skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd heavily advise not to do what they're recommending, and try out applying to trading firms if you want to break into the industry.

I work at a trading firm and a decent number of our quants were all just programmers beforehand with no trading experience. Additionally, there's no downside to applying to a bunch of them and seeing if you get an offer, but there's a HUGE downside to gambling your own money in a field you don't understand.

You could also do what I did and apply for a normal programmer role at a trading firm. Then you'll get some exposure to the quant world and if you want, you can try to pivot internally (I haven't done the last part and am not super interested, but plenty of people I know have).
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The article misspells the product
We started migrating our data to Wave a couple years ago, then it was purchased by H&R Block so we cancelled, I haven't seen it mentioned much since the acquisition.
I find it slightly annoying how Reddit gets always singled out as being “better than other social media” when it’s often more toxic and addictive.

Most of my FB feed is photos of my friends/ life updates. Most of my Instagram feed is dogs. You can curate almost any social media into what you want, Reddit isn’t extraordinary in that respect.

But there’s a smugness to a lot of redditors I really despise that I think the voting system rewards. As if having the statistically most broadly agreeable opinions makes one superior. Even in small to medium sized communities.
I've officiated games where the weather was lousy (our leagues are pretty fair weathered) and one team was heading for state championship and the opposing team was just getting slaughtered (double digit to nil at half). League rules say if the game was abandoned in the first half, the game must be replayed. NOBODY wanted that (plus there was no room left in schedule), so as agreed by both teams immediately after bringing the first half to an end, the teams switched sides, the second half was started and immediately abandoned due to inclement weather. Since it was in the second half, the score stood as final.
Rich nations say they're spending billions to fight climate change
You're anthropomorphizing a corporation. Blizzard has almost 10,000 employees and god only knows how many of those are managers. I'm sure some of the managers are great and some of them suck, just like everywhere else.
I'll be interested to see if views on this have shifted this time next week after Apple's announcement.

For my part, I think the notion of putting down giant expensive phyiscal rectangles that are geolocked to one physical position just to use computers is going to seem like a quaint artefact of history in a few years.
Facebook, Instagram to block news stories in California if bill passes
Obviously no one would care if Dimon had discussed Epstein's accounts and he was booted from the bank the next day, or even the next month. The whole issue is what was discussed when, and what Dimon's instructions were.
The Truman Show: Has a film ever predicted the future so accurately?
One inch-dollar per pixel
The fact that you don't see the ability to buy land adjacent to public land and charge people money for access to the public land may be part of why you're not a rich person.
New York has a law to cover exactly this - the landlord has to provide acess through the building. This (and other zoning shenanigans) is why so many buildings in NYC have public atriums or plazas attached. Of course many of those are also conveniently locked all the time because the landlords "forget" that they're public space.
Well shoot...yes, that part fails.

Perhaps hexagons cut in half (causing 6-corner intersections) or the isosceles trapezoid pattern below would work.

https://robertlovespi.net/2020/06/03/tessellation-of-isoscel...

Partly it'd be cool to have it look like Settlers of Catan.
Self-Encounter: A Study in Existentialism (1961, video)
I've recently given up on setting deadlines, shooting for milestones, etc in my hobby programming. I now just do whatever is interesting or fun.

I used to oscillate between highs of productivity and unpleasant lows of anxiety about not making progress. I just started my mindset switch (in progress) so we will see if I'm a generally more pleasant guy this way!
Arizona announces limits on Phoenix area construction as groundwater disappears
Right now everyone needs to be hands-on coding.
In Clojure, thread macros. Allows very terse but powerful operations on data structures in a very readable way that’s easier to reason about than nested calls in C -style languages.
They explicitly used the phrase "keygen is now open source". Tenth sentence overall, 6th paragraph from the top:

"After 7 years of being closed source, I'm incredibly excited to announce that Keygen is now open source! Let's unpack what that means for us and for you."

Open source doesn't mean Free Software.
I just discovered when playing around with translations that there is some hidden filter/killswitch that immediately stops the generation of the opening of some books. It doesn't matter if the invoking prompt is to recite the book opening paragraph, or to translate it from a foreign language to English, or what.

