skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see it in as clearly bad a light as babelfish does, but nor do I see it as positively as you do.

My rubric:

- CEOs shouldn't publicly call their customers dicks

- if a customer thinks the CEO is threatening to kick them off the platform and asks for clarification about it, they should get a clear response (Graveley's last tweet)

Both of these points are about professionalism of the vendor.

Perhaps the Fly CEO realized Twitter wasn't the right place to have this conversation and answered Graveley's question in a separate channel.
I love the fact that you’ve got a built-in keylogger: just echo everything to paper.

I wonder if there’s some halfway secure way to avoid typing in any passwords. Like some combo of security key / password manager / second keyboard / PIN pad.
ChatGPT-style search represents a 10x cost increase for Google, Microsoft
> When I started at my current gig over a decade ago I had a three-day ordeal of interviews. In person, telephone, full day of in person again. Spoke with at least six different sets of people.

These kinds of processes just feel designed to dilute the blame.
Plus VCs are typically risking other people's money, not their own.
The only runtime hoop I've ever had to jump through was to invoke runtime.LockOSThread() inside a go-routine. In a lot of ways:

go func() {
runtime.LockOSThread()
// ...
}()

Is simpler than creating a thread in other languages.
There are some good things about coding competitions, if done well:

* Introduction of developers to a core kit of useful algorithms

* Practical examples for developers to design algorithms that require adaptation (e.g., how to adapt the bipartite matching algorithm to tripartite)

* Training people in how to debug their code--the most useful competitions are the ones where programmers don't always have access to the computer, so you have to be able to step through your code without running it

At the same time, however, I think there is rapidly diminishing returns here. You'll get a lot of the first bit of effort you put into programming competitions, but then the improvement you get is incredibly incremental. I'm especially unimpressed by race-to-the-finish kind of competitions, since I think the skills it requires to get very high on the leaderboards are not useful.
> Ugh. HN used to have high quality comments. Now they don't even read the actual article and just comment on the click-baity headline.

What are you talking about? This is literally the first line:

> For their latest magic trick, physicists have done the quantum equivalent of conjuring energy out of thin air

So you see, the article does say that they got energy out of thin air.

In fact, the first line is arguably the title, which is:

> Physicists Use Quantum Mechanics to Pull Energy out of Nothing

Which also says they pulled energy out of nothing. VERBATIM.

So when you say I didn't read the article, maybe YOU didn't read the article?
This isn't a fix exactly, but for a long time now the only jobs I ever take are either with people who know me or people who know someone who recommended me. Like a lot of people here I had to randomly apply to all kind of jobs and got rejected for practically everything when I started.

So my suggestion would be: think about people you know or could meet and ask them if they like where they work? Are they hiring? Then, if you have a position somewhere you don't need to be perfect, but it helps to be memorable.
This is an important piece and I’m glad Haidt put it together.

I do wonder if there’s room in this analysis for specific social media analysis. It seems like it would be very hard to separate out effects of Facebook vs. effects of Twitter and so on, but at the same time I worry about throwing the baby out with the bath water.

A technology-intermediated social life is not inherently bad. Pen and paper letters are technology. Dumb phones are technology. We have been adapting culturally to new ways to communicate with each other for a long time; I want more about what’s driving this trend now, and I think it might be more than just feedback and cycle speed.

Or maybe it is simply the democratization of platforms; it’s bad when speech is filtered through a few trusted authorities but that doesn’t mean the opposite doesn’t have risks. (Yay, it’s the free speech debate!)
my only nitpick is - if social media were truly a drug, as some suggest, studies asking participants to reduce time on it wouldn't work because of addiction. how do we counter this?
My question is why didn’t US labor try things like that?

It seems to me that in the early radio era this was possible.
As a parent to a 12 year old girl, I’ve been fighting the “no social media” fight since she requested at 9. Every single one of her friends have social media and I think it is negative to be isolated in that way. But I also notice that she seems to have positive benefits over her friends, but of course it’s tough to measure.

It’s strange to me because I’ve talked about this literature and whatnot with other parents and they just shrug and say that their kid won’t abuse it and will withstand the negative effects. Of course, many of these are posting on social media quite a bit themselves.

It’s tough for parents but I’m encouraged by more evidence on this subject and hope that there’s soon public health guidance about when to allow social media.
Thanks, just edited my post to link to the definition.

Guess I'd fall under the generation that would have said "rock" instead (although the Amish most definitely do not rock).
Anecdotally, last year I did loops with Netflix and Google and was incredibly impressed by how they were conducted.

The coding questions at both places were not anything I had seen before (despite studying on leetcode), however none of them needed any esoteric tricks or algorithms. Recursion, loops, hashmaps, lists, etc was all that was needed to pass the coding portions.

I'd say the questions would be considered 'hard' on leetcode, but still only needing fundamental understanding of DS&A. And I was given about 40 minutes.

