skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope I wasn't unclear, I'm not stuck on testing per se. I want Amazon to stand behind what's sold on its site. I don't really care what goes into that: if it needs to physically test products to do that, then it should, but if there's a different/better/cheaper way of getting the confidence to take responsibility than that's fine too.

No argument that that's burdensome and makes it more expensive to run an online marketplace; of course it is. But what's the alternative? Pure buyer beware doesn't work when I can't physically inspect what I'm buying and there's often no way to know much of anything about the seller. Hassle-free returns are nice when you're only out money, but undisclosed drugs in supplements can be genuinely dangerous. A refund isn't going to fix things in the really bad cases.

This is how liability has worked in the American and British legal systems for at least three centuries: when there's been harm done, the person harmed can recover the full value of the damage from any party that helped cause the harm. Plaintiffs don't need to worry about who was most at fault; that's for the defendant to work out with the other parties afterwards. Similarly the FDA can't and shouldn't need to start a separate regulatory action for every seller on Amazon's platform. It's totally appropriate for them to lean on the large domestic company with the fixed address and known officers, and rely on Amazon to enforce compliance with the law down at the seller level.
I’ve done that for every job I’ve gotten in the past 20 years.

I’m not sure if everyone does it this way, but I identify an org. Then I look for people who work in that org or near it and find authentic ways to connect with them to learn about the position. And I just work toward a hiring manager until I’m able to spend time with them and demonstrate value.

And then eventually, if it’s a match, they have a position that I apply to and usually their decision is made before I apply.

This seems pretty common in how I hire as well as it’s really useful to be able to meet and identify people who will be a good fit. It’s much harder to sort through tons of applicants.
This is pure garbage. Please suggest an alternative to "The Myth." I see two immediate problems with any alternative that far out-weigh its purported benefits. (1) Any solution you propose involves a government imposing its will on the people, 'reallocating' their wealth, and using that loot to pick and choose the winners. (2) Any alternative to "The Myth" necessarily deprives people of ownership of their future -- you create more victims. When people believe they have no control over their destiny, they fall prey to nihilism. Thanks to rhetoric like yours coming from BLM, Antifa, and the rest of the progressive ilk, you only need to look at the news to see how well a nihilistic society works.
I was a little kid, but I’m pretty sure I managed to beg my parents into buying a couple of the Commander Keen games.
The government is taking money from productive people, and using it for all sorts of unproductive ends. Most people on welfare don't have enough to become productive - living is already a struggle.

The government would take the money anyway, and just redirect it to wars/innovation/PPE... it is not the 'unproductive' people - or the immigrants - that are taking most of the money. It's the wealthy abusing it to make themselves and their friends even more wealth.
You're not supposed to have a wide wage range for a single job.
There's a bizarre and partly funny short document about LSD test in Czechoslovak army. Sadly no English subs although I am considering running it through Whisper and translating it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HXMHdhQL_8&pp=ygURbHNkIGluI...

On a more serious note, it's a shame that the psychotherapy research was stopped.

Another article from Maps
https://maps.org/news-letters/v17n1/lsd_in_prague-long_term_...
The author is in the thread so if these are your specific questions or critiques, you should direct them there. 'It's hilarious to me they don't use Wordpress' is not a specific question or critique, it's a generic sneery putdown.
Supply and demand determine the price (or interest rate). Businesses get loans the same say any other business transaction happens. A buyer and seller hash out an agreement. This already happens all the time, even in the US (see investment banking).

If the lender, such as a bank, is any good at their job of underwriting, then they won’t need the federal government’s assurance to bail them out and they will still be able to attract funds from people seeking returns (and risk).
Devil's advocate: I have never seen a GraphViz plot that didn't look like spaghetti, so the fact that this plot looks like a mess doesn't mean much to me.
I know here we are talking about Japan, and I am not familiar with Japan stance on Downloading / Uploading and copyright violations.

But here in Mexico, you can download all you want, and last time I read the law, as long as you did stuff "not for profit" you could also distribute digital content.

