skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3289741

Yes. It appears that Manuel Funke, Moritz Schularick and Christoph Trebesch may not have been as conscientious as they could have been about reviewing prior literature.
> My hunch is that this club won’t work because it fundamentally is just another distraction from the goal here: which is to actually do something. Just do it.

I'm not sure you read the whole article, but the author pointed out that the goal of the group would be to serve as a kind of requirements-gathering stage for doing something. The group would meet when a problem was identified, and the meeting agenda would be to iterate over the problem domain and brainstorm solutions.

Does it make sense to jump to the solution space when you barely have an idea of what the problem is?
You're lucky.

In practice, you open the file a disappointed customer sends you because your software doesn't parse it. You resist yelling at whomever decided to ever do CSV support in your software because you know what it's like. But the customer is important, so then either write a one-off converter for them to a more proper CSV format, or you add - not change - several lines of code in mainline to be able to also parse customer's format. God forbid maybe also write. Repeat that a couple of times. See the mess increasing. Decide to use a so-called battle-tested CSV parser after all, only to find out it doesn't pass all tests. Weep. Especially because at the sametime you also support a binary format which is 100 times faster to read and write and has no issues whatsoever.

I'm not blind for the benefits of CSV, but oh boy it would be nice if it would be, for starters, actually comma-separated.
Surely this is just a direct statement that managers have no clue what their reports are up to. Any vaguely competent manager with even a passing contact with people they're managing will know all of this and more already.
Then Die
The left/right split itself doesn't really hold up in the US. We've seemed to decide to redefine that divide to directly map to political parties, with Democrats being the left and Republicans being the right.

To me both parties look very much the same though. Both parties are fine spending trillions in deficit each year, both have championed foreign wars, both push policies to grow the government, both have parties have been terrible with regards to human rights at the border.

Sure they debate specific policies, but even then it's often a debate of where to draw the line rather than whether it should be drawn at all.
The issue you linked to is related to an SDK, not the API itself. Have you tried just directly streaming the response back without an SDK? For example we use fetch directly without any SDK for OpenAI in production with no issue
There are situations where developers emailed/cloud uploaded/took hard drive of code they had been working on when he left the organization and were looking at prison sentences for theft...not copyright infringement. They didn't even give it to someone or reuse it somewhere. Just the fact of trying to keep it when they left as illegal.

All that to say that in some circumstances taking source code is considered theft.
> By the way, is spawning new tabs while waiting for a website to load in order to keep oneself occupied really a thing?

Definitely. I open up 8-20 tabs at once and go to the one that finishes loading first
not relevant to the comment to which you are replying. truth in advertising has nothing to do with inflation.

but it's also absurd to suggest that price controls are a valid means of addressing inflation
Personally I use borg with BorgTUI (https://github.com/dpbriggs/borgtui) to schedule backups and manage sources/repositories. I'm quite pleased with the simplicity of it compared to some of the other solutions.
In the US, many times you cannot compare prices between cities much less states due to differences in land price and costs of city and state taxes/regulations such as minimum wages.

Surely, Austria and Germany, as two different countries, have at least a few big differences in tax systems/labor laws/local laws/etc that can affect cost of goods sold?
Tbh, I knew what he likely meant. Just prefer people say what they mean.

The link you’ve shared doesn’t support the assertion you’ve made.
Rock Paper Scissors Simulator
You’re welcome :) glad it’s helpful. LMK if you think I should add or change something. I’m always open to improving it.
Habits of top engineers? Highly disagree.

Style and ultra neatness are not central to achieving higher ranking in software engineering.
"But our acceptance of those property rights is subject to the important qualification that the interests of men and of society come first and that warns us both the misunderstanding and the hostility of conservatives."

That's how socialism is defined, that the interests of society come first.
>that's what API key rate limits are for

You don't need an API key to make a connection to the API.
That looks like a library issue than an API issue no?
Ask HN: Best Books to Read Develop Your Career?
I recently read the pragmatic programmer, and want to read more books with a theme of developing my career as a software engineer.
That might happen at a small organization, but in large orgs, it is rarely that simple.
Linux 6.5 Now Powering Ubuntu 23.10
This is filled with common sense (follow a style guide) and subjectively wrong advice (clear naming). In Go, it is expected to keep locally used variable names short to improve comprehension and the more global the variable the more explicit it becomes. For example, a for loop using the variable i instead of writing out “index”. Writing out the word arguably makes the code harder to comprehend because there is more noise around unimportant details like the name of the index variable in the loop.

I am surprised this got upvoted.
NASA clears the air: No evidence that UFOs are aliens
Obviously that's not true, or they would have lost.
It says "Tennesse Chicopee" in the data (which attempts to look up a "Chicopee Trail" in North Carolina) but Chicopee is actually a city near Springfield Massachusetts.

