skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Wish there was a hard copy.

Hard copy:

https://www.amazon.com/UNIX-Programming-Addison-Wesley-Profe...

Soft copy:

http://catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/

http://catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/

The original Unix koans are found in Appendix D: http://catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/unix_koans.html

Additional Unix koans were added (and removed) over time: http://catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/
I’m pasting my response to someone else who made the same kind offer:

Thanks you for the offer, but I’m extremely conscious of avoiding a direct link from my comments here to who I am.
Maybe it’s a bit too paranoid, I don’t know, but I’ve also been open here about my workplace experiences, if someone who knew my irl connection to them and decided to comb through my comments, in a way that my HR dept among others might not quite appreciate. Maybe I should setup a separate HN account connected to me Professionally for that sort of thing.
Also my use case for GPT-4 is data analysis. Using the paid “plus” version shows a lot of promise for quickly bootstrapping data exploration and consumption as a jumping off point for more detailed digging. Via the chat interface it can ingest very small aggregate datasets and spit out observations that only myself and my boss have the domain name expertise to produce in my organization. but the Chat interface is highly limited and often truncates even small (faked but plausible) data, so I really want API access, because it involves sensitive info I couldn’t put into the chat site or responsibly share with someone outside my org.
But really, thanks for the offer. What are you working on with it?
Maiker-CLI: one line app, generates an entire code project from a prompt
You can't stop people from committing crimes, but you absolutely can discourage them, punish those who are caught, encourage/protect whistleblowers, and audit for compliance.

There are many industries regulated in the US by laws. Corporations in other countries are already free to discriminate when hiring, take part in anti-competitive behaviors, violate the privacy of their citizens, and engage in fraudulent activities to whatever extent their own laws allow. It's not the job of the US to police the world. It absolutely is the job of the US to police the corporations that operate within our boarders and while they don't always do it often enough or effectively enough, we still do it.
The reason they don't know them is they're not serious researchers or practitioners of ML - it's as simple as that. Anyone in this area should have this exceedingly basic common knowledge.
I've had a good experience with Upwork as a buyer of Development, DevOps and Design Services. There are a lot of unreliable providers there, but also some really talented, dedicated and professionals too who seem to make a good living if they live in slightly lower cost regions.

We had a fairly complex client project, and it worked really well for bringing in fractional skills. 20 hours of a Spark expert, 60 hours of an Azure expert, 5 hours of someone to help install a certain tool etc. Better than hiring a generalist for a longer period.

I imagine it is challenging as a freelancer, but it's a decent platform from the other side and adds value.
These tickets are orders of magnitude rarer than houses or even concert tickets. There are ~20,000 tickets to the Wave, total, each year - in 2017 alone there were over 1 million tickets to Justin Bieber concerts. There are over 700 billionaires in the US, and over 5 million millionaires. If only one third of millionaires wants to do these hikes, only once ever, and doesn't want to take anyone else, that's the next 100 years of tickets bought up.
That's not nearly as irresponsible and illegal as editing a weather map with a Sharpie to reflect a fictitious future natural disaster and cover up lying in a tweet.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/04/trump-hurrican...

>Altering official government weather forecasts is against the law.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2074

>18 U.S. Code § 2074 - False weather reports

>Whoever knowingly issues or publishes any counterfeit weather forecast or warning of weather conditions falsely representing such forecast or warning to have been issued or published by the Weather Bureau, United States Signal Service, or other branch of the Government service, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ninety days, or both.

>(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 795; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(G), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)
"My itinerary is comprised of four hotel stays." --->

"My itinerary is comPOSED of four hotel stays."

or

"My itinerary coNSISTS of four hotel stays."

Much better.
Thank you for creating contracts! I used it quite heavily in the past. While the lack of static checking was definitely a pain point, I kind of worked around it by having heavy unit test coverage for invalid types. In some ways, it functioned like a literate programming style for asserts.

Nowadays, I almost exclusively write things in TypeScript, and yes, the type system there brings so much peace of mind.

Doing a community-driven approach like DefinitelyTyped for third-party libs in Ruby seems like it'd be much harder than JS. The culture around metaprogramming and complex overloads seems like it'd be insanely difficult to type.
Ok let's take contests. They're void where prohibited and a bunch of other rules apply. Should the odds of winning along with these caveats be stated in the copy?

Let's take guarantees and warranties. There's certainly nuances there. Should all those also be disclosed in the main copy?

Let's take the main thing here. What if they went out of business? Forever never actually means for perpetuity.

