skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you've always been sold a dozen eggs in a package that can hold twelve eggs, but suddenly the same package is relabelled and used to sell you only ten eggs, who in the world looks at that situation and says "as a rational market participant, I can't be mad because the package has indeed been updated to say 'ten eggs' and I just failed to take notice (yolk's on me)."

People like to be dealt with fairly. When they occasionally notice things that make them realize there are rooms full of people whose entire job is to trick them, they don't like it. Where's the mystery?
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No, they are your comments, period. If you had included even a single exact quote from me, that would be different, going by HN norms.

Trying to argue around this fact is pretty odd and it's unclear what the intention is.

You are also free to contact any HN user you trust and confirm whether I'm making this up or not?
Guess you and I represent the opposite sides of the UX argument. I could never find the CD I wanted to listen to by touch (in a case of about 3 dozen CDs)! Seems like you mastered not only this task but could adjust the entirety of car controls without ever taking your eyes off the road. Which I applaud you for.

It's likely a pointless argument - I prefer a minimal design with as few physical knobs as possible and an intelligent self-adjusting system. Other people prefer more traditional physical controls. Just a matter of preference... I haven't seen any data to suggest that people in Teslas are getting into more accidents than people driving Hondas (in fact, the opposite seems to be true: https://motorandwheels.com/do-tesla-cars-crash-more-often/).
That's their Dec 2021 valuation right? That was a valuation bubble. See the 30-80% fall of most companies since then.
IANAL, but even in California, if it relates to the business of the employer then they own it, even if you do it on your own time, on your own equipment. By definition, if you use that code while performing your job duties, then the company owns it. If you are in Washington State, then your employment contract can (and therefore will) state that anything you write, they own, and this is legal and enforceable. Again, IANAL.
A Fireball Whacked into Jupiter, and Astronomers Got It on Video
Is this the one that explicitly won't let you boycott products by Israeli companies?

edit: Yep https://honestreporting.com/fighting-bds-with-buycotts/

You can use it to boycott anything (perceived as conservative or neutral) you like as long as it's not progressive or Israeli.

So, useless.
Seems like criticism to "clueless MBA thinking" in the software engineering context.

99% of MBA's are certainly clueless about SWE because they never did SWE professionally.

It didn't seem to me like a criticism of MBA's fundamentally speaking.
Even better, Texas is like #2 in GDP. Surely, Texas could cede and be a perfectly fine nation unto its own. Granted, it wont be under US protection ... and why would Mexico ever want it back?
> Two Java/whatever greenthreads atop a single OS thread cannot run in parallel

Well.. yes. Actually that makes sense!

I guess I just never thought of them as green threads in JS because you don't interact with them as an object like you can in other languages.
> Separating the style into a stylesheet gives you global control over presentation and makes you more aligned with how the user is perceiving things.

This only works for trivial stuff. Presentation is more than just colors, fonts and margins. Layout is deeply intertwined with the structure your HTML, attempts at mitigating this have made a monumental mess of CSS. The sooner you recognize it as the pipe dream that it is, the more time you will have to work on your actual goal.

I also feel the opposite about what the user perceives. The user perceives the result of applying all your CSS rules - which is closer to inline styles everywhere rather than separating things out.
There's just way too much competition for Airtable:

- Retool with Databases

- Tooljet with Databses

- Budibase

- Baserow

- Grist (getgrist.com)

- Bubble

- The various Google Sheets Builders

- Probably 20+ other apps
Chart of Accounts for Startups
USB C isn't legislated that strictly, it provides a sane baseline, exactly like USB 2 was. Easiest way for you to understand it is C is an official baseline, 2.0 was an unofficial baseline.

You can still easily add your "technologically superior" port to your devices alongside the standard.
>> sex assigned at birth... female sex assigned at birth

> As an aside - in a scientific article, this is insane language to use and really calls into question the assumptions and conclusions.

i'm not really familiar with scientific writing, but why would that be insane language to use? what would be better?
I worked with the author for maybe 3 years, I thought he was pretty awesome.

Not surprised he implemented a partial implementation of excel so quickly.

I'm disappointed in myself that I somehow got through most of the article without realizing who the author was (thanks Firefox reader mode); especially since the naming of Wesley and Crusher is too good. Of course it was Basta! Of course it was!
Then can you share a device or cable that uses a Lightning connector and supports the USB 3.0 and USB-PD protocols? Who in their right minds would standardize on something that doesn't exist?
I imported the BOM for the tracker to Mouser and it looks like it's around $100 in components for one board. It looks like the boards with ENIG finish and filled and capped vias would be ~$40 for five boards + ~$17 shipping to the US from jlcpcb. ~$15 of the board cost comes from the via covering.

