skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hooli vs. Sweden: The Strike Saga
*[Scene: Pied Piper Office, watching the news about the strikes in Sweden on TV]*

*Dinesh*: (chuckling) "Look at Gavin go. He's not just burning bridges; he's torching entire countries now."

*Gilfoyle*: "I'm impressed, in a way. It takes a special kind of incompetence to unite an entire nation against you."

*Dinesh*: "Do you think he knows he's become Sweden's Public Enemy Number One?"

*Gilfoyle*: "Knowing Gavin? He probably thinks they're just passionate Hooli fans. The guy's ego could eclipse the sun."

*[TV shows a clip of Swedish workers striking]*

*Dinesh*: "I bet Gavin's going to try and fix this with another one of his 'brilliant' ideas. Like Hooli-branded winter coats for all the striking workers."

*Gilfoyle*: "Or 'Hooli Strikes Back' – a new VR experience where you get to fire union workers in virtual reality."

*Dinesh*: "I wonder if we can get the live feed of the moment he realizes he's screwed up. I'd pay good money for that."

*Gilfoyle*: "I've already set up a notification. There's no way I'm missing Gavin's face when a country full of polite Swedes tells him to go to hell."

*Dinesh*: "Poor Swedes. They were just minding their own business, inventing safe cars and meatballs, and then... Gavin happened."

*Gilfoyle*: "If Gavin can single-handedly shut down Sweden, imagine what he could do if he actually had a clue."

*[Both share a knowing look and burst out laughing]*
I would absolutely recommend using JUCE-- it is very well documented, with an active forum full of helpful people.

When starting out, the first plugin I made was a gain/panning plugin, then a simple saturation plugin. These are good ones to start out with, since the output for a sample only depends on the input of that sample, and not the samples before it. After that, I would recommend making a delay plugin: there are a lot of opportunities for creativity with delay, once you have the basic code down.

The plugin project structure can be a bit confusing at first, especially in the interaction between the GUI code and the audio processing code. The tutorials are helpful for that: once you've copied a tutorial, you can try expanding it, adding more knobs etc.
Unionizing isn’t just for the poor. NBA players are unionized. Openai employees were effectively unionized overnight.
Thanks for your comment. I joined lemmy after your suggestion, pleased to see the post quality there is still as high as pre-blackout reddit. I agree that android's sort of slowed down, even though I bought a Pixel (5) for its openness, I haven't rooted it yet.
Why Anonymous Sperm Donation Is Over, and Why That Matters
545 made my Steam games unplayable. Had to roll back to 535
Yes, I find I sleep better after some proper exercise during the day. But when I was working I worked from home every work day, with only a tour round the block at lunchtime. I did much less exercise but slept like a baby. Not so now.
Do you get unsollicited phone calls in Europe? In Czechia it almost never happens, maybe once every three months...
That should be great for making phonk-like music snippets where you want just right amount of samples distortion.
"Profit motive" is not the same as "free market". In a free market in health care, the only way to make profits would be to provide genuine services that are of value to the patients who are paying for them. In our actual system, lots of profits can be made by specializing in working the system that has been put in place by the government, to the detriment of patients.

I totally agree that it shouldn't be this way. I just don't agree that the way to fix it is more socialized control by the government.
It depends on your mission. If the mission is to go to the moon, well, we've done that, we don't really need anything new. If the mission is to reduce carbon emissions, that will require something new.
Or a multi-attention head with skip connections
You assert there is 'more' without evidence beyond subjective experience.

Even if we are open to other possibilities, many are unfalsifiable and therefore they cannot be proven. Unprovable theories have limited value. Certainly not enough to discount what can be observed when the physical brain develops and decays.
Neuron Hacking – Finetuning LLMs to act as key-value stores
In my new research for weights and biases, I've been investigating a new procedure which forces LLMs to behave as key-value stores .

