skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know about "stole" but the value of those ads is more like $100/yr/user
Small modular nuclear reactors: The race is on to build them
It just disgusts me personally. There's probably a lot of factors involved. But there's no such thing as a safe dose of alcohol. Especially ingested routinely.
Wealth, Shown to Scale
I wholeheartedly agree with you about queuing theory, and can't not think of it every time I'm in line somewhere. But apparently they needed to study up on the fallacy of personal choice, which pervades US culture.

It's the same reason Southwest has open seating. When people choose their own seats, they stick to them hard. Whereas often on a plane with "assigned" seats, there will be a bunch of people trying to swap with other people (window for aisle, let me sit next to my buddy, etc), which interferes with the new people boarding.
Which ironically could have solved the network performance problems that the OP is experiencing.
Unlimited is such an absurd word. It should be "Flexible". It should be we will NOT fire you if you take 23.5 days instead of the ideal number of 22. Also, if you take 18 that is not a problem either.
Also quality residential proxies are pricey. You need to rate limit and rotate both IP and puppeteer fingerprint when adversarially scraping.
that site needs an editor. Like a human editor, so that everything is consistent looking.

And whatever happened to ngate?
[1] - down the Arkansas river to the Mississippi, and right out to sea.

[2] - down the Danube, and right out to sea.
inflation is a nominal thing, I'm talking about growth in real terms.

there are two kinds of growth, extensive and intensive. the first one is using more natural resources, expanding to mine the ocean and the moon, and so on.

the second one is where the intensity of the economic activity increases, so with the same input there are more outputs. technological change helps to reduce waste, increase efficiency. investing in infrastructure and other capital goods allows for increased productivity.

one big thing is simply investing in people to be more productive, eg. increasing "human capital".

of course eventually sustainable growth has to approach some asymptote, and eventually physical limits kick in. (free energy in the universe gets used up.) however our growth trajectory is very mild compared to those limits, so in practice we can continue increasing both the intensive and expansive growth asymptotically.
Yup, most gardening books start off talking about humus, “dark, organic material that forms in soil when plant and animal matter decays.”

Industrial farms are very far away from the foundations of healthy soil, and they need copious amounts of fertilizer and water to compensate.

The food produced is less nutritious and less sustainable as a result.

Consider investing in a local CSA if you have the opportunity. It’s a fantastic way to support locally sustainable agriculture.
> I wish I could just magically have people become a copy of the best engineer on my team

Same observation here.

With every story, we're only getting the point of view of the author. Some things don't add up here, so I'd love to get some clarifications.

> This is top 5 tech companies in Canada.

That's vague. What do you mean by "top tech company"? Largest by earnings? Head-count? In my mind, a bank that hires programmers might do tech but isn't a tech company proper. Unlike an org like Google where engineering is at the core of the company.

> I was told that you are the best engineer in the whole organization.
For these years, I have not got a single dollar raise or promotion. My salary has been the same from the day I joined in 2019.

What's the size of the whole organization? Your team? Division? Company? Being the best of an underperforming team is very different than being the best company-wide at a top firm.

Salary-wise, being told you are the "best of the best" three years in a row (in probably the hottest engineering market since the 90's, at least here in the Valley) and not getting any form of promotions or raise is a pretty big red-flag. All the top tech companies will refresh comp on a yearly basis because they know that their competitors will be ready to poach their best performers if they don't. To me that raises a red flag about your story. Either there's something you aren't telling us about the company or your performance...

Now, this is an anonymous post so there's literally no downside for anyone, but was the total comp. package like? Numbers will give us a clearer picture than vague descriptions to be honest.

> My manager told me to train this engineer with same skill-set like you. I am a nice person so I brought this engineer up to speed. From the time this engineer has learnt everything that I have known, my manager has stopped talking to me. My 1:1 meetings has not happened for last few months. I am getting cold shoulder treatment from everyone else on team. This engineer who I taught has been assigned lead role and giving me directions for last few months.

And it only took a little time to train him off, despite your assessment that you are the "top performer"? That's weird again. I don't think anyone could get hired and come up to speed with, say John Carmack or Linus Torvald. What’s the other engineer’s experience?
"The first 90% is easy. It's the second 90% that kills ya."
You also need to factor in the size of the company. A VP is a very different thing at a Startup vs Amazon.
> I can't imagine how much reputational damage they'll sustain because of this.

I bet not much, if any. There are many more significant scandals in recent automotive history that everyone has already forgotten about. Not many people are running down to their Kia lot based on their impeccable reputation, they're going there because they sell contemporarily styled cars with a decent feature set, accessible financing, and they're priced a few hundred bucks less than everyone else.
Vanishingly few people are arguing for complete equality of outcome. As long as everyone[1] has a reasonable quality of life and inequality isn't so great that the wealthy can flout the rules that apply to everyone else, then I don't think that most people, even on the left, would have a problem. However, that's not what America currently has.