I also had some coding rounds that were 100% practical stuff. Basic 'data munging' kind of stuff. It was non trivial but again nothing weird or funky.

System design rounds were practical and engaging and fun.

I think the template is pretty solid, it's just most places have poor implementation (and from what I've heard, it's very possible to roll poorly at Google and get someone who asks a super weird or challenging question).

When I first started studying for interviews, I would absolutely panic with someone watching me, I could barely do a proper for loop. But after enough practice it became fine.

Overall the interviews were challenging but NOT what I was expecting, I thought they did a good job of asking unseen questions that tested coding fundamentals.
Valid point, I received this feedback on reddit as well.

I really want to focus the tool on generating good stories though - I had the idea that to validate input better and give feedback, before actually generating stories. E.g., try to suggest something like „Hey, this is too broad and should be an epic, with possibly these 4 stories“, „Hey, your description was too shallow, can you elaborate on xyz?“. Ultimately, it’s a tool that I want to see used for scrum stories in my teams.

I will update the roadmap with these ideas and inputs, thank you for taking your time and leave a comment!
Of course. I'm referring to HTML syntax in python string highlighting in your editor. How is support for that? Recommended plugins?
It's like the old joke, a guy is walking through the park and he sees an old man playing chess with a dog. He says "Wow, that must be the smartest dog in the world!" The old man says "He's not that smart, I almost always win."
These are solvable problems - for example requiring registration before posting. But I'm not moved at all by the technical problem because the technical problem isn't what is in question, it's the promotion and curation of content algorithmically.

Either way I think we're going to see a big swing back to authoritative sources because the very technical problems you mention will be taken advantage of by new tools and so the already meaningless content will not even be generated by humans. The Internet in the sense of "publishing content" will be meaningless and unprofitable [1].

[1] Obviously there will exist use cases where this is not the case
Idiot: "It's a space peanut!"
I never felt like that when recommending someone. First of all, before referring someone, I'd personally interview them and make sure I want to work with them. And after that the candidate would still go through all the usual interview rounds (sans the initial recruiter's screen). The decision would still be collective - everyone on the team still has to write a review and give thumbs up.
Don't forget that HN is also a form of social media. It will make you angry and emotionally exhausted. :)
You can still have senior engineers for less than 100k€ (including taxes and everything that the company have to pay for)

That’s even cheaper if you hire them as contractors
OK, but why should harmful additives be allowed whether the market is monopolized or has competition?
I would worry that if the infrastructure to access these things would be taken down, either by law, war or some kind of great depression, people would value other things than a picture of a monkey and how to keep IPFS running.
Framing, it's the framing that's the issue here. Women can smell desperation from a mile away and this "Pick up artist" mindset will set off red flags for most.

Framing the dating world as "increas[ing] your chances of a favorable outcome" (i.e. sex) is only going to lead to disappointment.
He is likely referring to the period tracking Florida is trying to implement for female athletes in public schools
So we know that social media causes depression and anxiety and we know that kids will want to be on social media so we have to teach them the skills to regulate their emotions.

Most importantly that they can identify when they need to ask for help and will ask for it. We need to normalize asking for help.

Right now kids can learn these skills in therapy but that is not the only place those skills should be taught or reinforced. Schools for example are a good place for that.

Remember that cliques in school were reinforced by the telephone and just like the game of telephone a lot gets lost in communication. Social media is an extension of that.
Remember the PNG Website?
So, they do have long term thinking, just not the kind that you want it to be?

You should have clarified your comment that you want long-term thinking that makes the stock goes up while all of your peer stocks are going down i.e. market crash.

Cool, Zuck definitely isn't that good lmao.
Eversense sells something similar to this already: https://www.ascensiadiabetes.com/eversense/

I'd get a tattoo, but I'm not interested in anything that has to be removed
Funny thing, "millimeter of mercury" is a unit of pressure, but "millimeter" is a unit of distance.

"Fluid ounce" is a unit of volume, but "ounce" is a unit of mass.

"Pound" (or "kilogram") is a unit of mass, but "pound force" (or "kilogram force") is a unit of force.

I understand the argument, it's just not a very compelling argument. Explaining the argument one more time is not really convincing. If I'm going to embark on a mission to remove ambiguity from measurement systems, my first choice would be to abolish the use of KB=1024 bytes. The "fluid ounces" and "ounces" thing just does not seem like it poses as much of a problem.

