skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A long time ago I spent a little while debating whether listing my middle initial on my resume would make it look "more professional"
The point is: Select… for what? If the user isn’t aware the feature exists, as I wasn’t, why would they click it?
> Practically no other event in human history comes close to the ecological and cultural destructive impact of the early colonial period in the Americas.

This is a really optimistic point of view
I left it on for awhile as a signal to my employer that I was willing to jump ship. I will say that I was pretty straightforward with my employer about what I was looking for, and started bringing it up regularly.

I eventually got an offer and my employer counter-offered.

Turns out no one even noticed until I showed up with an offer in hand. I even asked out to my boss, "didn't you see that I'm '#OpenForWork' on LinkedIn?"

(Basically, I was hired as a contractor because my offer as W2 was below market rate. The contractor phase was supposed to be short, but after it dragged out too long I needed to either make market rate as a W2 or move on.)
We're not using LangChain -- we built out our core retrieval pipeline long before it existed. But we're big fans! And we hope to contribute some of the things we learned to open source.
I’m using it in Firefox, there’s a extension for that.
Go SpaceX. You can't pay for this kind of excitement.
Analysts say Mac sales are down 40% as post-pandemic PC slump continues
I am already served that google "Discover" trash on Android Chrome. I switched to Firefox mobile for that reason.
FTX has recovered $7.3B in assets, company attorney says
People look at Meta with these bizarro rose-colored glasses, as if it was once a company with some nobel mission that lost its way.

Facebook, from the very beginning, knew what it was doing once they found the "secret". They found, by accident, the ability tap into people's insecurities and exploit that to extract data and then serve ads that further insecurities. They found an emotional loop that printed dollars. People gave up an entire lifetime of information for free so they could feel connected.

The Metaverse is just trying to get lightning to strike twice. It will probably get there. As people become more isolated they will become more insecure and place an even higher value on social interaction.

VR sucks. Flat screens and fixed focal point lenses result in a huge out of focus area—you move your eyes within the headset and you can't focus—which feels unnatural. Eventually we will solve this, and once we do it will go mainstream. If you can look past the crappy optics and you log into VRChat today it feels… good. It feels like you are actually interacting with people. It simply feels good. Most people just can't look past the poor optics. You put a $2000 headset on the average person and their response is always, "Cool, but it's kinda heavy. Also, why is it so blurry?" Someone will solve this, eventually.

Meta is banking on exactly what made Facebook. They will create a space that makes you feel good, and then get you to give up even more information and see even more ads designed explicitly to manipulate you because the advertiser knows so much about you. Honestly, it's a brilliant idea to try and do the same thing again but harder. Possible it's too early, but if you have billions to blow why not. Right now it's a product that only caters to the most socially isolated individuals. That will change.

Why did my parents join Facebook? They did it because they were lonely. It's why the Facebook audience is now so old. It took them a while to come up with a UI that was easy enough for old people to use it, but they did. They are trying to do the same with VR. There's a pretty good chance of success in my opinion.
You should probably learn about Richard Lynn if you want to be an advocate for IQ. It is healthy—although not strictly necessary—to know the history of the construct you are pushing, particularly if said construct comes with dubious policy proposals.

No, Richard Lynn is truly a disgrace. He has been found manipulating research data, cherry-picking, and purposefully misinterpreting results in a way to favor his political agenda. This has resulted in him being stripped of his emeritus professor title. His racist and eugenicists talking points have also landed him on a Southern Poverty Law Center list of known white nationalists. A true disgrace if there ever was one. Also note that Richard Lynn has been cited many times by supporters of IQ (including multiple times in The Bell Curve). I know this us guilt by association, but when it comes these kind of people, I for one am willing to judge associates along with main offenders.

Perhaps this is religion to me, and perhaps I’m arguing in bad faith, if that’s what it takes to argue against racist believes, than so be it. It is worth it.

But consider this. Perhaps I’m not just a dogmatic anti-racist, but also informed by a university education in psychology, and by the scientific literature in the field of psychology. Even fellow anti-racist Albert Einstein always admitted his dogma about his believes in the universe, and he was not wrong about any of it (with few exceptions; notably that quantum entanglement could be explained with localized hidden variables).
Ok, old man yelling at clouds moment finally coming for me. Now that we've been through the document-database heyday and are out the other end, what have we learned about where document databases are a good fit?

At the time I looked at them like a fad. "These script kiddies want to write javascript and ignore schemas. Let's see how well that works out for them." As expected, most of what I ever hear is regret.

