skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not sure how many can afford that without having to Maid themselves at the end of the vacation, the way they do in Canada.

I'm assuming you mean MAID as in "Medical assistance in dying". You should do some research as it's a very serious thing and obviously not used to end one's life after an expensive vacation. Pretty gross to make fun of people that consider MAID. Do better!

https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/medical-assi...
Coming to US from Europe - in US employees are contractors(hi at will employment), actual contractors are just people who are smart enough to know that.
They’re all retired, they’ve done very well for themselves and still hack for fun (and have fun associated hobbies like Ham and electronics).
Their email verification endpoint has been hanging for me; disabled it yesterday. Sending seems to be fine at least.
"flattening" is in the byline of the article.
Car plateforms are already the same between a lot of brands.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Stellantis_platforms

Renault tried to have a standard swappable battery but gave up due to too little industry following.
Navigating what language? The law today I agree is pretty clear. This is speculation on a ruling that doesn't yet exist that could change all that.

Your suggestion is that there would be a carve out for spam filtering? Or that Google deciding what goes in "Promotions" and what goes in "Priority Inbox" isn't a recommendation?
Exactly. Parent comment is ridiculous. "It's exactly like what Elon is doing, except in a totally different way"
The first time I ever heard "the layoffs will continue until morale improves" was at my startup in 2000, not long before the dot com crash thing.
Have they not? I buy pasture raised eggs which at my local Whole Foods used to be $5.99/dozen and lately have been $7.99/dozen. Granted, the $5.99 was cheaper than my other local grocery store, where they've been $7.99 all along (and I'm not sure what they've been charging recently).
The owner of my building has installed flood lights that are on all night and effectively remove any darkness from the outside. The main reason given was for safety, despite there never being a safety issue, and trying to convince them that the opposite is true has been difficult, to say the least.
Oh, so it’s easier so long as you like the results you get. Got it
Few things:

1. Talk to your co founders if not already about this and see what they have to say

2. Take a break for couple of weeks before deciding anything.

"raise a smaller round at a more reasonable valuation"

This makes me think that you guys raised too much (not that uncommon in 2021-early 2022) and the pressure to grow is lot more than you thought. Regardless, even if you raise at more "reasonable" valuations, the pace and stress expected from a VC backed company is always high. Very high.

If you truly cannot keep up with the pace and stress in general (not just this startup), you perhaps need to revisit the idea of building a company especially the VC way. May be start bootstrapped first ? Just a thought.
Ask HN: Books/Resources on statistical literacy for the non-statistician?
I often find myself trying to learn more about a subject, looking into research done in the area, then stumbling upon a seemingly endless amount of studies that all contradict each other in new and exasperating ways.

I'd like to better equip myself to sort the wheat from the chaff, if possible. Are there any recommended books I could pick up to gain improved literacy when looking at studies?

The simple answer may just be "learn statistics". That'd be fine, but if there is a high level text covering the basics for laymen I'd love to hear about it.
Fixed: https://github.com/OWASP/CheatSheetSeries/issues/1089#issuec...
I think it may even be instinctive, or a child figures it out by trial and error before they can even talk in full sentences.
Yeah. Market performance is fine, but people were complaining even at the peak in 2021.
I used to say "My dream is to work for free."

I'm living the dream.

I was pushed out of the workforce, five years ago (Laid off, then no one would talk to an "old").

It was scary and infuriating, but, I have since found it to be the best thing that ever happened to me. I'm very fortunate, in having the means to live (fairly humbly), and not need to work.

I love writing code, though, so that's what I do; all day, every day. I found some nonprofit stuff that engages me, and I give them a level of code that they could only dream of.
> I wonder why are such sayings NOT persecuted as libelous

Because it’s not a statement of fact but very clearly an opinion protected by the first amendment (at least in the United States).

Trying to bring a libel or defamation case would be an expensive and losing proposition.
I was going to say "clickbait" but "1 in 6 are considering" is not even very good bait.

I just emailed with a retired (or rather, un-retired) guy who's an expert in Agile & other methodologies, and he said, paraphrasing, "I walk around and people talk to me, and then they send me a check. It's a good gig."
According to this they did: https://www.shefinds.com/collections/shoppers-crying-costco-...
> The Nvidia 4090 turned out to be far ahead of the AMD 7900XTX.

I just don't get why most people care? It's 60% more expensive, too. Even the 7900XTX is ludicrous at $1000.

Give me a $400 card from this generation that competes with a $500 card from the previous generation, and I'll call it a win.

A $1600 card winning anything seems like an irrelevant battle. Is the volume / sales for those cards high enough to be the real focus, when cards like the GTX 1060 were the volume leaders by a long shot?
> Because thats not effective.

