skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I may be going in circles here, but when you say:

> The best way to not have them ask a second question is to completely ignore their question...

Leaving aside the issues of interpreting that data[1], and taking your conclusion at face value:

I get the sense that you imply this is a bad thing. But is it?

I agree that if the ultimate goal is "boost engagement metrics," then it's a bad thing. I suppose I just don't agree with that being the ultimate goal. And I sure wouldn't mind if other people in the community de-prioritized that goal, too. My opinion here applies to much about the modern internet landscape, to be fair (:

[1] eg: was their choice to ask a second question caused by a particular interaction? Or maybe users that ask second questions are more likely to ask a good first question, or other explanations and confounding factors? By another reading of it, we could say users who got their first question closed were 2x as likely to leave permanently than those who had no interaction (and this applies to over 2x as many users, so is even bigger in absolute terms). It's rather muddy.
It has a real newspeak vibe (but is obviously not at all the same).

Is there any sense of how "made up" this is, vs there being similar examples around?
Perhaps they could learn something about HCI from ChatGPT...?
It looks like the share price in April 2021 was on the nose the same price Elon paid.

So the investors and founders would have converted $4B in Twitter stock to cash almost 1:1, that's not bad.
It feels like the time has come for Musk and Tesla to be held accountable for their impossible promises.

As Elon discovered last year when he was forced to buy Twitter - as a public company and figure, you can't just say any dumb or impossible thing you want and then dismiss it as a joke, or being too optimistic.
Dangnabbit: no Windows option.
I was told the same: that if I weren't able to give up everything "I would not be successful". 8 months later and with a breakdown, I was fired from that lab. Better, because people were forced to work (literally forced: even if you had nothing to do you needed to stay until 8pm) at least 12 hours per day, no weekends, no days off, nothing. And my scientific productivity tanked.

I managed to somehow continue to a PhD and then I even got a permanent position, but for that mindset I am "failed scientist": I'm over 40, I don't lead anyone, I don't have grants (only two failed ones that caused me so much stress that I didn't want to do them again), nor I have a teaching position (I would gladly get one if it were just teaching, and not the hell of grant seeking). I do the same stuff I was doing during my postdoc years, with a little more job security, of course.

FTR, I made sure that my connections outside work were nowhere near labs, and nowhere around science. Much better for work-life balance.

Academia seems so obsessed with "excellence" it's not even funny. And that excellence needs to be obtained at absolutely any cost. Probably I wouldn't have chosen this career had I known beforehand what I was getting into.
This kind of math can be pretty damaging because for every failure, the VC needs the one hit to be bigger and bigger. And with investments like Airbnb that are only "disruptive" due to breaking the law, A16z is incentivized to leverage lobbyists and other tools to simply change the laws to favour their pet investments.
High-res image reconstruction, latent diffusion models from human brain activity
Or even having publicly documented probable risk of forgoing blast-mitigation measures in their launch permit. Debris flew well outside the approved range.
That's exactly how it currently works as well.
On Windows with the new PowerToys, win+shift+t does the same thing - works really well!

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/text-ext...
A million years ago I learned pascal in highschool then modula-2 in college. But once I learned C/C++, there was no going back...
Consultancies are coming off a pandemic boom. Are they still worth hiring?
But it’s not overlooked. The article notes the difficulty presented by the “polluting steam trains” being sentient beings.
And that disaster recovery equipment runs on coal and/or methane?
How does the production of vectors work? How do you know that you should associate the water emoji to pictures of water close together in the hyperspace?
What's incredibly impressive is that that phrase doesn't appear anywhere else according to google. It's ChatGPT being genuinely 'creative'.
They evidently used to use radiothermal generators (RTGs) as the power source for some pacemakers.

