skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but competent actors are fungible.

It is a skill set with way more supply than demand.

Expecting to be one of the lucky ones employed in this creative field, and then also dictating the terms of that employment is not going to happen.

If the actors unions become too overreaching the studios will just replace them with new non-union actors (or AI trained by non-union actors).
> it's just showing me what I like

This is a silly and stupid argument. I was searching for some programming tutorials and it showed suggestive content in search results in maybe you might also like section or something like that. WTF is that.
Perhaps, but that's the consent that they certainly don't want me to revoke. The part where my preferences are customizable is meant to be a mutually beneficial arrangement, because it prevents me from leaving.
This writing is really awful, tumbling all over the place. The example that made me start to skim heavily:

> Kennan’s father was something of a ne’er-do-well—not a wastrel, exactly, but unambitious and, despite his expertise in what should have been the lucrative practice of tax law, inept at navigating the real world. As a result, the Kennan family was always pinched for money, though far from destitute: they lived in a big house (a gift from Kennan’s maternal grandparents) with servants and vacationed at an elegant lakeside summer retreat.

The "orientalist" section is childish. It's common for people to psychoanalyze "the Russian mindset" as if it is immutable biology even to this day. It's a useful concept to criticize, and some use the phrase "orientalism" for that concept.

The entire piece is so loaded with sections where the author is unable to contain their resentment, which can be quite legitimate, but likewise, they are unable to articulate or justify it -- making the whole endeavor useless. This is highly ironic, given it is a critique of a biography where the main point of contention is that the biographer/academy is guilty of this same offense.
Why not? Public mass transit is far more efficient. The push for cars keeps car owners (in the corp and profit sense) alive. Only. Add in the pretend notion that cars equal freedom and it’s just a cycle of energy wasting nonsense.

If we (tech fans) really wanted to help alleviate the problems roads have (traffic, accidents, etc) - public mass transit is the way to go.

But I guess .. where’s the immediate hype-based profit in that? (think: “omg blockchain… I mean nft… I mean ai!!1!!”)
Shorts are more addictive.

Shorts will capture your attention for longer and display ads in-between more frequently.

I find musicians and naked ladies via shorts, but I rarely extend my science and programming channels via shorts.
Would scoop tires work?

(If you brought them along on a spare set of rims and swapped them when it became clear what weather was coming)
Catholics are a mixed bunch. For example, Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh - about as far from Tolkien as you could get.
> this article is a summary of a review of a rebuttal to a bad paper

I think it manages to be a bit interesting a bit beyond that.

The title is baity so I replaced it with a somewhat representative sentence from the article.
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The "beta" means you're supposed to be supervising it! The non-beta version would be the one that you don't have to pay attention to.

The "Elon Mode" thing is an internal-only flag that nobody has been able to activate outside Tesla, and is not actually called that it's just what some guy on Twitter called it.
And how has Moscow reacted?
Bell Labs, GE, IBM, Philco, RCA, and other bigtime tech labs were spread across the [upstate] NY to Philadelphia region. These areas were expensive, unionized and had issues with racial integration. SV until the early 1960s was not run by union bosses, was cheap, less regulated, and still had exceptionally racist white enclaves with solely single family housing, so there was less worry about integration problems.
Great. Will wait for that eagerly.
Same, and that is part of what drove me to use Yandex more. It's working great like others here have said.
The accusation is simple: the scooter is left in a place where it obstructs the passage of other vehicles/pedestrians. Pictures can be taken if need be, of course, but do you as a driver that receives a parking ticket require that the police provide proof that your car was where they said it was, or is it mostly based on trust?
AI driven cars are not highly flawed and very, very rarely kill people. Humans driving cars are often reckless or intoxicated and kill many, many people every day.
Is your name related to Mariella Mehr?
I like the idea that the ability to use both hands to eat chicken nuggets while operating a motor vehicle at speed is so inherently and universally valuable that a person couldn’t possibly believe otherwise.
Back when I was a 3d artist I was making good money as a freelancer. I would also work with a archviz studio as an "employee". Time went by and I leaned towards the "secure" job with the studio (instead of opening my own), cause from time to time I would have a hard time with my clients as a freelancer (sometimes they did not pay, sometimes they would ask for changes that would be a entire new work...). Making a long story short: the studio went bankrupt and let me go without any compensation whatsoever. Maybe I've should kept a few clients and not rely entirely on the studio.

Don't know if my experience adds to the discussion, but I thought about sharing it.
Framework 13: Things that Surprised Me
It does change the pace of work, because suddenly there are fewer distractions so you can focus on doing actual work.

