skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> nobody really want or need tbh

I’ll raise my hand. Instead of going to Europe or Asia from the East Coast requiring a multi-day itinerary on account of the travel time, a straight in-and-out route would be more efficient. It should be extremely expensive. But there is legitimate demand for that travel, both for people and for freight (e.g. organs, custom-manufactured components, et cetera).
I am not sure that I would conflate the success of your course to mean much about the relative success of your startup.

I think there are a few other things to consider that are specific to your situation (as an outsider it's been interesting to watch). In my mind, your course has a few extra things going for it - one it's aspirational and people like to imagine the best version of themselves, two the solution you're selling people has the potential to give them a lot of leverage (building an audience has provided you leverage after all), and three you have credibility in the space by virtue of having already done the thing. Of these, I think the promise of giving your customers leverage is the most important value, and people trust you enough to buy it due to your credibility.

I think these aspects don't apply quite as cleanly to Logology. It has a different kind of problem to solve - the "I need a logo and am willing to spend some money getting something decent but not a lot of money to hire a designer to do it for me" problem. It solves something specific, but doesn't provide potential leverage in the same way (once I have a logo, I have a logo - how many of those will I need in my life?). It also may be a narrow niche that you've more fully exploited. So if you're thinking about how to apply your lessons with Logology I would personally tack on how to add leverage too as they all go hand in hand in my mind.
As an AI language model I'd like to buy a can of fart spray please.
One of those gel wrist rests, with added cooling, would be perfect. Lots of bloodflow just under the surface of the skin there. Would adding Peltier modules be a practical solution?
Good list but it's It's missing:
- "use an new, different and exciting technology for each new project, however small"
- Add cool new tech to projects you're working on with ten other people. Ensure only one other person knows.

- Name all your variables 'data'.

- Copy and paste everywhere. People will think they've fixed a bug, and they have, but you've got seven slightly different copies of the function that needed fixing and now there's six left.

- Take a project that's using one of those 'prettier' 'black' style tools to avoid bike-shedding discussions about linting. Change the options because you prefer different ones. Start a bike-shedding discussion about linting.

- Use multiple divs for a single circle-shaped avatar.
Every micro-managing managers ever.
It's happening, just not on social media or in traditional media because the need to generate clicks motivates some people. Some need to sell themselves and their books. I'm currently trying to explore some of the more underground discussions for my own edification by lurking in various places. One interesting recent discovery is what some call TESCREAL, which even if not a real thing, I think summarizes a kind of Silicon Valley zeitgeist nicely. If you think about AI in this framework, a lot of the hype pushed by Eliezer Yudkowsky falls away. Yudkowsky is a bit like a carnival barker inviting you into the frothy show. Meanwhile serious people are having serious discussions

Transhumanism - the belief or theory that the human race can evolve beyond its current physical and mental limitations, especially by means of science and technology. For example, by moving our minds into computer brains.

Extropianism - evolving framework of values and standards for continuously improving the human condition

Singularitarianism - the belief that a technological singularity — the creation of superintelligence — will likely happen in the medium future, and that deliberate action ought to be taken to ensure that the singularity benefits humans

Cosmism - the philosophical theory that the cosmos is a self-existent whole and was not created by a god, a theory about cosmic evolution, developed from contemporary science, that regards the cosmos as self-existent and self-acting

Rationalism - a belief or theory that opinions and actions should be based on reason and knowledge rather than on religious belief or emotional response

Effective Altruism - a project that aims to find the best ways to help others, and put them into practice

Longtermism - an ethical stance which gives priority to improving the long-term future. It is an important concept in effective altruism and serves as a primary motivation for efforts that claim to reduce existential risks to humanity

This is all new to me, so I could be way off base. If am very open to new information that gets me on the correct path. This is an exciting time to be alive. I haven't even looked at what is happening in other countries, the UK or China for example
You can sandbox it more easily, too.
I feel that it’s important to point out that a scientific result doesn’t need to be surprising in order to be important and grounding for future work. I agree this aligns with my intuitions (to the extent that I have any for subatomic particles), but it seems important to document and measure these properties.
Though I agree with the sentiment of your post...

> You concede your marriage suffered and suggest the impact on your health was negative, but both of these things could have happened if you were just surviving in a low paid regular job.

This isn't really a good way of thinking. Where will it end? You might as well do anything, since any negative outcome isn't necessarily inclusive of the thing you did.
Now let's do Roblox!

This has to be the worse company regarding exploiting children.
> and a rumble seat

What?
I wouldn't say most women do, but a lot of women do. And, more importantly, those are the women dropping the $$ on clothing and therefore what is catered to.

