skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it fully dawned on people the implications that twitter is private and owned by one person alone. Elon can do whatever he wants, without accountability to a higher power. It's his personal fiefdom now. He cannot be voted out. There is a reason a lot of companies stay private when they can go public at a higher valuation, which is total control and no accountability to shareholders.
I don’t know anything about midea except their U shaped window AC units are genius.
I mean, yes, but this is like complaining that so much of functional programming as pushed by strangers on the internet is about building your own algebra over the data in your system.

Both ideas can be great, but I push more for both of them to be used in modeling the system. If there are different sections with "agency" in your system model, OO can make a ton of sense to work with those parts. If you have data getting passed around and worked with a lot, FP makes a ton of sense.
I think people forget that the written word has a tendency to come across stern unless you make an effort to soften it.

I know I forget this. There have been numerous times even here on HN where people have thought I was being critical or argumentative when that wasn't remotely what I was trying to communicate.
I met this toxic nutcase who had made up a concept like this, it essentially boiled down to

“I’m going to tell you something thats unsubstantiated about you, which you’ll be obligated to be defensive about, so dont respond at all, and I dont want to talk about it”

its that absolving of any responsibility that gets me
good catch! the cows can also just leave the window if you wait long enough. think im going to add some barriers on the side.
It'd be funny if a model designed to score neutral on a test tuned to make answers skew in one direction would end up biased in the other direction
This is an absurdly wrong, yet characteristically HN take.

Transactional mail typically requires some hyperlink for the average user.
In contrast, he also actually invented the telephone but wasn't interested in it. He sold it to Alexander Graham Bell for a tidy sum over 5 years of payments.
> Pushing that button will take all your data and social network, and move it to the Fediverse, intact.

If I push that button, all of my friends' posts will appear on the Fediverse? How does that respect the privacy and distribution rights of my friends?

PS with a name like Fediverse, I assume this is for (US) federal employees only?
Isn't that basically what Brave tried (is trying?) to do with Brave Rewards?
I would agree with that. A lot of research does talk about both antibiotics and gastric bypass surgery. But, that's only a part of the story. My research continues to uncover ways in which oxalates can cause mayhem. Just consider ordinary kidney stones. Calcium Oxalate. Oxalate damage is not limited to that,or to kidney failure through nephropathy. There is a medium.com piece by a fellow who had calcium oxalate crystals in his hearing canal. To get his hearing back, he had to go on a low oxalate diet. There's a pubmed on such situations [1]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2898392/
Overreaction to Evergrande? Also, other cryptos dropped even harder
Not at all convinced that this is true, the contrary. Do you have a reference, or something similar that did this successful in another field? (No, that's not ChatGPT and writing some limited software).
Although it probably wasn't funny at the time I can imagine how comical that conversation was.

Thinking about it further the term "cloud" is a good metaphor for storing files on someone else's computer because clouds just disappear.
https://mauiohana.support/
Delivering faster was never the promise of Agile. It also can't turn a shit team into an agile team. But it certainly empowers a solid team to deliver what business needs while moving faster.
- You don’t have the public reputation to convince people to trust you over others.

I'm a geek, not a social media influencer. True technological meritocracy over image. Good ideas speak for themselves. Maybe even the people we don't know/like/trust can teach us something, if we're willing to separate the idea from the person.

Here's one related idea:
https://blog.ownlifeful.com/2021/12/direct-democracy-re-imag...

- It’s unlikely you’d be able to host a fediverse instance able to handle that many users.

Maybe the ad on FaceBook will have an onboarding quiz to ask the user about their interests, and hook them up with the right Fediverse instance.

- You can’t export their whole social network, it’s nothing unless everyone in their network migrates and is properly linked on the other side.

Maybe there will be a registry ( I haven't thought about implementation details. centralized/decentralized. how is the authorization handled? ) that lets people seamlessly connect with their former facebook contacts. Like going to heaven to unite with your loved ones. ;-)

- Your ads will be denied as is their right to do so.

