skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey thanks, this is great.

I have a simple py script I am trying to deploy to small team that does some web scraping and slicing/dicing of data from internal repositories. I had been starting to learn PyQT but it was really overkill for what I needed to do, which was a simple menu of options and input/output file selection.

A lot of HN devs don't realize this truth about working in industries that have not historically been software-focused:

It’s a brutal reality, but if you’re the sole person in your group who’s figured out enough to:

Install Python, and use it to run command line scripts,
Run Cygwin or the Linux Subsystem for Windows on your work Windows machine,
Get your hands on a Linux machine/VM for writing scripts,

…then you’re probably the most experienced software engineer in your group. If your coworkers aren’t software engineers, it’s a huge lift to get all of your coworkers to understand command lines, Unix systems, and virtual machines.
Meta is going to try to get you to pay for more stuff, and Apple is going to show you more ads. These companies are in the business of making money. The end is when marginal profit goes to 0.
Well it can't have happened more than 6 times since illegal moves counted as a forfeit and it only lost 6 games.
I wonder how it would perform if you feed it a comprehensive chess rulebook, and to avoid all the illegal moves possible
You are absolutely right, most of the business schools are just became a business and they are doing nothing.
> There are of course always methods for determining who gets care, but at least as far as the UK goes, anyone who is legally resident in the UK can walk into a hospital and get largely the same healthcare as anyone else.

They are allowed the privilege of a multi-year waiting list for basic procedures (unless they happen to be high enough socially to rub elbows with doctors.)
Your point seems muddled. If the majority of costs come from the last 18 months of care why does it matter if those last months occur at age 50 with heart disease or 70 with cancer? 18 months is 18 months.

Your point seems to rather be that some diseases are cheaper to treat than others, or that the total area under the cost-life curve is driving the cost, not just the last few months.
I agree somewhat. But still JVM GC works ok for several other languages (Clojure, JRuby, Scala, Kotlin etc).
For me when I tried it, it forgot the board half way thru and decided there were no more moves possible (4 left). Then forgot one of my moves.

It is an NLM it does not have the ability to reason. In my case the NLM 'next iteration' was a half a game with a missing move and 'nothing left to do'.
It hasn’t been useful for some while sadly. Moderation is so aggressive that they seemed to have forgotten the purpose of the site is to help people.

Quite a lot of the existing content is outdated or unclear. Also good luck writing a question that is both acceptable and there’s someone who knows an answer…
What concerns me in that sentence and OpenAI's decisions is that there is zero consideration for democracy in it. It is such a 19th-century elitism and rule of might thinking, that because we have power we also have right to impose our correct rule on the society at will.

No. They shouldn't have the might nor the right, even if taking them away would end in a global thermonuclear war. We might as well start a global thermonuclear war than them having such a sole in-democratic power.
Basically. I'm not sure I'm losing much efficiency, my previous approach was contacting friends who know how to do math in programming, sometimes it could days before I could move past the issue. And the result is the same, ending up with a piece of code I mostly understand, but struggled to write myself so the knowledge is fleeting at best.

Just to be clear, the context here is me writing games for fun, while struggling with the math heavy parts. I would never professionally use GPT4 for anything, and wouldn't push anything to production that I don't 100% understand, that would be failing at my profession and I take bigger pride in my work than that.

But for fucking around with games in my free time, it has made me a lot of efficient at the parts I'm struggling with.
Silicon Valley Bank went broke, but not because it was woke
Right, that was an unfortunate choice of words. It's not missing, but leads to (IMO) a proliferation of under-specified text-based data and stream exchange formats.

Having human-readable text as the lowest common denominator is a laudable goal. Shell scripting would however probably be improved if most tools offered alternative typed streams, or something similar. I am not convinced Powershell's approach is the best, but their approach is at least interesting.
This is a very good thread geolocating this video but the answer as to why it shows contact is here:

https://twitter.com/GeoConfirmed/status/1636749222195101696
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Early in my career I referenced your article on the js module pattern constantly, and referred it to several team members. I still use it to this day on some occasions. Cheers!
How First Republic became such a hot mess
What experiment would you run to determine if a given text input / text output interface had an "internal understanding of chess"?
I believe it was Discrete Logic out of Chicago that made 3d studio before the tragic buyout by autodesk.
Almost every job (fulltime and contract) that I've had was due to someone reading an article on my site and then asking me if i'd like a job.
Landed a co-founder position after writing about something topic relative, after an intro from someone in my network. Was contacted by a big tech recruiter on linkedin after seeing my blog and ended up with a great job.
I was thinking that if high voltage power lines produce a magnetic field, perhaps a magnetic field can influence energy in cells? Again, it's an idea inspired by the interview I heard.

