skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That feels somewhat naive. People don't only belong to one friendship group.

We did exactly that during pandemic lockdowns. We used a browser extension that let us sync our netflix viewing while we had a live chat running during the show. It meant we could all talk about the last episode during the week and people had something to look forward to. It's perfectly do-able unless you're actually trying to keep your friend groups segregated for some reason, like you've got friends that won't do anything with some of your other friends.

> Sounds like it works out for everyone, then:

It might, except that streaming companies are too stupid to take a long view on ratings. Amazon for example canceled The Tick because they didn't get enough views in the weeks immediately following release. By the time I (and many many others) got around to watching and enjoying it, they'd already made up their mind that it was a failure.

When platforms withhold episodes I'm moving on to something else and it could be a long time before I make it back around to them. If they chase me away from a show and I have to find one that respects my time and that one has got 5-6 seasons, or if instead I pick up a video game that I'll put 150+ hours into it could easily be months before I get back to whatever they are heavily promoting and tracking this instant, assuming something new doesn't catch my interest and take priority.

Release whole seasons at once, and people who want to time gate can start right away and take longer to finish, while people who binge can finish in a weekend and everyone else can go at their own pace, but in any case it's more eyeballs within the same timeframe.
This is such a dangerous perspective. Why would we want to make the temperature on Mars like the one on Earth!?! We already have 7 Billion people here to take care of and we're already witnessing mass heat, flooding, and famine deaths from climate change. People focusing on colonizing Mars when we have such an immediate problem to address TODAY are delusional and actively endangering the most vulnerable people in the world.
If you read the README https://github.com/memorysafety/sudo-rs

> Our current target is to build a drop-in replacement for most basic use cases of sudo. ...

> Some parts of the original sudo are explicitly not in scope. Sudo has a large and rich history and some of the features available in the original sudo implementation are largely unused or only available for legacy platforms. In order to determine which features make it we both consider whether the feature is relevant for modern systems, and whether it will receive at very least decent usage. Finally of course a feature should not compromise the safety of the whole program.

So seems like they're on the same wavelength as you are.
At this point the average individual (aka retail investor) is functionally irrelevant for big moves like the one the parent poster made.

Large firms, often leveraging complex, autonomous systems, are the ones pushing around $20MM worth of stocks and moving the markets (or keeping them from moving). Jim the SE III dropping $30k in RSUs isn't doing to do anything except alter Jim's opinion on the capital gains tax.
The University of California ranks No. 1 in higher education for U.S. patents
The funny thing the tech industry was at some point at the forefront of educational reform, and now when some kind of reform is taking place the general consensus has reverted to tests are good, SATs good, college good, etc. How creative and forward thinking.
Just for context on how bad Canadian consumers are getting screwed: when I moved here it was cheaper to pay the roaming fees for my US phone in Canada than it was to switch to a Canadian telecom.
It really does look like tacit collusion among tech companies to reduce wages.
"I see no reason that robust interpersonal skill should be distributed unevenly across generations"

The difference probably isn't as large as it seems, but there is a difference. There is a lot less proper socialization today than previously. My grandparents had to actually talk to people growing up. You had to figure out how to get along with others because there were relatively few options of who to play with. Eventually they phones and radios. Then my parents had TVs, but not a lot of content and not everyone had one. So you might invite neighbors over to watch the game etc. Now we have hundreds of channels, the internet in our pockets (which is not as personal as the phone was), etc. Not to mention the legal and societal barriers to socialization, especially at a young age (helicopter parents, legal liabilities reducing freedom/openness, costing money, etc). Even if you age adjust, the younger generations will still score lower in these skills because less time is being spent in those environments, generally.
Interesting. Does that include any optional tip or was that base fare only? A ride I had back in Corpus Christi last summer was a $36 ride that the driver received $12 for. Similar numbers in San Antonio
aka we got a head start and are now able to leverage that head start even further
Loved this argument as well.

With respect to more mature research fields the entry point to ML is much lower.

Hence I always recommended people to have major in Physics, Chemistry, Biology etc but look for projects in these fields that could benefit in ML (I have a number of them about Physics).

So that argument was not novel.

But the fact that pure ML PhDs will have significantly lower multidisciplinary knowledge is a good one. It could be compensated by the fact that ML is growing fast and all kinds of people join the ride, but still.
I admit my comment was fairly dramatic, but your comment is sort of what i'm talking about. A specific city is crowded so your solution is to just get rid of the humans? the humans are the whole point! I will admit though my comment is mostly motivated by emotions, i get really bad vibes from people who want fewer humans on earth. Probably letting those vibes cloud my judgement
> The primary key column is named id or thing_id or thingId, where thing is the singular form of the table name.

Is it naming relations a plural word a common thing in practice?

