skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t know much about AI, but I’ve thought a lot about career guidance and mentorship.

My best advice: Try to start a virtual community within the specific area/sub-area that you’re interested in. (AI/ML/LLMs if I understood correctly.) If you’re lucky, you can find one that’s already established. Otherwise I would start one on Slack or Discord. Then you can be mentors to one-another. IMHO that’s probably much easier to pull of than finding a traditional mentor and maybe even more powerful, since you’re no longer limited to one single person’s availability.

Going to conferences could probably be useful as well. If you focus on the “hallway track”, you ought to find people who are interested in discussing these kinds of questions.

So, that was my ¢2. HTH!

PS. You might want to consider adding your e-mail in your profile. Otherwise, people will not be able to reach you out-of-band https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28012969
I agree.

It's funny, I live in NYC, where the population has declined by over 5% since 2020 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38698353) and supposedly everyone is working from home, and yet I'm still sitting in traffic every day. The buses are still crowded. The subways are still crowded.
There's not a shortage of housing, just a shortage of people willing to pay enough. Just like when there are articles about labor shortages.
> individuals

It's not the individuals owning the houses. It's corporations.
> You've essentially described C

I'd disagree pretty strongly with that. C is more focused on being relatively simple to implement and backwards compatibility with the past 50 years. (I read a blog post by a C committee member talking about that recently, wish I could find the link)

Just look at the garbage fire which is the standard library. qsort. strtok. rand.

C++ should (in theory at least) be able to match or surpass C for _any_ performance benchmark, because it simply gives you more tools in your toolbox. For example, C is never going to be able to beat std::sort because it can't monomorphize in the compare function.

I'm not saying C++ is perfect either (looking at you unordered_map and regex). But I am saying people look at C with rose colored glasses.
Eh.. there are housing shortages in almost every one of the locations where people buy second homes too. All of the ski towns, all of the beach towns, tons of Southern warm-climate cities like Sedona and Las Cruces.
The same can be said for microfiche.
Meta doesn’t curate the news sources, it’s what the users share, so you couldn’t enforce that kind of quota
I hope you can keep building land, specifically land nearby a lot of employers and services, in order to build those houses upon.
Good question! I wonder if it can detect friction against air.
I hope they stick to these useful helper functions instead of adding more complexity like Type Annotations that provide no type soundness or runtime checks of any kind[0]

[0] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-type-annotations
To drive down the price of homes, because owning is better than renting. Rentals will still exist, I promise.
Where I live, which is along the ocean, boomers who grew up working in local industry are selling for seven figures to vacation home owners because they can’t say no to the money. So what was - one generation ago - a place where summer visitors would mingle with the locals has become a place where few working people actually live and which is increasingly empty in the cold months.

This has taken many hundreds of units of housing off the market for working families. To the point that many restaurants and such house their workers seasonally. And our electrician, plumber et al drive from over an hour inland where they can afford to live (and these people are not hurting). The house across the street from mine - a teardown - is under contract for $1.7MM.
In a perfect world, I would agree. But in reality that will never happen, and young people continue to suffer in the meantime. Housing should have never been allowed to become an investment.
..."in the US". That's a political issue, not a technological issue. And if you want to inquire about the root-cause:

"Comcast does so much lobbying that it says disclosing it all is too hard" https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/05/comcast-does-so-...
A politically tenable portion of the USA seems to be of the opinion that tax funds should not be used to help ill people just because they are ill, cash or not. This is not an extreme political opinion, nor something that is unreasonable to ask someone whether they believe.
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2017/03/29/social-clima...
> If these resources were distributed differently those mansions would not be located on prime beachfront property. They may take completely different forms!