https://www.epa.gov/radtown/electric-and-magnetic-fields-pow...
Glad to hear it, feel free to post results / feedback on Zulip! On #oil-help or #oil-discuss-public, etc.
The thing that doesn't know anything will still take your job.
> React function components are not constructor functions though, so I don't see how those are relevant

I'm giving an example of whats a normal use case of closures. Running a single function once that creates closures that run zero, one, or multiple times is "normal". Running a single function multiple times that creates closures that run one time and get ignored all other calls of the function is not.
That's USCF ratings, chess.com ratings are massively inflated in comparison.
Besides the limestone filtering, I wonder if another reason for using branch water from upstream is that it is less likely to contain farm or animal runoff.
And yet kids who are gaining rating quickly can and do still occasionally (albeit rarely) make illegal moves at 1400. I know because I've played them (and was one, many years ago).
Years ago, I took a Triplebyte test and at the end of it learned critical (and accurate) insights on my strengths and weaknesses. I realized if I can screen my candidates in this same way, they will be incredibly valuable employees.

After confirming the skill-ranking capabilities with our first hires, we integrated Triplebyte into our hiring process to save developers hours of wasted time on pointless coding exercises that are thrown away after each interview only to start over again with the next company. This was an advantage for us, we had a better signal to noise ratio on candidates and we found more talent willing to take a triplebyte test than our own in-house tests. Further, the triplebyte tests were maintained and refined over the years to an accuracy I believe is going to be very difficult to replace.

Yesterday, Karat announced a shutdown of Triplebyte with less than 2 weeks notice. They don't care to offer a solution to any of Triplebyte's customers. In their words they "only purchased a technology that Triplebyte made available to other companies" i.e. "we don't want anyone else using this".

The Karat website uses floaty words like "interview cloud" and emphasizes live-coding interviews as part of some legacy product that would put us back into the stone ages when it comes to our current hiring process. Karat expressed no intention on offering solutions to replace what Triplebyte did best. Karat do not care about the inconvenience of their customers. Karat provides less than two weeks notice to paying customers that they are cancelling service.
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Are you confused at the idea that someone might do something for fun?
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Could that have been across from what is now Earthbound Beer? If so, they hand-dug all the debris out of the cave and you can pretty easily get a tour. The owner said the cave under the cave is off limits b/c they almost ran out of air while exploring it.
The sun being classified as a yellow dwarf does not mean it's "only yellow hot". You can observe that by going outdoors and holding up a white piece of paper and noting it is not yellow in sunlight.

powered by a nuclear explosion

Not quite accurate. The nuclear fusion going on inside the sun's core is not an explosion. In a nuclear explosion, a significant fraction of the fuel in a given area is consumed in an instant. The sun's core on the other hand only fuses its fuel extremely slowly. Pound for pound, the sun's core generates less heat energy than mammalian muscle tissue. It's just that there's so much of it that the heat energy is extremely well insulated.
There's plenty of things assumed untreatable 50 years ago which are common place to treat now. What's your point?

We also used to treat "female hysteria" with sexual abuse and orgasms, homosexuality with castration, and so on.

Also not everything is immediately structural. Someone who kills because they've been indoctrinated to hate women by the incel movement isn't the same as the person with a head injury who struggles to control anger and a lack of empathy.

I'd argue neither are punishable, but treated either with a view to rectify or to at least give the poor soul a dignified restriction from being able to act freely.

Granted there will be plenty of people you can't treat, that doesn't make them any less poorly.
Good ole' negativity bias at work here...
Babesiosis, a tickborne disease, is on the rise in Northeast, according to CDC
Counterpoint: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GOwxXj1EIXM&pp
OpenSIPS Security Audit Report is fully disclosed and out there (VoIP security)
The full OpenSIPS Security Audit report is published, with all details on how to reproduce the vulnerabilities found, root cause analysis and methodology used
The right direction is to give GPT access to any tool, not just Python.

This includes giving GPT access to neural nets so it can train them.
Several things:

– The laws of physics are essentially time-symmetric, and they have no concept of causation or of a preferred direction of time. In principle, the future causes the past as much or as little as the past causes the future. Physics effectively only says they have to be consistent with each other, as related by the laws of physics.

– The apparent directionality of time that we perceive is suspected to be tied to the entropy gradient we are on. See the “past hypothesis” for example [0].

> Does this essentially mean that all states in time already exist and our consciousness is just traversing this 4D space in one direction on the time axis?

