skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That caste reservation system you mentioned is fundementally flawed.

The caste reservation system has been pivotal in bringing social issues faced by the lower castes to mainstream politics. Only when some lower caste members made it up the social ladder through reservations, were they able to articulate their issues and lend a helping hand to others in their social groups.

> For example, it will favor children of low caste individual who already benefitted from the system and is at economically very priviledged position over children of a high caste individual who are economically disadvantaged.

Economics does play a certain part in social dynamics. But social advantages trump any economic disadvantages. Even though a lower-caste member might be in an economically advantageous situation, they are still subject to the social dynamics, put in place by the upper echelons of the hierarchy, that are antagonistic to their upliftment. This justifies caste-reservation so that we, as a humanitarian society, can lift up everybody.
Programming actually was my plan b. I studied chemical engineering, thinking I wanted to be a scientist or an engineer, maybe go to med school. I accidentally graduated with a minor, my major GPA was a 3.3 and my minor GPA was a 4.0, and the only thing I enjoyed in my major was the computational side of things, so I just pivoted.
They are preparing for a premium service where AI will "resolve the spam problem in your inbox". Mark my words.
It's so bad that the spammers don't even bother to spam via GCal emails.
I highly recommend uses unique email addresses for anything you sign up for. I do this on Fastmail and I can disable the alias/have it bounce incoming emails whenever I want. I vastly prefer this over filtering to garbage because I feel like it annoys the sysadmin that's sending the spam. I actually had my brokerage company send me a mean letter saying that I was required to give them a working email address or they'd close my account - hah.
Good thing the official running the election wasn't up for election themself. I mean that would make mass issues on election day look like intentional tampering to those "crazy conspiracy theorists."
For mobile gaming there might be some creators here or there scratching out a living like that but probably about 0.1% as many as you imagine, or as there seemingly should be considering how much money is in the ecosystem. The vast majority of that money is sucked up by big IP and older established apps and pseudo publishers/install networks that rip off the latest trends and blast them to their audience full of ads etc. Apple Arcade was trying to create a healthier walled garden within App Store but years later feels kind of like a big brand bargain bin the way it's been run. It's just very extreme winner takes all dynamics.
Just one data point, but Gmail spam filter has been extremely good for me. I probably get like one spam make it's way into my inbox a month or so, and that's because it's a spam email sent from a new Gmail account to a very few other Gmail accounts. I always report it.

Genuinely useful emails ending up in spam happens rarely too.

When compared to any other email services I use, including my organization email, Gmail is way better at spam filtering - I imagine they're also doing it at scale since Gmail might be the most popular email service to attack for spammers.
All employees should be able, and applauded for doing so, to explain how they’ve not only met goals of a time, but been nimble enough to pivot to management whims.

Your relationship with employees is through salary, that’s it. Not the comfy chair, the firewall rules, pool table, or “agile” training… but salary.

Let them talk salary and you will find they provide healthier boundaries. (Your comment gave me no indication of your opinion, I was just adding.)
At my company, all of our goals are ranked on a 1-5 scale. Where a "3" is doing your job.

I have been told by my manager that the only acceptable ratings are either a "3" or a "4" where a 3 is doing your job at 100% accepted capacity and a "4" is going above and beyond.

The only way to earn a "5" is to wear reed sandals and walk on water. A "2" means immediate PIP and a "1" means you are going to be escorted out the door.

Throwaway account...don't bother searching my history.
Is it exclusively HN comments and nothing else? How does a model like that know how to speak English (noun/verb and all that) if you are starting from scratch and feeding it nothing but HN comments?
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> the backlash against modern art is something of a right-wing talking point, and it has been for nearly a hundred years if not longer

You are most definitely blaming the wrong axis of the political compass. Preference for or opposition to modern art has no political leaning and varies widely between people of all political stripes. Modern art has been notably suppressed by authoritarian regimes[0] however but this is not due to their politics, rather it's entirely due to their personal opinions which become law in a dictatorial government. More evidence against your claim also comes from the fact that was mentioned in this thread that the CIA, who by most measures would be traditionally considered right wing, promoted modern art as a propaganda weapon against America's enemies[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_realism

[1] https://news.artnet.com/art-world/artcurious-cia-art-excerpt...
The turnover rate was really high in 2018/2019
If you don't do synchronization, then you just have a bunch of independent transmitters that're transmitting roughly the same program. -ish. Sorta.

Suppose you put an RDS/RBDS subcarrier under the audio, so receivers can display metadata or whatever. If a given receiver drives between transmitters, or if FM capture and phasing effects mean it's constantly bouncing between transmitters, then it corrupts the data frame(s) being transmitted at the time.