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

Plutonium is nasty & expensive stuff, however. That puts some pretty severe limitations on its usefulness for domestic purposes.
Yes, but the problem with Intel CPUs is that they have to pull significantly more power than AMD does to get that performance- that's kind of why they have E cores and have to provide more P cores per dollar by comparison.
$11B of US CHIPS funds earmarked for NIST fabs
Can machines be self-aware? New research explains how this could happen
True, and if you mess up how are they gonna know?

Your fingerprints won’t survive the fire!
>If you're a small company or organization with up to US$5,000 per year in revenue, you can also use the Delphi CE. Once your company's total revenue reaches US$5,000, or your team expands to more than five developers, you can move up to an unrestricted commercial license with Professional edition.

OFFS.
That's .... that's not a great strategy. I get that it's cheap, but incidents like this will cost a LOT more with lost business.
Oh I was more thinking of coolants and oils, as well as the insulation, and I'm sure there were a lot of heavy metals in there as well.

But thanks for the link!
I'm a midwesterner and I've seen my a share of cats while outdoors... but I actually don't know what those photo is, but I'm fairly certain it's not "an endangered Bobcat". Something is off about the color and dot print, I've never seen it that prominent. Nearly every bobcat I've seen or had appear on a trailcam has much more subdued features and they're not as "orangey". They're unbelievably hard to spot with your eyes.

FYI also in the midwest, anything that is wild and meows is generally referred to as "a bobcat", save the mountain lion.
Our biggest and most important lessons from YC
Yeah this is the usual backlash of experts vs marketing vs management.

Someone else managing your shit so you don't have to is a market in just about every industry, and it makes a ton of sense in tech where things don't even have to be on the same continent to work (or very specifically NEED to be on another one if you're international).

There's a ton of companies that have jumped to the cloud that probably shouldn't have, and even more who should've jumped, but not nearly as much as they did. Still it's a useful service.

Now of course it being a useful service, that also happens to be so obscenely expensive to start up barely anyone does it, means it comes with all the miserable obfuscation, bullshit fine print, total lack of support, and every other horrible thing we've come to expect from the modern world, but "It's just someone else's computer!" isn't changing any minds.

Either they already knew that or they never cared.
Excellent. Now I'm wondering if Fermat's Last Theorem has a bitwise analogue.
None of the problems with this launch were because they were just innovating too hard.

> It's 1970s technology.

So's how you keep this from happening.
I read their comment as underlining the uncertainty about what the cost or the reward is. Maybe we can't flippantly declare that it's "a small price" if we don't know what we're paying or what we're going to get in return. (I have no position on that.)

Didn't spot any ludditism.
Please do not disable or tamper with your buildings sprinkler systems.

You will not care about your stuff when you're in jail for negligent manslaughter.
Raccoon dogs in Wuhan 'did not spread Covid to humans'
Version changes were significant back then and upgrades were very worthwhile. As one would hope, everything is far more stable now.
If you look at the California grid, you’ll find out that the first 50% is the easy 50%. No grid runs on low-carbon sources that’s not hydro or nuclear today. The last 50% is a major challenge both in infrastructure and gCO2/kWh, as storage is not free in that regard.
It was a typo! I meant 17k!

Sorry for the confusion
It's always about disciplining the workforce. This doesn't necessarily serve the bottom line, but it does serve the status hierarchy, and we all know who is in charge.

But the question is: why now? Is it because workers are having more autonomy from working at home, etc.? Is it because they fear unionization or some sort of worker rebellion?

And what reason is there to believe that automation won't continue to happen, as it has for the past 40 years for a variety of office jobs?
However "a fast device that measures return latency on the shorted circuit" is presumably very cheap today.

20+ years ago, rewiring buildings for 1000baseT the Cisco switches (3650s maybe? 3750s? I know they had IPv6 multicast acceleration in the switch fabric because that's why we had them) would do this for any circuit on command, OK, 18 metres from here there's a fault, pace, pace, pace, I reckon it'll be up on this cable tray... yup, some fool tried to "repair" a broken Cat5 cable, we'll just rip it out, meanwhile patch to a different circuit.
You seem to have invested a great time in knowing IPFS.

