skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The aliens must have picked up CSPAN from the Oumuamua probe, translated the proceedings of US congress, and confirmed the absence of intelligence in the system.
Yeah, what's the matter with four billion human beings?
Blockchain folks trying to show wins as the financial noose tightens.
Storing data in the metadata reminds me of the $5000 compression challenge: https://www.patrickcraig.co.uk/other/compression.htm
What would happen if a human lawyer did that?
>It is not uncommon for Gothic cathedrals to be left unfinished

Let's not forget the spectacular Sagrada Familia. It's worth so much, unfinished that I assume Paris will learn from this with the Notre Dame.
> People in Africa living in villages don’t get depresse

Holy shit yes they do, I don't know where this myth comes from!

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266724212...
I think this is a very overblown concern that will not be a big issue in practice… at least not for a number of years.
“If exercise could be packaged in a pill, it would be the single most widely prescribed and beneficial medicine in the nation.”

Robert Butler
"EV drivers who charge up at home spend about $11.60 per 100 miles"

Hmm... My Bolt gets something over 4m/kwh, let's call it 4 even, so 100 miles is 25kwh - about $4 at current pricing in Colorado. So I'm not thinking I need to pay much attention to this article.
what about accountability to the people who took a risk investing in the company?

maybe the CEO didn't predict the future however many months or years ago to get to a point where no layoffs would've been necessary, but maybe this would've been at the cost of less growth, possibly having worse consequences

the idea of "humanity" is completely opaque, it's not that hard to look at the reality instead
> It can weaken your resume. For example, if you consider common skills like Jupyter notebook and git your competitive advantage (the only reason to include them in your resume), I would automatically assume that you have no other competitive advantage.

Yes, but I am forced to include git to ensure that other companies won't throw my resume out for now listing git.
I mean if your company makes ~150M a quarter and has operating expenses of 217M and cost of revenues of 53M a 6% cut towards your operating expenses isn't going to get you anywhere close to profitable.

https://investors.confluent.io/node/8031/html
The device in the article (an internet connected oven) is checking for internet connectivity by pinging: google.com, baido.cn yes, and yandex.ru every 5 minutes.

My guess is this isn't about sending data to those sites, but rather using relying on high availability urls that you can connect to from most countries.

Is this bad engineering? Probably. Is it nefarious? Probably not.

One thing to keep in mind is that the companies making these smart appliances do not make their money from the internet connected features. Internet connectivity may be enough for to push a buyer over the edge or for the device to qualify for some rebate.

The manufactures make them from selling ovens. This means they probably don't have the best software development team or processes.
Hey Cube! It does indeed run checks against the cloud as well for things like naming collisions and quota allocation
Composing Music with Cellular Automata
My area (OpenShift) is seeing no layoffs. Red Hat as a whole improved profitability 10% after adjustments for inflation.
The time between contracts is amazing. I spend loads of time with my kids and go on adventures.

I need to do about 4 months of work to cover my family's living expenses, then another 2 to make sure I've saved adequately for retirement, then ideally I take 6 months off.
Importantly they said within a year they will go public OR do a private market transaction to make employees liquid
We dont understand the brain nearly enough to form a cohesive
understaning of depression. (or many other brain related things).

Now, some are saying that gut flora might also be involved.
And possible genetic markers.
This would create a gigantic number of permutations.

I doubt we can ever "fix" depression with just drugs / chemical imbalance.
We may help it along.

Current treatment for depression, in so far as drugs are concerned, is
a doctor throwing an "anti depression" pill at you and askinf you to try it
for a while and see how you feel.

If you feel worse, or no better, you get to try another.

The loop repeats until something works better or until you are out of
alternatives.

In which case, if you have severe depression, options like
electrocution of the brain (forget proper English term) becomes
an option.

It is often successful, but usually must be repeated and it is not
a good thing for the brains other functionality.
If you want new art you probably want some form of IP. What's the incentive for an artist if at the first whiff of success their output is overtaken and resold by technocrats with machines?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disbarment
Men are increasingly dropping out of work during their prime working years, overdosing, drinking themselves to death, and generally dying earlier, including by suicide.

..And men are powering the new brand of reactionary Republican politics.

..Yet, for all the strides that women have made since gaining the right to vote, the highest echelons of power remain lopsidedly male. The detoxification of masculinity, progressives say, is a messy and necessary process; sore losers of undeserved privilege don’t merit much sympathy.

-- I mean, wow. This is like some Chinese cultural revolution shit.
Those bookings could be increased willingness to seek treatment rather than increased difficulties.
>people should be free to make spaces where they exclude some things

They are. The problem is such people want that freedom with none of the liability.
So only poor people suffer from depression?
Good to have savings or worse credit line to survive intermediary
Yes, it is disheartening. Technology shouldn't be held back by this copyright nonsense. Public domain? Come on. Public domain barely exists anymore with the modern multicentury copyrights.

