skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you recommend people do? I rock climb as much as I can, and the idea that an earthquake can happen at pretty much any time and dislodge the rock I'm attached to is pretty terrifying, but at the same time, a life lived in fear isn't a life worth living to me
At least its mention code license.
See github, its actually possible!
You formed very large conclusions from one attempt
> else why would I buy their processors?

To run software that require them?
But my point was that the “random crazed homeless assailant” guess (or however you want to phrase it) was every bit as much speculation, and frankly, less plausible speculation.

And now is it not only speculation, it’s conclusively just a bad and irresponsible guess.
Kinda disappointed that only the long wheelbase version is coming to the US, the shorter wheelbase version looks like a more practical 'car' length
Why is it counter-intuitive? If you send microbes to another planet, it's not possible to figure out if there were any before you arrived.
I have to agree. The article summary says

> Transformer block: Guesses the next word. It is formed by an attention block and a feedforward block.

But the diagram shows transformer blocks chained in sequence. So the next transformer block in the sequence would only receive a single word as the input? Does not make sense.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_calculus is a term you're much likelier to find as the subject of a book. Matrices are just specific special cases of tensors, after all, and mathematicians like to generalize.

A good book on differential geometry will also probably start with an overview of tensor calculus.
There’s crime in SF but anyone whose spent significant time in SF (all of SF) would look at this crime and know that it sounded strange.

For me, the red flags were:

1. not your average tech bro

2. Rincon Hill is a weird place for a crime like this to happen - it’s relatively sleepy and the homeless population is low compared to other parts of SOMA. Not much (to none) gang/drug activity. No bars really nearby (not even high end ones - a couple of sports bars)

3. no mention of what was missing in initial reports, no hint of it being a robbery gone bad
Sounds like a good excuse to never make any profits, and keep reinvesting all revenue into more R&D?
> My son has never seen a typewriter in person or a printer that wasn’t inkjet or laser, I think he is missing out.

Next time you fly, stay close to the boarding gate when they print the manifest and there's a good chance you'll hear a glorious dot matrix printer in action.
Mentioned in another comment also: "tensor calculus" is the right term to search for if you want a full text book.
> More companies should employ such coaches and schedule regular sessions for all their employees

That honestly sounds dreadful to me, exactly the kind of management-driven nonsense that would make me more likely to quit.

If you want your employees pumped up about work, focus on treating them well not hiring cheerleaders.
I'm a $100 bill picker-upper. The efficient market hypothesis is false.
This seems like it'd be really good on spacecraft.
Not saying this is a "good" reason,
but there are indeed people who have decided this is what they want. There's a man who wanted his hand/wrist cut off so that his arm could be grafted in a way that turns his arm into crab-like claws.
i would say the following had a profound effect on me

henning mankell wallander series

louise penny three pines series
> If you support trans people's right to exist as humans

Absolutist statements like this ("if you don't agree with my point of view, that means your viewpoint is the worst of the worst") make people not want to look further into or agree with your ideology, and are ironically binary.

Those distingushing between trans women and women and those thinking trans people have no right to exist as humans are not the same group. You've bent this entire discussion to try and make it about the talking point you wanted to make, so hopefully you're pleased you did it.
Crime is bad in SF, and the murder was obviously never a random homeless person type crime. Both are true and the obvious conclusion for any reasonable person.
It shouldn't but it does because their renown gives them a platform. Similar phenomenon to Hollywood celebrities weighing in on political matters.
Snowflake’s dialect supports the first one. I discovered that accidentally and immediately fell in love.
As you move up the business ladder, or indeed start your own business, it's interesting to see how priorities evolve.

When you're a coder, the code matters. It can be frustrating to see resources allocated to say marketing.

When you are responsible for acquiring resources, then there's more to care about, more to balance. When to market. When to get new hardware.

Programmers care about code performance, code elegance, getting every pixel perfect, perfect design (for when we have s billion users). Business owners care about shipping, and getting paid. Without that the doors close.

As we grow older, as our position evolves, we have to care about more, but in some ways less deeply. There's more nuance, more compromise, more acceptance that it needs to be "good enough" - better than that even - but that perfection is an expensive goal either small returns.

I'm not arguing for mediocre, we all want the product to be better, and incrementally we move towards that. But that movement is in balance with all the other cares.
I remember a lot of it is written in Java. Was a big press thing for Sun years ago
but that doesn't cover the sizable portion of anti-vaxxers who oppose them on ideological grounds

It's your ideology against theirs...
And this is what I've been saying. Or trying to imply with lots of eyebrow-raised sarcasm!

Also, WholePaycheck closing is not about rough neighborhoods or theft so much as mismanagement. "Let's open a store where they won't force rich tech workers back to the office!" I'm not saying they needed to be a Digger store, but sheesh!
You both might enjoy an old TV series called Curiosity Show.

