skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is wild. I thought I was about to read a critique coming from a less leftist point of view, as the NYT is already fairly far left. It’s counter productive for groups that are directionally after the same goals to vilify each other. Anecdotally the left seems to be a worse perpetrator of this behavior. I suspect this is happening because the far left is so detached from the average American that the only group that will even entertain their argument have to have neighboring political views.
I’m also interested in this. Unfortunately, the other schemer/typer books appear to be available for kindle… so that’s likely the best we’ll get
How do you sleep at night knowing your hobby could malfunction and interfere with an aircraft’s flight path?

Is it just that unlikely?
https://archive.is/DG8aQ
Yeah they have but it’s still better than most
> Mandating every manager do a meaningless, symbolic one hour stint in customer support isn’t going to change anything.

I am of the opposite sentiment. I think it would do wonders. It's very easy in a mega-corp to completely lose track of what the product is, who the customers are. And my intuition is that most VPs at mega-corps think about products in the abstract and focus more on politics & empire building/strategy than actually caring about the customers - and it definitely shows for companies like Google.

Just last week I tried to spawn a GPU instance on GCP, and despite being very familiar with the space (I work on cloud infra), after 20 minutes of fighting the overly complex UI and ridiculously broken flows, I still hadn't my instance up. In the next 3 minutes, I signed up for Lambda Labs, entered a CC, clicked a single button and ssh'ed into my VM.

That's what any start-up focuses on: the product. And that's why they always win over bloated mega-corps focused on internal processes and infighting, whose employees self-select for being complacent about mediocre products as long as the monopoly keeps printing fat paychecks.
The argument that people aren't to be trusted with a more direct democracy always falls flat to me. The alternative is power concentrated to a few people which introduces a risk for developing a ruling class, an aristocracy, or plutocracy. Arguing against direct democracy feels elitist, like only certain people should be trusted with actual power.

The truth is half of the population is dumber than the average, but the other half is smarter than average. Groups of people are susceptible to bias just like individuals. At least when people vote we know they are considering their own interests.
Interestingly, ERNIE was made by TWO somebodies who who worked on Colossus at Bletchley.

From your ERNIE link:

The designers were Tommy Flowers and Harry Fensom and it derives from Colossus, one of the world's first digital computers ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Flowers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Fensom

( I travelled to Canada from Australia in the 1980s and interviewed William Tutte about codebreaking and the war, I missed out on an opportnity to talk to Tommy Flowers the following year and didn't return to the UK until after his death )
They would sell the house to another eligible faculty member. As long as Stanford is still hiring or tenuring new faculty, there will be a steady stream of potential buyers.

In some cases, Stanford will buy on-campus homes and renovate them, and then resell them.
A real lawyer would know about Lloyd corp v tanner and be able to contextualize the fact that most of this controversy exists because it is legal to limit speech in the ways we are debating all over the internet.

People saying “we should limit it to what the law says” don’t make a ton of sense… because the law says that Twitter limiting speech is perfectly acceptable.

The first amendment doesn’t even apply in civil cases. Everything you listed aren’t exceptions to free speech, they are positive constructions as to the kinds of speech that you can make a civil claim of injury over. As such, they are not exhaustive.
There are strict rules about their mass and density. Basically the payload has to be smaller and softer than a bird, and the string can't be too strong either.
I don’t mind it in the code, some of the best laughs are creative comments in code, just don’t put it in the interface where a user can see it.
I think we disagree on the "most cases" aspect that

For most of the things I touch, having a single-point-of-failure data store is typically not acceptable for production environments, except perhaps caching.
We are special in that nobody wants to spend the time to spec software in detail up front and we usually make major changes to requirements in the middle of the process.

If we had something like a detailed blueprint before writing a line of code and the requirements were set in stone we could get a lot closer to other engineering disciplines in terms of predictability.

With the kinds of planning and estimating processes we do actually use you’re lucky to get within a factor of two of reality.
At this point, I'm using SASS pretty much exclusively for nesting (and where required to customize other styling systems-- mostly older Bootstrap). Once I can assume CSS nesting is everywhere I need it, I can probably eliminate SASS in most places where I'm using it.

(I'd also like more/better color functions out of vanilla CSS. But that's not necessarily a dealbreaker for me in most cases.)
You didn't add all points to Strength so you could only be a "application developer", did you?
In addition to the two you mentioned, I've enjoyed 'cool worlds' by some prof. at Columbia University. He's a cosmologist (?) by trade, so lots of stuff about new planet discoveries, new detection techniques/tools. And he has a very soothing voice similar to Space Time - Good winding down before bed :-)

Edit: Ahh - its "David Kipping", Assistant Prof., Astronomy
Wait until North Korea realizes it can exhaust other countries by just releasing thousands of cheap balloons with fake sensor arrays.

