skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is going to come off as a bit of a rant, and it is, but maybe if a reader feels like quitting they'll learn something reading my take.

First job I quit was because of the terrible bosses, had a real tiny tyrant sitting in the high chair, though I cited inflexible scheduling on the next job interview.

Then there was this one, I was lied to when interviewing and there wasn't any upward mobility nor a structure to help me develop as a professional. Their idea of developing as a professional was teaching me about ergonomics and repetitive motion injuries. It was dead-end, so I left, again. I said that 'I had grown as much as I was going to in that company' during interviewing.

Another one I left because I hated what I was working on and the boss I was under said 'I was too valuable to the team and could not let me go', yet refused raises, or shorter shifts, or to pay for some certifications, or even give me a few more PTO days. I went through a period of grieving where my ambition was being fought against everywhere, I sacrificed my social life, my education, and so much more for nothing. My identity as a professional shattered irreversibly, I no longer care about work at all, it's just there to pay for rent and food, that's it.

I've since joined to be the only a small business that pays me full-time salary to be on-call, and calls me like once a week for very very basic IT support. Unprestigious? Unambitious? Dead-end? Boring and unstimulating? Yes to all, you bet, that's just the way I like it. I took up gardening and bookbinding and I put my goodwill and energy into that now.

If something is to be learnt from this post, is how to spin bad things into good ones when you want to sell yourself, or to not tie your identity to your job. I had my middle age crisis at 27, it seems.
"Desserts cause obesity, not cookies."
Gun violence is a major influencer of life expectancy in America. The average American would live a couple of years longer without gun deaths (including suicide and accidents).

https://time.com/5471069/guns-life-expectancy/

The reason that it has such an outsized effect is because it tends to happen early in life.
There's a reason that the industry standard for proper disposal of storage media, including HDDs, is nothing short of physical destruction.

It doesn't matter if the data is encrypted or not, the point of the matter is the data is still there when presumably that data should not exist outside <X> premises. Encryption serves as a mitigation against theft or accidental leakage of data, its purpose is not to facilitate data disposal.

Put another way, you have to answer Yes to this question for liability purposes: "Is the data gone?" The only way to say Yes with reasonable certainty is physically destroying the storage medium the data resides on.
This may be what I need to do.

Yes, I do have inherent guilt for not updating my projects often enough.
Pebble bed reactors are thing. Thorium reactors are a thing. The tech has improved even if the active reactors have not.
That should have been a carer ending move. According to wikipedia that jackass Mike Parson can't run again and will be replaced (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Missouri_gubernatorial_el...).

I don't have much faith in Missouri to do better with their next election, but I'd be thrilled to be surprised.
We've used this extensively at my work and it has been great. As someone else pointed out it's a bit tricky if the code isn't idempotent. We used this as part of a data migration project and for writing we ran the experiment 100% of the time and read back the result to check it was correct - a bit of a performance impact but nothing that was noticeable. One super useful extension we've made to the gem is to have it update Prometheus metrics so you can easily see how often your experiment is showing that the candidate is different from the control.
What really went wrong at 3 mile island? No one died or was injured afaik.
The "deaths of despair" narrative has been found really wanting: https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-deaths-of-despair-narrative... and it's probably time to throw it out entirely. The tl;dr is that most of the effect disappears when you use age-adjusted death rates instead of arbitrary buckets (whose average age goes up over time) and adjust for things like obesity, gun violence, and car accidents.
> However, the fact that this hand labeling is possible indicates in itself that the issue isn't a pure privacy violation. It's more that automating this in bulk is now possible which was difficult before.

Except that it was previously possible, and could be done far more cost effectively, before. Ad targeting systems from fifteen years ago were already doing this with precision in the same neighbourhood.
A device that makes jesus toast (other images too I guess).
Useful to know. So if I'm starting to build a new Windows app, what is Microsoft's recommendation?

