skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Although I'm now regretting not having a formal education, once I hit 10+ years of project management, I may be considered for better positions. I will still be barred from many high paying positions.

Some states have recently moved to address credentialism. The following link mentions North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Utah, Maryland, and Alaska. Hopefully more states (and private companies!) follow suit soon.

https://www.schoolinfosystem.org/2023/03/25/taking-aim-at-cr...

> However, I'm growing tired of working so much for a low-end existence in this area.

As you should. This is your selfs way of telling yourself it's time for a change.

Good luck!
Arguing about whether [Mastodon] will fail is a pointless exercise in trying to predict the future.

Well, that's exactly what we're doing here. That's the point of the article, and this discussion.

On that note:

*Some people* are fundamentally product-brained and fail to metabolize the concept of federated social media. *That's fine, it's better without them.*

*You* fundamentally approach social networks with a producer/consumer mindset.[...] *The platform doesn't suffer because self-styled creators don't use it!*

*People* obsessed with building their personal brand or audience or upvote score embody much of what people hate about other forms of social media. *The platform is much improved without them.*

*Whining* about how it doesn't meet your standards *doesn't matter*. From our brief interaction here *I can tell you the platform really isn't greatly diminished by your lack of presence.*

In two comments, you managed to say 4 times that the platform would be better off without someone like me (where, each time, you are assuming something about me as if it were a fact). What gives?

I like social networks that involve people I can viably interact with in a friendly way

Was that an example of it?

Your concerns can be understood without being catered to. [...] *The world keeps turning without your permission.*

Pardon me, but here's how it looks on my end:

>Me: I think the platform would have been better for everyone if your identity on the platform weren't tied to the instance you sign up with by design.

>You: your whining doesn't matter, and the platform is better off without you

Is that how you think conversations should go? Genuinely curious at this point.
Yeah, its creator Lewis Lapham spent a loong time at the helm of Harper's magazine, to its great benefit (and mine).
This is lovely. I’ve had a vague notion that I wanted something like this… but never quite solidified my understanding of what is necessary. This is a super minimal-maximal example. Bravo.

Do equivalent programs produce the same hash?

Ie:
a = 1 + 1
Return a

Vs

a = 2
Return a

What if local internal variable names change?

Ie

b = 2
Return b
That math doesn't work -- at least until someone can demonstrate cost effective grid scale energy storage systems. In other words it is not cheaper and perhaps not greener (it isn't clear how green the production and long term maintenance of solar/wind is)

The basic problem is that in order to provide reliable energy 365 days a year you need to account for the daily and \ seasonal variability of solar and wind. You have two options:

* maintain a duplicate fossil fuel backup system (fully maintained, staffed, and fueled) for those cold windless nights (so no longer cheaper)
* deploy a storage system that can effectively time shift energy created by solar and wind across entire seasons (also not cheaper nor demonstrated with current battery technology)

Of course if you don't care about reliable electricity you have one more option:

* suck it up when there is no sun or wind available
We had responsive hardware/software 20 years ago, and car UIs are not doing anything out of the ordinary. To what do you attribute the low quality then?
AutoIt.
1. It’s a very complex problem…and the solution isn’t coal. Because natural gas is cheaper than coal, and less polluting.

2. We build a robust safety net with worker retraining and…haha, I can’t even finish that sentence. It’s the same thing that tends to happen to the working class: nothing good.
It becomes a ranking problem in a sense. Lots of data that can be the answer and lots of context that “could” be relevant to put into the context window but then you have to pick the right context and answer with the most correct information which becomes less clear as your dataset increases.
I couldn't find a single reference in any codebase to "[^te]datomic" at one of those MAANGs mentioned.
I use booking.com quite a bit and I've never had that issue.
> You are using Canvas right now. WebGL uses Canvas to render to the screen.

