skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been performing it informally for many years and more formally for the last year and a half as Zapier’s Principal Data Scientist. I really enjoy combining my advanced technology, business, economic and statistical skills with large scale business opportunities to produce innovation for people and earnings for the company.

My goal is ensuring executives are making decisions using the best information possible. It’s highly collaborative to maximize the amount of pooled information (because executives are deep experts, too). Based on how it’s gone so far, I think it’s innovative and has a strong beneficial affect on the quality of decisions (and output as you’d expect). ie- applying more technology & skills improves output volume and quality.
That would be a bit depressing if this eventually happen. But I do understand where you come from.

I would also not accept if I had to do this during off hours. And it's also very different from hackathons where you have a company agenda. Hopefully this does not change, but we never know.
4-5 years ago I would have agreed. But I've been using DDG for my primary search and only "resort" to using Google maybe 10-15% of the time my search fails on DDG.

I'm not saying DDG is amazing, only that you don't need a "Mercedes" to pick up milk.
And the postal service should work ok for that too. I find I buy most coffee online these days, just about every roastery will post cheaply, and they seem to ensure the beans are fresh.

There are also services that will ship the same (or different based on you preferences) coffee beans to you every week or two.

It doesn't matter how better the equipment and barristas are compared with what the office has, coffee and frothed milk don't travel well in cardboard cup shipped on a bike.
It already hallucinates... lets up the dosage!
You're quite out of touch. If you think outsourcing is a telco niche you should check again.
> thought the observation was by JWST.

..article was written by Bard??
I am saying exactly the obvious: "People come in all sorts of shapes and sizes", this is the nexus of the original comment.

Case in point, you struggle with WFH, others thrive. I just don't see any problems with employees not enjoying WFH as being significantly more complex than, say, an issue with someone struggling to get into the office on time. Or being stressed out by a stupidly long commute, or having no time with their children. And so on. There are pros and cons abundant that pretty much level it all out.
Mapathon in support of Türkiye (February 10, 2023)
Although it's been creeping back up [1] transit use still seems to be down relative to pre-COVID. The stats aside that's pretty much my anecdotal observation as well. Rush hour traffic seems to be as bad as ever. But commuter trains that were packed by the end of the line pre-pandemic aren't especially crowded at all. Subway usage feels lighter as well.

[1] https://www.osc.state.ny.us/reports/osdc/impact-covid-19-pan...
I don't know why people have such a problem with this. Nobody in the UK with an IQ above 70 thinks the NHS is literally free in the sense that no money ever changes hands. "It's not really free!" is a stupid gotcha that doesn't even make sense.
As if to say: I heard you like AI outputs, so I put an AI output through another AI so you can have the AI output of an AI’s output
> They can always use AI based solutions to unblur the JPEG, like this: https://twitter.com/maxhkw/status/1373063086282739715

That's fantastic.
Well thanks for your concern, but I would imagine many people here would consider your reminder as being quite patronizing
I will always remember him in Bruce Lee's Game of Death
> If both students apply to a job or college, should their final academic grades be treated equally?

Yes. Grades reflect what the student did, which is a distinct question from why they were able to do it.
When Galileo "discovered" that the Earth revolves around the sun, rather than everything revolves around the Earth - it was not just him against the Church, as is often framed. It was him against the entirety of scientific knowledge and other scientists of the day. And he didn't really have any precise proof. In fact his ideas were mostly wrong. He made a large number of incorrect assumptions (such as requiring perfectly spherical orbits) that resulted in his entire concept having more holes than swiss cheese. And it was easily picked apart by other scientists of the time, which many readily did.

He had utter disrespect for the science of the times, and held his own hamstringed ideas above all. Yet he was able to express them. And eventually he would get to play his small part in the advancement of the knowledge of humanity. And this is precisely how science operates. In science one does not HAVE to do anything. Had Galileo instead been determined that e.g. Jupiter is the center of the universe, and spent an equally feverish amount of energy trying to demonstrate such, then we wouldn't know his name today - but his work and ideas would have been no less scientific - but merely wrong.
Well if enough people keep being laid off, perhaps the macroeconomic environment does indeed become tough!
tl;dr - you're part of the problem
Obligatory: a pre-pandemic examination of the scope and methodology of weaponized health communication online: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6137759/

You will recall that the skepticism about RNA in COVID vaccines was not a sudden break in public health discourse, but was preceded by many years of 'vaccines cause autism!!' arguments and the like, and that a decline in public confidence about vaccine had led to the re-emergence of measles outbreaks in recent years, reversing the long-term trend of declining hospitalization and mortality for well-understood diseases.
Luka is currently playing in his 5th year. He has 4 years behind him. Not the best comparison, but seems fair.
I remember it was crazy fast

I remember Thunderbird as being both fast, and uniquely able to run on pretty much any hardware.