– I would say that all moments in time are equally real, including our consciousness at any given moment. There is no actual flow or “travelling”. The flow we perceive is merely an illusion caused by the fact that we only remember the past and not the future (which again may just be a consequence of the entropy gradient we are on). This is known as the “block universe”, or as “eternalism” [1]. The opposing view that only the current moment is real, and that the future differs from the past in its “realness”, is known as “presentism”.

– Note that any notion of “travelling” through time implies that you can draw a 2D diagram of where in time you are at each point in time, or which point in time is “real” at which point in time (in the sense that a moment in time isn’t real until time reaches that moment, but after that it is real and cannot be made unreal again), thus implying two dimensions of time. That doesn’t make any sense, and thus my personal conclusion is that the “presentism” view is nonsensical.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Past_hypothesis

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternalism_(philosophy_of_time...
Allow me to steal this bit of insight
Just saying, this is a pretty big spoiler.
my laptop's bluetooth has been broken under linux ever since it was released in 2015: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99371
> Now, if the lake is poisoned too much, people will avoid it.

The risk is that there are no other lakes and we are dependent on its fish to survive.
Trolling is a close flyby. Dumping fuel on another aircraft is an attack.
And all of this because we couldn't solve the GIL. If it's just a translation layer for a model to execute, I guess the GIL doesn't matter.
There's already people being scammed because they receive phone calls using a family member's voice and spoofed number.
>Can you really write a GC that performantly supports both Java and Go given the different tradeoffs/approaches each makes with respect to memory management, layout semantics, etc?

I mean, the Graal JVM GC supports a ton of languages, especially if you include their LLVM support. Many of them are quite high performance. Truffle Ruby I believe is still (one of if not) the fastest Ruby implementation(s).
1. Thanks for the comment! Go figure indeed haha.

2. I'd always recommend calling and keeping in touch with elderly loved ones. Some individuals however, may want additional quick non-verbal check-ins that this platform enables. Also, aging can be tough on the mental health of elderly people. With the loss independence on day-to-day activities and generally feeling like a burden to their loved ones, some individuals may prefer the 1-click check-in.

This platform allows for privacy, respect to any social threshold limitations and keeps the power of the response to the elderly individual through the simple 1-click SMS message.

Ultimately, I'm hoping to assist with dignified aging for the elderly with thoughtful - yet simple - systems.
Make news irginizations non profit. Gove them the same tax breaks that churches get. Then they dont have to worry about clicks to pay their staff.
It is not at all the same. Animating and painting works pretty much like it used to, but everything else, especially the scripting, changed quite drastically. And the result is barely usable or not at all (when we are talking about interactive aka games and such). Up to the point, where it is not worth it for me. I gave it a try again a couple of weeks ago and I struggled to get basic functionality running. And I know flash by heart and even have outside experience with easelJS, the new framework in use.
I don't think Medium has a lot of cachet at this point but I used to publish on my own blog and cross-post anything I thought have broader interest to Medium. Lately, I'm mostly on content marketing sites which have promotion machinery. I think this year I will start posting more on my personal Blogger site and do professional stuff on a new hosted Wordpress site.
I wanted GPT to help me write some code for unreal engine. I was very impressed with what it could do. It was able to write code that correctly utilized Quartz, an experimental plugin for queuing things on the audio thread. Which is awful impressive given that Quartz is super niche and doesn't seem to have basically any documentation around to train on for cpp code.

I presume it is because unreal engine is source available and the model has seen the whole damn thing.

I'm curious if it must be worse on unity, which is not source available.
The smaller the fish, the less mercury it has. The ones you have to watch out for are the big fish that eat lots of medium fish that in turn eat lots of smaller fish; each stage in the food chain concentrates more and more mercury. Sharks and tuna have a lot of mercury. And smaller tuna, like skipjack, have less mercury than larger tuna.

Also I think the threat of mercury in fish is greatly overstated anyway. Look at Japan; they eat tons of fish and they're not all brain damaged dummies.
> "Goofy problems [...] abound for a _long time_ with seemingly no solution" is the norm in desktop Linux.

Hey, it's still better than Windows:) To quote a bit from upthread,

>>i should add that this happens on both windows and linux but at least on linux i had a way of disabling LAR so my regulatory domain gets detected properly and all the wifi channels/widths works as they should.

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35199660)
I disagree, I think the comparison is pretty reasonable.

Your entire experience of the world is defined and limited by the fact that your brain "only processes information in one direction of time" (for lack of better wording). Your personal experience does not necessarily map correctly to the real world. The same is true for both examples.
If we reverse time and this implies running everything backwards in physics, do we include gravity in the set of things that are reversed? Then everything would fly off the face of the earth in reverse-time.
I find myself nodding in agreement.
They gotta get paid somehow
Ohh good idea. Will write it sometime.

