skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think broadly their team was just too big for the stage of the company they were at. It probably would have made more sense to have perhaps one engineer, one operations / business person, and a few part time delivery drivers / baristas. Ideally the first two would be founders who don't need a salary in this early stage. With those economics they wouldn't be printing money with ~150 orders a day, but they would be solvent.

This seems to be the classic case of building much more than the stage of the company demands, and then not having the business-side be ready to bring in the revenue that level of commitment demands.
Mutt-wizard: mutt distribution with simple interface and safe passwords
I mean thats science?

Individual experiences dont give any indication of population level outcomes - there is too much variability.

Some people see their cancers spontaneously go into remission but you wouldnt make a claim that cancers usually go into remission by themselves.
Suspension from participating in public grant programs (no free taxpayer cash for you - sorry) and a fine on the order of 5% of yearly gross revenue per instance would help ensure that corporations are not incentivized to lie. Of course, that'll never happen.
Can someone who knows something about the sun tell us... if this is cause for concern? (Not that we can really do anything about it lol)
13 “invalid” addresses

Let's not overstate the problem here...
It's a great metaphor nicely phrased, but perhaps we should add "with the 'sensitive' parts airbrushed out" in reference to the wholesale bowdlerisation applied after the compression?
Hmm, I literally just double-checked before posting (with the beta version, too), and it still says it needs a plugin? Maybe I need to look a bit closer.
I wish Eudora was still around. The source code is available, my secret dream is to work on somtimes in the summer...

https://computerhistory.org/blog/the-eudora-email-client-sou...
Kareem is a smart, thoughtful, introverted guy and a tremendous basketball player who, unfortunately, has sort of been ignored or forgotten. He's rarely listed in the NBA's "Mount Rushmore" or "top 5" of all time, never got a coaching gig, which he desperately sought, never did TV.

He is being quite gracious here with Lebron, but inside surely he's thinking, I had to go to college for 4 years! And nobody out here today is playing any defense! Give me 4 extra years against this competition and I'd have 10,000 more points! And I've got 6 titles to your 4, plus 3 more NCAA championships!
I'm actually doing some research on a similar topic. I'm trying to find what would be the most productive tools for me to create quickly create an MVP or proof of concept.

I narrowed my choices down to Rails and Django, most likely only using the API creation portions of each since I prefer using a JavaScript framework to handle the front-end. I spent some time writing down a list of areas that I could compare the two frameworks, and I'm going to see which one I like the most. Though I have a feeling I'm going to end up with Django. Their documentation and tutorials are incredible.
Some people are "lucky" enough to be born into nicer circumstances than others, which make them more suited for certain pursuits. How is that even worth mentioning, when it's the universal condition of humanity everywhere, and at all times?
This. Proof of it is in the pay rates of CEOs.
Can attest to this. I worked at an open source consultancy for a while. During a tough period, and having made some bad bets (trying to get into the enterprise Java world), they did some downsizing - or actually, it was more like warning that there would be downsizing. A lot of people quit, not even waiting to get a severance package. Including many people they definitively weren't happy to lose.
"scientists" who touted only one side of the public risk debate

The other side being 'it's just a cold/flu', 'only the unfit will die', 'statistics are fake', 'muh Chinese bioweapon' etc.

Edit: you know it's true. 'touting' suggests bad faith, and ignoring the existence of bad faith discourse in the opposite direction is facile.
> you probably don't use that for things like excel

I'm not sure when I read it, but long ago I read some kind of AMA from a MS engineer working on Excel saying that his greatest achievement was working on the team that made the Excel's DAG solver trivially parallelizable. In the same thread, he mentioned that offloading to the GPU was being looked into. I guess it never came to fruition.
Interviewing is dating is homophily.

The job of the Mensa logic brogrammer guess-what-I'm-thinking trivial pursuits gatekeeping is to rationalize rejecting candidates you don't like.

Successful sales people have the right mindset:

Impervious to rejection, convinced the next person will mosdef say "Yes!"
Looks very nice - I see there is the ability to edit metadata, but I often have a need to strip/delete _all_ meta data from a document. Having that as a single option would be very useful...
Except now I can train an AI to do it 24/7...
> As a homelabber myself (enterprise networking + servers) there are quite a few things to consider before jumping ahead with such a setup

Well. I have over quarter of century of experience in IT, as a sysadmin, developer, electronics engineer and tech lead. It helps. I would never suggest anybody to do this just to have a nice WiFi at home...

> Finally unless your family knows how to maintain the system as well, you'll be the sole IT contact and will have to do quite a bit of support especially at the start. You'll need a plan of how to remotely manage everything if you're say on vacation since things like to crop up then.

Yep. I have VPN I can use to manage the network. All devices can be rebooted remotely.

