skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But why should any of us bother picking up new skills and adjusting mindsets if the author has to fight for a raise after saving the company $500k?

Secondarily, why should the author continue to fix things like this when they don't benefit, but others responsible are also not facing any consequences?
I find it easier to come to terms with death if I just accept that I'll have regrets.
Have not read the paper yet but why do they only cut the decoder and not the encoder?
> they were considered inferior military recruits.

It's not that surprising given that the Prussian schooling system upon which ours is based was meant exactly for that.
Has anyone used this in person? Is the bolt proud of surface when fully screwed in?
## app-conf/apt/nosnap.pref
# To prevent repository packages from triggering the installation of snap,
# this file forbids snapd from being installed by APT.

Package: snapd
Pin: release a=*
Pin-Priority: -10

### Remove snapd applications and service
snap remove --purge firefox
snap remove --purge gnome-3-38-2004
snap remove --purge gtk-common-themes
snap remove --purge bare
snap remove --purge core20
snap remove --purge snapd
apt-get remove --yes snapd

# This will prevent snapd from any repository

tested on Ubuntu jammy
C is better than C++ but I think you can more gently introduce people to programming with an easier language like python or ruby and move on to C to learn memory management and typing once they understand variables, functions, basic logic etc

But we generally teach computer science instead of just programming so we don't have separate classes
Doesnt std::shared_ptr use garbage collection?
That's the implication. If the distil models are same format as original openai models then the Distil models can be converted for faster-whisper use as per the conversion instructions on https://github.com/guillaumekln/faster-whisper/

So then we'll see whether we get the 6x model speedup on top of the stated 4x faster-whisper code speedup, at same/nearly same accuracy.

I would generally start with the assumption that if something is significantly faster the accuracy has to suffer a bit, but increasing model size and/or settings such as beam size to compensate should allow same accuracy and higher performance (just not all of the stated performance gain).
> Have it your way.

My way was to have an objective definition of a term that we're using for rational discussions. I'm in favor of peace far more than any side.
Federal jury verdict on broker fees rocks real estate industry
I mind it to the point where I cancelled my order (upgrading from an M1 Pro). I'd do the mid-range Max but I imagine the battery life would suffer too much on the 14".

It's been pointed that that marketing for the M3 Pro is the same as it was for the M2 Pro earlier this year - up to 20% faster compute than the M1 Pro. As is the wireless web battery life.

Sure this will be variable based on the workload, but on average, this is a barely there upgrade.

The M4 will likely flip things back due to the yield issue, and there I suspect we'll see compute will improve by 40%+. I also suspect we'll see that upgrade sooner than later (next summer?) as Apple likely wants to get off these chips ASAP.
> Service costs for EV are crazy for even small problem anywhere close to battery or power circuits.

This also has a knock-on effect for insurance prices: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/sep/30/the-quotes-wer...
> Many? I would say it was the central message of Christianity.

I would agree, but I don't see it treated or discussed that way in practice by plenty of self-identified Christians.
Dreams are an indication of REM sleep, but improvement in REM may be a general indication that you're getting overall better sleep, including deep sleep.
> I'm sure with the internet they are already widely exposed to what science has to say about e.g. the creation of the universe (which, honestly, how many high school students could walk you through?).

The current internet makes it very easy to self-select (intentionally or not) a bubble, and then never see anything outside of it (or only see one-sided takes you agree with about the “debate”). Given the algorithms major platforms use, I suspect it would be relatively easy to create a bubble in which evolution is never treated as real, and where dinosaur bones were planted to fool people.
Oracle should have bought them. They are the ultimate rent seekers.
I have never had a snap package I've installed that I didn't have to immediately uninstall and find the .deb for because the snap ran into a bunch of weird issues. I hate snap I hate whoever thought it was a good idea and I hope they constantly have bump in their sock that they are unable to fix that does not relieve until the day they get rid of snaps.
Repair costs are high when you need to repair them, but you basically never need to repair them, so in my book it's a wash.

I've had two EVs now and never had to bring any of them to the shop. No oil change, nothing.

I'm guessing Hertz might have structural reasons to experience high service costs, perhaps because at their scale it was much more cost effective to service ICE cars in-house, which is probably not an option for their EV fleet at this time (or they haven't tooled for it?)
I have this impression that modern C++ is far more complex with a far more large surface area (from the perspective of learning the language) than Rust.