I thought best-practice was to name relations either singular (as each tuple represents one entry) or uninflected (still singular for most words), specially when you're not a fluent speaker of the language being used to name the relations of the database.

Plurals are often irregular for commonly used words, and the fact that this requires a external dependency ( https://github.com/plurals/pluralize ) to cover for some "common plurals" is telling that supporting this feature is a complex thing indeed - that would not be required in the first place with singular everywhere.
Can we run this locally and _not_ on the cloud?
Genentech has several ML groups that do mostly applied work, but some do fairly deep research into the model design itself, rather than just applying off-the-shelf systems. For example, they acquired Prescient Design which builds fairly sophisticated protein models (https://nips.cc/Conferences/2022/ScheduleMultitrack?event=59...) and one of the coauthors is the head of Genentech Research (which itself is very similar to Google Research/Brain/DeepMind), and came from the Broad Institute having done ML for decades ('before it was cool').

They have a few other groups as well (https://nips.cc/Conferences/2022/ScheduleMultitrack?event=60... and https://neurips.cc/Conferences/2022/ScheduleMultitrack?event... and https://neurips.cc/Conferences/2022/ScheduleMultitrack?event...).

I can't say I know anybody there who is doing what I would describe as truly pure research into ML; it's not in the DNA of the company (so to speak) to do that.
Am I correct in thinking that PG's MVCC implementation results in a worse story around offloading some mild OLAP workloads to a replica without affecting the primary? Anecdotally, it seems that MySQL handles this better but I don't understand the internals of both enough to explain why that is.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/manage-long-running-re...
You don't train a model with data, as the verb "train" is used to describe something that humans and animals do (as per dictionary definition of the word).
The other thing that you can do with data is copy or destroy it.
Therefore, there is a law that says you cannot "train" (really, copy) data that is under copyright.
Biden Enables Confucius Institute Affiliate Schools to Receive Federal Funding
I think that "first thing in the morning" meetings are the best (after "no meeting") when it comes to interruptions, because it means that you won't be interrupted later during your day. In fact the point of these meetings is usually to know what you will spend the rest of the day doing, so that managers won't have to bother you with that during the day.

Also, as a night owl, the start of the day is mostly dedicated to finishing waking up and waiting for caffeine to take effect, so I wouldn't be very productive anyways.
No. Those are unfortunately exempt.
Consumers do not exist so that companies can be profitable, and are not required to accept anything of the sort.

What a vampiric, corporate lickspittle point of view.
OpenBSD doesn't have a Rust compiler in their core system. Having a core utility written in a language that isn't buildable with tools in their core system is a non-starter.

Once they have their own Rust compiler, or are able to import a Rust compiler that supports OpenBSD to the point where bugs on that platform are release-blockers for that compiler, and which is suitably licensed, they should be able to start (re-)writing core tools in Rust.
You're right that I don't know enough as an IC to comment on the thinking, actions, and promises at the exec level that kept Brain funded. But even if I did, to the GP's point, I would not talk about that part at all.

I'm curious about your perspective as a research manager in tech - would you be willing to chat privately?
Boat load of free money right there! Clearly a side benefit of operating at scale.
I found myself in an interesting predicament. I got given a £100 gift card to spend in a well known department store for my birthday.

I got this card 3 years ago and I have not used it yet, because I found that there is nothing really in that store that is worth below £100 that would compel me to go there or order online and items that interest me but are far more expensive, even considering the voucher I could buy cheaper elsewhere or even find such item used in as new condition.

So while I appreciate such gift, probably if someone scribbled £100 on a piece of paper it would have the same effect to me, but they wouldn't have to spend any money.
Yes I think it has less utility than the free version of ChatGPT, but it also has some nice points, is faster, and has fewer outages.

For my use case none of them is worth using. All three of the ones we've mentioned in this thread will just make up language features that would be useful but don't exist, and all three of them will hallucinate imaginary sections of the C++ standard to explain them. Bard loves `std::uint128_t`. GPT-4 will make up GIS coordinate reference systems that don't exist. For me they are all more trouble than they are worth, on the daily.
> I would assume there's some royalty type situation with gamepass where the games that get played more get some percentage of a pool.

My understanding is for non-exceptional games (like, not Fortnite-scale), they just provide a flat fee with a fixed-length contract. Your studio gets $X and it will be on GamePass for Y months. I'm sure gameplay stats are taken into account for future contract renewals or for other games with the same studio, but no, I don't think there is any kind of explicit revenue sharing going on. It can be a hard decision for studios, since they have to balance lost income from sales against the guaranteed income and added publicity from being on GamePass.

