skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know, no worries. Just pointing out how absurd their statement of "not meshing with the team" was their excuse for letting me go, lol. Just another tick in the box of why I steer away from any business that says "we're a family".
Assessing job performance.

You’re not comparing their intelligence in some general sense; you’re comparing their ability to perform a collection of tasks that define a role. And more likely, you’ll do both because the answer is that each is better at some tasks that comprise the role. Eg, instead of hiring two positions, you’ll hire one and task the LLM with some of the work.
Non-paywalled link to the Bloomberg article linked at the top of the OP describing Eilon's elevation from digital director to deputy campaign manager: https://archive.is/dxPks

There's disturbing context in that given his role as digital director, Eilon could not have been completely unaware of other digital staffers on the team elevating Nazi imagery: https://www.thedailybeast.com/desantis-staff-keep-sharing-tw...

And the net neutrality fiasco takes on an entirely more rancid flavor when it turns out that anti-net neutrality was being pushed by a team now actively promoting fascism and transphobia. It's one thing to worry that an ISP might favor one video streaming site over another for commercial gain; it's another when many regional and national ISPs would take relaxed net neutrality rules as a free license, with the tacit if not explicit approval and protection of a presidential candidate, and with coordinated messaging alongside a nationally elevated "protecting children" narrative, to create a "soft Great Firewall" that throttles content on sites that its operators don't politically agree with.

If you don't want a regime (in all definitions of the word) where this is not only plausible but a likely strategy, now is the time to make your voice heard to protect a society in which ideas can be transmitted freely.
today far right means anything that is not in alignment with the sanctioned corporate propaganda
The smugness is believing that if you oppose European style regulations in anyway it is because you are brain washed by "billionaire backed media " and clearly have not seen the light as to how wonderful everything about the European style utopia of perfection we are missing in the backwaters of misery and abuse that is the United States
> But I get it, you and the other poster are trying to seed doubt about vaccines.

yeah no, not at all
LC research shows that there are at least three factors going on that might affect functioning of the brain:

1) damaged endothelium with possible microclots clogging up small vessels

2) spike protein reservoir likely causing cellular-level iron deficit (anemia)

3) mitochondrial dysfunction

Some recent research even shows brain hypoperfusion and different levels of oxygen in each hemisphere!

Now ignoring these factors is in my opinion lazy science and a convenient way for medical professionals to state "it's not my problem, go somewhere else, I just want my regular routine without any complications. Go see a shrink".
> Neither UTMB nor Texas A&M would confirm what Alonzo said that prompted such a reaction, and UTMB students interviewed by the Tribune recalled a vague reference to Patrick’s office but nothing specific.

Without knowing what was allegedly said, this is difficult to judge, although I would certainly be inclined to side with the professor given what's been reported so far.

Professors should be given wide latitude to discuss matters of academic interest, and the opioid crisis and political decisions contributing to it certainly qualify.

On the other hand, if she made a snide comment about the TX Lt. Governor without grounding it in policy, that's not good. However, professors are only human, and I don't think it would be fair or reasonable to impose disciplinary action for isolated cases. It might potentially be worthy of disciplinary action in some cases, though... IF it was that kind of comment, and IF it was more than an isolated case.

Why? Because while private individuals are free to talk about anything they want, professors are supposed to be maintaining an environment of thoughtful academic discourse, and certain kinds of biased comments do not, therefore disciplinary (not legal) action might at some point be warranted. Far fetched? It's not as if it's unheard of for professors who disagree with politicians to go on fact-free political rants these days.
Unless there's a change in the underlying management, motives, incentives, and financial support model, those problems will simply resurface.

And far more quickly this time than last.
I suggest you start listening to smarter people then.
My friends love giving this "value" based on need and benefit example.

The obvious counter example is water. We need it to survive, often. Yet it's basically free. So don't tell me you can just charge based on how important and useful something is.
Excellent! This was my first question upon reading, whether it can be integrated into my Obsidian Database.
I very specifically said knowing about recent trades - note the past tense.
I don't think other governments are stupid enough to let their taxpayers float poorly made cars that keep exploding because the guy in charge keeps talking about self-driving functionality that will never arrive
These two requirements are basically incompatible. Buy a used vive on ebay and start there maybe.
They recently got bought by private equity and are on the way to becoming shit.
Long distance electrical transmission will still require huge capital investments and lots of maintenance even if transmission losses are eliminated. And as a practical matter, strategic political concerns will take precedence. In the current political climate it's hard to imagine connecting our grid to potentially hostile nation states which might cut off power supplies to apply pressure during a crisis.
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I'm sorry for the Chrome devs to be on the receiving end of the shitstorm. I've met quite a few of them and I know they do care about the Web.