All these are obvious? So is the rule to stare everything but the obvious? Who determines that?

There's so many practical details that complicate things here

In fact, much of these things have made their way into the law a long time ago. Maybe you just want to restrict the freedom of how they can display it?
Something in my gut tells me it’s not going to play out the way this guy thinks it will.
> SIM card

Some details are found in the code.

It probably uses the SIM7600X module

https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/SIM7600X_4G_Module

The internet is accessed through R/NDIS

https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/Raspberry_Pi_networked_via_ND...
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If you and I don’t need to share a language to discuss Shakespeare (remember, we already don’t read Shakespeare’s plays in the original Elizabethan), do we need to share a language at all?

What does he mean by this? There's no real difference between the language in the First Folio and what's published today. A few spelling tweaks here and there, pretty much.
>I am shocked a labor union is okay with tipping as a mechanism of compensation. Its antithetical to their own goals usually, let alone Apple is not going to take kind to this.

I am utterly unshocked, as most service workers seem to view tipping culture as providing a free boost to wages - and if so, why should they not fight for this via a union?
> we are now serving over 10 thousand trips per week to public riders, not including employees. With this latest expansion, we intend for those numbers to accelerate rapidly to 10 times that scale by next summer.

Waymo cars are safer, cleaner and cheaper than Uber, which has never made an operating profit and has abandoned its self-driving development.

Uber is stalled on the railway tracks while the freight train of self-driving tech hurtles towards it. How is it still worth $76 billion?
The non-profit owns the for-profit and thus any profit.

The non-profit Mozilla Foundation has a wholly owned for-profit subsidiary Mozilla Corporation which makes Firefox.

In theory, this opens up avenues for revenue generation since the for-profit can engage in activities beyond the goals of the non-profit.

It also opens up avenues for revenue based compensation for employees. Non-profits have some legal “reasonableness” tests for compensation that for-profits do not. If the for-profit subsidiary starts raking in huge new revenue it can decide to distribute it to the employees rather than the parent non-profit.

Non-profits come with administrative overheads so they may use a for profit subsidiary to remove those, in the hope of greater overall revenue for the non-profit.

Despite these valid reasons, many feel that Mozilla has no good justification for it and the true beneficiaries of Mozilla Corporation’s status are their executives, not Mozilla Foundation.

Non-profits can be “abused” without needing a subsidiary. Some spend 90% of revenue on expenses and administration and give little to a cause.

It sounds egregious but may not always be. Imagine a couple with a non-profit that’s basically a well regarded website forum to promote understanding of a medical cause. The forum requires a lot of moderation due to trolls. It has revenues of $60k but distributes it all as salary to the two staff.
It's the awoken part. She's sleeping beauty, and keeps on sleeping if you don't wake her up.

The important part is that she only awakes on Mondays or Tuesdays when you actively wake her up. So since she's twice as likely to be woken up when the coin showed tails the conditional probability from her perspective for tails is higher.

I don't think the shows or showed part makes the big difference here assuming you left the coin as is after throwing it. It's the conditional probability part.

But they did try to explain it in a mysterious click-bait way. I'm pretty sure there aren't many Mathematicians kept awake by this at night.
No need to make such personal attacks in a comment here.
How to say "I'm becoming irrelevant" without saying that.
As a film its okay, but as a Daft Punk music video its awesome and for that I love it.
I like to get exit codes, but otherwise yeah that's fine.
I completely agree. That really stood out from the article
The nuance here is that sometimes work from home is more productive, sometimes office is more productive.

When initially figuring out what the “problem” actually is then it is better when people are together.

When the problem has been well defined, and people just need to run with the project: work from home is better.

If project needs pivoting or redefining, back to office is again better.

The further along a project is, the better work from home becomes. This is because all members of team have a solid foundation of why the project matters, so they can be free to work with less interactions.
Human languages are highly redundant, for the most part. The communication channel is lossy, so you add parity bits and error correction codes.
That commenter is just wrong. We have empirical tests of quality loss due to quantization and even down to 4bits the loss is so negligible no human would ever be able to detect it. The loss only even registers on the benchmarks after generating tens of thousands of full context generations.

>So do they use the weights that are say 32 bit floats and just round them to the nearest

That's how they used to do it, and still how 8bit quantization works. That's called "Round to Nearest" or RTN quantization. That's not how it works anymore though.