Today, MongoDB has grown out of the reliability issues it had in the past, and Postgres has json features for the occasional times it's useful to store some loosely structured data along with otherwise relational data. Question is, what applications is a document-first database good for, outside of prototyping?

Edit: and to make sure I understand, FerretDB is a layer reimplementing MongoDB on top of Postgres and its json features?
How do you think a search engine whose incentive isn't getting you to click ads can make money?
Not sure how you could say John didn't care when he clearly did.

>I'm not denying that it's a failure on multiple people's parts, but you're just pretending like Yoko doesn't share any of that responsibility herself.

Because I wouldn't blame my bandmate's gf for showing up when he asked her to... They have to sleep together every night, it's understandable she's trying to do the right thing by him, even if it's not what I want. Further to that point, if she did show up, I wouldn't be angry at her, because my issue would be with my bandmate. You seem incredibly emotionally undeveloped tbh.

>As opposed to your kind of posting that's infantilizing grown women on top of your inability to empathize. Yawn indeed.

There's something wrong with you that you immediately jump to the conclusion that I'm infantilizing her. A much more reasonable explanation is that I don't think she did anything wrong by doing what John asked her to do. You really got something going on and I don't want to be a part of it. Yoko haters are always like this.
Can't read the article due to their paywall but your quote makes it sound like unmarried and single is the same thing, which strikes me as an outlandish assumption in this day and age. Surely there are lots and lots of unmarried couples as well?
Joins only make sense in analytical context as a tool to get some additional data into your report and almost never as domain modeling concept. People should pretty much hardly ever use RDBMS for their domain data... but since everyone learns RDBMS as their first DB, we have these horrible ORM frameworks on every corner.
Yes, if your elasticity requirements are not within hours but within weeks or months, adding and removing capacity can be done by traditional means, even by renting physical servers and putting them into your on-premises racks.
When I said the word "garbage" in front of some british people they laughed and said it was such an "american" word. They had fun wrapping their mouths around the word. I guess they take their rubbish to the tip in a bin.
I'm dismissing it because it's dumb, not because it's hyped. Rust also has a lot of hype and is a much better language. You don't have to like Clojure or Algol or APL or Haskell but these languages at least have some intellectual merit. Golang on the other hand... I'm at a loss for words for how deliberately bad it is.
It's not already the case, but it is expected to be the case in all major browsers sometime next-year[1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie#Third-party_cookie
To get that out of the way, you can follow the smart process proposed by the person you answer to:
If indeed the organization is biased because government funded, it means that they will never publish stories that the government is not happy with.
So, under Biden, they will not publish stories that Democrats don't like, and under Trump, they will not publish stories that Republicans don't like.

If it is not the case, then they are not biased because government funded. They may be politically biased for other reason, but it does not matter if they are government funded or not, and it is stupid to give them a label "government funded" to warn about bias if "government funded" has nothing to do with this bias. Especially because it means that non-government-funded organization can be as biased but not have any label.
Could be women in that age group dating outside of that age group? And/or more lesbians in couples than gay men?
We used to just show the answer back when our models were 10x smaller than they are now. With scale, which yields higher quality answers, comes slower speed. Hence streaming the text is the compromise.
Matteo Ricci
So is the mass hysteria now the belief that there is a mass hysteria against trans people, or the belief that there is a mass hysteria of kids being pushed to transition?
They don't own undersea cables.

They invested in one and it's not stated how much.

And yes I'm comparing google with hetzner as answer to the op to tell him that cloud is more than just cheap compute.

I'm trying to explain why people pay a premium for cloud services and what the difference is.

And I use and like hetzner a lot. I'm happy to use hetzner for plenty of things just not for everything.
Mileage is split across multiple bikes.

That specific one is 40 years old, but I only owned it for the last four. All my bikes were bought used: like cars, once you roll them out the shop's door, you loose a significant amount of the purchase price.
Both organisations require copyright assignment.

https://sfconservancy.org/assignment/
A more complex natural language computer plugged into all social media can learn and adapt at a very high pace. If we also get it to hallucinate at at least 25fps then the whole thing can become murky. It could impersonate people on video calls and stuff along those lines. This tech looks like it will bring at least some changes in many aspects of our lives.
> How is nobody at MS telling someone "people hate this, this is toxic, this is a paid OS already"?

People are still buying the os, and ms doesnt care. But as soon as ai is able to generate more than basic, albeit broken, code i imagine we will be able to build a linux based os that will be even better than it currently is. A lot of these software monopolies will get shaken soon.
Fed policy is based around PCE these days, not CPI. Because PCE is more-leading than CPI is. (Or less lagged?)
There's no algorithm for relationships, or entering one, or leaving one. It's a series of choices and actions with unpredictable results.

