skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. Tips on when you should italicize foreign words in English writing: https://proofed.com/writing-tips/should-you-italicize-foreig...
Then the interviews weren't good for screening what the company actually needed.
> the confidence you had when you were 33, and improved humility may also prevent the 'genius' perception, but you're probably already more effective an engineer now than 9 years ago.

I can’t speak empirically to how people’s self awareness changes over time, but this quote rings true for me. I have more humility and a different kind of confidence.

In particular, I am less confident about a lot of things, but even more aware when other people are overconfident. In other words, I know I don’t grasp the complete reality, but I’m damn sure you don’t either. :)
That's what we did in Skybison before it got wound down: https://github.com/facebookexperimental/skybison
It's unstable under overexposure of uv light

https://www.sysrevpharm.org/articles/the-effect-of-temperatu...
I enjoyed it, and read it through. I didn't find the nonbinary/queer stuff relevant, but she did. It was part of her emotional reaction, and that was the apparent purpose of the article: to capture and evoke an emotional response. Clearly it missed you but it did so successfully for me. It was beautifully written and it made me feel a particular way, in sympathy with someone else who felt that way. I didn't have to share the author's world view for that to work, and I'm glad it was posted.

Your comment, on the other hand, feels mean-spirited and is far more dominated by the topic of gender and sexuality, in a wholly negative way, than the article was.
Wow, I had no idea there was an eink monitor as big as 25.3" available!

If it was <$500 I'd probably impulse buy it immediately, I wonder how long it will take for prices (either of this screen or future alternatives) to drop from its current $1,800 price...
> Even under the anthropological point of view, red meat which has sustained humanity for hundred of thousands of years, to "cause cancer" smells like biased nonsense from a mile away

How is this line of argument any better than biased studies?

Humans smoked tobacco for thousands of years too, or are you going to argue that smoking doesn't cause cancer either?

Also, humans used to walk dozens of miles a day. Humans used to not be 40% obese. Humans used to never eat refined sugar.

Lots of things have changed. And even if red meat didn't cause cancer in prehistory, cattle and pigs are raised differently now, and human dietary and mobility patterns are completely different today than even 100 years ago.

None of this is strong evidence for anything.

Trying to determine truth in metabolic science is super hard, and yes there are studies that point in all directions on basically any intervention. So people are understandably very wary of "well, let's toss all that out and start from some other first principles that happen to support my preexisting beliefs" like the "anthropological point of view" you describe.

Not all studies are equally bad, but basically all arguments about historical nutrition have so many confounds that they tell us very little about cause and effect, and a lot about priors (or "bias" as you refer to it elsewhere).
> Like, which manufacturer goes, like "tests show we cannot write more that 400kB without corrupting drive, let us ship this!" ?

According to https://www.sqlite.org/howtocorrupt.html there are such drives:

4.2. Fake capacity USB sticks

There are many fraudulent USB sticks in circulation that report to have a high capacity (ex: 8GB) but are really only capable of storing a much smaller amount (ex: 1GB). Attempts to write on these devices will often result in unrelated files being overwritten. Any use of a fraudulent flash memory device can easily lead to database corruption, therefore. Internet searches such as "fake capacity usb" will turn up lots of disturbing information about this problem.

Bit flips amd overwriting wrong sectors from unrelated files being written are also mentioned. You might think this sort of thing is just cheap USB flash drives, bit I've been told about NVMe SSDs violating their guarantees and causing very strange corruption patterns too. Unfortunately when the cause is a bug in the storage's device own algorithms, the rare corruption event is not necessarily limited to a few bytes or just 1 sector here or there, nor to just the sectors being written.

I don't know how prevalent any of these things are really. The sqlite.org says "most" consumer HDDs lie about commiting data to the platter before reporting they've done so, but when I worked with ext3 barriers back in the mid 2000s, the HDDs I tested had timing consistent with flushing write cache correctly, and turning off barriers did in fact lead to observable filesystem corruption on power loss, which was prevented by turning on barriers. The barriers were so important they made the difference between embedded devices that could be reliably power cycled, vs those which didn't reliably recover on boot.
big if true? :)

Exciting to see competition across LLMs for increasing context window size.