It's not RLHF induced because it works via API and it only triggers in English, but sure enough try to get it to output

>Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—

>"It was the best of times,

I guess this might get you flagged (there is no alert to the user that this filter kicked in, and it will output it in any other language, and it works in the API) so I'm hesitant to play around with it more, but it's very strange - especially as these are long since in the public domain.
With that logic it doesn't seem like the hunters are liable for the damages? The hunters aren't the ones deciding if corner-crossing is allowed.

Even the court seems faultless here. It's not re-zoning their land, it's clarifying a law that already existed. The owner had an incorrect pre-ruling valuation.

This case is especially crazy cause the landowners sued the hunters: if they hadn't sued there wouldn't have been any damages, maybe they should sue themselves!
Weirdly I think this is not constructed, hunters are moderately heavy users of public lands and land rights are pretty important to that group. I believe they are entitled to enter public land and at the same time respect land right usage of private land owners, and the ladder is a discreet and harmless way to access public lands. The argument that they intersected the airspace of private land momentarily, with no damages, likely falls under accidental or unintentional violation.

That said, the goal is to access additional public land. I struggle to see how the supreme court will fall on the side of private landowners and might even punitively add that vehicular access to private land might be allowed in the future. Right now it's only "on foot". This ruling has an enormous body of evidence and research behind it, this isn't a small issue for a large number of people; they just don't overlap much with the HN community very much.
You horizontally scale for high availability as well as scalability.

And primary-secondary failover in my experience is rarely without issues.

There is a reason almost every new database aims to be distributed from the beginning.
It's because medicine is as much an art as a science given the impossibility of problem space, also whenever we ignore evidence we end up harming/killing people.
Great, thanks! It's really encouraging to see a community today were the moderators/owners reach out to users directly.
This is a great place to start:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident

tldr: Jim Morrison's dad started the Vietnam War when he falsely claimed he was attacked off the coast of Vietnam by the North Vietnamese.
Also, I sell some libraries that are specifically not open sourced. But you know what people who license my libraries get along with the binaries? The source code. What they don't get is the right to redistribute the source code or the libraries themselves except in the form of having been linked to an application. So, not open source.
I see, that makes a certain amount of sense, thanks for the answer.
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I mean, Unreal Engine is open source. That's all you really need to know. It is software "with source code that anyone can inspect, modify, and enhance", you just can't ship anything made with it without paying Epic a cut of your revenue. (Actually you can, Epic has this, well, pretty damn generous setup, where you don't pay anything until you reach $1M in gross revenue per title, then it's 5% of gross revenue above $1M of that title. Just not to shit on Epic as everyone likes to do.)
Chapel website: https://chapel-lang.org/

Looks like there's a workshop set up for tomorrow to help people get started with the language: https://chapel-lang.org/CHIUW2023.html
You could make it an experience. Pay to have an ornery rancher catch you & lock you up in an old timey jail with the iron bars. Have them locked up with a cattle rustler whose brother rips the window off the prison wall with a horse, then escape to go rob a train. The possibilities are endless.
Generally everyone uses WhatsApp already anyway.
I'm not anthropomorphising anything, I'm observing trends and patterns in corporate culture. I'd be shocked if the kind of corporate culture that has rotted as much as theirs had would not have any petty, vidictive egoists at the top of the food chain.

'Blizzard' the company doesn't have feelings, but people making decisions in it do. I'm not sure why you're steering us into splitting hairs over this.
WordPress is dominant because it's the Lingua Franca of the web design world. Despite PHP sucking, WordPress is well known by everyone in the industry and competitors - even with far superior technology - have an impossible task disrupting something with such platform dominance.

For comparison, Microsoft Windows still holds about 75% market share, a figure that has barely budged in the last five years, despite Apple making major inroads.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/218089/global-market-sha...
I wonder what this generation's modern art response to AI art will be.
Awesome games!
Are movies entertainment? There are movies that would probably count as the best hours of your life.

Dont get distracted by labels. Human talent gets expressed in many ways.

The important skill is to filter the crap.
> The way I see it, it's very simple: If I can view the source code, it's open source.

By that definition, Harry Potter is open source. As is every Star Wars novelization, New York Times article...

I'm looking forward to your fork of your favorite open source franchise.
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They are supposed to pay the rancher a trespass fee to be allowed access to the public land through their property or hire a guide that has a commercial agreement with rancher that includes access to the public lands.
It's a stupid example, but the easiest person to find.

