skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to give a lightning talk at Google called "Life of a Data Engineer" (~6+ years ago), where I tried to explain to Google Software Engineers and Product Managers the concept of a "Data Engineer" in other parts of industry, as well as Google Cloud Customers.

In that talk, I outlined three (3) primary archetypes which still exist today:

- Data Engineering for Business Intelligence (often a rebranding of yesterday's "DBAs")

- Data Engineering for Data Science

- Data Engineering for Machine Learning (precursor for today's "ML Engineers")

Having worn all of these hats in the past, and many others, in different contexts, one of the key points I wanted to convey was that, in practice:

- The Role of a Data Engineer on a Team is Complementary and Often Defined By The Tasks That Others Don’t (Want To) Do Well

There are many guides, tutorials, and courses that like to talk about tools and technologies, and yet very few that get real about organizational structures and the dynamics that cause these archetypes to emerge, peoples' desires to rebrand themselves as "Data Engineers," "ML Engineers," or "(Data) Software Engineers" instead.

There was an interesting survey of ~600 "Data Engineers" by DataKitchen from 2021 ago where they had some very relatable, yet eye-opening findings:

- 97% report experiencing burnout in their day-to-day jobs.

- 70% say they are likely to leave their current company for another data engineering job in the next 12 months.

- 79% have considered leaving the industry entirely.

- 91% report frequently receiving requests for analytics with unrealistic or unreasonable expectations.

- 87% say they are blamed when things go wrong.

- 69% say their company’s data governance policies make their day-to-day job more difficult.

- 89% report frequent disruptions to work-life balance due to unplanned work.

(source: https://datakitchen.io/white_papers/2021-data-engineering-su...)
I am curious why they used a logistic regression. Given that their "IVs” are likely highly correlated, the interpretability of the model is not great, so they could have selected something more non-linear and possibly of higher predictive power. However, they used SAS, which - in the US - would suggest to me that some sort of a statistician was involved, so they would have known about the interpretability issue. (Or maybe I need to read up on logistic regression; it has been a few years.)

> An important limitation of our approach is that we do not know the relationship between the different variables that we analysed. For example, having a child between 12 and 18 (which increases risk scores) is likely correlated to being above 34 (which decreases risk scores).

Doesn't France publish demographic data that would help determine these relationships?

Anyway, it was a good read and many things were very clearly explained, which I appreciated.
No, my argument is: if you do not know how to navigate power, you have no business on a board that purports to govern a fast-growing, prominent and critical organization. This board does not exist to serve itself, its abstractions or its ungrounded anxieties. It exists to practically guide a real organization employing many hundreds of people and serving many millions. There is no room for naiveté.
I'm sure you get the idea, but I'll go forth as well.

(Pun intended)

In my opinion you could teach both economics and common spreadsheet usage. Just please do not make it Excel-specific, many people here use Linux desktops. I would suggest LO Calc as it runs everywhere, or maybe Google Sheets as a distant second.
Grunt or whistle: honey-hunters know how to communicate with honey-seeking birds
Why don't you mention "big batteries" ? These make wonderful peakers. Victorian Big Battery (VBB) in Australia is 300MW. Comparable in size with a nuclear reactor.

Thanks to the EV success, lithium batteries costs are falling exponentially. Coincidentally, photovoltaics costs are also falling exponentially.

Conclusion: regarding electricity production, fossil fuels are soon not going to be competitive, PV + batteries would be so much cheaper...

When? With the actual costs curves, in less than a decade.
I used this one for a little while and I regret it. I'm pretty sure it messed up my mouth microbiome -- been having worse breath, more deposits on teeth/tooth pain, and a lot of gum bleeding. All once I stopped taking it.
I think the Diogenes strategy requires living in a city with a warm Mediterranean climate, not a rural area in Siberia.
I think I've seen something similar for computing fibinocci values by converting the sequence into a series of matrix multiplications which can then be done in parallel because they are commutative (?). Each mareix is 2x2 with 1 in 3 cells and 0 in the last, representing the first fib numbers. Very cool transformation
> "Cult" makes it sound like Scientology.