What we need is enough computation power to run these models on our own computers, on our phones even. Then we'll be able to do whatever we want and there's nothing they can do about it.
We’re building a Nostr relay in Elixir if anyone is interested:

https://github.com/RiverFinancial/nostrex
pg did originally call it 'startup news' but i don't think you have standing to accuse him of 'appropriating' the term 'hacker' until you've hacked together something of comparable significance to on lisp or viaweb
You don't get to major failures once a decade (or less) on systems this complex without understanding and in fact being on the cutting edge (likely ahead of what you read in journal articles written by academics) of the statistical foundations of resiliency, n-modular redundancy etc.

In real-life outside of a journal article, it's a lot harder than just deciding whether you want to prioritize operating margin or resiliency at 5000 feet.

In real life when these sorts of edge cases happen, you have to understand in minutes or sometimes seconds the tradeoffs in terms of costs to your own company and your customers of one of n specific possible failure modes and risk-manage so you minimize the probability of the catastrophic outcomes. This sometimes may involve increasing the probability of low cost bad outcomes. You can't reason about this stuff before hand. If you could, you would have designed your system to not fail in that manner.
That is a function of your local market. There are always going to be places that have faster price declines than others.
Education designed around sitting quietly in classrooms, which is the opposite of how you get boys to excel (in general), but which is good for girls is a big problem. And there have been some efforts to begin addressing this, in some schools, but we need systemic changes in that area.

Obviously a lot more wrong, but fixing that would go a huge way on its own.
Also anecdotal, but everyone metabolizes these classes of drugs differently. I'm an "ultra-rapid metabolizer" of a slew of SSRIs, so they're next to worthless for me compared to other medications.
Axon halts its plans for a Taser drone as 9 on ethics board resign
So far recession has been narrative only.

All current economic indicators have been quite strong... employment, GDP, retail sales, wage growth. Nominal GDP is running close to 10%, which is massive relative to recent history.

There has been a pervasive media narrative that recession is imminent though. Many leading indicators are looking poor... survey metrics, shipping costs, growth rates have slowed (while still being strong). I consider these more "soft" datapoints though. A lot is a normalization of covid era excesses.

It's pretty clear from history that Fed tightening cycles end in recession the vast majority of times, but my bet is that long end rates (10y) will have to spike again to at or above 4% before we trigger an actual recession. The market has frontrun it far too early which became self-defeating
Only because you don't have the money or time to keep playing. But continue playing for 1 million years, and the black and red will hit a similar number of times and the green a proportionally lower number of times.
Personally I'd focus more on making a layoff less of a traumatic event than playing ultra safe with a low salary in a low risk company.

For most software engineers it's not hard to build up a significant emergency fund. I'd advocate for 6 figures. Feel free to invest 80% of that as well in something liquid. Keep at least 3 months in cash.
i’ve been using django/postgres for over a decade. if it were 5 years ago, i’d use django/postgres for every project.

but recently i would use cloudflare pages, r2, d1, zero trust… in many cases, we don’t want to put eggs in the same basket. but in some cases (eg, building mvp, toy projects…), it’s convenient to be on an all-in-one platform .

for example, i recently launched a cms entirely on cloudflare: https://www.microfeed.org/
Exactly, and maintaining neutrality in the face of absolute evil is immoral. Such neutrality justifies an equivalence between the aggressor and the victim and provides the evil with an advantage, because, suddenly, instead of punishment it will have to be dealt with in a civilised manner.
Granted, tech companies generally do not have unions.
Companies with union agreements, have not been laying off people.

I think it's silly when companies present the nonsensical rationale of "due to prevailing economic conditions" without qualification. As if these conditions (everyone else is doing it for some reason, so let's ride the stock boost) is obvious, decided, and not worth talking about.
I think it's funny because last night I built models to predict: (1) the probability that a headline gets more than 5 comments on HN, and (2) the probability that a headline gets more than 16 votes. Both of these have a similar probability of happening.

The model is a very simple logistic regression/bag of words model and it gets what I would usually call an awful ROC-AUC of 60%, off-the-cuff I'd say 1 article in 500 has a predicted probability of 30% of hitting it big.

Anyway three of the keywords that most strongly predict than article will not hit it big on HN are "Biden", "Elon" and "Musk". (But it says that "Richard Stallman has died" has a 70% or so chance of success... and those of you who are concerned about politically bias should know that my crawler has sucked down 2020-mid 2022 data so far so there isn't as much "Trump" in there as "Biden".)

I'm not so sure what my model thinks you think about sex, I'm going to have to go home and ask it.
how far away would you need them to be to detect/be able to respond

you could put LIGO-type "stationary" satellites around Earth to detect heavy things moving

in boxed grids then estimate trajectory over the affected cubes
> Training these models with extra data turns out to be incredibly expensive and relatively ineffective.

