skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NYC had those medallion limits on purpose though, because the primary goal was limiting congestion. Manhattan is a tiny island with a small amount of road space, and taxis or Ubers roving around contribute significantly more congestion than a commuter parking their car for most of the day. And yellow cabs in effect mostly travel in Manhattan.

The sharp rise in Ubers is correlated with an 8% decrease in Manhattan traffic speeds. Which affects not only them but car commuters, bus commuters, residents, deliveries, etc. https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2015/07/22/ubers-own-data-reveal...
Precisely. The only way to make this analogy work is we contort the notion of management/coordination so far outside of any common meaning as to render the word meaningless.

When I drive a car, am I "managing" the pistons in the engine? When I'm taking a picture, am I "managing" the photosites on the sensor?

The only way to make this contorted analogy work is to fully enter the mind palace and depart any semblance of the world everyone lives in.
Good on them, if you want a spot at a top uni/college you need to deserve it
Hayao Miyazaki’s How Do You Live? is a gloriously demented goodbye
OpenPubkey: Augmenting OpenID Connect with User Held Signing Keys (PDF)
That is why we have police officers to try to stop the people who have proven they are willing to murder.

Do you want to be the person going around policing mask wearing?
I like offices, but I agree that OKRs and performance reviews are a farce. OKRs in particular: I cannot believe how frequently people act as though there is no way to think about work other than OKRs, as if it was some immutable natural law instead of just a thing somebody thought up one time. As far as I have seen, OKRs are a mechanism for leaders at every level to divest themselves of the responsibility to _lead_, by making "accomplishing things" somebody else's problem, as measured by a number that they will get perfunctory status reports on.
I’ve also worked at plenty of startups that worked just like this. Once they hire an engineering VP from bigco, the infection spreads quickly.
Microsoft and Meta Open Source Llama 2
Not mistaken, but also not useful. In particular, it is hard to tease out folks that did have a common cold from those that had reduced covid. The vast majority of the covid positive folks I knew post vaccine were asymptomatic. Almost apologetic that they tested positive for it, but not at all sick or scared. Even my kids, when they tested positive, were more upset about implications than they were physically ill. (Indeed, for our kids, when they finally tested positive, we didn't see any symptoms from them at all...)
The big red issue with MS is they elaborately make it very difficult to integrate outside their ecosystem and they love holding customers hostage to ridiculous restrictions, but also Azure is very difficult to centrally manage things for all subscriptions. Others are as well but not as much. I actually like the azure UI and CLI as well as many if their offerings, but it's so difficult to piece together a bigger picture or make small changes without doing a ton of work and more MS products being involved.

Also,unrelated: Azure AD is now "Entra ID" (????) now lol.
We've been working with Jack at OLKB on figuring out how to enable additional keyboard layout types. Since there is a broad range of different layout preferences, our goal is to make it easy for third party keyboard makers (like OLKB) to be able to create their own compatible keyboard modules.
Tom Blomfield on Twitter: “I’ve never used a pitch deck to fundraise...”
Smaller shops too, not just startups. I've been in places with ~300 employees that don't have all that ceremony around performance and self set goals.
Given how Meta has played about with numbers in the past (see video view counts), I'm more inclined to believe the third parties over Meta.
> Important decisions aren't made in a meeting unless at least one person has thought through the options beforehand and come prepared to explain the pros and cons of each and why their recommendation makes sense.

Uh, yes. If people do not come prepared to meetings, they are a giant waste of time. (Exception - pure "information radiator" meetings) Meetings are the point where you align different well-founded opinions, not where you find a solution. But that alignment is critical to getting work done efficiently.

But note that OP didn't talk about meetings per se, just about people interacting. And in any group of people, the ultimate outcome in terms of work is always driven by interactions. If you don't collaborate, you can't build at group scope. How you collaborate depends on the group. Some groups have shared chat rooms. Some have meeting. Some angrily yell at each other. But it always shapes the work, and moves it in a defined direction.

A group without social interaction is the work equivalent of Brownian motion.
I'm mass transit where masks will required, most of the people wore the masks covering their chin. I believe the research is accurate and that saying that masking up more people doesn't work because they won't wear them properly
No it isn't clickbait. It's wordplay. It's fun. Some humans enjoy that.
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Pop is a concession, a retreat, a capitulation to the massive marketing machines of modern commerce. It began as a branding effort, while soda is descriptive of the chemical properties involved. Do not give in the the manipulation of corporate interests, even those whose roots are over a century old! (The abominable practice of others to call all sodas, generically, "coke" is similarly flawed although that name at least, in addition to marketing, has some basis in the chemical makeup of the drink that began its inception)
> Twitter and Musk has been an inflection point.

