skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they support personalized recommendations at all for children's accounts or on youtube kids, then they are clearly in violation of the law.

Going to youtubekids.com, it makes parents (the age check is a 1st grade arithmetic question) agree to this, so they're clearly in violation of the law according to your Paul Lekas quote:

We also use this information to offer users personalized content. We associate an identifier that's unique to the app with the videos your child has watched and terms they've searched for to recommend content likely to be of interest to them, subject to the controls described below.

We use unique identifiers to provide contextual advertising, including ad frequency capping. The app does not allow interest-based advertising or remarketing.

YouTube Kids does not allow your child to share personal information with third parties or make it publicly available.

But then later, they make it clear that they also don't allow your child to avoid sharing personal information with third parties:

For external processing

We may provide individual user information to our affiliates or other trusted businesses or persons to process it for us, based on our instructions and in compliance with our Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.

They then incorporate additional ToS documents by reference. It's already clear they're violating COPPA according to SIIA, so I'm not going to bother continue reading:

You can find additional information about the app in the YouTube Kids Privacy Notice and the Parental Guide. Our Disclosure for Children explains our data processing practices to your child, which we encourage you to review with them.

Dated: August 7, 2019
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"Perfectionism" ends up being too vague IMO.

I'd call myself a perfectionist in that I really want complete and correct solutions to problems and for everything to be "just so". What was crippling in my early career was that I wanted this level of perfection at every step of building.

I was fortunate to work with some really good engineers who convinced me that I couldn't make large things to a high standard by keeping them perfect at every stage. Instead I needed a "forward wave" of problems I was choosing to solve now, and a list of side problems that I'd slap a good enough solution on till I could come back. (there's a real art to ordering what goes into that wave, mastery of this skill implies seniority).

If you can then learn to understand when you can leave all the "good enough solutions" that really are good enough, you'll find you actually iterate quite quickly.
"the story in my head" sounds really weird to me as a non-native speaker. Is that a common phrase?

I guess "The story in my head is that you asked me to send that status email ..." means that this is what they remember. On the other hand "... the story in my head is that you think owning that number is part of my job, and now you’re upset with me, or you think I’m incompetent at my job" sounds like they mean "the story [that I made up] in my head". Can someone explain?
Oh my lord is this really so hard to figure out? An entire generation built their retirements off of home values and will do literally anything in their power to vote down literally anything that threatens that home value.

They’re going to drag down the next two or three generations with their idiocy.
That tired old Picasso story only works because the customer was not told up front how long the job was going to take.

As a consultant, you are typically billing by the hour (or day) and you will most likely be giving the client some kind of estimate/quote as to how long the job will take, and your rate, and hence the cost to them.

You might very well be able to do the job in one week rather than 5, but it would be dishonest to tell the customer it will take 5, then complete it in 1, but still bill them for 5.

Instead you should tell the customer that it would normally take 5, but you are able to do it in 1, so you are charging 5x (or 3x or whatever) the going rate.
Oh jeez thanks for this. I remember when I WAS 34. I watched all of cheers thinking “no way am I that old”. Norm!!
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I tend to have this problem but only with certain people... Ironically though, I find that people who distrust me are often themselves untrustworthy and they are projecting. I think maybe it's because I have an unusual personality with high confidence but without status-seeking which makes certain people distrust me and doubt my motives. I often talk myself down and openly criticize my own decisions when they were subpar - I'm thinking that this combination of confidence and self-criticizing throws most people off. Most successful people only talk themselves up and shift blame when they make a mistake.
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Plant based diets, cosmetic surgery, smoking -- nope, nope.

Not being married: maybe. Hairstyles, maybe.

Generally being more independent and responsible: yep.
Man, I wish that chewing and food volume would reduce my hunger.

The only thing that makes me stop feeling hungry is my blood sugar going back up to a normal level.

I'm truly envious if there's actually anybody out there who can eat low-calorie bulky foods and actually feel satisfied by the meal. I just feel bloated but still just as hungry as before eating.
https://www.nyc.gov/assets/tlc/downloads/pdf/green_rides_ini...

> Here’s the rollout plan for the Green Rides Initiative: Starting in 2024, New York will require 5% of all high-volume for-hire trips, including those with Uber and Lyft, to be dispatched to EVs or wheelchair accessible vehicles. That benchmark will rise to 15% in 2025 and 25% in 2026. The requirements will increase yearly by 20 percentage points until the end of the decade, reaching 100% in 2030.

> Uber and Lyft, which together make up 78,000 rideshare vehicles in New York City, have also committed to transitioning to EVs by 2030.
too late to edit, but -2? if there's feedback for me on why, I'm all ears!