It's aimed at children around your daughters age (might be a few years too young, I'm not sure). It covers lots of fun science, craft, music topics and has many small activities that can be made at home.

There is a lot on YT: https://m.youtube.com/user/CuriosityShow

Some of the segments are a bit out of date now but most are still totally relevant today.
Carbon nanotubes are flammable.
If I want to watch, is it the 2-hour countdown that starts at 7:00 a.m. Central time?
Yes. And, bribes and tips are each other's opposite, in a way:

- You want people to know that you tip. Then they think better of you: a generous and thankful person.

- You want people to not know that you pay bribes.

- If you don't tip, you might look like a rude and selfish person.

- If you don't bribe, you'll look like a more trustworthy high integrity person

(well, unless seen through the eyes of those who like bribes)

- You pay bribes before. Tips after. (Typically.)

I think tips and bribes are two different animals.
> My read of the timeline is that life emerged very soon after it was physically possible for it to exist. I'm interested in research wondering why it wasn't even faster. What should I search for?

It's been a while since I researched this, and now I'm trying to search with similar terms to what I used before and it's not working. The reason seems to be that there's a ton of fluff papers about life on Mars and other planets: this sort of speculative modeling isn't without value, but it's lacking much hard evidence, unlike the papers I was reading a decade ago which had a ton of geological information. It's frustrating. I wish I could point you at something good here, if only so I could find stuff for myself again.

> My point is, "infinite monkeys" (as a metaphor, taking them literally is a strawman) describes a brute-force approach. I don't think a physical process that randomly smashes together, say, long RNA molecules will actually result in life, certainly not quickly, probably not at all. The combinatorics of long strings are prohibitive. I think some selection process needed to take over sooner.

Well, two things:

Proteins aren't like cryptographic keys, and I'd encourage you to abandon that way of thinking about them. Finding a single cryptographic key is like finding a needle in a haystack: there's only one key that works. But with proteins there are a lot of combinations that work, and even "work" is a bit hard to define because there are a lot of proteins that aren't RNA or DNA, but exhibit lifelike properties. Some of these proteins are very combinatorially simple compared to DNA. So far I don't know of any research that connects a specific prion with a theorized route toward more complex structures (these seem to have evolved in the context of larger organisms) but it at least shows us that very simple proteins can exhibit lifelike properties. Put another way, partial answers count. So instead of a needle in a haystack, it's a haystack with a bunch of needles, and bits of metal that aren't really needles but count as needles.

2. And keep in mind it's not just the problem space that's large: the amount of "processes" doing the searching is also large.

My point is, I don't think it's evident that the combinatorics of long strings are prohibitive, given that there are many "right" answers in the search space, and some partial answers count.

To actually put numbers on this to say how long it would take would require information I simply don't have, but I'm skeptical that you have that information either.
Just knee-jerk whataboutism from somebody who's confessing that what I said applies to them too. His implication is that the "other side" justifies what he did, even though he admits what he did was wrong.

The larger point is that even after he knows the actual cause, he still doesn't stop trying to spread misinformation and exploit and co-opt the death of Bob Lee for his own political agenda and pre-existing narratives.

Yet he keep doing it, in spite of how Bob Lee's family feels about it and how agonizing it is for them that he and others like Elon Musk keep co-opting his death to spread misinformation and political propoganda.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/13/us/bob-lee-cash-app-killi...

>Mr. Lee’s brother, Oliver Lee, of Palo Alto, Calif., said in an interview on Thursday that the moves to “co-opt” the tragedy had been agonizing for his family. “Bob loved being in San Francisco, and San Francisco loved Bob,” he said, adding that young people would stop his brother on the street there and ask for advice.

>He said that his brother, a father of two who had recently relocated to Miami after spending most of his career in the Bay Area and Silicon Valley, had left the city for work reasons and had returned there often, both for business and to spend time with his teenage daughters, who continued to live in the Bay Area with his former wife.

>Brooke Jenkins, the San Francisco district attorney, said that “the loss of a young, vibrant leader and innovator has rocked our city and even beyond.” But she criticized what she said were “reckless and irresponsible statements” portraying the city as a hotbed of violent crime, pointing to comments by Mr. Musk, the chief executive of Twitter and Tesla, in particular.
Only the random speculation comment was flagged. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35450340 (and I think that was correct). The following ones about the narrative were not.
The typical setup is very simple:

* Take the previous model checkpoint, retrain/finetune it on a window with new data. You typically don't want to retrain everything from scratch, saves time and money. For large models you need specialized GPUs to train them, so typically the training happens separately.
* Check the model statistics in depth. We look at way more statistics then just the loss function.
* Check actual examples of the model in action
* Check the data quality. If the data is bad, then you're just amplifying human mistakes with a model.
* Push it to production, monitor the result

MLOps practice differs from to team to team, this checklist isn't universal, just one possible approach. Everyone does things a little differently.

