skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's around 20% of the population in total (assuming 50 / 50 chance of male and female birth)

Author mentions that primitive societies living in abundance don't have 50/50 most likely to female infanticide. If low number of working women can provide resources it's more important to have more male warriors to defend the group. Excess of women would just get stolen by another group if men numbers in the group got too low.
Overhead is $ of overhead of $ per grant, so this isn't inflation, it's a higher proportion of grants going to admin vs research.
I believe your first statement makes a broad assumption about the targeted audience.

>People who have mental health issues often have limited energy, so need to consider carefully the amount of time they should invest in each possible thing that might help them.

This can apply to everyone not just people with mental health issues. The onus is placed on the reader here since we have established that HN is just an recommendation engine. Everyone is has a responsibility to do their own due diligence, especially from comments made on the Internet.
I think things like this (or simpler things like asking ChatGPT for ascii art of a circle) really show the difference between LLMs and humans. The issue is that it’s a language model rather then an image one, so it doesn’t understand the concept of ‘looks like a dog’.
EMP does not have to man made to be a problem .

Solar flares and CMEs are the real concern for system wide damage that can set us back by years if not decades .

The last couple of years showed how fragile our supply chains are ,

A large scale event can damage critical equipment like transformers that take years to manufacture, merely restarting a stopped grid is extremely complex let alone a broken one
Trains are great for populated and less populated places. Lots of not so densely populated places can be connected to more densely populated places with trains.
I've worked at the G and hated it. It was too big and agree 100% with your analysis. Money and benefits are great, especially considering how little work is actually expected of you (compared to smaller orgs). I enjoyed always being able to find someone who knew more than me, which opened up really good learning opportunities. But as you said, good luck getting any of your accomplishments noticed. Your direct manager would notice and you hope they write the right kinds of letters and accolades to other people to notify them, but that's about all you can ask for.

I've also been at small startups. I worked somewhere early in my career where I was employee #5 and stayed there until we were about 70 employees. It was exciting and I can say humbly that I touched essentially every feature and decision that happened during those ~3 years, which can be rewarding. I'm not saying I personally built the whole company, i had other good engineers around me, but you were involved in everything, so you touched everything and played at least a partial role in everything that was built. That's a great learning experience in its own right. But I found it very stressful to have so much expected of you. At these small companies you will always have more on your plate than even the most efficient engineer can accomplish. The backlog is endless, and solving even basic problems often required new systems or decisions because everything is new and no precedent exists for anything.

I've found my happy place at what i call a "mid-size" company. By my defintiion that is ~250 employees (+/- 100). I admit that the industry definition of mid-size is generally 500-1000 though. I really like this 200-300 range size. It is big enough that at least basic systems exist for everything already. There are teams for each product meaning that you aren't building everything and can focus on a certain area. But you also aren't pigeonholed in a narrow job description either. While you might have a sector of the app you manage, it can still be moderately broad giving you good variety. The team isn't so small that you are doing everything, but its also still small enough that if you accomplish impressive achievements that it still gets noticed. It is small enough that you know most people in the company by name but the team is still large enough you can always find someone with expertise in a weird thing you might want help with. By the time the company is this size, they aren't going to dissapear overnight like a 20 person startup might (although in tech anything is still possible). I'm happy where I am now, so no plans on leaving. But when I search again, I am going to be targeting companies of 100-400 employees again. I really think its the perfect size.
Habits have to start somewhere.
> the students' rights are obviously more important

The students rights aren't being infringed. They can spend all 365 days of the year saying what they want, everywhere they want, except in that one room for two hours.

To imply that they have a right to amplified shrieking over the speaker to state their point, you're doing what you accuse the other side of doing, insisting that free speech is a right to be heard.

The students deserve the same treatment the invited speaker deserves - a guarantee that they can speak and be peacefully heard - somewhere. Universities have many rooms and the students can have their own.
This is awesome because I’d landed on the same concept but via evolution, especially a section in the Blind watchmaker where Dawkins implores on one fundamental requirement for evolution, which is that every step in the evolutionary process the individuals need to have a functional version of the trait. You can’t just shut down the process to retrofit things. Evolving eyes from light sensitive cells means that the organoid in every intermediate step should be a functional light detector that’s slightly better than the previous iteration if not the same.

This is a great, but absolutely not necessarily the only, way of writing software. As mentioned by other replies this is maybe not even possible in some fields. And as Dawkins points out, it’s is absolutely not the most efficient way and you don’t explore the full efficiency landscape by a long shot. But it works, and is predictable. I’ve had great success in software by following this rule.