But I'm not sure if they realize, being on the inside of Google, just how much goodwill this company has lost on numerous botched UA sniffs, AMP, EME, manifest V3. We've had "we're listening, but we're doing it anyway" before.
I always found it strange. You get to charge money win or lose. And then take percentage winnings... No wonder low fee index funds made so much sense...
> People use them because they provide convenience and ease-of-use, and are willing to pay for a better customer experience.

This is a worthwhile talking point. There was nothing holding back taxi companies from building an uber-like experience, just there was no incentive to do so.

Uber took advantage of that opportunity to spin up an exploitative business that did an end-run around existing regulation of that industry.

All that said - many cab companies now have uber-like apps.

I don't feel bad for the cab companies particularly; there's too many damn cars in big cities. That's a city planning problem. I do feel sorry for all the drivers out there, as it's a tough gig no matter who you're working for.
It's CISC-V
Use natural language to talk to your data lake
You'd love to ruin his career and publicly shame him for having incorrect views wouldn't you?

Awarding credibility on the basis of having a public face is absurd, and it's trivial to conceive of the way that could be politically silencing of dissident views, or that lack of anonymity would incentivize sticking to consensus.

People disagree anonymously on the internet all the time, since the beginning. Are you incapable of judging the merits of an argument without requiring some appeal to authority?
What you are doing by opting out of the grid is raising the price of electricity for poor people. That's an aspect of electrical energy that's rarely talked about. The current model of the grid providing power to everyone only works because everyone is buying power from the grid.
We’re pattern matching animals suited to staying alive by making snap decisions without perfect information. This works perfectly when we think there’s a tiger behind a bush. Suboptimal when we’re faced with the random movements of the market economy.

“tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia
The images are incredibly stretched on mobile browsers.

This looks great though!
A government ID is a lot more than that. I have an official ID card that has:

- A bunch of personal identifying data including a unique number (which is as much of a secret as my name or my date of birth)

- A bunch of old-timey security stuff like thumbprint and signature

- An RFID chip containing all this info, ICAO 9303 compliant

- A PIN protected certificate that I can use to sign documents digitally

- Several security measures to make falsifying it very hard

Everybody who lives in this country has one of these, and these features are not uncommon for ID cards to have in other countries. It also has the full backing of the state, which means that if I lose it I can easily get a new one, and is very illegal for somebody to use it to impersonate me, or to create a false one.

I'm not sure what advantages I or my fellow citizens would gain by moving to a distributed system in charge of some foreign capitalists who have never even been to this country.
Just give it to me straight - when will the levitation give us hoverboards?
>As far as I know, that’s possible with permanent magnets (and it would be weird, but not impossible, if the group instead synthesized a novel ferromagnet and didn’t notice)

As far as I know a stable arrangement of permanent magnets levitating is impossible without a baring surface to keep them aligned. (i.e. free floating levitation is not possible without active control)
Hard Pass for closed-source browser.
Or their own tables or views.
WSB goes to options. So you multiply wins, possibly losses or end up with nothing on your yolo bets as your options expire worthless... Like a casino...
That's why they're busy reserving a seat on a cock-rocket headed for Mars.
> Front running is illegal, so no

Yes

Front running is illegal

HFT is front running

There are very good reasons to believe that. The earliest proponents of HFT may have made money by more efficiently using price information. But now there are so many of them that is no longer possible

It is crime.

The most useful model for understanding international high finance is "organized criminal networks"
This isn't too different from how conventional high temperature superconductors are made.[0] A converted pottery kiln can be used to make them

[0]https://www.greenoptimistic.com/make-superconductor-home/
FTX lobbyist tried to buy Pacific island of Nauru
Excuse me, if being against abortion rights is far-right, most of the right is far-right
I think polarization is the main cause. Demagogues love to craft an "us vs them" narrative, pose as heroes of the "us" side, and plenty of gullible people fall for it with gusto. Mentally, we're still monkeys who will follow a strong leader without questioning.