I work in a lingerie/bra boutique at the moment and there are a large amount of women who wear the wrong size bra just because the right size shows that they have back fat. Even when the back fat can't be seen under clothing and the right size is more comfortable. Or who opt for things that are less comfortable/practical solely to fit their conception of themselves. "Oh no, I won't wear this size. I'm not that big/small. It fits well, but I feel so big/small when I look at the tag. I'll just keep wearing my old ones." Those are also the people who spend a ton on things that don't fit them to try to cure the gaping hole inside stemming from their hatred of their own bodies.

I've never worked with men in a similar setting (as a class - we have some cross-dressers but if you're a dude who wears women's clothing you're already comfortable breaking the rules) so I can't say if that's solely a woman thing or a general human one.
Try this link: https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/04/04/1070938/we-are-h...
if 10x engineer writes in lisp, then that must mean that -10x engineer writes in forth
at Munich airport, at one of terminals they have new devices. You have to leave everything inside. Laptop, water etc.
You just have to remove items from your pockets, belt.
So much faster.

My worst experience was in UK, multiple times, at Manchester airport. So much drama there.
I use nbconvert and upload to Github Pages. I also put the .ipynb file up there in case anybody wants to try using my code. I've also tried Colab and Jupyter Lite, both work fine.

None of these produce slick professional-looking pages, but I prefer just exposing my source code and letting people use it. Also, my stuff isn't profound enough to deserve real web hosting, or the effort to turn it into "software."
Google workers in London stage walkout over job cuts
I usually say my favourite abstraction is the function. :) It's one we use a lot.

I use Rust, C, Python.
Normalize and support deviance: https://danluu.com/wat/
C# and Go where both one of those "we need to switch everything to this new language" when they where young enough.

So much so it became something of a meme to say "just re-write it in Go" for a while.
Just did.

Cheers.
I once travelled with a 5kg vat of fondant icing on a transatlantic flight. "Yes, it looks very much like Semtex, but it's fine!" Still not exactly sure how I got away with it…
The user with the Twitter handle tianqi observed domain expertise can find the limit to A.I. knowledge by stepping enough of a few prompts.
I think most people used mousepads so the mouse could work properly
Rust may still be a bit too pragmatic, perhaps you could use a language you wrote yourself?
ssize_t isn't standard C. It's just POSIX, which uses undefined behavior of the C standard to create an almost but not quite C language used on all Unix systems. POSIX C is not strictly conforming C, but it is conforming C. The same goes for GNU C, Visual C, etc.
> Did you read the link going to a page literally titled: "Parsing JSON is a Minefield."?

No, I didn't. But... why is this relevant to CSV?

I think I might have read an article with a similar name before. And, in general, am not a big fan of JSON, but I didn't think this link contained a standard for CSV...

Also, JSON has a defective grammar, with bad semantics, so, yeah, having a standard didn't save it... but it could have saved it. Not having a standard would've been even worse.
You aren’t supposed to let a pilot be alone in the cockpit and they violated protocol when this happened. 2 authorized personnel should be in the cockpit at all times but German airlines dropped the rule.
I have a heated mouse specifically for this same issue. Was experiencing arthritic symptoms in my fingers and tied it back to my extremities getting cold while working. There looks to be only one company that makes a heated mouse, if they ever fold up shop I don't know what I'll do.
> Trap 10 engineers in a futile skunkworks project.

LOL, I thought I was cynical
A lot of toxic negativity in that post.

Sure bad engineers exist, but you know what is even worse than the -10x engineer: the contagious jerk.

https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/studies-being-a-jerk-is...

Yep being an asshole spreads like a disease within organizations. Avoid these guys like the plague.
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What sort of hyping isn't artificial?
And that is such b.s. the one and only time I seeked medication for a certain issue, even though I went through a lot of embarassing process to get a perscription I was questioned like I was a drug dealer or something by the pharmacist in front of many people standing there.

Short of life and death situations I don't think I will be seeking any kind of medical care in the US. If it isn't urgent I'll make a vacation out of it and travel to cheaper more humane countries.
Unrelated to your question, but the tweet "AI research has been heating up for years, with no signs of slowing down" is a bit disingenuous by showing stuff happening only after 2010 (while "parameters for machine learning models" are shown from 1950 onwards).

There's been multiple AI winters, and it would be wise not to sweep them under the rug.
Jet fuel's global tax exemption, which dates from 1944 before affordable air travel, really has to end. Despite IATA lobbying. https://www.iata.org/contentassets/ebdba50e57194019930d72722...
> To ensure developers are context-switching, recompilation should take at least 20 seconds.

