skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, to be specific, the platform was oriented towards test practice and our objective was to recommend questions in a sequence.

One good strategy that correlated with session length for us was asking questions that were neither too difficult or easy, based on what we knew of the user's level at that instant. The post hoc analysis was really meant to dig into multiple user sessions and see if the current method was working and evaluate counterfactual strategies.

I imagine the Uptrain product could help us segment user cohorts, find out which ones aren't performing super well etc. Would love to hear what you ended up building too?
Is it vim in all 3 categories?
The SALT tax cap in the Trump-era tax reform was both progressive (less state subsidies for property taxes on high-value homes), and hit Democratic-leaning states harder (since they tend to have higher home prices). So movement toward a less regressive taxing regime. But I don't expect an across-the-board reduction in the mortgage interest deduction. The same ideological components to home ownership are at play. And construction is a very large employer as well.
This is one of many free replacements for google groups. I have been using that for years.

https://www.newsgroupreviews.com/eternal-september.html
>> May I ask, where are you from?

Not the OP, but I'm curious (sorry). What does provenance have to do with finding Banks accessible?

For the record, I'm Greek and I read most of my Sci-Fi in Greek translations. Banks was one of the first writers whose work I read entirely in the original English (the other two were Terry Pratchett and Jeff Noon, both of which I started reading around the same time as Banks). I don't remember ever feeling that his writing was inaccessible, not even Feersum Engine, discussed in the sibling comments, and which was his first I ever read. At the time my English was not too good, so, like I say, I'm curious, why do you ask the OP where they're from? Is it because of the Scottish thing you mention below?

Reading your other comments here you say you met him many times. I'm envious! Me and my friend who have both read all his books (and all the M-less books also) managed to mix up the dates and miss his visit to the town we lived at the time. That was a couple of years before he died. I hate being a fan girl but I've always felt a certain regret for never having met the guy. Or Pratchett. I'm the worlds' worst fan :)
Absolutely fantastic presentation.

Sad that gaming these days has devolved into the state it has. I love gaming, and have loved gaming since I got a SNES at age 5. Micro-transactions suck, and constantly make me feel like I'm paying to let the developer get away with not finishing the actual game, rather than me paying for a fully developed game.

Nintendo, in this case, is being fucking lazy by allowing this to tarnish their brand - they are owned by 1. a family that is probably worth a few hundred million (the Yamauchi family) and has no need for a quick buck, and 2. the Saudi PIF, which has trillions of dollars at its disposal and zero need for a quick buck.

To this day I play almost zero mobile games, the one exception is the LiChess app, which is free and has zero IAPs. Occasionally I'll do the daily New York Times Crossword mini and Wordle, which is also free.

Disclaimer: when the game in question came out, I put a few good hours into Mario Kart Tour, and enjoyed the core game itself, but hated the lootbox experience.

On a complete side note: does anyone else feel that gaming, especially since the advent of mobile gaming, has really changed for the worse? It seems nobody plays together anymore, which was a big part of my childhood, teenage, and college years.
I think this will occur with free AI based search, since it would be a similar business model to Google (if not more bias/intrusive)

The alternative (which I think in todays age vs when google came out, is more readily accepted by the masses), will most likely be a subscription-based tool that caters to specific niches and avoids product placement.

But to what I think your point is, the further removed one is from the original docs/content/etc, the more likely/able some middleman is to inject their own economic/political incentives, which is of concern. Especially when AI has a political bias, regardless of where it originates.
By epmd do you really mean all of dist?

The common wisdom on dist is drastically wrong. I was at WhatsApp and going to Erlang conferences and people would say don't run dist clusters with more than N hosts (N ~~ 100), and we were running dist clusters with 10N.

You probably want to adjust socket buffers and dist buffers.

WhatsApp did use something they called wandist to provide cross-cluster connections and more specifically to determine which clusters communicated with which other clusters. That's useful if the node counts are high enough and memory per node low enough that socket buffers are significant and you have a lot of nodes that don't communicate with each other; dist wants to make a full mesh, but you might be able to avoid it other ways? Wandist was also useful because pg2:join had scaling challenges because of contention on cluster-wide locks from the global module, but the new pg (originally contributed by WhatsApp) addresses that. Wandist also added regional affinity for the cross-cluster equivalent of process groups, and as mentioned below, reliable messaging layered on top of multiple connections.