(also, lol artichokes. ducking autocorrect.)
"Soon" doing a lot of work there. The majority of people vastly underestimate how hard it is to actually build a _productive_ colony (as opposed to a scientific outpost) on another planet/moon/asteroid.

Seriously, we can't even consistently land on the moon but everyone is convinced we're going to have space mines operating by the end of the century. Keep dreaming.

The rate of technological progress has if anything _slowed down_ in the last 50 years. Compare the difference if you look at the 40s vs the 60s, then the 2000s vs the 2020s.
A lot of the sibling comments are talking about this distro itself but they are also neglecting SUSE foray into the container orchestration space with Rancher and K3s. I would assume that is where they are looking to grow.
Twitter had always been notorious for banning high profile users, and turning total blind eyes on sock puppets and ban evasions(justified because bans make no sense in the first place, and probably because support have no time to reinstate everyone). That hasn't changed.
My old CPAP machine had nice blue LEDs that were on all the time so you can easily find it in an otherwise dark room…

Current CPAP machine has green lights that turn off completely thirty seconds after it starts.
It can be difficult to fine-tune the level of formality.

Maybe another application for LLMs? "Conversation softener"
meh. you need views. and often the things to review are expensive. so often people don't review negatively because then it prevents a future deal with that company.

ultimately. people need to get paid.

i view groups who tend to have great respect in the community and generally own up to their mistakes as worthy voices. when you don't know someone and need to judge who they are, i find that admission of mistakes to be the biggest indicator of trust, vs those who effectively downplay or claim they don't make them.
And water, drink water and your kidney stone issues fade away fast.
This is cool! My CMS (Craft CMS) has an MJML plugin as well as some good inlining plugins, making it possible to build emails using the CMS as the base. My goal was to have a system that put email templating on equal ground to content display, and MJML was a really key part of that. Love seeing the cool ideas MJML has inspired in the ecosystem.
Possibly the US military base had radio tower even though it's not their territory?
I think many governments with state industry routinely run massive deficits in those state industries, and as an extension, state funded industries. Space is such an industry.
"Quantum Apocalypse" is how you know journalists and/or companies are making mountains out of molehills for exposure.

Sometimes it's because of multiple actors: https://phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1174
Somewhat jarring but really good (contradictory, I know) presentation format. A few tweaks and it would be perfect. Very nice project too.
ads tend to be a minority of income. its extra cash, for sure, but not a major source.
Exactly. The primary retirement asset of baby boomers is their house. The seconardy retirement asset is their 401k/investments. One of the reasons why housing prices and stock prices have to go up. It's a political imperative. As a corollary, population has to go up as well.
What? OK, so if anybody could buy undetectable poison, soluble in water from poisonInc on Amazon, without any check, nor Amazon nor poisonInc would be at fault?
The headline is that SpaceX is profitable, so they're not pricing below cost.
I had it starred! It looks like a nice set of tools for building a multi-modal AI app - I'll give it a try when I flesh out a discord AI gaming app I was working on. Is the multi-modal aspect (image, audio, language) the main focus? Maybe putting that a bit higher in the readme would help it stick - the intro section was a bit too dense and I ended up skimming it.

As for traction, I wonder if there just isn't much interest in AI with JS/TS right now, for whatever reason?
Why do you expect an LLM would be the tool for this job? There's plenty of “actually smart” AI (well, it's legit, so call it ML) out there that can do mathematical/scientific analysis better than we can.
The website certainly goes all in on the new approach.
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IMO you're right that "prompt engineering" is a cringe-y term because it implies what you're doing is mostly writing prompts. That being said, I don't think that's what it actually entails, any more than "backend engineering" is mostly writing SQL queries. Prompt engineering is building the systems around the prompts e.g. writing the LangChain or whatever code, parsing stuff and interacting with structured DBs, message queues, etc (and occasionally writing prompts too, but that's a relatively smaller part). It requires some domain-specific knowledge e.g. chain of thought and retrieval augmented generation techniques, some basic linear algebra, keeping up to date with new models and new ways of running them (ggml? gptq? openai functions vs logit masking llama 2?), but it's more or less backend engineering with a twist.

