skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do worry, because the ones that die will not be the ones who reaped the benefits and remain nonchalant about it today.
I wonder if web crawlers that aren’t Google will be able to produce valid tokens.
> What do you consider a fair pay for junior engineers in order for them to contribute at the capacity they're expected to? Our fresh college grads are paid a total compensation higher than $200K. Is that not enough to expect working, at minimum, 8 hours a day

No good lead assumes hours per day is equal to quality of output.
DBML is a simple, readable DSL language designed to define database structures
I think you've really hit the nail on the head there. People are absolutely happy to work dog hours on something they're passionate about, or something that is meaningful (to the world, or to a company, or anything higher than themselves).

But to take those same people, use them up, and then discard them... it makes them lose hope that their work is meaningful. Why try, when the world tells you repeatedly that it does not need or value you?

The only people I can see being happy with this arrangement might be more libertarian minded, where the goal was never outside the scope of their own self betterment.
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT202655
Nope, they've been brainwashed to think it's "reasonable taxation" and the solution is always more taxation despite massive waste, fraud and corruption.
No, not "every language" has a REPL. Most languages I have worked with don't. It's true that python doesn't have hot-reloading, and that its built-in REPL is less powerful than Emacs. But not every lisp has all of that power, either. And personally, I find the Jupyter notebook to offer all that I'd ever want from Emacs, with a better interface.

But REPL stands for "read, eval, print loop." My kitchen knife doesn't fail to be a knife because it's missing the corkscrew, flashlight and screwdrivers of a Swiss army knife.
It is if your password manager is offline and not synced to the cloud imho. I use the commandline password store for this reason.
I somewhat suspect that the new minimum elevation requirements are overkill. Since the completion of the bayou drainage project, it seems to me that significant rain events are drained much more quickly and the water level in the bayou doesn’t rise as much.

In the three years leading up to Harvey, I believe there were three incidents where waters overflowed the bayou, but none of the storms since then have done that (and there have been some significant ones). But it is of course entirely possible that there just hadn’t been the right pattern of rainfall since Harvey that marked the prior instances of flooding.
I never got to do Parli unfortunately, so I can't speak to that. I have only the stories of my coaching team, which was the original coach followed by their star student of a college Parli team that performed very well on the national track (something like second or third for several years). I've seen videos of (maybe national track) high school Policy debaters speed and spreading through a massive ream of evidence, but obviously that doesn't indicate the frequency.
Whenever I go to the doctor these days they sit facing the computer just reading what the nurse wrote and typing like a stenographer. As a patient, it’s very frustrating and disconcerting. It really does very little to inspire confidence. Sure, what I am saying is being heard and logged but the subtlety and tone is missed in the log and thus often missed by the preoccupied doctor themselves. It really feels like talking to someone half paying attention while they do their homework.

I am old enough to remember when it wasn’t like this; I would LOVE to just be able to go in and talk to a doctor like they and I are both human beings, with shared life experiences and understanding. Hell, have an audio recording going for butt covering purposes if they need it.

Going to the pediatrician with my new daughter has been a strange breath of fresh air. They look us in the eyes and talk to my wife and I like humans. Far less time spent playing stenographer. It’s such an interesting flip.
You can say that about most general purpose compiled languages. I guess I don't see why I would use D for any particular compiled use case over something like zig or rust? and if I just want to script system tasks I'm going to use popular languages with popular libraries and full batteries like python
millions of people benefit from psychotherapy every day, but random substack with predictable ties to right-wing nativist bullshit says it's all bunk. Well that's that then!
This thread is literally the first time I've ever heard "everyone should be in therapy" from anybody.
> And in order to beat them, you must be playing to win, not just playing not to lose. Combine the driver openness with public hardware docs and you have a competitive advantage.

This is so immensely true. I’ve been so enthusiastically loyal to intel gpus in the last ten years or so (avoiding laptops with any kind of discrete gpus) because dealing with closed drivers is so much pain.

I’m still skeptical about amd gpus, even though i hear good stuff about it.