As long as we're talking hypotheticals with no basis in reality, how about:

"If more houses were built then none of this would be a problem"

Discussions about hypothetical forceful redistribution of wealth to prevent people from owning mansions isn't really interesting, IMO.
Very much agree on this. It's what made a switch from Google Workspace to Fastmail much easier than it might have been, and gives me confidence that if there's a better alternative to Fastmail I discover later I can jump ship pretty easily.
> It’s not that we don’t have enough housing

How do you know?
ATC works on a first come, first served basis. (Unless you’re Air Force 1/2, or a survival flight, or declare an emergency.)

So just being in the system hours beforehand doesn’t really mean much. ATC don’t plan ahead based on what’s in the system, per se.
Portugal is the country from OECD with more houses per family (almost 2 houses per family), and we still have a housing crisis
I never thought about this before. Instagram asked for this and the literal second I hit upload on my photo it said I was permanently banned with no appeal possible. This is a good scam.
So it looks to me like the only thing they all have in common is the root word "to accelerate" - otherwise they are completely different ideologies.
Up Your Elf on the Shelf Game with ChatGPT
Leverage ChatGPT to help create engaging hiding games for your Elf on the Shelf tradition. #bestuseofgenaisofar?
i recently started using them as assistants for programming. i usually don't let them write code as it's often (subtly) wrong. examples are:

* how do i use library X to do task Y (excellent for quickly getting up to speed with new libraries).

* actual example from a few days ago: "the most common CI/CD systems and how to identify them" - chatgpt correctly gave me the environment variable names for github actions, gitlab ci, travis, circleci, jenkins and a one or two others. theoretically it saved me having to go through the docs of 7 different systems looking for the right information, which i still did to make sure the data was legit. just confirming the info was still a lot less work as i already knew what to look for.

* how do i create a certain style with css framework XYZ

* is there an algorithm for solving the following problem ...?

* alternative phrasings or synonyms if i can't find the right words myself.

* cooking recipe suggestions ("i have ingredients a, b and c, give me a stew recipe")

* pop culture questions ("why did the fremen settle on a hostile planet like arrakis in the first place?") i'm too lazy to research myself or ask on reddit

* sometimes my (non-natively english speaking) coworkers produce engrish i just can't parse. asking gpt to correct or explain the sentence often yields surprisingly good results.

usually i double check the results but that's still less work than doing all the work by myself from the beginning. recently i also let it write and style html forms which works quite well.

so for me, they're a welcome productivity boost.
> the intern can burn down the entire library of Alexandria with the wrong SQL statement

It's a little ironic to come down negatively on digital data because it can be accidentally deleted easily, when you're comparing it to a library that literally burned down.

> Digital record preservation is hard and gets a lot harder the longer term you try to do it.

Physical record preservation is not walk in the park, either. It's not like paper can just be stored in any old fashion and be expected to not degrade over time.

And with digital records, you can back them up in several different physical locations. With physical records, you're one fire, one burst pipe, one mistake in storage or handling from losing it.
> My interpretation of the finding is that the LLM training has revealed the primordial nature of human language, akin to the primary function of genetic code predominately being to ensure the ongoing mechanical homeostasis of the organism.

We've truly reached peak hype. It's a token predictor dude.
Why not cheat? I'm not looking for realism in games, I'm looking for escapism and to have fun.
It's presented as a chat bot. How much should know about chats before we can conclude that the responses are nonsense?
The first step is to legalize a much broader array of housing types. Apartments, condos, small lots, townhomes, cottage clusters... all of it.

I'm involved in housing advocacy locally, and a huge impediment to building more is zoning and NIMBYism.
It seems they gave you enough information: Minneapolis, Madison, Des Moines, Sioux Falls, Cedar Rapids.
Flight plans get updated when plans are delayed on takeoff. SFO should have had the arrival time from the updated flight plan for quite a while.
I’m jealous as hell. I can only improve when given a list of tasks and a carrot/stick. Tried for decades to figure out how to self impose and have not had luck yet!
Just because someone prefers it over being homeless or commuting 90 minutes each way doesn't mean they like it
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computers-in-human-behavio...