Because I am not expert in both, what folks that came from C++ to Rust or have to work regularly work with both say about that?
As someone who spent quite some time as a young person with the fringe end of society, I can assure you that saying you'll pivot into crime and drugs is like saying you'll pivot into being a plumber. It takes time to build a career that pays more then entry level money consistently, and good luck developing a network of connections to make it happen. It's not like walking down the street to pick up an application at Chipotle. And AI is probably going to take individual computer criminals' jobs even before most other people's.
We have exactly the same argument on a regular basis about whether or not we should say Musk is responsible for the success of Tesla; likewise with attributing the achievements of the USA[0] (or even just the government of the USA[0]) to the specific president of the time rather than to the nation as a whole.

And before Musk was born, similar debates about describing Armstrong as the first man on the moon, given how even saying that inherently brushes aside the contributions of all those who worked on the mission without going to space.

[0] In the UK it seems to be half on the Prime Minister and half the party of the age; I don't pay enough attention to the local opinion of politics elsewhere, though I will say the British press seems to blame everything Germany does on the German Chancellor personally…
It's always 7%.

"T-Mobile is laying off 7% of staff"

"Robinhood Lays Off About 7% of Its Full-Time Employees"

"Sonos lays off 7%"

"Vox Media to lay off 7% of workforce"

"Payments firm PayPal to lay off 7% of its workforce"

"Roomba maker iRobot to lay off about 7% of its workforce"

"GitLab to reduce workforce by 7%"

"Informatica to lay off 7% of its workforce"

It seems like these CEOs are just copying from the same playbook. I wish there was a CEO who was brave enough to ignore the herd mentality, take a look at what the actual needs of the company, and make a bold plan like "fuck it we're doing 8 and a half percent".
My deep sleep has massively improved recently and consistently for the last month. Two things I've done differently (and I'm not sure which is to thank) is taking magnesium before bed each night and inhaling fluticasone. No more snoring, no more waking up tired.
The only part of this process that I don't have a problem with is the technical interview/test.

I hear people complain about this type of stuff all the time but based on the tests and challenges I've received they're reasonable. I've never been asked by a potential employer to do anything I didn't consider trivial or close to trivial. I've done some quizzes with easy questions (though the recruiters were very impressed that I aced them, apparently most don't come close), I've done a technical interview where I implemented a simple vehicle registry based on stubs and tests, just basic C# programming (I didn't even know C# when I did it, I knew Java) with basic data structures. A friend of mine had one where they were asked to implement a very simple frontend that gets some data from SpaceXs graphql api and display it in a table.

All of these are completely reasonable expectations for a competent developer. I could easily complete all of them as a fresh graduate with no work experience.

I understand not everyone is this reasonable, what I'm saying is that I think these kinds of simple exercises are a reasonable way to eliminate candidates who actually don't know basic shit you would expect them to know. There are a lot of them, even with degrees.

It's pretty much just bias. I'm biased towards these tests because to me they're trivial so it benefits me that I get an easy way to stand out. I also wouldn't want to hire anyone who can't do simple basic programming tasks, so I sympathize with the employers in that regard. On the other hand you have people who are mad because the tests reveal their incompetence.
I don't understand, why was that a motivation for not taking the highest offer?

Is that associated with some kind of risk of the sale not closing, or other risk?

(Sorry if it's a dumb question with an obvious answer -- this is not my area of expertise.)
IME in India, engine troubles happen long after problems in other systems. The "other systems" are turning into a mess of electronics like this seat:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/1619...
Authentication startup FusionAuth raises $65M, its first outside round
GPT is pretty good at explaining memes
Digital mapmakers often have a hard time getting color scales right; it's common to just sort of wing it and end up with something that looks like crap and/or doesn't work well with the nature of the dataset.

I'd recommend using one of the tried and tested scales from ColorBrewer (https://colorbrewer2.org). Great info there to help you decide.

And when you do pick a scale, Chroma.js (https://www.vis4.net/chromajs) is a fantastic color library that has built-in support for ColorBrewer scales.

Also http://turfjs.org has some great tools for manipulating GeoJSON.
Certainly agree it's not intended to be for everyone, but I haven't noticed many crashes running nightly. Would be nice to go to print with numbers
Buying and supporting expensive laptops for every kid, with expensive education package subscriptions, all so kids can read a textbook on a screen instead of in a book.
I suspect this article will not age well. Drastically cheaper EVs have just appeared on the horizon. That may very well accelerate adoption.

For example, I have my eye on the recently announced Citroën ë-C3 which will apparently be sold for less than 25K euro before incentives.
I am still amazed how quickly Cisco destroyed Flip from 2009 to 2011 - basically 590Million down the drain:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip_Video

Sure you could argue that by 2011 Flip was on the way out as phones were taking over, but there was plenty of room to pivot and plenty of good will.