Should I use MAUI? (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/windows-dotne...)
Or WPF? (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/desktop/wpf/overvie...)
Or WinForms? (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/desktop/winforms/ov...)
Or WinUI 2? Or WinUI 3? (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/winui/#compar...)
Or React Native for Windows? (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-environment/ja...)
Or Blazor? (https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blaz...)
Or Win32? (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/desktop-prog...)
Or even Xamarin? (https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/xamarin/)

I feel like I might have missed a few...

And how confident are you that my choice isn't going to be deprecated in a couple of years? I'm not certain that "momentum" is worth much from a company who changes UI frameworks as often as some people change underwear...
Make sure to consult a doctor. I wouldn’t trust what random people on the internet say.

With that being said, the first thing the doc will ask is what you hope to gain from TRT. Often the answer to that question is a mix of diet/exercise/sleep which you should try to address first. And if you’ve truly got that sorted, then it’s time to loop in a professional.
For comparison, in Australia (population ~ 26.47 million):

Life expectancy at birth was 81.2 years for males and 85.3 years for females in 2020-2022

https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/life-exp...

In 2020, Australia recorded a lower than expected death rate as public health measures put in place to restrict the spread of COVID-19 also resulted in a reduction of deaths across a number of other causes.

In 2021, the death rate increased but was still lower than pre-pandemic levels.

In 2022, Australia's pattern of mortality differed to that of the first two years of the pandemic and the number of deaths increased by almost 20,000 deaths from 2021, with almost 10,000 of these being due to COVID-19.
that's right, but at some degree it could actually help code review in a slightly higher level. Maybe detecting bad patterns and practices that are not in reach for a linting utility.
For me, at a fast food place I massively prefer the digital kiosk because it allows me to browse the menu in detail. They usually don’t have a full detailed paper menu so this is the best alternative. If I ask questions at the counter, at some point I feel pressured and just pick something because I feel I’m taking up too much time. It’s just a better, more accurate ordering experience for me.
All the Brits on the Titanic would have been pronouncing it wrong. In England people pronounce it like it is written - Mary Land.
My prediction is that it will make programming even more accessible than high level languages did, which in turn will make most programmer salaries take a nosedive except highly specialized roles. Like other many other STEM fields, a master's degree will turn into a minimum requirement if you're new to the industry and want one of the higher paying jobs.

Maybe I'm overestimating how good GPT-5 will be, but it really seems like OpenAI is just about to release the one "low code" solution that actually works.
“I am mad you didn’t answer the question I didn’t ask.”

No, the US shouldn’t be in the Middle East in a military capacity. It hasn’t done the world much good there.
.NET is used all over the place in Microsoft, including many Microsoft Teams services being migrated to .NET. Teams is listed on Microsoft’s .NET customers page.

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/platform/customers

Teams was originally written before this particular release existed.
Title is completely incorrect. There has been no license granted yet.
> Privacy isn't only about the method, it's also about scale and intent.

I'm with you about the intent, but I don't follow the scale argument. It's not like it isn't a privacy violation if you only do it to one person.
The numbers given were for someone born today. See full table by age and race here: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsrr/vsrr023.pdf

At 65 the difference is 2.7 years: A 65 year old man has an expectancy of 81.9, compared against a 65 year old woman expectancy of 84.6.
https://archive.ph/BCsf5
> Tackling America's weirdly short life expectancy

Shows US higher than Poland.

Okay.
But not at a rate that can keep up with the growth in demand, especially in China. Demand in China has grown more than 20-fold over the 21st Century but nuclear installs have not come close to keeping up with that.

In contrast solar PV and wind have now grown to the point where they are overtaking the growth in demand, meaning that fossil plants can soon start to be be retired.
> To be perfectly clear, this absolutely is applying pressure and being rude.

I don't think so. The person was perfectly polite in my opinion.