Ehhh sort of. Canvas is much older than webgl. When we talked about canvas a few years ago, that always referred to the canvas DOM element and its associated 2D shape based API. (fillRect / moveTo / lineTo / etc). When Webgl appeared, the nomenclature was "using canvas" vs "using webgl", since webgl's API is completely different from the 2d canvas API.

But browser manufacturers didn't give webgl its own DOM element. Webgl also uses a canvas DOM element, then configures it differently. (getContext("webgl") instead of getContext("2d")). So if you're using webgl (which I think this app is doing), then you're "using canvas" in the sense that your HTML contains a <canvas> element. But you aren't using the canvas 2d API - which, as I said, is totally different from webgl and is also called "canvas" because it was here first. And it doesn't have another name.

In defence of the GP comment, I think its pretty clear from context that "Canvas layers on top of WebGL/GPU draw calls" refers to the canvas API, not the canvas DOM element.
I tried, but turns out they won't let people live too close to a rocket launch site. Something about safety concerns. Who knew?!
Musk's Twitter complied with all government requests. Dorseyite Twitter complied with 50% . I assume the famed Twitter free speech and anti deep state crowd is up in arms about this unseemly deep state cooperation
I hope they dont overkill it and only delete irrelevant images. Imgur is my refuge and would hate to see it retire like tumblr. But i do see a point in deleting useless content.
Do you mean successful in many areas such as science, art, or business? Comparing to their population size. Genuinely asking.
They do show the coriolis effects on Eros(https://expanse.fandom.com/wiki/Coriolis_Effect).
But yes, for the most part we should see more awkward movement at such low g. Both Eros and Ceres are at 0.3g
Well said, all!

I particularly appreciate hearing someone other than me point out that Dune is very much not the hero’s journey. The first book sure rhymes with it, with some odd dissonant notes if that’s all you’re expecting. I loved the Lynch movie, but it basically leaned into the hero’s journey on acid, so it worked (for my adolescent self) as a movie, but was clearly not something hewing to the point of the series.

I feel like this new take is much more likely to capture the ambiguity of operating at the scale of galactic civilization rapture and stasis. We’ll have to see the next film to know!

I am shocked every time I hear people be surprised that the dinner scene was removed. There’s no way to translate that scene to film in a way viewers could understand, and I don’t get why people feel it was so load bearing to the novel.
Which was always an amazing take, since Facebook works by giving you a few minutes to catch up on friends/groups while you're sitting on the toilet or waiting for a bus. It doesn't require you to be in a quiet place and more or less concentrating for an hour in order to get anything out of it.
> but a whole region going down could be a real continuity risk

Very much so - Australia only got a second region this year, so if your work required data to remain in Australia, you just had to hope that ap-southeast-2 didn't have a major issues.
I'm sure there are plenty of other countries with only a single region.
For 1, is it possible to fallback to non-renewables?
It did seem a bit odd they threw their sales team under the bus so readily. The narrative on the call insinuated that they got lazy in sales due to covid and the current business environment was not the issue. The solution for lower guidance was to fire 100 sales people and hire new sales staff. Good luck to the new sales staff I guess. No pressure, obviously.
does anyone know if it can do search of any tensor across latent space? or is it mostly on text tensor?
> I can think of no valid reason why a (supposedly privacy-respecting) email relay service should require a browser extension to be installed.

I can answer this one: they're fine with not knowing who anyone is, but they're trying to make sure that each account maps to one real person — they're trying to prevent spammers from registering thousands of accounts to use to send spam, and from continuously registering more accounts whenever they get banned.

A browser extension that feeds their service a heartbeat packet every once in a while from a particular IP address, is a Proof of Identity. It ties the email account accessed through that browser, to a browser installation of the extension, such that you can only actively use as many email accounts as you have devices x installed browsers (which might be a surprisingly high number to you, a normal person with legitimate use-cases for multiple email accounts; but is still a problematically low number compared to the number of accounts the average spammer wants to register — especially when most of those accounts get banned in short order.)