https://mashable.com/article/pew-report-trolling?source=post...

https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2017/03/29/social-clima...
War, plague, famine, etc have been around since the population was 1000x smaller and before. Cities too.
"A open-source, cross-platform, modern terminal"

"Wave Terminal works with MacOS and Linux (preliminary)."
> My r7g.16xl absolutely smokes my maxed out m2 max 16"

yes, because its apples(50-80watt TDP) to oranges(200-600watts). but also that's not the point. All those layers of microservices, or, pushing transactions to s3 slow everything down.

instead of a beefy machine that takes a request and does virtually all of it locally, it need to jump out to either a local sidecar, or another service in the cluster. At best it'll be some message bus, at worse it'll be something over k8s batshit networking scheme.

s3 is fine for streaming medium files, but as soon as you start modifying, boom, massive overhead. any change and you are re-writing the entire file. Than might be ok for your needs, but for others, its a pain in the balls. Lots of small files means that you are waiting for s3 io. S3 has improved significantly, and it can stream reasonably fast, but its not a _fast_ object store.

now, of course, its got 30gbits a second network. great, but if you're wasitng that on writing out whole files for every single file change, you'll soon eat it up.
What is the proposed legislation referred to in this article?
It’s both. Tens of thousands of units are owned by individuals looking to cash in on Airbnb in any given city.
Small fraction of people but a huge fraction of wealth. Top 10% having 70% of the wealth, e.g.

If we make the (extremely crude) assumption that the capital expended on that 2nd home could be moved elsewhere, we could have built more housing in cities instead of building and maintaining that home.

[0]https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.statista.com/chart/amp/1963...
The idea that Blackrock brought all the homes has reached the level of what I'd call "TikTok truth", ie. an idea that feels so true that reality can't compete. Can I ask you why you find it convincing?

I found this Derek Thompson article informed my thinking on the subject:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/06/blackrock-...
The flight plan factors into flow timing, which is used to manage capacity, but there's no reservation of a landing time. Flight plan timings aren't accurate enough for that to be feasible when you have landings at close to one a minute.

The flow timing rate used for approaches to SFO during visual conditions is based on visual approaches, so this particular aircraft didn't fall into the expectations used for that planning mechanism. Even then it's not a forward looking plan, just a rate limit on arrivals that causes departure clearances to be delayed. I'm not even sure if it works for international flights.
How would the negative income tax work in practice? Do I need to wait a full year for my tax return to get a lump sum payment?
That's absolutely not what's advertised, described, or purchased. Nobody is buying "lane-centering software", which has been around for like a decade now in some form or another.

At best, I would accept that this is blatant false advertising on the fault of all car manufacturers who offer anything with a name akin to "autopilot".
The issue is 100% that we make it very hard to build in the areas that have highest demand.

It is not short-term rentals, it is not individuals owning too many houses, it is not rich people moving in to a neighborhood, it is not Chinese money fleeing the PRC, and it is not private equity "commodifying" housing.

It is that we suppress the construction of housing through to byzantine permitting, incredibly harsh zoning, vetocracy, and overburdening regulation.

This shortage is at the core of so many of our woes, homelessness being the most visible, but it really underscores _the entire economy_.

I created some slides over a year ago to present to friends and colleagues how I view the problem, you can peruse at your leisure: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1O1_oW0Ci2SJEIIhXzuzV...
There's also this crash that happened while ILS was broken:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiana_Airlines_Flight_214

This was ultimately pilot error but also due to the fact that the pilots were not as accustomed to doing visual landings.
Wealth inequality is not being caused or exacerbated by Onlyfans and Bitcoin scams or "lack of morality", whatever that means.

Corporate and high income taxes have been slashed. This has been going on for decades, but the prior president and congress gave the wealthiest Americans and corporations a two trillion dollar tax cut - a forty percent reduction in corporate taxes - and this was after one trillion dollars in Paycheck Protection Program "loans", most of which were 'forgiven' and a myriad of other pandemic programs - as well as a wholesale gutting of regulations.

