skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked at booking until late 2017. I was responsible for all their infrastructure and tooling development until the start of that year.

We all hated the urgency messaging internally. Hated it. We felt bad. Many of us were reasonably proud of our product and felt this tarnished our ability to deliver value to customers. We argued with the product org and the CPO on a regular basis.

The reality is that the urgency messaging drove significant incremental business that they felt they could not afford to pass up. The logic that the CPO applied at the time was some pretty sporty mental gymnastics: "we optimize for conversion (looker to booker) because that's a proxy to actually delivering value to the customer." The idea was that if a customer books and stays, it means they found what they were looking for. Being stuck in a perpetual, frustrating decision paralysis sucks after all.
While I didn't agree with that framing, it's a touch less preposterous than it sounds. At the time, almost all bookings were fully refundable. So if you booked and stayed (you could have cancelled any time before the day at no cost, for most bookings), there's indeed something that went sort of right. Of course we also tried to measure CSAT in a number of ways (like net promoter scores) but those measurements are tricky at best.

In any case, one of the counter proposals, which I tried to co-champion unsuccessfully, was to add a checkbox to the account area to opt out of urgent messaging. The idea was that if you were annoyed enough by them to find that flag (or to be told where to find it) then surely it would also be better for the company to give you that and retain you as a customer? It was IIRC never tried. I was sad. It would've been a tricky to measure experiment, that would have had to be run for a long time. Loyalty measurement is hard.
Hmm, I don't understand this classification at all. Monaco is pretty well known for its population. There are countries with huge populations that I think most US college students know very little about like Indonesia.
The only way to get to the bottom of this is probably just applying for a relevant job at AT&T, get accepted by whatever means necessary (low asking salary, nepotism, etc), check their network configuration yourself, then immediately submit your resignation once you're satisfied.

I think I read somewhere about someone who did exactly like this in a software company. A new employee showed up, immediately fixed a long-standing bug, then submit their resignation.
Hasn't Intel supported DMA into L3 cache for something like a decade now?
Freaked Out [by GPT]? We Can Prepare for A.I.
This is wildly unhealthy and un-selfaware.
Another way to think about it: floor rounds down, so there are intervals of numbers which all have the same floor, so you can break the problem up into intervals where floor(x/2) is constant. On [0, 2), floor(x/2) = 0, on [2, 4), floor(x/2) = 1, on [4, 6), floor(x/2) = 2, etc. So in each interval you are integrating e^(x/2) multiplied by e^0 or e^-1 or e^-2 etc. Effectively the same integral 1000 times, and the different limits and constants balance out in the end (try it to see that).
References "[Submitted on 31 Mar 2023]
Programmed but Arbitrary Control Minimization of Amplitude and phase for speckle Nulling (PACMAN)"
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.18231

No idea if that's a joke paper.
Humans are more dangerous than radiation.
Transcript at

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/21/podcasts/ezra-klein-podca...

Podcast at

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaked-out-we-really-...
> I think the idea is that if it’s important to rich parents, they will grudgingly fund education for everyone.

it doesn't cost more for a teacher to open up an algebra book and teach from that instead of from the pre-algebra book. unless there are scheduling difficulties which somehow prevent one classroom's worth of students from being crammed into the same room in the same slot, the imagined lack of money isn't going to impact the contents of the curriculum.

this isn't like when we thought we needed to cram schools full of computers and they were going to cost money. one math class is an expensive as another to teach. we don't even need new textbooks. hell, we probably don't even need textbooks, just have them do exercises online or something.
Yep. Take German for example. Any subordinate clause puts all verbs at the end in reverse order (SOV; it used to be all clauses but as with many languages it started to shift toward SVO).

I like cats, because cats like me.

translates to

Ich mag Katzen, weil Katzen mich mögen.

which directly translates to

I like cats, because cats me like.

This is a simple example but gets sufficiently complex as the sentence does. All of the verbs get pushed to the end, which as an English speaker means you have to mentally construct the sentence first and know which verbs you need to use prior to using them.

It gets further complicated because verbs also change the tense of the sentence, which ultimately dictates which articles to use (der/die/das/den/des/etc. - all meaning "the" - or ein/einen/eine/eines/etc. - all meaning "a").

And yes, native speaking Germans screw it up all the time, too. Just like English speakers mess up "a" and "an", "me and my friends", "your/you're", etc.
auto1111 saves generation parameters as text into exif/png data chunks, so you can re-create generations done by other people/yourself in the past. 4chan strips metadata from images, hence the need for catbox.
I'd personally rather we put content warnings on books than we did this. But most of all I'd rather we just accepted the past is another country.

