skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get why people may not like the comparison you're making, but that aside, I agree that the article insists uncomfortably often that the freedom only comes if "the work" gets done (in various phrasings). As if to ensure that nobody gets the impression that a pleasant work experience is something anyone deserves rather than a generous gift by such a magnanimous employer.
It might be. And as people get more and more lonely, the problem gets more serious, as statistically speaking the amount of empathetic interlocutors you meet decreases.
you still have more freedom as a grandparent. it's more balanced. you are not locked in to take care of the grandchildren all the time
This answer doesn't make a point against the article and instead makes its point. I don't believe the article is correct here, but the question is valid. And if it is indeed every word, the definition sounds mythical indeed.

> analyze implicit bias. Previous researchers typically looked for it by measuring split-second reactions

This is basically on the level of selling snake oil. The inference of course is that this discrepancy would result in discrimination, but there is of course no evidence here.
Sounds false. Do you have any citations for this claim?
I think he's hoping for two outcomes. One, to outspend them cheaply, and kill them with put up or shut up pretrial costs. And two, to head off any other activist complaints by FUD.

I hope (with no legal chops) SLAPP laws can head of one, and therefore two won't arise.
I worked with Molly for years at the Web Standards Project. We all owe her more than most people realize when it comes to being able to use and build on the modern web. There aren't many single individuals out there who had a larger impact than her. She was also just a lovely and inspiring human and those of us who were fortunate enough to spend time with her are better for it.

As sad as this is, it also isn't much of a surprise if you've been paying any attention. She's been very sick for a long time and publicly struggling with enormous medical expenses (there have been various crowdfunding efforts over the years and she had to sell her `molly.com` domain to pay for treatment).
A competent technician with access to a workshop can make even 80 year old vehicles work. That is long past the service life of that vehicle but it can still be done, an iteration of the same technology is likely still in use today though in your car.

That isn't possible for software simply because reverse engineering is not simple, reverse engineering a small microcontrollers firmware might be possible, reverse engineering even something like old unix wouldn't be and definitely any modern operating system wouldn't be even though there is no legal precedent for that source code to be protected.

In 30-40 years time when early windows and early DOS copyright expires do you think Microsoft is going to benevolently make that source code available? It has legally become public domain but the source code will still remain closed.

How about firmware for IOT devices being installed in your house, it's likely that that hardware can be made to work for the next 60 years but you are forced to replace it in 3 when the manufacturer decices it's no longer financially viable to support it.
I did a lot of work on this many years ago at Google. As the article says, it can work well and be minimally invasive for users (they need to run JS but that's a much lower bar than solving complicated CAPTCHAs).

There are several services like Turnstile. I'm an advisor to Ocule [1] which is a similar thing, except it's a standalone service you can use regardless of your serving setup rather than being integrated into a monolithic CDN. It's a smaller company too so you can get the red carpet treatment from them, and they aren't so aggressive about blocking VPNs and privacy modes because their anti-bot JS challenges are strong enough to not need it. They're ex-reverse engineers so know a lot about what works and what doesn't. Their tech may be worth looking at if you're concerned about over-blocking.

The mention of Turnstile using proof of work/space is a bit puzzling/disappointing. That stuff doesn't work so well. There are much better ways to create invisible JS challenges. The core idea is to verify you're in the intended execution environment, and then obfuscate and randomize so effectively that the adversaries give up trying to emulate your code and just run it, which can (a) lead to detection and (b) is very slow and resource intensive for them even if they aren't detected. Proof of work/space doesn't prove much about the real execution environment.

BTW, the author asks what proof of space is. It's where you allocate a huge amount of RAM and then ensure the allocation was actually real by filling it with stuff and doing computations on it. The goal is to try and restrict per-machine parallelism by causing OOM if many threads are running in parallel, something end users won't do. Obviously it's also a brute force technique that can break cheaper devices.

[1] https://ocule.io/
But I definitely don't want to load 100s of MBs for web apps. And compiled wasm cache in browsers isn't unlimited, so it will get purged, and you'll have to re-download apps again.
Or you don't literally run out of money...but it still doesn't work out so well - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_the_Weimar_R...