I kist want hardware i can trust, knowing I won’t have dumb driver issues.
Agreed, I use KDE on both my desktop and personal laptop.
As a person born in India, I learned about St. Francis through numerous schools named after him. A lot of those schools were also shelters for animals, that is how I learned about the saint's love and compassion for all living things. His simple life and dedication fascinates me. Anything that helps me learn more about him, his teachings, or historical artifacts / pilgrimage is of interest to me.
Related to the other reply: this honestly seems like a kinda huge ML opportunity. Imagine if your wife and doctors everywhere were able to just talk to patients with microphones recording it and not worry about notes because the system automatically transcribes it and feeds the result into an LLM that automatically writes up the relevant information, so the end of the day bookkeeping is reduced to just checking its work and manually making changes where necessary. Hard to guess without actually being a doctor but that would surely eliminate a tremendous amount of mindless boilerplate busywork for the majority of patients, right?
FGF21 counteracts alcohol intoxication, activating noradrenergic nervous system
Indeed I am. Thank you for the context. I wonder if we shouldn't describe these things with more granularity, like how "functional programming" may be used to mean "pure functional abstractions", "pattern matching", and many other things in varying combination.
Windows and Microsoft are the bureaucracy.
> so what are you going to do with a number like "17" which appears in almost every street in the country?

Exactly the same thing that Rainbolt did in this video: cut down the amount of work you have to do on each street from checking dozens or potentially hundreds of photos/angles to just 1-3.

Of course if you've only narrowed the streets down to 20,000 candidates instead of 20 of them, that doesn't get you straight to the answer, but it's still a massive proportional improvement.

But the lesson being presented here is to use data that's available to you in the photograph. Maybe you don't have any street numbers (or any particularly useful ones) visible, but you can see the sun at the end of the road and therefore know that it's running directly East-West. That filters out tons of roads. Maybe you can see that houses are only on one side and a river is on the other, you can use that as well. In the video he mentions similar constraints with regards to local parks as being other options for this kind of search narrowing.

The point of that portion of the video isn't "hope the house number is really weird lmao", but to extract any geographical information out of the image and then query that with open mapping databases. House numbers are just one of the most common ones, and while they're typically not quite as powerful as was shown in this video, they're very often going to help dramatically.
That’s… fair, but strikes me as a quite different claim.

“Breaks physics as we know it” seems very much to imply “perpetual motion machine” sorts of claim, that violate pretty strongly held physical laws.

Anyway, this is more a minor quibble with the specific language, rather than a broader disagreement, but just a heads up that to me (and I’m guessing many others), that specific phrase holds a far broader connotation than it seems you intended.
> There is more risk working for a smaller consulting firm

This is the problem. You have consistently said in previous comments that taking higher upfront cash is less risk, and you claimed that's what actors and writers should be doing, instead of asking for residuals. And now you turn around and admit that taking higher upfront cash, which you say you can get from consulting firms, is actually more risky.

So your words seem inconsistent, and somewhat hypocritical, because you're taking the recurring revenue while saying that actors and writers shouldn't.

In any case, it's not clear why you think that working for a BigCo is less risky, because there have been a ton of layoffs lately, so BigCos could fire their employees at any time, and have been doing so. (A lot of them over-hired the past few years.)

> My base pay is far lower than I could get working for another consulting company.

> I’m not baffled residuals exist, I’m baffled that people think that writers and actors “deserve” them instead of it just being a negotiation between cash now and less cash and higher/risk return by accepting them in exchange for less cash up front

> Why should they get residual checks? ... If anything they should negotiate a higher up front payment.

> And that’s something that everyone here fails to understand. For me there are three levels of risk.

> 1. Getting all of my compensation in cash (least downside/least upside)

> The writers are negotiating based on 3. I would be negotiating based on 1.

> I have had the same choices:

> 1. Being risk averse by taking cash up front and choosing to negotiate based on a maximum up front payment
There's a button for that!
Unfortunate the author didn't include any graphs or even a diverse set of rigorous benchmarks.
You (rarely) can force a cure onto people, and in the case of mental problem it's basically impossible.

If the science was clear in that depression would be heavily contained if the sufferer engaged in physical activity, good sleep, good diet, good general routine and zero stuff like social media or mindless entertainment, then how man people would actually follow through?

We criticize psychs for their love of giving pills, but we are the first who are lazy and stupid and would never actually do what's best for us
I'm an independent open-source maintainer
“The sheer size and scope of the department — which makes up for more than half of the U.S. discretionary spending and has assets that range from personnel and supplies to bases and weapons — makes it difficult to audit. “

“The agency had never expected to pass, however, due to accounting issues officials said could take years to fix.
Because accounting records needed to complete the assessment were not available, all five audits received a “disclaimer of opinion,” though there have been improvements each time. ”

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/3740921-defense-departmen...

The objection you’ve raised, if anything, highlights the need for a neutral outside party to annually audit and create thorough paper trails for very large organizations.

Do you want to pursue this line of argument further?
Have you ever heard of the "Up Goer 5"?
The problem isn't the absolute nimber, it is the ratio of producers and consumers in general to consumers of food.
I can name only one thing that has been massively popularised since then in "professional" tools and which I wouldn't mind the older software had: command palette.

