ouch, one of the Zingers I got was clearly a child porn joke.
An Update on AI Inventorship and Authorship Cases
> But this attitude only upsets people who thought jobs were not transactional

It's entirely possible to believe your job is transactional while expecting accountability for all underperforming colleagues, at all levels. Rather than just the rank-and-file.
I built Call Stacking ( https://callstacking.com/ ), a modern Ruby on Rails debugger, with Jumpstart Pro and 1.5 hours a night over the course of 4 months.

We have four kids, host an exchange student, a new puppy. Our schedules are full.

Nothing compares to the productivity of Ruby on Rails. Especially when coupled with a high-end template like Jumpstart Pro ( https://jumpstartrails.com/ ).
Ford snags CR crown from GM in driver assistance rankings, Tesla ‘falls behind’
Tech job bloodbath comes to IBM, CFO links layoffs to Kyndryl, Watson Health
I think the notable thing here is; this is really a Redhat layoff since IBM "subsumed" or reverse merged or whatever it was with Redhat. My take is that IBM has been a barely warm carcass for > 20 years already and the Redhat deal did nothing to change that. Here I'm certain that the layoff will be onshore, and the continued hiring will be offshore. That's what they've been doing forever, and their lack of growth and innovation continue to reflect it.
The bookcase analogy sucks and is only comparable to watching broadcast TV without a DVR. This market segment has undoubtedly become more diminished each year, with the proliferation of DVR, then streaming services and smartTVs. I would wager that the majority of consumers have at least a DVR and/or a paid streaming service.
The CEO answers to the board, and the board is usually of the type to at least ask the question "Everyone is jumping off a bridge, why aren't we?"

And sadly the easiest answer is "we ARE jumping off the bridge, see?"
> Another big place of interflow of culture is with manga/anime subcultures, which are produced and consumed by a very specific part of Japanese society in the first place, then exoticised a great deal by the types of internet communities where it is popular.

More niche but in a similar vein I was a bit disappointed to find not everyone was an extreme metalhead in Norway and that most people were normal too.
Doesn't look like it. Parent acknowledged the existence of tools like those, which only correct their english style. Note they said they were writing philosophy papers and wanted a tool that could be constantly trying to disprove them.
> What's the difference between a mathematician and a chicken?
The chicken only has one function.
EU’s proposed CE mark for software could have dire impact on open source
If you're paycheck to paycheck, the first thing to do is cut spending.

Generally the biggest expense (after housing) is food and the easiest to replace is entertainment. Don't eat out and cancel all your non-utility subscriptions/recurring charges.
So, the same scenario we're currently in.

Jamming a gun barrel so the bullet can't leave the chamber isn't a method of making a gun safe.
Author here. Haha yes, I forgot to mention the horror of being at friends / family members who do watch television.

> Amazing deals are available on previous-generation top-end hardware!

Might be a good strategy when raising kids who want to play videogames: pretend the previous generation is state of the art. Hard to achieve, but a man can dream...
For sure, it's legit. However, it's a full time job requiring a specific set of skill, training, knowledge and non-trivial upfront capital. It's not something one is looking for when they ask for financial advice, more so when they are living pay check to pay check.
The question isn’t whether 3 balloons of 500 grams of sulphur dioxide is dangerous, the question is should rando startups be allowed to put toxic chemicals in our air. What if they decided their experiment of 1.5kb of sulphur dioxide was a success? What is the obvious next step? 1500kg, 1.5Mg? Ten more startups doing the same, realizing whoever gets there first will make money?
Oh my sweet summer child....

As someone who lived through the .COM crash and implosion and then 2008, any company with "strong cash reserves" and "trajectory to profitability" is not making more money than they are spending. They are, to use the SV term - losing runway. This is catastrophic because it's infeasible to raise money right now to extend the runway. If the plane is not airborne (making significantly more money than they are consuming) by the end of the runway, they crash and burn, taking themselves and the company's investors with them.

My experience has been highly capitalized, but running way in the red are the worst possible place to hide when a significant economic event occurs. Confluent has raised capital 11 times (from a quick crunchbase article) and has a product that is open source core, giving its customers an escape path.

I'd also point out that this is a bit snowflake. The average annual corporate turnover rate is way higher then this number. If not for the immediacy of the headwinds, almost every company could handle this by simply not rehiring after attrition.
Because influencer is another way to say individual advertiser. Nobody wants more advertising.
I'm increasingly frustrated by the amount of people willing to give up control of their own thought processing. At what point do you decide, I'm good enough and don't need to improve, I'll make the AI do it for me!
> Both Chrome and Safari greet me with multiple load errors…

FWIW, all appears to work fine for me in current versions of both Safari and Chrome. I wonder what the difference might be?
It has. It's just very slow.

A third party can ignore legacy. It can break stuff. It can avoid supporting platform. It can have a big bug and push a fix the day later. It can skip red tapes. It can document after the fact. It can drop features the next year. It can requires pypi dependancies when the stdlib is not sufficient. It can be by a single author that don't have to ask anybody what they think about before creating something. It can skip security issues and focus on practicality.

CPython cannot.

So any change to the packaging story will always take years for the smalles thing.

That's the same for removing the GIL: touching the c api is a huge deal for the scientific and machine learning stack.

That's why requests has never been included in python despite being vendored with pip: you can never update it fast enough once it's in the stdlib.

That's why we don't have node_modules equivalent yet: autoloading code in the current directory would be a big security risk for a language that is included in many os by default so we need a good design.

Don't assume the team is incompetent or deaf. Given what has already been achieved, that would be a total mismatch.
As long as CXO takes real responsibility by cutting their salary to a significant percentage and refusing stock refreshers (or whatever called) I'm fine. By saying "I take full responsibility" but still maintains the original pay is not convincing. Since tech CXOs usually take very large stock and cash compensations (well into multi-millions), just imagine how much cost can be saved by cutting all CXO compensation by 50%.

The company can also initiate a vote of all employees to remove this cut of CXO compensations, so that if CXO is really doing well overall I'm sure he will be recognized and his compensation defended by the whole company.