Addendum: I'm also not trying to be contrarian here, and I'm not trying to advocate for some kind of supremacy of US customary units over SI. Most countries have some form of non-SI customary units still in use and some amount of SI adoption. The SI units are preferred for lots of reasons, but it's not like the various systems of customary units are illogical or nonsensical. There's an explanation and a logic behind them, like how US customary volumetric units follow powers of 2, or how a "mile" is a thousand paces (nice round power of 10). The ounce / fluid ounce relationship is has the same physical explanation as the gram / milliliter relationship, because they are both approximations for the density of water, as a reference point. Neither relationship is exactly the density of water, because the respective units have been redefined, and the density of water is now something you look up which happens to have a value close to 1.0 with those particular choices of units. Just as the meter was originally defined as one millionth of the Earth's meridian, the mile was originally one thousand paces, and after standardization, neither fact is true.

Again, I can understand why people want to advocate for SI, but that doesn't mean that customary units are illogical or nonsensical.
As I mentioned in another comment, the problem with 2 is that employers routinely hire people who don't meet the minimum requirements. If you don't apply to those jobs because you don't satisfy that one bullet out of the 6 they listed, you're hurting your chances.

They can fix it by actually posting minimum requirements.
The only way NFTs make any sense to me is: You are spending money so you can brag that you spent money.

Why you would do that is another question.
Apologies, I meant it as a generalization, and as I prefaced in my post it has nothing to do with sexuality. The same phenomenon applies to any kind of romantic relationship.

Actually it's interesting you brought it up because as a member of the gay community I wonder whether you would agree or not that the different polarities are any less or more or equally evident in gay couples.
I don't necessarily disagree with the conclusion, but the dismissal of other factors is insufficient:

> Why did a measure of loneliness at school go up around the world only after 2012, as the global economy got better and better?

The economy didn't get better for everyone, in fact inequality rose starkly; this might be a correlating factor.

> It’s not because of the 9/11 attacks, wars in the middle east, or school shootings. As Emile Durkheim showed long ago, people in Western societies don’t kill themselves because of wars or collective threats

OK, so let's dismiss societal violence because a 120-y.o. study says so. How about climate anxiety/eco-anxiety? Car-dependant suburban life? Ever-growing parental control?

All these factors have been too easily dismissed.
I was going to ask about Cover Letters. Why do you think that's such a big improvement, especially in the current AI Generation zone? Most of the time I've written a cover letter, it may as well have been written by an AI, or I simply recycled another one I'd written and changed the names.

If you're actually going to reject someone for having a bad cover letter, does that not heavily bias against people who aren't as proficient in your chosen language?
The problem comes down to putting kids in forced confinement with a bunch of other kids for 6 hours a day with no way for them to escape. Mandatory "education" of teens is harmful on the net. It wastes some of the most energetic and productive hours of life while teaching very few useful skills (and those could be taught in a fraction of the time).
What does it mean to parent anyway?
I'm fine with it. Let the ants take over, they seem to have their shit together.
Maybe this feeling is part of the human condition, regardless of age.
Mexico's former public security head convicted by U.S. of taking cartel bribes
Having been in Vietnam for long periods of time a few years back, "broken undersea cables" were at least quarterly occurrences.
This is exactly how I end up being labeled a conservative, besides the fact that I like to shoot guns.

I don't have faith in government. Government is merely a necessary part of the equation. In the eyes of some, this makes me a conservative. Conserving what? I think taxes are necessary, that social programs can do good (including forms of welfare), that no one should be discriminated against, and that the God of the Bible does not exist. Somehow that's not enough because I don't subscribe to the theology of government.

Seriously, I don't know why you think lacking faith in government is a good metric for guessing whether someone is a conservative, as if it even matters for such a comment. Do you assume someone is Black because they say they like basketball?
Seems nobody in earth wants to sell insurance for itself
Yeah I think simulations are massively underused.

They might not help you prepare for a black swan type event, but a lot of times we're not ready for very normal problems. I suspect a day or two per year spent doing basic modeling and simulation would benefit a lot of teams, even back of the envelop stuff. Then you can return to the exercise a year later and see if your assumptions were on point or what turned out to be much different than expected and refine the model and parameters of the simulation.
One company had increased profits, not the industry at large.

That one company happened to be one that invested a bunch of effort in preventing bird flu from infecting their flocks.

The article is low on specifics. This company may be "the largest" but how big is that? They could still be less than 5% of the market. If sufficient other farms had high levels of chicken death due to bird flu, it makes sense that the farms that did not would do well, while still tightly constraining supply.
> “brutal despots” comment you’ll need to provide a bit more context

Read some history before having such strong opinions then. That 'context' comment is insulting to hundreds of thousands of people who were disappeared or outright buried alive by US backed regimes during that period.
Huh. I wore a Series 3 for years (just finally sold it last week) and never had an issue with charging/sleep tracking. I was in the routine of plopping it on the charger for 90 min or whatever as soon as I got home from work.