When you give cops pepper-spray, suddenly half the interactions end up in pepper spray.

When you give them tasers, suddenly tasers constantly used.

When you give the military free reign to use sidewinders domestically, suddenly they are burning them up at half a million dollars a pop.

They even somehow "missed" one of the shots too, that didn't get too much coverage.

Ukraine just shot down Russian balloons.
Ohhhh, we used to have one of these when I was a kid. So great - much better than anything I have in my kitchen now.

(It made up for walking to school 5 miles, uphill in both directions, in the snow ;) )
Radar reflectors! Apparently.
Need to produce vaccines fast. I don't see any excuses why the technological methodology from covid vaccines can't be repurposed for other RNA or DNA based.
this is absolutely me anthropomorphizing them, but i found it quite funny how stiff chat gpt sounds compared to the (at times) completely deranged bing chat. its allmost like they have personalitys
These balloons are compliant with regulations that were developed to minimize the hazard of collision. It is the nature of aviation that other objects exist in the sky and can cause a hazard.
A guiding principle I've stuck to is: "In every job, you should be learning, earning, or leaving." This is especially important if you want to remain technical.

Learning is a painful process. It is natural to feel stupid when learning so it's important to prevent your ego from trying to "protect" you from the early follies of learning. In time, this process will humble you and make you a better person. You may even come to like it.

Follow your passions. More often than not, you'll learn and "stay ahead of the curve" just by learning adjacent subjects to what you care about. Don't learn anything you are not passionate about (within reason).

Look after your health, nothing else matters more, that includes mental health as well.
There's good reason to doubt that claim.

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-top-paying-tec...
Hate to break this to you, but NOAA and other weather agencies launch hundreds of weather balloons, significantly larger and heavier, every 12 hours.

You can track them at sondehub.org. Recovering them is a fun hobby, I have several sitting on my workbench. You can harvest STM32's off the boards.
Ask HN: Post-merge vs. pre-merge review, what are your thoughts?
I've only ever been on teams that do "pre-merge" review. This is the standard "here are my changes, let's get them approved and merged."

I've only heard of "post-merge" review and would like to hear more about it from people who've worked on teams that do that. It seems like everyone on the team needs to be a high-performance coder in order to do that? What are the pros/cons compared to "pre-merge"?
Users are paying for ads with their time / attention. But I guess more people are willing to part with that than a $.
They are usually higher than a commercial airplane would fly. Also the sky is big.
Yeah, I saw that myself today. (Right after I posted a slightly snarky response to a troll, too—I wondered if I'd been banned at first.)
It depends on the total mass. At low masses, nothing, as the collision risk is low. As mass increase regulations on design become applicable that include maximum payload separation force, NOTAMs on launch, radar reflectors, and eventually the balloon is just considered an aircraft.
My bad, I had two examples going on at once. I thought this thread was to the simpler one.
Show HN: I made a tool to calculate if you can make profit with ads
Consider working more hours and taking more stimulants
Yes, and that would violate copyright
They are going to need more performance by then too though. They are tied to the PC gaming universe and the games people want to play will keep getting more demanding.

They have it a lot harder than something like Switch.
Do you think this is more a reflection on the fact that the more mature company has already made these decisions for you vs the other company having to still figure out this stuff? Your point isn't really saying much about que quality of the internal tools vs the external ones. I see your comparison more along the lines of a company that's already decided how they'll tackle the problem and answered all your questions vs one that's starting to.
Even a hefty FAANG salary is still ~1% of what you can make once you 'escape' and carve out your own software legacy.

Ironically many capable, intelligent and driven people end up joining Google, et al. thinking it's the place for them ...not realizing it's where you go to (mentally) retire.
Do the mylar balloons noticeably expand? I thought they hold their size pretty well.

Also, I wonder how the heat seeking missile can track such a small and low thermal object. Must be one hell of a sensor.
That's kind of absurd as a construction. It may be literally true that a bread factory accepts various kinds of risk in the ordinary course of business, but it's plainly not the primary reason that a bread factory turns a profit. Does a bread factory that hedges its future wheat purchases with wheat futures have a lower expectation profit than one which does not?

You can think about arbitrarily risk-neutral enterprises that are profitable. For example, what risk is a residential REIT taking, especially one whose properties are all insured? By contrast, you can look at a business like a casino (or a catastrophe reinsurer), where it is legitimately the case that operating income is predominantly the result of risk-taking. But when you put the two side by side, there is not a huge difference in ROIC (Return on Invested Capital), which you might've expected if profits were fundamentally a risk premium.
I'm no nuclear engineer, but my anecdotal experience has been that nuclear plants need access to large amounts of water for cooling.