[1] I'm using "everyone" metaphorically here. No system is going to have literally no one who falls through the cracks.
> North Korea uses human waste as a fertilizer. Which causes this: North Korean defector found to have 'enormous parasites'

Using untreated human waste causes that.
It still exists. Customize Toolbar -> Density (bottom left). There are only 2 or 3 presets, but it is possible to slightly adjust the icon size. Just confirmed on 109.0.1.
Technically: because of a law (Public Law 104-208) that lets the Mint make platinum coins in any denomination it wants. It doesn't require Congress to authorize it.

It has nothing to do with the value of the metal. All coins are worth more than their metal content. It's about complying with the letter of the law rather than anything specific to coins. It's a letter-of-the-law fix to a letter-of-the-law problem, where Congress won't authorize the government to spend the money that it allocated in its budget.
I wish this wasn't written largely using a gray font on a gray background, because it's a pain to read.
Banks doing this is for a completely different reason.

Banks aren't trying to stiff their traders out of overtime. They do it because a VP has certain signing power as an executive that regular employees don't.

have been through this many times and very HR department on the sell and buy side says the same thing.
Too bad that Yahoo! absorbed Altavista then made that site defunct since 2013.
> perplexity.ai/ specifically uses web sources to construct natural language.

I am going to guess that even though it uses the GPT language model, it works fundamentally differently than ChatGPT.

My guess is, Perplexity AI is a traditional search engine, that first finds a list of links that match your questions. And then it feeds text from those links to the GPT language model to write a summary of the results.

Whereas ChatGPT produces text based only on the trained deep neural net.

Maybe I am guessing wrong how Perplexity AI works. Maybe it works in a different manner.
To echo others: I love the concept for this, but I do not think the current implementation is successful. I put in The Lowe Post (a fairly popular ESPN basketball podcast) and got:

1. another basketball podcast (nice!)

2. a podcast about outdoor camping

3. a podcast about Ohio State University sports

OP: what I'd _really_ love in this vein is a way to go from "here's a podcast I like and listen to, give me a list of podcasts in which the host or guests of the host also appear." I suspect that may be a difficult set of structured data to assemble, but I think it'd be very valuable.
Most of the Etonian Oxbridge guys I'm friends with ended up going to the military after graduating (one became a lawyer instead). It's still seen as a great job to begin your career with in those circles. I went to a public school (but not Oxbridge) and did a couple years in the Rifles myself.
The headshot adjustments were so bad. It felt like everyone in source was getting a headshot. And completely agreed on deagle - you had players _just_ rolling with it the whole time.

One other change I remember is that the AK became a proper sniper weapon. It was a little more uncontrolled pre source.
I wonder how much it would move the needle to open the doctors and nurses that are doing these reviews to medical malpractice lawsuits if their reviews end up harming people.
Thanks I was looking for a youtube video that I couldn't find so I grabbed the first article I saw that explained that problem well. As for solutions, you are right no-till is a big one (the main one?) and is worth reading about elsewhere
In a high cost-of-living place like greater Boston, that's just not true. For example, consider a family of 4 (2 adults and 2 young children), living in a 2-bedroom apartment in eastern Massachusetts:

- 100,000 household income, about 1/3 of that is going directly to income tax. Net is going to be maybe $70-78,000.

- average 2-bedroom apartment rent is around $2800-3200/month: call it $34,000/year. (Because they rent, they can't benefit from mortgage interest tax deduction.) This doesn't include utilities, which have gone bonkers in MA the past few years.

- Childcare/preschool for young kids in Massachusetts is between 15-20,000 PER CHILD PER YEAR. Our example family could be paying $30,000 a year for childcare so both parents can work.

- It's possible that one or both parents are still repaying student loans at 7% interest. Let's say only one parent has a student loan payment, $300/mo which is a little under the average for MA. $3,600/year.

- This example assumes that nobody in the family owns a car! While I know families with young children who get by on public transit only, it can be difficult even in the heart of a city.
I imagine this will clear out a lot of bots
Beautiful, now it makes me want to use your tool because I can relate to use cases I might have...
Ah, I think you're right.
> As to whether it's the standard Canadian culture, I'd say from personal experience and what I've seen with friends/family it is more common in the crown corps and tech oligopolies (i.e., Bell, Telus). So when you say Top 5, I'm not surprised the manager did this and got away with it.

I'm not sure I would label a state company or a telecom operator a "top" tech company. At least, here in the Valley it wouldn't get that label.