Dist doesn't hide any imperfections of your network though. If you routinely have tcp connections that can't make progress, you will have dist reconnects and have to deal with the unknowns there (wandist layered multiple connections and reliable messaging on top of dist, if a connection stopped functioning, messages would be sent on a second connection; at the cost of using more memory). If your network gets throughput limited, you can see net_adm:ping times of tens of minutes, which is exciting too. All that said, you really do want a reliable network when running distributed systems of any flavor, and building mostly reliable networks is possible, but it's a choice. You'll still need to deal with ocassional issues even with a mostly reliable network; WhatsApp used to routinely catch network problems at our hosting provider before they did; and we had to build a lot of blackbox monitoring and diagnostics for their network.
That's because they are all addicted to other apps.
Have you been to China? Or are you just making this shit up from never having been to China or learned anything about its recent history?

Do you actually think that the level of anti-China propaganda in western media is nearly the same as the level of anti-western propaganda in China over the last 6 years?

How much propaganda did you drink to even reply the way you did?
Thank you, I knew that derivatives were used in gradient descent, but automatic differentiation is new to me. The Wikipedia article is fairly opaque compared to what I learned in school, but this tidbit stood out:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_differentiation#Impl...

Source code transformation (SCT): the compiler processes source code so that the derivatives are calculated alongside each instruction.

Operator overloading (OO): operators are overridden so that derivatives are calculated for numbers and vectors.

Based on the state of software these days, I'm guessing that OO (the "bare hands" method) is what's mainstream. It would be far better IMHO to use SCT, since it's a universal solution that doesn't require manually refactoring programs.

But stuff like SCT might be considered metaprogramming, which seems to have fallen out of fashion. I grew up with C++ macros and templates, so I feel that this is somewhat tragic, although readability and collaboration are much better today. A modern example might be something like aspect-oriented programming (AOP):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect-oriented_programming

I once used the AOP library AspectJ to trace a Java app's execution, since Java made the (unfortunate) choice to focus on objects rather than functions, which makes it generally a poor fit for data processing, due to its high use of mutable state within objects (mutable state is what limits most object-oriented projects to around 1 million lines). Meaning that I couldn't remember the program's context as I was stepping through it, and had to analyze traces instead. AspectJ allows one to hook into the code without modifying it, sort of like a debugger, so that stuff like function calls and variable mutations can be watched:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AspectJ

https://www.eclipse.org/aspectj/doc/released/progguide/index...

Looks like this might still be an open problem in Python:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12356713/aspect-oriented...

https://docs.spring.io/spring-python/1.2.x/sphinx/html/aop.h...

But it seems like SQL would be a good candidate for AOP:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12271588/aspect-oriented...

https://technology.amis.nl/it/aspect-oriented-programming-ao...

If we had that, maybe we could automatically generate derivatives for the set operations. Then either access them as variables in stored procedures, or possibly as something like views or via metadata stored somewhere like MySQL's INFORMATION_SCHEMA.

I don't really know, but maybe these breadcrumbs could be helpful.
> I don't see the use-case in something that have a very low trustworthiness and is in fact a solution looking for a problem but creates more problems than it solves.

You just described the majority of tech projects.
Land assembly is a huge hassle, of course. But I know HSR is going up through San Jose, and possible to SF too, and will likely get to some point in LA. I don't think they can't build there, just that it's taking longer.

For example, the San Jose to Merced section had its environment impact report approved "recently":

https://hsr.ca.gov/high-speed-rail-in-california/project-sec...
The first really good image generators for faces (see for example https://this-person-does-not-exist.com ) used GANs, which were trained by having one model generate faces and another model saying bullshit, that isn't a face.

I'm not worried about using approaches like this to converge on truth (model A generates an answer to a question, model B attempts to refute model A). Perhaps we could train model A to generate lies that model B can't detect.
Average business loans in the euro area are around 4% as of December 2022, though governments are still raising rates. As long as these unreasonable profit margins are higher, it would make sense to get one, and I'm not sure anything under 15% profit (much higher than current govt bond rates) could be considered unreasonable. I started manufacturing candles during the pandemic with only a few thousand dollars up front and those things can get 50% margins which is insane.

I understand that monopolies and barriers to entry can exist. The government should be much more focused on eliminating those rather than central planning through things like pensions that are shockingly complex and have a penchant for unintended consequences. I believe in a social safety net but markets with a little guidance can do most of the government's work for it and avoid be better at avoiding a ton of pitfalls like runaway inflation.
Boy I lost track of all the Ruby Jit attempts.

According to the computer language shootout all micro-optimizations
Haha I think that's a common keto response.

Person 1: I do keto

Person 2: I just eat <moderate/balanced/adequate/healthy/clean>

This seems to imply to person 1 that person 1 could do the same, which is often not true. Ketogenic diets have a whole bunch of benefit that no amount of moderation/balance will get to a person with those issues.

So ketoers often take issue with such comments when they seem to imply to be just as useful for dealing with said issues.
First you have to make it easier to conduct experiment on before you can get more understanding.