In 1940 if you made $200,000 ($4M today) you were taxed at ninety percent to help out with the war effort because there was a long history of the wealthiest being expected to help out in times of societal emergency. The NY Times claims the Great Recession and COVID were the first exceptions but I'd say it's been going on since Vietnam or so. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/19/opinion/rich-billionaires...
Oh someone has put this on a CoreXY: ;)

https://www.prusa3d.com/product/original-prusa-xl-3/
While not mentioned in the article, Spacelink (a spinoff from EOS) has a contract with the GSFC for tracking space objects for high bandwidth communication.

Interesting thing is EOS originally started in this field and later found there is a huge opportunity in military applications for it's stabilised tracking hardware/software such as remote weapons stations while the vehicle is moving.

https://eos-aus.com/nasa-awards-contract-to-spacelink/
> And that's in a decade that is considered one of the best in US history

Amusingly, that's sometimes spun as what happens after a war - until you wonder what happened to Jimmy Carter's post-war economy.
That absolutely would save money. The costs of the actual digital storage would be much much lower than for physical items. And once you have an agency that's set up to be experts in digital archival, you can use that for anything, not just these wills.
We do, there is just a strong block of voters who do not want you to have this option and make it as difficult as possible.
why are you assuming I’m “worked up”? I was simply asking some questions and just because I disagree with the original commenter’s characterisation doesn’t mean I’m necessarily upset. In fact, quite the opposite, I’m curious why so many people blindly accept things as “real” when they are only “real” insofar as we make it so.
This is pretty intuitive when you think about predicate locks that Postgres uses to detect conflicts.

If you have one SERIALIZABLE transaction that sets some locks, and one non-SERIALIZABLE that doesn't, then they can't "see" each other "by definition".

But your point stands--there could be some kind of "warning flag" somewhere, that would alert if SERIALIZABLE transactions overlap with non-SERIALIZABLE ones. Or maybe there _already_ is something like that??
Sure, it's certainly greed. That people were (are) incentivized to be greedy doesn't mean it's not greed anymore.
> Untrue - it often takes the form of, somebody bought a townhome in the city 20 years ago, they use the appreciation to buy a house in the suburbs, they move and keep the city home and rent it out.

Renting a home out is still productive.

Keeping it empty is not. I was pointing out that people aren't buying two homes in the same city to keep one empty.
We do have the technology to stack dwellings vertically, which is a good way to use scarce land more efficiently.

The problem is that it's not legal in most parts of most cities.
No, C is not the same as it is less expressive.

C++ templates allow for declarative nested inlining into a single compilation unit that is extremely difficult to achieve with C macros.

See elsewhere in this thread for discussion of boost, it's not applicable.
I wonder if there is any mechanism that reconfirms landing slots (and other aspects of the flight plan) still being available after a delayed takeoff for cases like this.

Is it really just a matter of taking off and hoping for the best, or did somebody in the chain of granting a take-off clearance miss something?
or just buy an IBM mainframe.

let the hardware and OS figure that shit out.
Sure it does. It's just not a 1:1 correlation. People who could otherwise live there are priced out and in lieu of such an arrangement they occupy homes elsewhere while the mansion sits vacant.

There is of course the egregious, low-density nature of such a mansion in the first place, something it seems that is especially unfit for the current culture.
People at the bottom of the ladder. All the people I deal with coming out of prison find the quickest and easiest way to get a debit card is Cash App.
Anybody who tried has starved to death or needed a bloody revolution to get rid of their dictator and his nomenklatura.
Or "cheap" is defined by more than the cost of a house. Usually lack of local economy and jobs is the reason those towns are shrinking.
I'm not saying anything about Blackrock (although they are most likely evil).