It is also highly resilient to unpredictable organizational politics and inefficiencies because from the moment of having an MVP, you always have a functioning product.
Although I agree in that there's certainly room for debate, it's a fact Israel has strict immigration laws, many of these laws are focused around keeping local Muslim populations out while bringing global Jewish populations in, and when Israel was founded millions of Jewish people from the neighboring countries (namely Egypt and Saudi Arabia) moved to Israel. They could have spoken a local language or even a European one, but they decided to learn the (at the time extinct) language Hebrew was because it was unique to Jews, and this was a Zionist country and movement.
Robot helps spread Buddhist teachings at a Kyoto temple
A bunch of manufacturers are nowadays equal to Lego quality (and beat them in other qualities, e.g. recently Lego really seems to struggle with color consistency). Not always easy to find out what a certain set manufacturer uses (they often buy the bricks from someone else), but e. g. Gobricks (afaik used by Panlos) and whatever Bluebricks Pro uses are really good.
Reduction of number of males results in women getting stolen and probably even more men getting killed in the process. So the population of given group will significantly reduce.
In contrast, actual measures taken to legalize (if not make widely available) and focus on safety actually work to reduce issues and use.

With many drugs, actually quitting via tapering is a valid approach. How the heck do you propose to do that otherwise than having safe use?

By making it legal and say requiring ID to get, you can actually track and find who has a problem and deliver help to them.
That also requires the pharmacy and doctors to not be drug pushers, a tough sell in USA.

That easy. Worked pretty well in one or two countries.
Vercel is deceitful.

The Image/img fiasco really pulled the covers off for vercel for me. I have migrated all my work off of the platform.

NextJS’ lint strategically dissuades you from using the img tag in favor of the NextJS Image component. If you make the mistake of heeding this advice and migrating to it, you can’t use static site generation—which means you are stuck using their hosting.

Here’s one of the most PR-shameful threads I’ve ever read in OSS:

https://github.com/vercel/next.js/discussions/19065
Tenure is poorly correlated with performance. In unionised organisations it is usually negatively correlated with performance.

Boards are never going to accept basing promotions or layoffs on tenure.
Australia needs to get its act together and build high speed rail lines. Their geography is actually fantastic for it, its criminal not to have done it 40 years ago.
I believe in "unconditional free speech" in that I think you have the right to express any opinion*. The manner in which you communicate that opinion can be restricted; otherwise, all laws would be nullified ("but your honor, I murdered Frank to express my disapproval of the Fed's monetary policy! It was free speech!"). However, these restrictions must be agnostic to the content of the speech.

* with defamation (edit: and false advertising, perjury, etc) exception, for things you know are lies when you say them.
Might be a non-SWE role at Google. Account managers, solutions engineers and roles like that often have interviews that focus less on the perfect engineering skill and more on good engineering skills + human skills which Walmart might actually teach better than tech.
In the event that there is tracking, it seems to be well-built and doesn't interfere with the user experience.
Nah, Google just doesn’t wanna lose all the ad money by building a search killer. As soon as they figure out how to put ads in your chats, they’re gonna release the full models.
> What's the name of this law

It's a consequence of progressive tax rates.

Last year in the United States, for example, no matter how large your salary was, a single person's income tax rate for the first $10,000 of salary you earned was 10%.

The portion of your salary above that $10,000 is taxed at a higher rate, and as you cross salary amount thresholds (called tax brackets) the tax rate keeps getting increasing for the amount above that threshold.

By the time you get up above the $540,000, the portion of your salary above that $540,000 is taxed at the maximum 37% rate.

So if you purchase a big ticket item that is deducted from your salary before they figure out how much taxes you owe, high earners can save quite a bit.
If you're studying the basics and want to sorta grok the general concepts by repetition, I had gpt-4 write a technical paper about a fantasy magic system based upon Hopf algebras.

Pretty cool stuff and helped me grok some of the more difficult back and forths from a tutoring session w/ GPT-4.

Also the particle appendix is really cool and I wish we had the whole elemental table. Lots of self-consistency in what the algo wrote and I'm pretty impressed, though of course I'm sure it's maybe best to treat it as a leaky bucket of information while learning it.

Anywho here's the paper (nearly-direct link): https://github.com/tysam-code/fileshare/blob/main/knick_knac...
> It is trained to put together words with similar... meaning. So the embedding is a representation of... meaning.

This might be waxing philosophical, but my position is that the meaning of a word is intrinsic, not extrinsic. The meaning of the word "ball" has nothing to do with the fact that it's next to the word "net" on a page (which is what LLMs do). But rather, "ball" is the round rubbery thing I kick around in my back yard.
Palm would like to talk to you
And France did it in the 70/80s without the need for Tesla. Its almost as if we had the solution 50 years ago and simply refused to do it for idiotic reasons.
Haxe is a really cool language, but there is too much variation between the api's across compilation targets for it to deliver on everything it promises.
Indeed, it's the fascists and bigots who appropriate words and employ ever shifting rhetoric to avoid being labeled as fascists or bigots and to try and conflate their ideology with as many pre-existing ideas as possible who are to blame for this linguistic treadmill, and not the people who point out that dog whistles are real.

