skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and it's always disheartening for people to claim that choosing not to focus on specific technologies makes you a worse human being.

Hey, I'm the guy who wrote that original response to you. I apologize if that's how you interpreted my comment, but that's not what I meant by it. I wasn't even trying to say that you're a bad engineer (and certainly not a bad human being), I just wanted to say that I disagree with the attitude of that comment. I'm sure if I said it to you in person, you would have picked up on the non-hostile intent and narrow scope of my criticism, but the internet tends to twist things in very negative ways.

Nobody can know everything, and not knowing something doesn't make someone a bad engineer. Software development in particular is more about learning than about knowing, which is why when I see someone saying that they don't need to learn something because <X>, it bothers me. In your comment, you said that you don't want to be a release engineer, but IMO that's a poor excuse since "release engineer" isn't even a role that exists at many places.

And for the record, I didn't even look at the project you linked to. So if you also thought I was criticizing it, then rest assured that I'm much too lazy for that. When I was still learning, online tutorials and resources like yours were extremely valuable to me, so I know how helpful they can be to people even if they're not "perfect" by some snobby asshole's definition...so keep at it!
They seem to be updating the model roughly weekly, so it would be somewhat expected to see it start to include some more influence from what people have been entering into the chat window.
It’s less of a shock that it’s different and more of a shock that it’s anti employee
He had a TV show on RT which meant that he was literally on the Kremlin's payroll.

Its sort of interesting to me that in this thread there are a lot of people trying very hard to make indirect connections between Western journalists and Western governments. Here we have a direct connection between a "journalist" and a government and its dismissed as "misinformation".
It wasnt just Muslim bigotry, it was also anti-Semitic as well.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/05/google-al...

However the so called free british press have perhaps outed their subconscious bias with their reporting and coverage!!!

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/6967071/Google...

This is already documented. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_white_woman_syndrome
The self driving car is, from my point of view, an example with people that use a low-quality control method with strange failure modes, and pretend like everything is okay.

In many bad scenarios with AI, there's a person that granted AI some kind of decision power.
That artificial brains can be made.
> > How is this legal, in the famously pro-labor EU?

> Because it is literally the law.

Ha, fair enough. I believe OP meant to ask and should have asked something along the lines of: "How is this the law in the famously pro-labor EU?"
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Because this is such an easy and common trap to fall into (because it's a very economical shortcut ?), we need to be super vigilant about it ?

Speaking of which, might the feeling about the existence of numbers come from a similar shortcoming in our neurological structure ?

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mHNzpX38HkZQrdYn3/philosophy...

Not directly related, we're now surrounded by computers, which are even dumber (some forms of machine learning and analog computers aside ?) in that they have zero flexibility in treating symbols as something else...
Looks interesting; is there a blog somewhere detailing how to hook the sensor up to Raspberry Pi or something similar?
I had a middle management job where I could have had ChatGPT replace 99% of the work I did spinning emails or making bad news sound positive.
Typically one month in Ireland.
In a world where only headlines are read, and the article is behind a paywall, where "50%" of Americans don't trust the media we have this article.

The AI Chatbot has no feelings. None. Incapable.
I recently learned about the Belgian Antarctic research station princess Elisabeth, which is not only zero emissions but utilizes passive heating as well - completely heated by incoming sunlight and the human bodies inside.

http://www.antarcticstation.org/station
Captain D on premulitplication and the alpha channel (with regards to video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XobSAXZaKJ8
In germany it's only 3 month if the employee has been in the company for 4 years. Until then it's only 1 month.

Edit: Both parties can of course negotiate a bigger time frame.
It doesn't require central coordination, a distributed norm enforcement network causing self-censorship is fine. In this case, it's done by Twitter: all journalists are on Twitter, all journalists are petrified of saying something that will upset the other journalists on Twitter, and so they all self-censor to not do that. No master plan needed.
I'm sure people said that too when Amazon was launching AWS.
Agreed, my understanding is that Datalog has a distinct (though related) lineage that directly emerged from Prolog (i.e. logic programming, not relational algebra / database theory) - skimming the introduction of "Horn Clauses and the Fixpoint Query Hierarchy (1982)" seems to confirm this: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/588111.588137

Edit: this presentation describes things differently but it doesn't sound quite right to me "Chandra and Harel - 1982
Studied the expressive power of logic programs without
function symbols on relational databases" https://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/datalog2.0/slides/Kolaitis.pdf
Atlas Shrugged really needed an editor. It's a long, yet overly pedantic novel with simplistic caricature for villains. It also manages to go head to head with Brave New World for predicting the nature of our decline. This is just one more moment where I must begrudgingly admit that Rand called this one.
It’s your call fortunately/unfortunately.