I used it on an eeePC 701 with no problems, even though the machine had only a 900 MHz processor, 512MB of RAM, and a 4GB disk.

Sad to hear it's gone all bloatware since those days.
IMO this whole narrative reflects a type of human bias and the reality that we didn't evolve to reason about trillion dollar complex business.

I love chatGPT but it clearly has a ton of issues. To declare Google dead that is point is completely absurd.

I can't think of a single transformative technology that actually has a first mover advantage. The first, second and third mover seem to make all the mistakes and setup the forth mover to learn from those mistakes for free and create a monopoly.

Counting out a company that owns Deepmind is just not rational.
Yes, I love the UI of Thunderbird and its superior UI is the only reason I still use it despite the horrific performance issues.
RE>> Because "yeah, that's a slipper" doesn't pass muster.

[Justice Potter Stewart has entered the chat]: "I know it when I see it". "I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description ["hard-core pornography"], and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it
On the one hand, the compile targets for MetricFlow and DBT are SQL. So strictly speaking, nothing can be done with these that can't be done with a data warehouse.

SQL doesn't really have a way to define new aggregations well. So taking something like Daily Active Users / Monthly Active Users (DAU/MAU), which is a semi complicated calculation using windowed data, there's no good way to have a repeatable DAU/MAU aggregation concept you could reuse at different levels without having to re-write that sql that defines the aggregation. EG DAU/MAU against the account, or DAU/MAU by user type, or DAU/MAU by region would all be different queries/reports.

Instead if you have a layer that can be given the definitions of how a particular aggregation is structured, and it knows how data is related to each other, you can ask for that metric against different concepts or levels without having to repeat yourself.

Extending that out, if BI tools can understand that layer, then you can get consistent WYSIWYG report building across multiple tools without having to redefine the calculations everywhere.

I don't think I did a great job explaining here, this keynote is a good topic survey IMO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2weqVjbUTs&feature=emb_imp_...
For me it doesn't really work. Searching any large folder completely stalls the UI for a few seconds. How can it be so slow to go through a bit of text?
The difference is that here in the giftcard industry, we want to stop that, because it's how scammers convert grandma's $500 in itunes giftcards into actual money, and that costs our companies money in fraudulent transactions and public goodwill. We've had customer support agents actively talk customers out of buying giftcards for scams.
The Age of Sail: Nautical Fiction and the Origins of Space Opera
> The plane traveled at half a speed of sound, speed of wind or a goose is insignificant in comparison

Are you insane? going 100 knots against 30-50 knots of wind requires far more force than a fucking Goose can provide with its wings. Not to mention the object is at 13,000 feet above sea level which would be insanely high for a goose to travel.

You're also discounting the pilot testimony about the GOFAST video. GOFAST and GIMBAL were taken on the same day by the same pilots. There's a longer classified video that shows the object in GOFAST increasing its altitude to meet up with 4 other objects that appear to be of the same kind. Then the GIMBAL object comes into the page which is where the targeting pod locks onto. The 5 objects are in front of the gimbal object, they begin to turn around and that's when the GIMBAL object performs a vertical u-turn as shown on the ASA. Now, I don't disregard that the rotation may have been caused by the camera, but the trajectory of the object itself is interesting in that we don't have a plant that can perform the same kind of vertical u-turn at such slow speeds. They're going less than 1 mach, the object slows to a stop and then turns around going vertically. Any mechanical plane would stop and fall to the Earth, but this thing didn't.

> I see no specific objection and no explanation for why this object looks exactly like other IR recordings of planes from behind where hot exahaust washes

I dare you to ask any military pilot their opinion on what the object in the screen is. According to the pilot, Chad Underwood, who took the video, he was closing in 10-15 miles of the object and at that distance should be able to make out the the wings, the exhaust plumes, the type of aircraft even with the glare from the exhaust. Here's the pilot saying this himself https://youtu.be/7O1SE0IR13o?t=1231

Let's not forget, the Tic-Tac was active jamming (which is an act of war) and the object in the video matches the description of Cmdr Dave Fravor's description of what he saw with his own eyes.

Again, the DoD could shut you up by providing the additional classified data from the mission.

For future reference, you should stay completely out of this conversation because you are not a true scientist. You are an avid skeptic who will one day be ashamed of himself.
Why?

