skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not take criticism of my work personally. I think this is because I have already heavily criticized it myself. Everything I make falls short of the ideal form I have pictured in my head. This applies to code, woodworking projects, CAD models, documents I've written and food I've prepared. These works all feel separate from myself despite coming from my brain. That is not to say I'm not proud of them or feel like I've done a good job; quite the opposite! But at the same time it is very rare for me to feel like there is not room for improvement or even obvious shortfalls.

I think with this mindset it is easy to accept others criticism because I already agree anything I made is needs criticism and is worthy of being criticized. It is also one of the only ways to improve. I get excited when I can get someone to provide feedback on food I've prepared (people are hesitant to do that as it seems rude) because it teaches me what they like. For software, sometimes the criticism is just someone else's preferred style and that I take even less personally and try to work with them to see if there is a middle ground that suits both of us or our team.
Getting whiplash from the 90 degree handbrake turn the crypto grifters have taken into being AI grifters.
Why was the US in Vietnam in the first place if the assumption was that Capitalism was much better than Communism?

For something to be so much better than the alternative it sure was a close ideological race between the 2 systems.
> categorical thinking of many sorts really get my goat

This also makes my blood boil, should we share so much in common somehow.

Race (still) has nothing to do with any of the GWAS studies, and this has been discussed in length since far before we started hooking up supercomputers to personality studies. These are discussing large differences in the chemical computers in our body that take possibly 100's of times or more longer to evolve than the amount of melanin in your skin or the shape of your nose would have evolved, and have evidently stayed that way for several 100's of thousands of years due to assortative mating.

So, given how literally every society ever tested all the way down to remote African tribes has all this exact same genetic diversity, would it not imply that this exact same distributed diversity is necessary for a healthy society to function?

Is it too difficult to imagine that certain groups of people, who we can't just use our eyes to pick out, are at greater risk from, say, macroeconomic shifts, which hampers their ability to be efficacious and extract favorable outcomes from the environment, has consequences even to certain groups that have it good?

Seems unbelievably great that we have all the data to prove all these emotionally dysregulated and life-hating schizoid racists wrong and be able to better labor distribution to improve individual and societal efficacy, but some anxieties are holding it back?

Here's an idea, you can easily prove the genetic determinism believers wrong by maintaining healthy boundaries and not internalizing other people's own self-destructive issues >:)
> Oracle ERP project disaster

Redundant headline. Oracle & ERP almost always implies disaster.

Seriously, never again. Ditto for IBM, and a lesser extent, SAP. I wish Red Hat had a real competitor, cuz Canonical ain't there yet.
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Thanks to DannyBee for ITT de-obfuscating the finding and its practical implications.
I think every team/project needs a goat who will argue that the strategy being chosen is wrongheaded and will lead to problems. And who will also enthusiastically work to succeed with that strategy after being outvoted or overruled, while keeping their objections in mind and working hard to avoid them as much as possible.

Some people who have the final say can't stand a goat, and take any negativity about their vision as a cue to start figuring out how to get rid of that negativity. They often code that as a bad culture fit.
Could these provide connectivity across SF Bay using mostly existing infrastructure? Enabling a 15 minute SF-San Jose connection would be pretty impressive.
> It was rather the other way around: the First Amendment was drafted with the certainty that such a thing isn't about free speech and will always be illegal.

This isn’t really backing up your point that the First Amendment isn’t sufficiently protecting free speech.
As someone who is trying to be positive, charming, and friendly in the professional world because that's the type of work environment I want to be in, how can I do that without sending red flags to my coworkers/direct reports? What can I do in order to instill a culture of grace and gratitude without coming across as playing politics?
> The median living standard in Germany has been in free fall for 20 years.

??
I don't think that anybody thinking in terms of "winning" friends and "influencing" people is worried at all about doing the "right" thing.
Hypervault vs. LastPass: Password Management Comparison for Web Agencies
Bitcoin mining devastated this New York town (2022)
Advanced Installer: 20 years old, still getting regular releases.

https://www.advancedinstaller.com/version-history.html
The HN title says something different than the blog post title / intent. The HN title is incorrect and misleading imo.

The blog post can be summarized as "you don't need indexes on tiny tables".
I learned to take it personally but not react badly. This way I am not trying to counter a normal human experience, but instead changing something I have total control over, my response.

This is a fight worth having because the more you do it, the better you get at it and you feel less and less attacked you feel when criticism comes your way.

The first few times doing this are the hardest. But after doing this for some time, I rarely feel criticisms are personal anymore. This also affected how people talk to me, and they make it less personal. It's an odd combination of success from both sides.

A key point to all of this, was I needed to make my criticisms less personal.