Source: Stuff I remember from podcasts, mostly Brandon Sheffield on Insert Credit. Sorry, I know that's not a great reference =/
I found modelling them as humans made it easier to imagine how to structure them, but there's nothing saying that's it's a better way to model your agent tree. Would be curious for somebody to use this to run some experiments with different names/traits for the fractal agent tree.
No wonder rich people send their kids to private school.

When I have kids I hope I can do the same. Why would I want them to go through this kind of lunacy lol..
People are really sleeping on how amazing HBO Max is. Their catalog is so damn good.
Yuuuuup. Teaching has suffered some bad Baumol's Cost Disease... but wages haven't risen to compensate, and meanwhile a bunch of other crap has made the job even less pleasant than it was decades ago, and also costs of essentials like healthcare and housing and education have shot up, further encouraging people to maximize income just to not feel very poor.

[EDIT] That is, to keep teacher supply & quality roughly static, I'd have expected Baumol-like increases in the cost of teacher labor (because accessible alternative careers are paying a lot more than they used to) but instead wages have stayed fairly flat, or even slowly fallen in many places, once you take inflation into account.
ninkendo - you are either and an idiot or very young (you are can be excused for your view if you are young) . Most women work to earn a living and pay their rent,expenses and survive like everyone else. Do you understand?
a) The people who use these places are generally not litigious.

b) they sign waivers

c) the shop has insurance
Sorry about that. It was a vestige of Linen's first version being very Enterpise sales heavy and we haven't updated it. At the moment it is 150/month for 5000 members for our paid tier and 50/month more for every 5000. Will update it this week!

We just shipped our self checkout flow last week:
https://github.com/Linen-dev/linen.dev/commit/61c482cab5d5aa...

Just hadn't got the chance to update it on the landing page yet
In the old days that would be true but nowadays OC is so mainstream that temperature sensors are expected to keep the SoC within safe limits, shutting down if needed but preventing damage.

Something escaped design models and test scenarios for this to happen with end users.
The redirect_uri parameter is not a list.

I am referring to the redirect allowlist registered out-of-band by the client: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6749#section-2
Yes, it's true that, in some cases, this can be frustrating! The goal of this "lead magnet quiz" is to make the traditional lead magnets, where you give your email address to get a free PDF, etc., make a bit more personal and unique for each visitor.

If you are interested in a workout plan, maybe you don't want to read a long PDF and found out yourself which paragraphs are relevant for your lifestyle, fitness goal, and body type and which are not for you. In this case, the goal of the quiz is to cut out all the unnecessary parts of the PDF and send you what you have to do. People are using lead magnets like this with a simple subscription, so I guess the quiz shouldn't be much more frustrating.

I added a feature, that enables users to add a "Skip subscription, get my results!" button to the quiz. In this case, the quiz will immediately show the user the results. Of course, the whole subscription thing can be turned off and in that case, the player will always receive the results after answering the questions.

And also, thank you for the idea, the discount code is amazing, I'm going to use this somewhere on the landing page!
Brazil Court Suspends Telegram Messaging App in Neo-Nazi Probe
Not sure this is an issue, I'm Canadian. This seems like Rogers customers will have access to reception via SpaceX satellites in remote areas, which is a good thing. If anything, this means a) Rogers has a slightly richer offering than the 2? other cell providers in Canada, b) Rogers is paying SpaceX for this OR Rogers is agreeing to play nice and in fact SpaceX is eating the bill.
You don't think there's any inequity between somebody with a couple million in the bank and google, or any conflict of interest between my desire to talk about my work and my employer's desire that I do not? Your position is valid enough without being willfully obtuse.
Thank you for having a look! Sorry about the issues with the fisherman story, I'll ask my native friend to help improve it. Hopefully I'll get better at this!
> important role people like Gebru played in extending the political and status of minorities is ok to extinguish?

No, she didn't. Attacking everyone for baseless motives and identities is the worst kind of activism. She alienated people by attacking them without basis. She disdained those who truly fought for the fairness and justice of every race. She left a bad taste in people who truly cared about progress. Yes, it's totally worth "extinguishing" her role, as her role is nothing but a political charade.

As for under-repented minorities, do you even know the Chinese Exclusion Act? Do you know how large the pipeline of the STEM students in different races and why there was a gap? Do you know why the median GPA of the high school students in the inner city was 0.5X out of 4? Why was that? The questions can fill a book. Yeah, activism is easy, as long as you have the right skin and shameless attitude. Solving real problems is hard.
Interesting, this seems to be inspired by the LCARS interfaces seen in ST: Picard, rather than TNG. I do quite like the slight tweaks LCARS got in Picard.
> he owns a multi-million dollar landscaping firm, employing dozens of people

That's fantastic for your friend, but the vast majority of people don't want to be entrepreneurs. Can those dozens of employees under him (presumably without degrees) support a family, a mortgage, healthcare, AND save for the future on that one income?