The most expensive component, the DWM3001CTR13 Ultra-WideBand module, is $37.77 in single quantities. I don't know much about about UWB, but I wonder if instead putting a BLE beacon on the tracker and using a chip supporting Bluetooth direction finding on the home station could allow the tracker to be a bit smaller and cheaper at the cost of some localization performance for the indoor mode (actually I just saw someone already brought this up in the project Slack).

This isn't including the Home Station part which doesn't seem fully documented yet.It looks like there is more discussion on the project Slack.
If a low ranking employee in Cincinnati divulged corporate trade secrets, they'd be tried and convicted. If a low ranking employee in Shanghai did the same, what can the US company do? Not much. So it's a low risk activity, that is also actively encouraged and in many cases financed by the Chinese government. This is in no way intended to be disparaging of folks who are of Chinese descent, but rather a reflection of the reality of contemporary Chinese government politics and policies.
Apple Regulatory Information – RF Exposure
Yes, however most people have google accounts. For example, with an android, it is impossible to download an app from the Play Store without a google account (assuming you aren't using a mirror, and other stipulations), so that alone encapsulats half of Americans, and google has several other products unrelated to android you could be using.

The people in developed countries who this doesn't affect could be negligible.
They are not being prosecuted for "training employees to not talk about beating the competition." They're being prosecuted for restrictive deals on the search engine default, which prevents competition from gaining the data they need to compete. Udi Manber himself said that's what they're for.

The training bit: personally I think it's a mistake for the government to dwell on that too much. It would be nice if they had a smoking gun email about "cutting off their oxygen," but they don't, so move on. Explaining why you don't have the smoking gun is something you should do only in passing.
It lies 120 light years from Earth in the constellation Leo.

Apart from being a curiosity, 120 light-years might just as well be 200 million light-years. Either way, there is no way that Earthlings can ever visit or communicate in practical terms.

"I transmitted a question to those guys the other day. I won't receive an answer for 240 years."
1) This was the type of effort and level of coding that I saw when I was Uber during its heyday. I love it and I miss it every day.

2) You stole Box code, used it at Uber, and then stole Uber code and posted it on github. I understand no one's using the code or missing that code, but you really did steal that code. It belongs to the company, not to you. I would be careful not to do that in the future, because technically that's a trade secret and people have gone to jail over that, like that programmer at Goldman Sachs (wrongfully) and ironically Levandowski who took Google code and tried to use it at Uber.
They still wouldn't be a monopoly engine-wise, even excluding Unity you have Godot and O3DE as popular open source options. Ignoring that a lot of studios are now sharing internal custom engines, like Sony's studios with the Decima engine.
That sucks. I'm about 20 hours in (almost completely sidequests, I think I'm still in the second main storyline quest) and loving it, but that's how I've always played Bethesda games. I go and make my own fun as soon as possible.

Not every game's for everyone though, and a good rule is to wait a month or so on single player games so you can see what reviewers who align with your taste think.
Its extremely short sighted. The cost is much more than (hourly wage x code hours).

There is ongoing maintenance cost that no one considers. I've never seen a project that gets built and just sails off for eternity with no maintenance or bugs. There will be times when the libraries or frameworks that built the underlying tool need upgrading. The requirements of the job might change even slightly and need a change in the code because custom tools are always built to only solve the narrow problem.

There is also the overhead of the fact that this junior developer will inevitably leave in 6 months and now someone who has never seen this project before has to pick it up to fix it, which means it will take even longer.

Plus that ignores the fact that if a developer tells you it will take 40 hours it will actually take 80-120 hours.

When you buy, the tools you buy are designed to be integrated with. They have support teams that will help you, and ongoing maintenance. Plus the tool is going to be more robust because it was built and used by many different companies with slightly different requirements. Plus someone else's developers will keep it up to date for you so you don't have to.

Internal tools are almost never worth it unless a pre-existing tool literally doesn't exist which happens when you are either solving insanely complex problems or insanely niche problems.
Imagine you wake up one day, get into your car and realise that the manufacturer sent technicians overnight who have rearranged buttons on your dashboard, all without your permission.
Former Wells Fargo executive avoids prison in fake-accounts scandal
Many people have had bad trips on MDMA. I don't know where this reputation comes from, but it's common to have extremely intense and unpleasant emotions, sensations, or thoughts. Anxiety, agitation, muscle tension, sweating, and/or chills are all documented effects of the drug.

For a dozens of anecdotes, just search "MDMA bad trip".
It's not very dramatic, so far. Compare to David Boies making Gates look like an arrogant little dweeb, as he did in 1998.
> 99% of MBA's are certainly clueless about SWE because they never did SWE professionally

Anecdotally, most of the MBAs I know are former coders. The last decade of Silicon Valley thinking it can reinvent commerce from first principles has massively increased the value and leverage of former coders with MBAs.
I had a discussion with one of the CEOs who did that around a year ago, it turns out, it is just the usual influence and bandwagon ride, he said that the hiring is easier these days and unlike during the pandemic, “so we will let go those and hire others later, it won’t be a challenge”, and why he did it? Apparently from reading all the news that big companies are doing it. Now that was a small company following the big boys in tech, but why big companies would do that in the first place? Well, personally, I think it revolves around what said by Tim Gurner, the CEO of Gurner Group (1)

> We need to see pain in the economy, We need to remind people they work for the employer, not the other way around.