Neuron Hacking demonstrates a potential method of storing information within AI models, without causing significant degradation in ability (well, maybe, benchmarking tests are expensive!)
Just to add onto this with an anecdote, I experienced this phenomena for a smaller amount of sleep: 1-3 hours per night. But I had other physical effects such as a persistent headache - it was obvious it was bad for me.

It took a lot of effort to reset my body to obtain a more healthy amount of sleep. I think I went about a month with 1-3 hours per night. The initial cause was "sleep regression in twins", but that was only for 2 weeks. The next 2 weeks was how long it took me to get my body to sleep more than a couple hours per night.
Sleep quality would be a better metric than duration.

HRV is generally the metric used. You can measure that with a cheap chest monitor, or get a fitness watch that tracks it continuously throughout the day and night.

Good HRV levels are highly correlated to activity level, so your base hypothesis still makes sense.
Jut avoid their cheap sick cannibal chickens.
> it's a management problem, and no AI tech is going to fix that.

There are no absolute "management problems". Something that is a management problem when the effort required is 1000 man-years, may stop being so when it's only 100 man-days.
Yes, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38508205 for a workaround
I've read the thread and don't know what you mean.
To nitpick: that's not a comment from a mod. Posts speaking from a position of mod will have [sysop] next to the title. It's part of a "hats system", which more generally allows people to speak as representative of something. IE if /u/johncheng was a Rust core dev, they can post whatever they want as John Cheng, but also write posts as [core dev] to say they're speaking as part of the core team.

It's a neat system but doesn't see much use in practice, aside from the occasional [sysop] warning.
Yeah that was definitely something I noticed.
This is splitting hairs and pretends like the meaning isn't well-defined, when it clearly is.

Literally every work I've ever read in political philosophy regards "the public" to be the general population or the citizens of a country.

By this rationale, things society has benefited immensely from, like "public health" are so arbitrarily defined that it cannot make any traction, which is counterfactual to reality. These efforts are some of the crowning achievements of human progress, and it's dissenters deserve intense derision if not outright contempt.

It also ignores other facts. For example, the USPTO requires patent lawyers to be educated at accredited universities. For professionals coming from computer science, virtually every student going to an ABET accredited university is taught the ACM's code of ethics.
> Verizon had, for some time, decided that buying more spectrum was too expensive…in March 2021, Verizon spent a whopping $52.9 billion to buy mid-band spectrum…the company is only using that new spectrum for its 5G ultra wideband network, which costs about $10 more per month…it is unaccessible to people like me who don't want to pay even more on my phone bill.

TL; DR Author is upset about their cheaper Verizon service. (And about price-based rationing after complaining about crowding.)
Can you provide some examples of open source projects that did this?
you don't need whole ownership to control a company, just a controlling interest
so there is a program processing a bunch of text containing 8 bit numbers and the way they process it is to have a single call to func() over and over for every small string length 1 to 3?
Good summary.

Oh, to be young again and when you can fall asleep without a busy mind keeping you awake.
Thanks for the recommendation, with some brief poking around it does seem promising! It looks like the algorithm is this? https://github.com/fitzgen/bacon-rajan-cc

The link to the paper seems dead unfortunately from this blog post https://nim-lang.org/blog/2020/12/08/introducing-orc.html

I could see how it works as a drop in replacement for Rc
The current crop will be replaced by version 2,3,4...
> Sounds like exactly what a state school ought to do

Universities aren't trade schools. The moment you treat them like trade schools, they become trade schools and should not be considered higher education anymore.
> Cash flow less share compensation

Shares aren’t cash. No need to double count.
I had forgotten that eMacs even exist. But there must have been another bad update to iOS's autocorrection wieghts because I definitely did not have an eMacs problem the past few years while writing comments on my phone...
Physical activity definitely makes a difference, but in my experience it will never cause me to sleep like my kids. That ship has sailed. I was very active last year, and had many days of 30k steps, sometimes although rarely 40k steps and I can't say I ever experienced falling a sleep and sleeping 8h rock solid. Maybe once.

edit: just checked, I did a 120km bike ride this year and the next night I slept for around 6h.
Kiss was a well known target of the satanic panic back in the day. Folks tried to ban them saying their music was demonic and KISS stood for "Knights In Satan's Service".