Or if the desynchronization is more than about 20ms or so, it can be audibly annoying to the listener, disorienting and unpleasant if it happens too often. (We've all probably experienced a phenomenon when creeping forward at a red light, the audio fades, and comes back, and fades again. Same effect, but imagine the program glitching back and forth a bit each time because every few inches, the capture effect switches sources.)

If you synchronize, then you have effectively one transmitter with a bunch of antennas. The program is exactly the same except for microsecond-level discontinuities when moving between transmitters, and that's not enough to corrupt either the subcarrier data or the audio. (In the creeping-forward scenario above, it would behave exactly like a normal radio station -- fading and restoring, but not glitching.)

Now, in Europe, they do the many-transmitters-same-audio thing, but they do 'em on different frequencies, and use RBDS to inform the receiver of all the alternate frequencies (AF list) carrying the same program. When RSSI on the current signal drops below a threshold, the receiver checks the others, then doublechecks their RBDS program identification (PI field) to make sure they really are the same program, then selects the strongest one and makes the switch. This only happens once in a while though, say 10-30 minutes as you drive through a valley, not several times a second, so the timing glitch isn't problematic.
While I appreciate your answer from a technical point of view - indeed it is trivial modify/spoof - there is an ethical dimension.

Should bots have the legal right to say they are human?

For example - if Google Inc is visiting a web page to collect information about it using a headless bowser, and the server asks - are you a bot - should Google be legally or ethically allowed to answer no? (declarations in headers could remove the need for question/answer chatter.)

(I want to pre-empt dismissing this line of questioning via 'what if Google wants to know how the site will be served to a human for better search results because google could include a specific header for that, eg "I am a bot, but request that you serve the version of this page served to humans". It would be up to the server to honor or reject that request.)

The defaults Google choose have compounding effects in our society. If you make it "normal" for bots to pretend to be human, the industry has minimal pressure to hold any standard above what you do, and better norms may never appear, or be delayed by a decade. The alternative is to be thoughtful today to try to create a better world.
Why would anyone? They aren't the biggest player in eCommerce, cloud computing, grocery, or warehousing. As a customer I'm usually quite happy with the service they provide. I recently bought some heavy items from them that would have cost more than $300 in shipping from the manufacturer, but Amazon delivered the items for free as I am a prime member. Whole Foods has been a fantastic value since Amazon took over and high quality produce is much cheaper than it was prior. I'm not here to say Bezos walks on water, but as far as big companies go, Amazon is probably the best to interact with as a customer.
> could it be that supermassive black holes cause a contraction of local spacetime in a way that gives the impression that local space is static while distant space expands?

No. That's not how the spacetime geometry around black holes works.
I was disgusted by them when they came down hard on people making games similar in style to Angry Birds -- because Angry Birds itself is a ripoff of another game.
I think the point is that the people in US companies who are caste sensitive -- often after growing up in an Indian household-- are using their positions of power to hurt some castes. Remember that many of the big (and small) tech companies in the US are run by the Desi.
> 1. Healthy patients cost less in the long term. Solving for long term issues (type 2 diabetes!) vs. the immediate issue and getting someone out the door is profit seeking.

This is an extremely common misconception. Luckily, you've picked a really easy example to illustrate.

"Solving" type 2 diabetes is an incredibly tricky problem. It's not something that can even be measured in the short-term, let alone solved. It's also quite individualized, more so than probably any other common diagnosis except cancer. There's no magic bullet intervention, and it takes a lot of active work to build the provider-patient relationship to a point where it can identify the appropriate interventions for that patient, identify problems with those interventions, and help the patient execute on them successfully.

Because it's so individualized, and because it's so long-term, any system designed to "streamline" that is ultimately going to fail, because the curse of dimensionality will inevitably collapse away the requisite information, and the pursuit of short-term profit will inevitably cause the system to prioritize short-term interventions over long-term ones which will actually address the issue.

"Healthy patients cost less in the long term" is technically true, but there's no way of turning unhealthy patients into healthy ones that doesn't, in aggregate, cost more than the theoretical savings.

> Why would Amazon not aggressively track outcomes, measure every dimension of provider care, and ruthlessly fire / downgrade low performers to maintain the above goals?

Again, this is an incredibly technocratic approach to a field (care delivery) that requires a different approach. It works if you assume that negative outcomes are the fault of individual providers ("low performers") and that individual providers have both the agency and resources to solve arbitrary cases. In practice, that's almost never the case: there are way too many confounding factors that impact clinical outcomes, and providers are quite limited in their power compared to other players: the insurance companies, the administration of the system they work within, and most importantly, the patients themselves.