I've seen some of the more serious people switch to the term "Applied AI" which I think encompasses the role a lot better. Also I've seen a decent number of grifter types saying they're "prompt engineers" when what they mean is they're writing prompts into ChatGPT's UI, which I think is part of what drives the cringing feeling when you hear the phrase "prompt engineer" and probably drives some of the movement away from the term for engineers.
Just discussed here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37163684 (123 comments)
Empty lots will continue to plague cities for as long as land is able to be treated as a speculative asset. The fix is pretty simple and obvious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
I can't use several sites with Mullvad combined with FF and a couple privacy extensions/settings. Using mullvad also gets your comments auto-shadow-banned on reddit and your posts on craigslist immediately deleted.
Despite how careful someone may be when communicating, there's almost always room for different interpretations of what's been communicated. The "story in my head" is another way of saying: "There's a few different ways to interpret what you're saying, and here's the interpretation that I've settled on. Is that the one you intended?"
Is this for the control plane or the runnable images? (Sorry, I am new at containers). I know runj exists for FreeBSD jails and runc for linux. Would love to figure out a dev cycle that is full FreeBSD with Docker level readiness. BastilleBSD feels a bit manual.
If nobody can use it, nobody can abuse it!
Efficiency should be a target with a tight constraint of service provision as you've described. It's the dual optimization problem of providing the most service for a given goal; rather, we should agree to a level of service being absolutely required (as you've laid out) then push improvement to decrease unnecessary expenditure (IMO).
Just a chilling effects from general paranoia over breaking NDA. What is and isn't actually covered by the NDA isn't something I had the time to look up for my comment for.

You can't spin up 100k instances on a virgin account, but it's an interesting idea!
Yeah, that's what they mean. I don't think it's a common phrase, but it might be intentionally weird?

I might instead instead say 'So, what I'm hearing is you want me to send that email.' But that phrase is often used for passive aggression, so it shouldn't be used in a low trust situation.
Without more transparency (from the Chinese market) I'm not sure it would be tractable to report anything accurate.
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It looks and feels like a template where someone forgot to pass in the variables.
Thanks for being patient with me.

From this point of view GMs are made by a system that provides high quality coaching and training. You can't do it by yourself! and that this system is not providing adequate support to girls and women.

I can believe that.

I think I was ascribing too much weight to personal agency in the novice -> GM pipeline.
I’m nearly finished book 3 and have the reverse opinion - for me book 2 was the weakest of them; books 1 and 2 my clear favourites. Wonder if this reflects our preferences for translation style as much as the quality of the sci-fi itself? Books 1 & 3 were translated by Ken Liu; book 2 by Joel Martinson.
If your communication is straightforwardly positive you can use as many emoji as you want without much in the way of consequences. Sticking :tada: in a Slack announcement of good quarterly performance, or even an official blog post, is unlikely to upset anyone in the same way "You're fired! :fire:" would.
they're often the same problem, though. So it's a fair evaluation.
I've wanted exactly this before - would be great to easily tell a story in the code review. Or an easier way to just see each commit in isolation (with a previous/next button).
True -- many hrs are too busy to look at projects, but from talking to peers/colleagues I can't think of more than a few people in my space that don't have at least something pinned on their gh. Many of them do this for the sole reason of having something to "stand out" to potential employers. I imagine it varies based on the companies to which you're applying -- smaller companies tended to care a lot, larger ones hardly even asked about my resumé.
I'd say either you bill by the hour (and you bill for the hours where you did something dumb and got nothing done, but you don't bill for the hours you didn't have to spend because you did something smart), or you bill by the project/deliverable which means you bill for every change request, whether it takes many hours because you didn't anticipate it or few hours because you did. Whichever choice you make cuts both ways.
Where can I find Boston Dynamics' GitHub for open source resources I can use in my own products?
I still just use Firefox browser on Android instead of apps, for Twitter, YouTube, Reddit ...
Private equity... Oh boy.
The ABC and SBS are basically government funded channels. They are supposed to give everybody in the country some form of Radio and TV service.

'Commercial TV' are the advertisement-funded private TV Channels originally 7, 9, and 10* (but now also include the later extra digital channels run by those companies).

Obviously, some outback areas of the country are not commercially viable, so their Radio and TV services are very likely limited to ABC and SBS.

* Channel 10 was originally aired on the Channel 0 frequencies back in the 1960s. That frequency band was required for some other services, so Channel 0 TV Stations were moved up to Channel 10.
I know two:

1. lot of smoking which is terrible for your skin.

2. life was harder and farming/factory/mining jobs were very popular, first one involve burning in the sun, second in dirt and bad air. Both hard physical work.
Well, I think it comes down to whether the energy cost of active cooling is better or worse than resistive losses. Which one is better doesn't depend on cable length.
In my prediction, the trusted third party is doing a one time remote video verification instead of in person.
People have been writing comments eerily similar to yours for hundreds, maybe thousands of years. Are we getting something useful out of them?
Yep - everyone wants money to be spent. But few consider how that money spent contributes to overall productivity. One cannot live in money or eat money. If we want things, they have to be produced by workers. Does spending money increase overall production? Maybe, but I rarely hear anybody address that question.