Yes, obviously he was attacked and apologized later, but he was honest, he said out loud what most CEOs say behind closed doors.

(1) https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/tim-gurner...
https://archive.is/1QGQg
Yep. These days I use multiple tools to find what I need
The word "shadow library" was dropped quite a few times in this. I hate how terminology like this is used to frame discussions in favor of the publishers. At the end of the day, this is just a simple matter of exchanging information over the internet, which should be free.
https://archive.is/vB32t
> Hydrogen ions. More specifically, protons.

Well, hydronium ions (H3O+). Naked protons aren't really a thing in aqueous solution.
Watch Margin Call. Jeremy Irons character explains exactly what is happening.
Talked to a therapist at the MAPS conference who said that the way you know a patient is in the trial is about halfway through their therapy session, they inevitably say, "But enough about me, how are YOU doing??"
Hi all. I would like your help with an ethics problem.

I run a site called The Nose, a safe haven for AI training data. It operates overseas in a region out of reach of DMCAs. (Past info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37512147)

This was necessary because I felt it was unacceptable for entire datasets to be forced offline by one lawyer.

The ethical problem is that I'm sympathetic with people who want to remove their content from AI training data.

I received an email from the Danish Rights Alliance about Books3: https://pastebin.com/6qw3yMWZ

They point out that this is illegal in Denmark and elsewhere, and threaten to ban thenose.cc from Denmark.

Obviously, the threats are meaningless. But I'm interested in your views on whether we should comply with the request by removing the specific titles they list.

I was thinking of saying "If you say 'please', I will remove the listed titles." There are 109 entries, so it wouldn't be too much hassle to just remove those from the tarball, and it would be amusing to force a lawyer to ask nicely.

For now, I asked for a complete list of the full filenames they want to be removed, along with proof that they represent the listed rightsholders.

I'm more interested in how you feel. It seems reasonable to let people opt out of training. We could formalize this process by setting up a way to do this. We could also just ignore takedown demands.

What do you think?
> I would not take this every day for a month...

From the article:

The treatment period consisted of three 8-h dosing sessions, in conjunction with therapy, spaced approximately 1 month apart.
"Hippy", "green", "woke": as time goes on, names change, but the battles of us vs them don't. There's a lot of partisan discussion around the idea of pushing back and "reopening" the spigot of oil and pushing back on EVs, for example.
IANAL but I've paid lawyers to answer this question in the US.

The question is, if you do some work, in your own time, on your own equipment, does your employer own it just because the employment contract says they do?

In California: if the work in any way relates to the employer's business, then yes, they own it. One way to guarantee that it relates to the employer's business is to bring it into the office and use it as part of your job. If your employer is Apple or Google or AWS or Microsoft, then probably anything you write would in some way relate to their business. Write spreadsheets by day, but games by night? All of those companies make games, or are in the games business.

I would love to hear a lawyer say, "Well, it doesn't matter what the employer does, it only matters what your job duties are, so writing games at night is fine if they don't pay you to work on games related things during they day." But I've never been told that by a lawyer, whether I paid them or otherwise.

Everywhere else in the USA: they probably own it. You could write software for washing machines, and write a video game, and if your contract says they own everything you write then they do. You signed it. There's no "but surely not!" defense.
https://archive.is/p7VoS
I’ve met consulting analysts whose entire job concerns e.g. a single chemical plant in Baton Rouge. Of course, they would never work for an Louisianan industrial company. But stick McKinsey on the resume, let them fly in and out of a big city, and cut the compensation in half or a third and you have a winning proposition for many status-nervous young people. (Private equity does the same thing.)
Nginx or Apache would both cache these versions transparently. I think they just wanted to distribute as a zip
WHAT'S IN YOUR CONTRACT WITH UNITY?
MDMA was first synthesized in 1912 by Merck. Merck and US Army did several animal trials in the 1950s, but by the end of the decade MDMA was shelved and thought to have no therapeutic benefit. It wasn’t until Sasha Shulgin rediscovered it in 1976 that its therapeutic benefits were discovered, at which point therapists and psychiatrists began quietly using it for psychedelic assisted psychotherapy. In July 1984 the DEA proposed making MDMA a Schedule I controlled substances, which led to outcry from practitioners who requested the DEA hold hearings to provide testimony on MDMA’s therapeutic benefits. While these hearings were ongoing, the DEA used its emergency scheduling authority in May of 1985 to place MDMA in Schedule I.