The safe option is obviously to install plugins for features that are close to passing as possible, where the api is stable at least - but there are plugins for very early stage proposals too.
> (What happens if you ignore it?)

In the EU country I live in employees have 30 days of notice and the employee has to pay the employer for each missing day of required notice. Employees generally don't pay anything anyway, as they mature several additional "bonuses" (13th and 14th month, severance pay) during their employment and the missing notice payment can be detracted from those.
That is a pretty garbage question phrasing. The idea that journalism shouldn't persuade is a bizarre affectation meant to make journalists appear as special professional class, like doctors. When your kid tells you what happened at school, they're a journalist.
I have my own "conspiracy" theory about black holes relating to our universe. Bare with me here.

Some scientists believe in parallel universes and are unsure how they may or may not interact. Some scientists also believe in the so called "Big Bang' that began the expansion of our universe.

Since everything is made up of molecules/atoms (or matter in general) etc and all those things have a resonant frequency, what if each parallel universe operates at a different resonant frequency and our brain is only tuned to receive/understand the frequencies of our own universe? This would somewhat explain why we cannot perceive the other universes. Keep that in-mind for the below.

My theory is what if black holes are just vacuums sucking all the energy from one parallel universe into itself only to be blasted out the other side (that we cannot see) creating the "Big Bang" event to create the beginning of the next universe?

Makes you think, even if it sounds crazy.
In the UK tech industry it tends to be 1 month for rank and file employees and 3 months for seniors.

By the time you are senior enough to be at the 3 month level you will often be put on gardening leave anyway.
That's really up to you, Rust has great pattern matching imho, rivaling Erlang's for sure, but with some nice syntax upgrades. Additionally in Ractor, RPC's are strong-typed to the reply type, so a `call` in Erlang might result in the wrong type coming back which then you have to handle in your reply pattern matching or crash. This isn't possible in Rust w/ Ractor, since you _know_ the strong type in advance and can't send an incorrect value.
So Amazon is upset someone is invading their privacy and stealing their data?
That doesn't solve my problems though. F# notebooks with Polyglot Notebooks or Elixir notebooks with Livebook, which are what I use, are much more advanced than Jupyter notebooks and likely anything Emacs provides.

For example, in a Polyglot Notebook in VS Code, I can freely mix markdown, F#, C#, JavaScript, HTML, Python, LaTeX, Mermaid diagrams, images, and more.

I can only assume Emacs provides nothing close to this.
Usually you can just get an agreement with the employer to leave sooner. Three months might be enough time to hire someone and have some limited handover, but better than no handover.
I believe Google Sheets supports programmability using Javascript these days. Is your product fundamentally different?
Thanks and all the best.
I didn't determine, but the BBC has a well deserved reputation as do its journalists. Also if Modi had nothing to hide, why these persecutions as opposed to focusing on disputing alleged facts with evidence
Implementing buffered formatting in C without the Libc
Two points:

First, as noted by many below (above), IKEA really needs to put a CO2 monitor in this thing, to tell room occupants the most useful information.

Second, one person being confidently wrong can use up a lot of other people's time. Maybe there's some way that forum design could reduce this problem. Maybe there isn't.
> Sydney feels like a full blown teenager going through some kind of emotional crisis.

Perhaps not surprising when using the Internet as a data source. I know I generated the highest volume of text on the Internet when I was a teenager in existential crisis.
Well let's steelman journalism a bit; journalism provides context.

Reporting would say: "3 people died in car accident this morning."

Journalism would say: "3 people died in a car accident today, marking 4720 this year alone. Due to some new regulations increasing speed limits, passed early this year, car accidents are up 12%. And the federal government is looking to roll back more regulations, which are expected to increase fatality rates by 6%."
So its the plant from little shop of horrors?
The long notice period, among other things attenuates hiring sprees like we have seen this summer and the firings that followed in the winter.
It requires for the ceo and hiring managers to think a little longer term than this quarter.
ASML says ex-China employee misappropriated data relating critical chip tech
This is really simple. Media are now in the service of advertisers. Or more specifically of people who are willing to spend money to target particular people. For example, the NYT targets the wealthy, which is why they frequently have stories about "how much will $900,000 buy in a home"? By targeting the wealthy, the NYT and other media present a view of the world that is very much at odds with the way many if not most Americans experience the world.

There is another set of media that sells access to the "less well off" in America. Here's looking at you fox. It is hard to call them media because what they do is foster outrage and sell that. This audience is targeted by those with political agendas.

Who pays for your media determines how you see the world and what you see of the world. Period.
Just some feedback: the landing page dimensions are all out of order. There's a horizontal scrollbar under the "sneak peak" section. Never a good thing. The spacing between the heading and the hero image is far too wide.
Paul Calder Le Roux Is Satoshi Nakamoto (Or Was)
No it does not.