(of course I always say that, here in Mexico it is illegal to murder people, kidnap and whatnot, and look at how much they prosecute people that do that [95% of crime goes unpunished in Mexico [1]])

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/violent-crimes-rise-mexi...
Tbh, I kind of hope this doesn't take off. I feel like the Michelin Guide has polarized the restaurant industry and to get their 2nd or 3rd Michelin star they are focusing more on decor and decorum than the tasting menu dishes.
I've got sometimes a legitimate Google or MS dev newsletter emails going into their own spam folders :) .
Or code generation for APIs.
Nobody lives in them.
As already expected, PostgreSQL is the DBMS of the year 2023
https://db-engines.com/en/blog_post/106

This is incredible to see its popularity only growing.
MLB pitcher. NFL quarterback. Movie actor. Book author. Quant trader. Mutual fund analyst. Commodities trader. Salesperson. Lawyer. Head coach. CEO. CTO.

IMO, software engineer is also among the jobs where a wide range of performance is evidenced from among the people who are qualified to hold the position.
I think a safer language for anti-AI training license would be a CC-based license with a "may not be used in AI training sets or testing" addition... This would (if they cared) prevent the AI company from using the data... but not tools used by end users (which could actually be end users of that AI company)... which is, I think, a safer basis for what the IHAIL license is aiming for
that was a major feature of twitter and people got used to it over the past decade+
The parent comment is specifically referring to creating a new branch from an existing branch with a slash in the name (ex: 'test-branch' and 'test-branch/new'). Trying it on my own machine (macos) yields an error. Even switching branches first and creating the new one yields an error.
I think a lot of people drop any wrong information. It's a waste of time to think about wrong information.

This comic presents a scenario where someone believes wrong information: git branches have rules. Git branches do not in fact have rules. This is wrong information. Why would we talk about wrong information?

We talk about wrong information because other people do not have up to date and correct information. We can try to just update their information to be correct, but that does not always work. In some cases they have built a structure of reasoning based on their belief. It is traumatic to destroy this structure of reasoning without providing a replacement.

Thus it can be helpful to understand the bad reasoning (based on wrong information) in order to communicate more effectively.
Maybe I'm mistaking that with "Law of truly large numbers"

With a huge number, it is possible to make something look reasonable or un-reasonable. Wasting billions of hours of peoples time. Sounds bad, we should get rid of that.

But that is also the time when people should be watching the safety video. Which can impact a few lives. Like remembering where the safety doors are.

Maybe this is more along those lines.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_truly_large_numbers
The law of truly large numbers (a statistical adage), attributed to Persi Diaconis and Frederick Mosteller, states that with a large enough number of independent samples, any highly implausible (i.e. unlikely in any single sample, but with constant probability strictly greater than 0 in any sample) result is likely to be observed.[1] Because we never find it notable when likely events occur, we highlight unlikely events and notice them more.

The law is meant to make a statement about probabilities and statistical significance: in large enough masses of statistical data, even minuscule fluctuations attain statistical significance. Thus in truly large numbers of observations, it is paradoxically easy to find significant correlations, in large numbers, which still do not lead to causal theories (see: spurious correlation), and which by their collective number,[4] might lead to obfuscation as well
The problem is that nobody buys bitcoin, they simply give some (generally shady) exchange their money and hope the number in their web browser goes up. Bitcoin COULD kill fractional reserve, IF people understand bitcoin, but they do not.
What is your mortgage amount and what is rate?

Say your mortgage is 300,000 and rate 5%. You would pay 15,000 in interest. Subtract from your total yearly payment say 25,000. You pay back 10,000 a year divide by 12 for months or payment period to get the amount.
The difference may be down to "Apple Dongle" in the era of USB-C/Lightning connectors and no 3.5mm - I know that despite not having particularly high impedance headphones, the difference was huge - and I specifically avoided "listening to equipment" and didn't invest too much into it.
I'm in the US but I'll say for sure that things like this are about half the reason I haven't hired any employees for my LLC. I wish I could, but I'd be de facto hiring an accountant as well!
I'm a huge critic of a lot of uses of "meritocracy" as a sole guide in how things are or should be, but this attack on it still feels lacking. Would be akin to my talking about "the myth of good people", because there have always been bad people. Or because the "good people" we look towards were not perfectly "good" in all ways.