> too many kids are forced into college, take on massive amounts of debt, when they were better off going into gasp the trades!

The school-to-college funnel is a flaw in the system, but it's too late for many who already have the debt.
The merger will fail.

If 5000 people are not enough to do things, 10000 people will unlikely change that.
Contracted YouTube Labeling Staff Vote for Union
> but above and beyond that I haven't had a great need for Calculus until I started doing some deep learning.

I think a whole lot of what we talk about in compsci... calculus is table stakes. Sure, it's not differential equations, but how do we talk about behavior at the limit or nonlinear scaling without it.

Even just making up functions that are smooth in their derivative and cross though a few points is something I've had to do a lot for decent heuristics.

> And I suspect the work that you're talking about is exactly what I was thinking about when I wrote that even if Calculus is needed, it's the stuff taught in the first semester.

What's taught in the first semester varies a lot. I'm familiar with AP Calc BC, and sure-- a little bit of the stuff in the last half of the course (differential equations, vector-valued functions) is a little more esoteric for many careers. But a lot of stuff isn't so much (polar coordinates, the "practical integration" stuff that uses basic mechanics, calculator skills, etc)
I don't know how much data Hacker News transmits but I'm certain it's under 100TB/month. I do know HN has >6 million requests per day and only runs on 1 server (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28478379).

I'm sure Mastodon requires more data-per-user than HN, and a server with 1M+ users will be expensive. But I don't think 10,000 users is that much, and a server with that many shouldn't cost $1000+/mo to operate.
There are states that pay their teachers well. We still see issue there. I think the majority of student performance issues are societal in nature. Just like the Harvard study about two parent households being the biggest factor for success.
Palantir Foundry – A data operating system that is not talked about enough
Please explain how it's superior? When I looked at it months ago someone was hardcore spamming porn images with fresh identities each time in the global feed, and all client implementations were terrible.
The headline seems slightly misleading. They accept that they are in fact autistic, as diagnosed.

What they are ambivalent about is, well it's a little unclear, but something along the lines of whether "the left" have ruined society by being too nice to the mentally ill and marginalized or something like that.
To take further the original example from the article, we could also construct a function/mapping/projection which maps everything to exactly one and the same dot. Would this make everything be a dot? Would this make everything be exactly the same "thing"?

Nope. In this model, a God, you, me, HN and, well, everything is a dot. But this makes it a useless system so we don't bother with it.

We know that functions can be "lossy", and there's nothing we misunderstand about it. There is even a practical application to an equivalence class of "there is a projection of any object to this shape", which is fitting something through a particularly shaped hole. But if we can pull something through an elliptical hole (like the cylinder from the example), does not make that cyllinder an ellipse.
Doesn't Amazon bucket their store ads (sponsored listings) under AWS?
https://nutritionfacts.org/video/flashback-friday-benefits-o...
> in the 2010s, it was MongoDB because non-durable writes made it “webscale“

I think this is the best video on that topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
The primary purpose of an NDA is to allow the company to enforce trade secrets: the existence of the NDA is proof that the company took steps to maintain the secrets' secrecy. Nothing in this blog post looks like a trade secret to me; rather, it's one person's fairly high-level reflections on the work environment at a particularly high profile lab.

While he technically may have violated the NDA, it's really hard for me to see any damage or fallout from this post. It's gentle, disparages only at the highest levels of abstraction, doesn't name names, etc. I don't think it makes sense to view it in a moralistic or personal integrity light. Breach-of-contract is not a moral wrong, merely a civil one that allows the counterparty (Google) to get damages if they want.
Sorry, but that's just not empirically accurate in terms of how these words get used in internet comments and the sort of effects they have on threads. If you sling pejoratives around like that without a substantive justification, that's name-calling and flamebait in the sense that we use those terms. This isn't some arbitrary whim of interpretation—it's based on a decade and a half of trying to dampen flamewars in this forum.

Don't get me wrong - I'm not saying that it was your intent to produce such effects. I'm sure it wasn't. But the rest of us don't have access to someone's intent, which forms part of the state in their head. You need to include enough information to communicate it explicitly, and the burden is on you (i.e. all of us) as a commenter to do that: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....
Yes, there was a 10-minute downtime on the landing page, but we are back now!
A World War 3 is definitely one way to cut emissions and save the Earth. It seems more likely than the world working together on a reasonable plan.
Netflix has been profitable for years…
Don't know about the rest, but destiny 2 works fine on linux...you will just get banned by anti-cheat. The only reason you can't play Destiny 2 on linux is because Bungie won't allow it. It even has working anti-cheat.
Dude. Everything you said is correct, but:

I responded to

> Google could be requested to peer not just into the user's google account, but into accounts they have with other companies/organisations too

Your response to my response should somehow relate to that.
You’re nitpicking