Other than telling me that you have a narrow understanding of a "cult", I'm not sure what this is supposed to communicate.
Oh. Good to hear. Thank you.
The repo has some screen shots

https://github.com/arthurchoung/PUCKO
That’s literally Cici’s. They have 300 locations in the US.
So because their costs are lower than that of competitors, customers should pay more? Ok.
> Creating a work using Harry Potter or Darth Vader or Tarzan is a copyright infringement

Transformative works are a thing:

https://www.transformativeworks.org/faq/#:~:text=investments...

https://www.transformativeworks.org/faq/#:~:text=Open%20Door...
With the incentives our economy is aligned to for things like phones, repairability will be a hard sell on a dollar to dollar basis with replacement. It's more about values than strict consumer cost.
This is amazing. Thanks for the link! If someone else reads this comment please upvote this person.
My subwoofer loves that first link
I noticed this when trying to do pixel perfect previews for a client project. There are differences in simple text alignment settings. If you need product previews it might be worth considering server side render to image :-( instead.
These examples of an LLM refusing to return meat recipes after inducing vegan behaviour through prompt injection could be a limitation of the original system prompt the LLM started with, no?

Could a tighter operating range specified in the system prompt along with lower temperature bands which cause less output variability help?

Side note - I saw upthread that you were looking to rebrand “prompt injection”. I propose “behaviour induction” or “induced behaviour”
Yes, WEF wants to abolish private ownership of vehicles so they can decide when and where you can go.
Microsoft Research published Orca that may violate to OpenAI's Terms of Use
According to the Orca paper (Orca, Orca2), Orca utilizes responses from ChatGPT 3.5 and GPT-4 to train the model. However, the Terms of use of Open AI explicitly prohibit the "Use Output to develop models that compete with OpenAI.". I am curios about how Microsoft Research team interpreted OpenAI's policy and obtained approval to release competitive models. I am understanding this models are research purpose only but I think authors should mention about the concern when applyting this method in actual use.
I’m still skeptical. Why can’t it be filtered out
I wrote my first calculator app 11 years ago using shunting yard algorithm. It’s a wonderful algorithm, hats off to Dijsktra for coming up with a simple and elegant algorithm.
The new Tesla Highland isn't much better, the design language doesn't feel Californian at all.
There's a crossover where ROI results in lower wiring costs.
> You cannot have a trigger happy fire an important ceo over some to me is a small trust issue

Well, if that was the case it actually was fine but there is no hard proof that it was like that and if it was they messed it up. So failure on all counts.
I have used some C# with Unity and Mono, so I can't comment too much on C# on the server compared to Java, Go, etc. It's an okay language but isn't bad.

That said, F# is a fantastic language. F# is Ocaml but a bit more simpler, better concurrency, and on the C# runtime (or to javascript with Fable).
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I'm not sure how many have done this as well, but I've deliberately allocated lots and lots of elastic IPs on AWS in order to find one that I liked, for use by a long-living instance.
You're welcome to say EA is a cult if you include the caveat that "by cult, I mean a thing that gives lots of money and upvotes to people who criticize it". That way it will be clear that your definition of "cult" is broad enough to include things like that. Not everyone defines the word so broadly.

BTW, for people reading this discussion, here's an alternative explanation of why EA tends to be controversial: https://www.richardhanania.com/p/effective-altruism-thinks-y...
> It baffles me to read anti-union comments from fellow tech-workers.

Tech workers is one of the most well-paid and privileged working classes on the planet.

We have it so good that we don't need the extra bargaining power unions provide.