> I still think of how humans work. We don't get retrained from time to time to improve, we learn continually as we gain experience. It should be doable in at least some cases, like classification where it's easy to tell if a label is right or wrong.

For some models, like fraud, correctness is important. Those models need a lot of babysitting. For humans, think about how the average facebooker reacts to misinformation, you don't want that to happen with your model.

Other models are ok with more passive monitoring, things like recommendation systems.

Continuous online training can be done. Maybe take a look at reinforcement learning? It's not widely applied, has some limitations, but also some interesting applications. These types of things might become more common in the future.
I've always been impressed at the cost effectiveness of the car industry. Namely cars are a miracle of competition. No other industry has been able to sell such large and complex products for so little. Yes 30k is a lot of money but it is nothing if you consider the costs of buying a car worth of parts individually.

Which to me indicates if car manufacturers ever decide to make on roof panels a standard feature it would be a net positive value add.

The panels do produce a measurable value. Well worth the 500 dollar cost which would be possible if makers included them as standard.

The challenge is getting to that local optimal requires going through the period where roof panels are premium options. Thus I suspect we will never reach that local optima.

Instead solar panels on cars will remain the esoteric interest of hobbiests and concept cars.
Prediction: that will lead to a couple huge copyright guzzlers that will sue everyone trying to enter their market.
Mathematical Art Takes a Fresh Look at Wallpaper (2015)
Why isn't there a known company with a healthy structure that is the place of recovery for burned out developers?

'we can build it together' - why is that not happening?

>Structural problems require structural solutions. Healthy organizations, healthy people.

>How can any of us get better if we can’t afford to extract ourselves from the environment that caused the harm?

>When you’re finally in recovery, you’ll start to be able to see what an environment that doesn’t do that to you looks like. Then we can build it together.
Valve Restricts Accounts of 2500 Users Who Marked a Negative Game Review Useful
This, I almost did a spittake when I saw the Silk Road mentioned. Just salty that 50k wasn’t in the pile they got out of the ordeal to begin with.
For most of the people who don’t live on the west coast, “SF” and “Bay Area” can be used interchangeably.

Sometimes it’s used as a synonym for “FAANG HQ city” and suddenly “Bay Area” even includes Seattle and Redmond and parts of NYC.
any clarity about what exactly the jobs and who could apply?
Isn’t there a photo under the headline?
> Reading is literally one of the only things you could be guaranteed to be able to do on a day to day basis regardless of lock down status.

Why did you bring my early 2000s suburban upbringing into this?
Well for this project, it uses technology from the hypercore protocol (formerly known as DAT).

https://github.com/hypercore-protocol
> imo it would have very limited utility for the company

Could you expand on this?
Does that not diminish the benefit or am I missing something
Yes otherwise known as "Motivated Reasoning"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivated_reasoning

which I'd suggest includes somewhere above 95% + of all reasoning (where possible)
https://www.timepasses.net/ a timeline of your life, human history, and the universe

https://sunclock.net/ a 24hr clock that shows sunrise, sunset, twilight times, and the position of the sun and moon

https://bigclock.app/ it's just a clock, but BIG

They're not monetised apart from a buy me a coffee button.
The most burnout-inducing environments I’ve worked in have all had one thing in common: They had a person or class of people that had wormed their way into being in control of everything while being responsible for very little. This left the rest of us to be responsible for the consequences of their decisions while having little to no input on the things we were held accountable for.

The absolute worst company I worked for had this separation as a core philosophy. They had different managers for everything: Product managers to make all of the product decisions, UX managers to make all of the design decisions, project managers to decide when we’d do things and how to check in on our progress every few hours of every day, program managers who thought they were engineers who just didn’t write code, VPs who would choose all of your programming languages and frameworks for you, and on and on. These people would shuffle from meeting to meeting every day with a 2-hour company-paid lunch in the middle (which they ultimately got in trouble for) but wouldn’t ever do any of the work themselves. Meanwhile, if any engineer dared make a suggestion we’d get a long lecture about staying in our lanes. Then when projects were late/wrong/failed or just missed the mark about what the company needed, they would do long post mortems to assign blame to different engineers for doing it wrong. At best, they’d come up with vague statements about how “we failed as a team due to communication issues” or something.

It was the most demoralizing work environment. Every meeting was full of sad, dejected engineers. People would quit without having other jobs lined up because they just couldn’t take it any more.
Can someone explain what this is in layperson's terms? I watched the video and read the paper summary, but I don't know what I'm looking at.
So if I want to get my kid started with only the Java version, should I buy the 39.99 bundle on this page, or the 29.99 non-bundle?