This is a workaround for the fact that there's as-of-yet no such thing as an "anonymous identity verification service" — something like an OAuth IdP that deduplicates users on the client-to-IdP side through strong identity verification on registration (photo of your passport, webcam picture with this hand gesture, you know the drill); but then protects client anonymity on the IdP-to-service side. If you had to SSO to your DDG email through such a service, then they very likely wouldn't be asking you to install the extension.
> since 2020, the division has lost a massive $30 billion.

This is absolutely bonkers. Billions burnt on research and software that nobody uses, and in the meantime we haven't seen a hardware upgrade for the (consumer) Quest since.
Chat history may work, it depends on how long it is and the business model.

I don't quite understand how general summarization would work. If you use an LLM to simply to summarize in order to feed it into a prompt, the summarization needs to be specific to the query. i.e. "summarize what this text says about topic X". You can't summarize long text in a generic way without losing information. Or do I misunderstand the comment?

If you have a perfect table of context (or better, an index by topic) you may not need semantic search. But for the typical use case we are seeing you have unstructured data without an index (e.g. tech support knowledge db entries, company reports, emails). For that, semantic search work quite well.

For the sizes, the observation is that the data that people want to search over (e.g. your email, a wiki, JIRA, a knowledge base) is far larger than the context length. You are correct that we assume that inference cost and speed won't decrease sufficiently quickly in the near future. Why is a longer topic, but in a nutshell GPU speed increase is ~2.5x gen/gen and other than overtraining vs. Chinchilla we don't see immediate model gains. But that is speculative, we don't know what's in store.

To some degree we are just reacting to user adoption in the market. We don't build these systems, but if we see enough of them eventually we recognize the pattern. And while I am optimistic, we could be wrong. AI is major revolution and we are all students.

edit: disclaimer, I work for a16z.
This is why climate accounting startups are dumb. Soon, very soon, clean energy and electric cars will literally be cheaper. Why track carbon credits anymore?
I came for the critique of early century British naval life, but I definitely stayed for the romance <3
OP's post is case in point, it took me less time to use traditional search to refute the output of ChatGPT

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35736072
During the last years I read a lot of meta-analysis of ivermectin and hidroxycloroquine. My conclusion is garbage in, garbage out. There are good meta-analysis and bad meta-analysis.
Show HN: Hands-free interface and chat switching for GPT using iPhone shortcuts
Population size is correlated with a million other things, so considering population alone isn’t that helpful unless you have a specific way to tie it to causally to fertility. In the article, for instance, they say pollution is a contributing factor. Pollution is likely correlated with population.
The launch pad was vaporised, a lot of particulate matter was thrown in the air and affected residents of two nearby town, as well as nearby endangered wildlife.

Also, think about what goes into making a rocket, bring all that up in the sky, and blow it up. While hard to find all health and environnemenntal risks related, I'm sure you can understand that this isn't like a 3.5 acre fire at all.

It's not the end of the world either - but accountability has to start somewhere.
Looking Back on 10 Years with Overleaf
People bang on and on about the money aspect, but the reality is that the income bracket to go from just covering the bills in urban areas to being wealthy enough to be able to foster a child and not take a serious haircut on quality of life (and yes, with space and other concerns taken into account) is quite large.
Both, though in this case science in particular.
> Mother Postgres can do no wrong.

Simple, eloquent, damn true.
It's audio. That means it's very slow to consume and requires much of your attention. That is never going to get the same sort of usage numbers as something you can flit in and out of like Twitter or Instagram.
It's pretty easy to find non-racist leaders, actually, but not if you restrict yourself to ghouls like LBJ.