It's not surprising, we humans have a hard time understanding circumstances that are very different from our own.
How are you guys even making burner facebook accounts? Every time I try (though granted, I haven't tried since 2016), I get stymied by a hard phone number requirement.
Are these roles remote? The JDd say they're onsite.
Unkeeping, I’m tired of this.
I am reading this a lot, it wasn't faked. It was upsold. Even with some additional prompting, I think it was still impressive. Steve Jobs also faked the original iPhone presentation, when it was not stable enough for a demo.
This feels like the plot of a superhero movie.
What is the solution today; stick to simple SVG features, or use PNG?
That was a great ‘blog post’! It’s awesome to see such a complicated repair coming down to a single 10ohm resistor. Amazing diagnosis!

I have a digital mixer for music recording that is also an audio interface for my computer. I had a somewhat known problem where 12 out of the 16 channels stop working.

Turns out what’s going on is the mixer is ‘gating’ the audio signal because the digital gate effect (that is built in) is claiming that it is receiving an input such that it will attenuate the audio signal.

I don’t even know how to diagnose a problem like this. It’s awesome watching someone who does!
The dismissive autocomplete meme needs to die.
To be honest, the passage describes high school drama. And the ensuing drama trigger by this just proves the point.

This and the FTX saga just shows EA as nerdy movement in arrested development.
Honestly, this thread is kinda low quality. OP seems to be taking criticism of C# personally and going full defensive mode. And the question itself is too vague to answer properly. Is this post just seeking validation of one's own preferred language?
Apparently I’m a malicious attacker trying to read Tolstoy because cloudflare is blocking me from this page.
I like buffets in general for the freedom it allows me, not for the amount of food I can eat. Of course there's the freedom to choose foods, but I'm more talking about not being tied to a waitstaff. Eat what I want, then just leave. No having to flag down waitstaff when I want to pay, having to wait on them to come back, feeling guilted into tipping someone who did a pretty awful job, etc.
You see issues with stack allocated variables in a function? There should be negligible cost to that.

The recent introduction of Span (or Memory for heap) has met most of my needs for fighting the GC and pseudo pointers without being 'unsafe'
One of dozens of parts is out of stock and as the other comment points out itself it is also the part that makes the least sense to replace.
> Edit 2: Kinda interesting watching the up/downvote progression in this thread. My initial post, despite being incorrect, was decently upvoted. Now that I've clarified that I was wrong and tried to correct myself, I'm getting downvoted. Neat!

Because people didn't know you were wrong before, and it's usually good to make factually incorrect comments be gray.
I wasn't sure, so I asked:

> Higher voltage systems experience lower power losses over the same distance compared to lower voltage systems. This is due to the fact that power loss in a conductor is proportional to the square of the current. By using higher voltage, you can transmit the same amount of power with less current, reducing resistive losses in the wires.
Wild! Thanks!
Really struggles with fingers, probably worse than any AI image generator I've seen so far. Maybe there aren't a lot of finger-showing images on IG and FB!
Okay, this is a bit embarrassing. I thought I was commenting on a different article…. Disregard my original comment.
This lines up with my experience, and I've found it heavily depends on what industry you are in.

> software engineer in the data domain.

I was basically this for the past ten years. Maybe it was because I was working only in startups.

Outside of tech/startup orgs, "data engineer" at least I found, were SQL specialists. About six years ago, I went into healthcare, and discovered there were about 30 people across five teams that were data engineers. "Oh cool. My colleagues," I thought. Imagine my surprise when I found they only knew SQL, knew data modeling theory, and had basically no SDLC experience. At my present job, in a traditionally blue-collar industry, I took over a team with the only data engineer in the whole company. He, too, knew only SQL. I've had shove Python at him and get him working in SDLC.