Honestly, the only way you could meaningfully "fire low performers" is to identify patients who aren't performing well and then drop them. Which is, in a way, what the health insurance system does... but we tend to consider that an antipattern.
"The market fixes everything" is absolutely not _standard_ economics; it's a particularly fringe maximalist libertarian view which even most libertarians would not entirely subscribe to.
Most of mine lately are "people" sharing documents with me in Google drive
> Possibly the newest Airbus A350 might have what you describe already, but they don’t tend to back port this stuff to the older systems in older airframe families.

It's not that they don't tend to, it's that airlines don't want this — training management and recertification on behavioral changes is costly for them. See Southwest influencing 737 MAX development—MCAS was a result to try to reduce the characteristic changes between aircraft & engine variants. (Band-aid driven development!)

I sincerely hope that the 737 MAX incidents change the industry mentality to encourage safety features to be backported to older airframes, even if it seems untenable now. For example, the 737 MAX uses older crew alerting methods—annunciator lights—not EICAS, which can be thought of as a centralized actionable list of anomalies.
"No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame." - Rob Malda
Why then don’t you say

“I generally care about battery life as the main feature of a computer.”

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They seem to be monetising the service more now (my free tier own-domain email for instance). Maybe this is the new strategy to drive buyers. I have not had an increase in spam on my paid-for service.
> It was shallow in the sense that it didn't explain why

I was a passenger in a car en route to a funeral. I felt like the post was a little troublesome and I provided what context I could in the limited time I had to reply.

I do wish I had said "deeply misleading" instead of "useless", though. Which-- deeply misleading is even worse than useless, unfortunately.

> walk us through what the issue is here, why it matters, and what an improvement would look like.

In this case, there's a state actor (China) deliberately conflating weather balloons and surveillance craft. Typical weather balloons drift freely and cannot maneuver; capable balloons that can control their altitude can maneuver far more freely than most people expect. "Narrative" may sound sinister, but we have a deliberate counterfactual being used in the furtherance of surveillance and geopolitical conflict.

In turn, we have this "Spy Balloon Simulator - With real atmospheric data" that makes it pretty much impossible to control a balloon. It may be an accidental misstep, but it's at the very least a somewhat dangerous one.
Worse: Gmail is labeling as spam emails that aren't. I send out email newsletters for my HOA using MailChimp and about 10% of the recipients (all Gmail users) never see the emails in their inbox. I've started texting them when there's a new email; half of them find it in their spam folder, half can't find it at all (and I see confirmation from the MailChimp side that the email was sent and did not result in an NDR).
There are a couple games like that, they didn’t quite make the transition away from F2P smooth as others.

On the other hand, kinda nice too, provides an interesting perspective.
See my response here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34898328
The real question is, how much cloud computing cost would DHH save if he'd stopped using Ruby
Google recently updated the Google calendar preferences where you can select if you want to see events from people outside your contacts in your calendar or not effectively solving the calendar spam issue.
> Tech progress is pushed by more brains.

You are saying that in such a way like we may just grow gazillions of C. Elegans and fill the gap.

(this is an organism with the smallest brain known, very popular guest in neuro studies).
I wish I could go back in time about 40 years, where I had the same faith in government that you have currently. (I'm age 43 at the moment)
RDNA2 (particularly, the narrower range from 6600 to 6800), is a huge step up in performance per watt. The lowest end one in there, 6600, is faster than a vega64 (which is much faster than rx580), yet uses less than half the power.

RDNA3's lower end chips, once they hit the market, are expected to further improve on this.

Most gamers won't upgrade to the current RDNA3 chips, because the current RDNA3 chips are top of the line, expensive, ~300w monsters.
A bit tangential, but

> As engineers we want everything to be black and white

should not be true of "us engineers". Engineering is balancing trade-offs, and any moderately complex system is a big hairy ball of tradeoffs, some of them (in the best case) unarticulated. I get suspicious of boolean logic applied to real world, especially after working in AI for a long while.

That black and white thinking is characteristic of juniors, and some mathematicians dealing with models disconnected from the real world.
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All the best, a happy user of many years.
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Juddc/jxc: JXC is a structured data language similar to JSON
I have to assume that targeted/curated LLM training sets will have a tendency to be less accurate than very general, just by the very nature of how they work.

