skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The post said that Thunderbird is an app running on top of Firefox, so it's not much different than an Electron app. There are probably many more layers than a native one. Slowness is too new expected but actually I never felt that Thunderbird is slow. I use it daily.
> you don't have any personal relationships.

You mean work relationships?

I have relationships outside work. Though, I'm fully remote and also have work relationships.
I wasn’t laid off but was bored enough at my job to be looking. Interviews dialed back in quantity around august but I was able to find and interview with another company or two every week and accepted a position in December(was waiting to come across the right job, not just any job). We’re still hiring too and not just for technical positions. I have friends at several other companies who are as well.

The FAANGs gobbled up so much talent just to deny it to their competition that it sucked all the oxygen out of the industry and now that the people are available there’s still companies desperate to hire even with the higher cost of capital and inflation
Can boxxy make use of rules with regex? If not, consider this a feature request.
None of that damage should have occurred from a pinata.

At $1,000, it's probably safe to assume these aren't the only cheaply made parts of the vehicle.
OK how about this:

It 'knows' language, as in it has learnt about relationships between words (and thats really underselling it, in reality it has learnt very very subtle relationships between a great many words, and it can process words about 2000 at a time (token count etc))

BUT as you say it has no outside reference, its just a bundle of weights (those weights forming models of a sort)

BUT we provide the outside context by interacting with it. We ask it a question, it is able to provide an answer.

In any case it wont be long before someone hooks one of these up to cameras and robot arms and teaches it to make a cup of tea or whatever. A 'relationship to reality' is coming in the next few years if you think thats a critical ingredient.
So the Govt now gonna MITM the facebook traffic and moderate it? They'll need to build huge pipes....
Thanks, this phrasing makes more sense to me than the other explanations I've read.

But if kraken already is approved to hold crypto for users, what makes staking it different? Aren't they already promising just to hold it and return it? It feels like the same promise.
> Instead, Gitlab explicitly blamed economy-wide conditions for these layoffs, and that is what I take issue with. The economy is doing well.

And a macro-environment doesn't refer to just the economy. Per wikipedia: "The macro-environment refers to all forces that are part of the larger society and affect the micro-environment. It includes concepts such as demography, economy, natural forces, technology, politics, and culture."[0]

Btw, if you really want to get pedantic, you specifically used macroeconomic and macro-environment interchangeably, which also have two specific but interrelated meanings. Gitlab used the word macroeconomic. Which sort of tells me all I need to know about how you and other people really understand Gitlab's message, which is exactly what I was referring to - the macro "view" is that people aren't spending like they used to on technology. Look at every publicly traded tech companies and you'll see that. Combine this with political factors (inflation at recent historic highs) and the macro "view" or whatever term you want to use seems dim compared to what it was in 2021/2022.

> And frankly, my comment was not directed merely at Gitlab, but rather the slew of layoff notices we've seen that appear

That was obvious, and so was mine.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_environment
Not just American cars. My Mercedes SUV just squeezes between most parking-space lines. It's hard to open the door when other cars are parked in the next spaces.

I yearn for the days when I owned a real Mini: https://i.etsystatic.com/19141424/r/il/d27dc6/2416723291/il_...
GitHub is definitely a thought-leader in the midsize tech company world. Lots of other companies aspire to be like them and look to them for guidance. I wonder if we will see other similar sized companies close their offices as well now.
Awesome Windows Privacy
Pitchfork review of Jai Paul's masterpiece, Leak 04-13 (Bait Ones) (2019)
I think it does matter because it legitimizes a view of humans (and animals) that undervalues them. The causality of meaning arising from patterns of language rather than patterns of language arising from meaning follows the same inversion as society being more valuable than the humans in it. Bad things have happened when that belief becomes dominant.
Appeal to Authority is an argument that what they say is automatically true.

If you read what I said, it's the opposite ("In this case I think Hersh's reputation isn't what it used to be") but the point is that reputation is a signal that something is worth paying attention to in the absence of any other useful information.

I often think "false appeals to a logical fallacy without understanding nuanced argument" should be a fallacy itself. Nothing wrong with understanding logical fallacies of course - but often people just mindlessly use them without understanding what the fallacy says.

Expert witness in legal trials is a good counter-example to this fallacy for example. Expert witness testimony is given extra weight because of their reputation in the field. Sometimes this is wrong, but often it is not.
This isn't about staking being a problem, it's about 3rd parties staking on behalf of users being a problem. Users aren't being banned from staking for themselves at home on Ethereum or any other networks.

