skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't have too much trouble getting girls when I was younger, in my home country... but once I got a bit older, and I mean around early 20's, not 40's, it started getting really difficult, and not for lack of trying... I was pretty much a party animal at the time, and would do pretty much all sort of things to meet girls and hopefully start a serious relationship, which was my real goal for quite a lot of time. I went to university events I knew there would be girls (not in my department, CompSci was almost entirely male). Gym. Festivals. You name it, I did it. I even tried approaching a really geeky girl I knew, as I thought she might be a good partner as she was a bit like me, just more extreme in her introvertness... after a few "dates", she had to told me she's lesbian, and I had no clue :D.

I really hurts to say that I completely failed. I saw lots of friends getting girls so easily while the girls I approached seemed to be offended by me even trying. I did end up having a couple of short relationships with women I was completely unattracted to, unfortunately... but of course, it couldn't last.

I made it my number one priority to find a wife (now I was past 30's already).
So I started online dating, which I found miserable and humiliating. Nothing much came of it. Until I finally went on international sites. Likely, most of it was scam, but basically the first woman I started communicating seriously with became my wife, eventually... funny how things go.

But at the cost of me having to move to another country, something I had no intention of doing... but as my number one priority, I made the sacrifice of moving and leaving everything behind, as she told me from the beginning she would not move for me.

We're still married, more than 10 years later, but I really miss "home", and even though she's quite good to me, I wouldn't say we're a perfect match... I had to give up not just the country where I lived, but things like having children (she doesn't want any) and visiting my family often (she doesn't like them). Everyone knows I moved just because of my wife, and it feels horrible to me because, truth be told, there are so many gorgeous women where I came from and they know it too :(.

I am at least happy I didn't end up alone.

All I am saying is: if you think it'll just happen naturally... well, it won't... but be careful how far you're willing to go to make it happen. Maybe it's not worth it.
It genuinely sounds like you may have absorbed and accepted the quirks of their interface.

I started using Spotify after Google killed Google Music. I find it totally egregious. My playlists feel hidden from me. Search is infuriating. The path to a full album is many clicks away. Even finding albums vs singles vs EPs is tough. In fact the app seems to discourage full-album listening. The recommendations for me have so far been totally completely underwhelming. And I'm constantly having Joe Rogan shoved in my face, not to mention a whole host of other stuff I have zero interest in.

We all get used to different paradigms, but Spotify feels like a particularly bad (and constantly shifting) case. If it was all I knew, I might think differently.
Did she do it as part of an experiment, or did she decide to do it, and then they made an experiment out of it?
There's a lot of fascist-apologists on this site. It's truly bizarre.
Some one was trying to revive mammoth ! what happened to that project.
Yeah, it is so similar because I blatantly copied it. I had the old Changelog podcast episode with Mike Perham pretty much on repeat when I tried to figure out how exatly to set up my business.
> I am building a Zillow for Europe [1]

As a European, I (at least) don't understand what this means - and therefore don't understand your offering, your USP?

What does/will Homestra offer, and how will it be different from e.g. Immobilienscout?
I'd argue that it's a form of nihilism, and that nihilism itself is at best benign and at worst destructive. You can't build a functioning society or legal code based on "good and evil don't exist, we're all just animals". Even acknowledging that partial truth you eventually have to choose a subjective value system to make moral decisions. Perhaps it's a somewhat useful perspective in evolutionary science/research, but that's as far as it goes. I wouldn't recommend it as a life philosophy unless you just want to be an ascetic hermit, and there's a reason ascetic hermits are viewed as more zoo animals than anyone of importance, and they aren't very common or influential. Not that a true ascetic would care, their entire existence is eating their own tails to feel superior.
If it’s anything like the Mars 1000 trip by Reid Stowe then the science thing might be more for publicity than for actual usable science.
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How would Chicago be safer with more guns? Please explain this logic.
What does the substack notes thing have to do with governmental censorship or how does it refute my point in any meaningful way?
> But it's a semantic discussion about a novel and not well understood topic

I agree entirely.
> It makes the point that VC funding has inflated price levels across the board, similar to how college tuitions rose dramatically after student debt became widely available.

What's the evidence for that assertion? For the analogy to work VC funding would need to be a dominant factor in IT spending. Last year it was about $200B vs ca. $2T of overall IT spending. [0, 1] But VC spending is not IT spending--in fact it's probably on the order of 10% because most of the money goes to things like R&D and customer acquisition. So it's fair to argue VC spending has inflated salaries but it does not seem like enough to move the needle on IT spending in a material way.

I'm personally skeptical of the argument from the cited article because I run a company that does pretty much exactly what IOMETE is proposing. In practice, there are many confounding factors.

1. The database market is very competitive. There are very few segments that don't have 2, 3, or more substitutable products for green field applications. For existing application there are high switching costs that mute impact of lower product prices. In plain English: we lose those deals.

