skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Glad to hear it. :)

A couple tips I forgot, some of which may increase the all-important "wife acceptability coefficient":

- carbon tends to get saturated pretty quick, so in regular use I would replace the (cheaper) prefilter at least weekly, mask every 2-3 weeks

- testing may show you can get away with a non-carbon N95 and just the carbon prefilter; cheaper and the look may be found more acceptable

- carbon will immediately start adsorbing pollutants from ambient air, so keep all unused carbon in a sealed jar or sealed original packaging

- have fun with it! At Starbucks and pizza places I'm either Mr Snuffleupagus or Discount Darth Vader :D

- Corsi Boxes can be loud, so I use Low if people are around (High only for unoccupied space); shrouding or draping with fluffy towels can help too (hint: not the good towels)

- if you have forced air HVAC you might start out just using a MERV-13 filter in there; I prefer Filtrete 1900, but in general anything with many pleats = low pressure drop is better; most HVAC is not rated for large pressure drops across the filter

- I've had good success making an experimental "Carbon Corsi", taping two cheap 20x20 filters together with ~2 lb of replaceable aquarium carbon in the middle (change every ~two months) and taping that on top; this filters gaseous pollutants in the home, and can further muffle the box fan

(sorry, I swear this list was two items long when I started...)

Hope she can find some relief via your mutual efforts! Severe asthma can feel almost like a prison, so it's important to be extra kind and patient. Best of luck you guys
Had a brand new Seagate 2.5" hard drive fail after ~60 days of laptop use, back in 2010. I was a reasonably heavy desktop user, but scarcely a stress-tester, and I didn't have any memorable drop incident or accident that'd explain the failure, either (I was pretty careful with my machines). Retailer or manufacturer, I can't recall, replaced the drive (with a refurb) and I was able to recover some of the most important new data off the old drive as it failed, but it left me pretty unhappy.

still have a few mis-named files deep in my personal directories, 2 PCs and 3 Mac migrations later.
How about COBOL / DB2 / zOS? A lot of financial institutions use this and will for the foreseeable future. They cannot get enough COBOL devs.
Finland is in a much better spot than most US/EU pensions due to incredible natural resources per capita, high trust society, and low discretionary spending in non-public welfare areas. Some reform is probably required but nothing compared to the catastrophic situations in the US/EU. Fortunately.
So good, and not so easy at all esp. on mobile.
Thanks!
Stable diffusion (of bullshit).
I'ts like an electric circuit where the residual stream provides the concept of a feedback analogous to the trace in traced monoidal categories https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traced_monoidal_category.

Attention is a recurrence relationship that gets gradually pruned.
IDK about photography, but my kitchen skills drastically increased when I bought proper chef's knife and device to make it sharp.
>The fact that so many people choose to live in suburbs, or the "sticks", suggests that there is something desirable to _them_ about living there.

Many people I know would rather live in the city, but the upfront cost of a house in the suburbs are much lower.
They have! The ReAct[1] model, which is available in LangChain[2]. It can be quite powerful, especially when given access to search tools.

The user just sees the "Final Answer" / Finish response from the chain's execution, even if several invocations across different tools & model invocations were required

1: https://react-lm.github.io/

2: https://langchain.readthedocs.io/en/latest/modules/agents/im...
The comment uses a definition of average as scores within one standard deviation of the mean. (The comment also uses average as the mean score, 100, which makes it confusing--two meanings of average. NB: Mean is also median in normal distributions.)
That didn’t help a normie at all
It is reported that this employee's contract is meant to pay him, by means of his salary, for an acquisition. That may have been a bad way to structure the acquisition, but abrogating this agreement has much more liability associated with it than, say, stiffing the janitors. Not having paid in full for the acquired company, Twitter might not have the right to use acquired assets.

Elon shoots from the hip and jeopardizes Twitter's right to use not-fully-acquired IP. If there was anything stupider than "we changed an API and, shucks, stuff broke" this would be it.
> There are plenty of cases in real-world code where an array that's part of a struct or object may or may not contain any elements. If you're just parsing input into that, it seems like you'd either still end up doing an equivalent of checking whether the array is empty or not everywhere the array might be used later, even if that check is looking at an "array has elements" type flag in the struct/object, and so you're still maintaining a description of ways that the input may be invalid.

You only check it if it makes a difference to validity or not. There's no scenario where you keep the array and a parallel flag - either an empty array is invalid in which case you refuse to construct if it's empty, or an empty array is valid in which case you don't even check. Same thing for if you're checking whether it's got an even number of elements, got less than five elements, etc. - you don't keep the flag around, you refuse to construct your validated structure (even if that "validated structure" is actually just a marker wrapper around the raw array, if your type system isn't good enough to express the real constraint directly).
Why does the mode matter? We are discussing cost, which is related to the the number of retirees. The average lifespan tells you how many people you can expect to be retired at a given moment, the mode tells you... what exactly?
The knife cuts both ways. Just as these stories exist, there are plenty of folks who have fell into life changing or generational wealth through equity comp. Treat it for the lottery ticket it is.
We'll just advertise it on Google.
Please fix it.