Is the claim, "everyone else who accidentally buys an 11 digit social media operation will choose to run it in to the ground, too"?
And you can do that without agreeing with someone who is blatantly lying about how websites work in general
There are billions of calls made using a phone number still.

"Across the world, we make 13.5 billion phone calls every day, using mobile phones. The average person makes or receives around eight phone calls every day, meaning that the US deals with around 2.4 billion phone calls across the 300 million cell phone users" that's from 2023 source.

Here's a 2019 one about US:

On average, people make and receive a total of 178 calls per month
Of those 178 total calls, 93 are calls received and 85 are calls made

Not just older people either:

"80% of Millennials and 84% of Gen Z-ers use their phones during 2020 for phone calls".
The state of the art compiler has been LLVM for 10 years already.
IME these issues are not exclusive to office work. While they are more visible in an office environment, they also happen when working remotely, but are just less visible, and potentially more out of your hands. In an office you're mostly forced to play these games if you want your career to progress. Remotely you can somewhat avoid them, but ultimately if most of the company is playing this and you're not, you will either stagnate in your role, or be let go.
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This is both the most server load we've ever seen and the fastest order throughput we've seen. It is genuinely difficult to gauge ahead of time.
Finally got the system to accept my pre-order, but landed in Batch 2. Oh well, worth the wait I'm sure!

This is really amazing. You're the only laptop giving Apple a run for their money.
First order optimizers have trouble because they fall into local minima, however, in practice things are different.

When your parameter space is in the order of billions, for all practical purposes, there is always a direction of descent.

More over, local minima seem to be rather close to the global minima.
I'm surprised you don't list Sentry as a competitor. How do you compare? (We're a fairly happy customer of Sentry, but am always curious to see new entrants in this space)
We're primed to find clever second-order effects to justify grinding through unpleasantness. But sometimes things can just be nice: you don't like living with someone, so you don't, so you are happier.

> Yes there are exceptions, yes abuse and infidelity are justification often, no being pedantic in order to do a "gotcha" are not helpful.

Whether this is pedantry depends entirely on the proportions. Some studies suggest around a quarter of wives are abused. If that's the case then maybe divorce isn't high enough, and it's certainly a key consideration here and not a pedantic tangent. I don't know the area well enough to argue that either way, but I know enough to say you're being too dismissive of the question.
Apologies everyone, I've been a little too close to my work lately and jumping to conclusions. A normal person might have phrased this like:

Hey that's an interesting solution you have there, do you think that emulation might help guard against side-channel attacks? Do you have any plans to mitigate them? I wonder if anyone has gamified container security, maybe with a honeypot somewhere where people could try to break out.
Go was successful because it came after decades of pretty much no language putting good networking tools in their stdlib.
TEXR104U15 - Texas DC, Rack 104, U 15

Services are referenced according to their purpose.
> Your work would apparently be invisible to the company if there were no performance reviews

Yet another indicator of poor (i.e. lazy) management maybe if you have to keep track of every single accomplishment yourself. How about managers keep track of the awesome things their employees do and celebrate them for it and help them improve if they're lacking.
Is S3 idle / suspend to RAM supported on this? Will buy it in a heartbeat if yes
I hate these rituals at $bigCo, but pretty strongly believe I need the stability of working for $bigCo to feel happy. Is there somewhere that isn’t a startup that doesn’t have these issues?
100% ! Doesn't take any of it too seriously, try your best to be part of the act and have a positive impact on it, don't get upset if it isn't working out for whatever reason or if it simply isn't your kind of theatre ! There are many theatres out there..
still can't order from Belgium, a bummer.
Did you just fill the entire thing, or did you display scrolling ascii art?

Woth crons in github actions I’ve been thinking you could create an entire movie, especially with a random generator à la Progress Quest.
I believe they are arguing for a change in the law, so that software is held to similar standards as the other consumer facing industries. That we should not even be allowed to waive as many guarantees as we do.

The EU is currently working on making that happen. The current draft looks like it could be improved, but overall this looks pretty reasonable.
But do those languages have conditional types and template literal types, two great TypeScript features I now can't imagine programming without?
Chrome’s wasm debugging is much better than firefox’s.
Knuckling under to onerous pricing undermines consumers' ability to vote with their wallets.
If anything, a lot of these sites are more readable and toned down than many of that era, considering they’re not using a blue bubble pattern background with bright red Comic Sans text and spinning gifs everywhere. It taps into the nostalgia but of course it’s never going to feel exactly the same.
You can install steamOS on it if you want, it is just a Linux distro like any other.