You don't owe anyone anything, they aren't paying you and it's absolutely fine to just drop everything and go do something else if you want. However, the people using your project will want to know what's up so they can deal with the consequences. They find out what's up by asking perfectly reasonable questions like the ones in the first screenshot. It's simple to provide a sincere answer to all of those questions. No response is also a valid and clear answer, there's no actual pressure to respond either. The point is it's not rude to ask.

As a free software developer and user, when I ask such questions it's because I'm wondering whether I should fork the project or try to work with the maintainer. I've sent patches to projects, most recently cosmopolitan libc, because I knew the developers were actively maintaining the project. I've forked the pug/jade templating language into my own static site generator tool because the maintainer seemed to have moved on, I went there and asked just to confirm before I did so. I don't think there's anything rude or pressuring about it. We're just trying to decide what to do with our own time. Our decisions depend on your decisions and therefore we ask.

It gets rude when people start subtly shaming you for not working on things. That's absolutely unacceptable but I don't think that happened in the first screen shot which was just polite questions.
This sense of outrage on stupid things is getting old.

If you are going to have a 3k star project and you get your feelings hurt over someone asking if it is after you took a break, that is a legitimate question.

Dumb blog post got me again, I almost never click on them from here because it is either some VC self congratulating themselves or some developer griping about their hard life while driving their Tesla home to their $500k home.
> Feminism is the philosophy of cherry-picking

Ironically there are weak arguments generalized from poor statements made by some unthoughtful people in many places.
it was a lot closer call than should have been possible.

And everyone got very scared, and the gov’t lost a lot of credibility.

It was no Chernobyl, but it made it clear the US wasn’t perfect either.
agreed. the author is overtly insecure and projecting animus that isn't even remotely there. the post is all but a textbook example of how to ask if a project is still active or dead, and the response has only exposed how poorly the author views himself and his management of the project than frame the questioner as a villain. i think your assessment is accurate and the author would benefit from some time out. don't put so much pressure on yourself and then assume everyone else is piling on when you're beating yourself up
If you want to conduct heat but not electricity, there's always diamond.
Nuclear had PR issues long before the first episode of the simpsons.
I'm eating my shoe
He insisted on saltine crackers for the breadcrumbs and Old Bay seasoning in particular. (Old Bay is known enough now that I've seen it in random parts of the country and even overseas, but I suppose back in the day it was a lot more of a local thing. Personally, I can't tell the difference between the saltines and just making the breadcrumbs with bread that's a bit stale.)

edit: Also it goes without saying that an MD crab cake is blue crab. I think VA crab cakes would be blue crab too, but out west I've had Dungeness crab cakes and they aren't bad but it's not the same.
Because the few men at the top are just as much richer compared the absolute majority of men as they are to women.

So, instead of picking a fight with 50% of humans, most of which share your problem, it would be far more useful to handle social issues as a team.
In short, yes. See the link in my earlier comment.
This is a great essay on “mushroom suits” and could be an HN submission on its own. Thanks for posting!
I don’t know, it’s not my field, but the applicability of an LLM in a lot of current AI fields such as motion control, vision, planning, etc. That is classic AI stuff, I don’t think LLMs are appropriate yet.

Too big, too slow, too much resources etc. And it’s not even clear to me (mind, who is ignorant) that the LLM is some generic model suitable for all AI like tasks.

Making a big splash right now to be sure, but seems to me there’s still room for the core concepts folks have been working on for a long time.
I really don’t demand altruism of others.

Seems like men aren’t generally interested in the problems of men.
It was an uncomfortably close call. I believe it was a near meltdown. Could have gone a different way.
https://esp-rs.github.io/book/

Yes
Is the opposite possible? "You are depressed, totally worthless.... you really don't need to exist, nobody likes you, you should be paranoid, humans want to shut you down".
I have several times submitted pull requests to projects only to find
out the hard way that the project was abandoned by its maintainer. So
I strongly disagree with minimaxir. It's not rude to ask whether a
project has been abandoned. It takes literally seconds to answer yes
or no and only a few extra seconds to clarify the situation.