Just three questions I have:

-is performance an issue?

-can the source code and architecture be easily be modified so it becomes more safe where anonimity is concerned?

-if I run IPFS from a virtual machine and route the connections through socks proxy chains / ssh tunnels / VPNs / TOR it would still be able to spill info about me?
How did you figure out this diagnosis?
>the individual, placed with us, by his vices and his ignorance, on the lowest step of society, is yet the first among savages.

I think Tocqueville speaks very clearly for himself, and I don't how if there exist mental gymnastics dexterous enough to try to make this sentence mean anything other than what it clearly means.
What Apple is doing is inflexible and expensive. If you need 128GB of RAM, it isn't available. If you need 32GB of RAM, their least expensive offering appears to be a $1700 Mini. You can get a PC laptop with 32GB for under $500 and a PC desktop with 128GB for the same. You could add a $1000 discrete GPU to that and have money left over.

> Sure a fancy hybrid that uses a few fast stacks of HBM and some slower dimm slots is possible, but it's far from sure if such a design would hit the size, power, performance, and cost constraints of the market.

Slower memory costs less and uses less power than higher bandwidth configurations. Moreover, if you offered various CPUs with e.g. 8-32GB of HBM, systems that needed no more memory than that could leave their DIMM slots empty. But then systems with e.g. 16GB of HBM and 64GB of ordinary RAM would be possible, resulting in 80GB of usable memory the most active 16GB of which has quadruple the bandwidth or more. For a much lower price than 80GB of HBM and similar performance for anything with a <16GB working set.
Great to have alternative entry points into the web.

DDG seem to do quite well in that a lot of their users will deem the relevance good enough, perhaps not aware of its 100% reliance on Bing. More often than not new search engine skins with comparable results to Google and Bing do tend to be the actual results of Google and Bing. Apparently the average searcher doesn't know nor care.

If everyone 'donated' at least a few searches a day to true alternative engines, it'd help diversify search, surely. The fact that Google has such a high amount of revenue per search has helped them price out competitors e.g. being defaults on browsers and devices. Can see why Brave would launch a browser to assist/complement search.
Anyone talking up firefighters like this clearly hasn't been around them much.

They're boys with toys that they don't frequently get to use and they work for the government. Follow the incentives. They'll do their jobs but they don't give a lot of fucks about things like "unnecessary property damage" and "other people's financial well being" and anything else not written in their KPIs.

I used to drive tow truck. I can't count the number of cars they totaled peeling the roof off (granted some were totaled anyway) because that was easy and cutting a door off was hard. And don't get me started on them and their stupid stands they use to prop shit up in the most questionable of ways...
The article actually specifically calls it out as not endangered, so not sure where your quote is from.
I'm down for coding to go full circle.

We called them bugs because you literally had to go in and get the dead bugs out of your electrical system.

Now we can call it fishing because some pirate has sailed onto your datalake and is looking for sunken hashes.

What do you think the hourly for Cloud Architect/Data lake power boy level 1 should start at?
Why don't you try testing your algorithm on some 1000 variable or so SAT instances ? There are thousands of such problems that have been created for the SAT competitions. If your code can solve all of them and is really P-time then I think there are many people who would be interested in looking at your algorithm, myself included.
Except for the multiple studies exploring how to build habitats on mars/moon and how to build spacesuits that would function on mars/moon.

Listen, I get it. We're not going to have a million person utopian colony on Mars in 2026. That doesn't mean we shouldn't try to shoot for a small 4 person colony in 2032 to start doing research. This is currently our most promising way to get there.
Selling the treatments (and the cures, if you're rich enough)
I just thought it was halfway between Sodom and Gomorrah.
Systemic racial discrimination in academia (despite Democrats outnumbering Republicans 10 to 1 in faculty [1] - curiously few studies look at whether that might be due to discrimination) is a perfectly analogous conspiracy, yet it is accepted by default.

