skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon Kindle Unlimited was already full of crappy books. Especially children's book. Hundreds of books with just images taken from google and nonsense wording.
@nerdponx You are spot on..
You've got it backwards. Non-human species develop societies and naturally evolve arbitrary codes of ethics for how they should treat each other based on what keeps the society alive. Humans were no different, then we evolved language, and immediately began retrofitting religion to these arbitrary sets of ethics to justify them.

Brains are glorified pattern matchers, but we hadn't yet figured out how to judge the quality of a perceived pattern, so in a desperate fit of apophenia, religions naturally emerged. Eventually we stepped back and developed systematic ways of distinguishing good patterns from bad. We call this system science.

Edison said, "I didn't fail. I just found 2,000 ways not to make a lightbulb; I only needed to find one way to make it work." I see the thousands of religions that humans have come up with as those 2,000 non-light bulbs, and science as the one method that works. Now that we have a working light bulb, we can throw out those other attempts.
Well to be fair GPT-3 was trained on internet comments!
> I bet 95+% of night owls would be "cured" in a week flat if they were allowed no glowing screens past sundown and their typical stupid-bright room lighting were replaced with warm-temp handheld lights at ~2-4 candle equivalent (actual, not "candle power")

It's an interesting theory. Problem is, without a biochemical pathway it means nothing.

Melatonin secretion & basal temperatures are both interesting avenues for research. Blue light seems to be a favorite as well.
Sure. Anything particular?

Basically, it is all about mindset and filters right? You have better ideas about things your mind focuses on which is sold as the "law of attraction". But you can get to a state where ideas are free flowing and make sense in the context of the problem when the mind has had the chance to break free from the usual loops it is running. All these activities I mentioned essentially do that in a way which doesn't make sense to the rational brain so it can't cordon it off. This Quora answer might also help: https://qr.ae/prWLjc
I can't tell you how much I dislike the CW system. Treating warnings about cat photos or Linux (I've seen both) as equivalent to warnings about sexual violence is awful and I feel it must be harmful.

I recognize this is not a common feeling and has also been litigated to death, but I remain unmoved.
At my last job we had ~$10,000,000 in ARR, so $360k a year works out to 3% of our gross revenue went to rent. I bet that is a lower number than many businesses given we were in a 'cheaper' office park.

This does exclude the expense of expanding / renovating the office, which you typically do every 5-10 years, and costs more because you have to go with their contractors. However the delta is hard to calculate on this specific item.
This did have a bit of uptake in Brazil (non-hispanic latinos), but has died out AFAIK. From everywhere else, it's just been ignored.

Don't push solutions from the outside. It's the "we're here to save you from yourselves" problem all over again. Instead, ask latin people what they want.

If you ask me, I want latin. Not latino, not latina.
Maybe I missed the quickstart, but is CUDA the next step to doing those matrix multiplications. Or do I start with PyTorch or TensorFlow? Or do I start by classifying lots of data to train the classifier?
And how likely is «pretty much anybody you see talking about AI in these games» to be overwhelmingly someone with way more experience than ~40 or even 100 hours ?

My point, trying to restate it in a different way, is that these language models might be low-hanging fruit to make an AI interacting with whom feels more like a head of state (and a specific historic one too !)

Though I'll note that Alpha Centauri has already achieved something like this using a very simple dialog AI (in a specific context).
This is a reflection of the fundamental incompatibility of the beliefs and morals of various subsets of society.

People proudly do things that piss you off because negative cred with your tribe is positive cred in theirs.
Where there's demand: build more schools.

Where demand falls: decommission or repurpose the schools.
And a pony! Americans love ponies!!