I think these people though, are shrinking. Putting pressure on this from the other side, Python is a common skill with data analyst these days. Software engineers do the heavy lifting and good-enough data modeling, while data analyst do business-specific analysis and good-enough software development like writing DAGs with Dagster. Knowing SQL isn't enough to get by in the job market.
I cannot imagine advocating for using shapes as they currently exist for an access control use case. Shapes may limit what the user can see in the app, but I've now put all of my other users data on this user's device! No way can I pass a security audit with that.
A new 66M-year history of carbon dioxide offers little comfort for today
Oh I hope nobody's doing that, rechargeables have been so good for so long. I'm just now retiring some that I bought in the 2007-2011 timeframe which have started to fail, but my 2015 purchases are still going strong with hundreds and hundreds of charge cycles on 'em. I haven't used alkalines since the 80s.
Didn’t see anyone mention Indian buffets in India. In my hometown of Bengaluru , many restaurants offer buffets. Weightage is given to starters ( I’m vegetarian so I tend to eat paneer ones ). Desserts are a few Indian sweets and lots of cheap ice cream which seems in line with the economics mentioned. If you eat protein heavy starters it’s unlikely you’ll want to have more food for mains.
I've never used a language without null, besides C# nullables (which I also find perfectly fine, though agreed to be somewhat awkward). What is the alternative and its benefit? Null fits so many issues perfectly naturally, like a database entry without a value. And I find the C# '?' syntax to be amazing. For those unfamiliar with it:

string foo = someDb.GetRow(id)?.Value

foo is null when the row is null or the value is null, with 0 null pointer exceptions possible. If you wanted to allow someDb to possible be null, instead of intentionally crashing out, you could also add another ? after that reference. Really wish C++ had this. But in general I find null pointer exceptions to be desirable, because more often than not they indicate a failure of assumptions.
If it's accidentally becoming a strawman, it's only by virtue of trying to tie it back to the original post. People didn't realize your goalposts were a mile away from those goalposts.

If you're given a single serving without asking, then you have almost no resemblance to the people being criticized here.

Your earlier post said you "wouldn't feel even slightly guilty" about wasting food in a way that implied you would act similarly to the people being criticized here, taking a whole bunch of pieces. If you do that, you should feel guilty. If you weren't trying to imply a similarity, you communicated your point badly.
Unfortunately, idiots in many other cities around the world did have their way at that time
Ancient stars made extraordinarily heavy elements, researchers find
Nothing "directly" runs on 12V either. All electronics will have stepdown converters in both the 12V and 48V use case. Motors, solenoids and incandescent bulbs can be made to work with either voltage (the same way we do for 24V systems in heavy goods vehicles here in Europe).
And the contactor is usually switched with no current through it. The only time it would open under load is in an emergency, and presumably it only does that once.

Which is to say, yeah, it's a non-issue for pretty much everything. Even in the 12v realm, new BCMs have so few relays anymore, almost everything's done with onboard FETs and software.
I'm working with some data that has a large number of date formats within a single document - day seconds, week seconds, ISO8601, ticks, some with hardcoded offsets and others with different datums ... it would be quite funny I think to throw in a new column in the Hebrew calendar, just to join the party, so to speak.
It does, however it also does for Django.

Breaking changes can vary between 'these one or two things out of thousands must be changed' and 'yeah we did a rewrite and its a new library but we kept the name as its pretty well known'.
F# does have [<Struct>] DUs now but I believe because of the runtime limitations you mention, it ends up as sizeof(fields of case 1 + fields of case 2 + ...). They might reuse fields of the same type so if your DU cases can carry an A of string or B of string*int, the underlying struct is sizeof(string+int) not sizeof(string+string+int), but I'm not sure.

Regardless F#'s biggest downfall is that to use it you basically have to be a C# expert already and learn the F# syntax and additional features on top of that. Otherwise it's a baffling standalone language because you're left wondering why there are two ways to do almost everything -- Task vs Async, struct ("tup", "les") vs ("regular", "tuples"), two kinds of extension methods for classes, Nullable<T> vs Option<T>, it goes on and on.
> They have 300 locations in the US.