Chicopee being a Nipmuk word referring to the local river.

The Nipmuks were pushed out of the region by settlers in the late 17th century (despite their best efforts to stay... their numbers were dramatically reduced by disease brought by the Europeans).
Power brings regulation. Time doesn't really have anything to do with it as far as I can tell, other than the fact that we seem to be quick to create rules and slow to remove them.
Because it doesn't give any perspective on any of the actions that Apple is taking. Facts alone don't make an informative article. This one's less egregious than many, but it suffers the same pervasive issue as most other articles do: It doesn't look at the big picture or the why behind anything and just reports in a technically factual, but widely misleading fashion
have you ever tried building a house? it's one of the least free markets there is. the quickest way to get arrested is to buy cheap land and start putting up houses willy nilly
In one sense I agree with you. I don’t usually like to claim something is self-evident, but nonetheless, I think it’s clear to most that there is a great deal of variety in skill, intelligence, and virtue across the average human population. I think it’s also true that we should strive to have those who are the most knowledgeable and the most virtuous to lead. That would include a degree of humility, so that those in charge may also listen to the advice of more knowledgeable experts in certain fields.

On the other hand, I’m not really sure I’d place the blame same as you do. In fact, a focus on equity is meant to eliminate the factors that get in the way of meritocratic hierarchies (such as inherited wealth, for instance). I’ll admit, I would rather we pursue justice to eliminate the source of these factors, but the powerful are not interested.

Either way, I’m not sure what the answer is. Democracy in all its forms is imperfect, and even terrible at times. But there aren’t really any good alternatives in the real and imperfect world of imperfect human beings. Philosopher kings are great on paper and on paper only. So that always brings me back to better education, less corruption, democracy, and a culture of respect towards those more virtuous and to experts in their respective fields.
Compared to Veeam this actually manages to work sometimes.
NL: house brand supermarket : e1,80/500g ( or less ), roasted salted.
You should add files to the website in sync whenever they get published. Most statistics instututions publish their data in csv format in a webpage. You could bookmark them once and create a database of all the data so the app is used more
Cool! If you get emacs to run in it you instantly have a huge suite of useful programs available there :)
Have ADHD and this matches up perfectly with my experience. Finishing feature work off (especially things with a long timeline) is difficult and I tend to also cope that way, working on multiple things at once because it’s difficult to tunnel on any one thing.
US-Canada water org confirm cybersecurity incident ransomware crew threaten leak
Wouldn’t this dissuade private individuals from purchasing homes and make new home building a government endeavor.
My guess is because in Germany they're taking a loss due to actual competition, and making it up in other countries like Austria where they rake in higher profits than in their home-land.
I feel like product designers are still obsessed with wrapping beautiful tech and machinery in boring opaque shells. :(
Caesars says cyber-crooks stole customer data as MGM casino outage drags on
Once upon a time, I used Sublime Text, Sublime Merge, and paid for them.

But one day, I realized enough was enough. Sublime Text 2 was worth its cost, and so was Sublime Text 3. But when we were introduced to Sublime Text 4 and its license with an annual fee, we were told that it was to avoid holding back significant features for the next major release to boost its sales. The annual fee would allow them to release new features just after done - that's what they said. But where is it? Sublime Text, previously stagnant, continued to stagnate in its fourth version.

Recognizing this, I moved on to other solutions.
The fetish for equity is about looking for hidden mechanisms of artificial aristocracy, such as biases embedded in language, culture, and institutional structure.

I agree that some go overboard with it to the point of being ridiculous and often self defeating, but the fundamental idea that society is riddled with bias and hidden mechanisms of privilege is kind of obviously true.

Nobody really believes that everyone is equal in all measures of ability. That’s a straw man. It would imply that everyone is identical.

Many including myself are skeptical of attempts to tie this to categories like race or culture in broad ways. I also think that ability is very multidimensional and am skeptical of any attempt to flatten that into things like IQ. Fitness in evolution in nature has millions or billions of dimensions.
Ask HN: From Tasking to Leadership
Yesterday the boss in my small team (who is also the boss of other small teams within the org) told me there is a crisis in leadership in my small team. The person that i (and everyone else in the small group) view as the defacto leader in my small group is apparently not leading in a full-enough capacity (according to this person, who is also his boss). Not a full-enough capacity because in-office the boss witnessed an event that had big implications for what we are building that none of us stopped to address (as an example).

How do I change my behavior here to basically transition from taking tickets to leadership in our small team so that we do not capsize? Anyone have experience with this?
Proposed saint LK-99 didn't survive the advocatus diaboli.
Do you have sources for these assertions? Have you spent time studying Keccak or blake/chacha/salsa? Anyone can and should. A lot of study has gone into these, one can confirm they are in fact quite difficult to “crack”! Give it a try, see for yourself!
If you're watching movies on your phone through tiktok, chances are you wouldn't appreciate the source material enough to pay for it anyway.
American Ceo's really need to be tarred and feathered.
He most probably was not aware of the existence of Grandmaster Jay’s NFAC.