I also have some backups -- the 5G router can be disconnected from the setup and used standalone and I have instructed my wife how to do this. Most of the files are synchronised to a cloud service where she can connect in need.

The passwords to everything are stored in tamper evident envelopes (and a paper books with a log in my own handwriting).

As to power consumption this probably is the weakest point of all of this. Yes, a lot of devices equals a lot of power, but my devices are extra power hungry. Although I tried to avoid unnecessary electricity waste (if only to keep it fanless) I never compromised quality for it. For example, I went out of my way to not buy an actual server even though there is a plenty of used servers that I would be perfectly happy with. Instead I built my own based on one of a kind motherboard that supports a consumer CPU and ECC RAM and uses relatively little power.
most of what goes as "understanding" (where 'our culture' is the agent/actor doing the 'understanding') really is compression of information (abstraction is the form of the compressing)

I thought about this possibility years ago, but as I see more of what neural nets are doing, it makes me more certain I'm onto something (which makes no meaningful difference to me, i.e. being onto what these deep neural models are is useless to me)

in any case, yea sure. neural nets are some kind of lossy compression but nobody thinks about them this way.

and my point is that to create abstract theories which explain lots of things (e.g. physics) is also this kind of 'lossy compression'.

over these theories we say "we understand" stuff, this means we are able to recall things about what the theories are describing, it allows us to reconstruct scenarios and predict the outcomes if/when the scenarios match up.

maybe I'm gearing up to say that 'backpropagation' is a creative action?

shrugs
I didn't contend that DEI discludes equity. I made the point that "equity" isn't what the commenter said it "seems to be". As in, ne said it seemed to be "outcome-based instead of opportunity-based". It's a complicated subject but I don't think any earnest reading of the tenets of DEI can be summarized as "outcome based" and especially not in place of "opportunity based". It immediately sets up a false dichotomy which implies a certain shallowness to the interpretation. Which is why my response took aim at the "axe to grind"; it sets up the foundation for the larger complaint (that professors shouldn't be employed based on ideological conformity), which makes that complaint resting on an un-validated argument. If ne wants to make that argument, ne needs to validate ner accusation, or refactor it to not be reliant upon a shallow understanding of DEI.
There's a spaced-repetition algorithm underneath to schedule reviews at the optimal time for retention.

You can send me an email kevin@listlang.com to update your username. I'll do it for you, since there's no way on the app itself.
Being courteous, thoughtful, and taking best-faith interpretations are key aspects of the ideology that is mandatory under this site’s guidelines. This is a wildly unpopular ideology at other sites.

If a user or mod noticed them breaking those guidelines over time, and they continued doing so after being repeatedly warned, then they absolutely would have been banned for their ideology.

Otherwise, I don’t think anyone really cares how disagreeable their viewpoint is, so long as they’re courteous and contributing while expressing it (and it’s not derogatory, hate speech, etc).
I am waiting to see the C-suite get some accountability - not holding my breath. if you over-hired by 7-12% over a an 18-24 month period that's a pretty significant management mistake - you clearly did not have a pulse on the business and its operations. I fail to see why these CEOs still have their jobs and worse, are continuing to get their performance bonuses.
You don't actually live there. Filing NY taxes could be tax fraud if you don't live there,although the rules may allow you to if you work there.
It's a human problem, not a technologist problem. I've often been asked by a business manager to create a website or other software in support of a new business process that is still in what I'd call the hypothesis testing phase. I encourage them to create content for it, first, and if they take my advice, half the time they realize the process won't have enough throughput to justify it.
Yup,take look there https://activepieces.com/docs/contributing/repo-structure

Most current documentation is about the pieces package (Building Pieces Section), the rest will follow soon.
I second Mimestream, never had a problem until their most recent bug yesterday. They are fast on fixes though.
No kidding.

There's no mention of any prior industry experience by anyone on their team. They seem to be a digital agency with an expensive coffee habit.

They signed an expensive lease for office space before having any paying customers or other market validation of any kind?

They started with their chosen solution (pre-made gourmet coffee delivered in 15 minutes) before demonstrating that this was a problem their customers even had. Office managers and event planners all have a coffee budget, but rarely need anything with such immediacy. Their job is predicting demand and planning ahead so there's always coffee available, but it never has to be ordered at a moment's notice. There's no mention of talking to these potential buyers before investing in sunk costs like real estate, equipment, a bespoke software platform (!), payroll, etc.

They set their prices way too low. By anchoring to the cost of a takeaway coffee from a cafe, instead of to an on-demand delivered hot food/beverage (much more expensive!) they weren't able to cover their much higher overhead. Their insufficient margins lead them to be understaffed and unable to absorb any unplanned absences. Any amount of experience managing employees at this pay scale would have made it obvious that you can't expect military precision and perfectly consistent output.