Had a relative whose company was to be bought by Cisco but thankfully Flip debacle destroyed that deal.
Doesn't prevent road expansion, rampant parking lot construction, and urban sprawl. They're only NIMBY against certain projects. Some environmental destruction are more acceptable than other.
In Sony v Connectix a judge found that software designed for compatibility deserved less protection than literary works.
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std::shared_ptr is reference counted. No GC involved.
> stimulus money and incredibly strong consumer spending

Seems like you are ultimately operating on the same theory: That tech was used to keep the "Great Financial Crisis" money away from the broader economy in order to prevent an inflationary spiral. It is unlikely that it was fully pre-meditated in exacting detail, but it is clear that the money 'printed' was directed to interests that would not spend it on bread, so to speak.

The pandemic stimulus changed that. It saw 'printed' money flow to regular average Joes who would spend it on bread, and thus consumer inflation took hold. That is what earlier stimulus packages were trying to avoid.
My 6 year old EV has never been back to the dealership for any “service”.

I was never good at the maintenance part of car ownership and my EV is the perfect car for me because it needs none.
If algorithmic media improves content, why does everything feel worse?
For most people who don't already have an established network associated with crime, it would probably be the only way you'd get anybody to trust you.
Madelon Hulsebos on Tabular Machine Learning
Hey everyone! I am SUPER excited to publish our 72nd Weaviate Podcast with Madelon Hulsebos from the University of Amsterdam!!

Madelon is one of the world's experts on Machine Learning with Tables, also commonly referred to as Tabular Structured Data!

You have probably heard that most of the world's data is contained in tables! This describes representing each individual data object as a row that contains a mix of features (columns in the table). These are commonly use to describe customers, product inventory, patients, and many more!

Madelon's research explores cutting-edge future directions for applying Machine Learning to Tabular Structured Data! We discussed the latest in embeddings to search across multiple tables, as well as within tables, new directions for Table-Based Question Answering and the nuances beyond Text-to-SQL, we also discussed her amazing work on Semantic Type Detection, collecting 1.7 million tables extracted from CSV files on GitHub in GitTables, and many more!

This was one of the most eye-opening podcasts for me, I gained such a better understanding of these topics from speaking with Madelon! I hope you enjoy the podcast, as always I am more than happy to answer any questions or discuss any ideas you have about the content in the podcast!

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In the Netherlands, a very large part of the price of a car is the emissions-tax, which EV's don't have, so EV's are usually either cheaper or the same price as non-EV's to buy/lease, and way cheaper in running-cost, so the amount of EV's is rising quickly.

For countries without high car-taxes or without EV-incentives, this could significantly hinder EV-sales.
No, it uses reference counting, internal to the shared pointer implementation itself.
On modern cars the gas tank is usually sealed and pressurized when working properly. It takes a while for gas to go stale in that kind of environment.
Rest assured that if you experience Atlanta traffic, you will not be content.
Cool ! I didn't know some program existed in the US, I only knew about Japan : https://www.dw.com/en/japan-takes-the-lead-in-cleaning-up-or...

Thanks for sharing !
Garbage Collection is not a bad idea, but, my takeaway is that if you try to bolt it onto a language that didn't have it in its core design, you're gonna have a bad time.
A while back, I put together a list of bike-oriented software at:

https://old.reddit.com/r/BicycleGear/wiki/software

which lists this and some other potentially useful software for folks making bicycles.

There's also a list of books:

https://old.reddit.com/r/BicycleGear/wiki/books
Don't forget that md5 is comparatively slow & there are way options for hashing nowadays:

https://jolynch.github.io/posts/use_fast_data_algorithms/
Ahh, so another thing that can be blamed on the privatisation of organisations that shouldn't be privatised.
yeah AirTags did that for me too - I put one in my suitcase. Gamifies waiting for luggage haha
I currently am stuck at a six hour cycle. Any tips to turn that into eight?
> Why do you believe that the freedoms do not apply to children?

As if public schools provide kids any sort of freedom or autonomy? What is your point here?

Someone has to be in charge of a kid. Either the parent acts as the authority over their child, or the state does.
> Hertz, admitting that its newly purchased EVs are twice as expensive to fix as its gas cars.