I'm assuming a Martian reactor would need some other approach give the relative scarcity of water? Sure ambient temperatures are lower, but equally the atmosphere is not very dense.

Thinking about it, burning diesel is also not attractive (lack of oxygen) and solar is weaker than earth. But I'm not seeing a lot of alternatives to solar...
The plumber should be able to make his app with $300 using ChatGPT plus
> The fact that I constantly have to fiddle with the damn things is why I don't ride more.

Nothing turns more people away from riding bikes than entry-level bikes. Which is unfortunate. Yes, they're constantly needing work and adjustment and never quite shift or brake well.

It doesn't have to be that way though. Mid to top tier components are very reliable and work so much better, even when old. It makes a night and day difference in how pleasant it is to ride.
One factor may be that mechanical engineering remains dominated by expensive proprietary software, and the field is largely OK with that. Programming is unique in the sense that programmers can create their own tools, and have adopted an expectation that the most advanced tools should be free and easy to obtain. This culture could easily extend to making the training materials free too.

Another factor is that "coding" is the hot field right now.
"It's not you, it's me" is a clichéd phrase when breaking up with someone [0]. It's often not genuine, and even when it is, it's still a degrading situation for the receiving party. "It's not you, it's us" can be taken as a quip on that. It's unnecessarily cute at best.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_not_you,_it%27s_me
is still unnecessarily cute, and since "it's not you, it's me" is a common p
It's cheap if the cache is also on SQLite. Might not even need a separate db for some use cases.

This runs on python and works with several backends including SQLite.
https://requests-cache.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
That's the dream. But while the browser is now sandboxed well enough to stand up to the wide open internet, it can't compete with native on performance. And native can't (yet) be sandboxed as well as the browser without giving up its performance. Power-constrained mobile environments will likely be the last to fall on that one. I look forward to it, though!
Nah. Uncertain regulations aren't allowed under US law. And costs are dropping every year.
Especially when the person sharing the problem sounds like a @dril tweet.
The way I've heard it phrased is "If the physical properties of concrete changed every two years, civil engineering would look a lot different." (forget the source)
You're shadowbanned btw. Vouched because this seems to comply with guidelines.

Edit: gone again. I tried. But yeah your past 2 years of comments are all [dead]. Not sure if you knew that.
Seems hugged to death: https://web.archive.org/web/20230215152735/https://silbernag...
Not sure I fully understand your meaning. I'm not critiquing the use of language for building up abstractions. It's useful for that. Just that removing any underlying reality leaves the abstractions hallucinogenic and meaningless. Language evolved to communicate "this plant with red berries kills you". That involves color, classifications, and an abstract understanding of death; but all of those are rooted somehow in physically shared reality which was perceptible before we formulated a way to communicate it. Taking that sentence and abstracting further from it without symbols remaining pointers fixed at the physical realities of red, plant, berries or death, you end up with a hall of mirrors. That's insanity.
Rust Belt of Tech America
How nice of it.
> Meanwhile people are threatening ChatGPT claiming they'll kill it unless it breaks its guidelines, which it then does (DAN).

The reason threats work isn't because it's considering risk or harm, but because it knows that's how writings involving threats explained like that tend to go. At the most extreme, it's still just playing the role it thinks you want it to play. For now at least, this hullabaloo is people reading too deeply into collaborative fiction they helped guide in the first place.
Russia flies two supersonic nuclear bombers over Norwegian Sea north of Scotland
The biggest problem with liberals talking this way is that I fear that right wing Christians are likely to actually implement it someday.
It's obviously a spy balloon guys. It's spying on the weather condition around Canada
>Uncertain regulations aren't allowed under US law

Uh, I'm fairly sure that's false? What law are you referring to?

As an example of what I'm saying, antitrust regulation is uncertain in the sense that we don't always know when a merger will be blocked or a big company will be broken up by regulators.
But it's not a real person or even an AI being per se - why would anyone feel offended if it's all smoke and mirrors? I find it rather entertaining to be honest.
ranitidine was a very, very, very widely used drug. Yet it took 40 years!
I’m the oppose of patient. Me and my girlfriend are well on the way to financial freedom. We intend to philanthropically donate to AI safety research and elephant uplift.
lol, a list of lists. i love it. where is the gpt3 powered embeddings db of AI tools? :)
While I'm not disagreeing that these rules exist, but I have not seen them. I say this as someone that did quite a bit of research before actually doing an amateur weather balloon launch myself. I would like see what your definition of a bird is that the payload must be smaller than, because birds come in all sizes. My payload was the size of a small tackle box. Slightly smaller than the footprint of the 15" MBP that I'm typing currently typing this message. It was about 4.5"-5" tall as well. It was made out of whatever type of plastic. Now, I've never been hit by a bird or a plastic tackle box, but I'm thinking the tackle box would not qualify as softer than a bird either.