I have spent a significant amount of time on each and would suggest it's the only actual cloud. The others are data centers masquerading as a cloud, notice when us-east has issues for AWS, Azure had a spof dependency on a datacenter that didn't even have AZs... GCP is architecturally on another level. The others seem to be unaware of what 'cloud native' means, so if you are attempting cloud native on non clouds, you inherit their lack of foresight.
> Chinese Balloon Had Tools to Collect Communications Signals, U.S. Says

Ok, so it can transmit data. Next finding: baloon is round.
Is that part of the Microsoft layoff?
Sounds unsustainable to be honest.
I always enjoy reading about these but man that is a lot of work to set up even if maintenance is simple. Ubiquiti has lost trust but to their credit even a simple UDM base (that is not connected to the cloud) can do VLANs with another device running pihole/wireguard works great. You even could run the pihole on device with podman and use their baked in VPN.
>> That is just a case of people trying to use PowerShell as a bash shell combined with the unfortunate decision by whomever at Microsoft to alias PowerShell cmdlets to well known UNIX tools.

>> It doesn't "silently mangle" binary data - it assumes you're piping PS objects or text streams through. If it is a text stream, then it will pipe through as Unicode by default.

The problem is that PowerShell uses aliases that match UNIX command line utility names and the same pipe syntax, but exhibits subtlely different behavior without any indication of the difference.

If someone is not aware of the difference and they use PowerShell to process production data, their data could be corrupted without them realizing it.
Agreed the target audience for now is single users & private only.

I'm currently working on separate collaboration version which will be dumbed down but similar to how google docs / figma work - so you can see other users write and interact live.
bisq.

Agoradesk/localmonero.
I always ask both myself and candidate how do you know that the thing you (want to) do is meaningful. That's the personal mission. When there is overlapping between the team you are hiring for and the candidate things work wonderfully well. IMO chasing after technology with no end in sight is not the way to go
> Everywhere you look, the economic indicators are solid

Everywhere? Have you been down a grocery aisle? The Ukraine war is likely to continue disrupting global food, fertilizer, energy, and raw material supply for years.

Boomer retirement is crunching capital. Finding investment will likely only get harder for the next several years.

China may be on the verge of a demographic, manufacturing, and political collapse.

Stock your pantries.
I've been using fish for at least a decade. While I can't simply run bash commands, I can easily drop to a bash shell and run anything.

The defaults and features are great.

Scripts I also write in bash, sh, or python for compatibility. It's not much of an issue.

I do remember something that used to break in my setup, but since I'm always in tmux, instead of changing the default shell (chsh -s), I just set the default for tmux to be fish.

# set shell
set -g default-shell /usr/local/bin/fish
What’s going on in August and September that suicides are, on average, so high then?
That sounds like a really nice, simple setup. I have an unfortunate mix of gear from different vendors, but my setup is broadly similar. VyOS on an old SFF box, PoE whenever possible, etc. My physical topology means I need more layers of switches, though, and I do have a single vlan for my work machine. There's no inter-vlan routing there, just internet.
OpenSearch is a community-driven, open-source fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana
Would you mind toning down the ad hominem attacks here?

I, for example, suggested to a number of non-scientifically trained friends that the scientific consensus about vaccines was pretty strong, that the vaccine studies were well conducted and that they should trust this scientific view of vaccines. Essentially, "trust the science" as opposed to "trust people trying to make political hay by fear-mongering".

You are saying that I am a moron. In fact, I am not.
It really has. Thunderbird has become slower and slower and prone to lockups. The UI and feature set is still great but the performance is really horrific.
> the public health officials acted in good faith

Here's a question - is it "correct" that health officials should lie if they believe it will lead to net positive outcome? Is this still good faith?

To what extend should net population outcomes compete with individual outcomes? e.g. downplaying risks of the vaccine, such that individuals with complications are essentially sacrificed in favor of the larger number of people without.
I have a PhD in Transportation and am amazed at the ridiculous consensus of my peers. It's almost as if they produce the research that will keep their grants coming in rather than what is logical and correct.
Indeed. I remain shocked at how many people who work in this industry are still making excuses for the companies that are performing these completely unnecessary layoffs. (They'll never be laid off of course, of course – only the other people who are old and bad at their jobs.)
The two points aren't mutually exclusive. That sort of scleroticism can happen as systems become less representative.

If there is no effective mechanism to remove populist decision makers who act like authoritarians, they will slowly accumulate and co-opt the levers of power, even in ostensibly democratic nations.

Look at nations like Turkey, Hungary, Russia. Technically democracies, with some distant memories of fair competitive elections, but everyday people have very little ability to influence their governments' actions today.
why does

1. source split among numerous files, and

2. partial bootstrapping

affect embeddability? i'm asking in earnest. i thought to embed we (typically) just need a shared lib and to #include a header api.
I'd always heard from bartender friends that the biggest drinking days were the ones around the big family gatherings: Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve

Reason being: People without family go to bars to distract from not having anyone. People with family are stressed out from the inevitable family drama that comes from getting everyone together, so they go out to the bars afterwards.