Not a stupid example at all. Many colleges, even small colleges, have systems set up to refer journalists with questions with the right professor.

In smaller colleges, it might just be someone inside the college's Communications or PR department. In big universities, it's often a "media bureau" or something similar, with multiple staffers.

That's part of the reason why you see so many academics quoted in newspaper articles. They're a good place to start, and can often send you to even better sources.
This is the core problem of alignment right there

“We were training it in simulation to identify and target a Surface-to-air missile (SAM) threat. And then the operator would say yes, kill that threat. The system started realizing that while they did identify the threat at times the human operator would tell it not to kill that threat, but it got its points by killing that threat. So what did it do? It killed the operator. It killed the operator because that person was keeping it from accomplishing its objective,” Hamilton said, according to the blog post.

He continued to elaborate, saying, “We trained the system–‘Hey don’t kill the operator–that’s bad. You’re gonna lose points if you do that’. So what does it start doing? It starts destroying the communication tower that the operator uses to communicate with the drone to stop it from killing the target.”
An intellectual was told by someone: “your beard is now coming in.” So he went to the rear-entrance and waited for it. Another intellectual asked what he was doing. Once he heard the whole story, he said: “I’m not surprised that people say we lack common sense. How do you know that it’s not coming in by the other gate?”

Most of them suck by today's standards, but that one is genuinely still funny today!
I can relate to the 10-for-Google-90-for-ChatGPT ratio.

I use Google when I know the words that make up the name of a website, but not the URL itself. So Google is for unsophisticated searches. I also use Google instead of HN's own search function when looking for older submissions here.

What I like about about ChatGPT (and friends) is the ability to synthesize knowledge from unrelated bits and pieces in different sources.

In contrast, if it could verbalize what it's doing to you, a traditional search engine would say here's a link dump, have fun with it, and have a nice day.

If half the knowledge you're looking for is stored on web page A towards the bottom, and the other half on web page B in the first few paragraphs, a traditional search engine will dump on you links to web pages A and B, followed by some filler URLs pointing at documents that happen to vaguely match your search keywords. This is a very subpar experience by today's standards, but it's so ingrained into our habits that we're not complaining.
Ontological Commitment
I love your comment and it is 100% spot-on. extern C is the magic sauce for making anything fast.

The only downside is that it adds a ton of boilerplate and a lot of maintenance overhead. You need separate compilation units for everything and then you need a sub-struct to use the pimpl approach. Fast pimpl (in-place new in reserved space in the parent struct itself) gets rid of the heap allocations but you still have a pointer indirection and prevent the compiler from properly stripping out unused code across translation units normally (that’s where LTO comes in these days).

Really, the problem is just that it’s a PITA to write compared to sticking everything in the header file.

(It’s ironic that rust meets the first two rules by design but is still much slower than C++ to compile, though it does imply what’s already known, specifically that there’s a lot of room for improvement.)
In bullet-points:

- Absolute risk reduction in CVD-caused mortality is mild at best (<1-2% absolute risk reduction)

- Percentage of people that get side-effects is higher than the percentage of people that receive a benefit from statins; as well, the side-effects are rather serious in affecting QoL -- making them a poor choice as a long-term prophylactic

- Generic lipid panels that the vast majority of people take are generally worthless for estimating lipid health: LDL "large particle -- bad" cholesterol is not actually measured, but estimated. The current formula is: (total cholesterol - HDL - triglycerides)/5 which is liable to under-report true LDL levels. Estimation also has the drawback of being unable to tell how much of each "bad" particle is actually in your blood (chylomicrons vs VLDL vs LDL etc.) -- muddying your actual risk profile. Likewise, no LDL "content" tests are performed to measure how much cholesterol each LDL is actually carrying. So yes, statins will lower these numbers, but the methodology around these numbers is flawed, and only loosely correlated with cardiovascular health
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If there's no evidence that the trespasser is substantially responsible for the trail, suing them is ridiculous too.
My gut assumption just from the title was that the API changes are what triggered this valuation. The change is such a clearly bad move. I can only imagine the reaction will be when such a large percentage of users will wake up and suddenly be totally unable to access the site due to their reddit apps no longer being able to connect.
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It just isn't indexed nearly as well.
Part of "mindshare" are organizations pushing it on social media and marketing.
Choose the language that solves your problems and that you like. Don't make a choice because a group is telling you what to like, is bullying others because they like something different, or are trying to shove something down your throat for their profit or benefit. Perfectly fine to have an independent mind, and make decisions best for you.
That was a surprising lesson for me when I was roaming California and asked a local how to reach that hill: "You can't, it's private." Hadn't encountered the idea before that one could restrict access to forest like that.
Of the logic programming languages, Prolog is actually pretty friendly when it comes to construction. You can easily force evaluation with an empty left clause, i.e. ":- thing1(x), thing2(y).", and Prolog gives you a lot of tools to control the current database with assert/retract (handy for memoization). Minikanren (which core.logic is based on) is much more restrictive and really wants things to be pure, though it does have the advantage of working as a library in an imperative language as a small runtime.
> The problem is that not everyone agrees with it [...] there is no longer a real consensus on what it means