I can't find updated pricing anywhere. Previous prices are here: https://cdn2.assets-servd.host/anthropic-website/production/... but don't seem to be embedded directly on the Anthropic website. I tried messing with the URL (apr -> may/jun) but 404'ed.
In what way are you slower then?
Oof okay that's really good to know--thank you for the correction!!
Eh, there's quick diminishing returns in making more income, especially in software engineering. Being interested in the products you're building is a better path to work contentment in my opinion.
Anyone interested in Fusus, which appears to be aggregating and orchestrating sharing of live surveillance cam video feeds, may also be interested in Flock (nationwide coordination of automated license plate reader aka ALPR systems): https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/how-to-pump-the...
Ah, yes, the inspiration for the 1980 documentary Airplane!, with Leslie Nielson:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airplane!
It looks like it's mostly about making WHOIS data machine-readable and allowing it to support more information: https://about.rdap.org/
This seems like an impossible task. I can’t fathom recognising a video and finding the original. And yet, there seem to be people on Reddit capable of doing this. I feel like this candidate need only ask for help from Reddit to recover from this setback … if what he says is true.
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I think, generally speaking, you get less "hungry" as you get older across the board.

Sure, you could become excellent at guitar in your 40s, but unless you're extremely motivated, you probably don't care about learning it as much as a teenager would. Same goes with learning or becoming anything else.

(Of course, everything here is on average.)
As the eInk panel is technically an independent second screen, why oh why don't they offer it as a separate product? I would immediately buy it if I could use it along with the screens I already have (or my laptop without a large extra screen). But I am not going to buy an otherwise mediocre screen just to enjoy the eInk screen.
But how are you supposed to set price controls on wages if some jobs are easy and right near where you live and others are hard and far away from affordable rents? Wouldn't the calculation have so many variables in it with such subjective valuation that only the person themselves could decide if it was worth it?
Minimum wage is necessary where labor is at a severe disadvantage. The number of employers in a location is often pretty limited, and if an unskilled worker doesn't take the deal they're offered, and if they can't find a better deal in a timely manner they face poverty. A minimum wage means these small number of employers can't dragoon workers into the lowest possible wage above starvation. While it does mean some people will get payed nothing instead of something, it's often easier to deal with a small number of unemployed people who can easily be supported by a large population where everyone else is getting payed decently.

But there are plenty of other circumstances where employment isn't a race to the bottom. Most gig workers are in a position where they could easily do something else if the compensation was inadequate, including getting a minimum wage non-gig job, and most people in the society are not relying on gig jobs as their sole source of income. Further there is no social welfare where society at large supports people who can't get gig jobs. Under such circumstances, what is the argument for the person who would be rendered unemployed by a minimum wage to want a minimum wage?
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Got it, thanks for the correction!
Less tolerance? What do you mean?

I’ve found my outward tolerance has had to increase. I still have an internal drive to shape outcomes in more meaningful directions. This has driven (or perhaps co-evolved with) the development of a wide range of skills to be persuasive and nudge people.

People can be so incredibly narrow-minded, short-sighted, inspiring, and/or wise, sometimes in the span of two sentences. Dealing with this juxtaposition is jarring and requires large levels of empathy.

It helps me to remember that many people vastly overestimate their individual influence and conscious awareness of what’s happening with their bodies and minds. I regularly aspire to balance what someone wants in the short run, long run with what larger groups need and expect. Kids teach you this very directly.
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Next step: reading Charles Bukowski and just absolutely not giving a f*ck. I always seen him as the ultimate slacker and hoped some of that energy will trickle down to me when I was being workaholic.

On another note I really liked "How to Be Idle" by Tom Hodgkinson
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/623922.How_to_Be_Idle
In case you get some guilt feelings.
engineer can always negotiate a lower salary + higher equity stake if he joins early + works lot more harder to create early product and reach PMF (especially as a founding engineer / cofounder/ etc)

imo market forces have some equilibrium in current state
Make India part of a G8 and watch democracy beat China at its own game
>"Nobody Writes JavaScript Any More"

I code single page apps that talk to business backends using JSON based RPC. All in plain JavaScript with some domain specific libs when needed. No problems so far.
This is not how it works for me. When I was unemployed, I was absolutely not bored, having time to finish projects I've shelved left and right, however useless they were. Doing things in the off-hours with a 9-to-5 job is much, much harder. With the energy of the day already gone, and the also very human need to just sit down and relax, there's just not much one can do.

I really hope to eventually do something that allows me to earn money, and have enough time to both tinker and relax, without running the risk of being exhausted come next morning.
Skipped the tutorial and got fired pretty soon, seems unrealistic ;-)
Any website that doesn't want me able to choose what I do on my own computer with the information they've freely given me is welcome to move to a different protocol that requires a locked down operating system that forces display of their content in the manner that they dictate. Until then, they can choose to stop freely sending me information or accept I'm going to use information on my own computer however I want (short of redistributing it).
The most interesting bit is that for the first time since the release of ChatGPT in December 2022, OpenAI does not have the lead on LLMs anymore.