In the same way security researchers are not responsible for security vulnerabilities, but may take heat for pointing them out.

That being said, just because they try to appropriate the terms doesn't mean it has to work. They can be reappropriated back to their original meaning.
Of course that's the obvious argument but another perspective might be that left-wing ideology thrives in an environment where people are not directly accountable for anything, and it's all funded by other people.

Also, you'd have to be pretty blind to history, to argue that "left wing ideology holds up better to academic scrutiny"...whatever that means exactly.
I’m at 1 year and 9 days since I quit my corporate job for sabbatical.

I really loved chasing whatever I fancied, and just living life. I’ve leaned so much, read so much, matured mentally, repaired relationships and friendships.

I feel ready to go back, but I will miss it. It’s nice to have the days stretch endlessly before and behind you, to mark the passage of time mainly by seasons, and to really feel like a human instead of a mule.

My previous job was horrible though, I may even have light PTSD! The only reason I don’t go work for USPS or drive a bus is because I think other companies are much better.

Job hunt is gonna be brutal and dehumanizing, though. I may just wait more, and I won’t be shy about withdrawing my candidacy in the face of red flags!!
It is Salary Sacrifice, where an employer agrees to swap salary for some non-cash reward. Employee gets less cash and the benefit (eg. a car). Employer pays Fringe Benefits tax on the benefit, employee doesn't pay tax on the salary they sacrificed. The trick is that there is no fringe benefits tax on electric cars, in one of the few ways Australia is actually promoting them.

https://www.ato.gov.au/Business/Fringe-benefits-tax/Salary-s...

So people in the highest tax bracket can get cheap luxury cars, and everyone else left out in the cold while we wait for government to incentivize affordable electric vehicles on the market. You can still count on one hand the number non-luxury electric car models on the market (<$70,000 AUD). Cheapest is still $50,000 AUD ($33k USD)
EOF is also used to indicate error(s) in a stream.

Its value is platform dependent. As per the C++ standard[0]:

It is a macro definition of type int that expands into
a negative integral constant expression (generally, -1).

0 - https://cplusplus.com/reference/cstdio/EOF/
A language is a map to reality. More languages means more maps, more conceptual models, more strategies of existence.

Consider this: each additional language improves humanity's capacity to evolve and shift, a particularly valuable trait considering the pace of environmental and socioeconomic change. More languages increases the likelihood that humanity will continue to survive and maybe even thrive. (Reality one hundred, one thousand, and ten thousand years from now will each demand different models or languages.)
> Most companies cant afford to throw large amounts of money at a team who’s entire job is managing a Jenkins pipeline.

I don't agree with this at the 300 engineer level; Specifically that they can't afford it. At that point, one or two more engineers is 1-2% increase in spend on compensation, and if you can get someone to handle architecture and developer support (ideally two different people) and empower them to make useful changes, you can probably get the ball rolling.

Now, if you're talking about a 20-50 engineer shop, the math can be a fair bit different and there I do agree with you.

It seems more down to the evergreen issue of tech debt and fragile tech stacks being a hard-to-quantify cost and mostly hidden from those making the budget decisions. No budget for maintenance or architecture -- things are done in the cheapest most expedient way possible. Then it becomes harder to make future changes, so doing it the right way starts costing even more, and the cycle repeats.

> Welcome, Neo, to the real world.

Indeed. Gamedev was frustrating for this quite often.
Exactly. We will see the next time that Google announces a new competitor [0] to ChatGPT or any other product but this time with DeepMind's direct involvement.

Many here have been sucked into the O̶p̶e̶n̶AI.com hype and have already forgotten about DeepMind. The media has completely exaggerated the 'death of Alphabet'.

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-says-s...
his name is nowhere to be found in this piece, but it seems this was started long ago:

> The disrupted hydrology and ecological problems were so glaring that, beginning in the 1990s, the Army Corps and a variety of state, federal, and local partners cooperated to undo the damage. More than 20 years later, at a cost of over $1 billion, the physical restoration of the river is now complete: 40 square miles of wetlands have been reestablished and rehydrated.
I did not get much info at all from joining the Discord and had to learn it on my own, but the discord has some interesting info.

That said, Adam tends to follow a very precise and measurable interaction selection path with many people regarding some of his work and the discord, so I also just see it as how he interacts with others.