Also worth keeping in mind - there's a big difference in "market rate" between "well-treated doctor in a well-functioning health system" and "relentlessly over-worked doctor in a wretchedly crumbling health system". And even if paid well above "market rate", the latter position will attract far fewer applicants who really care about patient welfare and outcomes. And suffer considerably higher turn-over.
Bureaucracy, corruption...
If you can't gaslight and scam your coworkers to earn your bonus, what are you, as an aspiring HR corporate psychopath, to do?
I'd say it's not even about giving advice, just listening can make wonders. As a side note, any advice from a therapist is a slippery slope and they tend to avoid it, rather make the patient discover what they need by themselves and not impose something externally just because they're their therapist. (With some notable exceptions, e.g. in CBT.)
That's pretty much what I expected would happen, none of those solutions ever worked.
same here

apparently this didn't fix it?
https://bugs.call-cc.org/ticket/1335
This would be good advice, if not for the fact that that approach essentially means you become just another politician. Being _aware_ of office politics is important; _focusing_ on it means you're a politician. Just focus on doing the best job you can, and if that's not what's rewarded at your place of work, leave.
Finally, a Machine to Organize Resistors
Awesome! I can't wait to share this with my son, he loves turning sounds on and off and hearing how they influence the grove. Phil's music pedagogical videos look really well done too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5r0is-xN8w&t=12s

Thanks for posting!
Evaluation and Hallucination Detection for Abstractive Summaries
Australian bull sets world-record price of $150k Aussie dollars
Accuracy is very rarely a useful metric. It's more an engineering metric than something a user would ever care about.

What users want is to have their own credences properly calibrated by engaging with some system. From a physics textbook, they want a systematic presentation of ideas which allows them to build intuitions etc.

It's important to formulate the actual goal of the system, rather than just the engineer's goal (consider eg., "width of pipes" vs., "clean running water").

In the case of statistical AI systems, the goal is often best formulated in terms of the confidences of the system not its output. Since its output accuracy is kinda nonlinear and discontinuous in those confidences.

So from a statical AI Q&A system we dont want The Answer, we want the system to have expert-like confidences over possible answers.

Of course, as soon as you start formulating these metrics, all the SoA 99%+ accuracy hype evaporates. Since most of these systems have terrible confidence distributions.

Consider, eg., ChatGPT whose answers are often plausibly accurate (they count as an answer) but just repeat some silicon valley hype in a way an expert wouldnt. ChatGPT rarely has the careful scepticism of an expert, rarely presents ideas in an even handed way, rarely mentions the opposite.

It makes generating reference materials on areas with expert disagreement quite dangerous. ChatGPT presents the non-expert credence distribution. (And indeed, always does, since it just models (Q,A) frequencies which are not truth-apt)
Offer a "free tier" with a global limit of N requests / second, and allow people to get an API key through email (for free also) which bypasses this, then rate-limit each API key.
And if it's in a 'I can't believe they would be doing it, really?' territory (black ops, black sites, torture, drone killings, ...), they make a movie about it, effectively normalizing the action for the audience.
You should put your email in your profile.
As long as YCombinator allow users from Europe, they have to adhere to the rules. It does not matter whether there is a local entity or not, they serve European users.

If a European company provides a service to US users, they have to adhere to US law too.

https://gdpr.eu/companies-outside-of-europe/
Do you think there are no alternatives to Microsoft’s products? In what area do they have no competition?
Some local backroads are not limited enough and some motorways are limited too much.

This won't do any good if this fact is not taken into consideration.
more "proper" software and games on linux because it would gain the vast majority of computer OS market share overnight is one reason
Translate your HubSpot Marketing Hub content with ease. Setup integration once, define your localization workflow and spend less time managing translations.
How Python Swallowed the World
> I wonder why they can't reject the flight plan for an aircraft that's already in the air?

You need to know everything that may be in the air - if you skip the details of a flight that may be in the air, you risk routing another flight through the same space and the possibility of collision? So if you can't do that safely, the only option is to shut down; existing flights can continue but no new flights can be routed until the anomaly is resolved.
Sadly a lot of people in the U.K. want to remove that choice and just have a one sized fits all shit solution
Literally, the next 3 words from the quote answers your question.

> What is Postman? It's a tool that allows you to configure, save, and replay HTTP requests.
That's just ridiculous. May as well ask you why you never cited his comment when you commented?

You can Google this. Russia, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Botswana.(the contentious one would be DRC). These are regulated countries with labour rights and human rights. If they operate in these countries they are subject to those laws. May as well say you won't buy anything imported if you still feel there's ambiguity.

These are industries in these countries. Without these exports these people don't have jobs which feed them.
Because it's a high, made up number. Actual incidence of blood clotting induced by adenovirus vaccine is closer to one in 100000.
Huawei is significantly undercutting Apple on price, so it very well could put a dent in iPhone sales.
Agreed, an average home NAS has two HDDs in RAID1. One drive faiks, it gets replacee. Synology allows to use Btrfs, other stuff leans towards ZFS, though Ext4FS would suffice (without features like snapshotting).