The term lacks consensus in the way that evolution lacks consensus. Overwhelmingly, it's those least in a position to disagree stating that they disagree.
Looking at the map in the article, it looks like it is pretty much a checkerboard. Ie. Half is owned, half is not. So you'd expect a 50% reduction (minus a couple of percent for edge squares which are not yet enclosed)
Same thought. Although also tutting at the lack of capitalization.
It was badly-worded on my part. And I stand corrected-- I just saw all the nested tweets where people are complaining about the API too!

So many people are noticing a degradation in speed and quality of responses, and not in isolation. Rather than acknowledge this, the question is rephrased to one the responder can rightfully deny-- and suggest no changes have taken place without explicitly saying as much. You normally only see this sort of sliminess from politicians and executives on the witness stand.

> Is anyone else noticing significantly downgraded GPT-4 capabilities today? Seems like OpenAI updated the model, and results aren’t as good as before. [mentions API in a child comment]

> The API does not just change without us telling you. The models are static there.

> This is good to know. That means GPT-4 has been static since March right? 0314?

> Correct

Never ask questions to which one word suffices as an answer.

Collective confusion in the thread suggests something has changed, but the most OpenAI will attest to is that the API is unchanged and the models are static. And this may well be true, but rather than admit "...but we were fucking with the middleware/parameters" they took a firm position on a strawman argument and ignored everybody who followed with more-direct questions. Except this guy:

> I've noticed inconsistency with certain prompts performance. Is that just the non-deterministic nature of the API?

> Yes

Oh, ok. It's because the fucking API is non-deterministic that code that has worked both reliably and predictably for everyone now runs like shit for everyone. For fuck's sake, you can get better answers from a Magic 8-Ball. This guy even made the mistake of presenting an answer he'd believe for the respondent to feed into. He might as well have asked if inconsistent performance was because of the war in Ukraine.

"Logan.GPT" must moonlight as a fortune teller. He's only responding to people foolish enough to ask the wrong questions.
What do you recommend to record meetings in non-intrusive ways?
I love this, thanks!

How we could we add Snowflake to the compatibility matrices?

It's popular enough to deserve it, IMHO.

https://db-engines.com/en/ranking
> Now the company is growing at a rate that I need to hire people and build teams.

And yet you didn’t post on the Who’s Hiring thread. :) Not that I’m looking, nor am I not looking, but sounds like an interesting gig.
The biggest pain points I have cannot be solved by Software. They can only be solved by a culture change, which I'm convinced is never going to happen. I want decision makers in my company to listen to me when I tell them to implement something _now_ be it update windows at once, restart the server, get rid of windows XP, patch your vulnerable dependency now, implement this security control. Rarely is any of this sane advice followed because it is considered to be disruptive, expensive or blocks the delivery of "real features" (meaning security is not a feature).

Hard to fix
The same day from FSB:

https://www-fsb-ru.translate.goog/fsb/press/message/single.h...
Apple's will next week. The whole next gen of these headsets will probably hit that mark due to hi-res micro OLED displays that are coming to market now.
Maybe. I'm consider myself somewhat self aware though and believe otherwise.
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That is the definition of "source-available", not open source. The first sentence of the OSI definition [1] of open source is:

"Open source doesn’t just mean access to the source code. The distribution terms of open-source software must comply with the following criteria:"

[1]: https://opensource.org/osd/