I can see that it's expensive, but have you tried it for effectiveness?

BTW, your approach is very cool here.
>It's not all gloom. ChatGPT is pretty decent at writing pleadings and legal argument when you feed it the necessary bits though.

I'm a lawyer working on a case involving neural networks. So I've been playing around with ChatGPT (for fun, its not involved in my case at all--the NN is a much different context) and trying to get it to do stuff like that. Maybe I'm not using the full feature set (does it have better APIs not accessible on the main page?) but it doesn't seem even close to being able to write pleadings or arguments.

It's surprising good at summarizing things that you might including pleadings or arguments though. But even then its got a 1/3 chance of fucking up massively.

But it's way more advanced than I imagined it would be. Very impressive technology.
Your post is itself dishonest by (gross) omission — you don’t even mention the Communications Decency Act, the legislation that introduced Section 230.

“The Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA) was the United States Congress's first notable attempt to regulate pornographic material on the Internet. In the 1997 landmark case Reno v. ACLU, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck the act's anti-indecency provisions.”

… leaving behind the indemnification provided by Section 230 intended to ensure that hosting providers were not liable for user content under the CDA.

That’s it. Nothing more complicated.
Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda Steps Down, to Be Replaced by Lexus Boss
Completely nonsensical! The justifications in the article aren't very convincing and are all things you can do with a regular, centralized DB setup.
No, that's never guaranteed. Housing is a speculative asset with consistent demand from both investors and residents. A recession may slow the growth of prices, but there's no guarantee they would drop.
A recent US president said about a large bill "we have to pass it just to see what's in it."
This company has been doing this stuff for years. Yes this is a big step forward but it’s not from zero, as you’re suggesting. What makes you think they haven’t been doing mock trials and tons of supervised learning?

And no, I’m not. I don’t think Defendant Zero (or one, or two, or 100) should be people whose lives would be seriously affected by errors. I’m pretty sure DNP doesn’t either.
Decades from now historians will examine and determine that one of the biggest factors that led to change was the fact that there were so many young men that were disengaged from society as one of the most powerful forces in shaping modern America.
I'm objecting to the idea, ethically, that a single person can own so much money. 1 billion is far beyond what anyone needs to have a comfortable life.

Whatever the line is, 1 billion is clearly on the other side of it. I'm not interested in sorites paradox-ing the question beyond that.
Eh, what if it was trained on all the previous cases ever to have existed? I think it could be pretty good, as long as it detects novelty as a to flag and confirm error case.
You should NEVER paste sensitive details to a third party service unless authorized
I have never used PostgreSQL before, but a fellow programmer has been talking about it, and I feel I will be using it soon.

I will bookmark your article, since it will come in handy, when I start dabbling in PostgreSQL.
We are currently prototyping Supabase with Nextjs on the frontend. Also looking at edge functions.
Thanks. I'll redo the screenshot.
> Why would you even have live rounds on set?

I'm going to guess "because america"
(((Many social scientists agree)))
I am suspicious of this story, however plausible it seems.

The source is given as a book; the Economist writer Shashank Joshi explicitly says that they describe the 'same story' in their article ("(I touched on the same story here: https://economist.com/technology-quarterly/2022/01/27/decept...)"). However, if you look at the book excerpt (https://twitter.com/shashj/status/1615716082588815363), it's totally different from the supposed same story (crawl or somersault? cited to Benjamin, or Phil? did the Marine cover his face, or did he cover everything but his face? all undetected, or not the first?).

Why should you believe either one after comparing them...? When you have spent much time tracing urban legends, especially in AI where standards for these 'stupid AI stories' are so low that people will happily tell stories with no source ever (https://gwern.net/Tanks) or take an AI deliberately designed to make a particular mistake & erase that context to peddle their error story (eg https://hackernoon.com/dogs-wolves-data-science-and-why-mach...), this sort of sloppiness with stories should make you wary.
Love of their craft. The same reason anybody undertakes any creative endeavor without charging for it. I admit my position is a bit extreme, but I would like to see the concept of IP abolished as it has become an abusive dead weight on culture.

More moderately, all art is derivative at the end of the day. None of it was created ex nihilo. We already have legal guardrails for direct reproduction of specific characters and specific pieces, and that is plenty. The fact that maximalists want to kill a nascent technology by restricting the right to learn from, something that even our extremely slanted laws have carveouts for, is nothing short of offensive.
No it doesn't. It does talk about how black men are heavily incarcerated. It also talks about how white men are now experiencing wage stagnation similar to that which impacted black men post-WWII.
Related blog which paints the reasoning as to make a move towards electrification:

https://ev-riders.com/news/the-president-of-toyota-will-be-r...
The switch to vision is continuing. My car is doing better and better. I actually have measured the distance in cm the car reports vs the actual distance and the accuracy has improved. It's now within a few cm.