A manager told me a key point in a private conversation once that help me change my attitude.

He said "I don't like talking about people, I like talking about processes".

I had just been critical of a "person" in the conversation, and I realized how much easier it was to talk about a "process" with my criticism after I took his hint to heart. And others took some time to follow my lead on this, and for me to be consistent about this change of process.
Of course, because vast variety of businesses had no security whatsoever and a bunch of PII could just be accessed by anyone on file share.

Vast majority of cases are "we haven't even tried in the first place"

And majority of fines are in range of 4 to low 5 digit.

At least from what I observed the "mistakes" are generally fined pretty low if organization can prove it took necessary steps in goodwill, but stuff like "not telling users about the breach" is treated VERY harshly
It's illegal to drive in neutral. And of course you can engine break in automatic cars, but you're not likely to.
https://www.aclu.org/other/national-security-letters
>>Booster effectiveness relative to primary series was 26·2% (95% CI 23·6–28·6) against infection

Sorry, maybe I'm an idiot, but what does this mean? "Effectiveness against infection" - does that mean that 26% of participants who got the booster did not contract corona-19?
I've been hearing executives and "tech leaders" recently saying that 80% of the new code is now written by chatgpt, and that it will "10x" a developer, but that sure mismatches with my experience. I suspect there will be a lot of managers with much higher expectations than is reasonable, which won't be good.
> Same government workers are now tasked with identifying requirements and managing consultants

I've been in the private sector for the last 10 years and most of the folks I worked with sure aren't.
It would be more accurately to say that all those who understand how encryption works (which excludes most people in managerial positions, even if they have the power to decide what kind of encryption is used in their companies) cannot trust any kind of encryption embedded in a hardware device whenever it has to be used for protecting really important data.

The reason is that all encryption is based on the separation of place between the encrypted data and the encryption key. Whoever can access the encrypted data must not have any way to access the encryption key.

Whenever you give your encryption key to a hardware device, or worse, when the hardware device also generates itself the encryption key, it becomes impossible to ensure that the attacker will not be able to access the encryption key.

It is impossible to know how the encryption keys are stored inside a hardware device and how and when they are erased and how easy or how difficult it will be in the future for an attacker to retrieve them.

It is impossible to believe any marketing claim of the vendor of a hardware encryption device about how tamper-resistant the device is, because such claims have very frequently been proven to be lies (even when the claims come from the largest companies, e.g. Microsoft and many others like it) and it is too difficult to distinguish truth from lies in such cases.

The only reliable means of encryption are in software, under complete end user control (or equivalently, in a custom FPGA).
I mean, maybe, but I believe in essence, politics is about building social consensus. And that has value. It might be that the consensus you are building is positive or negative for certain people, but in the end it is a tool that you need to be able to wield. Failure to do so from good people will lead to worse outcomes.
My question is how this compares to other methods for drug design. They are not the first people to use a computer to pick molecules out of a library to test as antibiotics. Is their method much better, a bit better, no better, etc? That doesn't seem to be mentioned in the discussion.
I've had an interview question we called KennyLoggings.

Pair program on a feature that lets you change the log levels of your rails app based on the path and class hierarchically. So you could set INFO for app/models but DEBUG for just app/models/user.rb.

I quite liked it as an interview question / and as a tool.
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We (in the U.S.) are giving these to 5-year-olds. We don't know if there will be developmental issues, and we won't for quite some time. Remember, Pfizer wanted to hide their data for 70 years until releasing it. [1]

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/paramount-importanc...
Works for me, here's the relevant segment:

Esenbel: The Europeans should find ways to meet quick needs; for
example, the Air Force needs spare parts. For other items that they
can't find in the stocks, maybe you could make a deal with the Dutch or
others to send it here.

Macomber: That is illegal.

Kissinger: Before the Freedom of Information Act, I used to say at
meetings, "The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a
little longer." [laughter] But since the Freedom of Information Act,
I'm afraid to say things like that.
heya, yep, if you add ivfflat index for embedding <column> in your table. I have to note that I am not pgvector contributor and this is how i understood it from the repo and its code.
you can find a bit more context from the paper https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3318464.3386131 and https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector repo itself
i saw this happen once and i left the company immediately. the guy in question was angling to be head of the department, i.e. my new boss. he was a real dipshit with a room temperature iq. incompetent was only the first item in a long list of issues. the dude could barely read.

at the same time, a new CTO was chosen, and his first technical all-hands was a verbal tirade about how smart he was and how you couldn't sneak anything past him. lmao. lol. i remember thinking to myself "is this guy for fucking real???" during the meeting. yes, he was for real.

current boss was also angling for a promotion so it would have been nice little maneuver. current boss tried to get me to stay after i gave my notice but even to my 22 year old self it was clear as day the direction it was all going.

in the end they got their lunch eaten by competition within a few years and everyone there left. what a pointless exercise in stupidity. i just looked - the parent company stock has gone nowhere for 15+ years during the biggest bubble in history.

ironically the ceo was a super cool dude but younger than all of his "subordinates" and i think he just got pushed around. either way, if the org is fucking up so bad even a 22 year old can see it...
I live in a rural area, and I love to walk and listen to music.