At least, for people who need large context windows, they would not be the first choice anymore.
I've always imagined most of this site was 35+, but perhaps I'm wrong on that? I know it definitely skews older than Reddit, Blind, etc.
These tags are generated by some kind of classification algorithm? Are you just using the headlines to generate them?
Nice. Will we be able to get to 1M tokens?
Imagine you have a list of items. The list supports multiple selection. Elsewhere on the screen, you have a little box that shows the number of selected items, and the total order price of all of them. Elsewhere, there is an alert that shows up if the total order price is greater than some budget field. There is a button to order the selected items. The button should be disabled if the total price is greater than the budget. The budget amount is also a field that can be edited.

First off, you have to decide where the selection itself is stored. Is whether or not an item is selected "model" state? Or "view model"? If the latter, is there a well defined place where that kind of data is stored or does it literally just list in the list UI element itself? If so, how do all of the other UI elements that need that state get it? Are they directly coupled to the list box?

If a user selects "undo" does that change the selection? Is selecting or unselecting an item and undoable operation or not?

If the back-end server sends an update that some item is no longer available, does the UI handle that appropriately?

When the budget number changes, where does the validation logic to ensure the user chooses a reasonable number live?

This is just a very simple example, but stuff like this comes up all the time and gets gnarly real fast.
I have mostly stopped drinking alcohol. Our downstairs fridge has 4 or 5 different kinds of good-tasting non-alcoholic beers; there has been a real explosion in the variety and quality of them available over the last decade. Many are fairly hard to distinguish from their alcohol-laden counterparts and even what small difference exists is far from worth the hangover/sluggish feeling.

When I have a drink now, it's likely a red wine with a beef dish and only a single.

On the flip side, I think the pressure to invest in a 401k is a strongly net-beneficial pressure. (Roth if your marginal tax rate is low now, traditional or a mix if your marginal tax rate is high now and you think it will be lower in retirement.) It’s not just about being a skilled investor or not, but the psychology and practicality of making a decision to save once and having that decision auto-implemented every paycheck has a way of preventing that retirement savings from turning into new cars and fantastic vacations now and a meager retirement nest egg later. The modest tax advantages and being largely judgment proof are icing on the cake, but the easy way to implement a disciplined process is very valuable.
Ooooh makes sense.
> All plants are actually fractals but it's not a long the leaf dimension, it's along the stem axis.

> Every node--etc.. section is the same pattern as every other.

Common sense says this isn't true. Some sections grow leaves and flowers rather than smaller branches, others do not.
I'm curious if there's a reason, or just accidental quirk of your comment, that you gave one dimension in mm and the other in inches?
Still a great program. Better than the garbage built-in TextEdit, way faster than something like VSCode.
As a life-long space buff, no that's not the reason at all.

The solar system can support a vastly greater civilization than our little planet, with millions of times the resources available and no existing ecosystems to screw up (that we know of so far). Antarctica does not compare.
Can anyone know 65,000 people?
This reminded me that "Papers Please" exists.
They are continually improving coverage, a 3D artist friend of mine worked with an agency that was providing 3D models for them (wasn't the best workplace though, very factory-floor-panopticon-y).

Though last time I tried it, about a year ago, my hometown (a capital of one of Brazil's states) and all the surrounding areas was still very much procedurally generated. (FLN airport district is next to a mangrove swamp but was represented in-game as grasslands, as well as some very out-of-place building styles)
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The reason why open source software is better
"Bard isn’t currently supported in your country. Stay tuned!"
In the Google IO talk they mention its compatible with deck.gl and three.js. Does anyone know of any projects or resources for using either deck or three as a custom renderer [1]?

[1] https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/tile/use-re...
One of those things makes claims about the future to justify whatever present actions people prefer.

The other warns about future dangers and cautions us not to take certain present actions. Slowing is not crippling, it's just conservative. And our species has a long history of abusing new tech and causing damage, which leads to strict, regressive reforms. And neither the damage nor the reforms are desirable.
Great response!

That said, my intention wasn't to whine. I truly don't care about the act of getting downvoted.

What I was trying to point out is that I was getting downvoted in my original post, because "kids these days" are against the general concept of TDD. That's in response to this OP's comment that I quoted.