It seems it is still very fair that the US approached an ideal meritocracy far more so than many of the other nations that could be looked towards. Is that not at all the case?
If it's fair use, you don't need a license at all.
If you scroll slightly down the readme explains which desktop environments are supported and using which wayland protocol extensions.
The "right way" is subjective and the first mistake many people make IMO. What I think is the right way isn't always the right way for other people.

Tooling changing in JavaScript is unique to JavaScript only because of the language constraints. PHP, Ruby, etc are all controlled by the developer, whereas JavaScript is controlled by the browser vendors and end users of those browsers. You have more things to work around, inconsistencies to smooth over, and more importantly larger ambition on the frontend than most things can currently support, so new paradigms and frameworks come out to tackle that.

Also 5 years in internet time is a long time. So I'd probably not say it "changes so fast"
There is still plenty of tundra in Canada and Siberia where mammoths could still live today. Megafauna survived several cycles of climate change. They went extinct during the cycle when humans arrived.
I've been looking for something like this.
A myth that runs so deep especially in silicon valley that any article about it gets flagged to death rather than being discredited in the comments.
Was thinking like maybe he has cancer or something cause he doesn't look healthy ..maybe the truth is is that his diet really is about keeping him alive & trying to find a cure for what he has naturally.

This is only a thought and an opinion based on how I think he looks which looks not healthy to me, but again only an opinion. Time will tell!
This is UK government at its finest - create regulations that are unenforceable, and espouse metrics that are meaningless. It's going to get more crazy in the run up to the election, as all the new promises appear, despite never finishing those from the last decade.
Not impossible, but for the case of Beavis and Butthead, you’d need tight control over the start/stop timing, the ability to choose a specific version of the video (can’t have some newer one with extra stuff added or some cut or whatever, even just blank space at the beginning or end), the ability to cut away from the video while the audio continues and mix in your own extra audio, all kinds of things like that. It’d be a lot of complexity when you could just… bake it in, which also tends to be the best way to preserve anything, simply connecting all the relevant parts together (practically) inseparably (see: link rot).
love that he helps win the war against napoleon only to try to break him out of exile a few years later
No - the clapper will kill the power to it, so it won't be able to respond. You need to add a Google Nest device that will respond to your request for claps.
well it was my first thought, and I haven't had my coffee yet.

rsfmri data comprise multiple timeseries sampled from voxels throughtout the brain. The dynamics are complex, and there have been attempts to examine it through the lens of attractors etc. I'm not an expert in chaotic analysis, but will say that most of the advances in the field of neuroscience come from innovative analytic methods.
Like I said, it was my first thought, but there is a whole subfield examining brain dynamics through these lenses.
Except that’s a regular experience I’ve encountered while job hunting this winter. It’s either that or what, don’t apply to a good job that I want? The applicant has no leverage in these situations.
There’s an entertaining fictionalised account of some of his antics in Sharpe’s Devil: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Devil
S3 allows you to provide your own keys, or you can encrypt it before you upload the data.
Sharewares got me into coding tbh. As a teenager growing up in India, paying $20+ for a video game was too big of an ask (That was on the order of 1000 rupees at the time and would pay for 20+ meals at a decent restaurant) and there was no way to pay for it even if I wanted to, as my parents did not have credit cards at the time.

So I learned to "crack" shareware, first by patching using hex editors and then using debuggers like SoftICE and Ollydbg to figure out the correct registration code myself. This got me into reading/writing x86 (win32) assembly pretty early and gave me a very intuitive understanding about how programs work. There were also plenty of "crackme" programs to test my skills on.

Thank you, "Santa's Secret Valley". I have a great career today thanks in a small part to you!
I think we might a killed it cause it’s just endlessly loading for me.
We need to setup a whole new profile on YC to apply to this?
I am running daily, about 70km a week. And I have still some extra fat that I want to get rid of that is very hard to do.

Regular exercise causes people to be hungry and compensate for the additional activity. That's normal.

But I probably am feeling and healthier than I would if I wasn't running.

As an example, my body got rid of all the skin folds. I should have flappy loose skin around my belly and I should have old looking skin on my face. Instead my body, being much healthier than if I was just restricting calories, is able to break up and use that extra tissue and got rid of all that skin naturally.