The current algorithms (GPTQ, RTPQ, etc.) are more complex, including things like lining up the weights in order of least to greatest, placing them in bins (typically 32 or 128 weights per bin), and then computing an offset for each bin which is added to the RTN value. In some cases bins are identical and redundant and can be re-used without saving the same identical bin twice. These are just a few of the space saving measures which go into effective low-bit quantization without sacrificing quality.

It's very similar to state of the art video codecs or image compression algorithms. A raw photograph taken by my digital camera is 60MB, but a PNG of the same photo is 30x smaller at 2MB without a single artifact. It should be no surprise that we can reduce models by 4x, 8x, or even more without sacrificing quality.
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> if it hadn’t been for some last-minute Python I wrote to fill the last drive to rush out the door.

What was the code doing?
Differences in funding also matter.
Nice work.
I like that you have listed all the resources in the repo.

Side note, I checked your website and the about page is empty

https://backgroundremoverai.com/about/
Note that this is using the word "comprising" correctly, so is irrelevant to the topic of the incorrect usage.
Yes! Finally! People keep making the assumption that going for Services/Microservices is merely technical. It’s almost all about people and organization.

Point 7 is the most important of the technical considerations: just make your services big enough to make sense as a separate unit and small enough to not be another unchangeable monolith. Yes, it’s not sane to have 300 Lambdas that add one number to another talking to each other over network, so just don’t do it.

Microservices the “Netflix way”, with the huge graph of services, gives a bad name to the idea of factoring out modules into independently deployable parts, which always made sense. Kubernetes just helps with deployment, but how coarse or fine you factor is on you.
> Berduck is already a more interesting companion than 90% of humans online

Sounds like the article is predicated on having completely missed the point of talking to another human being?

Perhaps part of the problem is that we are so bad at teaching communication skills that we find it difficult to connect to other people?
So to clarify, it sounds like you think maintaining the good parts of modern society requires cars? Can I challenge you on that?

First, I'm curious generally where you live. As a Houstonian, I once certainly couldn't imagine life without cars. After all, how else could I visit my friends in Pearland, accessible only by freeway and 30km away? Then I visited Paris and saw that there were different ways to build cities, and that how you build a city dramatically affects how you can get around it.

If you've been to a city like Houston and a city like Paris, do you think we should build more cities like Houston, or more like Paris? To clarify, my perception of Houston is hot concrete and freeways as far as the eye can see. The downsides of this was no freedom of travel as a child, inability to do more than one or two activities in a day, being angry for 40 minutes twice a day when I was commuting to work, and everything being really far apart because most space in the city is dedicated to parking. Whereas my perception in Paris is that children can get around without depending on their parents, a commute could be as simple as walking and sitting on a train (allowing for reading a book or something), and a much denser selection of activities to choose from.

That's without even mentioning the incredible harm to the climate cars and freeway building cause.

If you believe Paris style cities are better than Houston ones, would you also be open to the idea that building even better than Paris could allow us to get rid of private cars entirely?

I can maybe guess at some initial objections so let me add some caveats:

There's plenty of places far away that it doesn't make sense to run bus routes to all of them, probably renting a car is a good solution for these rural areas. I thought it'd be interesting to build car depots at major metropolitan edges, so as density decreases to some amount people can grab a car for their rural destination, and rural visitors can easily drop off their cars when they visit the city.

Obviously, for those with mobility issues, a transit system must be inclusive.

And of course, a city should still be designed in a way for emergency vehicles to get around quickly. Though, the less private cars on the roads, surely the better response times emergency vehicles would have? Not to mention the less busy they would be...

What do you think?
I have been using Upwork for years to outsource tasks. I'm still not sure what to think of them.

On the one hand, I keep coming back because I usually find the better freelancers on Upwork than elsewhere.

On the other hand, paying them 10% means a freelancer who works for me for two weeks works one whole day just to pay the Upwork fee. And there are other fees on top of that. Upwork's overall take rate is over 15%.

And what is super annoying: For every freelancer you work with, they send you 12 (!) PDFs per month. For each week, they send you: a) The invoice of the freelancer b) An invoice of Upwork 3) A receipt for your payment.

Even if you worked with a freelancer for years, there is no way to switch to monthly invoicing.
Meh, that's a dishonest title.

Yes, Upwork are moving everybody on the 10% fee. But they previously had a progressive fee:

* 20% fee for the first $500 earned from a client

* 10% fee between $500 and $10,000 earned

* 5% fee after the first $10,000 earned

Those figures are per client. Start a new job with someone else, you start from the lower bracket again.