It absolutely is effective, I've used it myself many times.
Thanks for the link, this is definitely a "nicer" panel than MBP ones. Maybe it is time to jerry-rig my t420 :)
Do the climates a plane flies in and out of make a difference too, or is this such a minor factor compared to the act of pressurization that it doesn't matter? I remember flying out of Chicago once when I was a kid and having to wait for us to be coated in some special fluid because it was so cold that day that the takeoff was going to be especially stressful on the aircraft otherwise.
Hey I'm not the guy setting pricing and policy, I'm just trying to be a smart consumer that has found that getting AppleCare is worth the price many times over. If someone doesn't want to get AppleCare and save a few hundred dollars on their MacBook, fine by me too.
I haven't full tested yet, but the little I tested were mostly about forcing ChatGPT in the way I want it to prompt me full size texts. I tried the technique of giving a summary ant let it do the filling, and it worked unexpectedly good compared to the "write me .....".

I don't think it may represent a form of gatekeeping, cause the way we evade the AI boring prompt is mostly a form of human bias. Where before AI became racist after some time exposed to human, here it became less surprising patch after patch. From the top of my near 0 level, I may think it's because in order to make ChatGPT less power hungry or maybe to push the paid version, OpenAI force ChatGPT to be generic. So like the only way we can interact with the model is through a prompt, we can only try new prompts and share the ones who exploit other dimensions of the model which make ChatGPT "smarter" or best adapted for what we want it to do. The only thing OpenAI can't do is edit the raw model, every time they add generic output or other things, they just create a shortcut in the model who can be bypassed because we can't humanely control it fully.

(I take about generic answer because most of the time I use ChatGPT to recommend me software who fit in my use case, but each time I have to make it rewrite the prompt because it doesn't remember my OS and I don't want to search for the changes in the packages names. (every time it answers like I am on a Debian based distro, it's what I mean by "shortcut", It doesn't process everything before answering, and it goes directly to the result))
I know a fair number of 65+ SW devs that are still working and their skills are as up-to-date as anyone else's.

There are two such engineers on my team right now.

(For the record, I am not a sprightly 20something, but I also am not nearing retirement yet.)
In 15 years as a TCS researcher I have followed one heuristic: if something has the word "quantum" in it, I ignore (articles, surveys, conference talks, projects, etc.).

This is more from personal ignorance/laziness and convenience than strong conviction: you cannot follow all areas, you have to make some choices how you spend your time, and this is one particular area that is easy to delimit. (EDIT: and if it does turn out to be a dead-end, I can be glad I made the right call.)

At times this policy has been quite hard to follow, and I may reconsider it sometime, but so far it has served me well.
(With regards to the quoted text, "it" referred to natural language, not ChatGPT. You were questioning the sufficiency of natural language, not whether ChatGPT could do those things.)

With regards to ChatGPT: Given a set of previously unseen axioms it can (sometimes) make a previously unseen and logically consistent prediction. This is what I have observed.

Whether this is true logical reasoning, truly new ideas, or just an arrangement of statistically plausible characters that belies its lack of understanding is a metaphysical question akin to the Chinese room.
> Those in the office get annoyed by the weirdness of hearing their neighbor speak and then a moment later hearing the same in their headset

which is only a problem due to open office plans, which study after study have shown to be bad.
interesting point, I've read somewhere that from biodiversity, and carbon sequestration viewpoint some forests (corniferous, like taiga) are much poorer than grass steppes. It was argued that mammoths were important because they were strong enough to fall down trees, making space for grass to grow.
Trumbo, Lincoln, Let The Right One In (Swedish). Raised by Wolves (tv).
I agree with you, but it is not a "free" exchange.
People share there knowledge and helps SO to be alive and in exchange they can get answers.
Their curation should be better like pointing to the correct answer before marking it as duplicated and then blocking it.
I know it is as is because people are lazy sometimes and they expect to get it ready with no effort.
In that sense, chat assistants are the biggest threat to SO as it does not complain to answer the same thing a thousand times.

I am curious to know what they think about it
The great thing about a long generalist career history is that you can extract highly specialised threads for different applications by highlighting different parts of your experience.

I'm personally a generalist in the web and data science areas, but I do specialised consulting under a number of different "personas": Django web development, geospatial data analysis, non-deep data science, SaaS MVP backend web dev, etc.

For each specialisation I have a different resume and "tell me a bit about yourself" pitch, often referring to the same projects but highlighting different aspects of my skills.

When someone says they need a specialist they just want someone who can get their stuff done. Having additional skills isn't a detriment as long as you can do the work, just no need to bring them up in your application.

I always thought that eventually I'd settle into a specialisation as I mastered narrow niches and got referrals within a specialisation. But that hasn't naturally happened, and I'm very happy as a generalist working specialised roles in a wide range of domains.
This is very neat.