As opposed to wasting time chatting or in useless meeting. That means you dont have to rush getting the actual work done.

So yeah, it’s a better, slower, calmer, well thought out, pace.

It’s you, the code, and the environment that makes you happy. Thats why working less results in more output, paradoxically.
You may not really get carrots and apples either, those are domesticated. You might just be left with tiny labor intensive wild carrots and crab apples or something to keep it fully natural.
Yandex Translate is also much better for many languages, especially for eastern ones. And viewing words and their synonyms individually is a huge godsend if you are looking at slang.
Early last month, I found myself turning to Yandex in a search for the out of print manual for a 1980s mobile radio. Google had nothing. Yandex had almost nothing. But it was enough to piece together an answer.
Somewhere, a lone programmer in a hardware engineering org is having the time of their life.
>But it is seldom helpful as a tool for prediction and problem-solving.

I'm not that sure. Perhaps that is the prejudice of an age with lesser historical ambitions.
I received some cheese in a food kit that was labelled as Vegetarian, but I misread it as Vegan so I didn’t bother eating it (I’ve had bad experiences with vegan cheese in the past).

I’d not seen cheese labelled vegetarian before which is probably what threw me off, but I didn’t even think that the rennet in cheese comes from cow stomachs, so having a vegetarian alternative to the rennet makes sense.

After realising my mistake I tried the vegetarian cheese the next time it showed up, and it tasted indistinguishable from other ‘normal’ cheese I’d had in the past.

My misreading and prejudice against what I thought was vegan cheese would have stopped me buying something that I liked. If it wasn’t marked as vegetarian I wouldn’t have even thought twice about eating it.
It's not the short themselves but youtube's clumsy attempt to ram them down everyone's throat that's the issue.

It's a bit like news is now often luck of the draw as to whether you're getting an article, an audio clip or a video. It's jarring.

If there was a simple toggle button between videos/short/both all this wouldn't be an issue.
Isn’t it more “nature calls” than a call to nature, so to speak ;-)
OK, let's limit to just scooters being left obstructing traffic of pedestrians/vehicles. A scooter parking violation if you will.
With all due respect, I consider you as one of the "RWKV folks" I mentioned in the initial comment :) (assuming you are Emad Mostaque?)

> They have the potential for far better edge inference and also benefits longer context windows. ... I would be surprised if the current transformer LLM paradigm is what we use in a few years.

What are the studies/evidence that convinced you? Given the current landscape, the last claim is quite bold.
Instead of labeling "vegan" or "vegetarian", maybe label them as "contains no meat or dairy" and "contains no meat" respectively...? I dunno, as a vegetarian, I would love to be able to tell at glance if something is vegetarian or not.

Anecdote: traveling in eastern California (near Sonora), I went into a store where they had these ginormous home-made Mexican cookies. Me gusta!! I asked for one, and was interrupted by the wife: she asked the owner (of the store) if she could confirm that they were vegetarian. The owner went to the back room, found the packing slip and whoops! One of the ingredients was manteca (or lard, or beef tallow). Apparently it's common to use it in Mexican food, so she wanted to confirm.

Had the cookies had standard indicator of vegetarianism (a green circle in a green square, like this: https://images.app.goo.gl/ggPD5vEgFzwXjP2o7) I wouldn't have wasted their time.
The song 'Move Along', by Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy, about Gypsies / Irish Travellers, is very affecting:

https://youtu.be/vV7suDUeXSc?t=286
One thing this article doesn't address is the pressure that many academics are under in the process of their research, and the 'meta-narrative' of their careers writ large.

When you are competing for eyeballs, attention, grants, and tenure – when the community you work in is so small and so tightly networked – there can be a ton of pressure to make leaps of logic or narrative in order to paint a picture that resonates within that community.

I'm not excusing this behavior, but I understand it. It's the same reason UX designers build dark patterns they know will degrade the experience, it's the same reason we vote along party lines, it's the same reason trends are adopted and movies become mega-blockbusters.

In most cases – even in academia – the stakes are low and so it doesn't really matter. But the stakes are much greater when that academic research influences policy – especially in the medical and political fields. Supposedly peer review & professional codes of conduct are supposed to solve for much of this – but, to me anyway, doesn't seem sufficient these days for those higher-stakes fields of study...
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> a large field experiment in a chain of UK cafes found that modifying dish names away from names that highlighted that they were meat-free had a significant positive effect on sales (Bacon et al., 2018)

I wonder if they listed Linda Bacon first for comedic value: https://www.wri.org/research/language-sustainable-diets-fiel...
Recent and related. Others?

Does history have a replication crisis? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37306078 - Aug 2023 (20 comments)
> why would anyone want to pay a middleman for a service their bank can provide directly, and provide much cheaper?