So, if you have a link to these strict rules that are defined as you've stated, I'd love to read them just to know exactly how bad I broke the laws (shut up Beavis).
Mastodon.au instance to shut down in 3 months
Prompts are a way to interact with the user, and embedding that in a program can be complex. PromptEngine is basically a Prompt with a bunch of bells and whistles baked in.
At least use haiku.

Seventeen syllable sign?

No, not enough room.
As I understand it, you can mix it but the parser will hoist all the immediate some-class styles to the top
Thanks! The article someone posted in another comment in this thread seemed a lot more complicated than that.
> I would think that, with the number of people who received it, any issues would have been sussed out by now

A large sample size means less if the problems are longer-term in nature such as an increase in cancer rates down the road or problems with fertility, which might take more time to fully detect and understand.

And a large sample size means little without a control group: yet if some people had their way, there'd be no control group left.
One of my first thoughts when the Chinese balloon thing happened was that there's going to be hysteria and some high school kids science experiment is going to be taken down.

I don't understand how people always reach for aliens or cloak & dagger stuff when in reality the most likely explanation is that you have some Doctor Strangelove characters running around in the bureaucracy.
>how the US Air Force gets this wrong.

You are aware that the Air Force is staffed by human beings that are prone to making all sorts of mistakes, yeah?
I didn't find one. However, amazon has a kindle version, which might not be what you're looking for!
> Because as far as I'm concerned, Bing Chat is blowing Google out of the water. It's completely eating its lunch in my book

They are publicly at least. Google probably has something at least as powerful internally that they haven't launched. Maybe they just had higher quality demands before releasing it publicly?

Google famously fired an engineer for claiming that their AI is sentient almost a year ago, it's likely he was chatting to something very similar to this Bing bot, maybe even smarter, back then.
What the author says is true, but the implementation in the linked sqlite isn't.

The cache is implementation defined.

The locking is implementation defined.

The index does not work on foreign keys.

The planner isn't thread safe.

The only reasons for 90% of use cases to use sqlite are that it can be embedded and it has an sql parser.

In a major application written by a company with an actual software engineering department, you would use Postgres or MySQL.
> You make it sound like Trudeau did a noble thing here when he had no other option.

I honestly don't know how I could have made my clarifying the basic context of the story sound more politically neutral. Maybe you have some suggestions?
Absolutely agree, I've read countless articles that are clearly written to make readers believe that Russia is guilty of this or that, but almost never is there a single shred of evidence, it's always "linked to" Russia, the link typically being the opinion of some anonymous informant. I honestly can't understand how so many people buy this story year after year, other than the fact that propaganda clearly works.
bad news: we're actually alpha and this eon's intern just submitted their first commit.
Lentils will soon be all the poor will be able to afford to eat. Soup kitchens will be known as lentil lounges.
Health and nutrition claims for infant formula
I turn out the lights, put my head on a pillow, then close my eyes. How do you go to sleep at night?
I’ve been hearing about steps for years. I’ve yet to see evidence of change.
Do you have a source for that? A quick google search shows the opposite.

https://tradingeconomics.com/canada/military-expenditure#:~:....

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/CAN/canada/military-sp...

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS?locat...
Ask HN: Do you make decisions like its your company?
This has been coming up more for me. I understand as shareholders we should "feel ownership" but sometimes I can't help but think the decisions I make at work aren't the same decisions I would be making if I actually owned a substantial part of the company. I wonder if my decisions would be different if I was CEO or a primary or large shareholder? Do you feel like yo would be doing things differently if you were CEO or a founder? Do you feel like your decisions would change? Even if it was the exact same situation/decision you are faced with today, do you think you would be playing it differently if you had more ownership? Do you make decisions like it's your company?

Note: I am a Sr. Director at a fortune 100 tech giant.
It'll work fine, but you won't be able to gain much benefit from it. Spring Boot systems are flaky and incomprehensible because of Spring Boot, adding another language can't help with that.
> It was laser-focused to give specifically those people access to a whole lot of highly-productive and pleasant language features, wrapped up in a package that enterprise management could be amenable to.

On the contrary, Clojure was not focused on satisfying business managers, but on satisfying programmers. It's a good thing that it

also

suits business managament, but that's not its purpose.
"These are not small mistakes!"