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A point to be noted is that in this respect Mr. Churchill and his friends bear a striking resemblance to Hitler and his friends. Hitler began his work of unleashing war by proclaiming a race theory, declaring that only German-speaking people constituted a superior nation. Mr. Churchill sets out to unleash war with a race theory, asserting that only English-speaking nations are superior nations, who are called upon to decide the destinies of the entire world. The German race theory led Hitler and his friends to the conclusion that the Germans, as the only superior nation, should rule over other nations. The English race theory leads Mr. Churchill and his friends to the conclusion that the English-speaking nations, as the only superior nations, should rule over the rest of the nations of the world.

Actually, Mr. Churchill, and his friends in Britain and the United States, present to the non-English speaking nations something in the nature of an ultimatum: “Accept our rule voluntarily, and then all will be well; otherwise war is inevitable.”

But the nations shed their blood in the course of five years’ fierce war for the sake of the liberty and independence of their countries, and not in order to exchange the domination of the Hitlers for the domination of the Churchills. It is quite probable, accordingly, that the non-English-speaking nations, which constitute the vast majority of the population of the world, will not agree to submit to a new slavery.

It is Mr. Churchill’s tragedy that, inveterate Tory that he is, he does not understand this simple and obvious truth.

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1946...
Much the same experience as you. Making RL work is more like a marathon than a sprint and requires patience and bouts of inspiration.

All this tells me is there’s more room for improvement in the algorithms.

BTW: I’m really glad more researchers are including code. Often I see nuances in the code not mentioned clearly in the paper / would make blind reproduction difficult to say the least.
You know, google is free, everybody can use it:https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/24/spacex-starship-explosion-sp...
We once rewrote an internal system because it was hard to maintain and the original developer had left the company. It was written in Java/Spring, and Kafka, but Kafka was being used like a database. It was just bad architecture.

We re-implemented it as a small Flask app with a PostgreSQL backend. We got rid of multiple servers, it was at least a magnitude more performant, and much easier to maintain and deploy as there were very little moving parts.
I just checked and the Roche Limit is 5,470km for Phobos.

Will still take a few million years.
Class action suit against Nvidia for effectively removing local Gamestream from the Shield. Mine's a $200 brick now.

[0]: https://www.classaction.org/news/nvidia-hit-with-class-actio...
What I'm saying is obvious:

1. that companies should have specific product areas and focus, and not pivot all over the place, as mere profit-seeking machines.

2. that companies embrace all kinds of BS trends, hyped technologies, and empty vacuum BS solutions looking for a problem (from NFT, web3, metaverse, blockchain)

3. that companies (as in this case) also embrace valid technologies (like LLMs) that have no real application to their products, and will just retrofit them in some ugly BS way nobody asked for, just to send the signal "we're still cool, we're getting on the next bandwaggon, buy our stock"

4. that the current behavior (actually, for decades now) is not about "sustainable growth and healthy profit" but about stock market games, and about endless unsustainable growth that destroys their core offerings and alienates customers
>At the time a very famous statistician (Fischer?) maintained that we couldn't actually tell whether it was causal or not.

It was Fisher, here's a fantastic summary of the whole episode: https://priceonomics.com/why-the-father-of-modern-statistics...

My statistics professor showed us gruesome pictures of what was done in the 70s due to lack of conclusive evidence that smoking causes cancer. They forced dogs to smoke.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2012/may/20/the...

Then monkeys.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6782600/

Now that we have conclusive evidence that smoking causes lung cancer, have we stopped ? Here's a zoo in China that forces a baby monkey to smoke in an apparent attempt to dissuade future smokers.
https://metro.co.uk/2021/11/05/china-baby-monkey-forced-to-s...
Perhaps the other side of this coin is part of the problem as well though? Some minority groups (e.g. incels) may not deserve to be normalized.
> Self reported effects seem questionable to me.

Youth mental health studies are typically based on self-reported data because the person who is in a place to report on that head - is the person with that head.

> Having two kids, I know that they think sitting in bed all day, every day on their screens is often what they want to do

What else is there for youth to do? Over a few generations, adults have systematically erased every sq foot of free-range land. In it's place are 2 ft wide walking strips lined by 40mph 2 ton death blocks.

