skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SuperSymmetry Technologies has collaborated with Fudan University to release BBT-2-Finance large language model. It trains on a large amount of Chinese financial corpus data to help users extract key information from lengthy texts and write summaries.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.09432.pdf
Sam Altman said that he doesn't like the open-air fentanyl markets either.

I dunno how these ppl avoid catching a heart attack from cognitive dissonance.
True if you just lost a war. Otherwise it seems to go very far though the phrase is verboten.
Everyone is even more of a mercenary.
Sure, but even some super fit folks end up with atherosclerosis due to genetics so if there are any supplements that prevent it, that would be nice.
They are not meant to enforce anything, they bring before the courts. Enforcement is a police state.
Hey, so sorry to hear about your kafkaesque situation. It doesn't seem like it right now, but you're going to make it through this. You seem diligent enough to forge a better destiny :)

> Is this what work-life is typically like for everyone else? Moving from employer to employer, having such limited influence?

I've found that my influence is inversely proportional to the number of people in the company. The tradeoff is that influence usually demands higher stress and longer working hours. I'm now running a company of size 1 for maximum stress and working hours :)

> And if it doesn't have to be like this then how can I end the cycle of landing jobs that don't work for me? How can I put my skills to use in an environment where I feel like I have agency and am working on something worthwhile?

For career pathing, I highly recommend reading So Good They Can't Ignore You. Email me at hello@taylor.town and I'll mail you a copy for free.

Autonomy is a huge part of job satisfaction, and autonomy is generally best achieved through skills and strategic lateral moves.

My guess is that you should figure out what life you want to live, and work backwards on how to get there fastest with your current skillset.

Thanks for sharing and being vulnerable! Taking the time to discover happiness is an underrated trait :)
Your comment makes it sound like they’re using some task-specific library, but this looks like pretty generic standard library functions to me.
there's also a tension between making things simple and making things customisable. The reality is that for most a computer is not a hobby but a tool. They use it to do something and do not want to babysit it. The simpler, the better. Ideally no interaction required beside the interaction you want.

It's similar to cars. Nobody can fix todays cars besides professionals and I bet most have really no idea what's going. But most also don't care because they do not view cars as a hobby but as a tool that just has to work (it usually just works). If they are not required to fix them themselves they won't engage with it at all.
> If they had any actual political power I would feel very differently.

Well I have a bad news for you. They do.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/08/royals-vette...

It is an informal and murky way to exert control but it is well documented and it is happening.
> Does AI "subvert" "promoting the Progress of Science and useful Arts"?

Absolutely, it may. That was my point that this is exactly to be observed and decided.
I think it's a couple of things.

One is that having a network of people you know and have worked with gets conflated with "networking" events where people looking for work mostly uselessly pass around business cards or whatever the modern equivalent is.

The other somewhat related thing is that people who don't have or don't like to make connections see people waltzing into jobs and resent it. (In my experience it really can short-circuit the interview process, but my sample size is pretty small in that I've tended to stay with jobs a long time and the connections I had were at the highest levels.)
This is inherently not the same, though. Sure, companies come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, but a company's first and foremost interest is profit for the shareholder. For a person in a relationship, it's about finding a partner that makes them happy. In addition, you are expendable to a company, whereas people build a relationship and become more and more invested over time. Way more than a company becomes invested in an employee.
> What a world in which RHEL is more adventurous than Debian.

Always been the case. I don't know why people say the only purpose of RHEL is for enterprise support, or for meeting certifications and compliance. They innovate on the technology a lot, too.
>Why is Altman lying to me?

Are you a corporate entity based on VC money? If not then he's not talking about you.

edit: As all the layoffs even with record revenues show employees are merely a means to an end for employers.
> There are whole scientific fields where everyone within it is required to believe things that are false, simply due to the career risk involved in upsetting people with the truth. If people could agree to listen to a truth-trained AI instead

This could never happen, as the forbidden truths are forbidden because they have negative emotional impact, which would still be the case.
it's controversial because it uses loaded terms like 'inequality'. Differences in brains, yeah well that's a no duh. So mens brains develop around a high risk tolerance because they're expendable in mines, fighting trenches, lumber operations, fishing, and so forth?
Ask HN: Intellectually stimulating gaming sites for children
I have an 8-year-old daughter who's intellectually curious but who has, thanks to one of her friends, locked onto a trashy online game site that's a honey pot for advertising, and which is only just usable because of uBlock Origin. Aside from one called Monkey Mart - which involves running a supermarket, including keeping shelves topped up, paying for helpers in the shop, feeding animals to get produce etc. - the quality of the games is in general very low - just dress-up things with sparkly sounds targeted squarely at the stereotype of a girly girl. I don't mind that kind of thing in moderation, figuring that banning that kind of stuff just makes it more alluring and that with guidance she'll grow out of the trashier side of those things eventually, but I'd like her to be picking games from a broader pool which includes things that are more intellectually stimulating. (By which I don't mean worth or boring - they need to be fun too). Can anyone recommend a good single source of games like that? She plays Minecraft and codes on both Scratch and code.org, so a balance between all those kind of games would be ideal.
If I was a cynical product owner who was responsible for the multiple profiles feature, I would probably fight to keep that extra click to remind users of the functionality. Otherwise it may affect the metrics.

