skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough regarding the luck, but it is events beyond your control that, through no effort of your own, have massively influenced your ability to turn out well. I'm unsure how we can reconcile that with the idea that people find their positions solely through their own merit, unless we assume, like I did originally, that being born wealth makes you more meritorious.

> Pretty much every new government since the US or French revolutions have tried, and the outcomes have been less than ideal.

Are you saying that people in the United States were less free? Or just the same as they were before?
Transparent Acceleration of Big Data Frameworks Using Heterogeneous Hardware [pdf]
When I saw the headline, I was worried they were going to close the project. I never take community-supported projects for granted. They've been here, providing an extremely important product, for decades.

The biggest issue (from what I read) is technical debt. It's a huge, time consuming and possibly an explosive mess. They have about a dozen developers providing for the needs of millions of users worldwide. They are working on 20 years of (legacy) code.

Even Mozilla had to scrap off the old DNA in favor of new.

I am glad this core group remains excited about the project. Ecstatic that they are looking toward the future. Happy that they are taking the time to make their jobs (much) easier in the long run.
i never read the actual group but the faq doesn't seem to have survived, though other alt.suicide.* faqs are at http://www.ibiblio.org/usenet-i/groups-html/alt.suicide.holi... and http://www.faqs.org/faqs/by-newsgroup/alt/alt.suicide.holida...

the group's one-line description does seem relevant

i guess strn and trn didn't show those descriptions? or i would have known
Censorship doesn't work. People will talk about Winnie the Pooh instead, and then you'll start censoring all mention of Winnie the Pooh. People route around damage.

Disinfectant through discussion, disagreement, and evidence moves consensus. Authoritarian controls breed resentment, resistance, and revolt.
You can still use your vault when the server dies, you just can't sync it across devices. Worst case you can even export the vault in your local device if the server never comes back up.

For other services (matrix etc) down time is very bad but for vaultwarden I don't see it as such a big issue.
It depends on your company, but the statutory minimums are awful.

You get a minimum of 2 week's extra pay if you have over 2 years service, and Job Seekers' Allowance is about 77 quid a week - so imagine living on less than $500 a month.

Healthcare access (via the NHS) is unaffected, you might be able to get free prescriptions too.

But in general it's terrible.

As always in Europe you either want to be an ultra-rich landowning aristocrat (little to no property tax, inheritance tax, etc.) or very poor/unemployed (e.g. a refugee) so you qualify for state housing, etc. - work does not pay. You pay high taxes and then don't qualify for assistance when it matters. The USA is better by far where you can just manage your own savings with your 3-4x higher salary, healthcare is still an issue though.
The number one use case of `for` in shell scripting is over the output of `$(ls .)` And I immediately run into a problem with filenames that have spaces and then I discover that a stringly typed language has lots of sharp edges.

I fall back on `for filename in os.listdir():`
100 % agree on this. Rich people are nicer because they don't need much from the other party.
100% this. The hype around ChatGPT is insane, and it's a really safe bet that 90% of the things being claimed about it are absurdly exaggerated. At the same time, it's a really safe bet that everyone saying this technology is worthless is equally incorrect.
I don't even know where to start with this. $200/month to receive a "warm" thermos of coffee every morning just sounds crazy to me.

First, even at an outrageous $5/day, Starbucks or any other coffee chain is significantly cheaper - especially if you are someone who travels or can't be in the same place at the same time every day.

Second, you can get set up with everything you need to brew coffee at pretty much any budget, depending on your needs, level of interest and palette.

Third, this is not the sort of product where you should offer a free month up front. I can't blame anyone for taking a free month offered to them without obligation any more than I can blame them for not wanting to spend $200/month on delivered coffee.

If you have the capital to start this company, you would be far better off taking it to Vegas and putting it all on red.
It's Gitlab, not GitHub tho.
No. I'm old (I'm now 60. I was 55, when I was looking).

The ageism in tech is pervasive. People seldom even bother hiding it; even though it's just as illegal as sexism or racism.
The answer is yes, in all cases, he doesn't need to state in explicitly. So what? Layoffs are being done to save costs or to signal doing so to shareholders. It is not a "let's be meritocratic and only cut the lowest performers" exercise. The overarching question is, with our insistence on remote working etc, how will we ever justify hiring from high CoL areas again?
You've made a few mistakes, they are all rooted in not understanding that Bing Chat is not GPT, nor is it ChatGPT. You're stuck on LLMs while the world is moving on to LLMs as a component, not the whole solution.

And even in LLMs, it sounds like you're still seeing training/retraining as single monolithic events which are super expensive. Training is super expensive! New techniques (google LoRA; there are others) are changing that.