Is that right?
This looks like a job for me. So everybody, just follow me.

- Free speech gets real ugly, real fast, without moderation and the tools to moderate at scale. The people who stick around unmoderated spaces will actively push out others.

https://kolektiva.social/@ashwin/110671528116415354

Again, I really appreciate your constructive criticism.
Please ask me more questions.
This is why I think it's important to emphasize the raw number of lives saved. There are winners and losers in both systems, so important to focus on the lives saved by adopting something now. We'd need strong social penalties for any deviant action that blocks the aisle.
What tests did you have before adding fuzzing?
Various countries:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_infantry

Japan's WW2 Malaya-Singapore strategy used bicycles.
Of course, it's just silly to think "objective" reality infers the golden rule by itself when it is a (wonderful) liberal anomaly that's not even followed by most of the world now.
An Ode to Game Boy Cartridges
Do colleges usually have fitness class requirements? I’ve never seen that in any GenEd section of a degree program?
> it's actually probable they will loose money in Q3, Q4 this year.

This doesn’t jive with their investor guidance, nor the sales figures. I’m curious where this prediction is coming from.

Maybe it is due to the capital expenditures from all of the new factories being built?
> I find 77,000 or so articles on "rice" in PubAg

Analyzing this data set with an LLM would be a very good research project.
> Should I even try getting a SE job anymore?

Based on what you've written, my answer is: no. You don't sound cut out for it.

> The market isn't the limitless growth starry-eyed future it was during the first 20 years of the 21st century. Now I imagine with AI, headcounts are just going to whittle down to the bare essentials as junior devs become completely unneeded, thus removing their chance of getting enough experience to level up to senior.

You couldn't be more wrong.

20 years ago, you needed to buy or rent servers, pay for bandwidth, marketing/reaching your audience was hard, eyeballs were expensive, etc. To get a service off the ground, you needed to have at least $50k of cash for table stakes.

Today, you can get a virtual slice of very fast compute with very cheap bandwidth for $50/mo. It isn't unreasonable to work a minimum wage job, live very modestly, for 5 years, covering that $50/mo expense, building a product by yourself, that could become worth $1B or more.

In other words, there is practically limitless opportunity today, whereas before only those with significantly more resources had the opportunities.

If you aren't able to see the incredible opportunity you have in front of you, then yeah, you should most likely get out of the industry, because you ARE right that as software continues to get easier to create through innovation, the need for simple laborers will continue to decline.
Because clicking a yt ad might land someone on a website with tracking cookies on it?

You could say the same thing about Google search or any website with outgoing links for that matter.
Every time I hear or read "prompt engineering", I can't help but cringe a bit. I'm not sure why, but it's the same reaction I would have if I heard someone say "Google search query engineering".

Comparing to google search, there definitely is skill involved in knowing how to google things well. We're all accustomed to googling things many times per day so I think a lot of people forget that being able to google things and get the results you want is a skill that has to be learned.

But I would never refer to being "good at writing google search queries" as any kind of engineering. But is becoming good at searching google any less difficult than getting good at writing LLM prompts?

I'd love to hear the other side of the argument. How difficult is it to become good at "prompt engineering"? Why do we even call it "prompt engineering" instead of just "writing effective prompts"?

Edit: I think the main gripe I have with the term "prompt engineering" is it makes the skill of writing prompts sound a lot harder than it actually is. Maybe I'm underestimating how difficult it is to learn how to write good prompts?
Global Opinions and Expectations about Artificial Intelligence [pdf] [Jan 2022]
In 1990's Dan Goldin, the NASA administrator at the time, was looking for ways to return to the Moon for cheap. One of the least expensive variants which was presented included launching multiple Protons and assembling lunar exeditionary complexes on LEO. The quoted number at that time was $1 billion to put boots on regolith again.