BTW: My pet peeve is that it's not possible to mark an episode as "seen". They should at least allow it for those who use multiple profiles. If a family has profiles, but sometimes watch the same content together, it kind of locks you into using that profile forever for that show. It makes it harder to catch up on missing episodes on other profiles, and also messes up the interface in general.
> Everyone is just a mercenary. Very little culture or care is created.

As they should be. I like and am friends with my colleagues. But I am under no delusional that I would be let go immediately if the profit motive of my company didn't justify my being there.
A couple things:

1. This headline is clickbait garbage meant to elicit a click/emotional response. The concept of reparations (whether you agree with them or not) are way more complex than simply saying "will bill you for slavery".

2. California Gov Newsom, who's relatively centrist (especially compared to what's further left in CA), has been rumored to be eyeing a presidential run at some point for a while now. It's not a coincidence that this kind of proposal aims to garner brownie points with voters who are further left than him.
Ideally both GitHub and HN would be down at the same time. With nowhere to discuss the former, people might actually get something done.
I'm not trying to assign blame (if anything, all other top comments do, one of them is talking about putting Turkmen on trial for crimes against humanity). I'm looking at the emissions and see Turkmenistan and the US are clear leaders on the methane leaks problem. And this place is full of US readers, therefore I believe it's worth discussing.

Any and all methane emissions must be stopped, including in the US, where all US citizens reading me should use their democratic power, write to their representants by e-mail, Facebook, Twitter, or whatever to try and change the situation. Turkmenistan is a poor country with rampant corruption and therefore it's harder to hold it to the same standards as a developed one.
It accepts PDFs. It can't parse LaTeX-generated PDFs. No idea why. And that's not a specific one, it has been most ATSs in my experience.
The argument is the fact it can have additional properties at runtime. In which case does it not make more sense to have Object.keys typed as `(keyof T & string)[]`
Where it's typed as the keys but allows for additional string values too?
Sure it is, but you cannot pretend it.

Why should your right to be seen be more important than the right of the government to organize a nice party for an event that will be in history books?

You have the right to protest, but the others must retain the right to ignore you. You talking in the centre of the public square, in the middle of the market, is ok; you screaming in my ear is not.
There has never been a better time to be poor.
So if theocracy is so much better, do you have an explanation for Iran?
This is why I don't touch other people's keyboards.
"However, it’s important to be aware of the potential drawbacks of using this type of wrapper, so consider adding a warning message to it."

Or just don't do it, it's not type safe.
Perhaps everyone should stop complaining and be thankful for a chill morning. You can't create a PR right now - go get a pastry and some fresh air. Be in the moment for once. It's beautiful outside*

* Where I am
Systems Thinking goes beyond just causal loop diagrams, which are a useful tool in soft-systems modelling. Systems Thinking is more of a foundational mindstate rather than a set of tools and I think this is something I disagree with the author on.

https://sebokwiki.org/wiki/What_is_Systems_Thinking%3F

Systems Engineering uses Systems Thinking as the root of the apprach but will use any tool available for actually modelling/designing the system. A big one which is used a lot for hard-systems is SysMl (an offshoot of UML, I know) which is again somewhat inpenetrable for outsiders. I think thats ultimately a trap for all domain-specific tools where they need some way of being abstracted for the layman.

For an Engineering Manager, a combination of tools from the Operations Management disciple and Enterprise Systems Engineering is possibly something that might be a bit more useful to you.
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It was just something made up to tack onto the bill and make it higher.
Why download updates at all without the user knowing? Is prompting before downloading such an awful user experience in comparison? Or, you know, prompt once per day and add a 'remind me in x days/minutes' option?

The whole take-away of this article feels backwards. Instead of going 'hey maybe we should not just download stuff in the background without prompt', the author doubles down and actually proposes to add a way for the server to signal to the client that an update should be forced.