Until you are able to successfully do so, the rest of us will work on other solutions.
Cops are one of the offenders, but make no mistake, teachers' unions are up there as well. There's no one particularly bad abuser of the pension systems; the system itself was set up by either innumerate or corrupt individuals. Or perhaps both.

If I was a pension rep or director for the cops, teachers, firefighters, or whatever, best believe I would maximize my members' benefits to the maximum extent the law and guidelines allowed. That's really all that is happening with these unions. Sure, there is some corruption going on (when isn't there in any large organization, much less government agencies) that isn't helping matters, and there are idiots that are making things worse. But these issues are in the seriously tiny minority of the real problem: People who could not do math properly or were corrupt from the get-go set up an insane pyramid scheme built on ridiculous population growth and capital appreciation models, and no one wanted to stop the music for decades on end.

The most likely scenario by a WIDE margin is that pensioners are wiped out or forcibly restructured in a court of law, getting a small reduced fraction of their promised ("guaranteed") benefit. It just is. In America, we don't fix gradual issues - there is simply no incentive to do so. We ignore them until they blow up and then we do something about it. This sounds stupid, but it's perfectly rational on an individual level.
The parent comment originally advocated putting hardcore porn into all content, but was edited.
i'm not a red state / far right / pro-trump in any sense of the word. however, i don't think it is very unreasonable to extrapolate bit and see the potential for societal harm.

over the past three years the entire world was impacted by a dire health crisis where misinformation played a large role in distorting public perception. this has direct impacts on public health (people not wearing masks, refusing vaccines) and has spillover effect into other parts of people's lives (political polarization around said issues).

what you see as a pretty cool toy could also easily be abused as a giant round the clock fake news generator. it doesn't matter if the text is true or even makes any sense... an alarming amount of people will take anything they read as fact without investigating the sources. this can be done as is with chatgpt right now. it has obscenity filters sure, but fake news is trying to pass as legitimate reporting, so it will probably be framed in a tone that escapes the obvious filters they have.

then consider the implications for robotexting, phishing, automated bots that pretend to be you to customer service chats, social media bots, messaging app scammers. all of these things are currently problems that can cause harm both personal and societal... and chatgpt will make it easier and cheaper to scale them up to new levels.
As someone who does photography and videography, "Gear doesn't matter" is less about that the gear doesn't matter at all, but more that beginners tend to focus more on getting good gear rather than sharpening their skills, before they have the skill to use better/more advanced gear.

A bit like buying really good monitors for audio production before you really trained your hearing so you won't hear any difference between standard and really high quality monitors.

The "return on investment" for sharpening the basic skills in the beginning when learning a new subject is much more important than getting the latest and greatest gear, as that won't give you as much knowledge and experience since you won't really know why it is the greatest gear, and how to fully leverage it.

That's why people say "Gear doesn't matter", because in the beginning, it mostly doesn't. Just like "Premature optimizations is the root of all evil" doesn't mean absolutely all upfront optimizations are indeed evil. If you're sufficiently experienced, you'd recognize when it's premature vs not, when it's worth upfront investment vs not. But for a beginner, it's easier to remember a simple dogma, and let them figure out that it does matter a little bit, once you get better at your subject.
The Social Security tax rate is 12.4%, not 6%. The “employer contribution” exists solely as a mechanism to obfuscate how much tax is being taken out of people’s paychecks to pay for it.
> The Last of Us

I watched an episode and a half of that and gave up. Had enough of zombie movies. They're all the same.
Yes, that's what I've done for about a decade now, and apparently more and more people do as well (abstention is record high).

The thing is I distrust big corporations almost as much as I distrust big government, but at least, it's easier to move to a different company when one of them really sucks, provided there's a bit of competition.

With governments, there's no such thing, you're stuck with them for 5 years, and their power only keeps growing.

The French gov, like most others, basically only seeks more money and power over society. Whatever the ruling party.
My son has been playing various Mario games since age 5. He can hold his own on Mario Party and has finished Odyssey. When we were kids, I was playing GTA, Mortal Kombat etc, so my childhood wasn't necessarily a good example.

That being said, his reading and math abilities are quite good and we attribute that to videogames, and a healthy dose of Mo Willems books.
> The library didn't allow you to see the things (e.g. particular headers or options for those headers) that it didn't know to parse.