I hope you get into what has changed in the past few years, starting with Transformer and continuing pretty much daily. There really is a lot of innovation and improvement that is publicly documented and missing from your opinion here.
I think at this point we're talking about laws, not regulations. You can come down off a mountain with a couple of stone tablets and that's enough to get going with barter, as barter is individuals deciding how much things are worth to them.

Conversely, the carbon market is invented: there is no natural value of the negative externality of pollution, so we invent one. And, as it's invented, it's riddled with holes.
PS natively deals with JSON, which is nice. Something awk would melt down trying to parse.

it comes in handy when querying REST APIs

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsof...
Laid off from a US remote backend/data role in a large, FAANG-adjacent tech company in early January. I have always had a high callback rate with 20+ years of experience and a CS degree from a tier 1 university. This time, my only callbacks were through internal referrals from my network or introductions made through recruiters. I ended up with two offers by the end of January, one from a growing startup and the other from a mid-market company with a conservative business model. Given the slowdown in the market, I'm thankful to have found something so quickly.

My take is that this is not nearly as bad as the dotcom crash in the early 2000s, but the red hot tech market of 2021 where companies were hiring as fast as they could with incredible comp packages is gone. There are still a good number of roles out there, but companies are being more careful in their hiring and they are not trying to compete with (the no longer hiring) FAANGs when it comes to compensation.
That's just the pointer. What's the actual stored value?
Is that your opinion or those who you mentor?

In my experience, most people learn much better from being shown concrete examples inside the workspace they already use compared to abstract examples on a whiteboard with lots of lines and arrows.
And yet, when I google something, am I landing on an experts page, or a seoptimizer who's day job it is to write expert like looking content?

Search is absolutely like asking a random person right now. Whether I get raw hyperlinks back on a page or a chat window, the results are as good as their source data. Garbage in, garbage out.

Google is just as confidently wrong giving me garbage links as chat is as giving me garbage recommendations.
GitHub to layoff 10% and closing all offices
Just heard it from a friend of a friend who works there.
There was a great paper at CHIIR looking at this question from an information science perspective that I would definitely recommend anybody working or interested in this space read; here's the abstract:

> Search systems, like many other applications of machine learning, have become increasingly complex and opaque. The notions of relevance, usefulness, and trustworthiness with respect to information were already overloaded and often difficult to articulate, study, or implement. Newly surfaced proposals that aim to use large language models to generate relevant information for a user’s needs pose even greater threat to transparency, provenance, and user interactions in a search system. In this perspective paper we revisit the problem of search in the larger context of information seeking and argue that removing or reducing interactions in an effort to retrieve presumably more relevant information can be detrimental to many fundamental aspects of search, including information verification, information literacy, and serendipity. In addition to providing suggestions for counteracting some of the potential problems posed by such models, we present a vision for search systems that are intelligent and effective, while also providing greater transparency and accountability.

Shah & Bender (2022) "Situating Search". In Proc. CHIIR '22
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3498366.3505816
Yeah, the "GitHub to lay off 10%" thread is over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34726735
:facepalm: Ah yes, thank you for the correction, I definitely misread that. I also don't know Gitlab's specific financial situation, so perhaps the general point still stands haha.
I’m just searching the comments for novel use cases where its effective. Most articles I’ve read seem like either moral panics or snake oil.

I like how it can generate songs and poems based on a prompt. Its not particularly useful, but it is entertaining. It really does seem curated at times, leading me to think this will eventually become a fad or replaced by a more advanced algorithm.
If you're a coder you get to sleep in your own bed.
"with 0 connection to anything close to labor."

Except for the part where if you get fired, a countdown starts for when you become homeless and then starve? Especially in the US?

"professional managerial class"

are still labor, since their primary expression of economic power is through the sale of their labor.

Stop trying to drive class division.
Yep, a weird definition.

"I want to add a new not-a-method (because it can't access private stuff, unlike real methods) so that I can do "externalObj.MyNewMethod()" because doing "myNewOperation(externalObj)" is somehow forbidden."
That sounds like proper risk management then? If you don't know what's happening then it makes sense to play safe. The only problem is that those collective layoffs might actually slow economies down and exacerbate the issue at hand...
But what's the alternative? Unsafe home network where one rogue device can act as a tunnel for bad actors(bots more often tbh)?
Based on reading other parts of the website, it advocates for assisted suicide more generally. In this context, voluntarily-not-eating-or-drinking's main benefit appears to be that you can't punish me or my family or my doctor for doing it.

My guess is the underlying strategy is to get voluntarily-not-eating-or-drinking widely accepted both legally and culturally, and then leverage suffering-reduction to introduce more humane methods. I hope it works. We de-facto torture people at the end of their lives, for no reason, and it's fucking awful [1]. We're more humane to our pets than to ourselves.