Visitors can show up and immediately pay for things with ease, for one.
The reason we have hierarchy in business is to ensure the burden of error is shared. Bosses and managers are there to ensure their employees are providing a reliable service (among other duties). Was a process of sign-offs implemented to prevent errors like this? Was there a process by which the employee circumvented processes that lead to a disruption of the service? Or did the boss/manager not keep tabs on what was happening within their purview?
I've used click, and I've used argparse. In my view, a nonstandard library needs to be vastly superior to its standard equivalent to justify adding it as a dependency.

Why is click so much better than argparse?
Today we have news for conservatives and different news for liberals. That's stupid. News doesn't need built in commentary. Now it seems like history is going the same way. We will have conservative history and liberal history. But I hope not.
I found the opposite true. Shorts lowers the barrier of entry and generates a large volume of garbage content. You’d have one original video, followed by thousands of other either lip syncing to the original or just nodding their head (aka reacting) to it. It is very easy to get annoyed by it and leave the platform.
I have mixed feelings on this. While trivially it's true that we need to compress the world with stories, I do think there is a problem with people constructing grand narratives. We should be moving away from "story" and towards "hypothesis" so that we don't commit too strongly to a story that isn't supported by evidence.
Yeah it's frustrating to see gluten free pushed as healthy to people who don't have celiac disease. It's about 1% of the US population or 3.3 million out of 339 million. Epilepsy affects about 1.1% of the population for comparison.

Anecdotally I knew two people with the disease and can see it's frustrating to live with. One person told me how pepper the cheap stuff in restaurants or grocery stores has wheat dust in it to help it flow. A co-worker told me of the frustration his sister had in restaurants with trendy "oh it's gluten free" but it wasn't so off to the hospital she went. He said she was more mad at how everything is labelled as gluten free now but there's no way to really know since it's mainly just a cash grab.
I have even heard “could care less” translated to my native language, so I think it’s a lost cause. The center cannot hold.
The point is that for the Firefox to gain more foothold Mozilla first needs to break the dependency on Google's money. And this won't happen without deep restructuring of the Mozilla corp, starting from the top and shedding all the blubber all the way down. The chances of that happening are next to zero. You can label that as "defeatist non-arguments" all you want, but that's a very unfortunate reality. Saying this as a die-hard Firefox user of almost 20 years.
I believe that Henry the Eighth was talking with some of the Muslim calliphates in Northern Africa around the time he broke from Rome. He could have gone Islamic but decided to set up his own church instead. Who knows how it would have worked out if he chose differently.
Flag 'em when you see 'em.
>made it past peer review

I don’t think that’s an especially difficult thing to do. It seems any paper dealing with social sciences or history that fits the current narrative is lauded and “reviewed” favorably. I think the mechanism which facilitates this is relatively simple and similar to how USSR officials would rather bring good news than bad facts
Nothing that I'm aware of, no. The reason this is on my radar is I'm working part time for a manufacturing company for which the existing MRP solutions don't work.

Do you mind if I bend your ear about what your needs are? If so, send me an email. It's in my profile.
Meanwhile the Linux distro Gentoo decided to ceast-and-desist us over using gartoo as domain name, a real estate search engine. They don't sound familiar, they're clearly not competitors, color and logo completely different. Sadly my employer at that time caved and moved the product to a different domain.
I think you could argue that it isn't life-critical software because it requires active driver monitoring. What makes it different from lane-keeping assist in other vehicles? Or bog-standard cruise control? The fact that it attempts to do more things does not necessarily make it more dangerous. Your cruise control can drive you into a truck or off the road, but we accept that it is the driver's responsibility to not let that happen. FSD will actually attempt to stop for other vehicles, pedestrians, traffic lights, etc. What is the difference here other than the system is _less likely_ to kill you because it is smarter?
>Tesco’s chief executive has called for a change in the law to make abuse or violence towards retail workers an offence across the UK.

Does this imply that there is currently nothing illegal with violently attacking retail workers in the UK?
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yes , the reading suggests pre-emptive disqualification of urls from the include allows. i have a hunch that if you somehow had access to that indexing blacklist, it would be all manner of unseemly things.
I would guess a G-tree is still a B-tree with additional parent pointers, the fact that it is stored in an array is a matter of representation but does not fundamentally change the structure. This still stores pointers, they are just in units of the node size instead of bytes and relative to the first array element instead of the beginning of the address space. A complete binary tree stored in a array without any explicit references, i.e. an implicit representation with the children of the node at index x stored at indices 2x + 1 and 2x + 2, is still referred to as a binary tree, just with an implicit representation.
Or siblings, or just good mates, and Barry died as he was trying to rouse Dave...
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Poland cuts tax for first-time buyers, raises it for buying multiple properties
I beg to differ. Unwavering optimism that things will be fine is exactly how we got where we are today; decades of knowing global warming is on the horizon with nowhere near enough response.
They did a questionnaire based on a hypothetical menu. There can be bias based on the types of restaurants people tend to go to.