Press some hot key, and then type the name of your command in a pop up window with full-text search, autocomplete and a hint what the hot key and toolbar icon for that particular command is. Probably single most useful thing that became mainstream roughly after the ubiquitous CLI-phobia mostly went away.
These systems are highly configurable because every hospital wants to do things their own way. There's a good chance many of your complaints are a result of configuration that can be changed. Go to your IT staff with a list.
> (The "waste" however still goes into someone's wallet and can be in turn spent at a local restaurant or on groceries.)

It could equally well be spent by me if left in my wallet rather than taxed away and wasted.
I don't know what you're referring to. I don't think parsing an entire page of text, selecting an element, and returning it as an object you can manipulate represents a weak interface
Could someone explain? I’m unfamiliar with the publication. Asking sincerely.
Apropos this sort of thing: Around that time, one of the employees of Acornsoft took the RISC OS "icon bar" concept with him to Microsoft, where it became the "task bar" in Windows 95. Source: ex-Acornsoft employee whom I talk to at meetups from time to time. I have mentioned to him that the icon bar launched many careers, not just programs :-)
... In America
I think they would be somewhat cheaper to build and considerably cheaper to operate, but a strong magnetic field is still difficult to deal with in practice. Would it really be an improvement over eg. CT?
noah is a prototypical 90's-era weeb who worships japan and absolutely despises china and chinese people in general.

i'm surprised in 2023 people aren't yet tired of this schtick. it's getting old.
I don't like copying my passwords to clipboard becase of https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Clipboard/r... and other clipboard hijacking techniques.
There's one on Lemmy/Beehaw: https://beehaw.org/c/woodworking@lemmy.ca
Medusa: Zig codebase graph generator that emits a Mermaid class diagram
I found something from 1936. heh
>And people don't like being indentured servants. History should have made that clear by now.

History has also made it clear that people can be made to endure living conditions they don't like or a very long time.

I submit that, historically, life for the common people was far, far more often barely tolerable or even intolerable, than agreeable.

We like to hear about peasant and slave revolts in history classes, but overall those were few and far between.
The navigation layout of this is not ideal yet.

Specific recipes that should be added:

Removing audio: ffmpeg -i $input_file -c copy -an $output_file

Halving resolution: ffmpeg -i $input_file -vf "scale=iw/2:ih/2" $output_file
I think "big" and "weak" are poor terms as they're vague. I think the real principle he's describing is something more like "context-free knowledge/rules are more flexible and useful".

The less context you have to consider when using an abstraction or making a decision, the simpler and more general it is. Like his example of "no drinking", there are no contexts in which he allows himself to drink, so it's simple and can deployed in any situation.

In the reader/writer interfaces, there is only a single requirement for reading or writing, the byte array.
Have you been asleep since February 2022? Physical warfare is as relevant as ever.
Look at @paulsci's post history including on X-Twitter. He's done dozens of these tours through the newspapers on many similar subjects.
On Temu there is a dialog that asks you "Yes" or "Maybe later." If you click "Maybe later" it pops up again and the only button to dismiss the modal is "Next time".
Again. Do they care?
Why has Britain become so poor?
My takeaway from this is that Wikimedia clearly has way, way too much money.
What would an economist be trying to optimize?
Why? Plenty of teratogenic drugs are approved and in routine use in non-pregnant patients.
Cherry-pick the data to prove a point? There are better ways to prove a point than this.
https://archive.is/eGoIp
Sounds like the beginning of the space horror film "Life"
On mobile, the old person I know (the one using the Rolodex s-3000) relies on their device (iPhone) to store credentials.

I think sometimes they also write passwords in the Notes app. I think that's in case they use their home computer instead of their iPhone.
In general, people want money, they've never wanted to work.
Yes, by underfunding auditers and accountability. Or throwing out money without any sense of accounting.

Yes, fraudsters will take full advantage of it.

Your example shows why we need more auditers and more frequent auditing, not less.
> From a small business perspective, turnover is a lot higher, and a lot more of it is because the employees are simply not doing their jobs and have to be let go.

Many of these small businesses were tying up a ton of talent. During COVID, their workers left to go work for larger companies and (in the case of the service industry) took office jobs.

To add to this, a number of these small businesses engaged in PPP fraud by taking out loans to designed to keep payrolls going but ended up "spending" it on an owner's draw. This was not the intention of the program: It was to stabilize the workforce. But by shedding headcount, these businesses handed over a ton of labor to white collar employers. They're likely never getting those workers back.