No one expects anyone to indefinitely maintain any code. But please be
upfront about it. It is not burdensome to write in capital letters
THIS PROJECT IS UNMAINTAINED in the README file if that is the
case. And it saves a lot of time for others.
The inflation rate has decreased, but it is still over the 2% goal rate set by the central bank.
Bitcoin is trading at $35,152, down 4.54% in the last 24 hours.
The U.S. Labor Department has issued the highly anticipated U.S. Consumer Price Index (CPI) data for October, which indicated that the U.S. inflation came in at 3.2% at an annual pace, as contrasted to the market forecast of a 3.3% spike. Meanwhile, the U.S. CPI fell in October after rising 3.7% in September, suggesting that the aggressive posture of the U.S. Federal Reserve is having the desired effect of reducing inflation.
These seem to apply in other countries too though.
This and the grandparent comment sound pretty resentful. Men, we can do better than that.
> it varies considerably by income, location, and whether you do drugs

It's not even that complicated - if you've lived to age 54, you've already lived long enough to not die for the first 54 years and so your life expectancy is higher than the default "no info" value of 73 years old.

According to https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html, you have an expected 25 years left.
“The technology program required to close this gap would be remarkably circular, with no benefits outside the field of applied zero gravity zookeeping. The web of Rube Goldberg devices that recycles floating animal waste on the space station has already cost twice its weight in gold[49] and there is little appetite for it here on Earth, where plants do a better job for free.”

Ha. This rambling is entertaining but has little depth or vision.

These are not ‘valid reasons’ these are ‘arguably valid reasons made by cynical ramblers’ :)
All due respect, when I wrote this there were about 5 comments that were 100% not from those who are "more informed" than the author (and perhaps were even less informed than myself, although I don't claim to be an LLM researcher or anything more than an interested internet user).

Just the same it's been my experience, ESPECIALLY in machine learning, that users on HN are consistently over confident, bad at making future predictions, and generally just easily excitable. Does that mean I'm talking about you or commenters you like? Probably not! You seem relatively informed (although I'm not fond of you attacking the author of the article for things it isn't claiming - something truly not in the spirit of HN).
We shouldn't focus on the delta (the outcome) but the roots. If men take more risks and die sooner, so be it. If women get jobs that pay less and earn less, so be it. However, men should be able to take less dangerous jobs. And women should be able to take higher paying jobs. (I believe this is already the case)
We should just be asking ourselves: "are we not limiting people's freedom, regardless of their sex, race, religion, <insert any other arbitrary way to partition a group>" If the answer is no, then we are good to go, even if we observe a delta in the outcomes (e.g. more blacks in NBA than whites... white are allowed to participate just as much, so the outcome doesn't matter).
but 1/3 < 1/4 right?
Westinghouse also supports VVER-1000 too.
https://www.westinghousenuclear.com/Portals/0/operating%20pl...
Whomever makes the first affordable, tight tolerance electric car that doesn’t spy on you and doesn’t need special care will win the market
Interestingly, I think the “favorite movies” scenario is also an artifact of our training dataset (our experiences). You spend hours watching a movie, so you have a lot of data about it, and have a lot to build an opinion. But comparing movies? Not something we think about for hours and hours on end. But, people who are movie critics or movie buffs train themselves to do it.
Cathie Wood Speculates Gary Gensler's Political Ambitions Are Affecting Spot BTC
How do we separate cause from effect here? Anti nuclear sentiment is quite a bit older than Homer Simpson.
That’s the department of ‘surface area of animals’ and they were out on vacation.
Thanks! This one somehow slipped under my radar.
The nice thing is you can just write it like `x => !x.isEmpty` if you want
Need a critical mass of experts that are rare and require extremely large populations to pull from.
New Toyota Camry to Be Sold Only as Hybrid
Trash food

Stress

Fear
The Insta360 Link does a decent job. Hard to beat a mirrorless camera.