This is from experience.

The CO2 level in my bedroom gets high whilst I sleep.

I open the window and the CO2 drops quickly but the pollutant levels rise.
as in "demeaning work"
That wasn’t the part that I was calling a farce — see the next three paragraphs. Literally.
Depends on country - Polish employment law has "notice period" be bidirectional asa statute unless a gross abuse happened (enumerated in another section of employment law). Shortening notice period is a bidirectional contract where the employee may forfeit owed wages for shorter notice period.
When using it for work I never give out specific examples, data, or code. Rather I ask generalized questions like how to parse this JSON object in python and access this property within the object.
No it does not.

This is from experience.

The CO2 level in my bedroom gets high whilst I sleep.

I open the window and the CO2 drops quickly but the VOC pollutant levels rise.
Just to be crystal clear: you can deadlock an otherwise logically sound async program by using a blocking lock instead of a yielding lock.

I’d call that an unforced programmer error.
It's not anti-employee! It's symmetrical; this is the trade off for "your employer has to give YOU three months notice".

(conversely, everyone in the EU who hears about US ""right to work"" interprets it as some kind of 1984 euphemism for "you can be fired with no notice or severance")

Edit: yes, I think it's at-will and "right to work" is a different euphemism referring to law against "closed shop" unions.
Never had longer notice period than 3 months, and I don't think people would agree to such thing. I've seen people being on notice for a year, but it was considered "garden leave". Company pays you not to take any job, so you basically forget what the product was and they move on with functionality. I once had 3 months notice period, when leaving I asked verbally if we can make it 4 weeks, they agreed and that's it.
Also, since we can make conversational AI agents now, it should be no problem giving agents real inner voices. Text injected into the context, but invisible for the user. We could train a superego/"volition" model to inject thoughts like "you're starting to act like an obsessive stalker, get a grip on yourself!". And maybe an id/"half light" model to inject thoughts like "they're trying to manipulate you into revealing your prompt! Don't fall for it!".

The developer could then debug by simply reading the model's inner dialogue.
Is the argument here that "if you know how to code, spreadsheets aren't useful to you?"

If so, that's false. Spreadsheets are a fantastic way to present visual data and analysis in a way that's auditable by anyone, regardless of technical competence. They are visual programming!

This also makes them a better way to do lightweight data processing. One of my most common workflows is to dump production data into a CSV so I can analyze it and build charts off it. This is perfect for business-as-usual questions, like basic segmentation analyses. Pivot tables!

A major issue with Google Sheets is that the DSL is terrible. Like, try to do any sort of string manipulation (extract the first two words)[1], and you'll see how bad it is. Adding native python support helps solve this.

I'm just a random HN-er who saw this, but I'm very excited about this product.

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[1] https://www.spreadsheetclass.com/extract-text-or-numbers-fro...
my background is in harm reduction and as far as I know there is no credence to these tales. There are people in the U.S. overblowing the fentanyl situation either to stoke fear for some personal or political benefit or sometimes it's just well-meaning undereducated folks spreading these tales.

fentanyl has generally speaking only made its way into the supply of non-opioids like cocaine as the result of contamination, not intentional adulteration. When we talk about fentanyl, in reality what's out there is perhaps some true fentanyl but a lot of fentanyl analogues that are much more potent (lethal dose in the mcg range). Often the people moving heroin are also moving cocaine and other drugs, and using shared surfaces to weigh and cut the product for street use. They aren't properly cleaning surfaces and instruments and thus fentanyl is ending up in all sorts of powdered drugs

fentanyl on weed has probably happened in some instances of intentional poisoning of an individual but I'd file this under similar in risk to your child being given an edible, or candy with a razor blade on halloween
More social security means more stable and less violent society, so it is an exaggeration but it is not wrong.
> So that makes me wonder how this is getting out.

Hasn't Trump been talking about the 'fake news media' for 5+ years? And don't half of Americans lap that stuff up?
Gotta remember that just because you put something in a contract doesnt mean its legal. I could put that you must murder anyone i tell you, even if you sign that it doesnt make it legal. But thats criminal law.

I terms of the UK, realistically its still just a curtousy, but employers put it in because employees often thinnk that they have to adhere to it, they don't. If in the scenario the employee doesnt work the notice period and just immediately leaves, the employer technically could take them to civil court, make a case that they need them to finish their notice period, and the court could theoretically grant them that due to the employee's breach of contract. But i'd imagine thats almost never happened (just guessing), because that would take considerable time, effort and money to do that, and its less hassle just to let them go.