>Don't become a software company!

They had six software engineers on staff! For a coffee delivery company! The (10+ year old) company that services my office employs zero software engineers. Their website is outsourced to a local web dev.

They seemed to have no financial projections whatsoever showing that this was a sustainable business at any level.
You can make submitting telemetrics a condition of some other agreement, such as copyright license on the Red Hat name, or a B2B support contract. That, however, is pretty far removed from what's discussed here; if the software license itself makes telemetrics "mandatory", then it's no longer an open license.
The "written in Rust" part is just because it is so impossible hard to do anything in Rust that its developers have to brag about it.
He was kind of considered very aloof and an asshole during his career. Sometimes people age and become more mellow.
Maybe if that's why you wrote the essay, you could have mentioned it in the essay.
I think as the economy gets tighter and people struggle delivery is going to get harder and harder of a business.
Recently, the Chinese/Mexican Cartel laundering operation had been operating at 1-2% fees [1]. This was new and historically you're right, but the amount of money wanting to leave China freed up cash to drive down fees.

1 - https://www.propublica.org/article/china-cartels-xizhi-li-mo...
> I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to determine which group was the number one culprit of such vile acts

Let us have that open discussion and actually make it known, not just alluding to it. I don't know the answer. Which group is it?

Please make sure 1) to control for population ratios, 2) to control for additional factors potentially influencing the outcome where the groups differ, e.g., degree of urbanisation, 3) to include a procedure how the groups are classified.

You indicate to know the answer so I trust confounding factors have been excluded and it is transparent how the group labels were assigned. Thanks in advance!
I don’t usually ask a random person about some topic I want sound information on. I ask an expert on that topic. If ChatGPT-like AI can’t fulfill that role (and ChatGPT usually can’t), then they’re not very useful for that.
Many people have been at a place for a while, some over a decade. Massive layoffs means quick and picking individuals who rarely demonstrated poor performance.

What it means to someone being laid off is far more than the challenges in finding another place.

Plenty of fish and a rich dating scene out there. If you are dumped for dubious reason, would the argument that it isn't a problem at all to find someone else stand to not touch on the reasons?

Plus given the power dynamic at play, don't you think the debate should go on with the reasons for what almost look like a centralised decision making power deciding when millions people should be let go despite no correlation with poor individual performance and even business performance in many cases?
Stuff like the hand checking rule and better floor spacing as a result of the rise in prominence of the 3 point shot come to mind
I'm not sure how to solve sexual loneliness. But I did give you an idea, and you haven't tried it. Maybe it's a bad idea, but it's something.

You have two options in this very limited exchange. You can a, try something new, or b don't and keep doing things the way you have always done them.

Good luck with everything champ.
I also wonder where the widespread sentiment is coming from. Everybody had been expecting a recession on the basis of prediction markers like inverted yield curves and because it's historically due. That being said, no actual economic markers are actually pointing at one.

Lots of companies are using this and layoffs at other companies as an excuse to cut down their work force, which they (uncommonly) hadn't done for years (which might mean never for young companies). My guess is also that this is more acceptable to share holders because it allows companies to put some money in the bank in case a recession actually arrives. Being transparent about this would be more honest than blaming it on "tough macroeconomic environment". At least severance packages look pretty neat and there's lots of jobs out there still for software people. Hiring is getting a little easier for smaller companies too.
There are always people who obsess over coffee, but IMO, workplace delivery absolutely does not fit. My father is one of those, (5 expresso machines, 3 grinders), but he does it for the experience/hobby and not the convenience.
If you’re posting please include the location as well.
Ummm… doesn’t the government literally print money? Sure you can’t just print infinite money as it devalues the currency, but I don’t think stating whether or not the government has money is a helpful framing. The government has an entirely different relationship to money. I could be wrong but taxes are more a way to keep value of the currency by creating some artificial scarcity. Sure, the government tries to keep a balance between taxation and expenditure to avoid devaluing the currency too much, but that’s not the same thing. In fact, governments regularly run deficits (spending money they don’t have) without collapsing. The only real risk is of a major currency devaluation because you managed the inflation incorrectly.

Consider the “out” for the US debt ceiling being bandied about is minting a trillion dollar coin.
Isn't that one of the chief goals of accumulating wealth? Being able to offer their children more opportunity?
It probably could have been fixed, but HTML browsers kept a step ahead in progress. Java applets lost the improvement pace race, but the applet concept has merit because it was designed for GUI's, unlike HTML.