> That, and I know I'll be accused of Québec bashing, but when a company in Montreal is franco-dominated, there is a tendency to be, let's call it nepotistic, so that a member of the "family" calls the shots for the "outsiders", regardless of ability, understanding or basic competence. It's not always been my experience and the top companies don't do it but, it definitely happens more than it should.

We acquired a small company in Montreal a few years ago, and it's something the founders touched-on: they placed much a larger emphasis on French language skills when hiring than we initially assumed they would. In retrospect, the decision made sense; the founders and early employees were all native French speakers, so all the internal communications were in French. Ultimately it didn't matter in the long run: most of the key employees relocated to the Bay Area.

Post-acquisition we had to let go an employee for a weird attitude problem regarding language. One of the frequent arguments he had with everyone was that he insisted he didn't need to learn French to live in Montreal and was somehow hostile to the language. I honestly questioned why he immigrated there in the first place when there's 50 states and 9 other provinces he could go to and live exclusively in English? I get he probably couldn't pass the higher bar for US immigration but that still leaves 2/3rd of Canada to go to.

> Especially those doing work for the provincial government or directly with schools/healthcare facilities.

My understanding is that these contracts often have a clause that deliverables must be shipped in French. Especially for stuff that's customer-facing (like education or healthcare!).

Someone told me that, when dealing with the federal government for contracts, speaking French helps a lot. Since it's so much harder to offshore positions where French is required, you almost always get to speak with a real government employee and not a contractor. On a project he worked on only the manager 2 levels up was an actual government employee, because it was legally required for the contact point with contractors to be bilingual. Needless to say, he used his high school French to bypass two levels of IST time zoned "Project Solution Architect" and "Senior Project Analysts"...
hmm...another option would be n8n (https://n8n.io/). comes as a docker container. there you can build your customized pipelines. check out the available integrations (https://n8n.io/integrations/). basically, what you want is a webhook, post your JSON to that webhook, and a second node that does the work with that JSON as an input.

very flexible and is set up in less than an hour.
RIP Markdown Tweet Scheduler [1], you worked great while you lasted.

[1] https://github.com/reidjs/markdown-tweet-scheduler
By authority i refer to lawful authority. Able to execute lawful enforcement and prevent editing and copying.

No one holds authority over the original texts. There is authority over translations though. But the original is open source with no license.
Modern industrial-scale farming equipment is already highly engineered. Adding features that allowed for more precise care of individual plants would be an extension of existing technology, not something radically new. Take a look at modern combine harvesters, for example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2LnkKgwpOE

This is also a sector that would benefit from electrification, incidentally.

Of course, the fossil fuel and petrochemical sector won't like being cut out of the agriculture business to any extent, so there's that kind of resistance to such changes.
Sooner or later energy prices will increase and fertilizer will get more expensive. Step functions and impulses are useful ways to probe the inner working of a system and in this case helped to highlight the dominant role energy plays everywhere. We re-learned what we forgot or ignored since the last energy aka. oil price shock in the '70. In the long run the situation for food security is challenging unless we switch to a different paradigm of farming and population control.
This is pretty interesting, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thankful_Villages
Thank you for your words. :)
You've provided an explanation (which I'm also completely familiar with) but not a rationale.

What is really happening is that corporate profits are set to be squeezed (slightly) by rising costs, both labor and capital, and so that provides a reason why stock prices go down.

But it doesn't answer the actual question, of why everything going great should be a bad thing.
Wouldn't the appropriate comparison here be equal income earners with and without kids? The former paid a greater tax into social security, in effect, as they made the larger investment once you include raising the tax generation machine.
Oh man I was:) Am I ever embarrassed:)
Good point, in the case of users interacting it’s probably a non issue. Thanks for the insight.
I don't think it's like this now (probably far more posh), but the public schools were also famously old and decrepit as buildings. They were incredibly drafty, dank, and probably very dark. Orwell (if his account can be trusted) also described them as incredibly filthy. It was an era when the popular idea was that forcing kids to get through awful conditions made them "stronger and better leaders". As you described, it also made them into quite troubled adults. (This is not to mention to abuse both physical and sexual that also went on in the schools.)
I would never tell someone about this at work and especially not at a python conference.

https://www.cnet.com/culture/two-people-fired-over-pycon-don...
OP here - maybe you're right.

You have to remember, these kinds of games ingrain heavy habits. You get a feel for various nuances in the game (eg shooting people through a wall, recoil of a certain people). They may feel surface level but it can be jarring when it all gets changed.
Because it’s really trained off datasets you’d have access too via search engine, if you couldn’t find the info yourself, it’s likely just making a lot of the answers up, convincingly
Once my vesting lock up period at my new job is done yes. Until then I’m penny pinching.
Inflation for everything.
Good luck making it into law when insurance companies will spend millions if not billions lobbying and fighting against it.