1: https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/07/17/who-by-very-slow-decay...
Pret's coffee subscription is $30-40/mo. No delivery, but still.

https://www.pret.com/en-US/us-pretcoffeesub
This is very surprising. I have a few friends who were laid off and landed jobs in a few weeks, many interviews (although exhausting), similar range of experience as you (~10 years)

Why do you think you're not getting responses?
I do not care how it looks. It works just fine for me and the last thing I want is to start changing UI in Thunderbird
It seems that you are thinking a little too short-term here. We have been culturing cells for >50 years. If this is a necessary ingredient, it may be a lot harder to substitute than you might think, which relegates lab-grown meat to staying a niche product. You will not have a viable, scalable meat replacement if your replacement needs to slaughter more cows per kilogram than meat.
We, made that by abandoning generational homes. It's artificial.
It's easy, you can just add bash to the beginning of the code and you can run the same script there.
Disney has produced a bunch of duds this year, Avatar and a marvel movie or two were the only two shining stars in a otherwise drab sky. Lets look at Lightyear, a real bomb considering every other Toy Story movie has been a smashing success($220M made against a $200M budget). Or Strange World which did even worse($73M made against a $135-170M budget). Black Panther Wakanda looks like it had a good box office, but when compared against the first movie it did half the returns of its predecessor.
"They" has been used for the unspecified singular in English since long before our births; "ne" is completely unfamiliar and resembles a typo.

"The original poster said that their dog bit their cat, and then barked at their TV."
It makes sense to me that the economy overall is doing well but that the tech sector specifically over invested during the pandemic and is now contracting.
I suppose it's my Bayesian priors coming to light - I'm so distrustful of one side of this debate in general that simply having 'science' in a website title gives me a reaction similar to a lot of people who see 'truth' or 'infowards' in a headline. I'd probably be much more receptive to the same studies if you were linking to google scholar or scihub.
The part of mythical man month I was thinking of, which I consider the most famous/useful take-away, is how adding people to a project will not necessarily make it go faster, because the more people, the more coordination work -- and Brooks paid a lot of attention to the fact that the "coordination work" isn't just, like, issuing orders and monitoring people, but involves building and sharing and maintaining "mental models", a vision for how it all goes together in a consistent and coherent way.

i don't think that vision can be developed and maintained succesfully only by people who never get their hands dirty, it needs to be iteratively developed with constant feedback from the work itself and it's reception, if it is to be successful.
IDPro
More people than ever worked two jobs last year:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNU02026631
My guess is all the companies dealing in crypto that aren't properly licensed and aren't well connected politically are going to be in legal trouble soon. Makes sense for them to quit while they're still up, the business model has no way of standing long term. Probably smarter to take their money and just buy Coinbase stock or something like that.

The fact that they introduced KYC speaks for itself, because what's the point of using localbitcoin when you need to go through KYC? The whole idea was that it's anonymous p2p trade. If they require KYC too, users might as well go to one of the proper exchanges and get a better deal. Plus all the other services like staking or NFT markets on top.
Remember, half of america can't even read at a highschool level. How can they possibly expect to actually understand a research paper, and have the knowledge in statistics and probability to see when a paper has massaged the conclusion. I've taken stats and probability and I still don't feel like I have a strong enough grasp on stats to properly judge papers.

How the hell is steve the plumber supposed to be able to independently interpret research papers that require a stats understanding, some calc, some background knowledge in chemistry etc, to actually understand? These papers are written by people who have been steeped in extremely tiny segments of their field for a decade. A layman cannot understand that.
What specifically is missing?
What’s the salary on the offers you have, and in which region of Germany is that? Just curious.
I finally ordered this after seeing it recommended multiple times for this purpose. Does anyone have first-hand experience with it?

I have a recurrent impetigo infection on my face stemming from dry skin / eczema, with my partner as a possible source of re-infection. I'm hoping this product will make it a less common occurrence, as it's quite debilitating and has persisted for over half a year. The dermatologists I've seen have been of little assistance, only presenting me with drug-based treatments (monthly injections, immunosuppressants) and no advice for treating the root cause.

Topical antibiotics seem to be the only temporary solution for now, as systemic antibiotics seem to have no effect.
At least on Linux, I think the mbox vs maildir is an interoperability thing.
I can access folders created by thunderbird, or existing user local ones in any local mail client or remotely through IMAP.

It may be they don't want to break those external tools.
It is not even remotely far from the "strongest possible interpretation" at all. It is a mainstream belief of the democrat party that Republicans are racist reprobates. Someone who won the popular vote for presidency of the United States has said as much: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basket_of_deplorables

I can come up with many more examples. The current house minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, called everyone pushing for more election integrity laws racist: https://twitter.com/DanCrenshawTX/status/1415105589882114055

And here he is essentially calling our current supreme court racist: https://twitter.com/RepJeffries/status/1490913530928795648

Whenever anyone makes a blanket statement about a group of people being racists and has zero evidence of said alleged racism, it is a very plausible interpretation that they are blanket-insulting conservatives en masse.