Falcon-9 is about as capable in terms of payload as Proton. And even without inflation the launch price is comparable. So, Falcon-9 is quite capable to get people on the Moon. It isn't really considered because there are other options and some additional requirements.
> a large number of people simply don't want to "work"

Nothing wrong with this. If I didn’t have to work for money and health insurance, I wouldn’t. Have simply never had any desired to “work” in my entire life.
Schools most certainly compete for students, and a major factor is price.

Loans are not some boogey man whose simple presence suddenly throws out all cost consciousness.

If you look at surveys of biggest concerns about students (and their parents) selecting colleges, cost is the biggest factor (42% of them put this as #1 in the survey I'm looking at).

So no, loans are not letting prices run free by any means.
It’s a basic part of HTTP. If you follow a link, that’s a GET request. GET requests are supposed to be safe. A user may not have initiated the action if it’s a GET. If you want something that implies “yes, the user made an intentional choice to take action”, then use another verb, like POST.
I think in practice, if 1F could sneak out without blocking the aisle, it doesn't matter. The true important thing is that the aisle not be blocked. The aisle space is the limited resource. There are even more "lassiez-faire" versions of this simulation that could somehow try to model "unregimented" standing. Might be worth doing.
I thought Southwest uses “open” seating, where passengers aren’t assigned a seat, but instead just take any unoccupied seat? If so, a perk of being earlier in the boarding order would be that you have a better chance of getting a seat you want, if you have any particular preferences.
It's the easiest thing in the world to forget -- after all, you know how it's supposed to sound! How could they possibly misinterpret your very clear message? ;)
The article was comparing OPA/Cedar to Zanzibar, which is why my head went there. I did go looking for info on how OPAL deals with caching and consistency and found these:

- Authz data is kept in memory, so what you can authorize over is limited by the memory of the box you run OPAL/OPA. The docs also mention sharding, but I'm not clear on how you actually do that with OPA. [0] Maybe there's another doc that I missed.

- You can get a token representing the last time data was synced to the cache in an OPAL health check, but I'm not clear on how you'd use it to ensure consistency in your application since hydrating the cache is asynchronous. [1]

Anyway, those are the types of things Zanzibar is concerned with, so that comparison (instead of Cedar) would've made more sense to me. Without spending more time on it, I'm not sure if I've represented OPAL correctly above, that's just what I found when I went looking.

[0]: https://docs.opal.ac/faq/#handling-a-lot-of-data-in-opa

[1]: https://docs.opal.ac/faq/#how-does-opal-guarantee-that-the-p...
One of the main arguments in the broader sports realm against trans women participating in women's divisions pertains to physical advantages due to testosterone levels and other physiological differences. This argument doesn't hold water here.

At face value it seems silly to have gender specific events, but I guess a valid reason might be to encourage participation.
In my experience, it's relatively rare among software engineers. So, even if it's over-represented in the general population (which I'm skeptical of), having actual skill at that makes you leaps and bounds more effective than others, once you get up to senior+ level.
It does seem like covid is exploding at the moment, so I'll be interested to see what the RTO companies do, if anything.
In that sense human-readable link is more secure that a QR code, because you can at least read that it's "td.com" and not "xxx.win-lottery-get-pussy.tu".

There's a chance that people won't even point their cameras at URLs like this. Scroll this page down, someone said they scan every code just out of curiosity.
I just like the fruits of my labour to be attributed to me, not to a large corporation.
I’m so excited for your launch, I cannot wait to get in and play with it.
Your comment made me smile. The manager seems smart and nimble, props to them!
Maybe this might be playing a part?

Coinbase Gains Approval to Offer Cryptocurrency Futures, Diving into Trillion-Dollar Derivatives Market [0]

[0] https://www.btimesonline.com/articles/160103/20230817/coinba...
Sihanoukville is hell on earth.

China is building a silk road down through Laos and Cambodia, to there. Then boats can take goods to Africa more easily.