Maybe footnotes or side notes? That would be in the spirit of contextualising panels beside historical works which need some 'yea but' added.
Substantial effort I don't doubt. First probably years of learning how things work under the hood for most normal mortals.
DMA on x86 does update contents of CPU caches.
I agree, but then again I don’t think prompt injection attacks are as severe as SQLi or XSS attacks. The latter can be disastrous for your application if even one is found, while for prompt injection the worst can happen is that the user will spoil their own user experience when using an LLM-based product. Of course everything depends on the use case and thus in the current stage of LLMs I would not use them in any security-critical applications.
Yeah exactly this. It doesn't need more VRAM since you inpaint small sections (~512x515) of the image manually. It takes more time but gives the best results.

The automated equivalent is SD Upscale or TiledVAE
> Math at the college level is very useful

Useful to whom? I've been coding for 30 years and the most complicated math ever I used was for calculating distance between two lat/lon points and even that I looked up.

Is it useful to an average worker sitting in front of a PC? I do not believe so.
Right, I did not specify what L ;) And the original article did not mention either.
Is It Cruel to Use Bees as Digital Sensors? [video]
Are there some research done on Linux, as that seems to have a much more loosely coupled org?
> Linear algebra is not hard

Keep in mind that this term covers a huge range of math that can be introduced at very different levels of abstraction and generality. You might think linear algebra is mainly matrix multiplication and Gaussian elimination, someone else might think it's about the representation functor in Abelian categories.
Enterprise contract lifecycle management (CLM) software is a fantastic solution for comprehensive, efficient contract lifecycle management. A CLM solution designed for corporations consolidates a company's legal agreements into a single location that automates operations, fostering clear communication and effective cooperation.
> Some kind of Stockholm syndrome in the wheels of capitalism.

Status seeking is independent of economic system.

I find “capitalism” has become a placeholder word for “emergent systems we don’t like”. After all, ≈50% of GDP is government spending which is closer to socialism than we might like to admit.

The single biggest drive that seems to grease the wheels is our natural desire for status. For the middle class this often is shown by our property purchases - bidding against others until we can only just afford the repayments for a house in a nice neighbourhood. We then spend many working years trying to pay off the mortgage, and we often upgrade if we get more income.

It appears most obvious when we look at other cultures, where the drive for status shows up in other ways. For example a truck owner in Northern Pakistan spending equivalent of 7 months of wages adding custom bling to his truck: https://youtu.be/1quNm7Ctd-Q?t=21m58s although he justifies it “such decorations are good for business: shows the client I am doing well”.
Europe needs energy. Moroccan solar may be a clean solution
Growing up in Seattle in the 90s, the school district was obviously racist and classist. Advanced programs were in the richer (whiter) neighborhoods and poor kids got to go to schools with police wagons out front.

The district charter use to have a line in it saying they had to offer each kid the best education possible. My mother used that line to force the school district to send a taxi to every day to take me up to a richer part of the city with better schools. That line of the charter has since been removed as from what I can tell kids now are at the mercy of their circumstances.

There is some fair arguments to make that mixing kids of different backgrounds together improves outcomes, if you take 1 kid from a poor background and surround that kid with a culture of success, there is a very large chance the kid will pick up on that culture of success and start doing better.

So, kernel of truth behind some of these policies.

IMHO the problem is, this plan only works if the vast majority of students are high achievers. If you have 10% of the students who are high achievers and you mix everyone together, after a few years you end up with no high achievers.

America in general needs to seriously look at how we as a culture approach education, until we fix that, there isn't much the schools can do to actually improve outcomes for underprivileged students en masse.
I mean the whole being strict on the south was not just Grant's view, there were lots of people who wanted it. Johnson evidently wanted to be more lenient but was forced by the Congress to be hard.

As far as McClellan winning the war!! That really moves the alternate history from the realm of Science Fiction to one of Fantasy.
Its utility is extremely limited - it cannot be vetted and it has already been seen reporting delusions as facts.

It cannot be used in any scenario where the results need to be reliable.
What application? That's 8x 8K or 32x 4K. Even theoretical futuristic giant displays would not need that.
Running start credits, being based on community college credits, don't even transfer cleanly to state schools. When I did running start, this was the cautious advice.

There are plenty of other reasons to do running start, aside from transfer credits. Access to higher level subjects you wouldn't have access to otherwise.

Personally, I traded high school PE for scuba and yoga, a full year of A&P, college calculus, and an intro year of psych.