Not sure why you would want to though, there are plenty of good Linux distros available and Windows is a much better choice for gaming if you don't need handheld specific features.
As was Firefox (originally Pheonix, then Firebird), which was the ultra clean and efficient version of Mozilla. It was crazy how much better it was compared to IE6. It just didn't have a monopoly and anti-competitive marketing behind it like Chrome and IE did.
The site should be back up and running (though slightly slowly) now. We had substantially higher load than we've seen even during previous pre-order launches.
> Uber/Lyft did outcompete taxis on merit, and to suggest otherwise is revisionist history!

That is a very generous version of what actually happened. Uber/Lyft were not replacing taxis outside a few big cities with established taxis operations, they were replacing consumer behavior entirely. It was near impossible for them to charge market rates and get a user base that had no need for taxis. If they weren’t heavily subsidizing the rides, they would have never been successful. They most definitely were charging next to nothing when they were in “growth phase”. At the height of it, it was almost as cheap as public transportation and not market rate.
What are some good applications of this algorithm?
Good sir, please see my response to a sibling comment. I shall not repeat myself here. Good day sir, I said good day!
That was an intentional decision we took because we realised that the majority of users struggled to grasp the concept behind the project and how to use it. We didn't feel that we were ready to optimise for contributors yet :)

Good point about mentioning why it exists!
Do you mean in general? Or do you mean that MIT gives far too much weight to sports achievement? Because I don’t think they do.
> The amount of time and effort spent just doing this management work makes up a large portion of working hours.

Not anywhere I've ever worked.

Yeah, such things exist. Yeah, they take a bit of time. "A large portion of working hours"? No.

If they actually do take a large portion of working hours, then you're at a company that either doesn't have enough work for people to do, or else that has work that needs done but the people aren't doing it. Either way, that's a place where layoffs are likely to show up sometime rather soon, and that's a drain to work at in the meantime.

Look around. There's better places out there - places that care more about the work, and less about the ceremony. (Don't get me wrong, there's still ceremony. It just doesn't dominate.)
If AI can write articles that fool Google, Google can use AI to detect it. Heck, maybe there will be an AI model that specifically recognizes AI content and can be used to filter it out. A lot of electricity spent for nothing, but it's not like the human species hasn't been its own worst enemy since it appeared.
But in a shared account she could spend more than the agreed on amount.
I meant “trials for research studies” as opposed to “trials for drug or device approval.”

The amount of record keeping and oversight of a drug approval trial is enormous (and as a consequence insanely expensive) — data handling, having disjoint groups at each stage handling and analyzing data, etc and detailed records of every manufacturing step — think ISO9000 on steroids.

Nobody would bother to go to that effort for a scientific exploration, nor should they. So the bar is much lower.

I am making no excuse for shoddy science! But it is quite unlikely for a licensed drug.
Good, should set an example for everyone else. YOU got into MIT, not the color of your skin, nor whose parents you had.

I have a half dozen 1st generation friends who worked their asses off in inner city schools to get full ride scholarships to get into top schools, and are now part of the professional class in a single generation.
The way the title is written does imply C and C++ are not high-level languages. "Connect C/C++ programs with high-level programming languages", not "connect C/C++ programs with other high-level programming languages".

After reading the first sentence on the site, though, I think this was just a somewhat clumsy rephrasing. "SWIG is a software development tool that connects programs written in C and C++ with a variety of high-level programming languages." "A variety of high-level programming languages" implies there are some high-level languages that SWIG cannot connect C/++ with, and it's open to interpretation whether C/++ are among the high-level languages that SWIG doesn't connect C/++ with.
Don't forget, the Pfizer phase 3 trial was ended early because they claimed that it was 90% effective. So, any mid/longer term issues were missed.

The pregnancy trials were outright abandoned.

They didn't even conduct clinical trials for the bivalent boosters.

Zero efficacy in children, yet still strongly recommended by the media and the state.
Anti-nuclear lobbying by German foundations in France and Poland
I'd never used WSL1, but I use WSL2 at work (where I'm forced to use Windows). It's OK. I don't understand all the fanfare about it, though, because it's only OK. I still need to have a real Linux system around. WSL2 isn't an adequate replacement.
Thiel did not actually coin that phrase, as he has noted many times. It was coined by some writer or editor at (I think) WSJ as a catchy headline for a synopsis/excerpt of Zero to One. He thereafter adopted it due to its catchy, provocative nature.

Thiel's point is that our memetic instinct is to compete in existing industries on an incremental basis. But in perfect competition, profit margins are destroyed for all participants. Thiel believes that the goal of a capitalist is to seek monopoly via innovation (i.e. zero to one, not 1 to n) in order to capture massive growth and profits. It is then the job of regulators and competition to erode that monopoly. Thiel also argues that innovation is our only portal to a brighter future. Globalization has not worked. Over regulation and wealth re-distribution alone do not work. We need growth, new solutions, and innovation. The corollary here is another quote attributed to Thiel: " Peter Thiel at Yale: We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters".