Everything along the way is a land grab. The whole city is like a western with rampant crime, sex and gambling everywhere. It is also an eco disaster. The whole area and everything around is has been decimated with zero concern for the planet. Articles like this just touch on the surface of what is really happening there.

It is really sad what has happened and really doesn't get enough news attention.
thanks, thats what i get for asking bing instead of looking myself
Not Arsenic, but rather bitter almonds contain compounds that the body degrades into cyanide.
Thank you for sharing this.

As I gain experience I see how important managing processes, requests and expectations is.

The software and systems we build are a part of organizations and people with their personal agendas expectations and patterns.

Seeing how everything is connected (all at once ;) is an incredible superpower, a true “Whoa” Neo moment.

I am starting to apply my engineering skills to people and organizations, in the best meaning of the word - by seeing what they need, honoring what they are, approaching them with best intentions and clarity.
Related: RT-2 ([1]). The RoboAgent compares itself with RT-1, but not with RT-2, which is a big improvement upon RT-1.

Disclaimer: I work in the same group that made RT-1 and RT-2, but not a direct contributor to that work.

1. https://www.deepmind.com/blog/rt-2-new-model-translates-visi...
I felt really excited clicking on some of the suggested prompts, but that excitement quickly fell apart when trying to generate a summary for what I consider to be a fairly simple custom search:

impact of airbnb listings on house prices → can't summarise, need to post it as a question.

how do airbnb listings impact house prices? → can summarise, can't create a concensus, must use a yes/no question.

do more airbnb listings increase house prices? → can summarise, can't create a concensus because there's not enough relevant search results. But the maximum is 20 (according to the info icon) and it found 11 highly relevant articles, so I really don't understand how there isn't enough relevant search results.

And I gave up and deleted my account.
I think what amazes OP is that "convincing people that profit will happen in the future" produces better stock value than actual profit happening today. We all know that's how it works but it's still amazing. The market is clearly showing that a bird in hand is worth less than two that might be in the bush 10 years from now.
Love this approach. It keeps everything in a 'one stop shop.

There is nothing worse than having to chase a tangled graph of google sheets, word documents, readmes, confluences, and figma diagrams in order to understand a piece of code. Just put the whole bloody thing in a little documentation file in the class and be done with it.

Better yet, actually use the python docstrings or java docstrings (whatever you call them) and generate the sphinx doc or java doc.

Look at this wonderful documentation one-stop-shop for the python flask repo that was autogenerated with sphinx. https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/2.3.x/
Google college loan stats. Dozens of places to read, for example, [1,2,3]. All on the first few links.

> I bet heavy enrollment in community colleges and dubious for-profit online schools may skew the numbers.

When you have beliefs that are not formed by looking at well sourced data, but are made from anecdotes, then it's hard for you to believe actual data. Spend some time looking up proper sourced data, then claim disbelief.

Or simply type a few words into google and read a few things.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/advisor/student-loans/average-student...

[2] https://educationdata.org/student-loan-debt-statistics

[3] https://www.lendingtree.com/student/student-loan-debt-statis...
> Who gets to decide

A bipartisan committee will suffice.

> holding conservative media liable

The subject is foreign adversaries, not domestic strife. Let's not get derailed.

> the government banning Doom

The subject is foreign adversaries

> sue the gun manufacturers

The subject is foreign adversaries

> In no other area of society

Yes, we absolutely do. When companies bring out predatory sales techniques (such as lootboxes in video games) these techniques absolutely do attract oversight, sanctions and - in cases - outright bans. It's well recognised that people can be led astray and there are many legal avenues available to prevent significant impact.
The age 25 thing is basically a myth. Different brain processes do continue developing into adulthood, but many finish developing younger while others never finish developing.

https://slate.com/technology/2022/11/brain-development-25-ye...