Areas for improvement are near the sides of the bumpers, which still jump around a bit in low light.
DAE feel it all started with Elon laying off half the company without destroying Twitter completely? These other managers must have thought if Elon can lay off half the company , we can atleast do away with like 10% without much negative consequences? Time will tell if such hire and fire will cause unintended consquences. Software as a whole is quite resilient though, you don't need much resources to maintain code once it's written, creating new features is where skilled individuals are needed. So companies will definitely survive even if they lay off half the company, but the question is will they thrive when opportunity comes knocking again?
Why would that be? Huge amount of OSS is released under fully permissive licenses.
.NET 7 & SQLite.

Because I wouldn't need anything else.

Also, it could potentially be my final stack depending on the size of my business & market. The current Kestrel web server implementation is extraordinarily fast (i.e. millions of requests per second fast). Vertical scaling isn't exactly a problem now that we have 2S servers with 256 cores (and beyond).
Exploratory programming: what it is, why it matters, & what it requires
I like Python with custom extensions in C. Python is quick and easy. C speeds up the slow bits.
I believe we find it hard to keep relationships because we take criticism/rejection harder than others. My (former) friends would say that I have no trouble burning bridges with anyone. Any time I’ve found myself embarrassed or hurt by someone else, I’ve pushed them out of my life. This definitely comes from how I handled people in my formative years
nice, thanks for giving it a look! Btw, what is an educational day? You get to spend the day learning something new?
You really missed the point. He's saying "depression" means a lot of different things[0], and that many people are unhappy simply because their societal (economic and social) situation sucks and thus their life sucks.

[0]: It would be interesting to have a discussion about "depression" without actually using the word, since it's so overloaded.
django + htmx + tailwind css + postgres + docker + render
> Our knowledge of the genetics, however, is incomplete. Krystal noted that studies of twins suggest that genetics may account for 40% of the risk of depression. Yet the currently identified genes seem to explain only about 5%.

I see the value in analyzing genetics for depressive genes, but I also consider that how the genes interact with our environment that play a role. For example, if the state of women's rights around the world returned to where it was 200 years ago, it would likely appear a genetic cause of depression is related to having two X chromosomes. To wit - is the issue with the genes themselves, or is it that those with the genes are somehow repressed by the way society works?
I think the intention is to test the release mechanism, and maybe the immediate blocking effect at the site.
The dominoes started falling with Elon laying off half the company without much problems. Copycat managers thought if Elon can lay off half the company, they can surely get away with 10% layoffs.
Hobbies I like: incessantly refreshing HackerNews/Reddit. Distracting myself with random coding projects. I feel like my attention span has been fried from TikTok/being a "computer kid" for the past 20 years or so. Books don't "capture" my attention I guess.
You don't need to be #1 in every category. Having even a 4th place presence can become a 1st place presence if bundled correctly (eg. with IBM Security's managed security portfolio and IBM's professional services team - this gives a much more hand held experience than AWS or GCP, and better for those orgs that are Linux/Unix heavy because Azure won't fit their needs as well from a PS standpoint)
> I don’t know the details of the case, nor the intricacies of the law, but I have a question about movie props.

This is a blog post asking a question that has been asked and endlessly discussed on nearly every platform starting the day after the incident, which happened over a year ago.

I found nothing of substance to this post.
Would that be feasible on something like iOS that doesn't allow third-party JIT?

Could this allow for translating WASM or emulator workloads to something that runs fast with those restrictions?
I go for a 3 mile walk every now and then. Doesn't really do much to be honest. I guess you could be referring to the kind of exercise where you need to at least get sweaty.
Yes, you'd do better, but you'd still have a LLM that is designed to predict the most likely next words. It would still hallucinate and invent case law, it would just be even harder for a non-lawyer to recognize the hallucination.
> His signature idea, though, is to “redshirt” boys and give them all, by default, an extra year of kindergarten. The aim is to compensate for their slower rates of adolescent brain development, particularly in the prefrontal cortex, which controls decision-making.

An interesting idea, but the general problem of up to one year of an age gap between classmates still remains. IMHO, it would make more sense to lower the bucket size for classes - stagger school introduction not yearly but half-yearly.
Fantastic. Now that’s a tool I’d run as it seems actually safe.

rdfind doesn’t limit itself to library dependencies so I’d be worried about it fucking up on files I’d rather not have be hardlinked just because a copy exists (eg 2 checked out git clones where modifying the code in one suddenly starts modifying files in the other)
> individual's mistake can take out your business

It didn’t.
So, some of us who have been burned enough times are averse to proprietary software and would try to avoid using anything that we can't see the code to.
I assume its written in C#? Can I ask which .NET framework/library you used?