(edited for clarity)
This is now the third layoff round for Meta in a very short time span. Hopefully this improves the morale of those left and no more layoffs will be necessary.
I'm sorry to be THAT GUY, but it is addressed in the article :)

>GPT embeddings

To index these stories, I loaded up to 2000 tokens worth of comment text (ordered by score, max 2000 characters per comment) and the title of the article for each story and sent them to OpenAI's embedding endpoint, using the standard text-embedding-ada-002 model, this endpoint accepts bulk uploads and is fast but all 160k+ documents still took over two hours to create embeddings. Total cost for this part was around $70.
Cut early, cut big, and cut once then move forwards with new operating plan.
Exactly. Or literally ban any comment saying you won something. The fraud spam is totally out of control.
Is there a way to opt out of one's comments being used for this?
I know this is kind of out in left field, but some people also mentioned query result history. I've been using phind since it was in beta as sayhello and encountered similar a faux pas where submitting feedback sent me to an plaintext error page. Going back and resubmitting the query produced a result that didn't include the important information in the original result. It would be helpful to have search history, but furthermore (and the reason for writing this) is an idea that's been floating around in my head about git-tree esque search histories in bash. Though it's currently outside the range of my expertise. While reading the comments of this thread I had an idea for a similiar feature, something i would probably pay for an recommend.

The feature relates to a problem I've encountered as an active intermediate developer with managing the multidunious and varied queries that i might do both getting up to speed and solving problems in-the-wild. I find that what i learn and use doesn't stick right away, so rather than making the same query (and in this case sometimes getting different results) resorted to keeping 3 notebooks for each subject: a technical reference, a working notebook, and a learning log. That's a lot of notebooks!

I mention this because knowledge management and effective learning go hand in hand. And learning something you didn't know seems to be the problem domain of ai search for developers.

Organizing query results thematically by learning trees would be a gargantuan undertaking, and probably far outside the scope of what is already an excellent service. Just putting that out there.

Thanks!
I'm an Indian-American as well. Don't make assumptions.

In any case, there are some deeply problematic aspects to Indian culture, including that of my own community, and criticism of them is warranted, no matter the demographics of the critic.
> How does a model like that know how to speak English

Mimicry.
What's the evidence this is both true and matters to the original claim? In some sense all nodes will be derivative of the previous one, as they never reinvent the wheel completely.
There are loads of comments here from people that don’t realize that you actually can turn off notifications for AirTags that belong to family members you’ve linked your iCloud account to. It’s mentioned in one sentence at the end of the article.
Indeed. Modern gas stations make very little money selling gas. They make money by people buying the stuff in their store.
It seems to write in the generic "style" of GPT, instead of in the style I would recognise as a HN poster. Is that because of something baked into how the training process works? It lacks a sort of casualness or air of superiority ;)
I get criticising science journalism, but this isn’t even a metaphor, it’s one of the meanings of “spar” as per most dictionaries: to argue.
The US government has extremely strong incentives to report inflation as low as possible, so it's likely less about "thinking" we're at negative and more that they pick and choose data to show it intentionally.
Private pilot here. This story buries the lede. There were tail strikes, which can be serious, but usually aren't, and in this case weren't. But the reason there were tail strikes is because software told the pilots to take off with throttle settings that were too low, and that could very easily have ended catastrophically. If takeoff power settings are too low and the pilots don't notice in time, you can end up in an unrecoverable state where the aircraft cannot take off but there is not enough runway left to abort. The passengers and crew on these flights got very, very lucky that it was "just" a tail strike.
> Disney will even restrict the availability of their old movies on DVD

that's because they'd rather you sign up for Disney+
I love this! I used to append "reddit" to my Google search queries to get best results, but the quality of dialog over there has really dropped in recent years. These days I've switched to appending "hackernews", but this is even better.
>these VCs crashing can't really be good for our jobs and salaries

This stayed in my head for a day. I finally have a response.

If you're salary is dependent on turning $1.00 into $0.20 as in the case for Adam Neumann and his ilk and those who fund them, then eventually your salary and skill and job is going to crash because it "will run out of other people's money". If your trade is taking in 1 dollar from a VC to acquire 20 cents of customer revenue, your trade is going to end. All the myth making and loose monetary policy in the world will merely delay that end.
One of my accounts is getting large amounts of obvious spam since at least 2021. I'm not using this email anywhere anymore so it's all the more puzzling for me.
Apologies on the late response. The linked post has links to the SAT challenge. It is a great place to poke around. For books, I have liked A Gentle Introduction to Optimization (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1107658799) and Knuth's Art of Computer Programming V4 (https://www.amazon.com/Art-Computer-Programming-Fascicle-Sat... or https://www.amazon.com/Art-Computer-Programming-Combinatoria...).

I'm not at all clear if there are good courses. Good luck diving on anything fun!
a 130kt (~the stall speed) wind over the wings would pretty much remove the entire weight of the aircraft.
Okay, lift is proportional to the square of the airspeed, but it's still going to be a huge factor and make it really unreliable
If you're willing to pay for the retraining? ;)