If applets had better up-front security, better version management and auto-updates (like current browsers do), and better download-modularity such that one didn't have to download the entire app to open one screen, for example. Oracle buying it didn't help, as they have a reputation for suing everything that moves.
Mast1c0re: Introduction – Exploiting the PS4 and PS5 through a game save
if something is systematically creating a directory, then i would be hesitant to put user-defined code in there. it could get systematically overwritten?
https://archive.is/jkxYl
The same author wrote another very useful post in 2010 that also involved mediants:

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/10/20/best-rational-appr...
I appreciate where you are coming from and I agree that AI is about to go from relative obscurity where just a few geeks were playing around to insane hype. I feel like I’ve spent the last 7 years wondering why no one in the wider world was as impressed as I was, but starting with Stable Diffusion and now ChatGPT, the hype rocket ship has launched. Search TikTok for ChatGPT for all the evidence of that you could ever need.

That said, I still think we are in for a wild ride, even if we go through a hype bubble and pop first. I really don’t think the current crop of Transformer LLMs are the end of the story. Im betting that we are headed towards architectures made up of several different kind of models and AI approaches just like the brain is an apparent concert of specialized regions. You can see that in the new Bing where it’s a combination of a LLM with static training set that can then do up to 3 web searches to build up additional context of fresh data for the prompt, overcoming one of the key disadvantages of a transformer model. The hidden prompt with plain English Asimov's laws are the icing on the cake.

The hype will be insane, but the capabilities are growing quickly and we do not yet seem close to the end of this rich computational ore vein we have hit.
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There are reasons to want to live in a high COL area that attract people to live there regardless of job prospects alone. If you want to hire young smart people who're into culture and nightlife and not having to drive everywhere, the best will be in expensive cities.
I don't know anything about Alex Jones other than that he is on the fringe. People on the fringe can mostly be ignored unless they become dangerous, and they do so be acquiring significant power and influence. The difference between the extreme right and the extreme left is that the former has virtually no political, cultural, or other power in our society, while the latter is ascendant and yields vast amounts of power today.

The comparison is not remotely apples to apples. The extreme left is the greatest existential threat to our society today. The extreme right is a joke.
> a drive up coffee vending machine with good but not over the top coffee.

Nice idea. I have seen a novel (to me at least) system when visiting Boston, a city of traffic jams:

People wearing a metal contraption on their backs that makes them look like ghostbusters. In one hand is a hose from which they can fill your cup; on the other side is a tube of paper cups if you don’t have one. They just walk through the traffic jam (I saw this at the end of the tunnel leading to East Boston) and driver would wind down their windows.

On one hand your scheme has much less labor, but this approach can serve many more, and captive, customers at a high density time of day.
To be more explicit: If your license does not let users patch out your telemetry code it is not an open source license at all.
Here in Portland you kinda have to put a roasted on date if you want your coffee to sell… that is, if people don’t buy directly from the roaster. If you want some amazing coffee, check out Nossa Familia. They are vertically integrated (own their own farms in Brazil for the last century). They ship anywhere and have great sales online. A lot of the time we’ll just buy the coffee online for convenience, and they’ll always ship it with a roasted on date just a week out or less (not supposed to make coffee directly after roasting). Give it a try! I’m not sponsored in any way, just absolutely love their coffee. https://nossacoffee.com
>The increase in Asian hate was not led by Black Americans

Yes it was.

>I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to determine which group was the number one culprit of such vile acts -- from simple assault to mass murder.

Let's look at the objective facts backed by data: https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cv18.pdf

Table 14

Asians were the only group more likely to be attacked by someone of a different race. Blacks were the most frequent aggressors. 27% of attacks were from Black aggressors. 24% were from White aggressors. Blacks make up 13% of the population, so they are WAY more likely per capita to attack Asians than Whites. QED.

inb4 this is from 2018. If you have numbers from a latter reputable study, please provide them here, but the facts are facts. Blacks are the number one perpetrators of crime against Asians.

[Edit] No feathers rustled here, you're just projecting after being called out. I simply enjoy being a data driven adult.
Peter Hotez Calls for Prosecution of Criticism of Scientists as Hate Crime
Would make a good (bad) CSI episode. Enhance the security footage then put out an arrest warrant for Ryan Gosling.
Ahh, streaming. This is an area I've been working on; there are still lots of places where we collect data when we should stream it instead. In general, if you think "that should be able to stream" but it doesn't, that's probably a bug and worth filing an issue.

I can reproduce your issue, I suspect that `filter` is collecting its input when it shouldn't. It's not totally clear why from looking at the code.

If you can file an issue that would be appreciated, if not I'll try to do so later today. We have a tag for streaming issues: https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3A...
House Votes 419-0 to Pass Resolution Condemning China for Spy Balloon
Kareem literally says this in his post:

> I don’t blame him for thinking that I might be bothered because he knows how competitive I used to be.