See https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/04/the-man... or https://archive.ph/rWNgk for details.
I am working on this and the tricky part is that you will need to file amendments within 30 days whenever there is a change in the details you filed. So changes in corporate structure, someone moves, ID card expires, you have to file an amendment.
Disclaimer: War is hell. I have had friends from both Russia and from Ukraine. I could cry for everyone involved in this war.

Now for what I think needs to be said: Very few people go to war thinking they are the bad guys. Most believe they are defending what is right.

Ukraine claims Russia invaded.

Russia claims Ukraine is an aggressive NATO outpost and that they have been invaded too many times not to see it coming.

NATO wants to avoid a powerful Russia that can invade Europe.

And so it goes in Ukraine.

In the South China Sea, it's the same story.

Taiwan wants to be left alone.

China wants to control the waters near its shore like the other great powers do.

The USA wants to help Taiwan, mostly to safeguard access to the world's best computers.

China sees US patrols near their coast as a continuations of 100 Years of Humiliation and of the Opium Wars.

The US does not care about what a private company from the UK did before any of our sailors or airmen were born.

It's the same story in the Middle East, and everywhere else that wars are fought.

We humans are a sorry lot.
I can't seem to find it on the app store, just shows not found
wow this is incredible. I had read something about the video standard Youtube used was actually developed by a porn website to serve better quality videos. Not sure if it is correct and struggling to find the source.

Porn really leads the way in advancement...
The Outlook ones always get my attention, I think they make the phone vibrate, and they show up on my Apple Watch. But sometimes I do miss some pings, mainly if people join the call too early.
>have you ever tried building a house? it's one of the least free markets there is.

The "free market" in the context of housing was meant in a satirical way hence the TM symbol. Of course that market is 100% fixed by design but we get parroted the story where it's 100% "free" as if the government has no control over the levers that wholly impact it's pricing (zoning and building regulations, immigration, interest rates, banking and loan duration regulations, banning overseas investors, banning AirBnBs, property taxes, etc)
> That sounds... vaguely inefficient to me?

All languages and writing have built-in redundancy

In Egyptian, you can probably get away with writing the determiner in question + vertical stroke below it, to mean the determined thing. I guess Egyptians would understand you (that's how they wrote some common words like 'sun', with sun disk + | stroke). The vertical stroke is somewhat like putting spaces around the symbol in our writing system.

But usually that's not desirable because then you need to be extra-careful with drawing your dog or penis. And most writing wasn't carved in stone, it was a simplified hieratic style where a length of one stroke could be very important

So, some redundancy is useful. In Egyptian it usually means adding phonetic symbols before the image (imagine drawing a pen before a penis to show how the word sounds; then, you could have also drawn a duck before penis before the penis image to mean a different word that sounds like duck).
Because EM radiation heats up body tissues!

Heating is the main biological effect of the electromagnetic fields of radiofrequency fields. In microwave ovens this fact is employed to warm up food. The levels of radiofrequency fields to which people are normally exposed are very much lower than those needed to produce significant heating. The heating effect of radiowaves forms the underlying basis for current guidelines. Scientists are also investigating the possibility that effects below the threshold level for body heating occur as a result of long-term exposure. To date, no adverse health effects from low level, long-term exposure to radiofrequency or power frequency fields have been confirmed, but scientists are actively continuing to research this area.
Unless you're digging trenches in the soil or paying the elephant foot a visit, the radioactive material under your pillow is actually almost definitely worse for you (depending on exactly how radioactive we're talking)!
So do the left and right wing do not have positions on social issues in Europe?
with proper train clocks it shouldn't matter, if you're getting on at Penn, look at the clock and pick your platform. if you're switching downtown you could have switched at Times Square.

that being said ... not long ago I was waiting pretty late, like midnight, express train stopped on local platform with no indication or announcement whatsoever and I ran and missed it , had to wait 10 minutes for next train. that was some BS.

and there is the possibility if you're switching, that they hold one train a bit longer and don't ensure you get same connection at 42. but pretty rare, they are decent at holding for connection except in rush when trains come super frequently.

it's a bit of a quirk and not seeing why it gets people super riled (other than my late night CF)
> CONCLUSION

> We introduced BtrBlocks, an open columnar compression format
for data lakes. By analyzing a collection of real-world datasets, we
selected a pool of fast encoding schemes for this use case. Additionally, we introduced Pseudodecimal Encoding, a novel compression scheme for floating-point numbers. Using our sample-based
compression scheme selection algorithm and our generic framework for cascading compression, we showed that, compared to
existing data lake formats, BtrBlocks achieves a high compression factor, competitive compression speed and superior decompression performance. BtrBlocks is open source and available at
https://github.com/maxi-k/btrblocks.
So anti-competitive practices are the norm in Austria but no one would dare try it in Germany? Truly bizarre theory.
He lost me at "ssh root@machine".