Regardless, My criticism stands even without this interpretation. He claimed a bunch of racists and reprobates got unshackled on Twitter via Musk. He has provided zero evidence to back that up despite me challenging his claim and calling his behavior reprobative.
There’s a lot of value in those high CoL areas. A lot of concentrated knowledge and skill is in the Bay Area.
I notice that the extremists never use paywalls, meaning extremism is allowed to spread unchecked.

If respectable newspapers and magazines cared about society, they'd follow suit, and give the extremists some competition.
The deep well of academic and industry experience that was brought to bear on Rust's design is one of the reasons it's so good in so many areas. Most programming languages start with a developer scratching their own itch and kind of stay that way. The language grows features and learns to solve problems as the developers of the language learn the shape of those things. If the designer didn't know the PL landscape in depth, they end up spending time rediscovering lessons others have already learned.

Rust blatantly stole many of the best features of other languages and academic PL research, and its developers have spent their innovation tokens on figuring out how to get all these parts interacting, as well as how to make them ergonomic.

That brings its own challenges, but a feature like ownership and borrowing can't be bolted on afterward. It paid to get it right, and then work hard to make it easier and easier to use.
It must be. I've never heard about this subject before. Seeing all these replies surprised me.
This is excellent. Well done! I love the demo.

I've been wanting to work on something similar, with "scriptable tagging" plugins, so that I could, for instance, enter text like [ABC-123], and have it auto-link to a jira or linear ticket. Ideally it would show the state and possibly allow drilling-down into the contents for those tickets as well (expand ticket shows description, status, expand further to show comments, etc)

Likewise with slack links, github links, etc. Ideally those links could potentially also allow interactions with said services (marking done in-app, marks "complete" in ticket app)

I think I'd also want items in which I could write full text entries - but still referenced in the same list-style format, expanding the text as needed.

Anyway - those are the features I personally want in _something_ like this, in a markdown editor, something I end up writing poorly and leave to die on some drive somewhere - wherever.
But guns are extremely restricted in Canada, so that isn't as much of a relevant contrast. Even so: banks have their guns ;P.

https://www.westernstandard.news/news/bank-of-canada-was-sti...
First because a TV can last 10 years and have a 1000mbps port will be the minimum.

Second because when you send “something” to the TV like 60mpx photos, using a 100mbps port is slower.

Now a TV is also a home hub, not only a Television. And in the next years the 100mbps will be obsolete very fast.
Poor quality of top posts in the front page, considering HNs etiquette about content strictly pertaining to anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity when it’s clearly not the case.

Also the cognitive dissonance of people here when their favorite platform gets compared to admittedly lower quality ones (Reddit). What should one expect however when the front page is for the most part infested with meaningless platitudes about trends that end up being short-lived but get hyped as life-altering innovations?

And I haven’t even touched upon the subject of the course of debates on the site (bold assumptions by commenters significantly lacking background but still considering themselves authority)…
I'm somewhat confused by the whole premise. You ran a small scale test to see if your business idea would work, it didn't, and then you decided to pump $300k into it. While it's always interesting to read about how people build things, didn't you consider figuring out a business model that works first?
What are some of your stories?
Musk has zero influence over OpenAI's current projects.
I suspect the remote aspect is the biggest thing slowing you down. I go in once a month, which is practically a remote job, but those who moved during the pandemic and wouldn't fly in and take a hotel on their expense once a month had to leave

There are 1000 different flavors of mixed home-office working right now, but not that much fully remote
Same, I started the process of installing Pop!_OS [1] last week. I hope all drivers and things like Fan control work will properly, so far it seems to work really well out of the box so i was impressed - but i haven't tested any games yet for example.

[1] https://pop.system76.com/

PS. I still can't believe Windows has declined so much, what the hell is happening at Microsoft?
I think this happens a lot to Stephenson. He's great at creating worlds, and that's the genius of his writing. Then what happens in those worlds is sometimes underwhelming.

Anathem is another one of these novels.
LeBron isn't the GOAT because of the scoring title (just like Kareem wasn't the GOAT before him). He's the GOAT because for most of his 20 seasons (and counting), and the 1400+ games he's played so far, he was the best in the moment, as you put it. This compares with Jordan's 15 seasons -- 2 of which were with the Wizards where Jordan was nowhere near his prime anymore -- and 1100 games. The Lakers may be a mess, but LeBron is still a top 5 player in the league in his 20th season, and pretty close to his peak performance.
I think so. It gives definitive answers which is what we want.