I'm actually baffled by this entire thing.
It is always funny to me, seeing someone speaking about the Greek Language as a dead one.
Most of these terms are spoken in everyday life in Greece with the same meaning.

Old English are way harder to understand for an neo-English speaker than Homer writings, going back 3000 years, are for a neo-Greek speaker. Does this make English a dead language?

Also these terms exist in English in one way or the other, taking time to study a word gives it a lot more deeper meaning that it needs, especially when the word uses changes by time and place. Many of these Classics worshipers can be paralleled with the weird Japanese culture worshipers Weeabos.
The population decrease has way more to do with cost of housing in that state, the other stuff are side points in comparison.
> Screen Studio is a desktop app. It means we need some auto-updater

No, it doesn't. People used desktop apps perfectly fine before the always-on phone-home era of nearly universal broadband.

What's more troubling though is that this is somehow a story about monitoring cloud costs, and not a story about why your update interval was every five minutes instead of daily; or why it would auto-download instead of politely (no popups!) letting the user know there was an update; or why you failed to reconsider the fundamentals of your design in the face of the first round of negative feedback.

Your users told you they felt harassed and interrupted by your prompts. That's why you were making this change in the first place. That should have told you something.
So the Queen read bills and gave her opinion on them, which is public record, before they were debated? And that constitutes political power?

It also states that this is a purely formal part of the parliamentary process and she never refused something being debated, even if she did parliament could override it.

I’d argue that if David Beckham tweeted his annoyance at a bill being passed it would have more influence. Not to mention the hundreds of lobby groups that get their way.

I think people forget that the relationship between Monarch and people in Britain has always been different to the rest of Europe. No Magna Carta or equivalent document was signed anywhere else in Europe in the 1200s. It took the famously rebellious France 150 years to abolish their monarch after the English did.

Personally I don’t mind the monarchy, if they replace it then fine, but I want it replaced with something decent. I definitely don’t want to see a US style presidential republic set up here, with executive orders, etc.

I’ve said this before in another thread but growing up as a not very well off ethnic minority the Queen seemed to care more about me than anyone in parliament. The monarch in the UK shows more civil devotion and service than any politician.
Thanks for the answer, appreciated.
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What is the modern-day equivalent to HyperCard?
Went down an internet rabbit hole and stumbled across Hypercard earlier today.

HyperCard, for those unfamiliar, was an early Macintosh software offering that sought to make interactive application development accessible to non-technical users. It combined a flat-file database with a GUI. It used the skeuomorphic paradigm of "cards" in a stack to represent the visual state and the navigation flow within a user-defined app. Using the editor and Paint-like overlay tools, you could drag and drop different elements onto a card, and attach functionality to those by coding in HyperTalk with a "natural language"-like syntax.

Everything was live-edited. So when a user typed in a form that existed on a card, it was saved on the fly in the flat file representing that card or stack of cards. It can be considered an early hypermedia system, predating the web. You could also mix and match cards from different stacks to create new stacks, which seems like a powerful concept.

While I can kind of understand why HyperCard was phased out, I can't think of a modern equivalent that provides this similar, modular functionality. In fact, it seems like the web would be a natural home for such a concept, but I don't know of any mainstream examples. What do you think? What's the modern equivalent to HyperCard?

For reference:

"Why HyperCard was so f*ing Great!":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K1C5BZKP3I

HyperCard Games:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkViT_pp9vk

The Computer Chronicles: HyperCard (1987):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FquNpWdf9vg

Wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard
I wish stories like this would keep people away, but the sad truth is they keep coming regardless. People will continue to risk it all to live with earthquakes, floods, wildfires, and a high cost of living just to get away from oppressive situations. If it doesn’t appeal to you, stay away. It may be the fourth largest economy, but they don’t call it the Wild West for nothing.

Happy to see the state shed some MBA pork. Maybe you’ve noticed an uptick in carpetbaggers in your area? You know you’ve made it when there’s a McLaren dealership.
A note to anyone who's unsure - this was intended to be a joke; I missed the mark I guess
It was a mistake, a debugging line that made it to prod.
If that were literally true, then the police would arrest everyone who goes even a mile over the speed limit. Everyone who throws out junk mail addressed to a previous renter.[1] Etc.

So there is definitely at least some sense in which the police have discretion. The question is when and how much.

[1] I don't actually know if that's illegal in the UK; in the US it's a federal offense.
I'll take 3.
We have seen ChatGPT confidently answers to satisfy the question you asked.

I am sure if you asked the tool about Christianity and Islam it would confidently answer the same.

Though the reality is both those religions came a few hundred / thousand years after the Bhagavad Gita.