Transfer credits had very little to do with it - it was just a more fulfilling curriculum.
Good luck! I have some workflow videos on Youtube https://youtube.com/pjgalbraith. But I haven't had a chance to show off all the latest techniques yet.
Implementing an underspecified CSS feature (Flexbox gaps) in Ladybird Browser
(I’m the author.) I will not then. It surprises me that the JVM would handle null pointers by hoping dereferencing one would raise a segfault, considering that the JVM is written in C AFAIK where such dereferencing invokes undefined behavior, not a memory access at address 0 which would segfault most of the time.
The government should do as little as possible. That they do a thing poorly is but one reason among many for them to lose the privilege of doing that thing.
There is also food stamps (SNAP) which is meant to be supplemental, but technically speaking is enough to survive off of if you do not have any income.
Just to further highlight how muddied the origin waters are, there absolutely was a connection to Depeche Mode. At one point, the band stopped by The Music Institute, one of the clubs considered a "birthplace" of Detroit Techno. Interestingly, Kai Alce (aside: highly recommend checking out his work if you're unfamiliar) from the quote below recently shared this New Yorker piece in support of Detroit being the origin of Techno.

>The Music Institute’s juice bar – in tandem with its membership scheme – helped the owners keep a “grip on the tone” of the club, according to Miller. Only Depeche Mode seemed to object to the no alcohol policy. John McCready, reporting on Detroit techno for The Face in 1989, escorted the band to the bar. “Then they got there and realized there was no liquor, and it was too late to get them any,” said Kai Alcé, who had been hired to work the coat check. “Waters all round,” was Martin Gore’s rueful response.

https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2017/05/music-institut...
Because you seem to have not looked at the policies of the German greens in the 1980s and the pollution landscape of the time.
I think the idea behind agents is to have them a bit less constrained.
If you can force input/output with better prompts that might help.
Or if you can reduce the temperature of the underlying LLM generation, that could make it a bit more deterministic.

Or switch to using a chain.
It's almost as if people who can afford to eat better, do eat better.
Ew no. Evenings and weekends are for family, friends and me time. I just refuse to work outside of working hours. I’m ok with being let go if that doesn’t work for the company. Priorities have never been clearer
There's the PPIN MSR on some CPUs but access to it needs to be enabled in FW before you can read it.
I don't think the definitions quite line up. When you look at the linked definition for https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_France for example, it says: "Homelessness in France is a significant social issue that is estimated to affect around 300,000 people - a figure that has doubled since 2012 (141,500) and tripled since 2001 (93,000). Around 185,000 people are currently staying in shelters, some 100,000 are in temporary housing for people seeking asylum and 16,000 live in slums." This is very different than the homeless living out on the streets of so many major American cities.

Reading the , the stat on https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_... for the US is ~500k, while the page linked in the table, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_S..., starts with "In the United States, the number of homeless people varies from different federal government accounts. In 2014, approximately 1.5 million sheltered homeless people were counted." so the higher ~1.5M would seem to correspond to the definition for number reported in the table from France.
Making tertiary education free doesn’t mean you lower your standards like they have done here.
We're talking about HS intro classes, so my use of Linear Algebra was at the same level as saying, well, Algebra. E.g. Non-math major uses of those terms.

Almost any subject in math can go really deep!
The Future of AI-Driven Design and Development, Today
Sushi isn't a great food to point to in all of this.

American sushi is full of sugar and most of the specialty rolls are soaked in even more sugar and five different varieties of flavored mayonnaise.
We are also launching our product now. It will be available for trial on a free introductory. I don't think about monetization. Just want to make a useful product.
I have created many different websites for myself. But I was always apprehensive that my sites could be hacked at any moment, and data and money from projects could be stolen. Therefore, I decided to assemble a team of experienced enthusiastic engineers and develop a scanner that protects against site destruction, theft of personal information, and implementation of data that changes the database and its content. Hope this will be helpful.
I wonder if the template syntax with no explicit terminator for variables and expressions is a good idea. I can see many footguns for the user and the parser…
One needs to do multiple passes, not sure if that is to be considered a PhD level problem.
I don't think that's true. Floor is a piecewise function, so you follow the rule for integrating piecewise functions and break it into a sum of integrals of each piece, then follow the rules for those (they're all basically the same, so you don't need to do 1000 of them). You don't need to think about periodic functions at all.
That's a pretty good article, but I expect more in-depth information on booting modern Intel CPUs ... I am very interested in modern UEFI / BIOS firmware development and how do they bring up x86 CPUs, but unfortunately there are very little source (I guess, except for EDK2), and the majority (?) of x86 firmwares are proprietary. Booting x86 is much more complicated than writing a linker script with a vector table for your microcontroller ... so, this seems very interesting.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-04/americans...
Am I the only one that sees such urgency messages and then thinks: Well ok, then not? I'm orienting, looking at options, I'm just annoyed if my final list contains options that are gone by the time I feel ready to make a choice. The whole thing just makes me annoyed and look for other options.

