skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a good example of this in Ancient Rome. By around the time of Augustus Romans were fervent believers in astrology. One of the most notable cases of astrology becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy has to do with the death of the emperor Domitian.

An astrologer named Asclation had earlier predicted that Domitian would die on September 18, 96 AD, and Domitian's enemies used this as a sort of nucleation point to organize his assassination. So although the date was made up, it had the effect of focusing the efforts of the assassins on a particular date, and they were successful in assassinating him on September 18.

The full story that survives probably has some embellishments, but is entertaining. As the day approached Domitian became increasingly nervous. On September 17, he called Asclation before him and asked him if he stood by his prediction. Asclation said he did. Domitian then asked Asclation how Ascaltion himself was to die. Asclation responded that the stars said that he would die by being torn apart by dogs. Domitian then had an idea, and condemned him to death by burning.

Asclation was immediately led to a public square, tied to a stake, and a bonfire was built underneath him. Not long after being lit, however, it suddenly began raining and the downpour quenched the flames. In the wet mess, Asclation's stake tipped over and a pack of dogs found him and devoured him.

This development naturally did not put Domitian's mind at ease. The next day he became a nervous wreck. Around noon, he asked an attendant what time it was. The attendant, who was part of the conspiracy, lied and said that it was an hour later. Seeing that the danger had passed, Domitian relaxed and decided to take a bath. As he was about to go out, an official rushed in and asked for his signature on some documents. The official appeared to have an injury to his arm, but this official was also in on the conspiracy, and his sling concealed a dagger. When he got close to the emperor he stabbed him to death.
There is no fully built solution, only bits and pieces. I noticed that llama outputs tend to degrade with amount of text, the text becomes too repetitive and focused, and you have to raise the temperature to break the model out of loops.
They also took a large one off hit from the layoffs over the last 6 months. I think the layoff hit was less than the gain on the equipment recategorization but it does sort of even out a bit.
I want to make clear up front that I take global warming absolutely seriously, that it is undoubtedly human-caused, and that it is progressing faster than consensus models have predicted.

But the interpretations given to 34 years of highly-correlated time-series data are highly questionable and largely unwarranted.

Put briefly, we have very little long-term global remote-sensing data largely because remote sensing didn't exist until the 1960s, and largely came of age long after then. As with this data series which begins in 1989.

We *ABSOLUTELY DO* have many other long-term data series showing tremendous changes and associated climatic conditions: ice-core data going back 800,000 years, sea-level measurements going back a billion+ years (at which point plate tectonics are a major confounding factor), plant growth distributions and patterns dating back millions of years, and global temperature inferences also dating back on the order of a billion years or more.

And yes, assuming a normal distribution, a six-sigma event is extraordinarily rare. But to make accurate inferences of such extreme-outlier events based on 34 measurements is statistical malpractice.

Call this "unprecedented in the data record". Call it "extremely concerning". Find other data series with which this pattern can be correlated and from which stronger inferences might be drawn.

(Note that ice-field extant data before the age of satellite observation are very thin, though outlier events such as bergs being sited in temperate waters might well occur, and that shipping logs do tend to record numerous events of interest and date back about 500 years over a fairly wide area. Indigenous records from, say, Tierra del Fuego might also note sitings over a longer period.)

Sources: three years of stats courses at uni, work in stats and data reporting professionally and at an amateur level, though not an actual statistician.
> And Sharp was communicating directly with the lieutenant governor’s office about the incident, promising swift action.

In Texas, what entities have oversight over potential abuses of power by the Lt. Governor's office, the Texas A&M system Chancellor, and the Texas Land Commissioner?

Are they credible?

I'm not going to jump to conclusions, but am wondering whether this credible-looking journalism will prompt government investigation with integrity.
Public speaking is always a bit out of my comfort zone haha, but this year I did go on The FI Show and that turned out to be a pretty good conversation: https://thefishow.com/kyle
ELIZA probably started it back in the 60s.
I consider company-sponsored social events to be work. If I'm not being paid to attend them, I won't. If they're both mandatory (either officially or unofficially) and I'm not being paid to attend them, I'm looking for another job.
Can't comment on IBMs but programmable keyboards have been a revelation. I thought 34 key keyboards were a joke but after getting a ferris I now have layers for numbers, symbols, navigation and media all under the home row with home row mods. I don't have to stretch for anything any more.

I think a concave ferris with 3 thumb keys or an extra outside column would be the sweet spot, or a more staggered corne.
This is from the GitHub page

> PRQL is being actively developed by a growing community

You can see this at https://devboard.gitsense.com/PRQL which shows a good mix of new and not new contributors. Not sure why there was a spike in the last couple of days though. Maybe the maintainers that in this thread can comment on this.