None of this, btw, is a "scam".
Llama 2 – Free for Commercial Use
> Go’s error handling is more verbose than those other languages, but structurally, there’s a lot of commonality under the surface.

In Go the type system doesn't force you to check for errors, the same way as languages with null pointers don't force you to check pointers before dereferencing them.

That's the real problem with errors and null in Go, not the verbosity (though that doesn't help)
How I turned a GitHub repository into a published PDF book
The fact that it's open for even commercial applications is going to ensure this spreads like wildfire.
robots.txt is not the answer for LLMs
Netflix series are already indistinguishable from each other. I don't think AI can make it any worse.
> a double-bacon cheeseburger with extra sauce is bad for your heart.

What about my home-made cheeseburger with real cheese (not american cheddar), a 180g steak of locally sourced beef meat, pickle, tomato, salad, onions, all fresh and locally sourced, and some tasty mustard?

Is it still bad for my heart?

Because that's what Github taste to me, I'm a sucker for having everything in one place, with such polish. The only thing I don't quite like would be Github Actions, but that's because I hate that YAML became a programming language (all modern CI/CD platforms are guilty of this monstrosity).

When a CI/CD with a Typescript API? I tried to start working on that, but it's too much for me alone.
Hardy's lament is a short popular essay about how the famous professional mathematician Hardy experiences math as art with the curiosity of a child, and yet the average school math education evokes a prison of rote exercise. It was written in 1940 and I think at some point he says something about number theory being pure math with no applications. Ironically I'm submitting this comment over https so he was wrong about that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mathematician%27s_Apology
They don't benchmark against the OpenAI models at all for some reason. In my experience so far even GPT-3.5 was so much better than any OSS models I tried.

Meta must be missing having a cloud business at this point. AI would have fit perfectly with that. Since they ran Whatsapp for so many years kinda without interfering too much, they could have also tried a somewhat independent cloud unit.
I'll second this. Lisps really are great for prototyping language semantics
Theater and politics is the main reason I liked contracting. There's just no bullshit. Do your work and get paid. Feels great.
True!

But things unmeasurable are typically very ephemereal.
Key detail from release:

> If, on the Llama 2 version release date, the monthly active users of the products or services made available by or for Licensee, or Licensee’s affiliates, is greater than 700 million monthly active users in the preceding calendar month, you must request a license from Meta, which Meta may grant to you in its sole discretion, and you are not authorized to exercise any of the rights under this Agreement unless or until Meta otherwise expressly grants you such rights.

Looks like they are trying to block out competitors, it's the perfect commoditize your complement but don't let your actual competitors try to eke out any benefit from it.
Aren't a ton of the actors in these productions going to be in SAG AFTRA?
Maybe so, but their culture can be just as horrid.

You've gotta believe in the cause, which is really just a narrative used to promote extended work hours and grind.

Then you've got to evangelise and act as a missionary for this world changing product ... the business has a cult like sheen of "changing the world" and everyone is the smartest person in the room just for being smart enough to be there.

Behind the bullshit narrative, everyone is overworked and the directors so busy chasing their exit with their legs and stroking each other off with their hands that the only tool they have left is their mouths. Out of which spews thinly veiled promises of a great product to hide their greed.

It's all the same really.
There's a difference between a scientist calling bs on some scientific practices than a grifting, crazed group of people calling bs on it. Can you cite the exact trials from your source that are potentially problematic so we can discuss the actual legitimacy of the methodology?
This lack of ownership is exactly the problem with most IT departments today.
It's a poor man's assertion that the "lit" is indeed a string literal (such that we can get the string length using sizeof) and not a variable (of pointer type, where sizeof returns the size of the pointer not the string-buffer). If you pass a variable instead of a string literal, that will be a syntax error.
Do you allow users to connect to Clickhouse directly with the hosted option?
> Llama 2 is available for free for research and commercial use.

So that's a big deal. Llama 1 was released for non-commercial use to "prevent misuse" back in February. Did that licensing ever change for v1?
1. Good old days, humans talk to humans.
2. Someone invents a bot, humans talk to bots.
3. Someone invents another bot, bots talk to bots.

This is the story of SEO, banner ads, stock trading, consumer pricing.

There are probably many other cases.

The tech help spam: initially an attempt for a bot to talk to a human, but with LLMs crawling search results and aggregating answers, your answer to "how to start nginx" becomes the output of bot-bot interaction: an average of several generated answers (some initially and occasionally by humans).
It wouldn't be as bad if everyone used Firefox, though.