2. We've seen impact from startups losing funding, but it does not affect prices so much as revenue when customers simply disappear. The same thing happened at the end of the Internet boom in 2001/2.

What will make a difference in this market is offering a completely different model, such as fully open source projects that promote competitive vendor offerings without high lock-in.

p.s., Thanks for the Snowflake numbers. I just went off their last reported results.

[0] https://www.ey.com/en_us/growth/venture-capital/q4-2022-vent...

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/821769/us-spending-it-pr...
Steve Jobs was one of the greatest marketers in recent history, and from that perspective he really was "totally dependent on them for [his] life and well-being".

Others did the work going from zero to one, he did the work of going from one to a hundred.
Yes, it can be quite frustrating. On my search engine[0] I tag sites that use captcha services and browser checks so that the user has more transparency and can choose to avoid sites that use these services if they want.

[0] https://ichi.do
He had a job running the commissary but even that only filled so much time. He would have loved anything that allowed him to learn a skill he could have used on release.
Image Handling in Web Development
On AMD's amd64 platforms there is not much for the firmware to do in terms of the platform bring up as everything that is inside the CPU MCM gets initialized to some sane state (by a PSP-like additional management core, but AFAIK it is distinct hardware from PSP) before the actual CPU cores come out of reset. Most of what BIOS/UEFI firmware do on these platforms is about providing the right PC-like abstractions to the running OS.

If you control the OS and do not have to support backward compatibility you can shift lot of that logic into the OS itself and you end up with the firmware being essentially an ELF loader, which is not a bad description of what PHBL actually does.

On the Intels side of things the FSP is somewhat complex piece of software that does various low-level poking at the hardware in order to make running sane code possible.

There probably is a historical reason for that in that AMD started with K8 Opterons which are ccNUMA with packet switched interconnect from the inception and relegating initial power on configuration of that to the amd64-side firmware is not exactly an practical design (at least without breaking various assumptions inherent in the "PC" platform). Contrast that to Intel who got something like 15 years worth of products that used variations of the same Pentium Pro FSB (which as an shared bus removes some of the complexity involved in the platform initialization).
Wow this is lovely! Really reminds me of the Mac apps from the power PC era.
Is Tidal still prioritizing US hiphop? I really liked it (about 5 years ago) but left because they pushed e.g. Beyonce to me on every visit on every possible surface despite me having a completely different taste in music.
I see the demagoguery going the other way.

Fear Uncertainty & Doubt are being used again and again to obstruct basic sensible user asks like being able to use Arduino Web Editor or work with their midi keyboard. Fear is the worst demagoguery of all.

Put it behind a permission! Only turn it on if the user installs a PWA! The idea that Moz/Safari know better than to give users what they want, to deny the web basic possibilities: that is demagoguery. It was never based in sound perspective.
Before I started using wireguard I would install nmap and figure out which computer I needed to remote into for my local network.
Didn't know that. Thank you. That's like a Mr. Wonderful deal structure.
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Also if you don't think you're enlightened, you probably aren't.
While that may be true, it's not what Spirit has said. They have reported that "...a non-standard manufacturing process..." was used to assemble "two of eight points where the vertical fin is attached to the fuselage.".

As an example; this could be as minor as using a riveting tool that hadn't been inspected on the correct schedule but was still operating as expected. It could be far more serious; perhaps that riveting tool was operating at a dangerously low pressure resulting in a poorly attached vertical fin.

We don't know yet. If this had happened before the 737 Max debacle I would have complete trust in Boeing's and the FAA's assessment that "...that there is no immediate safety issue.”. As it is I can't help being a little skeptical, that loss of trust is a real shame.
As I noted in a sibling comment, I don’t think censorship is constructive or positive. I do think that art can, and perhaps especially will, arise in repressive scenarios. Solzhenitsyn comes to mind. Clearly nobody denies the artistic value in his writings, and equally clearly, nobody proposes it to be a good idea to subject people to that kind of horror.
I’m not sure about that, but I’m looking forward to finding out
You could just, you know... talk to people. I've spent a lot of time in Korea/Japan and in both of those countries Xi is not hyped up to be evil despot that Western media makes him out to be. There's a very good reason why American media specifically tries to make China seem like an evil empire, and it has to do more with data collection from undersea cables and owning the world's reserve currency than it does good or evil.