Full Disclosure: This is my tool
I ran some google ads lately and they were very ineffective. I feel like my money was going down the drain. Perhaps that's what s driving their higher revenue?
Which would be trivially broken with emojis injection or viewpoint shifting.
One puzzling thing is that it uses backslash continuation in its examples. The most favoured style, IMO is to use ()'s for line continuation, maybe the author just doesn't know about those.
I do fraud prevention as my job. The "ridiculous levels of online fraud" isn't happening. There's been a mild uptick in fraud which you would expect from an event that impoverishes millions (covid), but all those people on your favorite website that are so crazy they must be bots spreading misinformation? Nope, those are almost entirely real people. Millions of people are just that awful, hateful, spiteful, dumb, whatever.
> "won´t ever sell your data" is an empty promise

Especially if they don't mention who do they milk money from. You'd have to be very naive to install this.
Local memory management will definitely get better in the future.

For now:

You should have at least 8 GB of RAM to run the 3B models, 16 GB to run the 7B models, and 32 GB to run the 13B models.

My personal recommendation is to get as much memory as you can if you want to work with local models [including VRAM if you are planning to be executing on GPU]
meh, does the company give people 2 weeks notice when they are laid off or fired? If the answer is no then why do they deserve better treatment? Companies expect all the good things from their employees but are not expected to reciprocate.
neat, and those who find this interesting may also enjoy https://aws-new-features.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/html/aws... and https://aws-new-features.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/update/2... links, as mentioned by https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/subscribe-to-aws-daily-feat... (discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35056973 )
US army is the largest non country entity
Doesn't that argument apply to tabs also? Eg IE6 days where there were no tabs, and everything was deferred to the OS/desktop window management. It was clunky and painful.
I don't use PRQL but I absolutely get the appeal but specifically on the readability part, some things that are easy in PRQL are just awful in SQL.

From the website for instance this is a nightmare to do in SQL:

from employees group role (sort join_date take 1)
Do they help with moisture at all? When the AC in my office was broken a few years back, we found that if we opened our windows wide (9th floor overlooking one of the great lakes), and the office door to the building's central corridor, we got a really strong cross-breeze through our offices, which was considerably cooler than the offices were otherwise. However, the air was still moist, so it felt cool & clammy. Better than sweltering, but not nearly as good as cool & dry.
It is not an accounting trick, it means they'll actually hold on to those servers longer than originally planned, meaning they'll buy fewer servers to replace them over the long term. That's actual savings.

The accounting "magic" is that they can claim the savings today, but that's just normal amortization.

And this will increase their server failure rate, but probably not enough to move the needle in terms of the random failure buffers they account for.
Slightly. 8,000 bills and 11,700 resolutions (things like naming January 23 as the Texas State Lawyer Appreciation Day or something). Of these 1,222 bills and 4,028 resolutions passed.

That's for two years though - the Texas Legislature meets every other year. Also remember that Texas has an economy roughly the size of Canada's, so in some senses that's like the output of a national legislature.

https://www.kxan.com/news/texas-politics/texas-lege-update-w...
I have the silent version of the HHKB and would recommend it. I didn’t want to give over that much desk space to a full size keyboard (and use a trackball). My previous non-silent HHKB still works just as well as it did when I bought it about 20 years ago.
Severance NDAs and noncompetes have been increasingly used against minimum wage workers. Imagine not being able to get a job at Quiznos because you worked at Jimmy John's, which at one point had such a noncompete. (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-jimmyjohns-settlement-idU...)

When things that we are used to (but unhappy with) because our jobs involve a lot of proprietary technological secrets trickle down to sandwich shop minimum wage workers…it’s not worth saying that they’re not standard.

There’s a reason that multiple state legislatures are working to ban noncompetes entirely, and it’s not because they’re uncommon.

https://archive.is/kLOFV
They can't even see them. They don't realize they are looking through goggles.
- Please check out my paper, we just found a new superconductor, it has a critical temperature of 127 degrees.

- Look, I'm a bit busy right now

- Celsius
If I’m considering making a tool for a particular community and they tell me they’re not interested in it, that’s more than just helpful for me to know.
My kid has barely been able to go outside this summer because of months of endless wildfires a thousand miles away...or am I in too deep with my lying eyes and wheezing lungs?
Paxys thanks for the short story, I truly enjoyed that and it was also rather funny.

Regarding the case for lowtech interstellar travellers: I can accept the idea that there is some symple physics trick to make a jump drive that we haven't discovered, fair enough. Just as in the story, there would also had to be a similar undiscovered trick for antigravity, since otherwise they have no way of getting to orbit.

Can you however build a ship that can resist vacuum and provide life support with 16th century tech? I guess perhaps your species might be able to live in vacuum, needs only a bit of heat and doesn't need to breathe gasses?