Animal efficacy and human safety trials of MDMA began in the late 1980s, and the first FDA-approved, placebo controlled, double blind phase I study was published in 1996.
There are a couple AI driven interview systems already out there for use as a "prep" system for junior engineers, but I'm not sure I see significant value over just grinding leetcode.
It's not a scientific statement, it's a political statement. It doesn't matter if you agree with that political statement or not - it simply has no business being in a scientific report.

Injecting political ideology into what is supposed to be factual findings is wrong.

In scientific writing, such as studies like this - just the facts please. Anything else opens questions about motivations, conclusions, etc.
Wasn't aware of that, also my use-case during the brief time I messed with it was trying to see how clever it was at identifying companies which use animal testing to develop their products.

Thank you for the link.
That's not what I've seen, it appears they've said they'd "love to do them", with to mention of price:

https://twitter.com/BethesdaStudios/status/17019770714659883...
If you want to fine tune Llama 2 or similar, then embed each pair together and separately and store them. Then, use the unlabeled data (the source text without translation) to query the embeddings for similar matches. You then send in the necessary prompt text with the matches, plus the text to translate. You'll want to do this with a foundational model, like GPT-x.

As noted below, extracting words or keyterms would maybe be a good idea, as they could be included in the training set.

The training set would the be comprised of the prompt, the translation, and keyterms. As you will want to vet the generated texts anyway, you could then decide if the foundational model was working enough. You could also try to run the largest "open" model you could find on the prompts, to see if those needed training as well. There are many different Llama models trained on HuggingFace for language pairs, so see if your languages are already built and test those.

I'm building a simple, Open Source ML pipeline manager at https://ai.featurebase.com/. I'd be down to help you with this!
You won an internet, needed the laugh - thanks.
That sounds like a recipe for hitting things by accidentally driving in the wrong direction.
Why would ceding help? Texas is already running their own electric grid, and they seem to be doing so incompetently. My local LDC (Hydro One) is ridiculously expensive, but we haven't had rolling blackouts anytime aside from the 2003 blackout in my memory.
Here's a 2019 article, "Study suggests how measles depletes body’s immune memory"[0] which (despite the title) seems to quantify the percentage of antibody arsenal that is lost after a measles infection. Sadly, I haven't had luck finding resources to answer "by what mechanism does measles cause antibody memory to be lost?", but I've got a good thing to ponder for the weekend. Thanks. :)

[0] https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/10/how-measles-w...
> What is competition supposed to be if it’s not beating the competition.

Wrong question. How about “how can we make our product/service better”? Not, let’s just push the other company over.
Yeah, the sliding window chunking mechanism appears in stage 2.
It's somewhat ironic to frame that as a problem that "isn't understood" in the US considering what the CEO of this company was convicted of.
They detail this in the supplementary materials: https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs415...
How many combinations are there for Chess960?

I'm wondering whether people could also prepare for it if it became popular.
It’s physical buttons on my ICE Honda Passport which is pretty efficient if it’s a fly by wire system anyone. If you want to switch forward gears manually which I rarely do it’s paddle shifters.
"Today we are going to disprove the last Fermat's theorem. First thing you need to know is that Fermat had very conservative views. Some even say..."
A curious person finds treasures in one of three rooms they searched. Obviously they should have ignored the other two from the get go.

I think Newton was curious about everything around him, and a lot of it paid off.
I'm using this type of simple approach to build a SaaS right now. We need to spin up many VPS and provision them, and the fastest way to do that is with rsync and ssh.

But we didn't stop there: this SaaS for our open source browser product is entirely built like this: behind the scenes it's a collection of bash scripts that implement and execute the business operation of the SaaS.

So basically, it's a command-line interface to the SaaS. Think of it this way, say I didn't have a website, with login, and "click a button to open a browser", but instead people would write me letters, send me cheques, or call me on the phone. Then I can serve their requests manually, at the command line.

The reason I made it like this was:

- clear separation between thin web front-end and actual business logic

- nice command-line interface (options, usage, help, clear error messages) to business logic for maintenance and support to jump on and fix things

- inheritance of operating system permissions and user process isolation

- highly testable implementation

Maybe this is dumb, but I really like it. To me it's an architecture and approach that makes sense.

I'm sure this is not new, and I think a lot of good quality operations must be built via this way. I highly align with the author's stance of the composition of a few simple command line tools to get the job done.

Perhaps we can call this "unix driven development", or "unix-philosophy backend engineering"

browser product: https://github.com/dosyago/BrowserBoxPro (saas coming soonish)
One PDF is causing the issue. When I remove it I get another issue, `No such file or directory: 'database_store/file_names.pkl'`.

Opened up an issue in GitHub so as not to pollute this thread.
Have to rejigger that white space so that schools can require a new version the next year rather than people using used text books.