skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh? These experts absolutely exist - look e.g. at iSAGE during the pandemic in the UK. They combined epidemiology with sociology to provide a more comprehensive view of the situation. It's just that you ultimately have to listen to people saying "do X, which is expensive". Governments don't on the whole tend to love that.
> They had print books that were not otherwise available as ebooks.

Including pirate sources? I know they had a lot of ebooks that had no official and legitimate ebook, I encountered many of those, but in every case I was able to find the same scanned book somewhere else without the DRM. Probably the same scan I'm guessing, stripped of DRM or maybe uploaded elsewhere by the same person who scanned it for IA.
I think that’s probably still reductive — in some environments (like a couple years ago), it was very hard for companies, especially startups, to lure in talent.

Perhaps, though, if you only hire when you need, you can be more competitive with pay.
Those are some true measures of success right there.
$15 million dollars spent on state-ordered beaver killings! Absurd!
Summary: Because the perspective of people in the southern hemisphere of this globe are upside down from the north.
I don't agree anyone let scientists drive the bus. Scientists advised and the responsibility of balancing that advise against factors such as the economy was entirely the responsibility politicians and leaders.
Have you tried copilot? I have had success with gpt until recently it seems to have a short term memory and (more annoyingly) will seemingly hit the context window limit before it even responds, even for what I would guess are short answers, forcing me to start an entirely new conversation, making me look towards copilot or claude.
You mean a "party line" ? Been there done that too.
Yes that's my point - behaviour can be abusive regardless of whether or not the perpetrator intended or even noticed it.
Ah, ok, but now you can't do subword aligned read/writes. That was a costly mistake that Alpha originally made and most architectures have avoided since.
One of my friends told me at one of the FAANGs, some of the employees were openly asking on financial-planning internal mailing list in how to qualify their kids for financial aid or grants because they made too much.
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People take taxis when they are drunk. People are more likely to engage in sex while drunk. People take taxis when they want a degree of privacy as they travel, as opposed to busses. People are more likely to have sex when in a semi-private space. A taxi provides a degree of physical security, a barrier between you and the mob. Why is this a surprise? In SF I expect that some taxi startup will soon target this market directly.
This is one of those times that I remember that people are basically just monkeys with clothes.
Apple Still Sucks at Right to Repair
"drivers prefer cash" followed a while later by "this will ensure better tax compliance": roflcopter

Somebody clearly doesn't understand why drivers prefer cash...

Also, love the concept of the driver being able to see not only a passenger's entire ride history but also their financials. Should really streamline the kidnap-for-ransom industry.
Postgres Audit Tables Saved Us from Taking Down Production (2021)
fun story. in general i find it preferable to have a brief TLDR section of 2-3 sentences before an email, and then use the more traditional approach below. i think it can be a bit jarring of a read otherwise -- having a summary on top still accomplishes the same thing
Implantable Device Shrinks Pancreatic Tumors
Show HN: Hypersprawl – a metaverse with 4 spatial dimensions
Hi all,

Years ago I was wondering what kind of problems superhuman AI would be able to solve that would be difficult for humans. I came up with problems requiring higher dimensional spatial awareness. Scratching my head a bit further, the humble me started thinking that actually there is no reason why our brains could not handle higher spatial dimensions, if the brain was just given appropriate feedback from our sensory system. Fast forward a lot of further head scratching, and here is a barely MVP of a VR environment for 4 spatial dimensions, with some navigation aids including acoustic sensory augmentation (sounds fancier than it is...)

First I thought to have just the Hypershack where you can locally build 4d stuff on your browser, but then thought it would be cool to have also a 4d metaverse where you could share and see 4d things built by others - and there might be even a way to monetise this for me by renting real estate in there. So, that is Hypersprawl. To manage expectations, the performance is bad for now, I have limited the Hypersprawl to 10 4d objects per address.

You can use Hypershack for free, also there are lots of free addresses in Hypersprawl, only if you want to get closer to the Black Sun (sorry Stephenson, I couldn't not copy that), you need to make a donation or subscription. You do not need to have a VR headset to have a look, browser is enough, but of course immersion suffers quite a lot.

All feedback is more than welcome. Frankly, I do not expect this to be a major commercial success and actually I think this may be a bit too far in the fringes of geekiness to find anyone else interested, but I guess this community is one of the better places to try to prove me wrong.

(So, have I been successful in getting any intuition in 4 spatial dimensions? So far not much luck on that, only that the 4d space is huge. Literally mind-bogglingly huge. I think my next direction is to spend some time figuring out the pedagogy on what objects/functionality I should have there to get the intuition. But do not expect anything to be quick with this one, and I am talking more likely about years than months.)