Well that's concerning. But the link in the sentence doesn't give any information about this?
Perspectives of Self
The Tao Te Ching came up on HN recently and I wrote this blog as a possible starting point to adopting a lens which could help in understanding it.
Think about screen readers.
I use a powdered drink called 'Calm'. It's got a bit of a berry flavor to it. Start with a small amount though or you'll be shitting your pants. There are a lot of studies showing magnesium levels are far too low in people anyway so it's a good idea to supplement it.
I don't necessarily think that practicing leetcode will make you a better developer, but good developers should be able to solve most leetcode questions in a few hours from scratch (with full internet access) without having ever seen those types of problems or data structures involved - maybe not with perfect computational efficiency, and certainly not in 30 mins during an interview

That said, writing more code and solving harder problems is what makes you a better developer - so if leetcode is what gets you to do that then it will probably have the desired effect
Magnesium glycinate is typically recommended, but any form that doesn't upset your stomach is probably good.
Is Softbank also a majority bondholder of WeWork? AFAIK the shareholders (ie mostly Softbank in this case) are last in line during bankruptcy, well after other creditors like employees, suppliers and bondholders.
Spare: A Single-Pass Neural Model for Relational Databases
Yep,
He should probably bought Google ads instead to promote now when ad-blockers gets blocked.. :)
Hm, I'll check that out. If that is the plan then all GP websites should be required to advertise the NHS app instead of the hundreds different private booking companies.
There’s a lot of discussion about Sentry’s approach to open-source here, including many comments from people who work there, including the CTO and the Head of Open-Source at Sentry:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36971490

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36990036
It uses reference counting and RAII. It does not use reachability analysis or tracing. Many people refer to a tracing routine or reachability analysis when they refer to garbage collectors
One of the most interesting things I've read on the internet in a long time.
Perhaps sleep quality doesn't always directly relate to how rested you feel afterwards? I've been having a very varied amount of sleep for the last few months due to a newborn baby. It can definitely happen that a good 5-6 hour stretch (the max I get these days) leads to me feeling more tired. Sometimes running on fumes actually feels easier and more wakeful.
It is a basic human right.
No, std::shared_ptr is plain ref counting
Unfortunately, it's how M&A works since forever, even if the official statement is "The overall market has retracted". I guess most of the cuts are in the "non-productive" departments like sales, marketing, hr and stuff like this.
There's EV-specialist workshops that are not brand-related and seem to be doing just fine. A friend of mine runs a Nissan Leaf upgrade/tuning company, and in various of TeslaBjorn (youtube) video's you see him visiting Elbilmec (norway), which does maintenance/fixing/upgrading various EV's (Tesla, Nissan, etc).
I think the mistake you are making is in believing the public schools are failing in any way. You cannot fix something that is not broken. In my opinion the schools are working exactly as intended which is why anyone who can should get their children out of them.

"Mistakes of this size are never made innocently." ~Ayn Rand
this is anecdotal but a friend who owns a tesla has had no repairs except 2 battery replacements - each of which would have been prohibitive out-of-warranty.

A battery expert i spoke to said that battery management is a complex mechanism, with lots of software and electronics - and it is not yet modular to enable easy repairs by the local joe mechanic
I feel the same about my s7 edge I keep as a spare, although currently using the s21 ultra and no complaints
1. Can't be sure that the effect of caffeine is more worth it than the possible impact on sleep. Better sleep probably has a wider range of benefits compared to caffeine.

2. Might not have to be one or the other - just make sure caffeine consumption is very early in the day
I currently use magnesium oxide in a tablet form (I use half a tablet, ~125mg). I have previously used magnesium glycinate but I don't remember what dose I used of that.

I'll add, the mag oxide always prevents leg cramps when I take a full tablet (250mg) when I am working outside all day (and staying hydrated).

ETA: In my experience magnesium citrate is the one mostly likely to cause diarrhea though they all can.
I guess I didn't state this very clearly because it's kind of an uncomfortable thing to state, but what I'm saying is that I think for a lot of people, for a lot of the hours, spending that marginal hour on work actually is the less-regretted way to spend it.

But it's probably true that more people end up regretting that choice to spend that marginal hour on work for more of their hours that the opposite.
Show HN: Managing internet addiction by rate limiting updates
Hi!

I made a Chrome extension for a new internet addiction management strategy. I've always uninstalled or worked around website blockers, and after spending a week on a vacation in Colorado where I was completely off the grid, I wanted to try a new approach.

What makes this different is that it's not about blocking access to certain sites, or requiring a delay, or setting a time budget. It's about changing the internet's highly addictive, variable rewards into much more manageable, consistent, predictable rewards.

The extension works by delivering content once a day. Right now it only works with three websites (Hackernews, Gmail, Nytimes), but I'm working on adding more. Both NYTimes and Hackernews have a section called "front" which shows a version of the website that only updates - you guessed it - once a day. The extension detects if you're visiting one of the restricted sites and redirects you to a new url. The Gmail version of the extension hides some email badge counts and redirects to a search for messages delivered prior to midnight.

It took a few days for my behavior to change, but I'm no longer compulsively checking those sites, hoping for new content to appear. I've also felt no urge to open an incognito browser to work around the extension, so I take that as evidence that this new management strategy is working.

You can install the extension from the Chrome Store https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-daily-delivery...
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