If Xi is pure evil, you should be worried about how much investment American companies are receiving from evil CCP-affiliated entities, as well as how much money gets America is spending on evil CCP-sponsored manufacturing...
Dallas Mavericks fined $750k by NBA for “conduct detrimental to the league”
If you learned to type on a Selectric like I did, a lot of computer keyboards are unpleasant. The C64's and its ilk are especially bad.
I left Spotify after over a decade of daily usage several months ago. For all the reasons you have listed.
> evil is deliberately harming others

I don't think this definition of evil survives the trolley problem.
> potentially over-reaching laws

I was with you until you mentioned over-reaching. Problem is, there's a small segment of the population that will literally die from sesame. 0.3% total sesame allergies, maybe less will get death as the side effect. It's perfectly reasonable to require companies to omit sesame from products that don't have it labeled, and forbid cross contamination. It's also reasonable for companies to consider including it and labeling it for ease of operations. I worked in the food industry and dealing food cross-contamination is really hard. There is no one-size-fits-all for public health on a scale as large as the US.
I hope my tone doesn't come across as rude or too argumentative, but I think your understanding is a bit inaccurate.

> it's under your control to find a host that doesn't have these issues

All hosts will have these issues, the only question is how often. If you need 100% consistency, then you can't use the free Sidekiq. Personally, I've never needed Sidekiq pro (as these kinds of crashes are extremely rare). But this will depend on your scale and use case.

> And not even a full-on ACID database is going to be 100% reliable if you yank the power cord at the wrong moment

This is only true if there's bugs in the DB, or some underlying disk corruption happens. The whole point of an ACID database is that they're atomic, durable, and consistent, even in the worst case scenario. If a power failure corrupted my SQL database I would feel very betrayed by the database.
As a European I am a bit surprised by this comment. Resistant based light bulbs have been banned already for some years, and all the LED lighting you can get in stores just work? Don't really have to think about it. Also would not assume that a 220V grid would make this easier.
Couldn't one entity just run a bunch of small instances and federate them all together?
Sorry, what is GTM?
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It was a legitimate question. I truly don't understand how anyone can imagine property crime as "not scary". I was trying to get a better understanding of the person so that I would not be rude if he actually was neurodivergent.

It's extraordinarily hard to differentiate between trolls and non-trolls online anymore so I don't see what's wrong with asking that of someone.
There's ambiguity in the word, as far as whether there is official auditable documentation somewhere or merely word of mouth / apocryphal "records"
You're being very pedantic about something that's fundamentally arbitrary and culturally defined. What makes your preferred usage the correct one?
It was voluntarily. Incredible, of course, but the title is a bit misleading.
To supply a data point: As of Zig 0.11.0-dev.2615+0733c8c5c, on an x86_64-linux host, the C backend is passing 1568 behavior tests compared to 1587 behavior tests passed by the LLVM backend on the same host. So, yes, it is not 100% there yet - it is 99% there :-)
Democracy leads to better government in general, which leads to reduced corruption. People in Islamic countries accurately think their countries are corrupt: https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2022
I guess no one should ever user the term "objective" when referring to anything that interfaces with morality then? If I say "curing cancer is an objective good for humanity", you'd wag your finger and call me out there as well?

There is no pink, only salmon. Got it.
Agree to disagree I guess, because "the tendency to second guess as you're writing" sounds like a totally natural object phrase to me.
> They also may not even bother warrantying a dead battery or tool unless it is painlessly easy

I'm this way as an individual customer, to be honest. I ignore warranties entirely because they're rarely worth all of the hassle that comes with them.
Technical point: The Suez canal is a sea-level waterway, and even has a slow rate of flow. There are no locks.

The floor of the canal is definitely below sea level. There's a 1.2 m difference in sea level between the two ends, and the canal is 24 m deep.

That said, without maintenance it would indeed revert to a land bridge.
> Most people live on the coast with more cloud cover. This means rooftop solar is naturally distrubuted where it is less productive.

This assumes square meters of solar panels are distributed the same as population, which even as a first order approximation sounds highly suspect. An 800 sq. ft. apartment in San Francisco might house as many people as a 2,500 sq. ft. single floor house on a half-acre in the valley, but it won't support the same size solar array.
I had not read "coffee table photobook" before, nice concept. (and yours is great, btw)

That reminds me of those big table screens that Microsoft (?) was selling years ago. Only seen in Hawai 5-0 again. Are they still for sale? What was the name?
Lots of comments here saying how much they dislike the picture itself, so I'm just putting in my two cents as a counter weight because I actually do like the picture.
Unsolicited feedback, always link to your business in your posts.

I googled “emailengine” and it’s wasn’t super obvious which was your business since so much paid ads exist for that search.
> It is perfectly legal to use other people's work, for all sort of things. Its not stealing, in many situations.

For the most part it's covered by contracts, terms, agreements, laws, and so on. Except where it doesn't really matter.

Ai is software. Data models are software. It's output is a product.
What views? My wife and I agree with each other. She is a fantastic woman, and we have two beutiful children who we love more than we ever thought possible.

What more could a man ask in life?
There's no bridge to the day from Manhattan* where Camus appeared to be spending time. There is indeed the Verazzano narrows bridge to south Brooklyn. But that would be a pretty far walk
Yes, potentially over-reaching, because it's debatable whether it's overreaching or not.