Cheers,

Teemu
Ads is their biggest money maker. But it doesn’t have to be usable compared to their consumer facing software. Even though it’s used by ad buyers, it’s more akin to internal tools that at most large companies don’t get near the care of consumer facing tools (looking at you Amazon where the internal review process website broke last April).
ah another covid origins article to distract ppl from mitigating an ongoing pandemic
I love tRPC, it's by far the best fullstack DX I've ever seen and has such a brilliant API especially when combined with Zod.

Zod and tRPC are some of the most important projects in the future of TS imho, I think we're gonna see a beautiful bloom of tRPC inspired DX across the TS space in coming years.

Two projects already have clearly have tRPC DNA attacking different use cases are Ping's UploadThing (https://github.com/pingdotgg/uploadthing) and our Lusat (https://github.com/lusatai/lusat).
Evaluating Data Attribution for Text-to-Image Models
Toil away peasants, and enjoy the bread and circuses.
Certainly - they’re called minimums for a reason. But there’s a difference between “computer deviation handled simply with little danger” and “plane was skimming the rooftops before recovery”.
I've interviewed a lot of candidates over my years and technology specific information isn't something I ever look for, unless money is tight.
Air flow: It's all about fan thrust [video]
> Finance, biotech, and tech all pay good math phds

Are any of these jobs actually in West Virginia? Maybe the state sees little point in educating people who will just move away.
Paying them enough to live off of though isn’t asking for much.
> org-mode tables are great

True, though they tend not to be very fast when they grow. (I have a table with almost 2000 rows and editing it lags a bit.)
One possibility is that many jobs in five years may involve directing a group of AI agents.

There will likely be "job sites" where most or all of the "candidates" are AIs. These AI employees will, for many jobs, compete directly with humans. Some maybe have realistic avatars in video calls and the ability to fully control desktop or web-based software.

The adoption will be gradual rather than immediately eliminating all of the human workers.
Ironically making it pretax harms employees long term by making them more dependent on the employer for healthcare
The problem is what does any of that mean? Am I a journalist right now because I'm disseminating my writings to the public using a means of interstate commerce, e.g. the Internet? I'm guessing probably not, but the law should give me all the protections and recognize all the rights that a journalist has. It shouldn't be the government's place to decide who is or isn't a journalist; everybody is a journalist and should be protected accordingly.

If everybody is a journalist, then there's no ambiguity. But if the law says that some people are journalists and some people aren't, now there are two classes of citizen and it isn't even clear which is which.
> [At larger companies...] Talking to users is for PMs, silly! You stick to what you’re good at. At best you get a summary of user insights and a reasonable task priority list derived from it. At worst you get a confusing task list built off a mistaken understanding of users and the manager’s selfish vision, and no one can explain why each task matters.

Not necessarily. At the large companies I've worked at (>200 people), a UXR will drive the interview process with users, starting with compiling a list of questions from engineers, then conducting the interview sessions with users in which engineers can sit in, and then disseminating the insights and setting up a meeting to make the insights into a actionable engineering projects.

Working with UXRs is a dream, as they're trained to conduct interviews in an impartial way, leading to insights that are less biased and higher quality. Contrast to when I worked for startups and I or someone on my team would interview users, very often the feedback would end up contaminated because the interviewer would ask the wrong question, projected their biases into the questions, or even worse into the insights.
So about the same as a Harvard grad student? The Graduate students in Germany get food stamps?
Are you getting value from the product?

Would you appreciate being able to tell their product manager you need a feature and see it shipped?

Would you appreciate time with their engineering team suggesting how to implement the feature so it works for your use case?

Would you value the feature working precisely as you need it to, with no misinterpretation?

Then sign the CLA and value this vendor offers business-source as a shortcut for you and them to understand and ship your needs, when most vendors don't. It's a literal win win.

(The only time not to sign is if you would prefer a competitor to the vendor, or want to compete yourself. Then go talk to that competitor instead, or make the first commit to your own repo.)
Thanks very much for posting this, totally agree. I get frustrated when I hear all these missives about how easy it is for any good developer to learn a new language "in a couple days". I think this paragraph was key:

> Learning a language is easy. Modern development requires knowing the toolchain framework, idiosyncrasies, foot guns, best practices, etc.