Also, mine would automatically go into “Sleep Focus” (previously “Do Not Disturb”) during sleep time, which muted notifications. Not sure why yours wouldn’t do that.
This made me think better of lurking at LinkedIn. The more I open it, the worse I feel about own achievements and skills. It keeps kindly reminding you that company X still hires but didn't reply to you; that friend Y got to that position that looks like what you dreamed of; or fellow Z got all those certificiations you have no time for.
I kind of feel like it's no department wanting to feel left out of the process.
>I do enjoy it, but

Grass is always greener on the other side I guess.
Sure, but what's your point?

Being accused of murder can lead to detainment, which naturally bears the risk of temporarily detaining innocent people. That's the tradeoff society has agreed to.
I see a few possible takeaways from this. Maybe, these results are weird and might be in error somehow. Maybe, these results are more data that we have big gaps in our understanding of cosmology. Maybe massive headlines should be double checked.
It is way more difficult and nonobvious then you think.
Some of them have opted out of nonsense like reporting sexual assault to authorities, as well.

From "Child Sexual Abuse in the Amish Community: A Hidden Epidemic":

> “I’ve learned that sexual abuse in their communities is an open secret, spanning generations,” she wrote in the 2019 article. “Victims told me stories of inappropriate touching, groping, fondling, exposure to genitals, digital penetration, coerced oral sex, anal sex and rape—all at the hands of their own family members, neighbors and church leaders.”

[1] https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/child-sexual-abuse-amish
> We can effectively regulate the algorithms a countable number of companies use in their products, but can't effectively make people not susceptible to doom-scrolling (nicotine, heroin, gambling, whatever).

What does regulation of Facebook's algorithm look like to you? Promote specifically which types of content less/not at all? Obviously "politically divisive/disinformation" but who gets to be in charge of that/classifying what is/isn't disinformation/divisive?
How’s their teenage girl depression stats?
As someone who is not a user yet 49 sounds like a rounding error in our dev budget and if all I have to do is change a line in my CI script that does sound very tempting. Standing up another machine and registering it as runner sounds like way more work. Also incurs a recurring task to run updates there or cycle the VM to get a new base image. An hour of dev time is really very expensive
For an emulator, just go with SPARK :-) Ada didn't bring lots of memory safety until the recent work on ownership, but yes it's all getting there. If you have to manage registers, bitmasks, complex bit-precise data structures, and weird non power of 2 bit sizes or even specific bounds constraints, you'll be in paradise.
Article summary:

+ Headline includes the inflammatory term "addiction" without support.

+ Inflammatory term "monopoly" is immediately followed, apparently without irony, by a paragraph exploring the many alternatives.

+ Article gives no factual support why alternatives are better, except for a condescending throwaway statement that "ten years of suboptimal habits" have prevented readers from knowing any better.

+ Author rants about implementation of emoji typing.

+ Article claims that GitHub leads to bad coding by discouraging people from thinking. No factual support.

+ Article shifts suddenly to an apparent moral obligation not to use GitHub. The best justification I found is the claim that by using GitHub, you encourage others to use GitHub, because it's a popular site and you make it more popular. Unclear where the morality lies in that argument.

I think the author doesn't like GitHub, but it's possible to make the point better. Don't insult your audience, don't assume your reader will take your main premise as a given, don't lean on rhetorical terms like "addiction" and "monopoly," especially without support, and do provide a common ground that acknowledges that others can see the same facts as you but reach different conclusions.
In mid 2022 I started doing what I called Facebookless Fridays.

Eventually that progressed to also on a Saturday afteroon-ish I'd update my status to "See You Noon Tuesday"* and then not do FB til noon Tue, in addition to FL Fridays.

It was odd at first. But then it's liberating in the sense you realize how much junkfood for the mind and soul it is. Mind you I'm not a 12 y/o but perhaps if it was a group / family effort you can pull back enough to develop healthier perspectives not based on SM and only SM?

* Yes, it's any intentional play on see you next Tuesday ;)
While I wouldn't dream of posting ChatGPT content, here are some questions you could give to ChatGPT to a make this all a fair bit clearer:

First, what is an expectation value, as defined in the field of statistics?

Second, is there some reason an expectation value wouldn't behave like a strange attractor from dynamical systems theory and sort of wander about, rather than settle down to a precise value?

Third, what's the connection (if any) between conditional probability and expectation values?

For the first example, a more interesting real world-problem would be one where the total number of different outcomes (toys) is unknown - say, counting the number of species of beetle that exist on planet Earth by steadily sampling all the habitats one can find - how long would the tails be?

Variations of the latter examples might be odds that vary over time in conjunction with costs-of-entry that vary over time - what's the acceptable range of odds & costs to justify playing with some expectation of at least coming out even? That's a bit more like real-world markets.
> edit: pretty sure the thing I was responding to has been stealth edited away. @dang any news when you'll get a release showing a parent has been edited after being responded to in some way? Then at least we'll know they should have stuck an "edit: " description or something.

I do believe you’re confused.
Bars seem like a more expensive "pay to play" than apps in my opinion.