And I will also say, especially among younger people, small business owners have earned a reputation for being difficult to work for. So you're right, in a sense, but the other factor at play is that small businesses scare away good workers.
We do, it’s called global optimization. It works for small problems with ~ 1000 variables or so. Check BARON and the branch & reduce algorithm
I install the system using the Xubuntu ISO. Presumably if you install the xubuntu-desktop package on some other flavor it will be similar but if for instance you installed it on top of e.g. Kubuntu you might still be getting KDE services loading when you log in.
Yeah, this matches up more with my observations as well. Go's niche is mostly in modern deployment/infrastructure management and web backends, places that historically Python might've been the premier choice.

Rust gives you better insight and control over memory management that is necessary for many of the applications that are written in C++ while offering strictly better safety guarantees and less baggage (but the tradeoff of encoding a lot of stuff in the type system). I really like Go, Rust, and Python, but all for different things.
Plants don't split oxygen out of CO2, they bind it into carbohydrates along with hydrogen stripped out of water.

Oxygen is the waste product of obtaining hydrogen from water.
Language Log had a post on this https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=59908 and their commentariat seems unimpressed. Linguist Andrew Garrett had some tweets about that: https://twitter.com/ndyjroo/status/1684636445854875648 and, for traditionalists, was quoted in an article: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-indo-european...

The paper hasn't made it to sci-hub yet (at least not the one I checked) but it seems like they're going to have a tough row to hoe.
> Ha, when i was too far ahead (around 11yo), I got put in a separate room with two girls with a similar "problem", no teacher.

I had the same experience in 1st-2nd grade (in foreign language class, not math). Three of us were deemed too advanced for the grade so the teacher sent us out to the playground unsupervised with instructions to speak in the foreign language and correct each other.

I don't remember us speaking in that language too much but we played lots of games and it was fun.
Because nobody who survives on donations or taxes should have the luxury of consuming more than 800 calories per day.
Mercenary, then?

Or looking to start your own thing?
Oh for sure, IRC has a similar problem (except there are no images hosted on IRC).

But if the analog for a "private" Discord server is a private IRC server then in one you're trusting all the employees and in the other you're trusting yourself (or whatever admin).

And there do exist IRC client plugins that allow for E2EE chat (but I've never met anyone who used them).

IRC certainly has plenty of problems and Discord is very convenient but I think assuming privacy is assured on Discord is a bad bet.
Another example from 1987, England RISC OS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N2FF9h-aL0

It sounds wild that the X == denial originates from Japan.
Pushkin was not great. His height was 166 cm (5' 5").
I disagree on #2. I think if you want to build culture you need to find people who value culture over money, and that if you don't live up to your end they can complain about the deal. If you over pay and offer better culture when the culture inevitably falters people are stuck because you over pay.
Why must the burden of getting a job that is not shitty always seem to fall on the worker and never the employee or the state?

Why don't we have a law that says "if the boss is disrespectful to the worker, they pay the worker the average of their hourly wage for every such incident" while being rude to your superior would be considered a breach of conduct that, when repeated, would be grounds for dismissal?

Stop adoring the hierarchy and licking the boot.
> which is not a "long history" but just 19 quotes from the last 19 years

Maybe you’re not seeing them all, but there’s one quote per year from 2023 to (at least) 1940. 83 years.
This is simplistic and fails to cover all the arrangements that one might one to call a government.

It also shows all the hallmarks of an over-reliance on the internet-provided definition of a government (which of course pats itself on the back of seeing what all those silly academics couldn't see).

I mean, for goodness sake, just a quick browse of Graeber & Wengrow will reveal many forms of societies' arrangements for collective decision making that violate your description (in part because your description is about enforcement, which some societies eschew, and fails to deal with collection decision making at all).
Not that I totally disagree, but what happens if everybody pays above market rate?
pretty much everyone else with a public platform in geopolitical analysis has a low opinion of zeihan. this includes shapiro, papic, and other stratfor alumni who i pay attention to.

zeihan's analysis is performative and is designed to make him money, not provide value to anyone in the real world. wow, america's geography makes it invincible and china will collapse any day now because they suck at innovating. that's super insightful and original. i definitely haven't been hearing that repeated ad nauseum for literally 40 years.
> if people in machine learning ever look at literature.

They don't.

A few other things they seem completely unaware of:

- other ways to represent functions besides neural networks (harmonic analysis, polynomials, etc)

- other models exist besides neural networks. ie. if you can model the problem with a simple equation you can just optimize that.

- polynomial regression.

Someone who has read "numerical recipies" is probably more capable in solving ML problems than an "ML software engineer".
First impression reading the headline was that Musk is even more impetuous than I’d thought.