I suppose it doesnt use SVG at any level (either as internal representation of graphical elements or for the rendering) but is there some way to enable import/export to vectors? The d3/vega family of js libraries have really enriched SVG based web graphics but android has not been very SVG friendly.
Micro-Man Frame – The Ultimate in Computing Portability for the Business Person
I would look at less general listings in areas that you're decent at, and go from there. I've tended to be hired for specific things, and then something breaks that nobody knows how to fix, and I pick it up, and pretty soon I'm back in the generalist "fixer" role that's needed but rarely hired for.

Just don't make my mistake and mention experience in things you don't want to do anymore. Guess who got to take over the mail servers because nobody else knew enough to do it; and guess who's never going to mention experience with mail in a hiring process again. :D
Whenever I get on the subway, right after I exit the train I get a notification that my MacBook's left behind at the train station I boarded at. That makes sense then
But you still end up with the problem where your caste determines your privilege; the only difference is which caste benefits. Wouldn't it be better to work toward a system where the caste has no impact on your opportunities?
We'll get there eventually! Adding support for other languages in Rust is a very long process.
Bus factor doesn't really matter for a startup. Because literally everything early on is a bus of one, maybe two. Scaling is a good problem to have later on.

To your deeper point being that if you work at a startup to make your own life easier and those who eventually will work with you; write down what you're doing and get good at teaching/explaining process to people.
No, you just don't understand how statistics works. If you get 80% on sample of 100 people, your 95% confidence interval is +/- 8%. This assumes a random sampling method.
I start/restart steam to update it.
I'm having a hard time connecting this to Section 230. So you're saying there should be an exemption for recommending harmful content but only if the content is easier to share than forwarding an email?
Well-represented and properly weighted samples are unusual. As often as it’s used, phone surveys don’t qualify.
To your questions #3 and #5, my suggestions would be threefold:

1. If you decide to switch to data engineering, talk with your professional network, and grow your current network, to find the new role. It can be pretty tough to change roles via the conventional hiring process, and finding a new role "organically" leads to some of the best jobs.

2. Evaluate your current situation and do a little writing: What's good? What's bad? What do I want for the future? Putting these answers down on paper, and revising them over the course of a couple weeks, enables you to achieve clarity, which then leads you to constructive actions.

3. Speak with a career mentor or coach. Because of inherit human bias and observation effects which we are all trapped in, we suck at self-evaluation. While friends indeed help, there are limits to what friends can do, and over-doing this with friends will damage friendships.

The job of a professional mentor/coach is to give you rational feedback, free of constraints such as friendship or working together. In this way, you learn and solve your problems much faster than you would alone. (Source: I am a career mentor and coach myself).
Despite continuous cries of "capitalism bad" these days it continues to uplift people all around the world by offering skilled people a fairer chance to compete, while also promoting long lasting world peace. We need more of it, not less.
I am a pinhead! Actually on my way to a tournament right now. So yaaas please more info on this : ). Is the. Openpinball framework involved in this?
Deliveries. Getting the bong on my wrist that something (and what it was) was dropped off has always been super useful, and it’s the exact kind of thing where being interrupted is useful.
On this site, the null hypothesis is whatever we already believe. When we see evidence of an alternative hypothesis, we find ways to throw that evidence in the trash. Small sample sizes, replication crisis, misleading headlines, research on mice, etc. are all ways to ignore whatever evidence we want.

In short, we are always right, research be damned.
That’s great! What kind of work does your team do?
Could you link them? That's an interesting conclusion. Is there any correlation drawn, or even speculation as to the cause for this? Perhaps criminals need some light as flashlights draw too much attention?
Make it a secretary instead of a manager, and I might consider it. :)
I "consider" running away to join the circus, at least, once a day.
I get what you're saying, but I think you might be missing the point that I'm making. DNS and BGP aren't JUST technical, they're also deeply geopolitical. The Internet isn't an accident, it's an intentionally and carefully formed set of peer autonomous networks, with a shared protocol and written (and unwritten) rules for how we name and resolve the path to get to those different networks from one another. These standards, the technical implementation of them, and how they interact with the real world is actually deeply geopolitical as well as socioeconomic. It's not just understanding how it works technically, it's understanding how it works from a policy, standardization, and governance perspective. Just like the law, how we arrived at the particular standards and policies informs the context for decisions we make about the technology and how its implemented.

Even then, without an understanding of how it works technically, it's not possible to responsibly and accurately adjudicate the law as it relates to these technologies. How BGP and DNS work is actually front and center in many court cases, where the decision rested on a basic misunderstanding, which rendered the outcome either ineffective or unjust. Think of all the cases where DNS blocking is utilized on a court order, not realizing that this is effectively meaningless and is not actually effective.