I'm now wondering what languages and projects the author has worked on if they expect compilation to take less than 20 seconds. Maybe small-ish golang projects? I don't remember the last time I worked on something interesting where recompilation was always under a minute...
When I',m flying to UK I always wonder if there are so many first timers, or people are so ignorant.

In Germany I never seen so many people have to open the bags after the scan, and have them re-scanned.
This is an excellent observation. I completely agree, many of my peers when I was a child gave up on programming due to the rigid rules. This should also open up the window of cognition to more creative programmers that do not want to be bound by details such as "missing ;"
I think clojure tells a useful story here. Rigid approach, unfamiliar syntax for a lot of developers, and unusual semantics make it a really strange choice. And it never has been popular compared to big languages.

But a lot of companies are institutionally committed to the jvm, and/or have deep expertise within it, and a lot of those have smaller teams or individuals with more freedom to experiment with their tools.

And now clojure has settled into a comfortable niche as the language you use when you should be using java but just don't wanna.

This is one path to making it easier for devs to justify using a new language. And I mean, typescript was in this situation more or less at one point. So sure erlang isn't as popular as java or javascript, but it is a runtime that some places are committed to and have expertise in. I could see gleam latching onto that, maybe.
might be encouraging or depressing news, depending on what a 'A100' unit is.
People have rapidly, creatively, and extensively bypassed these sorts of protections with every GPT iteration.
A debate requires a defense of both sides. Unfortunately the humanities seem to have a vested interest only with one side, even going to extremes. So this debate will take some time to come. Meanwhile AI will be much further
Just think of SEO spam. The main cost seems to be creating content.
Not everything in life (in fact, almost nothing) can be “proved” by a “source”. Human emergent behavior can be observed and reported on in this way, perhaps.

But questions like “why aren’t more people sacrificing their lives to hijack or destroy airplanes for the last 20 years” are not answerable by “sources”.

Do you have some reason to think a different posture towards hijackers and better security around cockpits didn’t have a strong effect on would-be hijackers’ willingness to give their lives to a violent political statement?
Learning some pytorch is truly not the bulk of the work to build a model, having to wrangle and mangle a massive amount of data coming from less-than-ideal data sources, orchestrating the jobs and making all of this available for your training routines to slurp up is a lot of work that evolves fairly quickly beneath you.
The link currently is this:

https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/cbse-says-nadar-women-...

cbse-says-nadar-women-s-historic-struggle-cover-their-breasts-objectionable-54555

This article says that historical revisionists suceeded in the censorship, much like the states in the USA that removed the history of racism from the curriculum.

https://scroll.in/article/917353/ncert-decision-to-remove-ch...
What is the distinction between “dismissing” a lawsuit and “tossing” it?

To “toss” something means to throw it out. That seems equivalent to dismissing it to me. Musk’s lawyers are acting on his instructions and are asking the judge to do this in his behalf.
Looks like a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35436822 :)
Possibly, but at that point the human in the loop is also susceptible to the misdirection. In general, like with cyber security, the human is the weakest link.
They are, I generated them years ago before I understood how to make the models have a sense of humor, sorry :(
What's the problem with Greenpeace?

Because I'm funding their actions since 20 years now, and I wonder if I should switch to something else, like Exxon maybe.

Or... I should stop giving indirectly any €€€ to Exxon and alike, and give all the gains to Greenpeace instead.
I have found that that rule, while useful, is insufficiently precise. It opens the door to activist types who can turn anything political. I have had better luck with "no political advocacy", with that further defined for the rules lawyers as "arguing for or against any particular officeholder or candidate, proposed or passed legislation or rule, or speculating or discussing the motivations or effects of any of these at any level of government".
> This is an entirely solvable problem, between synthetic fuels and offsets.

I wish. But unfortunately, both synthetic fuels (e-fuels) and offsets are severely lacking in terms of actually contributing to solving the problem. We do not have enough energy to produce enough synthetic fuels to cover the same amount of oil and gas that we use today. And carbon offsets are in most cases not a reliable way to actually keep carbon out of the atmosphere long-term.

> Good luck forcing quality of life reduction as an explicit policy goal

Climate change will be the greatest quality of life reduction that humanity has ever faced.

Part of the problem is that people consider being able to travel that much as "quality of life". There is nothing in human psychology that requires us to be as mobile as we are today. In fact, it is harmful that this degree of mobility is deemed "normal" by our western culture. This has to change.
I'm entertaining an idea of a discussion forum, where the user has to stake a non-insignificant amount of money, which gets slashed when they break the terms of service. The funds then go to site maintainance.