It's so depressing.
That'll work just fine until they trash their reputation with carp like this.

Then, no one will use them, and they will have a hard time getting it back; they may still exist, but only as a husk of their former stature.
Ha, as the other commenter pointed out, I was way off and misread the Acronym. I appreciate the time you took to educate me:)
Flutter desktop isn’t there yet
I doubt there have been 10M UK murderers ever.
I hope you're also a role model for this. Do you take multi-day breaks from screens, and take care to avoid wanting screens too much?

I'm spending most of my leisure time in front of a screen. Explaining to my children why it's OK for me and not for them would be the hardest part for me.
Even if you have the immobilizer on your new car, if a potential thief thinks your car is one of the stealable ones, you may still end up with a broken window.
Food is not the driving force behind population growth. Reduction in infant mortality creates a boom but as soon as people start getting out of poverty and get some education they have much fewer children. AI would need to optimize for both low infant mortality and high levels of poverty and ignorance if it wanted an everlasting population boom.
> It is basically like having an incredibly smart engineer/scientists/philosopher/etc that can explain things quite well, but for pretty much every field.

No. You've fallen for exactly the con the article is describing.

ChatGPT knows nothing. It is very good at generating text that seems plausible if you know nothing about the subject matter, but is not reliable as an actual source of information.

If you happened to get information from it that turned out to be ok, you were lucky. Don't expect your luck to last.
No one's free to violate the laws of physics.
I'm not saying your experience isn't valid...but did launching this product have to deal with doing things outside your domain or dealing with technologies you are inexperienced with? I'm just hearing a lot of people making claims that make it sound generically useful, when it seems more plausible that it really shines when you are fumbling around and need help to get a handle on things.
Human waste can be composted and leached out into aquaculture systems or the irrigation system for livestock crops.
2020 was great for most online product revenue. Why is Twitter different?
Aside: can someone explain to me how IPFS, in this specific case, is any better than a typical 3rd party service storing the data?

The linked announcement says they use a pinning service “web3.storage”. Web3.storage says it stores data on FileCoin. Neither website tells me how and where the actual data is stored, except “IPFS”.

From reading the IPFS docs, a pinning service is akin to a node that has a copy of the files and is always online. If your decentralized network relies on a central node(s), how is this decentralized?
Exactly. The way I see it, Twitter was a zombie company for quite a few years. Not sustainable the way it was. Lots of bots, obnoxious people, scammers, spammers, etc. and not a whole lot of positive stuff happening from a business point of view. Bloated big silicon valley company long out of ideas on how to fix things. Hiring more people and trying to be woke clearly wasn't helping.

The notion that this could just have gone on as is was never a plan. Musk is applying shock therapy to maybe nudge it in the direction of resembling a healthy company again. Maybe he'll kill the company. Maybe it will work. But this is better than the failed social experiment it had turned into. The API of course had some valid uses but it was also the tool of choice for bots, advertisers, marketing bureaus, etc. The message is very clear for those: you are welcome to stay but expect to pay for the privilege. I think this probably gets rid of a lot of crap.
It worked well for me. I put in three podcasts that I listen to, and the first two results are two more podcasts that I listen to. There were a lot of my favourites in the whole list. Maybe I'm predictable?
Well an AI that can't explain itself transparently makes it untrustworthy for more serious use and applications since ChatGPT it is being celebrated as a great sophist. There is nothing new in this, other than 'train more data on the internet'.

The hype in ChatGPT reminds me of the short-lived hype of Clubhouse; the end result is the same: The bigger players will come in to surpass it, just like they did with GPT-3.
And there's people like me who own one of said models and hearing about it for the first time.
Spending time in nature may protect against the risk of dementia
This is very worrying.

I use Workers to cache and stream audio. I was under the impression Workers were under a different TOS since the business model is totally different and paid per req.
Already paying for copilot and the integration into editors is significantly more useful for me.
>So if you keep the source for a day in your pocket, you reach the limit of radiation of a radiation worker

You're missing the part where 2 millisieverts / hour is the dose at a distance of 1 meter. If you put in your pocket, you would rapidly sustain radiation burns.

You're also missing that a dose sustained over a short period is much more deadly than a dose dragged out over a year. In the latter case, the body will be repairing the damage as it happens, mitigating the effect.
I think it's always been a bad place to get answers.

If you do maintenance programming you always have little questions like "How do you find the length of a string in Python?" and all you need is "len(s)". On Stackoverflow there is a discussion even if there is nothing to discuss, fortunately it is very unlikely that alternative answers like "sum(1 for c in s)" will get near the top but sifting through a lot of wrong answers and garbage is worse in the long term than learning your way around the official documentation.