If 1GPa is all that is needed, then yes this is a big breakthrough that can lead to wider research and more understanding.
And your "everyone knows" is an "appeal to the people" falacy. The grid operator in the UK certainly thinks it is possible to have a 100% renewable grid.

Although I guess that the political situation in the USA precludes a rational policy. Every argument turns into a culture war sooner or later. The opposition is criticised for moral weakness (child slave battery) whilst your own side are blameless victims.
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Residents need jobs. Alaska is one of the most beautiful states in the country, but there are relatively few opportunities for work. If there were more jobs, more people would consider moving to Alaska.

We got a taste of this effect when remote working became common. A lot of people moved to other states and cities they wouldn't or couldn't live in before when they were expected to live near the office. But of course remote working isn't possible for many industries, particularly for blue collar labor, so if you want those people to move into your area, you need to have job opportunities to offer them.
I have a theory related to google products - they can only exist if they can capture user data in a manner that is unique compared to their other products.
> Think you need to separate between Russia and the Putin regime. Putin and his friends/oligarchs/corrupted officials/KGB agents have kept the regular russians very very poor.

What is the difference between the people and the regime? The GOP lost elections; they voted in Obama, and later Biden. Control of the House and Senate changes, or is often perilously close.

There is no such change in Russia. There is only the regime, and it's grasp on the country is stronger than ever.

> Or from a potential civil war in US, that is the source of most progress and new technology in the world?

the only ones who think civil war is a real possibility in the US are foreign intelligence types pushing for destabilization, or a handful of GOP politicians trying to ride the hard right for their advantage. for all of the Texas will be independent grandstanding, it's just that -- grandstanding.
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The low hanging fruit always comes first. Sure, you and I could whip it together in an afternoon, but for non-tech people these simple tools are very handy since they put a UI on an API.
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This is a pretty crazy incident. How does something like this even happen on the technical side?
> and not usually low cost

> they share more construction techniques with a cheap two-story row apartment.

Low in cost, high in price, builders love it.

I discussed this issue a bit with someone who worked for a company that focused on affordable housing, and he told me a "joke": what's the difference between a regular condo and a luxury condo? The price.
This is about 10,000x standard pressure. CRTs operate at 0.0000001x standard pressure, for reference -- they implode.

For example if superconductivity is desired from a 1 square inch (6.5e-4 m^2) footprint of this material, a weight of 6.5e5 N must fully rest on that footprint. Near the surface of earth that translates to a mass of approximately 146,000 lbs. Something like the mass of 3 tanks.
Ask HN: What information would you want to see on Job Description that you don't
Hey HN,

Similar to resumes, traditional job descriptions feel outdated. There is a lack of standardization in the industry, some mention compensation, some mention hard requirements, some are more flexible in requirements.

I'm curious if you were to build a job description standard, what types of fields would you want included? Some ideas of the top of my head:

- Compensation Bands

- If hard requirements are present, an explanation of why (i.e we don't have capacity for mentorship, so we are looking for X years of work experience)

- LinkedIn of the hiring manager

- LinkedIn of the existing team

- A detailed over of the interview pro
cess

Would love to know what others think!
It not only kills dogs, it only takes a small amount to do so.

I keep some in the house double bagged to use in a neti pot when I’m sick (it’s also a good decongestant!), but there’s no way I’d willingly buy any food with it. It’s just too risky.
The problem with USENET is spam. Moderation can be a burden. I suppose Google has some systems in place to mitigate this.
We mechanically pollinate plants all the time, it’s not the end of our ability to feed ourselves. I think people are ignorant to and are overestimating how difficult it is to make pollen blow in the air or transfer using mechanical means.
Got it. The article didn’t go into such details, only mentioned “Pic, or it didn’t happen” part, thus my question.

PS: I’d say the article was poorly written, but now I wonder why it’s flagged? It seems HN users nowadays are ways more hot-tempered than in the past.
I remember how many mods for phpBB were installed by literally doing find/replaces on the source files. Absolutely insane we had people out there doing that who didn't know any PHP!
This write up of it [0] tries to address that a little but I agree that all the scrutiny is deserved and should continue.

"The previous paper has been resubmitted to Nature with new data that validates the earlier work, Dias says. The new data was collected outside the lab, at the Argonne and Brookhaven National Laboratories in front of an audience of scientists who saw the superconducting transition live. A similar approach has been taken with the new paper. "

[0] https://phys.org/news/2023-03-viable-superconducting-materia...
Google groups will never die because Google uses it to manage internal mailing lists.
Why not Discourse? It has 34% of the discussion market now
Was a cultural superpower. 100 years ago India was speaking british english, but now they're speaking american english, and watching american movies.
We have alerts set up that expect metrics for things like "orders placed" to always be happening at expected rates.