It’s not uncommon to read a comment so detached from economic reality but this is today’s winner. In fact causing the problem it intends to solve.
The Air didn't receive any hardware upgrades though, apart from a new battery.
Oftentimes scheduling windows open up by class and honors rank. So honors seniors get first, then seniors, then honors juniors, and so on. Freshman schedule at the end, and for first semester freshman on summer orientation, you are scheduling a good 3 months after the last sophomores scheduled their fall classes. Maybe your orientation is late in the summer, now you schedule behind all the other freshman.
Aren't school districts mostly funded by local tax revenue and by states proportionally to the number of students? More residents (and thus more students) means more funding to work with.

They probably would need to expand, though.
> property tax is some of the highest in the nation

Doesn't matter if it never grows above inflation! Can't beat Prop 13 for property tax value.

You seem to be arguing nobody wants to live there because it's too crowded…
They're zoned as commercial, no doubt.
traffic, plumbing, electric substations, schools, noise, animals, safety, affordability, walkability, public transit, etc.
Zoning already separates commercial and industrial uses. Slaughterhouses, refineries, and the like are industrial.
This has been my experience as well. The "algorithm" removes power from users...it like having someone between you and your *friends deciding whether what you said is important enough to see.
Boyd's biography is a great read:

https://www.amazon.com/Boyd-Fighter-Pilot-Who-Changed/dp/031...

about a very unconventional man.
I agree. It is ironic that, at the very least, a LLM will maybe _improve_ the quality of a particular segment of publications.
Sure, that could be, I don't have any issues, though my thinkpad also just has an i5 in.
Not that I care, but I think this is more of a breach than a "leak"? Like those are just hacked documents. Though in a way that makes them more credible than regular game related leaks.
Real estate in the Bay Area is so off kilter.

Businesses and restaurants keep closing because corporate landlords keep raising rent by huge amounts. In this climate they keep raising rent. It’s absurd and a lot of the corporations have zero community ties to the area other than collecting rent from afar.
I'm skeptical about ML being a "2.0" when we'll never stop using the 1.0 version altogether. But maybe he means it in the Python 2 -> 3 sense, where there's no real expectation that the older version will ever stop being used.
Engineer brains are not a neural net. It's only our brain lack of knowledge of how the brain works that led us to anthropomorphize Matrices and Weighted Graphs :-)
Reading a bit on the Brain will quickly help dismiss those analogies. I suggest these two as good starting points:

- Lange Clinical Neurology - 11th Edition

- Bradley's Neurology in Clinical Practice, 8th Edition
bailouts subvert the process and pervert the outcomes

Moral Hazard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_hazard
This. And because it wasn't made explicit: Recourse centre makes money by placing their graduates with companies.

> The biggest thing we can do for you is help you get a programming job. We partner with companies to help them hire engineers, data scientists, engineering managers, and more.

https://www.recurse.com/career-services
Cattle, not coca, drive deforestation of the Amazon in Colombia – report
It also does things like separate single family homes from, say, 3-plexes, or from corner stores, which is very arbitrary, and terrible in a number of ways, like increasing economic segregation and preventing people from being able to walk to every day amenities.

Good book for the curious: https://islandpress.org/books/arbitrary-lines
Keep in mind that 'even before Fedora' was ~8 years ago

Not sure what my point is, I was just confused - I know SUSE/Fedora people are close
1. code that listens to a REST API and puts a request on a task queue

2. code that listens to the task queue for new jobs

3. code that fetches a file from the FTP server

4. code that converts the JSON file to a format appropriate for the root finding

5. code that performs the root finding

6. code that converts the result of (3) to a format appropriate for insertion into a table

7. code that inserts the result into a Postgres table

Steps 4, 5 and 6 seem easy enough to implement in a pure fashion.
Technically speaking this is kind of cool...but why spend all this time and energy on writing dev tools for an OS that's decades out of date?
For sure. Most people would agree that doing something as a fitness regiment is not a religion.

But you say that there is “no Buddhism” in the West. Clearly there are people who practice Buddhism in the West, whether that be “Western Buddhism” or something else. So one can only surmise that your argument is the following:

Only Asians can be Buddhist.