This makes some people so uncomfortable that they blame a mythological algorithm ('oh, haven't had any opportunities', 'oh, I just don't want to settle') instead of just making choices and taking actions. This is why dating apps are popular, because they promote the idea that relationships can be reduced to algorithms of trait selection and numeric increase in 'opportunities'.
He doesn't say how old he is though, in your 20s this isn't so uncommon at all.
The entire website is closer to the entire restaurant in this analogy. Posting in the same threads might be similar to sitting at the same table.
> There are people who use social media without the desire to be "seen" or recommended to random people via an algorithm.

Social media without the desire to be "seen" or recommended to random people, is just a messaging app.
The same article mentions that you can prevent fingerprinting in Firefox with privacy.resistFingerprinting = true

https://www.bitestring.com/posts/2023-03-19-web-fingerprinti...

But you are right, it's likely that there are other ways other than cookies and fingerprinting that companies can track you.
'Unsupervised reinforcement learning' is how these large models and systems ultimately will end up becoming sentient. We recently tried a similar approach on a toy problem in the computer vision sphere (https://encord.com/blog/we-employed-chatgpt-as-an-ml-enginee...) with pretty decent results.
This is a fun puzzle, but it's not clear to me how this selects for people with the aptitude to perform well in any particular software development job, as the number of times I've been asked to determine is a string is/contains the concatenation of two dictionary words is I think zero.

Instead of doing stuff like this, you can just give candidates realistic programming challenges and have them write code. You don't even need to be in the room with them; after all, you won't be when they're actually doing the work.
Well… I asked the (admittedly poorly phrased) question: "With deno and oak, how can I validate the input and cast it in the different routes?"

Phind suggested "one way is to use the built-in validation middleware provided by Oak, called validator.". It went on to describe this middleware, its helper functions and give me code examples how to use it.

Thing is: This "validator" middleware does not exist.

I asked for more examples, and Phind provided me with more examples, listing all validation functions.

When I said that there is no such thing as a built-in validator middleware in Oak, Phing admitted that it appears to be removed in version 6.0 (we are currently at version 11), according to the Oak documentation (with a link to it's Github repo - where I did not find any match in code for "validator").
Would you let your students use Mathematica on such an exam?
What a surprise it is that so many millions have perished under the banner of communism. I suppose as long as everyone dies equally, it's still consistent with the system...
I am amused to see the same dog in photos cleaning up nuke waste at Sellafield.
Low drive to mate could be because his T is low. I wonder if he's had his hormones checked.
I was happily single until my mid-thirties and wasn't even really looking for a relationship. I realize now that getting married probably saved my life. Married men life much longer than single men because they have someone to tell them to go to the doctor.

So yeah, stay single if you want, but get a good doctor and don't skip the annual physicals.
and we thought ad tracking was bad now.
How many years has it been since your last bad experience?

Because I used to relate to this sentiment, but with time (a decade), it all disappears, and whilst not on speaking terms, all is forgiven from my end. People talk about "personal growth", and whilst I wrote it off as hogwash, actually, no, letting go of the past is a huge part of that. It can be done.
Well, I listed a number of things I prefer about Go, and the verbosity I was talking about was the classic ButtonFactoryFactory and other naming classics. It’s true however that I ended up throwing that stuff away from my Java code and started to enjoy life again.

But I can say honestly that I prefer Go’s error handling, which I find tends to result in errors which are actionable. I think it takes a lot more effort up front to get Java exceptions to work rationally.

If I could change Java then the thing I’d do is I’d make it necessary to declare all exceptions in a method, but get rid of caught exceptions. So you can see what’s coming, even if you don’t have to deal with it.

In terms of stream operations, well, I write a lot of typescript lately and just like in Java, I find that I end up having to fall back to regular loops quite often. I’m not convinced that stream operations are useful in as many use cases as people would like. For example, the moment something can throw an exception, things are going to get gnarly.
The long term workaround for data brokers is to become a first party... have the main website serve your 3rd party JS from their own server under their own domain. That makes it much harder to block.