People don't often understand how deep this rabbit hole goes, even technical people who understand the basics of routing. They don't actually understand what a "peering agreement" means, especially what it means when it crosses an international border. The way that the law interacts with the Internet is an integration point that has an especially high level of complexity, and nearly no-one involved in that complexity in our current system day to day is actually qualified to discuss it.

When we have failures in this integration point is has deep reaching impacts that have broad implications for how technology continues to develop into the future, and there are both positive and negative consequences for this. As a simple example, the stupidity with courts and DNS blocking and the way in which some governments around the world behave in relation to DNS is actually a core reason why DoH and DoT exist, because misapplication of law based on misunderstanding of technology risked fundamentally breaking the basic building blocks of the Internet required for it to function and for networks to successfully interoperate, so the people who actually understand how it works had to come up with new technology to "route around" stupidity in legislatures and courts around the world. These new technologies /themselves/ have geopolitical consequences (see UK and EU stupidity regarding crypto and its implications for DoH and DoT).

It's not JUST understanding the technology, there's the 0th layer and the 8th layer in the reference model.
I think this is really smart. It reminds me of something I read within the last few months, but can't find right now, that described the descent from "social networking" (a nearly forgotten term, despite being the term for websites like Facebook just a decade ago) into the hell of modern "social media." The key difference is that social networking was about connecting with people you actually knew (realistically up to a couple hundred people), and social media is about broadcasting to the masses (measured in thousands or millions) with the help of these algorithms to promote engagement at any cost. That's where everything just went off the rails, from my perspective. I don't know why your comment got down-voted.

Edited to add: It seems like this is what distinguishes a telephone company from a television broadcaster too.
Make fun of it all you want, but the whole point of that is that it is machine readable and concise.

`KAUS 092135Z 26018G25KT 8SM -TSRA BR SCT045CB BKN060 OVC080 30/21 A2992`

That is a very concise way of conveying a lot of information about the weather. It doesn't take long to learn it, and at a glance I can tell you that the weather is kind of shitty for flying at KAUS, and I can plug it into any flight app and read it in plain text if I really want.
Also discussed here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34895396
> “I obviously can’t sit here and promise you that nothing will happen in the future because it’s a very volatile environment,

is the the problem for Meta cuts in advertising and privacy implementation triggered by Apple?
And the rest of us plebs are to be stuck with the Samsung fab again. Great.
Hum... How actually is it supposed to work?

Did those extra people jump into productivity immediately during the short term boom instead of taking time to learn the business and fit in, like developers always need? By what magic did all the large US companies manage to do that?

The boom itself lasted for about an year. It's enough time to get some of those people to contribute positively. It's not even close to enough time to compensate for the drag of increasing your headcount by 30%. And the most competitive period was the first few months, where new people were all drag.

Nope, I do conclude that they expected the boom to stay forever. They could have expected things to stop growing that quickly, but they clearly didn't expect a contraction.

To be fair, none of them are on the area of economical forecasting. And the crazy decisions of the US monetary policy isn't something that one could expect people to just guess. But the sheer amount of overreaction from those companies on both situations isn't something to take lightly. That's clear display of incompetency.
Was the trail he intended to hike a wilderness trail as well? This can influence what one brings. I'm not bringing a flashlight on a day hike just to carry extra weight if I have one on my phone. A map is good, but shouldn't really be necessary on a well established beginner trail for a day hike. He turned around after he was lost. The real issue is one mistake of choosing the wrong trail due to a name mix up leading to everything else, and then being reckless about the fire.

It's easy to use hindsight to say someone was negligent because you would have packed X and they didn't. Yet there are many other people that might call you negligent because you didn't pack everything on their list.
I don't know, why did x86 beat PowerPC, MIPS, SPARC, and whatever else in the desktop and server space?

Seems like node size for the price beats everything else which is what we're talking about here.

Apple's anticompetitive practices are not particularly compelling evidence of some inherent architectural superiority.
What advantage would that have to anyone? That sounds bad for both the developers and the players
You need hardware skills, so you can at least do a 8-bit micro. After that the software can be unlocked.
NPR says it's cutting jobs by 10% as ad revenue drops
You you tweeted it and posted it over here so you can get comments that you refuse to accept on Twitter?

The whole thing is reminiscent of a lion licking his own balls.
I must say that I preferer learning when I have a teacher. I'm having hard time setting a side a dedicated time for learning.
> A 14oz package of tofu is probably the equivalent of 4 eggs and costs $2-3. So maybe 1.5x the cost of egg-based version.

I'm paying $2.89 for a dozen eggs, and from what I can tell that's pretty typical across the US. So it's more like 4x.

But, I'm in no danger of going vegan, so that's about all I have to say :).