Well, that’s quite essentialist and othering towards Asians. But what other conclusion could there be? Because if you dialogue with such a person, they will continually raise the bar for being “Buddhist”, starting with pure merit and dedication (like: refrains from killing their parents; is nice to people; follows the N8XP) and then devolving into pseudo-anthropology like how Sri Lankans have different lifestyles compared to a Dutch person, or how Thai people might believe (I don’t know?) in jungle/forest spirits.

Eventually you realize that the only way a born-in-the-West person could become a Buddhist, according to this completely wrongheaded interpretation of “lived experience”, is to do the following:

1. Be drafted into the Vietnam War

2. Get amnesia caused by a shrapnel stuck in your skull

3. Get lost in the Vietnamese jungle

4. Eventually find a village and become adopted

5. Learn the local language somehow

6. Become a Buddhist by being immersed in the “way of life and culture”
As far as I can tell, the standard measure of depression in rodents is something called the forced swim test. It's what it sounds like. This appears to be the primary way all antidepressants are assessed.

I'm no expert, but this measure would seem to have innumerable potential confounds. I guess it was chosen because it's fast to carry out.
Vibe Driven Development
Recurse Center seems interesting. If my job applications don't work out, I'll definitely consider applying.

Thanks!
I think as of now one big difference is that when talking to a competent flesh and blood human, they will ask (or at least try) the right questions before giving an answer.

E.g when talking with my accountant, she usually ask me a bunch of clarification questions and numbers, instead of just making a best effort, but confident sounding response with whatever initial context i gave.

I myself don’t have to have the depth of knowledge to direct someone to complete a task step by step to get the right results.
"engineering" is an interesting way to frame "throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticks"
Casually a trained badass (or a sufficiently unhinged person) will ignore that punch and proceed to destroy you.
So unless you're a super trained boxer and can knock out everyone in one, it's a waste of time.

You lost the element of surprise and tempo.
If you want to do some damage, do it, not rely on the opponent obliging or complying.
Sure. But I haven't had luck in the past? I think it is a bit more than that. I think it is alchemical change of an entire person. The philosopher's stone is less important than the actual whole personhood change. And once you go down this path you will realize, it is not some one off magical event. It is rather a change of state. That is why it is so hard to explain and test for.
Because most people are so unbelievably boring, so statistically predictable and common, that taking off the edge of queries leads to higher click-through rates overall. It's the same pages all the time, and most people don't even bother to scroll to page 2. Of course, people who know what they want, and are best served with diversity and breadth - like you ;) - lose out.
Completely missed this lmao
My initial thought was that the effect is visible during the test period because the employees are especially eager to make this work shortterm.

As the period was quite long, there might be a real effect.
Google was VC funded. They were a classic case where VC makes sense: highly risky, and needed to spend money up front to get usage in order to make money (you can't sell ads if you don't have traffic, can't pay for serving traffic if you don't have ad revenue, VC breaks the circle).
This is harder than it sounds, impossible in some cases (commercial floorplates don’t really work for residential units in many cases). But a fine idea where it can work.

Note that commercial rents at something like 10x the cost of residential per square foot, so this represents a huge loss for developers, and therefore there is a big incentive to hold on and bet that the market will pick up again.
Supercloud, multi-cloud, bigly cloud?
> I recommend just telling the truth and accepting that it's going to screw you sometimes.

This strategy works best if you’re engaging with humans rather than human resources.

Seek out the hiring manager directly, or even the management if it’s a startup.
Indeed, sf has so many vacant and closing stores but the landlords are still raising rents. It’s strangling the city.
If there's anything I've learned in my career, it's that almost no one even acknowledges the existence of font licensing, let alone abides by it. And in general it's usually the kind of thing that the "font police" has limited ability to discover from outside the business.