So they were basically living off short term contracts and low paid freelancers. Now it penalises everyone the same, but 10% is much more reasonable than 20%

I've been trying to stay afloat in this terrible hiring market through Upwork, and I'm ambivalent. Without it, I'd pretty much be broke. But even with a profile that has been created in 2012, has $50k billed, I've only been able to find short term consulting or sysadmin jobs paid terribly, and lost 20% off each of them because of the prohibitive lower bracket.
The monolith/microservice dichotomy is a red herring.

What even is a microservice?

There are other distinctions, borders and splits that are more important to consider.

Here's a koan that highlights a few of these considerations:

> If you run a kubernetes cluster on a single physical server, is it a monolith or is it a microservice architecture?
Isn't that what a lot of legit companies do?
I have a team of bioinformaticians with very little ML knowledge, but they know of these basic papers... So yeah, if someone claims to be in ML and aren't aware of this foundational knowledge... they're not to be taken seriously.
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Not really. By definition socialism relates to common ownership of the means of production. There are not so many examples of that.
- We currently have some of the best media available in the history of the world.

Please, name those best avalible media.

- If your goal is to spread factual information, use the language of facts.

How can I do that on internet?

Also... Official news about covid was unfortunately more political, than anyone would like to have it. Opposite opinions and discussion was not present and those who disagreed was discriminated and censored. Those signs are discribed in terms of propaganda - official and only one allowed agenda.
I've found it very rewarding as a source of fantastical ideas. I like that generating items in mid-journey can break me out of one line of thinking even if that's because it's result is absurd.
The problem is, you know who else watches LGBTQIA2S+ content?

Folks in the LGBTQIA2S+ closet living in parts of the US that are not tolerant of any of these groups.

If push came to shove, the Chinese government has a significant ability to blackmail a substantial amount of Americans in the deep south.
That's dumb. Better to make Apple pay a better wage rather than force customers to cover the cost of wages - we need to get away from tipping as a 'thing' in general.
“We do animal research because we have to. There is no other way around it. If tomorrow laws were changed and the FDA said okay you can do some of this early experimentation in willing human participants that would be a very interesting option I think there would be a lot of people who would step up.”

There I added some context. He said they do animal testing because they have no other choice as the FDA has said such testing is illegal on humans. If, however, the laws were changed and it were no longer illegal then they would be excited to do it on willing humans.

The law changing does not affect the morality of the underlying act. The underlying act is immoral, that is why it is currently banned. Saying you would do it, without any concern for the underlying morality, just because they unban it is textbook unethical.

I mean seriously, if somebody said: “If tomorrow laws were changed and the government said okay you can murder people who deserve it that would be a very interesting option.” would you also think this person is a fine morally upstanding person because they said (1) if it were legal, (2) if the government approves, (3) people who deserve it. No, because that would be a comically stupid argument as it is obvious to any observer that their moral compass is being guided purely by what it legal and not by what is ethical and they would totally murder people if it was allowed.
Wow, I thought they would honor the 5% charge till the end of the contracts but it seems they will go to 10% by the end of the year.

Since Upwork theoretically locks you in for 2 years with a client, I’m expecting there will be a small exodus of people with long-term projects . I’d much rather sort out invoicing myself and get paid through Stripe than lose out on extra 5%.
Both essential complexity and accidental complexity can be created or destroyed based on how functional scope or technical scope is defined and understood. In a live and evolving system, a lot of complexity is also because of not having a vision for how the product domain or market or ecosystem might evolve and having a coherent shared understanding of it amongst product managers and platform builders. When product direction flip-flops or technical choices flip-flops too widely, it creates lots of complexity lag/debt which can be very murky to clearly identify and attack.
Absolutely. Additionally they have a power to de-platform an individual.

This move will potentially hurt lot of indie & freelancers who were working with long-term clients through Upwork.

This is like forgoing your 5% net income.
I actually think it’s close enough that they could be mistaking the root meaning; think of ‘break’ in terms of elemental forces - a windbreak, a breakwater, a firebreak - think of how ‘taking a break’ is slowing down, is decelerating, is ‘braking.’ Breaks slow the movement of energy through a medium. Brake is a pretty easy mistake to make if you’re not sure which is which.
GPL did not prevent Purism from releasind a commercial version of their phone running an FSF-endorsed distro.
> That's what proof of work does. It performs the same role as a standing army

So if I invent a token where I can prove to you that I burned electricity to mint it, will you accept it in return for some of your possessions or your labour?
Cars take up too much space. Relying on cars instead of mass transit means everything has to be more spread out, which makes walking and biking a lot worse.