That said, I still nearly always hire for general skills and not specific technologies, as long as there is at least one expert in the specific tech under consideration on the team (which there nearly always is). And I budget anywhere from 3-6 months for a person to become truly proficient at a new platform technology.
A repair person near customer in US may have a very large environmental cost.
Yes. Graduate students are inherently older, since they first need to obtain an undergraduate degree, and then graduate school itself can take many years to complete coursework and especially to write a dissertation. You can't expect grad students to put off the rest of their lives indefinitely, not get married, not have a family.
The space of meaning and the usage patterns of words are almost never 100% the same between languages. This can have the effect of a choice of word being somewhat less appropriate in one language than the other, even when the words nominally mean the same thing. In addition, there may be Spanish words other than “ideal” that nevertheless can be translated as “ideal” in English for one of their meanings, but that translation wasn’t the best in this particular case. Of course I don’t know if that’s what happened here, but it’s a possibility.
How do you plan on deploying llama 2? Is that via ollama/fastchat/etc.? We're actively building out integrations to different providers, so if you have any preferred tooling - let me know!
To Wit, the CDC now says it’s okay to use [doctors to prescribe] Ivermectin to treat sars-cov-2 whereas before they denounced its use and the mainstream media derided it as horse paste.
Seriously. Harvard's "endowment" has 50 billion at it's disposal. That's some serious money. It's continued success is partially predicated on top-notch research being done. If it somehow can't afford to pay those doing the research, it shouldn't be allowed to continue to have a hedge fund or take massive land grants, get tax breaks, etc...
Did Xi hijack the CCP --- or did the CCP try to hijack capitalism and Xi is just their frontman?
Everyone goes through this once. A lot of your knowledge suddenly aren't needed anymore because of external factors. For me it was Flash. I've seen colleges being afraid of learning new technology after being burned once. Now my skills are learning new skills.
Hi @d4rkp4ttern - yes it's standardized to the openai format - https://litellm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/stream/
This does not solve the problem.
With channels you are preparing things (even just one thing) ahead of time and you have to do it in a separate goroutine.
One could possibly (haven't tried or given more than 2s of thought) implement a channel (or at least part of it) using iterators.
Let’s hope that a better system comes out of all of this chaos.
How does it benefit the suits? what you just described is lower cost and higher productivity under WFH
> Our fantastic VP of Engineering became CTO, and hired a middle management moron as VP

Hardest lesson I learned when I got promoted to upper leadership positions: Hiring middle management is incredibly hard. The number of absolute sharks in the candidate pool is wild. People will show up, sense that you’re new, and tell you everything you want to hear about how they’ll solve all of your problems. They’ll claim they’ve done exactly what you need at every prior company they’ve worked for. They’ll flatter you and tell you they’ve been waiting for an opportunity to work or someone like you.

Imagine the schmooze-iest IC candidate you’ve ever interviewed, but 5 times better and harder to see through. These people have charisma you wouldn’t believe (when you’re new) but they don’t really care to do the hard work. They just want to worm their way into the company and then extract. They’ll extract compensation for themselves, extract headcount to hire their friends and build an empire, extract compensation for their friends (who will return the favor at a future company), extract lucrative contracts for their contracting buddies (where they might even be in on the take). Years can pass before people realize they haven’t really done much despite producing a flurry of activity. They may have even driven away the good employees who got tired of their BS or were pushed out for identifying their incompetence.

I was unlucky-lucky to watch this play out under a fast rising CEO at a lesser known unicorn. The number of sharks who showed up and charmed him after he became successful was unbelievable. The same thing plays out with less experienced middle managers who get thrust into high-budget positions at smaller companies.
In a crony capitalistic world that makes perfect sense.

Why not underpay people if the taxpayers will pick up the slack?

Why not dump waste in the rivers if the taxpayers will clean it up?

It's not like there is a penalty for doing so, beyond the occasional slap in the wrist.
Interesting that you would twist some simple observations into an accusation that I am trying to "shut down any dissent". Maybe not everything follows your world view. I'm happy with anyone who wants read all the comments... So the "we're so persecuted" arguments are wearing transparently thin.
Why mention the bull at all then?
Wouldn't optional code generation be rather desirable? Then you don't need a monorepo, which a lot of people don't do.
This is very obviously not always true. For example, the Microsoft Surface line has always been a tiny blip in it's market and yet iFixit rated 5 years of products the lowest score possible on their repairbility scale[0]. And it is not unusual at all for non-leading companies to have pretty anti-competitive practices.

This whole comment feels like "yeah, well don't give them credit for it because they don't really mean it".

I don't give a shit if they mean it. If they are doing pro-consumer things I'm going to reward them and if they stop doing it, I'm going to stop rewarding them. That's how you send a signal and get broadly better practices. Making up complicated theories for why you still shouldn't be happy about good things is both silly and doesn't help anything get better.

[0]https://www.ifixit.com/tablet-repairability?sort=score
Red blood cell particles reduce fat deposition in arteries
You're misunderstanding. We like the taskbar along the left (vertical) edge, not the bottom (horizonal) edge. You're thinking of alignment.
Why is there a need for food stamps? Food is not expensive. Isn't a rent the largest expense? So wouldn't it make more sense to give a Rent Stamps instead? I am sure people need free rent, not a free food.
> Letters would take a couple of weeks to get there from South America, and a couple more weeks to come back with the answer, leading to a 4-6 week roundtrip.