- - -

Anyway, I’d like to recommend another book. High Crusade by Poul Anderson[0]. In the first chapter pacifist aliens land in 13th century England and get immediately massacred by the locals. Now the king has a starship.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Crusade
Inflation is not at 7%.
Thanks. rxv64 kernel (the much harder part), syslib and ulib are in rust. Replacing userland C with rust would not be hard. Ideally a general purpose OS should support programs written in any of the common programming languages so it would make sense to have some programs in another language to keep the OS API "honest"!
In biology, it would already be a huge upgrade if you could click on the name of any gene or protein and see a summary of the protein function, links to sequence info, a list of other names that the gene has historically been labelled with, and links to other recent paper where the gene was studied.

In the non-biologies, I'm sure something similar would also be useful.

> Yeah, if one could solve the problem of identifying "most interesting ideas,"

I think ChatGPT can already categorize ideas, so you could at the very list see information about related concepts?
Not an accountant but I assume that standards such as GAAP and IFRS cover this?
> CTEs are basically temporary views and tables.

Not in any system I have ever used. CTEs aren't materialized so they're not tables.

Tables (or materialized views if you prefer) are literally space/CPU tradeoffs. I have a data pipeline that combines website logs into a table before I join it with product data. If you tried to do both in one query then the DB falls over.

You seem to be coming at this from a OLTP perspective but in OLAP data "duplication" is the name of the game. But what naively looks like wasteful duplication is actually creating coherent analytical models from disparate data sources. This leads to much simpler analytical queries.
In other news; cannabis is still widely available in California.

(I'm jealous.)
Spot the bug in this Python code (2023)
> Early on, I had all sorts of ridiculous conversations just to see what would happen. [...] That transition points to this being the opposite of a toy - after the fun dies down, the real work begins.

The "intelligence" behind it is too unpredictable to be reliable for work, and using it for fun is about as amusing as emailing HR.
> much of that team cohesiveness happens outside of work hours.

How is that not unpaid labor?
Lol using the one instance that trump asked for something stupid and was denied and pretending that happened a lot is again a very intentional mischaracterization of what happened. Not only is that apparently like one of the only times trump asked for something it’s totally dwarfed in comparison to the Biden admin’s many censorship requests which had no pushback despite being equally frivolous. Not to mention the laptop from hell.

Really this sort of thing should be seen as an in-kind political contribution, and the fact it’s not shows just how captured the entire judicial and regulatory branch is.
Plus it seems that attlestation could easily fix the patching laziness of humans by refusing to work with versions of software that have known 0days. So any published 0day would likely ruin the exploit for the discoverer. Plebs like myself would therefore never have a hope at escape, and would have to exist in the lowsec web. Which I'm okay with, for the record. Just wanted verification of where I would have to live.
To be fair 4 years for a server seems like very little.
There are many good vegan restaurants, even some with Michelin stars.

There are vegan tv cooking shows (check youtube).

There are thousands of sites with good vegan recipes.

Even Jamie Oliver has 160+ vegan recipes on his site :)

https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/category/special-diets/v...
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There's also a third-party WebGPU implementation: https://github.com/webonnx/wonnx
I would like to implement a plan9-like OS someday!
As others have said, Model M are very loud. What I wanted to add - is that it’s one of the most prominent reasons for its appeal. The “kachung” sound accompanied by the subtle whine of the springs the space-bar makes triggers a bout of nostalgia growing up with a PS/2, and is the primary reason why I personally want to one day possess it again, and until that day fill the void with still loud, but less satisfying alternatives.
LMAO. Text on a screen is not 'heavy' to anybody.
Would it be more aptly named “risky rust”?
Turing complete is a property that a programming language may or may not have. Bloop is a non Turing complete programming language: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlooP_and_FlooP
It's like any other class action lawsuit. Nothing to do with a dividend.
That's a damn shame, I bought mine in 2007 and it is still actively used and awesome.
Of course not.

I'm hoping for a global catastrophe leading to the end of money and the rise of bartering for fuel in return for food and water with roving motorcycle gangs.
This isn't a way to actually read and learn about it, but if you want to see these dynamics taken to hilarious absurds, then you should watch Righteous Gemstones from HBO (Max).
>You just straight up hate the idea of users having the upper hand over corporations.

Corporations are not the only ones who want their content protected or their services to be secured against cheaters or spammers. Corporations are the ones most capable to invest into improving security. For example look at VRChat avatar artists vs avatar stealers. My philosophy is that if an artist wants to have their avatar secured from being stolen that it is right for the avatars to be protected from users being able to copy them. It is less that I hate users having the upper hand against these artists, but that I would like the artist's desires to be respected. From the trusted computed standpoint I want indie developers to have a chance in creating things without having to invest as much time and money into experince. If you can protect you scoreboard's integrity by trusted computing then the time you have to spend removing hacked scores or detecting people with cheats or licensing an anticheat goes away. It shifts the responsibility from the developer to the platform.