For your IP+UA hypothetical, the easy fix is to make everyone look the same. IP should be the only personally identifiable factor. Tor and desktop Firefox w/ privacy.resistFingerprinting turned on both do this. Open window not-maximized at 1000x1000 size, use the same UA regardless of what platform & browser version you're actually on, and a bunch of other stuff. That said, I don't know how effective it actually is against modern comprehensive fingerprinting libraries.
> with many thousands of instances

They're not claiming that governments will tell everyone running a Mastodon instance to check ID, but instead that they'll tell every ISP to check ID. In such a world, your cable modem may not work if your ISP doesn't know who you are.
Recursive LLMs
Just imagine the possibilities if we create a recursion of LLMs that have their own LLMs - like LLMs within LLMs within LLMs. It's mind-blowing.
Because we don't know how to do that yet. But, eventually we will, and that will put this matter to rest.
Pretty much after every system update I get nagged for using iCloud, apple wallet, the defaults redirects you randomly to apple music when you are trying to play your own music, etc. Perhaps you have given up to all those demands and you don't see them. Otherwise you can't really miss them. To the point that I am deferring system updates as long as I can.
> You made no point.

Oh I've made it very clearly. You just don't seem to be interested in understanding it nor having an honest discussion on it.

> Just because you don't want to follow a topic that does not mean it's ok to censor it and stop everyone from liking things you don't like.

Which I never did or asked for.

On the other hand, you clearly show an intent to force feed everyone else with the kind of news you deem more relevant than others. Don't like the "editorial line" of Twitter? Go read the Kiev Independent.

Why should twitter follow your editorial line of preference, or why should I be subjected to it?
Because no software is perfect from the first release :)

This is what software developers do, iterate to improve software.
You can see BEHEMOTH at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. It's just past the Lisa and opposite the Palm Pilot display.

The pictures in the catalog entry were taken in a warehouse. The bike is displayed much more nicely than these show.

https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/L2003.20...
Interesting but my goto question of "define an fexpr in lisp 1.5 in m-expression syntax" did not yield success. It gave me something in s-expression calling itself and fexpr but not actually declaring it. If it can't get 1958 state of the art right what good is it? (obviously sort of joking)
Very nice. Squeak is also my first choice for Smalltalk environments. I'm not much of a Smalltalker but I know several who were real involved.
> The biggest problem I have is that 5 years ago all the HVAC installers claimed one couldn't use a heat pump in our area. Now we need many more installers than are available.

Heat pump technology has been advancing rapidly particularly in cold weather performance. I don't know if that was entirely accurate 5 years ago. But it was certainly MORE accurate then particularly for NW Massachusetts.

And we certainly do have a lack of good installers right now, unfortunately.
That's really the best you can do? One story that amplifies NPR's dislike of Saudi Arabia ("Yemen" is hardly the centerpiece of Biden foreign policy),
and another claiming there's dislike of the Democratic primary calendar?
And ad free
Interestingly, there is no such thing as Windows 11.

There is

Windows 11 Home

Windows 11 Pro

Windows 11 Business

Windows 11 Enterprise

Only one of these is seeing ads. Not great, but this disingenuous reporting is pitiful.
Good luck with your siege mentality.
Cool, thanks for the response. Have you talked to a UI person about this? I wonder if it would be better to load it in chunks? The rolling text might be considered distracting. Though, I'm no expert.
Ah, I missed that. I suppose the question remains since Canada has a lower age of consent. [1]

[1] - https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/other-autre/clp/faq.html
Oh I bet that it won't be long before you get cars plastered with ads. Add free paint coat will be an extra $6000. Absolutely see it coming.
They haven't released a Dropcam in 8 years? "Nest Secure" was cancelled in 2020.. and now they're saying "hey, we'll actually turn things off in 2024"

I think the reason killedbygoogle.com actually exists is because they try to be professional about notifying folks of things they are EoL, and communicate updates along the way.
Playboy: The Bill Gates Interview (1994)
Even if you take the "starting a relationship" path (e.g. online dating to meet people) you really shouldn't be afraid of breaking someone else's heart.

Assuming you don't break someone's heart by betraying them or some other awful action, taking responsibility for a broken heart is putting way too much responsibility on yourself, and not respecting other people's agency.

It's also going to probably sabotage your attempts to learn-by-experimentation in relationships. Most likely the person on the other side of the relationship isn't going to know where it's going from day 1, it could be love, it could be something less but still fun, it could just be one or two dates. None of those are necessarily bad outcomes, but if you're weighing yourself down with all that pressure, you're going to make it harder for yourself to be open and honest and have fun.

You have some catching up to do - others may have learned some basic relationship skills in school, say, where the stakes were obviously lower and few people were getting married or anything anyway - but IME step one on getting that practice in is to take away that pressure and take it easy. One good thing to help with that, I think, is not to be too picky - if you haven't dated much, you probably don't know what your "perfect match" is like, so go out there and find out, versus waiting for one person who you build up so much in your mind you sabotage yourself with the anxiety of screwing it up.