I can't do this, because too many people use free range dogs as security systems.
Your source is from May 5th. Subsequent Kinzhals were confirmed shot down much more recently.

> On May 4, 2023, Ukraine used a U.S.-supplied Patriot battery to down a Russian Kinzhal missile, which Russian President Vladimir Putin had announced in 2018 was a “hypersonic” weapon that could overcome all existing air defense systems. Russia’s state news agency tried to maintain this claim by arguing that the shootdown was a fake report. Yet just 12 days afterward, Ukraine shot down six Kinzhals [1] that Russia fired in an assault on Kyiv. Both shootdowns have been verified by U.S. government sources.[2]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/16/world/europe/ukraine-russ...
[2] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2023/05/23/u...
That does seem like a real problem! Adding indexes periodically is a pretty regular thing for any production system where I come from.
Yes they do, but releasing it all the way is jerky. To fix this, EVs should limit the jerk rate rather than introducing the brake at full power when you release the accelerator. This is how it’s done by most metro trains.
I think this is one of those rare circumstances where the article would have actually been better if it were longer. I've got almost no idea what actually happened here or why.
Bertrand Meyer's Handbook of Requirements and Business Analysis
> encoding/gob is intended for streams, not stateless marshals/unmarshals

I don't understand this within the context of the rest of your comment. I use gob for marshaling stuff to storage all the time, I'm not aware of a better way to do that (serialize data to binary).
Fusion Hybrid '18 here -- no brake lights on regen activity, just the dash icon that you can enable to see that it's regenning. It's not harsh regen at least on the full hybrid (even in Eco w/ Grade Assist enabled) until you slap it in low for engine braking.
If you actually joined the website 13 days ago though, I'm not sure if you are really in a position to evaluate the shift in culture over years timespan?
I wouldn't say you're entirely wrong about that trend, but that is clearly not why a16z is facing criticism here.

What is large or successful about their crypto currency, web3 or nft endeavors?
Yup. 60% of the continent’s population is under 25.

> All of the world's top 10 youngest countries by median age are in Africa, with Niger in first place with a median age of 15.1 years.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth_in_Africa
Your link appears to be about bachelor degree recipients.

> If they’re that poor they would get money through a straight “give poor people money scheme.”

That then goes to paying off their debt. https://www.tateesq.com/learn/can-ssi-be-garnished-for-stude...

"Student loans can’t stop you from getting Medicare. But defaulting on federal student debt can lead to your Social Security retirement and disability benefits being garnished."

> Any sort of prioritizing or preference on college participation is regressive.

For students who had federal loans for predatory schools an argument is that the government (through accreditation) was responsible for validating the school prior to giving loans to attend the school. The fact that it fell down on this job, leading to harm for the loan recipients (both money, and time, only one of which can be compensated), justifies eliminating the debt. Otherwise you can make the argument that the money from any compensatory judgement should go to the poorest first, and not the person seeking compensation (which would have a regressive effect of wronged parties not seeking to hold the people committing the wrong accountable - which is some of the force behind holding entities such as predatory schools accountable).
You didn't fire yourself, you quit.
This type of cynicism is the politics though.
Wow, you are very lucky to be continually finding books that leave such an impact on you that your _favorite_ book keeps changing. For example, for me, when I was 17, I read what I consider to be ‘The Great American Novel’. No other book has been able to replace that for me.
It makes sense in that every table needs a name to reference, however if you only have the one table there isn't any ambiguity.
I don’t follow where you’re going.

I didn’t say there was anything “magical” about browsers. They have a sandbox for JavaScript, by default. Windows doesn’t have a sandbox for native apps, by default.

A parent poster seemed to be making a statement of equivalency between running a native application in Windows and running JavaScript in a browser. I don’t think they’re equivalent.

That’s what I’m saying.
I apologise for that. I noticed after posting and was unable to change it from metered to free.
I've been here for a few years longer than that and haven't observed that trend. Feels like it's always been that way to me.

Seems to me like it goes all the way back to that Dropbox comment.
Not just Cambodia. What Kissinger and Nixon did in Chile in 1973 was a crime that brought untold suffering to the people of Chile.