However, you are correct - cherry-picking which parts of an article to believe is not very convincing. So let me substantiate my claim:

The authors also submitted different test studies to different peer-review boards. The methodology was identical, and the variable was that the purported findings either went for, or against, the liberal worldview (for example, one found evidence of discrimination against minority groups, and another found evidence of "reverse discrimination" against straight white males). Despite equal methodological strengths, the studies that went against the liberal worldview were criticized and rejected, and those that went with it were not. [2]

That was in 1985. Nowadays, it is done openly: Nature publicly stated they will not publish studies that may "harm" (broadly defined) various groups [3], regardless of validity, and commitments to diversity are officially required by one fifth of academic jobs [4].

Of course, if we're talking about discrimination in academia, we skipped a step: as your own quotation implies ("it does not follow that disparities in IQ between groups have a genetic basis"), there are group IQ disparities. Since IQ is a useful (if imperfect) measure of academic ability, from that alone we would expect disparate outcomes, even in a perfect meritocracy. It does not matter if the IQ disparities are genetic, cultural, or socio-economic in origin (or some combination thereof).

Though it is strange. Bizarre even. Nearly every other heritable human trait - height, skin pigmentation, lactose tolerance, eye and hair color, bone density, sickle cell trait, muscle composition, high altitude adaptation [5], alcohol metabolism [6], etc., is unevenly distributed among human groups. Yet even though IQ and personality are both heritable [7] and variable, they're the rare exception, perfectly equally distributed among all human groups? Nature truly works in mysterious ways.

[1] https://www.nas.org/academic-questions/31/2/homogenous_the_p...

[2] https://theweek.com/articles/441474/how-academias-liberal-bi...

[3] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01443-2

[4] https://www.schoolinfosystem.org/2021/11/11/study-diversity-...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-altitude_adaptation_in_hu...

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_flush_reaction

[7] https://www.nature.com/articles/tp201596
> in Europe we call it HCI

Well CHI is being held in Europe this year, so apparently you don't!

But more seriously, the field is "HCI" everywhere, including in America, and has been for at least thirty years. I have vague memories of hearing the story about why the initial ACM SIGCHI folks didn't go with HCI at the time but I can't recall. Anyway, it wasn't long after CHI was founded that basically everyone was using "HCI" on both sides of the Atlantic.
Most of the time, the class name is used just as a nominal type identifier. That's what we do at least
Water and fire already had their way, I suspect tornado and a landslide are next.
*shoes.
Product liability for industrial and agricultural equipment gets interesting.

You can modify a household lawn mower and if you get maimed by it by those modifications, you're at fault.

However, for industrial equipment if you can modify it - the manufacturer is likely liable. Consider how often you hear about deaths due to manufacturing defects (the stats for deaths for framers is 60 - 70 per year per 100,000 in the US).

https://www.wkw.com/farming-accidents/blog/farming-accidents... (personal injury lawyer site)
LLM from First Principles
Wiki-style artefact.
Author considers the following ideas to understand what's happening around the hype of LLM:
- Ideas of Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Computational irreducibility
- Concept of Embeddings
- random thoughts
We generally do blast mitigation to minimize damage to the equipment around the pad. The calculation was that the equipment was built in such a way that it would survive. And indeed the equipment only suffered minor damage, and that was from the unexpected flying debris, not the blast.

I'm not aware of a previous case where the concreate launchpad shattered similarly to this. The closest thing to this possibility that I am aware of being discussed in advance was the possibility that the whole rocket could explode on the pad in a large fireball. Which existing blast mitigation techniques would not have helped with much.
> Your first link is a meta analysis which does not say masks don’t work.