Mind you, demagogues are not only politicians, they can be human rights activists, teachers, businessmen, neighbors, etc. Emotion managing should be a mandatory class at basic school, so many of us need to think with our heads instead of our guts.
Eh, Texas has high property taxes (because they function as a backdoor income tax via the "Robin Hood" school district subsidy program), but they vary a fair bit, and there's no state income tax. Compare to NJ which has high income and high property taxes.
Yes poorly written code is hard to read. That flaw is not unique to SQL.
Especially if you bought your house at least 3-4 years ago.
Just google 'hype cycles' and it's all about gartner so I think GP is fine with bringing them up.
I'll take that as a badge of honor.
Pentium 4 to 10 GHz, here we come!
(I personally upvote questions because I had the same problem. I've never upvoted a question just because it was well written. More interesting to see "how many has this problem" than "is the question well researched / well written" I think. So I would still be happy, related to that, if I were you :-))
Disclaimer: I'm a PRQL contributor.
Reminds me of Microsoft's KQL https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-explorer/kusto/...
This is too soon. We don't even have monopole magnets but we have superconductor fusion powered AGI. This will destabilize society.
I think something like depression is just one of these signals ignored for long enough that it becomes a constant state of mind. At that point it's literally a blurry signal to 'change something'.
I said nothing about America as a whole, you made that part up.

But for the millions living below the poverty line, having a place to safely store your groceries or a place to prepare/cook them is not at all guaranteed.

> you'll probably not be obese because you can't even afford food and you'll be rationing like crazy.

This is not how human physiology works at all. Mainly because our bodies won't let us get to that level of starvation voluntarily. We do have cheap shitty food for sale that can bail us out in times of hunger. This perpetuates a cycle of obesity.
Have you actually tried the process? Do you know that it defaults to $500 a year, or was that perhaps user error?
The standard model is not a plain random walk, but a random walk with drift. (Actually a geometric random walk with drift, but thats besides the point.) The drift term for the broader US stock market is usually assumed around 8% (long term average gain based on around a century of data). That works out to around 0.022% a day, which is not what TA traders are looking for.
IMO the top 2% know their stuff 10x better than someone at even the top 10% level.

So imagine if you lined up 100 people with a PhD in nutrition. To the average person they seem like they know their stuff. But imo, the bottom ones are druggies, weirdos, and frauds. The middle are what you'd expect. The top 2 stand out clearly.
Uh.. What?

This is a Nobel prize if true. This is literally a world changing, history defining moment if true.

Like "renewable energy storage solved" scale of revolutionary.

So I'm very skeptical right now.
MLS is quite a bit more than a "high-level concept" -- it has been implemented and has been in use throughout the US Government for nearly two decades.

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-031-0233...

https://csrc.nist.rip/nissc/2000/proceedings/papers/206.pdf
It is really funny how the official Vulkan tutorial is hundreds of lines of code just to display a dang triangle.

It's all justifiable of course, and Vulkan actually isn't too bad if you just want to push your own vertices within an engine where someone else has already written all that scaffolding.
A lot of charities allow restrictions for donations but often those aren't transparent to the donor.
This one'd probably hinge on whether the comment was "made pursuant to the employee's job duties". In chronological order:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickering_v._Board_of_Educatio... establishes a "right to speak on issues of public importance" for public employees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garcetti_v._Ceballos limits that right when statements are "made pursuant to his position as a public employee".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demers_v._Austin extends "First Amendment protection to professors at public universities for on-the-job speech that deals with public issues related to teaching or scholarship, whether inside or outside of the classroom", but doesn't apply everywhere as it's a Ninth Circuit decision.
I don't think it is correct to call this a programming language.

This program enforces some structure on your specifications for LLMs and provides some guardrails, which is absolutely a move in the right direction, but these are related more to formatting rather than specification, i.e. it provides syntax without transparent or unambiguous semantics. Ultimately this is more of a markup format than a programming language. Since:

> The next section is the description of the function. Here you explain what the function should do. Being more explicit here will reduce variability in the generated output and improve reliability in behavior, but it's up to you just how explicit you will be and how much you leave to the LLM to figure out.

There are reasons that natural language is problematic when specifying systems! I wish I could tape a sign that says this to the top of HN given the number of projects on the front page the past few months calling all sorts of things compilers that are just thin wrappers over the OpenAI API.

These projects frame programming with natural language as though it is something desirable, like it is the holy grail of computer science that will open up engineering to the masses. But we use programming languages not to make programming difficult, but because unrestricted natural language is problematic. Systems are best specified with highly constrained languages that are (more) semantically unambiguous. Without sufficient constraints, there's a good chance that we don't even know what we ourselves are talking about when we specify systems -- how can we hope then that computers will?