I typically design code around things like this with a sum type like:

data Header = KnownHeader1 | KnownHeader2 | UnknownHeader String String

Then I typically don't offer any extra support or extended functionality for the cases where the type is `UnknownHeader`.
How on earth do you even curate/create a huge collection like that? Do you really sign up and try? Do you crawl the web?

Either way, impressive work!
...in no small part because the brazen arrogance, sociopathic cruelty and shit-eating snark people like Elon possess signal them as alpha males in modern society, and people honestly think those qualities are necessary in innovators and leaders (although I suspect a lot of that is people projecting a power fantasy from their own misanthropic behavior.) That so many beta fanboys in this thread are white knighting for him is as ghastly as it is to be expected.

... and because this is Hacker News, yes I'm aware the "alpha/beta" male thing is based on a discredited model of wolf pack hierarchy but the meme was assimilated into popular culture anyway so it's true for people now even if it was never true for canines.
You can ask GPT what would be a result of executing a python program, for which a multiple step calculation is needed. It will readily output the result, with no thinking aloud.
>I can regularly find the same products cheaper on Amazon than local brick and mortar retailers, as well as online Walmart and other online venues.

Well duh, the Chinese gov subsidizes their products to crush American businesses. Amazon is apathetic because of exactly what you say. Price is all that matters.
I understand the financial need for a higher retirement age, but I also wonder about the viability of a single retirement age. Doing some jobs that are physically taxing is quite different from my comfortable desk job. Maybe this is where disability aid comes in? On the other hand my mental ability night decline and now I'm simply unemployable and wouldn't qualify for anything but unemployment. Such a hard and nuanced topic.
I've used it quite a bit while developing and it regularly gives very wrong answers. Sometimes giving me java code and then getting the library dependency wrong. Or giving a version for the dependency that doesn't even exist.

I've asked it questions about Demon's Souls while playing and it told me quite confidently that the NPC the Filthy Woman does not exist (she does).

It feels more like a parlor trick for children and it's forced me to waste extra time verifying what it tells me using secondary sources.
Network TV makes bad shows. They have a very different business model that basically boils down to ease of access where HBO is trying to differentiate their content.
> What are web developers designing ads for online casinos contributing?

In the context of this discussion, they're contributing tax revenue. Very important for pension plans!
What do you consider to be the difference?
I feel like this can be applied to most fields.

Do you need an IDE to write, for example, Java or C#? No. But it sure is nice! And you can do some pretty cool code analysis and refactoring with some good tools.

Do you need a jointer, a planer, a bandsaw, a CNC router, a … as a hobby woodworker? No. But it sure is nice to have the right tool for the job.

I’ve seen some pretty clever hacks by people to work around not owning a specific tool. They work great for a one-off. But you really need to learn your workflow and identify real bottlenecks and address them.

This post is a great reminder not just photography, but to a lot of things in life. :)
My somewhat libertarian take is that they themselves are best suited to judge what they should or shouldn't want.

Not that there isn't a time for trying to bring a different perspective. But we should do it with humility, rather than assuming they're just wrong or misguided.

So... yes "stop convincing them" is a valid argument. "convince them not to" is slightly shakier moral ground.
BCD is more accurate within the limits of the 8 digits.

For instance a binary '3' is inexact, but a BCD '3' is exact.

That means that currency transactions tend to work better as long as you can restrict the number of significant digits to less than the number of digits used in the BCD software.

I used to use North Star BASIC back in the early 80s. North Star BASIC's default number of digits was 8, but they also supplied 10, 12 and 14 digit BASIC along with the default. You used whichever one was required for accuracy in your application.
I really like the TAL, TALES, METAL syntaxes (also known as Zope Page Templates). There are implementations of these syntaxes in a wide variety of languages, the one I use most is the Python implementation known as Chameleon:

https://chameleon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
> why are they proposing to?

It depends on who you ask.

At first, macron is neoliberal. He doesn't believe in the role of the democratic representation in the economy, nor taxes nor wealth redistribution. On his first mandate, he deleted capital tax at the same time he lowered housing subsidies for the worse off. Today, he saves on social security to fund tax breaks.

Then some say it's "pantouflage", and he's pleasing future employers. Indeed, a lot of formerly high ranking politicians and civil servants ended up on the board of profitable companies. For example, Nicolas Sarkozy was hired on the board of Accor (Europe #1 hotel company). François Fillon, a former prime minister, joined the board of a Russian state owned oil company after he lost a presidential election (he was a conservative and nationalist candidate). So politicians and regulators can just make financial companies happy to get a top job.

A third explanation is that poor workers won't vote for him anyway. Macron's party only rely on 20% of the voters. Raising retirement pleases them.