However I use a a Turing Pi 2 with 3x CM4 and 1x Jetson Nano. The Nano can utilize both NVMe and SATA while the CM4s cannot utilize NCMe. I'm using a MiniPCI to SATA converter for SATA. You could use a MiniPCI to NVMe converter though.

I have not set it up yet (I already have a working NAS and offsite backup NAS) but for the data you can use smaller SATA drives together with say Ceph or Longhorn.

Although the price (minus decked out RAM versions) for CM4s has settled as availability has been fixed, and the RK1 for Turing Pi 2 is also out, I would still welcome competition for CM4 and ARM64 in general.
I want public no pay-to-play legal systems.
Python is a versatile language that can be used for a wide range of applications, from web development and data analysis to artificial intelligence and scientific computing. This versatility has made it a go-to choice for many different tasks.https://www.followmy-health.com/
Do those statutes apply for interoperability? Which takes precedence?

This is basically how Rockstar used it - to make the game work on computers without CDs. So the actual rights holder has recognised that this tool or one like it is legitimately required for interoperability, between the game as a piece of technology and a modern computer. They won't work together otherwise.

Maybe I am being too tricky but that's how I see it. And if that makes it a legitimate work then it's funny to think about the consequences.
Interestingly they listed up the foremost five Western Anglo countries, which are bound to be extremely overrepresented on HN.

Or maybe not so interestingly.
At work we use Django migrations. It helps. But the core of schema evolution is backward compatibility. To reach this goal, code review is necessary.

Here we never drop columns, only add new colunms, also never change column types.

When it comes to constraints (not null or something else) we double check about backwards compatibility.

Changing data is not a robust rollback.
People could auto-trust those who have been trusted by those they trust; this could have a user setting deciding how many degrees of separation they are willing to trust. Everybody's public key (ie. the ability to read their signed posts) is public, it's a question of which ones you choose to read.

There are many ways to skin this cat, but every one that's gonna work involves cooperation, rather than adversarial control.
Yes it can
Yesterday i gave it a help chapter in a prompt about angular 16
The knowledge cut of is perhaps nice for politics but not for programmers.
After wards i could ask it about syntax problems i had in some code.

Essentially it understands programming didnt know what was possible in angular16
A single example made it learn from it. Though when i asked for an example i got the exact same sample as i had given it to learn from.

Perhaps end this language cut of for technical data.
Its okay not wanting to get into politics (neither do i).
But give it something to read (yup let it read and remember it) a simple prompt read this page by page will do, and give it some recent books, or popular coding websites, let it read python.org angular.io perhaps some modern manuals and books.

It also seemed keen to learn new information, it quickly adopted it.
But only in that session.
Why is that noteworthy? MIT is the most popular license for Github projects.
Bourbaki Proof Checker [pdf]
Metamath style but implemented in lisp. The idea is one can write lisp functions that define theorems, analogous to using SML to define theorems in Edinburgh LCF.
I thought “chimping” was when the subject/s swarm the photographer to see the photos just taken, chanting “show me show me show me”. Especially kids, and more so back when digital was new and shockingly fun.
> Personally, I'd rather work with all of the chemicals...

My best friend was a chemist. He told stories of some of the accidents he saw (or heard, or saw the property damage, or triaged victims of, or ...) during the relatively few years when he worked in a lab like that.

Quite a few of the chemists in that lab left chemistry, and did not return. My friend left the lab, and moved into computational chemistry.
You could start with reducing energy requirements. It may not do much individually, unless you are Meta, but it will show others that it is actually possible to produce leaner software. As a group, developers actually have the potential to make significant impact in energy usage (both good and bad)

Examples:

- Reduce complexity in frontend apps. Run less Javascript and animations in the frontend to save your users' phone batteries.

- Reduce unnecessary use of AI that requires CPU intensive use. Some use this just to tick off a box to attract more VCs

- Running huge Kubernetes clusters that are barely utilized.

- Do you need to run a full QA/test environment while you sleep, or could you fire it up when you actually need it?

- Choose options that may require more work, but reduce the CPU cycles (like replacing Electron with native code)

- Blockchain/Bitcoin/NFT have been used for software that doesn't really need it.

- Do we really need that many micro services? One drawback of micro services is that you need to fire up more instances and also additional infrastructure (load balancers, network traffic, separate databases and message queues for inter-service communication)
I always judge books by their covers - that's what covers are for! You look at the image they chose to use, read the blurb on the back, and decide whether you want to read it.