"...[What are we to make of] President Nixon and Secretary of State Kissinger who, having been emboldened by various multinational corporations such as IT&T and PEPSICO, pursued another attempt to bring down Allende, an attempt which was operated through the White House and even kept secret from the 40 Committee?
According to Kissinger, this plan involved a group that was unknown to others
‘and charged with the responsibility of working with
the Chilean military in bringing about a coup against Allende.”? They suc-
ceeded."[0]

[0] "Democracy Versus The National Security State", Marcus Raskin, 1976:

https://archive.org/details/democracy-versus-the-national-se...
The private sector has the advantage that companies which don’t have competent enough people will simply fail and cease to exist.

Birmingham cannot cease to exist, however, so failures need to be recovered from.
SAP S4/HANA was insanely expensive but generally worked, and on time.

Finding consultants who could help was like pulling teeth, though. The offshored Indian ones were terrible, and the European ones often didn't speak English well enough. Mexico City was had good offshoring options but couldn't supply enough bodies.

Never had a strictly Oracle project go well though. Exadata is a dirty word in these parts. Only thing that was more of a PITA was Azure...
I think you might like my book "No Bullshit Guide to Math & Physics"[1,2,3], which contains a condensed review of high school math (a.k.a. algebra and precalculus), then explains PHYS and CALC topics in an integrated manner.

[1] website https://minireference.com/
[2] PDF preview and sample chapter = https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/noBSmathphys_v5_pr...
[3] concept map = https://minireference.com/static/conceptmaps/math_and_physic...

If you prefer something focussed on a review of high school math topic, then you might prefer the "green book" instead, see https://nobsmath.com/
Get burned by them repeatedly and try to understand why/how. Also watch The Godfather and maybe The Sopranos.
> This means that about half the plugin developers are not taking their description_for_model string seriously.

That is a rather bold statement without proper evidence. You are assuming a longer description is better, but is that really the case? Is it universal or does the optimal length depend on the plugin complexity?

> Personally, I think ChatGPT's strategy of opening up their language model to plugins makes them a far more compelling product than Google or Bing Search.

Both are evolving, for example, Bard's upcoming features: https://beebom.com/google-bard-ai-best-features/ (including a plugin like feature, but many that ChatGPT does not have, or cannot have because they would have to build email & office suite like GOOG and MSFT)
The US was in Vietnam fundamentally because graduates of the most elite US universities were not intellectually prepared to distinguish a genuine—if morally suspect—anti-colonial popular revolution from the kind of externally orchestrated Communist takeovers of the immediate post-WW2 period.
I don't like the idea of a flat tax. Or giving 0% rates to the wealthy (which would encourage the abuse of student loans by people who do not need the loans to attend school).
State of GPT by Andrej Karpathy [video]
> You can run your business / org exactly as the ERP designers envisioned, but that means you'll have to adapt to your ERP, which is wrong-headed and certainly much more expensive in a large org.

Bingo. I'm not going to tell my CEO to change how they run the business just to conform to how the lowest-bidder ERP decides I should do things.

Unless it's ServiceNow, for some reason.
Well, if I could guide a bit in terms of focus, it's not necessarily the precision of the floating point values as much as the structure of information flow and expressivity in the network. Gradients are going to die basically regardless of precision or not, you're maybe saving yourself a few steps but if you're at the point of using precision to stave off dead gradients it's like several orders of magnitude less efficient than a decent solution is.

My personal belief on experience is that training in pure FP8 is maybe possible with some hacks, but that our limit for needing mixed precision to stabilize things might come into play around 3-6/7 bits or so (a wide range, sorry). I could be wrong though, maybe there is some really cool discrete training method out there that I'm not aware of.

A good way to prevent information loss in neural networks is to minimize all of your subpath lengths. You also want a really short shortest path for information from your first to your final layer. That will do a lot.

Also, as far as things being jagged -- remember that floating point only loses a lot of precision on large numbers, which should be really coarse anyways. Having large, perfectly precise numbers means we are likely overfitting. Small and detailed means that we can afford to have high precision. Think of it as a beneficial tradeoff like knowing momentum and/or velocity to some exchangeable extent in quantum mechanics. If we impose that on our precision, we get some nice benefits in the end.

Hope that helps sort of expound on the subject a bit more, feel free to let me know if you have any questions and much love! <3 :))) :D :)
Well I do not know if it's going to be profitable but at least the foundation of interstellar trades have already been studied: there's a published paper on it by Krugman (https://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/interstellar.pdf)
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i love QR-code menus, especially if i can place my order and pay through there.

it's not rude. it's ultra-convenient; you don't have to wait on service. i will continue to scan.