It's ok if he upsets the other 80%, as other political wings suffer from too many similar parties that compete (we had 3 trostskyist candidate during the last election, 1 communist, 2 socialists) so they number of voters get split. or they don't get along (traditional right wing was weak after the cases with Sarkozy and Fillon)
I agree the original comment was ambiguous. It's widely discussed that the incentives for suburban housing are the laws prohibiting high density, e.g. minimum parking requirements or zoning rules that just expressly ban tall buildings. But in theory you could get there by e.g. prohibiting parking areas, which is silly and pointless because the reason for the existing laws requiring them is that a free market would produce less of them than there are now.
There is a lot of brigading by Musk and his new right wing followers. Any criticism is immediately down voted or flagged.

Sad to see how easily HN is gamed.
Yes, Several other EU countries had right (in some cases very far right) nationalist political groups which worked with Nigel Farage's UKIP in the EU's parliament, on and off, and saw Brexit as a great way to show their people what was possible... right up until it became apparent that "what was possible" was economically destructive and suddenly that wasn't on their agenda any more.
I get the sense that ChatGPT crosses a complexity threshold where there’s no good way to describe how it works that satisfies everybody, and that’s leading to cyclical stories of the form “everyone else describes it wrong, so here’s my take.”

As a heuristic, I see descriptions falling into simple buckets:

- stories that talk about tokens

- stories that don’t talk about tokens

Anything discussing technical details such as tokens never seems to really get around to the emergent properties that are the crux of ChatGPTs importance of society. It’s like talking about humanity by describing the function of cells. Accurate, but incomplete.

On the other hand, higher-level takes happily discuss the potential implications of the emergent behaviours but err on the side of attributing magic to the process.

I haven’t read much, to be fair, but I don’t see anyone tying those topics together very well.
> Disciplined appetites sharpen the mind

Do you have a source for that? To what extent is the mind "sharpened" by putting off snacks?
In 7th grade I went to a program for kids with advanced test scores, and met a kid who talked about math the entire time. He challenged me by asking what the most boring number was, and I was very pleased with myself to say that the most boring number couldn’t exist because it would therefore be interesting due to that trait.

The interaction and his name stuck in my mind, even as I entered an era of underachievement. Today he has a handful of degrees, including a PhD/DPhil in Mathematics at Oxford. He has no recollection of or interest in our short meeting that remains lodged in my memory.
The EU losing the UK is like NATO losing France.

France was an original founding member of NATO but partially withdrew in 1966 for reasons not unlike the UK leaving the EU, populist nationalism. They returned 43 years later.

My guess is that Scotland will leave the UK and join the EU. Maybe in 50 years a rump England will apply to re-join.
I think the parent comment is being overly reductive for rhetorical effect, but not necessarily wrong. At the end of the day, social security programs are an abstraction across the demographics of working people vs non-working people. And you only get more working people by giving birth to them.

All the retirement savings won't make a difference if there is no one to spend them on. If the population is expected to decline, then you better hope your retirement investments are going into technology that can yield sufficient future productivity gains.

It's apparent if you just think about the farm labor required to produce food, which can't be stored as easily and long term as money. (On that note, maybe the best retirement strategy is a whole bunch of kerosene and shelf stable foods...)

Edit: As said elsewhere in the thread, I fully agree that the problem is due to children being too expensive, not that people just expect the government to take care of them.
What do you mean? Everyone gets paid to serve ads, right? Otherwise, why are you serving ads?

Not that I disagree with the accountability. Google and the other platforms are royally irresponsible.
The common consensus, ay? Is this that same "common consensus" that ASSURED us that a lab leak in Wuhan was a ridiculous idea for the origin of Covid-19?

Fair views on Brexit are hard to have in general but the idea the "common consensus" (or more specifically, the media consensus) is giving a fair one is nonsense.
> I want my food to match my biological expectations, one of the largest being sweet = I just took in quick calories

Except for that your biological expectations should be that sweet foods are relatively slow calories. We've co-evolved over millions of years to get sugar from fruit and other complex carbs. Refined sugar has only existed for a couple thousand years, and has only been ubiquitous for a few hundred years.

To the extent that your body is expecting a quick rush of calories after eating something sweet, that's only because your body is very reactive based on your prior eating habits, not because that makes any sense from an evolutionary perspective.
Why is the pay so bad then ?
Most of the time you avoid having booleans in the first case, in favour of polymorphism (e.g. rather than having an "addOrMultiply" flag, you have separate "Add" and "Multiply" classes with a polymorphic method that does the addition or multiplication). You probably need some conditional logic in your "parser" (and whether that's "if" or pattern matching isn't so important IMO), but you should push booleans out of your core business logic and over to the edges of your program.
Musk and right wingers are brigading and gaming the system. HN is easily gamed in this way, just like any social media.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/charliewarzel/how-the-a...