When datadog has the very rare outage that breaks ingestion, all of our alerts would normally go off because we aren't seeing the expected volume of "orders placed" and open up StatusPage incidents for us and our customers, call the pagers and get folks working.

But instead they automatically stop any false alerts that would normally alert here because of their outage. Saves me a lot of headaches.

It is stuff like this why I am happy paying the Datadog bills. Even their outages are good.
I don't think it's about sharing air. It's about the duct being in the wall at all.
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> don't allow for partial application

Unfortunately, partial application doesn't work in Python, the same way it works in Haskell. If a function has 3 args, calling `f(x)` is a guaranteed runtime `TypeError`. There is functools.partial to hack it into the language for cases where you absolutely need it but overall it's bad developer experience. In fact, when I do need to partially apply `f(x, y, z)` I much prefer doing `g = lambda y, z: f(fixed_x, y, z)` because it's clearer than using functools.partial.
> Almost all the things they've told us are being recycled just get dumped in the ocean in China.

Post-consumer recycling is quite poor, but post-industrial recycling is much better because they don't have to sort out random junk. Many battery plants already recycle the batteries that fail validation.

Cars are recycled quite thoroughly. In the US: 99% of lead acid batteries are recycled. 95% of vehicles are recycled, and of those 95%, 80% of the materials in the vehicle are recycled. (mostly steel).
It's really bizarre that state sovereignty is just considered a business practice. No it's not a "modern invention" to "enact" borders. Nor does labor organizing have anything to do with its enforcement. Corporate-centric culture doesn't do well in explaining the world. I'd suggest a less narrow viewpoint.
I think it also depends on the types of sugars. I can seem to tolerate way more lactose and still maintain ketosis, for example.

Plus there are different "levels of ketosis" and I'm not sure there's much research on it. E.g. my Non-24 is in remission even when I eat more of a VLCD. My ketones aren't as high but it works just as good for my purpose. I don't know if that level would be enough for an epileptic, for example, or someone who gets other benefits from keto.
Doesn’t sound like getting their jobs back. It sounds like everyone is free to apply to any roles that are open and interview like anyone else.
With a security-minded setup, Ubiquiti would not be able to grant remote access. Whether they actually have a security-minded setup or not is the question. As a user of their stuff, I have remote access disabled. I can access everything I need through Home Assistant, which is completely controlled by me.
Absolute numbers are not very useful. You want to look at per capita statistics, which the link I posted does. It's worth a read.
Sounds like the industry hashed this out and we ended up with a system that might be a little complicated but is broadly acceptable to people. What do you see the barrier being for movies and video games?

And why not have everyone pay it? If you offer free licensing then you pay nothing. Open Source and commercial SaaS will have no fees. If you want people to have to pay for licensing then you set the price by paying some percent of the price you want to set annually. We can even have first 20 years free so small artists don’t get bought out by huge corps.
You guys are getting them only every other post?

The default feed I get is at most two posts from people I follow, and then only ads and weird shit.

There's a minor mitigating factor: if you tap on Instagram logo, it will show a drop down letting you switch to a chronological timeline from accounts you follow. You have to force-refresh it though because by default it refreshes perhaps once an hour.
I found the following paper actionable: "If Money Doesn't Make You Happy Then You Probably Aren't Spending It Right"[1].

> The relationship between money and happiness is surprisingly weak, which may stem in part from the way people spend it. Drawing on empirical research, we propose eight principles designed to help consumers get more happiness for their money. Specifically, we suggest that consumers should (1) buy more experiences and fewer material goods; (2) use their money to benefit others rather than themselves; (3) buy many small pleasures rather than fewer large ones; (4) eschew extended warranties and other forms of overpriced insurance; (5) delay consumption; (6) consider how peripheral features of their purchases may affect their day-to-day lives; (7) beware of comparison shopping; and (8) pay close attention to the happiness of others.

[1]: https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/danielgilbert/files/if-mon...
All of that already happens without open borders, it just costs us more money to maintain.
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Not necessarily -- if the drive was found and decrypted after the exploit was leaked and made public (perhaps YEARS after it being a 0-day), it wouldn't necessarily be a skilled attack.
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After a bit of googling, the yield strength of some common materials is within striking distance of 1GPa (many steels are 0.25 GPa, silicon carbide is 3.4 GPa [1]). So perhaps it could be possible to embed this superconductor in a highly stressed supporting structure to provide the pressure.

Not useful for cabling, but this could conceivably be used for room temperature SQUIDs [2], paving the way to cheap MRIs.

[1] https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/young-modulus-d_417.html
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQUID
I dunno. I only follow tattoo artists on ig now and log on once a month or so to think about my next tattoo and also to laugh at the DMs my partner sent me from weeks earlier. I’m quiet quitting ig I guess?
PHP got blamed for because it handed developers guns to shoot themselves in the foot with.