Edit: there's no reason to think that staking is a Ponzi scheme. It doesn't rely on new money coming in to pay previous investors since the protocol creates new assets. Every participant can sell their holdings and systems such as Ethereum's proof of stake will continue to pay the validator.
> “This is ridiculous,” he said, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the meeting. “I have more than 100 million followers, and I’m only getting tens of thousands of impressions.”

This is a really interesting quote from presumably this Tuesday. If true, when you compare with what is shown on Musk's tweets for impressions (millions of views for recent tweets - I only checked the first few), something doesn't seem right. Either the quote is incorrect or the display is incorrect.

Make of that what you will.
If you decide to turn my functional if bulky 70s office building into something a bit fresher I won't mind. Of course don't do it every month but Thunderbird hasn't changed for twenty years.

Apart from the attach button that was put at the other side of the compose window. That was annoying.

I fully expect the new UI to have a mode resembling the current one and the current keyboard shortcuts to still work. Now, if it's not the case I'll agree with you.

I too am pretty pissed off by many UI revamps and modern web UIs in general, but I'm quite confident because Thunderbird is not your regular shitty web app powered by a horde of investors.

We will see.
Automating Spreadsheet Process with Python 101
You, my friend, get an upvote for what is almost a pun!
The reason for the pay discrepancy is less that the UK is an outlier, and more that the US is an outlier. Salaries in the US for software engineers are the highest anywhere in the world: salaries in the UK are very good nowadays relative to most countries, but the US is leagues ahead of everyone.
My comment was mostly tongue-in-cheek. mih in a sibling thread added a link to actually useful IM scripts however, one of which supports variable blur using a mask (scroll below the table and parameters for example pictures): http://www.fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/variableblur/index.ph...
Yeah, prices in CO (where Corsairpower is based) are ~100-150/hr wet for a 172, plus 30-40/hr for an instructor. I think I'm paying ~120/hr plus a varying "fuel surcharge" of ~20/hr for a T41-D.

The main issue right now is that all the flight schools are booked up and you can't get a DPE booked less than two months out.
I've shipped a PWA to the iOS App Store wrapped inside of Ionic. The single biggest problems on iOS with PWAs shipped in this fashion is the swipe-back navigation doesn't work. There's CSS page transitions, but those aren't the same as Apple's navigation stack controls.

That's not to say PWA's can't be successful! I've found the opposite is true — that Ionic app I referred to early had an App Store rating of 4.8 stars by thousands of reviewers. I wish more people knew this secret.
Star trek universe!
I am using GPT-3 with babbage as the base model for the purpose of fixing common transcript errors for a professor's lectures and decorating the text. With about 100 lectures having their transcripts manually corrected and annotated by hand, the cost to train on this data comes out to around $5 per training session. Using the trained model to fix the rest of the 1000 lectures will cost around $300.
At a FAANG you can get ~£200k per year in London at a Senior level. Deliveroo doesn't pay particularly well (even though it's meant to be a competitor to Doordash which afaik does pay well). The Cabinet Office is a governmental agency and I would say it pays pretty poorly for London, but you'd probably find the same in the US.

You can get a better sense of the salaries in the UK via https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/london-...
All those layoffs sound super bad of ppl in developed countries and super good for ppl in less developed countries.

Im getting twice as much offers now and salary ranges double every few weeks.
Me too, but that's not this day. I hope it comes soon, but I think it's important that car companies promise and deliver in a rock solid fashion like Mercedes is doing instead of grandiose near future predictions that everyone knows won't be met. Not commenting on this incident in particular, just the general landscape of self driving.
Natural selection is variation, differential reproduction, and heredity. A mostly mindless and mechanistic process of which fitness and mate selection is only a tiny part.

Isolated populations have more of an impact than mate selection due to regression to the mean at population levels.
This might be a good time based on the discussion of this thread:

Ask HN: Laid off folks, are you getting hired?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34725047
Does your employer know? HR would probably have a fit if they found out it was publicly posted.
> Isn't this because the stock itself is already a security, not because of whether or how it pays dividends?

Whether it pays dividends, at all or in what form, is irrelevant to whether it's a security. That Kraken didn't pay out U.S. dollars isn't relevant to the question of whether they were offering securities.
Disclaimer: this is not legal advice, it's just to give you some ideas. AOPA and EAA have resources that can professional advise you.

Note that 'undiagnosed ADHD' holds as much weight as me saying you have bad energies. There are many conditions that masquerade as ADHD to a layperson, including some purely psychological ones (they are no less real, but are very different from a neurodivergent brain and require very different treatment).