That implies a wide distribution, but digging a little deeper, about half of their 280 locations are in Texas.
AI Act Drama
"AI used to categorize people according to their sexual preference, AI systems that claim they can recognize the emotions of asylum seekers, AI that retrospectively recognizes the faces of protesters in public space – apparently, EU Member States do not shy away from enabling and promoting the use of the most misguided systems one can imagine. The EU Parliament has taken a clear stance that such systems are not compatible with one of the main purposes of the AI Act – the protection of fundamental rights – and thus must be banned. Member States, however, pursue a different agenda: They are now exerting extreme pressure on the parliament to legitimize the use of such AI systems."
Balkan genomes trace the rise/fall of Roman Empire's frontier, migrations
Do you have any examples of how the FDA is starting to put corporate interest ahead of public interest?
> a new one would cost much more than an entirely new, and more capable phone

That is the case in general with fairphone, if you just want a cheap phone you can buy an iPhone.
For those who don't know, it's a reference to the "Hot Dog Stand" color scheme that was one of the built-in options for early Windows

https://blog.codinghorror.com/a-tribute-to-the-windows-31-ho...
I think it might mostly just be those with kids!

And non techies. They always have a few disposable battery flashlights hanging around it seems like.
>If you move to Japan of China you will have to transliterate your name or adopt a local name.

I can't speak for China, but I can speak for Japan. I occasionally transliterate my name for one reason or another, but 99% of the time I'm rocking my name the way I identify with it. Don't mistake me for not participating the local culture. I speak the language, the government (city and federal), and my employer, a local firm, all use my latin name on all official documents and informal communications. My coworkers and friends will usually use my latin spelling as well. Bear in mind, these are usually mixed-provenance sentences where they'll switch to latin for my name in the middle of an otherwise fully native sentence. I'm happy to transliterate it when the situation calls for it but I'd prefer it not be forced on me if it can be helped.

To answer a sibling comment, do I identify it more spoken or written, I would say the written form. I'm tolerant of accents, foreign languages with separate syllabaries, verbal typos, and other such errata, so I don't really care strongly how my name is pronounced as long as an earnest attempt is made.
It turns out, this plant fossil is a baby turtle fossil
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I had the same thought: iirc, all the “elf children” Tolkien wrote about (albeit briefly) were half- elves. I can retcon explanations but have to wonder if Tolkien was intentional about that.
Same here. I also think it’s “we the people’s” fault to a large degree as well. These institutions require citizens to elect leaders who will put them in check. We don’t do that. The system largely works so people don’t really care that much, myself included.
And yet, modern science involves humans, human interests, and human failings. Science practice is as flawed as the people that do it.
Her profile - as you state - checks lots of boxes: concerned highly credentialed young woman interested in an emerging field that is part of china-us battleground. Would look great on any corporate brochure
At least the leaf blowers happen during the day. I live in a very dense neighbourhood, and it's a running joke among neighbours in the local FB groups. That being said, the (on purpose) loud motorcycle and car crowd honestly deserves the worst.
> perceptive hashes

And if you’re sending media they have on record that means they can look up the exact same media and still have it qualified as metadata
The main problem I have seen is that much like Swift or Cocoa, there are a bunch of Totally Not Open Source frameworks/libraries/etc that most applications for the original target platform use, and you must then dig into stack traces or hack code to avoid weird crashes because the code wants the Windows way of determining the local timezone, etc. I'm sure it could be great, I was a dot net developer many years ago, and it was fine, but it's a lot of work to make it work on Linux compared to the average jar. It's probably bad code vs bad language, but I've found other stuff easier to use or run, and avoid it as much as possible. Not comparing C, C++, Rust or Go because those don't even need a runtime installed, and I'm much more familiar with coding in those languages.
To riff on this, a lead-acid cell is 2.2v. If you look at the 12v battery in your (typical) car, it has six cells. It's less obvious with modern sealed batteries, but super obvious with flooded lead acid batteries in golf carts.

Lithium batteries do not have 2.2v cells; typical li-ion cells are 3.7v. So there's no particular reason why you should stack them to 48v, except that there's already some amount of industrial capacity for 48v components due to the preponderance of 48v golf carts.

Of course, these systems don't work at exactly 12v or 48v or whatever; voltage on the bus fluctuates with state of charge (and state of charging).
It's funny how these kind of -maybe mundane at the time- things really are the most important things.