Even software engineers misinterpret and misunderstand requirements, requirements are poorly specified, or requirements are (apparently) well-understood but the space of possible inputs and use cases are not. This is why mathematicians use a (loosely) restricted jargon and notation, and even they run into difficulties

All of that said: LLMs are surely a useful tool for software engineering and systems-building -- I personally use them most days to that end. But make no mistake that this is a markup language with some added guardrails to help users make better specifications for LLMs and verify the output. It is not a programming language, and programming with natural language is not generally something that is generally possible or even desirable
I like the sports team concept in terms of being a sieve for performance. Similar to HS->College->NFL athletes, elite military SOF groups, etc. You get binned and sometimes that's hard to accept, but that's the point of the filter.

It's interesting that despite the high-performance culture though, Netflix is still slowly degrading. This past year I finally realized I could cancel Netflix and not feel like I lost anything, and I was an early subscriber to the DVD plan.

Any thoughts on Netflix's degradation over time? My take is that its transitioned from peak phase into cash-cow mode once everyone wanted a piece of the streaming pie.
It has nothing to do with downvotes. The first person to show up decides the entire future direction of the conversation.
Email forwarding is free and built into CloudFlare.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-email-routing/
> This one contains lead, which is a non-starter for a lot of applications due to its toxicity.

We've been using cadmium-based batteries for ages despite Cadmium being even more toxic than lead, and are still using lead batteries in ICE cars AFAIK. Lead toxicity isn't really a problem unless you burn it, deliver water through it or you put it on paint that end up in kids' mouth…
Well no, it's vulgar.
It’s interesting, but before reading the explanation I wasn’t sure what I was looking at. If you never went on the Instagram "About" page you don’t understand what this is refering to.
I would say that it depends. Python and JS, two of the most used programming languages, abstract away memory management and threading details that most of the time you don't need, but you can "drop down" to write code that does pay attention to that within the language (building an object pool and reusing it, or memoization, etc) and if that's not enough, go to the "deeper" language like C/Rust to handle those cases with first-class primitives.
The Quest 2 standalone route and the PS5VR route are both extremely limited options for "VR gaming", and that's saying something with how meager the PC VR video game scene is.
I would say that this type of levitation where it sort of half levitates is quite common. I taught YBaCuO superconductor experiments for a few years. That Meisner effect would get full marks in my institution!
So, supply and demand. Got it.

(Also, water is definitely not free unless you’re literally collecting rain or going down to the river yourself. And even that has costs associated with it.)
One obvious application: your family doctor will have an MRI machine in her office, same for all physio clinics
TA means something very specific, its not a proxy for all quantitative analysis. Actors with privileged access to information and superior execution capabilities may from time to time "beat the market". The rest are noise traders that are just being systematically fleeced.
But it wouldn't lock the target in place when they stop, which is what this video demonstrates very well. The conductor would move towards the magnet and try to stick to it.
TIL of UTF-1, what an odd specification.
Ding ding ding. Treat them like highways, they basically are anyway. Let a thousand flowers bloom.
Not if they find a way to escape to space/mars.
What's the point with a bunch of information when you can just download it and try for yourself? If you're at the car dealership, don't you want to take a car for a test ride first, before getting into more details?
I buy gas and energy drinks every day almost. I see them. They are not 'poor'. If they ARE living paycheck to paycheck though, it's because they buy food at 7/11.
Yeah, that thing does really want to stay in a constant level on the magnetic field. That would dispel every other explanation on the GP, as it's not simply being repelled or attracted.
Superconductors have a current limit above which they are no longer superconductors. It is possible that a room temperature superconductor could be created that has a limit too low to be of any practical use.

It seems this is worth cautious excitement, but don't get too excited yet.
You are way too apologetic with the original post. It was not just a set of facts. You could feel the superior attitude. It's kind of obvious in the last sentence. The person you answer did well to call it out.
Image generators (midjourney, etc) are half LLM and still doing very impressive creation.

The big thing holding them back is legal/copyright concerns, but I expect that will be worked out eventually.
This is the closest example I could find https://www.pulumi.com/docs/concepts/how-pulumi-works/

Pulumi serves as the strongest contender to Terraform when doing IaC (infrastructure as code). Terraform attempts to be a declarative markup language (HCL) but it has a lot of weird imperative quirks due to (understandably) trying to support common complex use cases. In the end they have a clunky custom language that tries to do what general programming languages have done well forever. Pulumi doesn't re-invent the wheel, and lets programming languages do what they do best. Pulumi only really cares that the programming language generates a declarative spec that can be used to compare with your infrastructure. It's the best of both worlds.