If you're interested in the progress in animal tracking, I wrote a post summarizing some up and coming research here: https://writing.lambdaloop.com/posts/cv4animals-2021/
My daughter developed (non life-threatening) allergies to corn, eggs, and apples, all of which she had been exposed to plenty beforehand, so it's not necessarily that straightforward.
The Nolan film "Tenet" is based entirely around the idea of reversible causality.
The firmware industry has a variety of problems and "over-reliance on automated tests" is decidedly not among them.
No. I was literally charged full price just for consulting with my family doctor about my weight. The doctor at the time referred me to a nutritionist; the nutritionist coverage was further denied because I had no qualifying health conditions. There was another option for weight loss medication, not the kind that affects hormones but makes the stomach feel full. These were also denied because I was just fat, not diabetic, heart problem, etc.
> This is such a stupid, self-defeating policy for an insurer.

Quick, rank speculation:

100% of obese people don't go on to suffer from 100% of the potential risks of obesity.

Given the actual percentages, it may be cheaper for the insurance company to pay for (and, at least in part, deny!) actual treatment for those potential risks than to cover the vast majority of preventative doctor visits and labs.

Additional rank speculation-- I wonder if that problem gets worse as obesity numbers rise. E.g., symptom A necessitates a test for condition X, but symptom A plus obesity necessitates tests for condition X, Y, and Z...
No. The iPhone or anything Apple made fades in comparison.
Yep. Someone else already pointed out the well known counterargument to symmetry below regarding thermodynamics. You typically don't see scrambled eggs become whole again. I think that's pretty hard evidence to overcome.

Granted, I'm not a physicist and I'm sure any physicist working on this totally understands that. Just wanted to point it out.
> the theory that most peanut allergy is caused by no exposure in infancy is well supported by the evidence

The evidence supports this as one source of allergies. The cited study says 77% of such allergies may be sourced to lack of exposure, that still means almost 1/4 people with peanut allergies have them "naturally"
Also, this is the airgap / "explain your reasoning" step that AI safety people are so worried about.
https://archive.is/7PcTG

[EDIT]: actual letter : https://www.global-respect.win/
If it bleeds, it leads
Neat idea! Two nitpicks from reading the website:

> How does CodeParrot work

This part without a question mark is making me feel like I’m left hanging. If you don’t want a question mark, I would much prefer this to be “How CodeParrot works”.

> CodeParrot … What’s more? …

There’s no question mark where there should be one, and where I don’t expect one I do see one. Here it can be a simple comma instead of a question mark. This flow of language works if you’re speaking live to an audience but on paper it feels awkward.

It bothers me more than it should, mostly because of my reading cadence. Hopefully others can chime in and let me know if I’m off base here or not.
I've been blogging about programming since 2011. I can't say that it has had any direct career impact, although it hasn't hurt either.
I have kept writing because it helps me clarify my thoughts. I've also reviewed books and courses, and writing those reviews makes me learn the content much better.

There are other reasons too that I have written about in this post:

https://henrikwarne.com/2017/11/26/6-years-of-thoughts-on-pr...
Exactly! and it tells there is no need to pay that high for such business schools, one can easily learn those theoretical things from Internet.
* If you put a few splashes of paint on a canvas you get something that looks pretty interesting for a minute, but it's not the picture in your head, and after a while all splashes start to look the same.

* If you grab some pencils and scribble all over a page, you'll get something that looks interesting for a minute, but it's not the picture in your head, and after a while all scribbles start to look the same.

* If you throw some geometric shapes into blender and run a render, you'll get something that looks interesting for -ok maybe a couple of minutes-, but it's not the picture in your head, and after a while all geometric shapes start to look the same.

* If you throw a few tokens into a prompt and hit generate, you'll get something that looks interesting for -now maybe a couple of hours?- but it's still not the picture in your head, and after a while all generated images start to look the same.

Each time, if you want to actually get anywhere close to the picture in your head, you're going to need to practice, and you're going to have to learn the medium, and you'll have a lot of experiences along the way. "There's no mistakes, just happy little trees", right? But the actual path -and the happy little trees you experience along the way- will be rather different for canvas, pencil, blender, or stable diffusion.

Have you ever tried to hold a 7-dimensional, non-linear, chaotic landscape in your head whilst trying to resolve nightmare images of deformed limbs and eldritch landscapes?
these threads are funny. full of commenters confidently producing bullshit predicting "what the next few states of society, the job market, and white collar work are"

kinda ironic
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