I learned that a doctors evaluating people who lost significant amount of fat can guess pretty correctly at the method the person used to lose the weight just based on how their skin looks like.
I think the ideal of more data == faster advancements may turn out to be a false equivalency. Similar to prior innovations, a healthy headcount, headstart and steady R&D funding will more likely make a difference.

Besides, rather than vacuuming up exisiting data, future resources might be better spent on creating bespoke datasets with user consent and content licensing baked in from the start.
It's clearly competing with NYT if people get their news from NYT via ChatGPT instead of getting it from NYT directly.

Otherwise you could argue that if I copy and paste the NYT articles onto my own website, because I'm not doing any journalism, I'm not competing with the NYT - which is clearly ludicrous.
That is still wrong. It more correct for Chicago but its not remotely true for Austrian school.

The whole point that made the Austrian school different from the Neoclassical approach used by for example Walras or Jevons was that they DID NOT think about micro economics as pure utility optimization.

The point of their approach is not to claim that all individuals are self interested, rather that a dynamic market situation can lead to a good outcome whatever desire the person has. It doesn't fundamentally matter if a person buys porn for himself or if he feeds the homeless. That's of course morally different, but a difference in the underlying economics. That why there is a strong emphasis on subjective theory of value in Austrian economics.

But of course simply empirically speaking most people first look out for themselves and their family and friends. Not sure why that would be controversial. And that is what Austrian economics also assumed, but its called self-interest and not selfishness.
That’s what discovery is for.
That seems appealing but then as the applicant you’re at the whim of a LLMs biases, which are even harder to discern than humans.
Evaluating Semantic Search of "Who's Hiring" Using OpenAI Assistants
The blog goes over the pros and cons of using Assistants vs. Vector Database RAG using an example app that handles semantic search of Who's Hiring.

Code to create your own instance of the Assistant is present in the GitHub link, runnable via a quick `docker compose up`.
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notwithstanding all the cases that could rule it not fair use? That's quite the hedge.
Maybe it's because they feel as if their success is undeserved and they project that feeling about themselves onto others?
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Lawyer accidentally used AI quotes
As an ex NHSE employee it really makes me sad to see the NHS scapegoated all the time.

In my time there I met a lot of clever people, even more so now Digital have been merged in - it’s a shame because the majority of malice and incompetence come from the top down, i.e. the Cabinet Office, DHSC (UKHSA). Internal projects get taken over by the likes of Accenture at massive cost, or asinine decisions get made multiple levels higher than they should be.

Also shout out to whoever got Palantir contracts approved with no competitive process. Trying to spend anything over about £10k was an 12 month long exercise in frustration for us mere mortals.
While I wouldn’t call myself a Luddite, I’ve definitely moved beyond the blind techno-optimism that I held in the 90s and early 2000s.

But it’s not AI that’s making me shift my views. It’s the mess of unresolved problems brought about by the last major generation of tech that gives me pause. Tech that is causing real harms. We still haven’t figured out how to survive the algorithmic social media hellscape we created, and now we’re hurtling towards opening more boxes that would make Pandora proud.

The recent AI explosion has crystallized this view, but did not cause it. My personal view is that tech is nearing some of the very dangerous end points that we’ve only been able to speculate about throughout most of human history.

The atomic bomb completely changed warfare. There are developments past which all old mental models no longer apply. Reducing this to “sides” is a distraction.

I still think technology is part of the solution to the world’s future problems, including the ones brought about by “AI”, but I think it’s foolish to downplay or oversimplify the concerns.
"The political left and right is a figment of your imagination."

I would make a stronger statement. The The political left and right is an outright deception.
once upon a time I set up an elastic search cluster in kubernetes

after a lot of tweaking I made it so that the pods would be as big as the underlying hardware nodes. one pod one node. once that was working I realized that I was using the wrong tool for the job.

the kubernetes tooling added nothing but complexity. needless to say I let it run like that having had wasted about a week getting it to work
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Especially as most of the roles they want, are the same roles the government doesn't want to increase the pay of.
> There's a suggestion that the senescent effects of skin aging have a systemic effect

Interesting, will have a look at this, thanks
But also most of families are single-child ended. So every causality in such war would be end of only baby which family had. This could stir up some unrest.
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I had to get out of silent mode for it to work.