> When we spoke, I told Steinberg his work had been referenced in this way. “Oh no,” he said, laughing. I then asked whether he had insights about where the figure 25 came from, and he said roughly the same thing as Cohen: There’s consensus among neuroscientists that brain development continues into the 20s, but there’s far from any consensus about any specific age that defines the boundary between adolescence and adulthood. “I honestly don’t know why people picked 25,” he said. “It’s a nice-sounding number? It’s divisible by five?”

> Kate Mills, a developmental neuroscientist at the University of Oregon, was equally puzzled. “This is funny to me—I don’t know why 25,” Mills said. “We’re still not there with research to really say the brain is mature at 25, because we still don’t have a good indication of what maturity even looks like.”
You can't simply submit a patch to any self-respecting open source project on a decision so consequential. You have to do annoying things that mostly get in the way, like convince other people and build consensus.
I was told long ago that the water was needed to support the stalks (over the last 20K or so years humans have engineered edible grasses to have absurdly large seeds).

But I guess that isn't the case.
> But a Bialeti is sufficient if you don't want to drop thousands on espresso machinery.

Or 9barista/cafelat robot
you actually expect people to abide by this?

people default to the "f you, I've got mine" mentality so there's no way this will work.
I like both those things but they're just syntax sugar, they increase expressiveness at the cost of a more complex language. If the goal was a dumb language for dumb offshore developers (I don't think it is, but that's what the post I was responding to was saying), JDK6 is an even better choice than JDK8.

Putting it another way, the changes going 6 -> 8 are the same kind of things as the changes going 9 -> 10, or even 9 -> 17.
In fairness, the ratio of "just write code" to everything you listed above changes quite drastically as your seniority increases.

To be sure, there will always be some senior/staff/principal engineers who sit in a room by themselves and code all day without talking to anyone, but, typically, the more senior you get in an organization the more your job consists of things other than writing code. When you're a junior or a mid, however, writing code makes up the vast majority of your day.
> Other scans showed that the reason for this is probably because the "correct" section becomes overstimulated in anxious people.

Wow, are there other similar studies along these lines? And is this why SSRIs help with anxiety?
US Housing Affordability Hits Worst Point in Nearly Four Decades
Data centres account for between 1.5% and 2% of global electricity consumption
It's different when you get to really old or special chars.
> At one point Amtrak had a photo contest to take photos of their trains and submit them, and a guy was arrested by Amtrack police for doing just that.

And Stephen Colbert did a great comedy episode about this exact problem. https://www.cc.com/video/9kc6le/the-colbert-report-nailed-em... , https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/28/nyregion/28about.html
https://archive.ph/bx7vr
This is what I mean, though. How many people regurgitating "Be sure to watch out for oxalates!" know that we're talking about thousands of grams of spinach?

Looking it up, people generally eat 50-200mg of oxalates per day with 1000mg being the outlier high end.

Eat your spinach. If you're worried, then cook it.
There is some nuance. Merchants are permitted to surcharge credit card fees, pushing them on to the customer. Some of course will pay this fee for the fraud protection, but large merchants (like Walmart, who publicly commented on these fees as part of the FedNow comment period [1]), will push customers towards the cheaper rails. Incentives, like discounts, matter, especially at volume.

There are some merchants I'd absolutely want the fraud protection for, but most merchants I interact with I'm fine without and not paying a credit card fee pushed on to me to have. People drive miles to save a few cents on gas, so 3% savings is not trivial to a lot of folks. I admit it'll be an interesting natural experiment to see how volume shifts across systems, but UPI and PIX provide some evidence as to how it'll play out.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36012866

> Walmart has observed a severe misalignment of incentives that has plagued the payments system in the United States for decades. Certain incumbents and large participants enjoy massive profits by stifling innovation in payments, ensuring that account access is limited to a small number of networks, and perpetuating barriers to entry for alternative solutions. Controlling this access allows the dominant players to extract rents from other payments system participants, ultimately resulting in higher costs for all consumers, particularly consumers who are unbanked or underbanked.
Australia's most popular carbon credit scheme questioned by experts