Why were they against TDD? One person said it was because their CTO made them do 100% test coverage and that caused the startup to fail. Is that the failure of TDD or the failure of the CTO? ;-)

Now you're getting downvoted? LOL! For the record, I upvoted you.
>People have to agree on certain basic values to workable operate the kind of sweeping federal government we have.

Sorry for the late reply.

Absolutely. Things like the rule of law (which is mostly the case in the US, with certain really frustrating exceptions -- we should all be treated equally under that law), free and fair elections (there are significant issues there -- especially with gerrymandering and the politicization of the officials who run elections -- e.g., state Secretaries of State) which, we mostly have.

I'd add well-regulated capitalism/market economy, which is something of an issue (the sewer of filthy lucre in our political system is the primary culprit in causing problems) here.

Freedom (although not unlimited, but pretty expansive) of expression and thought are also important.

Most everything else should be left to individuals and communities.

While the US system certainly has some significant issues, that's not because (IMNSHO) we (the collective 'we', in the vast majority) agree on the above.

The enormous amounts of money in our political system is the biggest issue, with gerrymandering and the (often codified into law in the several states) hegemony of the two-party system not far behind.

So no. Americans as a population are mostly in agreement about important things, making compromise possible. But the hegemony of the two-party system creates perverse incentives to demonize the other party and eschew cooperation for fear of alienating the constituencies the parties have riled up by "othering" their fellow Americans.

Publicly funded, non-partisan elections, along with regular geometric shapes for congressional districts would go a long way to fix those problems.
This would be better if there was more moral/ethical depth. It also doesn't explore how content moderation policies shape discourse and how moderators often times abuse such policies to manipulate posts that fit their ideology.
I don't think so at all. Civilized debate over ideas? Great. Middle-school-tier name-calling, shaming tactics, and attempts to get someone fired from their job because you disagree with them? Completely unacceptable. Are we all in middle school now because we don't have to look at each other face to face?
Nobody has mentioned the manual. It is fantastic!

To this day I still open the BBEdit manual (to chapter 30, maybe?) if I want to figure out how to write some Regex.

I’ve never seen such clear and comprehensive instructions on Regex anywhere else.
I'd call that breakdown realistic.
Yeah. I tried a Constant Glucose Monitor for fun. Seeing what fruit did to my glucose levels was shocking.
I confess that such IDEs and their plugins are not my cup of tea and have not given them a fair chance. Though I am skeptical, with the many inconsistencies that runtimes present even for Chrome, perhaps they do work and I may give them a fair try.

Still, unwilling tight coupling with an IDE is still quite unsatisfactory.
What's the mdf underneath for? Would another sheet of plywood (offset from the one above, for strength at joints) work better, but is more expensive?
That is exactly what I mean to say, and why I included a link from the published that says exactly that:

> Each issue of Animal Frontiers will consist of a series of invited, peer-reviewed articles that present several international perspectives on the status of a high-impact, timely, global issue in animal agriculture. The articles will be in the form of discussion or position articles that will add to the scientific reviews and original articles published in the journals of the four science societies (Animal, Canadian Journal of Animal Science, Journal of Animal Science, Translational Animal Science, and Meat and Muscle Biology).

Note "articles will be in the form of discussion or position articles".
I've avoided JS/TS almost entirely, and shown contempt toward it a bunch in the past. I'm now at a place where TS seems like a reasonable language for prototyping backend stuff: JS has a GC, big package ecosystem, sum types, static typing, good tooling support.

Only thing that ticks most of those boxes (IMO) is Kotlin. Anyone been down this road before (skeptic->using in prod)?
> and his effort seems to have positive side effects.

One hour weapon delivery anywhere on earth is not exactly a positive side-effect.

https://www.businessinsider.com/musks-spacex-partners-us-mil...
Dark web? Will they be scanning Telegram? Because that's where the real work is being done.
By the way, for your air example: compressed air would be an example of value over the naturally abundant resource. Profit on one of those little cans of air used to clean your keyboard is the "value capture".

Water, on the other hand, is a municipal resource that is supported through taxation. The private companies that handle most of the work are highly regulated because clean water is considered a public good. Bottled water through private companies does have a staggeringly high profit margin.
Please post a link to the study.
I always think back to this talk when I come across a WebAssembly Text file, annotated by .wat. Highly relevant to the author's prediction about the future from 2014 as well: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAssembly/Underst...
Global Regulation of the Counter-Terrorism Spyware Technology Trade [pdf]