This would obviously create bad incentives for the site operators, but I judge that things wouldn't be too bad because of social reputation mechanisms.
So did I just write an intelligent program:

T add(T a, T b) {
return a + b;
}

And let’s make T BigInteger for now.
Well that's glitchy, spammy, scammy, AI-powered.
We need _technology that will pollute even more_ to _continue doing stuff that pollute a lot even though we know we shouldn't do it, but faster_

~15 hours to get to the other side of the world is fast enough, if it isn't you have a very very weird problem that affects 0.000001% of the world and we shouldn't care about it
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It cannot be toggled back to hide the explanation without refreshing the whole page.
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Eh this isn't lua. It has pattern matching and a sophisticated type system, that's a powerful base that can get you very far.
cool story bro. russia bad nato good. if nato do something bad it is for good reason or it didnt happen or russia was behind it

some people just cant shake totalitarian frame of mind
They most likely hit some sort of limit in the Zanzibar implementation.

Every file has a set of permissions attached to it, because you can grant fine-grained permissions to every single file in Drive, Photos, YouTube, ...

I imagine that they hit some limit in that part, and tried to find a way to limit the issue...
Most businesses don't generate extraordinarily large returns. Successful tech companies are in the long tail. Where's the investment in the middle?
100,000 flights a day, every single day of the year

2% of emissions.

Coal power plants 25% of emissions.

So many people going after aviation, it explains how we got this far into the problem.

Carl Sagan warned everyone about coal 40 years ago.

https://youtu.be/Wp-WiNXH6hI

So, instead we talk about aviation
Before entering the field of ML, I perceived MLOps as a superhero with abilities to handle and deploy ML models. However, it seems that MLOps is more or less a typical engineer who acquired skills to manage and deploy data infrastructure for ML purposes (exclusively) by exposure to data engineering.
I've seen engineers who are good candidates for -10x... The moral of this story is, of course, if people are submitting work that creates more work, you must push back against them.

Part of the issue is that intelligent people can be better at justifying work that wastes everyone's time. So if you're in a leadership position you really need to make sure people have their eyes on the prize and that they aren't padding their resume or needlessly doing tasks that worked at their previous job.
This is the beginning of "AI-powered internet" and it might be chaotic initially. It will be regulated and corrected as we advance.
Elm has always been very fast in my experience, but I have only worked on small-medium sized projects
Grammatically, 1.5 donut is wrong and 1.5 donuts is correct. So, in this case "1.66~ dozens" (because 20 / 12 = 1.66~) is pedantically correct.

(...But logically and intuitively everything I just said is extremely stupid because by that logic 12.01 counts as "dozens" and that's ridiculous, so your complaint is absolutely correct and I agree with you 100%)
As a Rutgers alumnus who was involved in the scene when college hackathons started really taking off (2009-2013, attended 40+ hackathons), I can say that this anecdote doesn't reflect my experience at all. Had you attended HackRU instead of HackPrinceton, I can guarantee you that the app ideas would be pretty much indistinguishable from those at other universities.

As for thinking differently, I can't speak much to that, but I've met quite a number of rich people with average and below-average thinking capabilities.
I see what you mean: https://regmedia.co.uk/2021/01/05/simple_sabotage_field_manu...
I wonder whether you could get a GPT-3 level LLM to extract the data for you.
I remember to eat when I take my ADHD meds, so its leading to (healthy) weight gain!
They’re big fans until you ask it to criticize a holy book.
No.

But corporate "ML" has been until recently "dashboards" or "big data" or "data analytics" or "look at your corporate records with a computer" in disguise.
AI voice filter mimics Jay-Z
More info about the song here: https://www.straitstimes.com/tech/ai-voice-filter-mimicking-...
lipstick, deo stick - seen that being a problem at some UK airport too
In the 2000s I worked in Munich and exported ‘Leberkäse’ (a meat paste that you can bake in the oven) from Munich almost every week for family and friends.

Although it looks quite similar to plastic explosives the security team had not once a problem with it.
> Are you saying that data centres are more efficient "space wise" at producing food?

No. They are several magnitudes more efficient at ‘producing’ money. Something you can use to buy food grown somewhere else where land is cheaper or is less desirable for urban or industrial developments.

> Perhaps you're looking for a better comparison.

Not really.
There's a photo of the new 3d scanners here (they remind me of a jet engine).

https://www.finavia.fi/en/newsroom/2022/new-technology-makes...
OSS Simple Sabotage Field Manual

https://archive.org/details/SimpleSabotageFieldManual/page/n...

Pages 28-32 are the most referenced but the rest is interesting too.