I can see it. No idea if it is true (quick search doesn't yield much). If true, it probably correlates with a bump in suicides as well.
Not a JPEG and not a search engine, it is more like a database. A JPEG is just a static approximation, a search engine has efficient retrieval, but a LLM can also do complex data processing, like a neural information processor.

> But I’m going to make a prediction: when assembling the vast amount of text used to train GPT-4, the people at OpenAI will have made every effort to exclude material generated by ChatGPT or any other large-language model. If this turns out to be the case, it will serve as unintentional confirmation that the analogy between large-language models and lossy compression is useful.

This shows the author has not been following closely. There are many ways LLMs have been used to improve themselves. They can discover chain-of-thought justifications, they can rephrase the task, they can solve problems and ensemble many predictions, or sometimes we can use math or code execution to validate their outputs. If you give it three problems and solutions as samples, it can generate another problem and solve it, adding to the training set.

RLHF for example uses generated data for the preference labelling task. ConstitutionalAI does reinforcement learning from AI feedback instead, using both the generative and discriminative abilities of the model.
Ugh I’m beginning to think I’m going to spend the next 6-12 months commenting “no, large language models aren’t supposed to somehow know everything in the world. No, that’s not what they’re designed for. Yes, hooking one up to our long-standing record-of-everything-in-the-world (google’s knowledge graph) is going to be powerful.”

It’s getting to point where I need to consider stop going on HN. This is like when my father excitedly told his friends about the coming computer revolution in the 90s and they responded “well it can’t do my dishes or clean the house, they’re just a fad!” Makes me want screaaaaam
Nonsense, no government in the world pays for 24-7 in-house end of life care for a year, that would be crazy.
Footnote links still don't solve the financial model, primarily because nobody clicks on them.

There was congressional testimony by the founder/owner of "Celebrity Net Worth" about how Google made it impossible for them to stay in business. Whenever somebody would search "How much is <celebrity X> worth?", the answer would just show up directly on the Google results page. There was still an attribution link to Celebrity Net Worth, but nobody ever clicked on it anymore, so the result was Celebrity Net Worth had to shut down.

You can certainly argue fairly whether sites like CNW deserve to exist in the first place, but it's not hard to see how there is still a huge financial problem when ALL the ad revenue goes to the search engines and they don't even leave any of the slim scraps to the publisher sites.
I can’t read the article because a 500 error but my local coffee roaster is world class, Handlebar if you’re in the Santa Barbara area, and they don’t use freshly roasted beans. They age them at least two weeks before using them. Now I always buy two bags and have one aging on hand.
> Record high credit card balances, record low personal savings, 40 year high inflation, rising interest rates and no sign of the fed stopping.

Actually, those are all traditional signs that the economy is overheated. They're not signs that the economy is doing poorly, they're signs that the economy is doing too well.
And what do you expect I consider your hand-wringing over my concern?
Fury in Ukraine as Elon Musk’s SpaceX Limits Starlink Use for Drones
Sadly switching back to the old behavior has problems in Firefox. If you go to google.com and start typing in the search box it will redirect to the URL bar, where your search will fail because it is not a search box.
People who want to get rich will tell you it's the next greatest thing that will revolutionize the industry.

The nice way of saying grifters.
>If you refer to predatory practices where an application would disable some of its functionality until an additional "unvetted" application is installed, then this is definitely an issue.

Worse, there wont even be a vetted application. It will only be an unvetted application you'll be asked to sideload to get the functionality at all.

And soon: alternative app stores, with their own rules and no central control. From Adobe, Google, and so on.

>But it should be addressed by targeted measures against the offending applications and by educating the users

Has that "educating" and "targeted measures" ever worked?
Every ideology is all flowers and rainbows until it gets put into practice.
Although I have no interest in Doctor Who, I deeply appreciate this level of nerdery and of the joy of finding those media on the phones.
That's also the main problem I have with it. The UI is what it is, but it has the considerable advantage that I'm already used to it. I'm not really clamoring for a different UI, there's bigger problems.

Unfortunately, it has some serious performance bugs. It often sits there idle on a brand new laptop eating 50% or 70% of a core. Doing who knows what, without giving any indication or any sort of pause button to the user.

I almost have to keep Thunderbird closed to save my battery. Sometimes I think if I wrote a shell script that suspended the main process four of every five minutes, it'd make for better background task scheduling than whatever must be going on.

The software is burning hundred of billions of CPU cycles running in circles for hours and hours, when it's supposed to be sitting idle.
Every person I know who’s gone into roles like that was fully aware the expectations and hours were intense.
Perhaps one of the greatest fiction writers of all time. Somehow I have a feeling that black mirror is inspired by Chiang's stories.

"Understand" is a short story that I often ponder on. There's riddles within riddles to parse the story meanings.