We've pumped every head full of fully-false stranger risk. We've positioned kids and parents alike to make sure kids have 0 minutes a year of ability-building, unsupervised time. We've fairly well wiped out extended families and insured every kid is raised by never more than two adults who work full time, with anyone who might have better parenting experience buffered safely away from the people who need it.

In short, we've wiped out everything that built self-sufficiency in kids and replaced it with systems that repeatedly punish for kid-level transgressions and make sure those penalties harm them as much as possible.

And for good measure there's always a ton of adults going on endlessly about how much today's youth suck.
I love what this team is doing. Fantastic lib, world-class pedigree, and check out the breadth and depth covered in their examples page: https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/plot-gallery
Apple does add privacy though. The company does not collect and sell your data. Folks regularly read the ToS and freak out, without understanding why the ToS says what it says.

Most privacy oriented companies don't care about your data, but they need to be able to see diagnostic information about your session for when things don't work. Oh and guess what? Things don't work for many users due to all kinds of crazy stuff, with viruses, proxies, crap internet, crap browsers, crappier browser extensions, or just plain user stupidity causing 99% of it.

Diagnostic data and basic telemetry allows software engineers to find the root cause.
One fun thing about reading Ulysses is that a lot of Leopold Bloom's interior monologue revolves around money in the old system and he does a lot of calculations in his head. You start to get a sense of what it was like. The impression I got is that it all revolves around the shilling, which seems to have been worth something like $5 around the time of the book:

1 crown = 5 shillings
1 pound = 20 shillings
1 guinea = 21 shillings
1 shilling = 12 pence

Guinea is the weird one, but it has the function of allowing you to give tips. If someone charges you 3 pounds and you pay them 3 guineas then you are giving a 5% tip.
You can spin it however you want, his prediction was abysmally wrong, both in Europe and America and everywhere else.
1) I don’t see how this is a problem. First we are not only dependent on these and have a mix of natural gas , nuclear as well as coal. Out of all coal is the dirtiest for direct pollution into the atmosphere. If we can reduce or eliminate coal by replacing it with wind and solar that is a good thing. Technology will improve to improve storage.

2) while this is an issue coal has been declining for some time. There are health issues with coal and the jobs have been shrinking and half of coal jobs have been lost since 2012. This is with coal usage higher today. The jobs will continue to be reduced regardless. Part of the 2 trillion dollar infrastructure plan includes training and assistance for jobs like coal miner lost. That is the best solution possible for jobs that will not exist in 100 years unless there is suddenly a new purpose for coal.

Nacco industries for example is expecting the closing of one mine and plant this year in Texas. It is attempting to diversify into lithium and other minerals. There is a small fight from at least one state senator that may keep it another year but over all it’s not economically viable to keep it with other alternatives.
General PSA: Any open source startup touting their AGPL license is delusional. They will never be used at Google, Meta, or similar because of specific legal directives to avoid these kinds of licenses.
While there is nothing inherently wrong with the language itself, nobody in their right minds would develop anything new in it.

The dev environment and GUI builder are really nice for building desktop windows apps, 2002-style. But the world has moved on just a little from that.

You’re also never going to get modern software engineering tools for it. To consider just the flavour of the month, GitHub Copilot is never going to be much use in Delphi.
> urprisingly many service teams at AWS still operate services that don't handle AZ failure that well (at the time)

Ouch, hopefully none of the major services? I recently had to look into this for work (for disaster recovery preparation) and it seemed like ECS, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB and Aurora Serverless (and probably CloudWatch and IAM) all said they handled availability zone failures transparently enough.
3D-printed workshop wrench offers 100% of the strength with just 70% of material
You remind me that I heard brake pad particulate was horrible for our health, and highly present in the air in LA as well - another thing to lose sleep to!

Thanks for the chat, have a nice one
Allowing people to negotiate any contract term they can think of without government guidance sounds like fascism to me.