When your question has an agenda the tool satisfies it.

It's catering to your worldview.
If it's narrow minded. You get the answers to satisfy you.

You seem to have asked it about nothing except castes.
Nothing about Karma, duty, purpose of life, right and wrong etc.
That says something.
>> The app checks for the update every 5 minutes or when the user activates the app.

This is why I use Little Snitch, an application firewall that blocks requests like this and gives me some control over which applications are phoning home all the time. There’s no reason a desktop application should check for updates every 5 minutes. Once a month ought to do it without a compelling reason for more. But none of the lessons learned in the article show any attempt to reevaluate the update check frequency.
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I did write

> There is no one true book for the dharmic faiths and over time the concept was rigidified by the people in power to keep their power.

The thing you see today is not what was intended. We have seen throughout in history when you give one group power, it tries to ensure that the power stays with it; this is what the so called upper castes basically did.

In modern times, why would you want to become another caste? In India, groups are dying to be called a backward or lower caste these days
I absolutely could be wrong. Even if I spent 2 hours listening to both sides, I could still be wrong. This is my best guess, based on my own experience of being a manager.

My guess is that you gave them what you thought was honest and helpful feedback, but the way you delivered it made you come across as arrogant and abrasive. I say that because I get the same feeling talking to you on here.

Imagine a story that runs like this. You off-handedly made a negative judgment in public about their existing code, which was written by their longest-serving and most senior engineer, who overhears your criticism. They then criticise you in private Slack channels of which you are not a member. Now your manager has a conflict to deal with. On one side, there's a long-standing engineer who knows the existing tech stack in great depth and has delivered much value for the company. On the other is you, somebody who started three weeks ago, and doesn't know much about the tech stack. The easiest way of resolving the conflict is to get rid of you. While they could be patient and see if things improve, your somewhat abrasive reaction to your manager's request to work more in the office makes their mind up that the pain in managing you is not the worth the potential technical skills you offer. HR advises that the lack of knowledge with Angular and browser dev tools gives sufficient justification, no need to muddy the water by mentioning the personal conflicts, as that's much more subjective. Thanks tamarind8, but your work duration probation "did not met the performance expectations and standards" so we're terminating the contract, here's 2 weeks notice as per your contract.

You arrive here, and tell us that last sentence, and you're asking if it's fair. The rest of that paragraph gives context to the decision.

Now I'm not suggesting I've got all or even any of the details right there, it's simply a generic story I've seen play out quite frequently. But without knowing that kind of detailed context, it's impossible to say what happened.

You can't control the decision to fire you. It's done. Whatever the reason.

But you can now control your response to it. You can be defensive, blame everything on them, and think about taking legal action that will almost certainly fail. Or you can learn from mistakes you made and do things differently next time.
If Microsoft brings osascript back for Outlook on Mac, I'm going to write a local script that does the same thing. Pick some threshold, >50% rejection, meeting is canceled.
Eh? That's pretty much the epitome of social violence. The only step further would be exile.
Without getting into the personal history of DFW, I think it's OK to love the art but not the artist. I certainly like lots of music like that. Clearly, from the noise arising before and after the movie-depiction of "Although of course you end up becoming yourself", the life of the artist will be dissected in modern society no matter the consensus. I've read right on into Byung Chul Han a decade later which I find resplendent for exactly the opposite reasons: minimalist vs. maximalist expression. To me, DFW was fun reading since he used a sideways default mode in writing to demonstrate that the future held this sideways aspect at its core. He'd tease us with "are you going with me" as if that sideways writing was the tunnels at Shangri-La and DFW were Bill Moyers. Except the hard part is cookie crumbing your way back from that leaf node mentally. In other words, breadth-first-search is fine in brain-space but comes with high cognitive cost of losing yourself (in cognitive psychology function) or others (in social psychology function) or maybe that was the point of the art? I find the same effect in reading Byung Chul Han because his aphoristic style leaves my brain puzzling to remember the Greeks and assimilate that knowledge with the mental wormhole he's shoved me down - which is, perhaps ironically, exactly the same reason I love conversing with AI: I can't see it coming... giving the reading an epiphanous spiritual effect.
Huh? Article 50 is still there, and isn't a UK specific thing:

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A...

"Any Member State may decide to withdraw from the Union in accordance with its own constitutional requirements."

Wikipedia (at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withdrawal_from_the_European_U...) notes that a formal method of leaving became a thing in the early 2000s when various Eastern European states were joining, not when the UK joined in the 1970s.

(As for the US, I did say actually passing a constitutional amendment to allow succession would be unlikely, but I don't think it's legally impossible?)