(Yes, I know - the phrase means "Look past surface details and see inner beauty" and so on. It's just that for books the heuristic works pretty well).
Yeah of course, but success/failure is also not binary. There are degrees of failure, including low-consequence availability issues, high-consequence availability issues, loss of operational safety, 'never events' (e.g. significant loss of life). In this case the system suffered the second of those options. It seems reasonable that design choices may prioritise that type of failure over the later ones in the list.

The first part of this argument is semantics - how do we define failure. The second part is IMHO more important - what decisions are taken with regards to the behavior of subsystems and how they influence overall system degredation. In this case the overall design prevented any loss of operational safety which, to me, is a success.
Every metal sub-genre explained (with guitar riffs)
to be fair microsoft are head and shoulders above the rest when it comes to openly treating their paying customers like shit.
That’s an amazingly beautiful build.
GP said:

> intelligence is negatively correlated with success in business

Has anyone ever seen a negative correlation on a graph? It implies the most successful businessman are practically the dumbest people to exist. It's an extremely foolish, incorrect assertion. GP and downvoters must be amazing at business.
Go further. On the outside, you've got maybe 75,000 hours to sell. After that, the warehouse is empty. Better try to get the best price you can for each one.
Tipping just isn't part of our culture. Thankfully.
They Love Tech. They’ve Got Money. Why Does Silicon Valley Ignore Old People?
meta complaint, but after starting to read the article, something like 15 seconds later the page just broke. Sent me back to the top without being able to scroll. I always stop reading if something like this happens.
Any plans to add GraphQL support? Feels like it would be a great match, since in many cases you can fetch the schema directly from the URL.
I read her x-twitter, and it doesn't support the notion that she has set out to deceive - at all. Instead it oozes of someone who is convinced that slaves and peoples of the colonies have got a bad rap (that's true btw) and that her research rectifies that injustice to some extent.

If you read her detractors you will find that absolutely no-one accuses her of "setting out to deceive", what they are saying that her conclusions (while they could be true) are not sufficiently backed up by hard facts. And that she has got some of her facts wrong.

"Setting out to deceive" is a fairly serious accusation to level at a historian, claims that need more proof than pointing to a pinned tweet saying "she still sticks to her story" even though someone on the internet (credibly) found her conclusions to be tenuous.
There are reports about Saudi stakeholders co-owning few billion stake Twitter with Elon just to be able to install people who exfiltrate data used for tracking and arresting journalists and activists, for example.
Yugabyte – distributed PostgreSQL, 100% open source
The system can only move forwards. Just like a `git revert`, it's a new commit to an immutable history.

This is why I've never used or understood the value of the "downgrade" feature in some database migration tools. If you need to revert, make a _new_ migration that fixes the problem. Your tooling/code/logs should reflect the true history of the system without cooking the books.
I was a bit confused myself.

Then I realised this is probably a good reference for “things to be think about” as a decent-ish data engineer.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37397847
The QWERTY layout has a funny difference with for instance the french AZERTY layout. On an AZERTY keyboard, the parentheses () are directly accessible whereas the square brackets [] are not. On a QWERTY keyboard, this is the opposite : you need SHIFT for the parentheses () but not for the square brackets []. I've always wondered why the QWERTY layout favored the square brackets over the parentheses. Naively, parentheses are more common and should be more easily accessible...
And why an ethical alternative can't appear in the world where Microsoft exists?
Disclaimer, I am not a physicist.

There are two kinds of singularities related to black holes.

The first kind are coordinate singularities, for example at the event horizon in the Schwarzschild metric. Those are mathematical artifacts of the chosen coordinates and we can get rid of them by using different coordinates for calculations.

The second kind are the ones at the center, where, for example, the curvature blows up to infinity. For those we do not know how to get rid of them. Still very few physicist will consider them any more real than the first kind, they are most likely an artifact of relativity not accounting for quantum physics or something like that.

When it comes to naked singularities, we are concerned with the second kind of singularity, those at the center. They are usually hidden behind the event horizon because - in case of a non-rotating uncharged black hole - the Schwarzschild radius is positive and nothing from inside the Schwarzschild radius, where the event horizon is located, can reach the outside.

For rotating or charged black holes the event horizon can however disappear, I think the Schwarzschild radius or its equivalent becomes complex. No event horizon, nothing hiding the singularity, i.e. a naked singularity.

So the uncharged non-rotating electron has a mass and I would guess also a singularity in the gravitational field but its Schwarzschild radius is positive hiding this singularity behind the event horizon. That is, if you wanted to get close enough to the electron to have a look at the gravitational singularity, you would first have to pass through the event horizon of the electron and then you could unfortunately no longer tell us what you saw. Also the "electron" would now be 70 kg, I guess.