Now, their act is immortalized and will still be running long after they're dead.

Perhaps they did sell their soul to the devil afterall! /s
Thank you! I put what little I knew in https://reportphonespam.org/#not-in-the-us-or-canada , but that's not much :-) I'd welcome any other ideas or additions. My email address is in my HN profile.

One of the carrier lookup APIs that the site recommends, Twilio's "Line Type Intelligence" API, may support numbers in other countries. That might be a place to start: https://reportphonespam.org/#How-do-I-look-up-more-numbers
>inappropriate care by catching unsafe or low-value care, or care not consistent with the latest clinical evidence

Part of the issue is that doctors use clinical guidelines as baseline best practice document (but then have to care for patients who do not fall neatly within the parameters of the guidelines), while insurers use clinical guidelines as a ceiling for care (but then use the attributes of patients which don't fall neatly within clinical guidelines as a reason to deny coverage).

Yes for 80% of situations, the effect is the same. But for the 20% of situations which fall outside of that it's a rough scene.
Still, so many people think the phrase was coined by Microsoft detractors, while it was actually used internally by Microsoft itself.
Step 1 - ignore the callerID and engage with scammer to get their real number. Because us carriers can't be bothered to tell you where a call is actually coming from.
Thanks for this clarification/differentiation!
The large hospitals (this includes “non-profits”) are complicit.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38509774
getting some vibes here

Dave: How would you account for this discrepancy between you and the twin 9000?
HAL: Well, I don’t think there is any question about it. It can only be attributable to human error. This sort of thing has cropped up before, and it has always been due to human error.
Frank: Listen HAL. There has never been any instance at all of a computer error occurring in the 9000 series, has there?
HAL: None whatsoever, Frank. The 9000 series has a perfect operational record.
Frank: Well of course I know all the wonderful achievements of the 9000 series, but, uh, are you certain there has never been any case of even the most insignificant computer error?
HAL: None whatsoever, Frank. Quite honestly, I wouldn’t worry myself about that.
Mostly Intel datacenter SSDs, but a smattering of other brands, including Kingston and others I forgot.

I do have an Inland 1TB with garbage performance that I can't figure out why, but it was super cheap, so at least I didn't pay much for it.
Knowledge Graphs enable LLMs to understand
"I really, really hate dichotomies like “they do understand” vs “they don’t understand” because dichotomies always oversimplify things and create much more heat than light. History systematically gets the best of us and our right vs. wrong arguments because in the end both positions turn out to be wrong and both are partially right."
I'm a huge fan of Chasquid. The HAProxy protocol support makes it easy to integrate in Kubernetes.

I uses to use this solution until a few months ago when I decided that self hosting my mail server was too much work. To be fair, it's not Chasquid's fault as operations there are basically 0, but more of a spam / email reputation thing.
How can this be validated and what is the dataset you're measuringa gaint to conclude top quintile?
Is it possible to avoid rust completely when programming using Steel?
> TikTok denies it censors content critical of Chinese Communist Party

NPR denied that it is state sponsored propaganda.

This is normal for propaganda outlets. They don't want to lose their credibility.
Yeah, the limit view is only defined in specific cases. For instance, if you have ((x+3)(x-5))/(x-5), this expression evaluates at x=5 to 0/0, but approaching it from either side, evaluates to 8. However, (x+3)/(x-5) at x=5 will be approaching -inf on one side and inf on the other.

I have an anecdote here too. When I learned about automatic differentiation, I very excitedly told one of my formalist math professors about the quantity e, e^2=0, e!=0, and how it could be used to compute the derivative of a function. He couldn't understand and essentially asked me to motivate the number and sketch the proofs that it's a well-behaved extension, which I couldn't do at all at the time, and he dismissed the whole thing which is actually the basis for some pretty important machine learning these days, among other things. So sometimes you can do pretty weird operations to get an extension, but without an intuitive grasp of how it works - either with a proof it is a well -behaved extension or by analogy for example, it's really hard to tell how useful such a concept is to a mathematician, how well it plays by the rules.