If you are otherwise a high functioning adult (can function in society, operate vehicles safely, etc), get your third class medical, which should be no problem. You have to disclose diagnosed conditions. Do a discovery flight and ask for an opinion from the flight instructor. If he thinks you are fit, go start your training and enjoy.

If, one day, you do get diagnosed (with ADHD or some other disqualifying condition) AND require medication, then it's a problem. If you don't need medication (because most if not all ADHD medications are prohibited), don't try to renew your third class medical (because, if you get denied, it's a big problem) and get advice about BasicMed. It has far less requirements; my understanding is, unless there's something strictly prohibited, if a doctor signs you up you are good to go.

You won't be able to fly commercial or faster than 250knots but I suspect you don't care.

Failing all the above, there's light sports aircraft and gliders(no medical requirements, you just need judge yourself to be capable and unlikely to be incapacitated) – although I am not sure you can operate them while taking meds; some professional advice required here.

Disclaimer 2: Obviously the above assumes that whatever you have does not impair you. This is just to get around FAA's antiquated view on mental health while complying with the law. The most important thing is to be safe. If you really can't due to health issues, then don't, even if a doctor says you are fine.

Otherwise, don't give up!
I would guess that whatever makes it cost so much would equally apply to this solution once it is certified and not experimental. The gas V8 will be much less fuel efficient than a small turbo diesel, especially at altitude where the turbo offers huge advantages.

Those Mercedes engines are found in small cars and delivery vans around the world, and are widely available and pretty cheap. For example, the Centurion 3.0 uses a Mercedes-Benz OM642 which is found in Freightliner/Sprinter vans, Jeeps, and tons of other very common cars. You can buy these engines straight from Mercedes for like $8k.

In this case, the author mentions using an aluminum marine GMC V8, but not which one exactly. This is most likely based on the LS V8s, which are fairly expensive motors, and a pretty ancient design (e.g. pushrods).
It’s wild that this isn’t the top response.

I get a ton of emails from random startups in stealth mode, early funding, whatever.

You know where they all go? Spam folder. As far as I’m concerned, they pay the equivalent of dog shit and are mostly full of extremely entitled founders. They rarely offer equity that’s even remotely worth the risk. I’m way better off joining a company at Series B/C. I can often get a very similar amount of stock that even seed or series A folks have with having avoided a huge amount of risk. Tbh - I find joining pre-IPO probably has close to the best reward+risk for non-public entities.

There’s just no benefit to joining early startups as a non-founder. Maybe when founders start offering serious percentages of stock that isn’t going to be diluted into nothing - I’ll be more inclined. Until then - no way!
Girly is a social construct. As such, if a sufficient number of men believe that a Miata is girly, it is girly. I'm a gay guy who used to own a Miata, because I thought it was fun and wasn't overly concerned about how it would affect others' perception of my masculinity. I would often get comments about my feminine car.

Just like most things that straight men abstain from because it might make them look gay, it was really fun. Y'all miss out on a lot of cool stuff because you're worried your buddies will make fun of you.
> it was the local constable and his accident investigators being wrong

Possibly it's the media's job to question when law enforcement comments seem implausible?
Presumably it's not as accurate?
It sadly can't. Regex paths are hard due to the way it's implemented; if it was intercepting syscalls via ptrace then regex would be a lot more viable, but since this is just a glorified collection of bind mounts in the end, I'm unsure how I'd implement that nicely...
If it weren't true the network wouldn't run longer than it takes one's idle curiosity yield to the electricity bills.
31 of 33 engines fired as far as I know. The test certainly woke up a lot of birds hah.

"On Twitter, Mr. Musk said one engine was turned off during the test and another one turned itself off. Even so, 31 of 33 engines would be enough to reach orbit during a launch, Mr. Musk said."
- https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/09/science/spacex-starship-s...
The issue is not specific to Google Bard, it applies to any AI-powered search engine (e.g. bing and others yet to follow)
Any more details on that?
I fully expect to, if for no other reason than the market is no longer on my side. It's a question of degrees.
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The man page + Google! There's very few good examples of it, and I've accepted that I'm just not familiar enough with that specific problem space.
> Seems like a golden opportunity for a community owned and operated Internet provider.

Somewhat related.

I'm in the middle of signing a lease on a new place...

One of the biggest draws for me is what me and my friends jokingly call "the socialist service" I'm going to have.