And the manufacturers doing this, is a prime example of the law of unintended consequences. Where trying to solve a problem through legislation makes it worse in the end.
When I was a kid we used to drive out to a farm every Sunday to buy milk. We'd go early because us kids liked watching the cows.

Before bottling (in glass bottles that you had to bring back) the milk would drip over some cold rollers so it wasn't cow temperature by the time it got to the milk crate in the car. It spent the rest of the week in our refrigerator and after the first night all the bottles would be cream in the top 1/3 or so of the bottle and out of this world delicious milk in the rest.

After that farm closed it took me many years to not equate the taste of "normal" store bought milk to that of water.
Stop drawing those pixels, people are dying!

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bono-of-contention/
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Making Safari your Web3 browser, Dawn Wallet launches
twitter isn't break-even; it's just broken.
I switched to Apple Music after using Spotify daily for over a decade. Music has a buggy UI as well but at least no podcasts and no books. Their discovery algorithm works better for me than Spotify (and Spotify was so good in the beginning! such a shame).
mm, maybe. I got a lot more Kanye than I wanted (>0) early on, but I was able to just ban that artist. for other stuff, it does seem to favor US hip-hop on my account, but I don't listen to a lot of hip-hop and it's mostly US-based, so YMMV. I would say that if you're making playlists of non-US and it's pushing US suggestions, that's kind of a problem, yes.
HENRY is exactly what sales managers hope their star producers will be, for life. Engineering should aim to be just passing through...
>A statistical model may "capture" explanatory relations, but can it use them?

That's the beauty of autoregressive training, the model is rewarded for capturing and utilizing explanatory relations because they have an outsized effect on prediction. It's the difference between frequency counting while taking the past context as an opaque unit vs decomposing the past context and leveraging relevant tokens for generation while ignoring irrelevant ones. Self-attention does this by searching over all pairs of tokens in the context window for relevant associations. Induction heads[1] are a fully worked out example of this and help explain in-context learning in LLMs.

>Anyway I find it very hard to think of language models as explanatory models. They're predictive models, they are black boxes, they model language, but what do they explain? And to whom?

The model encodes explanatory relationships of phenomena in the world and it uses these relationships to successfully generalize its generation out-of-distribution. Basically, these models genuinely understand some things about the world. LLMs exhibit linguistic competence as it engages with subject matter to accurately respond to unseen variations in prompts of that subject matter. At least in some cases. I argue this point in some detail here[2].

>how can we say which model we got a hold of?

More sophisticated tests, ideally that can isolate exactly what was in the training data in comparison to what was generated. I think the example of the wide variety of poetry these models generate should strongly raise one's credence that they capture a sufficiently accurate model of poetry. I go into detail on this example in the link I mentioned. Aside from that, various ways of testing in-context learning can do a lot of work here[3].

[1] https://transformer-circuits.pub/2022/in-context-learning-an...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/naturalism/comments/1236vzf/

[3] https://twitter.com/leopoldasch/status/1638848881558704129
> It’s quite amazing what the human mind can do. Especially when you’re crazy.

or brainwashed.
The whole 'emulate another plane' thing is plain stupid. You want the pilots to feel the plane and how it behaves and not some emulator complex state machine screwing it all up
reminder to concerned artists: we would have never commissioned you to do this
So you would think.
I replied to a comment that states:

> There's no real debate because 2/3 players actively believe & push for a small web. It's a miserable rock & hard place situation, trying to figure out what to do when there's only one ayer who believes in a web platform at all.

And dozens of replies have all managed to understand what they meant. They didn't need to define small vs big web because for those familiar with the subject matter it's a pretty intuitive way to describe the two opposing ideologies

Not every comment can be written for every reader. Which is why I recommended you read more of the thread to gain some understanding before replying.

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> Of course this is not Firefox's stance.

The "of course" is unnecessarily condescending and simply doesn't follow. Firefox OS was code named "Boot to Gecko"... as in boot into Mozilla's browser engine. Mozilla openly stated they'd push for new Web APIs to enable it.

https://groups.google.com/g/mozilla.dev.platform/c/dmip1GpD5...

For a long time all the major players were for a "big web", it's no coincidence that the only one left pushing is the only one that didn't abandon their personal web based platform.
That's actually rather brilliant.
It could potentially be fixed by overmolding the USB-C connector: keep the connector, but stick it in a little jacket to make it foolproof. A bit like etherCON[0]: compatible, but way more rugged. They actually already have variants for USB-A![1]

There is already a USB-C variant, but that one seems a bit lacking.[2]

[0]: https://www.neutrik.com/en/products/data/ethercon

[1]: https://www.neutrik.com/en/neutrik/products/multimedia-conne...

[2]: https://www.neutrik.com/en/neutrik/products/multimedia-conne...