If you've never had something you've made violated by users and have been unable to stop them you may not be able to empathize with people in those situation wishing for a solution to exist.
So, in principle, how is this different approach than DBT?
The xroach man page has some options that not everyone knows about

Turn on -squish and set the -rgc (roach gut color) and you can make your screen look disgusting! It was great in college in the mid 1990's

Then there were the jokes about "SEE ALSO" for xroachmotel and xddt

https://manpages.opensuse.org/Tumbleweed/xroach/xroach.1x.en...

-rc roach_color
Use the given string as the color for the bugs instead of the default "black".

-speed roach_speed
Use the given speed for the insects instead of the default 1.0. For example, in winter the speed should be set to 0.1. In summer, 2.0 might be about right.

-roaches num_roaches
This is the number of the little critters. Default is 10.

-squish
Enables roach squishing. Point and shoot with any mouse button.

-rgc roach_gut_color
Sets color of the guts that spill out of squished roaches. We recommend yellowgreen.

SEE ALSO

xroachmotel(1), xddt(1)
>HDCP strippers remain available for a dozen dollars or so on ebay

These don't work on the latest HDCP.
Don’t worry, I offset you some by installing adblockers on many older people’s phones and computers, especially people who aren’t technical and had no idea how to do it themselves.
My point is the effect feel-good, whether it is achieved by avoiding fluff, by (over-)simplifying, by some special content that can only be shown in short form or by feeling more knowledgeable. If you can read more of them, you feel better. I just wondered whether this is the reason few develop the skill - it is mostly not worth the time with no one around usually caring (whether you are superficial or not).

> You can't manage what you can't measure.
I'm saying that extentions and developer tools still exist in browsers that will be attested.
I just mean that some people will value things like being able to sync their browser sidebar, and won't be bothered by needing an account to do so, and some people will never do that. If you're of the latter sort, then Arc isn't for you.
Does what you're saying mean you can only ask questions and get answers in a single step, and that having a long discussion where refinement of output is arrived at through conversation isn't possible?
The latter. It is functionally closer to a speculative investment. Litigation is expensive and notoriously uncertain.
I have 2x 3090 do you know if it's feasible to use that 48GB total for running this?
Frankly, the kind of person who forgets to put the sticker on at the pizza place will forget about the bonus too.
Sorry, I don't get a question. By definition Garry should score highter than Deep Blue, because Deep Blue never takes IQ test?
That's easy, pretty much anything tastes like chicken ;)

Try seitan with chicken spices.
Eh, Florida pretty much falsified COVID data at the behest of the Desantis admin
I think there's a large cultural component here. I've never worked at a place where any significant "team building" took place outside of work hours, but I know many devs (mostly outside the US) who told me that it does.
That's a reason to keep doing it, 6 months of income is a considerable amount.
We might say that anxiety is saying "you should mitigate this threat or fix this problem" or "you should mitigate this threat now! you should fix this problem now!".

A challenge is that we don't know how to mitigate every threat or fix every problem, and we may never be able to do so in our current situations or in our whole lives.

So there can be an additional challenge of saying "yep, I got the message, and unfortunately I've actually done what I can about this issue at this time!". (And maybe, if I remember correctly what I thought I understood from the SF Zen Center's anxiety class, "I appreciate that I'm a person who cares about mitigating this threat or fixing this problem; it's great that I can see the value and urgency of this".)

We might say that, evolutionarily, acute anxiety, like acute physical pain from an injury, is hard to turn off merely by saying that we've gotten the message. Anxiety and pain serve as reminders of some of the most urgent problems we face, where procrastination could be very detrimental. But sometimes we need to find a way to say WONTFIX.
Something about a slippery slope?
Well, I live in a city (Austin, Texas) that under the last mayor attempted to stop using police to deal with homelessness. Unfortunately, what it did not do was come up with homes for them to live in. The result was a lot of very visible homeless encampments, surrounded by garbage, that resulted in a big negative turn in public sentiment regarding the homeless.

It turns out that the way you solve homelessness, is you build more inexpensive places to live. Houston (approvingly cited in this article for their progress on homelessness) is known to be one of the easiest cities in America to build. Austin is known for being very difficult to build in (regulations, lawsuits, etc.). The results are pretty predictable.

I'm not sure what is served by putting the emphasis on whether or not the police are involved; even the people he quotes are ambivalent about that. Either you have places for people to go, or you don't. If you don't, they will be homeless. How you do or do not get police involved is not really going to change that one way or another, and I can say that from personal experience, because Austin tried removing the police from the situation and nothing got better.

The (only) way to help with homelessness, is to have enough homes for everyone.
As a followup to my previous comment—we've lived in this house for over 13 years, and own it outright. If we had lived here only a few years, and had no real equity in the house, that would probably change the equation considerably.
The fact that it lacks Super keys is one non-subjective argument against it.