If you heard that someone in your (ethnic) community was travelling (especially flying) back to the 'Old Country', the person would often be asked to take various letters during the trip to folks 'back home' (and then perhaps replies on the return).
Yes, that one. From the "We need scientific dissidents" article this thread is about:

When Tom Jefferson and his group published a report saying “We are uncertain whether wearing masks or N95/P2 respirators helps to slow the spread of respiratory viruses based on the studies we assessed,” the editor in chief of Cochrane apologized for the wording, even though subsequent surveys showed the language was standard for Cochrane given the nature of the evidence.

The incoherent attempt at walking back the study findings by Cochrane administration is the type of problem the article is discussing. It came after a pressure campaign by a social media influencer [1] and the New York Times [2], not due to any actual problem with the review (which AFAIK remains unaltered).

The actual study authors stand by their conclusions. But consider something else: the statement on their website is nonsensical, asserting that it's wrong to accept the null hypothesis in this case despite a large multi-study failure to find significant results. But that's not how science works. You start by assuming the null (community masking/mandates don't work), and then try to disprove it. If you can't then you stick with the initial belief that there's nothing there, you don't assert that anything failing to find what you want is "inconclusive" - that's starting from a conclusion and working backwards.

[1] https://twitter.com/thackerpd/status/1644306405942255617?s=2...

[2] https://dailysceptic.org/2023/04/13/the-new-york-times-is-su...
You mean like drug abuse?
I'm also from the US and recently had an apple turnover. It was delicious.

I lost money on the endeavor, though.
As a person who has worked in the AAA video games industry for nearly a decade now: this is the truth; though actually a bit more dire than you make it.

From what I recall XB1 had a really mild advantage in north America which looked striking because it was a mere 50% of PS4 in every other market.

With PS5/XBX the gap is even wider in favour of the playstation.

Notably PC players are around the same number as XB1 players, though are slightly overrepresented in Europe compared to other markets.
There are a lot of comparisons to Walmart having employees on food stamps, but I think it's worth pointing out that if you are paying federal minimum wage $7.25/hour, that is just $15,080 annually at 40 hours / week * 52 weeks. It is quite shockingly low.

Harvard's minimum pay is almost 3x that amount. If we assume a 40 hour work week, it comes out to $19.23/hour. That is well within the range for what most advocacy groups are calling a living wage. For example, this site pegs it at $18/hour for Suffolk county in Massachusetts:
https://livingwageforus.org/tier-i-certification/
If only our current new crop of journalists could relearn this.
>> They provide great benefits to the school. They generate substantial income.

But they won’t pay them enough to be able to feed themselves?
https://archive.is/c8Y09
Definitely a performance server. Multiple high-pitched fans running nonstop.
You're referring to big-picture practices and conflicts, which are different.

Also, think about businesses where morality simply isn't a day to day concern of customers, not because they are rotten customers, but because their set of concerns is another facet of the benefit spectrum. "I am their customer because of X and Y." Not _your_ X and Y, but theirs.

In that light, perhaps you can see how much of a blind-spot crutch it can be to end up defending morality as a kind of forced issue by dint of your own subjective focus, which while commendable, isn't the point here.

It's an issue of what else there is.

This is also probably very difficult to understand if you yourself naturally focus extremely hard on giving a clean deal to your customers. As is common in that mindset, maybe you often find yourself the martyr, taking a loss here or there to quietly test your own generosity in that way, for example. Or maybe you enjoy mentally pairing yourself with "good people", those you rate via your conduct system as individuals with whom you feel more free to conduct the generous business that makes you see the world in a better light.

In such a case, of course you have a good argument for branding around that personality facet.

And at the same time, you are still way different from a lot of other businesses...

...which from even this beneficial-morality lens can't be said to come out the worse by some basic psychological calculus. "Be like me" still isn't a fair business assessment tool.

(I know it can be a bit of a frustrating heartbreak to have access to those morality tools, and enjoy demonstrating that benefit in a crooked world...and then hear that a successful business can focus on entirely different facets and psychological processes without cheating their customers...)
What if your performance was fine but they invented some bs reason why it's not and fired you anyway? What if your manager didn't have a say in the decision to fire you based on attendance?
Almost all banks in the states are reluctant to deal with cash. That's why they are closing thousands of accounts every day in the name of de-risking. Many banks and credit unions just restrict how much money can you deposit per month. A local credit union opens business checking only if you agree to "no cash deposits". Chase restricts the max cash deposit per month to $4k for business checking.

100% AML compliance can be achieved, as regulators are pushing Banks to NOT accept cash/money orders/any untraceable monetary instruments. As this happens, Banks will debank you for reputational risk: maybe, you don't like vaccines or politicians that major news papers recommend you to support, etc. This is the path we are heading to.