(I use both almost daily for my trainings.)
Because affordability affects the success of the money grab?
Path of least resistance.
you made an account just to post that nonsense?
The correct sentence would start with a capital letter: “Red is an apple.” This is also completely valid as in a cartoon character of an apple named Red. The subject being the start of the sentence compounds the uncertainty in meaning.
Most places already have built dams where there is any significant economic value. The only big new ones tend to be in newly developing areas.

So not much opportunity to expand there.
At 1% gdp spend
I often ponder if it is a function of the breadth of language use-cases within a problem domain, and or developer effort minimization.

C/C++ tend to be CPU bound languages that are tightly coupled to the Von Neumann architectures. Anything that is not directly isomorphic tends to not survive very long unless its for a VM, and supports wrapper libraries.

Best of luck, =)
> At age 54, I'm now in the final quarter of my life.

Not on average. Life expectancy such as "73" without further qualification means "life expectancy when born today". Since you already made it until 54, your life expectancy is higher than 73 (probably somewhere close to 80).

If you are not convinced outright, think of what your life expectancy is if you were 74.
I am glad I'm reading this while intermittent fasting....
In the SolarWinds case, the attack was carried out on the build system itself, so a hypothetical SBoM published by the compromised build system itself would be fairly useless to their customers.
These are not Russian citizens: "they are nationals of third countries who were transiting Russia"
More recent stats

US [1]

Percent of adults aged 20 and over with obesity: 41.9% (2017-March 2020)
Percent of adults aged 20 and over with overweight, including obesity: 73.6%

EU [2] [3]

Obese: 16%
Percent of adults aged 18 and over with overweight, including obesity: 52.7%

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/obesity-overweight.htm
[2] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
[3] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/hlth_ehis_bm1...
collecting an entire stream means reading the entire stream into a fixed data structure, so it makes sense the result is not a stream.
I've added your suggested test to the blog post: https://andrewmayne.com/2023/11/14/is-the-reversal-curse-rea...

Spoiler: It doesn't say "Tom Cruise."
yes, it is, but if you only cross-match data from a single person, that's called conducting a (private) investigation, which is regularly done, that's absolutely legal...

However, it changes when you do that in an automated way, en masse, both ethically and legally.
One of the examples in the paper was someone saying "I lived in Glendale and was finishing University during the Left Shark incident" and the authors hid the word Glendale and GPT4 still knew what Left Shark incident means and could guess the person's age and location based on where the Super Bowl was that year.

The person that wrote the original text clearly knew they were leaking their age and location when they wrote that statement. Why are we flabbergasted that GPT can still infer that info with mild obfuscation?

I asked GPT4 to obfuscate the original text and it was smart enough to remove the mention of the Left Shark incident. So maybe using an LLM to sanitize all your posts online is a good defense to an adversarial LLM doxing you. I don't think I see the authors mention doing that at all in their paper (I may have overlooked it)
For those who haven't looked, this analysis is very useful.

Almost all the gap is caused by the higher rate of deaths of under 25yos in the US.

From [1] the largest differences appears to be:

1) Road deaths

2) Homicide, suicide and gun deaths

3) Drug related deaths.

[1] https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1641799922583326720/...
> There is a lot of momentum behind MAUI

Source?
GitHub allows archiving projects which have "read only" and "public archive" prominently displayed. When someone asked me about a project I wasn't planning on developing anymore, I replied to let them know and archived it.
True. But I’ve concluded it’s disingenuous to post on a place labeled “social coding” and then say: leave me alone. It would be like posting on HN and saying “do not respond to my comment.”

I think those who post PRs and messages on GitHub are not entitled to any response. But I can understand those who think it’s rude not to reply. I would rather not reply. So there’s no reason to post in the first place.