In practice, people will do what they need to do to use their software, and tbh, there may be legal exceptions for interoperability, such as the DMCA has. You're allowed to circumvent DRM, under DMCA, if you're doing so solely to enable interoperability with different software/hardware (rather than, in order to distribute it). Not a lawyer, don't @ me.
There's a good page on how the traditional flu vaccines are made at https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/how-fluvaccine-made.htm

One of the "this is concerning" things with the traditional chicken egg based version is that they are chicken eggs.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/27/health/chicken-egg-flu-vaccin... and an amusing video on it from Half as Interesting - https://youtu.be/F0qD5argOHE

The corresponding part is that they are chickens and you've likely heard about the price of eggs recently ( https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/01/as-egg-prices-soar-t... ).

There is good reason to be looking at alternative ways to creating vaccines.
Slick idea, thanks for sharing.

Two minor points:

1.Some of the language on the site feels very 'translated to English'. One example: "It’s better try it once than read it many times".

2. The landing page says it's for "Simple cost estimation and planning"; The Features page presents it as a project management tool with client-sharing features. That feels like two overlapping but different use cases/audiences.
> I bought a Lenovo gaming laptop for my son

These are not comparable. There are wildly different quality of laptops under the Lenovo brand. A ton of them are complete crap. Apple simply doesn't sell anything like that. The author is comparing to a Thinkpad specifically.

Additionally, the 10 years old Apple that made your macbook is a very different company from today. Although they are still a premium brand, the reliability and replaceability of parts is completely different. I have one of the first unibody MBPs from 2009, and ran it for almost 10 years (although I had to switch to freebsd and linux by the end because of Apple). That laptop was incredibly sturdy, and parts were reasonably replaceable, keyboard lasted 10 years before getting squishy. Battery was a terrible hot pocket but replaceable without screws! back then it was all SATA so I upgraded to an intel SSD from before they sold their controllers to samsung - also in a user serviceable compartment next to the battery.

None of these things are true of Apple laptops today.
I highly recommend reading Boyd's transcript of a talk he gave in 1989 instead of the wiki on this stuff: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5497331ae4b0148a6141b...

It will resonate with any builders in the HN audience and give a ton of context behind the thinking here.

> You know, some people like to be regarded as being an analyst. They think that’s a term of endearment. I treat it as a personal insult if somebody calls me an analyst. A personal insult. If you’ve read the last paragraph, I’ve showed there are two things you have to be able to do: analyze and synthesize. Analysis and synthesis. And if you can do that in many different areas, tactics, strategies, goals, unifying theme, you can run businesses, you can do any goddamn thing you want.

I find his discussion of Clausewitz's "friction" and the idea of speed as always being relative to one's adversary incredibly useful, even for my day to day work in Tech.
I think their emphasis was on the word just.

As in, keeping industry apart from other uses is a good thing the current zoning system does. But we should loosen restrictions elsewhere: offices, housing, commercial, and light industrial should be mixed more, which is forbidden under current laws.

I tend to agree. I live in a city where the downtown dies after 6pm, and it's a real shame knowing what it could be.
People should visit a proper city like Paris, barcelona, even Washington DC. Maybe they wouldn’t push for a car dystopia in their own.
Why does your future employer need to know where you were for the last four years if you can do the job?

Perhaps it's unethical, but if I was given the choice between not being able to provide for my wife any kids, and being less that forthcoming on a resume, I'm going to choose the latter each and every time.

With that - find some company that has closed shop in the past two months. Their HR staff etc. will be long gone, and who's to say if you worked there or not. A job's a job - if you can do it then your resume shouldn't matter.
Absolutely, for sure, although I'm not sure anyone expected literally everyone to switch overnight? Twitter growth curve involved peaks and troughs for years, too. The idea of treating anything short of a 100% conversion rate as negative is very weird to me. I see pretty large and steady growth in servers, users, posts, engagement, everything. As the mobile clients are booming, the rate of growth in full-time active users actually seems to have accelerated from the bumpy spiked of Musk's initial nonsense.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/08/lazy-reporters-claiming-...
I think he means the experience of using it. And the price was much cheaper.
This is already happening near the shop I work at. Four office buildings and a giant courtyard are basically completely empty and abandoned. The adjacent parking structure is as well and has been for a long time but the old corporate logos from companies that pulled out three years ago are still hanging in some places.