I'm simply saying that we should ban private equity firms owning residential properties, period. If it's not a problem, why should Blackrock care?
I found this document [0] which includes a bit more information about the audience and the structure of the handbook. The target audience is specifically engineers working for the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS).

It looks like the gaps are because they're progressively updating the handbook, so "Sections" are chapters that have yet to be updated and "Parts" are chapters that have been updated:

> Many technical references are available to help NRCS engineers prepare conservation designs, e.g. industry
design references, professional publications, academic textbooks, and market literature. NRCS design engineers
with accumulated empirical experience have worked with academia, industry, and other government agencies to
develop technical references and procedures that are specific to conservation work. This knowledge base is
housed in the National Engineering Handbook Series, Technical Releases, and Technical Notes:

> General Manual, Title 210 - Engineering, Parts 600-659 are grouped together to form the National Engineering
Handbook (NEH) Series. These Parts can be found at http://directives.sc.egov.usda.gov/ under the browser
search column as “Handbooks - Title 210 Engineering.”

> The filing system for National Engineering Handbook Series was updated in 1998. As a result, old NEH
Sections are posted with the new NEH Parts. As the old NEH Sections are updated, they will be filed as Parts
under the new NEH Series.

[0] https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/sites/default/files/2023-03/ND%20S...
There’s no good reason for type checking to be super slow. I’m no fan of Go, but the language compiles insanely fast while being fully statically typed.

As I understand it, C++’s slow compilation comes from the fact that it usually parses all of your header files n times instead of once. This isn’t a problem with static typing. It’s a problem with C++, and to a lesser extent C.
I don't know why you are getting downvoted. Most of Europe the same -- easy, free cash transfers.
I'd risk a statement that the managed by state/law might be true for most of the world (except US).
I'm not an expert at all, but I think the "one model to rule them all" is an sf problem that no serious physicist really work on...because rules are models to describe the universe. Knowing a unique model that match exactly means we are able to know everything about the universe. But how one can know that there is no more phenomena to be discovered, and that all models match exactly ?
Thanks for this. I looked at mailbox.org before picking Fastmail, but their pricing is a bit much for the relatively small amount of storage, and I just want email, not their office platform, which seems to be a core part of their offer. However, I'd rather be somewhere in Europe than Australia (as I am with Fastmail) for privacy reasons, and runbox.com looks interesting. Do you have any experience with reliability for any of those services?
That last bit is a tremendous stretch and you're doing your shoulder joint no good in reaching that far.

No, there's more to it than that, but like I said, at worst, it has a kind of "stay in your lane" feel to it. Not in the snotty "know your role" sense, no, rather a more insidious method is substituted, in which, by not striving to enter the Inner Ring, you're rewarded with some kind of nebulous peer respect. Very a much a "meek will inherit" sort of thing, and often untrue.

Take the Tolstoy bit that was part of the piece. The general is ignored. But what if the general had something important to say, something of tactical or strategic value? Well, it's ignored. I'll counter with HST: "Politics is the art of controlling your environment." Wouldn't it be prudent for that general, should he recognize his situation, to strive for entry into the Inner Ring and then be heard? It would be. Lewis does not address this. Instead, one is to take consolation that one was at least correct, but unheard, as the Inner Ring steers the ship off course. You're even suppose to hope that other people, also outsiders, will recognize your track record and your value.

Personally, I haven't found much consolation in that outsider position at all. Instead I have watched the members of the Inner Ring sail off to ever-better positions, failing upward. Rather than attempting to change my position, I am to accept it and some reward will be dispensed unto me. I have yet to see it.
IN MICE (and lab cultures of human cells)

> the method had a 99 percent efficiency against lab cultures of human melanoma cells, and half of the mice with melanoma tumors became cancer-free after treatment.

Meme source: https://twitter.com/justsaysinmice?lang=en
Sometimes people have bad luck and typically people have a better understanding of what would help them the most than someone in a government office who has never met them before.