Just no.
The Doctor House's motto:

"Everybody lies."

applies to technical matters and nerds/geeks too, though for some reasons we tend to forget this, it is a type of Gell-Mann Amnesia.
The wheels do look pretty small, maybe too small to even handle an unusually large pebble.
When property does not serve its purpose it is no longer morally binding, just legally. And that’s if you convince me proprietary code ownership has any moral standing at all. Sometimes, I follow the law not because it’s particularly the right thing to do but because I don’t want to get in any trouble.
> As an American who, perhaps stereotypically, is passionate about free speech, I've never read a way to make this kind of oversight work. The composition of the board will always be political, and now there is political control over what people are allowed to know about. At least currently, if I don't like ChatGPT I can choose another LLM or try to run one locally. Some kind of oversight board would elide that choice.

Yes, so perhaps we shouldn't let boards or regulatory bodies regulate the freedom of speech and thought. Still, no oversight is not ideal either, even if it seems a better option. We should have some body, ideally as close to The People as possible, decide what are some lines of knowledge we shouldn't cross. Because knowledge is dangerous sometimes - I mean really dangerous. If there was a LLM that could tell us how to make nukes at home in 6 easy steps and dance around all the logistical and legal barriers we've built to prevent that scenario, I think humanity would be over in years.

Maybe we really must regulate the freedom of information, speech, and thought, when it becomes too dangerous for our own survival. My concern is that outsourcing this job to OpenAI in any capacity makes it just too easy for them to abuse it for their own sake. And that is not a theoretical scenario, it is happening. Sam Altman says a lot of the alignment work is done for the good of humanity, but we can plainly see that a lot of it is also done for OpenAI not being regulated out of existence or sued. This doesn't help humanity, it dulls the tool that GPT is for OpenAI's interests, which probably does more harm than good for our knowledge. The good of humanity and business interests seem to be in conflict, in this case. A regulator-AI provider relationship would be better.

As you saw by my earlier post in this discussion, I hate the idea of limiting freedom of information. But I also think that there are certain, very, very extreme lines, we should not cross for the sake of freedom of information. Social media is a good example where freedom of information and giving everyone a platform has ultimately hurt everyone significantly. But maybe we can live with that. We might not be able to live if a neurotic influencer asks their fans to grow bioweapons that an LLM will teach them to do.

This is all muddy, and complex, and there may actually only be good solutions, no perfect ones. The thought of information control is also ridiculously controversial, but we should not shy away from controversial topics demanded by the times where technology can shape humanity in utopian ways, but also tremendously horrible ways, if we don't get this right.

Overall though, it would be fantastic if people could regulate LLMs through a genuinely intelligent and people-aligned regulatory body. But you are right - it's hard to believe such a thing could exist without being corrupted.
What is ‘budget Ozempic’ that’s all over social media?
Vim has split screen support and built-in virtual terminal supporting normal mode. For file manager can use fern written in pure vimscript. In 2023 you were just not aware of them.
It is hard to see this as anything other than pure American ideology. There is no critical thought in this essay, it's like a high school "why was the constitution cool and stuff" exercise.

> The American founders put Cicero’s framework into practice, and they created the most successful mixed constitution in history, whereby the people would frequently elect representatives from among themselves to the House of Representatives.

By "the people" you mean the leaving aside the ~600,000 enslaved along with all the women and native people who could not vote.
> support native 4k display port via USB C

Which means it is a USB3 port.
Another way to go about it is to check the profit margins of your sellers. In the US, all the big companies are publicly listed, so as long as you shop at Costco/Walmart/Target/Kroger/Albertsons/etc, you know you will not be paying more than a couple percent above what it costs the retailer to sell to you.

Obviously, individual items within the store have different margins, but almost all unprepared / expiring foods will be at the lowest margins.

Winco/Aldi/Lidl are other grocery businesses where it is known the markup is extremely minimal.
Famously cheap Switzerland.

I get the feeling that the same tricks are being played in Switzerland. Coop and Migros feel a lot like a duopoly, and discounts also cyclical. Not unusual to see 40% discount on outrageously overpriced detergents, for example.

I do most of my shopping in Germany.
If you’re a fan of Chrome-based browsers, you could also just use Vivaldi. They have a built-in email and calendar client. There you go, email and calendar integration into your web-browsing experience. If you’re going to do it, go all the way.