I had the same with a guy that wanted to sell us a mortgage, he said: "Better decide now, interest rates are probably going up next week." one day later he calls again: "You need to decide soon." So I tell him, "Ok, thank you we will not be going with your service then, I prefer to take time and I don't like this pressure." The guy was almost speechless. So I guess he expects people to be persuaded.

Another example: The parents of a friend had their whole kitchen drawn and an offer on the table. So they want to take it home to think it over. The seller tells them: "What? No! I have to ask my manager if I am allowed to let you go like this, we went through a whole process!" So they actually sign! Same thing happened to friends, they told the seller: "What, this is not a prison, are you crazy!"... and they left.

I guess most people are in the "I will allow myself to be pressured into stuff I don't want"-camp. I guess those are the people that also cave under pressure when being social engineered for access to their credit card. Maybe we can do something with this knowledge? Booking.com knows who the people are that will cave, to a degree I guess. Well it would be difficult to separate them from the people that just decide fast.
The incentive alignment problem in digital health startups
Algebra in 9th grade??? I'm pretty sure we were doing basics of algebra in 6th, at most 7th grade in bumfuck nowhere western PA (graduated 2012).
Maybe the trick is to remove poverty, it's not hard to do
Extrinsic motivation works, for a decent percentage of people, as long as the reward keeps comming.
Therefore it would probably need to be coupled with more vocational training/ apprenticeships/ internships to ease passage into the adult world of extrinsic motivations.
How I set-up my iPhone to work For Me, Not Against
Wow awesome to see folk like this out on HN
Work life balance is much better in the United States. The salaries are much higher so anyone who wants to can save enough to quit and take a vacation whenever they want.

I mean I regularly take more vacation than most Europeans do in a year and every once in a while I've just quit for a break.

America is what you make of it. Many Americans like grinding it out. I like making a shit ton of money and enjoying my life.

Europeans are obsessed with what benefits their governments will grant them and Americans are just not wired that way. This is not unique to me in a high earning tech job. Even qualifying for free health care is not as difficult as some people think. Case in point, I accidentally signed my family up for Medicaid when I was recently laid off. I paid nothing. So many of my fellow colleagues paid their own way because the common narrative is that healthcare is not free in the us.

I was making 240k a year but because my income was zero for one month my kids got free medical and my wife and I was a hundred something a month. If I truly had earned nothing that year it would have been free for everyone. Unfortunately, my colleagues, due to the common narrative that America does not have free healthcare, chose to spend money on cobra or private marketplace insurance when it would have been free if they just applied. did I mention the state also gave me free money during my sabbatical and that finding a new job was absolutely no problem due to how hot even the bad tech economy is.

What do I realistically have to complain about? Everyone in my family, despite their job and I come has retired early and loved out their life on their own terms (all immigrants here too if that matters). I truly sympathize with those who are shackled by debt and other issues, but they are largely choice of their own doing. For any arbitrary person choosing to live in the eu or the us, the only question is who is better at finances... You or your government. If you are better than America will work out great. If your government is better. Maybe europe.
Hi! Nice idea. We are also launching our product now. We've found beta testers on Betalist, Betabound, BetaPage, Reddit, Quora, Killerstartups.com, Betatestershub, Dev.to, Boomstarter, Indiegogo.

I think you’ll find your testers there in no time.
> But as long as they have these outlets where they can just educate their own kids and leave everyone else behind, they will.

Education is a collective action problem. Parents care more about their own child's education than the education of other children. This should not be surprising, and it cannot be changed.
Couldn't the same be said of Google, or especially search engines in general during the early internet days?

For me, I dont know if ChatGPT will be significant or the Palm Pilot to todays iPhone, but I do feel this AI path is going to be a game changing for human development some time in the not too distant future, hopefully for the better.
Some countries even pay students to attend their highest ranking engineering schools.
If anything free education allows you to raise your standards. The group of applicants who are academically qualified should be strictly larger than the group that's both academically qualified and willing to pay tuition. With a larger pool of qualified applicants you can afford to reject more of them.

(Caveat: This doesn't work if the point of your university is mostly to signal that its graduates came from a family wealthy enough to send them to your university.)
I chuckled and cheered at the same time. It is who I am; it is who we are. "The chief business of America is business." - Coolidge
> Extrinsic motivation works, for a decent percentage of people, as long as the reward keeps comming.

Therein lines the problem.

Pay people enough $ and they'll go to the gym and get in shape, but once the $ stops they'll almost universally stop going.

Take people who have a regular gym habit, start paying them, stop paying them and most of them will stop going to the gym, adding in the extrinsic motivation will actually destroy the intrinsic motivation (and pleasure!) they once had around the activity.

With enough extrinsic only motivators, people stop feeling any actual joy in life, everything becomes a fight for an external reward.