Water, Sewer, Electricity, Phone, Cable and Internet (up to 2gig!) all in one bill and managed by the same company. Oh and the bill is on average cheaper than even a single electricity bill from the nearby city my old place was in.

Only downside is the internet is cable so not asymmetric.
> my friends ... irl people are envious, toxic and potentially dangerous.

bro, i don't want to tell you how to live your life, but if you are describing people as envious, toxic, and potentially dangerous than either these are not your friends, or you have a horribly low opinion of people.

We don't have evidence if the problem is you or them, but I would say a fundamental baseline expectation from a "friend" is that they should be HAPPY not envious of your successes.
There are many factors involved in employee assessment of employer suitability. Steve Blank has observed [0] that when top employees recognize that when an employer moves to assessing them from a purely financial perspective, it's time to go.

https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear...
> And here's a followup project by investigative journalists at The Markup:

> https://themarkup.org/still-loading/2022/10/19/dollars-to-me...

That article is pretty bad. It doesn't once mention DSL or that technology's inherent technical limitations that can result in widely variable speeds (IIRC, your bandwidth is determined by the length of the wire between your house and the central telephone office). Then it spends a lot of time talking about race, which is likely creating a misleading impression that lends itself to outrage.
> "Given that the main goal of this work is to apply an ML technique to identify signals with a specific pattern, we do not attempt to make a definite
conclusion of whether these eight signals are genuinely produced by
ET. We encourage further re-observations of these targets." [0]

Don't hold your breath waiting for aliens just yet.

0: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-022-01872-z.epdf
Why is nobody willing to take a risk to revive this market? If the only thing preventing a revival is cheap planes, couldn't someone get some investor to pay for all the certifications of their modern, fancy, efficient, cost effective plane, and then sell a million of them?

That is essentially how any new industry works. EV's were too bad/impractical/expensive until Tesla decided to take the risk and put down the capital to make them mainstream. Why can't/doesn't someone do the same for GA?
The abstract sounds about as significant as when “AI”, which is both championed and feared by people who superstitiously imagine dystopian run-amock AI intent on killing off humanity, itself expresses that very same idea. Really? Your trained program comes up with derivative stories told by computer nerds?
My Experience Interning at Amazon
This seems relevant with the recent layoffs.
Error on the landing page:

> Gorgeous screenshots is just a click away...

should be "Gorgeous screenshots are just a click away...".
If you wanna go off-piste it’s totally fine! This is an interesting topic, in my opinion, and it’s not like there’s any bad blood or conflict. Just people in different places with different norms and experiences.
> they have a wider pool from which to choose

This goes both ways for employer and employee
Getting someone to give you money for a product is always hard. We see things all around us that we and others pay for every day, but that's just survivorship bias. It doesn't stop many of us from thinking it's easy, "there's n-billion people on the internet, if I can get 1%..."
My cold application process works pretty well historically. I can’t speak for the current conditions though.

I’ve gotten all my jobs through non-referrals in the past. It does work. Can’t speak for now though - could be most places just aren’t hiring even though they make it seem like they are.

Folks here need to spend more time on the hiring side and see how the meat is made.
The scoping also has some performance advantage: locals are accessed by index in the bytecode, with all name resolution happening at compile-time, but globals require a string lookup in the module dictionary every time they're accessed.

This isn't something that should matter even a little in typical ML code. But in generic Python libraries, there are cases when this kind of micro-optimization can help. Similar tricks include turning methods into pre-bound attributes in __init__ to skip all the descriptor machinery on every call.
It seems like kind of a slam dunk, though I wonder about the reliability of a car engine left at full-throttle (or close to it) for long periods of time the way airplane engines are.
That’s sometimes true but the standards have improved so much it’s hard to do these comparisons.

A new Model T in 1925 cost had fallen to 260$, that’s roughly $4,348 in todays money. Sure it’s missing a great deal of modern features, but it’s hard to get a new golf cart at that price.
There are also actual gliders (aka soaring). These are planes in all but the engine, and are pretty safe.
Closing all offices enables GitHub to hire in cheaper geographies. Seems that the San Francisco headquarter was their only real office anyway,and I estimate approx 400 GitHubbers were working from there (55000 sqft office space, tech typically uses 150 sqft per employee). Gradually re-hiring those in cheaper geographies plus reduction of perks can mean quite significant savings and is another stab at Silicon Valley.
It’s funny how if you’re a software engineer this bug report triggers a feeling of curiosity about transformers and tokenisation. But if you’re a journalist for vice.com it triggers wild theories about sinister unexplained behaviours.