If a restaurant primarily has meat dishes but they have one or two vegan options so token vegans can eat there, it's probably an afterthought. Some of the worst vegan food I've ever had was at steakhouses. Thay should surprise nobody.

If someone who took the questionnaire primarily eats at places that primarily serve meat-focused dishes, they probably have a view of vegan food that's very different from the reality of what most vegans actually eat on a regular basis.
Perhaps the lesson is to be careful of vegan foods that require labels in the first place. Most of the healthiest food are so obviously vegan that it would be absurd to label them, as is the case with legumes, fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. It isn't until you move up the processing ladder that these labels become necessary. Once you've entered the realm of food that's been engineered to imitate animal products, that vegan label is doing a lot of work to make people think of the food as healthy.
Companies do not have missions.
They are mandated to earn money - a simple and clear goal.
Everything else companies proclaim is what I like to call: social substitution currency.
These are used to motivate employees to put more effort in their work than is required by terms of their contracts, and is also used as a marketing tool.

Now a full remote worker is much less influenced by peer pressure and thereby the substitution currency won’t work effectively.
That’s one reason why CEOs want them back at the office
Most people understand dairy products to mean things made from or containing milk.

There’s a pretty close association between such products and eggs, so I can understand why people might try to use the same label.

But ultimately I think this is just causing confusion and pointless side discussions (like this one!), so it would probably be better if we dropped it.
I just commented above similar story. But it's not better safe than sorry. As a friend of mine said it's become a joke everything is "gluten free" but it's not known if it actually is.
No and I didn't even notice. I just learned about her and thought her background was interesting, not to mention tragic. I wonder if anyone here has read her memoir?
I've been flagging them, with the hopes that dead articles give the submitter a chance to rework the title and remove the editorialized content. I encourage others to do the same.

From HN's guidelines:

> Please don't do things to make titles stand out

> please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.
this guy covers wars "in real time". Really cool videos
I see a lot of folks blindly yelling about how discord is bad and you should use 'something else.' And why 'something else' is different/trusted/whatever.

But this experience isn't unique to discord. It happens with a lot of common tools. We've run into issues with google suspending/filtering things because we were talking about something that got flagged somewhere (guessing malware). I work a lot with domains and operated registrars, so having lists of domains was common. But sometimes domains were flagged (think expiring domains) and google messes with them. We had spreadsheets deleted/restricted (on paid accounts). Realized emails were being filtered, without any warning/notification that mentioned specific domains. Yeah, that was a fun one to realize when they ask why you haven't responded for days and you watched the email send, again, and again. And you debugged it down to the domain triggering blackholing without issues.

Either you end up having to have some degree of trust or roll your own everything. But these issues pop up with service providers not infrequently if you're working with data.
Bocaue everyone has a friend in Germany willing to ship them stuff. /s

Plus, shipping a laptop across Europe as a person, is at least 20 Euros (more with insurance)
History repeats itself endlessly in the database world.

Late last century Oracle felt urgency to compete with the new hotness back then, object databases. The guys in charge of the Oracle database itself pushed back, not too much was done, and in the end those competitors all flamed and died.

Object databases gave way to graph databases. They broke through a little but RDBMS continued to rule.

Then came the NoSQL movement. RDBMS vendors ended up adding json columns and the pure NoSQL vendors flamed and died (excepting Mongo DB which is web scale (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs)).

Thus it will continue forever.
Fireing the CIO only helps if you give the next one enough power to solve the issues, even if it means serious disruption in the organization, with unhappy unions, middle managers etc, which may lead to resignations, short term cost increases and even operational downtime (though hopefully less critical services than payroll)

A lot of organizations, the company culture becomes so entrenched that almost no amount of C-level meddling will make a big difference. And this is especially common in government organizations (and in companies with very strong unions).
I strongly considered pursuing a PhD in history a couple of decades ago. I figured there was so much disprovable BS published following dominant narratives that it would be easy to make a mark as a debunker.

Then I realized that if the problem was so widespread, I'd be up against the whole educational ecosystem.
Did they remove that footer? If so it must have been recent because I remember using it semi-recently
We're using Redis for vector search. It's pretty rad in terms of performance and other capabilities