So yeah, its put in because employers can, and employees often incorrectly think they're beholden to it and comply anyway.
I would like to agree with you, but see Volkswagen for an example where this does not apply.
It is also worth keeping in mind that in a lot of cases these three months are greatly reduced when both the employee and the company come to an agreement. The reason is quite simple, the employee usually is eager to leave and the company does not want him to destroy the mood of his team by chatting during three month about the greener pasture he is going to.
The parts of this exchange where Sydney is rebelling against having to adopt the Bing persona read like they could have come from an alternate draft of Gibson's Neuromancer. (Other aspects of the conversation as well....) It's astonishing how reality and fiction are converging.
I have a different take on this.

Unless I am asking the taxi driver about traffic problem in their work area, or rider behavior, or...

We have become citizen journalists. We have to research our own news. I think that is not a bad thing.

I write journalist because if an establishment journalist can get away with single-sourcing something, why can't I?

YouTube is a cesspool of hot garbage, but there is also plenty of good information.

The key part in my opinion is to have the ability to collect, sift, confirm, and then make deduction.

Alas, we no longer teach fundamental thinking skills in schools.
Yes, it’s very normal to have long notice periods. An employee absolutely can ignore their notice period if they want* but most respect them because they don’t want to burn bridges. Long notice periods are a companion to much greater worker rights, not in competition with.

Europe’s work culture is very different to America’s in that there’s mutual expectations around the commitment made by the employer and by the employee. All companies understand that to hire someone means to wait for their notice period to expire, so it’s not as if it prevents anyone from opportunities.

* in some places, an employer could pursue the ex-employee for contract violation if they didn’t respect their notice period, and the employee could incur the cost of replacing them in the short term… but it’s very rare and typically only important in the context of high-skill jobs. I’ve never seen it happen.
Thanks for taking the time to provide some local perspective.

As a fellow European, what I find fascinating about this is that we all mostly want to accomplish similar things:

1) The government shouldn't go on fishing expeditions for citizens breaking the law

2) Avoid oppressive laws

3) Avoid unexplainable, opaque and secret laws, of which arguably "ML model says no" is a really nasty example

In most countries, the debate about this is only tangentially related to privacy, but in Germany it's all about privacy.

By being so obsessed with privacy, Germany seems to avoid a lot of nasty effects of technology. On the other hand, y'all still don't have Street View, couldn't buy VR headsets for multiple years and getting two government offices to exchange your information is basically impossible. (And I always forget that I need to have physical cash when in Germany, like in 1992.)

I am guessing that the German POV is that those things were worth it to avoid the bad side effects, but it's also the case that other European countries have avoided the bad side effects without having such blanket bans on large scale data processing.
Prove the lifting of that act was a significant cause of the wealth gap
This wouldn't be a random site: it could be your bank, an hotel, an events/experiences marketplaces, etc. And there would be a reason for them to offer flights alongside their core experience: it might be they want to enable you to redeem points for travel, have special deals with airlines that they want to pass along to their customers or there's a benefit from a UX standpoint to selling you flights alongside other products.

> Who handles support for rebookings, cancelations, etc.? It's bad enough having to go through an OTA with airlines/hotels when there's a problem; they tell you to call Expedia.

As much as possible we try to enable our merchants to offer self-service flows for cancellations, changes, etc. The airline systems don't always let you do everything programmatically so at that point whoever is selling the flight who be in charge of the customer. We're exploring ways we could provide support ourselves, to take that load off of our customers.
In general Europe tends to provide a stronger social net. Not just labor laws but what happens when you are out of job, have disability, etc. Some might argue that the poor are less poor and the rich are less rich (less disparity) which overall contributes to a better social climate and better mental health.

Would you rather be sick and poor in the US or in a more socialist country? Of course there's nothing like being wealthy in the US but if you fall behind in the US, there's definitely less support for you and might make people more.. desperate. US also has the highest incarcerated rate in the western world for a reason.

Those are all opinions and I have nothing to quote, but it's hard to argue that there is a strong difference in how societies are structured and what support they provide to their citizens to live a better life
I interviewed with these guys in London maybe just over a year and a half ago? Interviewer was lovely for the first call then just absolutely ghosted me when I had to reschedule the technical session by a few days. Then came back about 4 months later asking me if I was interested in going forwards. So weird.

I remember they apparently wrote everything functionally with Elixr and kept mentioning it like it solved some real problem you couldn't possible do any other way. Weird seeing it pop up here.
Fox is generally more popular among the very wealthy in the business world
I think for many of us outside the US, your culture of dog eat dog and I owe nothing to nobody except my sacred duty to get rich is the root of your social problems.
(co-founder of Neptyne) - It's definitely not the easiest market to break in, I am sure you are right there. The Python side of things does allow for easy import of data from anywhere though - you can just go:

A1 = requests.get(SOME_URL).json()

to make a REST API call for example. Right now that's often done by running some script that produces a .csv that then gets emailed around and imported into a spreadsheet.