the conglomerate landlord has doubled down on some sort of bizarre Potemkin village strategy to ensure investors dont pull out. muzak in the courtyard is turned up to blaring at all hours of the day, a cleaning staff roams around a few times a week as well but with no trash, they just sit at the tables and check their phones for a few hours. Security guards are staffing the buildings but the doors are always locked. The office for the parking garage is completely empty, no chairs at the desks or anything.
In other news: the sky is blue, and the sun rose from the east this morning
It was already the case that "90% of everything is garbage".

Now with AI humanity can achieve 99.999%.
Companies that write „WebAuthN“ deserve no respect.
> I don't know Adam Neumann's story. I do know my own though, and know that when you have success, watch your back, people will come with daggers.

This is such a BS false equivalence. There are plenty of people who built really successful companies who are billionaires whom I greatly admire, e.g. Stripe's founders, Google's founders, etc. I was a huge fan of Musk before he went off the deep-end and became more interested in just being a grade A asshole, liar and bully. Neumann likes to wrap his bargain variety avarice and greed in "changing the world" bullshit, and not all founders do that. For example, Neumann's self-dealing with the "We" trademark took a special level of sociopathic hutzpah.

I'm also a client of WeWork, and I like its services. That still doesn't mean it's particularly difficult to build a company with a market cap of $1.10 billion when you are given a total funding of over $22 billion to start with. Neumann literally destroyed $20 billion in value, and for that incredible feat was given a billion dollar payday. I agree most of that blame goes to Softbank, but doesn't mean I can't have incredible distain for Neumann for conning his way the whole time.
de rien
Google also defines "engineering" as:

2. the action of working _artfully_ to bring something about. "if not for his shrewd engineering, the election would have been lost"

(https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3AEngineering)

Merriam-Webster has:

3 : calculated manipulation or direction (as of behavior)

giving the example of “social engineering”

(https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/engineering)

Random House has:

3. skillful or artful contrivance; maneuvering

(https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/enginee...)

Webster's has:

The act of maneuvering or managing.

(https://www.yourdictionary.com/engineering)
Came here for this joke - thank you :-)
Mastodon over Mammon – Towards publicly owned scholarly knowledge
FWIW, I'm biologically NOT a night owl. Hate staying up late, am constantly bargaining with my wife to let me go to bed earlier, can't stand the idea of sleeping away the day.
Check out the new DMZ mode. You might like that if BR wasn’t your thing but you liked the franchise.
Pre college schooling I'm assuming. Its hard to have a good night sleep as a highschooler, especially if you have extracurriculars and a job. You basically have to go to bed after finishing homework, to wake up for school again. 5 days of no fun if you want to get actual solid sleep with those constraints. Usually highschoolers give themselves a little free time, and the only freetime they can get is in the night at the cost of sleep, because nothing else can budge.
In a controlled environment
Apple's Popularity with Gen Z Poses Challenges for Android
One thing I like about the Discourse forum software is the rather generic "Summary/Details" naming around spoilers/content warnings/etc. Use it however you like. If it's a content warning, prefix it with "CW" or "Content Warning." If it's just a long post, prefix it with "Long post inside!"
Agreed, but I'd guess it wouldn't get downvotes if it focused just on brushing up skills and making a portfolio piece rather than mentioning revenue and extending runway.

You can't bank on a new project having any significant financial success, or much traction at all really, especially if it's your first rodeo. Making money is mostly about validation, talking to potential customers, and iterating on ideas, not coding. While they are great skills to learn, it's not a particularly efficient way of beefing up an engineering resume.

I do think it's good advice though to build some stuff while interviewing. I'd focus on small projects that can be built and shipped in a month or so, and do a few of these alongside interviews. Also be sure to put effort into nice landing pages--people judge by appearances.