Being mathematically rigorous, you will have to define what the views you are talking about. In the one input function limit case, you need to check the limit from both sides. In the 2 input case, you need to check all possible approach paths to prove the limit exists. It gets out of hand. However, these are different views within a formal mathematical system. We don't need to reach consensus among different formal systems which happen to use the same symbols. For instance, I can define the set {cow,0} and equip it with operator '/' such that cow/0= and 0/cow=0 etc. This might be isomorphic to Z mod 2. Then cow by zero is defined, yet we can still agree that division by 0 is undefined, because when we are in general talking about division by 0, we're talking about an operation in a relatively specific context - how numbers behave. So, there really can be a very wide set of perspectives, and being rigorous must also specify the perspectives that count. Also - the cow case is pretty trivial, though this point could also be made with more complex structures, like wheels, that may also have useful physical interpretations, and they still wouldn't affect the collective agreement here because it's a contextually isolated case.
"A nonbinding letter of intent in 2018?"

"OpenAI does not have to buy the chips unless they meet the criteria,"

The second sentence suggests if the chips meet the criteria then the LOI is binding.

Even if, for example, there were other chips from other companies, in which Altman held no interest, that met the criteria.

The phrase "have to buy the chips" suggests more than simply a requirement to negotiate in good faith.

But if we cannot see the text of this LOI then we are all just speculating.
Why do you say the Java applications at banks and financial institutions so bad? I'm not trying to contradict you or say you're wrong; I just want to know why.

Not having ever seen this kind of software, I would assume that the existing COBOL applications are good simply because all the bad COBOL code was probably scrapped decades ago, an example of survivorship bias.
What makes this a simulation and not just a model?
I don’t think people’s lives are different because of discrimination, necessarily. Randomness is more important. Did you have any control over where you were born? Lots of mediocre and talentless people born to a relatively stable household end up doing just fine in life.

Success seems to be determined a lot by who you get to associate with during formative years. I completely agree with the author that some people are more talented and capable than others.
While this advice may work for some FAANG companies, I can assure you this won’t work for Google, especially at higher levels. You won’t find their questions in any public test bank online (trust me, I searched after my interviews).

Also, a good system design interview isn’t about designing a “perfect” system (hint: there isn’t one), it’s about defending a reasonably considered design.

Google’s system design interview very closely approximates my day-to-day experience designing solutions with my teammates.
I found more of it in here: https://www.oranlooney.com/post/playfair/

However, I can't determine where this is originally from...
This happened to me for meta. Saw the qs on Glassdoor, memorized, and passed with flying colors. Did not take the job. I was astounded that they asked the same question, word for word.
Profiles of Change: For 7 Women, a Heartfelt Cause Became a Mission
> all (addictive or not) prescription drugs for instance should also be available to everyone freely and without any limitations

Technically we already have that with cigarettes and alcohol, so maybe it's time to drop the double-standards?
I always thought the verb was "weigh" not "weight", but apparently the latter is also in the dictionary as a verb.

Oh well... it seems like it's more confusing than I thought https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/when-to-use-weigh-a...
Google gets away with this because they pay so well. An hour of extra interviewing gets you an extra $400,000 a year. Show up to a 1 hour zoom meeting instead of having a long lunch, then put the money in your savings account (or in the stock market when savings accounts stop being so good) and retire at 35.

I left Google for a startup and got basically half the total compensation. 6 years after leaving, I am making about what I did at Google 5 years ago and 2 "levels" lower. If I stayed at Google, I'd be making about $800,000 a year.