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/store/minecraft-java-bedrock...

And do I need to run the server, or is that only for multiplayer?
I don't think I made any comments on this incident, but I'll admit that when I saw the story, it really resonated with my biases about SF.
Wouldn't it be more efficient for the robots to do the sorting instead of the humans so there are no mistakes that need correcting.

For one thing, when someone puts ie a custard contaminated paper plate in recycling, the custard can contaminate other paper recyclables. Too late to fix.

Just do it right the first time. Give it to a robot to sort.
Further adding to the confusion is that "debunking" can often be bullshitting.
From Wikipedia: “Visual novels are often associated with and used in the medium of video games, but are not always labeled as such themselves. They combine a textual narrative with static or animated illustrations and a varying degree of interactivity.”

To my understanding, it is a stretch to call them video games at all. More like “Oops! All Cutscenes”.
Sadly "The government" is hundreds of separate organizations, agendas and politicians all with separate cover their ass agendas, NASA probably want this to succeed, I doubt the others are as enthusiastic.
You were pretty clear you aren't against it. I was just pointing out that it's the norm, not an exception for kids
It’s the only app/service that makes people smile non-stop. It’s endless videos of cool stuff, comedy, cat videos, tech tidbits, cooking videos, etc. I’ve deleted all other social media accounts because browsing Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter made me feel like shit.

TikTok doesn’t make me feel that way, and it’s that simple. This is the same reason why a ton of people are dialing back their Instagram usage or creating “finsta” accounts - Who wants to feel insecure constantly? Same goes with Facebook.

There’s the argument “Well you’re not using those service correctly. I use FB/IG/Twitter and I’m fine. Follow these steps on how to avoid toxicity on your FB feed…” (articles like this used to be posted to HN constantly).

But the thing is… why should we have to do that? TikTok shows me content that makes me smile BY DEFAULT. I am not being milked for engagement using my fight or flight response like Meta’s lolcow.

If other apps weren’t so toxic (by design), then people wouldn’t be nervous when posting on IG, or avoiding Facebook because of the cancer comment sections and ranking systems/algorithms designed to make you angry.
Late night coffee?
> Only the random speculation comment was flagged.

But... that comment hasn't been flagged? It just says "[flagged]".

Compare this one from the same thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35456831
A Subgenius needs slack
I can see $5M per person being possible. $20M is the absurd part. 5 years with such a comp leads one to a net worth that is borderline filthy. Like elite, world renown athletes and actors level of wealth. Again, could all be true but just unexpected from my experience.
Jagga Jagga, Badaboom.
Here is blunt (but helpful) advice you are wasting your time with the version as described.
If I asked people what they want, would be faster horses...
(or whatever Henry Ford said).
Also "sane" people often don't have time to spend hours on social media.

Also2, you don't even provide links to your app.
Jagga Jagga!
Badaboom.
Why Fractals Are So Soothing (2017)
It's companies that created this problem, and I'm skeptical that a company is going to be the solution to this problem.
>Arent LLMs robust enough to learn on their own via interacting with the world?

As far as I know current LLMs are entirely static once trained, they don't learn at all in runtime.
It is not theoretically required, but most (all?) phones don't cache all the map tiles between the origin and destination. You'd have to proactively download all the map regions you think you might need.
> police are putting their lives in the line constantly

This is not borne out by the evidence - it's propaganda.
I never said my respect changed. Just that I don’t take his opinions as being as sincere as I presumed.
I think this is more of a "see I told you so" type of response from people. HN Loves to bury opinions they don't like, whether it's right or wrong. More than anything there's always a sense of everyone trying to one up everyone else and "be right." Naturally, when you say they are wrong, they are going to get mad. It's typical silicon valley hubris.
I thought the whole "integration" thing was bullshit in the first place, but a proprietary GM system?

This marks a return to the days of massively overpriced AM radios. The problem now is the way these systems are physically molded into the car. Back in the day you could put a good radio in. Good luck with that now.

All we really needed for the last 15 years was a recess in every dashboard in which to put our already-giant phones, with a power and audio dock. I can't deny that CarPlay works relatively decently in my experience, but it's not really necessary.

Even worse is the removal of auxiliary jacks from car stereos, another huge regression. So people can't even get a Bluetooth adapter that plugs into it and supplant this GM nonsense.

There is no end to the mania for screwing the consumer. Subscription car features... WTF. Keep your old cars, people.
I'm pretty sure i would crash the whole next day even if i managed to stay awake with coffee the previous night.
How to represent large numbers in your Node.js app
Probably the best example of this in the 20th century would be the argument that fat is bad for you whilst sugar/carbs was not.