Does hiring people into government roles end up producing consumer goods, factories, or productivity-enhancing research? This is an unasked question.
Wait in line, and give me back those 8" floppies that you borrowed.

Seriously though: the amount of miniaturization in storage is something I'll never get used to. From punch cards and papertape via cassette to floppies, harddrives (in various incarnations and densities) and now to solid state so compact that you could store all of the data that I've created in my whole life in something about the size of your smallest fingernail. Incredible.
I have a GE dehumidifier whose model doesn't appear to be on this list-- but it doesn't matter much: I found it almost completely useless, it ran constantly while removing fairly little water. I replaced it with a desiccant based dehumidifier and found it worked much better, removing much more water per unit time and unit energy.

The effectiveness of heat exchanger dehumidifiers falls off very rapidly at lower temperatures, which was exactly when mine needed to run. At lower temps desiccant dehumidifiers work much better.

The GE dumidifier also vibrated the storage container at levels that were audible hundreds of feet away... while the desiccant is essentially silent except for the polite white noise of the air moving through it.
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Ask HN: Do you use diagrams while developing software?
I realized the other day that I don't use diagrams while developing software very often and was considering using them more often. Do other people find them useful and how do you use them? Which types of diagrams do you use and how formal are you about using them? (UML, data flow diagrams, sequence diagrams, unstructured flowcharts, etc.)

When I've seen other people's diagrams they can sometimes be incredibly helpful and sometimes be completely unhelpful. I've also heard of strict diagram creation requirements actively hindering projects. If you do use diagrams, how do you use them effectively and avoid problems?
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Exactly. I think a lot of this noise is by non-practitioners of the language. The compiler is steel-manning this loop. It is generously interpreting the 4 as irrelevant, and deducing that the loop must always exit early. The author can’t possibly have meant to access beyond the end, because that’s not defined. QED. It seems altogether sensible to me.
The thing about engineering positive interactions at work is an interesting one. I wonder if that's why I'm always offering to make cups of tea
Of course I wouldn’t blame a parent for making the best of a dystopian kakistocracy to survive. Though I think increasing numbers of people are opting not to become parents to future environmental refugees/peasants/bloodbags in the first place.
That last trick no longer works. Too much trickery with NV storage on the board. The last time I did this successfully is about a decade ago.
Or adult content
Hm, maybe. The ChatGPT prompt was:

> Did you know that there is no country in Africa that starts with the letter "k"?

I think in a case like this, the LLM is inclined to try to "yes, and" the prompt and generate some nonsense agreeing with it. That Reddit thread doesn't contain anything about a "K" sound.

Anyway, Google's snippets have always contained a lot of garbage, but pulling from ChatGPT transcripts definitely won't help.
As a normal person, how can I even go from "I like this lot" to "I just moved into my new house on this lot"? Seems like a good business opportunity.
No grad students. No international students. Only students who received some financial aid, but less than the total cost of attendance.

On the other hand, it goes all the way back to students from 2003.

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Apologies I actually saw that tweet, horrified
I'll add a couple of my own thoughts here as well.

One of the few times I've used diagrams were some entity-relationship (ER) diagrams of some databases that were generated by a tool and I found them pretty useful. They helped me get a big picture understanding of the database and see relations much easier. It also helped me notice some small issues with the database that I don't think anybody had noticed like some orphan tables and missing foreign key references. Putting static images in documentation might not be ideal if the database changes quite a bit, but it might also not be the worst if you put the caveat that they might not be up to date. They're easy enough to regenerate when you want an up to date ER diagram of the database.

I've also seen a single incomprehensible diagram used as the only documentation for an entire existing system or a system to be built before which was pretty frustrating. That leads me to think that diagrams should probably aid and be used in addition to other documentation/explanation rather than be the sole explanation.
Yep, I had a Seagate 40MB IDE hard drive, which I considered quite compact at 3.5” full height. It replaced 20MB full-height 5.25” MFM drives.

The MFM drives were… fun… in that if you connected one of the two data cables upside down, you’d crash the armature and destroy the hard drive.
This is a negative comment that adds little to the conversation and belittles hard work being done. Comments like this is why many people are afraid to share their efforts - I ask that you consider people on the other side of the screen.

Also, Boston Dynamics largely uses classical non deep learning techniques. We're still exploring AI and deep learning techniques to hopefully create such performance.
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Not in a casual conversation. But sadly yes, sometimes that's the kind of super crafted sentence you come up with because you're trying to land on very tensed subject from an angle that is somewhat neutral.

It's pretty complicated to start the subject from the other end, like "You seem to think I'm horrible at this job, but I quite disagree"
Absolutely. Using ChatGPT to professionalize "fuck you, pay my" has been great for not actually saying that to someone's face.