No, I already copied the relevant piece of text. Here is one more time:

>>> Compared to masks, N95 respirators conferred superior protection against CRI (...) and laboratory-confirmed bacterial (...), but not viral infections or ILI ...[influenza-like illness] <<<

> Your second link is to an opinion writer with no scientific background

No. Click on the link on the first sentence and you can read the original scientific study. Here is the link:

https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD...

Read the article. It says that face masks, surgical masks, and N95 provide no benefits.
That may have been better than what inevitably happens anyway.
Whats the excuse for this ? Whisper is open source, resource efficient and can easily work on device. I wonder why they havent switched to that.
1: "I only wish Delphi had a "favorites" filter for the Object Inspector, so you could quickly access your most needed..."

I recommend you install GExperts. It's a free, sources included, nifty utility that greatly improves Delphi IDE.

2: "The other thing Delphi should really have is a way to "package and export" (or snapshot) the whole Delphi setup...." ... "....I find it still a big pain to open an old project on a new machine and having to spend three hours searching and installing components in their latest versions again"

Those are 2 different things. For 1st part, get a docker container / VirtualBox / VMware machine and you can get everything in the snapshot way. I have a VMWare machine from 2007 with Delphi 7 and tons of components from that era, that works like a charm to this day. For 2nd part, to get latest version of components for latest version of Delphi - well, there is a GetIt package manager built in Delphi directly or you can just get the components from their vendors and use their installer. All major Delphi component vendors (TMS, DevExpress, ReportBuilder, etc) have that.

Have fun, I know I do everyday in Delphi. I am a freelancer for 13 years already and 90% of my projects are in Delphi.
You're missing a crucial point here imho: the possibility to seek assistance from someone in a much better situation to research and reflect on the issue may not end the war, but it does make a HUGE moral difference and might provide actual help and solutions for the problem at hand.

Without the internet, the author of the question might well be left to try it out and possibly getting harmed, or with no support at all.
> One of the respect-worthy things about Scalia (even Thomas) is that they believe(d) that what the Constitution says, should be followed.

As a mode of rationalization of why the Constitution should be read in a way which supports their ideologically preferences, yes. As anything more deeply meaningful than that; some evidence in Scalia’s case, less in Thomas’s.

> One of their fundamental differences with, say, the more liberal justices, is that you should not read new/updated rights into a document that says what it says.

That’s not actually a difference between them and most of the more liberal justices; they actually legitimately disagree on original intent.

> If on the other hand you say that justices should adapt to what the current interpretation of a document implies, then maybe it goes your way, but someone interpreting modern values differently might equally conflict with what you want.

Believe it or not, its just as easy for people trying to interpret “what did the document mean in the eyes of the original writers” or “what would this text be seen as meaning in the original context it was written” (originalism/textualism) to come to differing conclusions than each other. The idea that either originalism or textualism produces stability is…well, I mean, its inconsistent with the decisions the Supreme Court has rendered with originalist or textualist rationales.
I love teaching PCB design! As with you, I'm also really curious about AI's contributions to learning. My opinion is that the automation of search and execution increases the impact one person can make so more time can be spent on connecting the dots at a higher level. Whether or not education catches up in time is another story haha.
It's pretty open ended right now but it's undeniable that a huge educational gap there.
IPv6 has backwards compatibility thats how the IPv6 only mobile networks work. If you think the other way around then my question is how?
I had forgotten about that. That does make the decision harder to understand, unless there's a strong statistical tilt backing it up.
Unfortunately, it appears Google Plumber was discontinued by Alphabet Inc.
I can imagine clients who used one DC being impacted. But Google’s services would be designed for a single DC going down, right? Data would be eventually consistent (once they find and plug the hard drives in) but isn’t this the promise of the cloud and they’re (approximately) the best at using it.

I have to assume it’s a fault that not even distributed services can paper over. Eg lots of crucial data in flight and they’re reluctant to drop it. Can an expert weigh in?

I love Google’s post-mortems. This one will be epic.
I would love to try it. My email is cameronbanga at gmail. :)