You should really really ignore the distasteful feeling about being grilled by a bunch of strangers and just do it. (I actually really enjoyed my Google interviews. Problems I hadn't seen before that I came up with interesting solutions to.)
cloud is so good now it’s hard to justify not doing something bespoke. ec2 spot is insanely cheaper than turnkey cicd, and better in almost every way.

i’m delighted to pay 30% over infra cost for convenience, but not 500%. and it better actually be convenient, not just have a good landing page and sales team.

this month i learned localzones have even better spot prices. losangeles-1 is half the spot price of us-west-2.

for a runner, do something like this, but react to an http call instead of a s3 put[1].

for a web ui do something like this[2].

s3, lambda, and ec2 spot are a perfect fit for cicd and a lot more.

1. https://github.com/nathants/libaws/tree/91b1c27fc947e067ed46...

2. https://github.com/nathants/aws-exec/tree/e68769126b5aae0e35...
Tuition at this school is $23k/year, meaning that it is subsidized by tax dollars. Tax money should be spent wisely. The goal must be to equip students to be productive adults.

Examples in the article focus on departmental finances, but carefully say nothing about the careers of students who graduate from those departments. If the students graduate, and wind up in McDonalds or Starbucks, then the departments are useless.
I've rarely had worse experience with infra tool in a big company.

Can't imagine this layer of overengineered complexity can boost a startup, but can easily picture how it slow it down.

Your thinking is obviously distorted by some sort of google mentality.

Put your foot back to the real world please.

The world where you have competition, world where people need to get job done quickly.

Not in most technically sofisticated or mathematically cool way to brag about, but quickly and with as little overhead as possible.
I paid for the privilege of instructor after instructor ranting about 'dead white men' and 'deconstructing the canon' and other equally made up topics. I cannot imagine a person who could be considered better off by the humanities classes I was forced to take.

Reading the western classics without help was far more beneficial and orders of magnitude cheaper.
if you google them there is a discussion board post from 2006 saying the business just fell apart and wondering who pays for the web hosting.

17 years later still a good question
Andrej Karpathy twisting his hands as he explains it is also a great device. Not being sarcastic, when he explains it I understand it for a good minute it two. Then need to rewatch as I forget (but that is just me)!
Google picking up and carrying the flag.
I'll make a tracking issue for it - new GC work is fun! I'll do some research, I have on my back log to integrate Steel into Bevy or some other Rust game engine, would give me a reason to make some fun GCs
Worth noting that the only source for that excerpt from Wikipedia, for the life expectancy, is some NYT article written by a journalist in 1996 which is now paywalled.
Consider the case of two workers both trying to write the same key at once. Which one should succeed?
Many people have sad, angry lives and are addicted to outrage to lash out at anything other than themselves…they just can’t help it like an alcoholic can’t abstain from alcohol.
I also like that one.

And Calibri, which is a font that can't decide if it wants to have serifs or not.

I can't have enough fonts.
This is comically false - unless you mean that by providing my phone number to someone I’ve opted in (and I’m not talking about buried in some TOS (which is still BS), but say my local dry cleaner who spams me because I provided my phone number when they asked for my name and phone number when I dropped my clothes off.
My first idea was the Push-Over game from 1992. Awesome memories... then I realised it was much more than 10 years ago...

I guess i'm just too old.
Confidence is all you need.
With BSD, anyone can take the code and build a derivative product, under whatever business model, open source or not.

GPL, on the other hand, can make it possible for a corp to buy the project and effectively prevent further development, like it happened with MySQL.
Good point.

Is there a standardized way to measure sleep quality? Or are the numbers one measures only compareable as long as one uses the same device?

I would be interested in suggestions which watches measure the HRV / Sleep quality reliably and display the data on screen. Or let me get it from a Linux laptop. I hate having to install an app to get the info off the watch.
Why? Just disable HT in bios or run with nosmt
Can it, if we exclude child mortality (and effects of war, resource stealing, etc)?

All so-called "blue zones" are in traditional cultures (food and general lifestyle wise).
Personally, I think we should wait 5-10 years before trying to solve aging.
The way the box is hurled into the container reminds me of the way someone would pick the box up and notice that it had a spider unexpectedly on it.
The Measures Taken and Other Lehrstücke [pdf]