But yes, agreed, I wish I had a human-understandable resource that a mortal of my own kind of flesh could more easily grok. Even the 'for absolute beginner' online tutorials are a swamp of symbology and prior assumptions, and it doesn't even seem to be that terribly difficult of a concept on the whole, at least for the basics of it.

Just my 2c, lots of good and mixed for us all in this crazy road we call life! <3 :D :)))) :D
Female infanticide. Warriors were more valuable than women because they were killed off faster and lack of warriors meant you'll be loosing women too. So they most likely just killed female infants so mother has free capacity for next pregnancy and feeding a boy, future warrior.
Except "ball" can also mean a party, so you do need "net" or other words for context
Review of Netflix's “Beef”
IF doesn't help people perform the calorie deficit part either. You can eat way more calories than you can burn off during eating periods.

Everything comes down to discipline.

I don't do IF. I just do calorie counting with an app. In other words, I just do CICO. This research is a validation that I don't need to do IF to lose weight. It feels smarter and better to just eat at normal times and then count the calories. Less social life impact. Less hunger pains. Actual proof that you're eating fewer calories than you need.
Thanks for the condensation. It's just a philosophical comment along the lines of the Ship of Theseus, can it still be called the F91W if you replace a major component? Especially saying "Ah yeah the F91W can run custom software, just gut it out add a component to run that software!".

Maybe philosophy isn't for you, and that's fine.
That's great, now I guess we need a page that ranks those benchmarks to tell us what we're looking at...
Funny that the article doesn't mention the word "export" once.

As is always the case with green energy, local changes don't matter if you're shipping the CO2 emissions somewhere else.

Interestingly enough Australia's coal export are at their lowest in 7 years, but this is mostly because coal companies have been able to maintain very high profits selling less as the price of coal has been high (because there is a lot of global demand) [0].

The real question is, as always with fossil fuels, how much of your proven reserves do you plan to keep in the ground? The only way (outside of sequestration fantasies) to keep CO2 out of the air is to keep it in the ground. But I don't know of any examples where plans for future extraction have been shuttered.

0. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/15/australi...
Towards an Adaptable Systems Architecture for Memory Tiering at Warehouse-Scale
Yeh- my feel is, language is the framework by which we developed reasoning and we used an organic NN to do it. And at scale an complexity approaching the human brain we get similar results
I worked on a team that managed the build systems at a FAANG. It was seriously the worst. Teams would come to you and say

> "we made this service, we need a pipeline that does this, exactly this way, and we need it.... by Friday, let me know if I need to escalate it."

Whenever people threatened to escalate stuff, I would always laugh and say "go for it", to be honest I can't remember the last time I worked on something that wasn't "escalated". Basically the escalated pipeline was e size and our bandwidth was 0.9e - so we never would catch up and if it wasn't escalated it basically didn't exist.
> recent andventures with Hinkley C

Building individual prestige one-off projects will always be a bad idea. This is the kind of things government do if they just need to hand out pieces of the pie to everybody.

A better example would be what South Korea has done in the UAE. Building 4 reactors 1 after the other in a country with no experience and no labor force. They did it pretty quickly and the unit price and unit speed goes up with every one.

In the UAE, construction started 2012, commissioned 2020. But importantly, after that they finish every year.

In reality, nuclear is not actually that slow if a government is really willing to do it and build a plant that has been built before.
Yes, REP IDIV will negate the quotient. Andrew Jenner discusses that: https://www.reenigne.org/blog/8086-microcode-disassembled/
Oregon has the 31st highest tax burden of all states, across its whole population. Even if the tax burden is high for high earners, that’s not driving a significant population exodus because high earners aren’t a significant population to start with.
Agree. So, their effective tax rate is 45%. Not so bad for a well-run country like Sweden. "Pay a lot (in taxes), get a lot (in services)."
What kind of 300MHz MCU can you find for a dollar?
When you consider this in the context of human anatomy like flat faces, beards, fists and p*nis shape it becomes frighteningly sensible.
That's kinda my point. LLaMA's entire history will be enlightening the great erudites who missed-out on real open models like GPT-Neo. Since Meta won't cooperate with the community to improve on it, it's a dead-end. It's anything but the genesis of local AI.
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this on some national park official instagram. The idea being they can’t build actually bear proof garbage containers because there will be people that can’t or won’t figure out how to use them. Experience dealing with raccoons confirms this… it’s difficult to contain dog food for a farm dog outside that doesn’t get broken into.
Is there anything wrong with the ubiquitous ILI9488 3.5 in displays? I see some on aliexpress with resistive touch screen for below 6 dollars not including shipping. These are not integrated on a board but has 40 pin standard FPC connector, with some passives on the ribbon. (I personally prefer this over waveshare's pcbs) EDIT: 320 by 480 btw