skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about other online learning sites like Babbel.com?

Has anyone around used it and can comment on how good, effective, or otherwise it is?

On thinking about learning a new European language, I had thought about using Duolingo for the first months to start getting some vocabulary, then jumping maybe onto Babbel for more serious study. But not sure if that works too well as far as online methods go.
okay but if I only need to text ONE phone number (and I can prove ownership over that phone number), then why so many restrictions?

There should be an easier way to just test out the API.
you don't go on LinkedIn much do you.

this is how business speak goes
"Where does n come in?"

I *think* this might help to answer your question for where n comes from. It helps me at least think about it.

The definition of the variance of the standard error V[\bar{x}] = V[X]/n. You can back this out from the definition of variance, the property that V[aX] = a^2V[X], and that variances are additive with independent draws. Take the square root of that and you have the standard error.

Why this "feels" right to me via an example.

Suppose we want to know the average height of the US population. Intuitively, we think that (assuming a representative sample) we'll do "better" in the sense of a tighter distribution around our best guess (mean of sample) of the population value if we sample 1000 people as opposed to sampling 10.

This is related to the distribution and would function as our "best guess" about the dispersion of a variable in the same units as the original. Both of them are sampling to try and guess the average. Since \bar{X} is itself a random variable, it has a distribution, and that distribution should probably include something about the sampling process we used to characterize it.

Mean absolute error would be E[|X-mu|] since the true mean of the distribution is a constant.
There are different torque-to-tension equations for lubricated and unlubricated fasteners, of various materials and platings.
> will remain MIT-licensed

Seems like fairly strong assurance to me
Alaska 737 Max-9 Door UPDATE 8 Jan 2024 (YouTube)
I think the common notion is that the survival of the individual is exactly what natural selection is selecting for.

However, it seems to me its more selecting for its own particular configuration of genes, that essentially select for a signature of themself.

Within a species the configuration between individuals is generally different enough to not ellicit altruistic behaviour.

In most animals, the 50% kinship gene relatedness threshold is definitely not enough to instigate self sacrificial behaviour. The children of a usocial species have to be like 11/16ths clones of eachother. And the runt suicide mechanism that triggers in rabbits requires a brood of true clones.

The reason I think it seems the genes select for individuals is because most circumstances will recquire that the current reproductive unit at the individual level needs to stay alive long enough for a net positive replication contribution to have been made.
Also possible to do directly in the "safe" type system, without messing around with /proc/mem: https://zyedidia.github.io/blog/posts/5-safe-transmute/
It's now loved but just not traditional
It seems like it's a disease endemic to data products. Everybody, the big cloud providers and the small data products, build something whose selling point is "I'm the same as Apache X but better." But if you don't know what Apache X is, you have to go read up on that, and its website might say "I'm the same as Whatever Else but better," and you have to go read up on that. I don't want to figure out what a product does by walking a "like X but better" chain and applying diffs in my head. Just tell me what it does!

I get that these are general purpose tools with a lot of use cases, but some real quick examples of "this is a good use case" and "this is a bad use case, maybe prefer SQL/nosql/quasisql/hadoop/a CSV file and sed" would be really helpful, please.
That looked incredibly harrowing. I can't imagine how hopeless that must have felt.
Internet Explorer did not follow web standards, Chrome does, pretty religiously. That's a huge difference. And Safari and Edge are gaining ground, Safari is not based on Chrome anymore and there are a number of open source browsers based on Chrome.
Have any of the significant Meta acquisitions had major reductions in workforce?

Unless they get declared a mistaken purchase like Parse they’ve tended to grow over time.

Meta has a phenomenal appetite for funding projects with little direct revenue when they’re getting engagement like Instagram and WhatsApp earlier on.

And Unity wouldn’t need to create direct revenue for Meta. The control of the gaming ecosystem would be so strategically valuable.
(I’m wrong, see below.)
There are other uses for WiFi than a home. Office buildings, stadiums, theaters, stores, etc. all often have WiFi available and more people using it. Newer/better WiFi versions are targeted for those kinds of uses.
Turkey doesn't need US for defense, it's the other way around. That's why the US gov grinds their teeth but have to deal with Erdogan
Some tech is. Meanwhile large tech companies that are actually innovating (FAANG, near-FAANG, and FAANG-adjacent companies) are not. My comp has never been higher, and we're hiring. In the bay area.
How well does it work with sklearn/scipy/pytorch?
They are a pretty huge leap! I just think for manufacturing and assembly where it is critical to get specific values right we cannot rely on neural nets in their current form.

I think there are digital wrenches that will record the torque they applied, you don't need to mess around with colors. But at that point, it's sort of like, why bother teaching the AI to notice if people are doing it right, stick a camera on the wrench and QR sticker on the bolt. Make a more formal verification process that can be guaranteed to match specifications.
When it was a feature it was often frustratingly broken because their questions would have an ambiguity but they would only accept one possible answer as valid. So you would read the sentence, translate it, and then get told you were wrong because whoever wrote the question didn't recognize the ambiguity.

Removing the feature altogether was probably cheaper than fixing all of their questions.
Only grease fasteners if specified by the manufacturer, otherwise you're going to apply much higher than specified tension at the same torque value.
Totally fair.

I’d add it’s fair to also question how many people on the internet who claim to be employed translators are actually employed translators
all of this just to eliminate an emergency exit to fit 2 extra fares on each flight
They are not related. Probably different types of bolts, for sure different stress types. Rudder assembly is a moving part, these false door panels are not.
they have consumed countless copyrighted works, and have admitted that without such data, their model would be pathetic in comparison to the current version.
I think you would be mistaken. The car’s engines probably have more in common than the two planes’ engines (low-bypass turbofans in the original, vs. latest high-bypass on the newest ones; engines so different that they changed the plane’s handling enough to require the maligned MCAS). Avionics are entirely different and arguably much more vital to the planes function than a car’s instruments. The interiors are also basically not comparable (sure they have seats but that’s about it).
software development: what is QA?
I would bet your notes would have been better. This is drivel, like it's written for the CV of someone without much emotional intelligence
I don't recall if it was git itself or github that bragged about inverting the storage structure so that it was simplest to read the current state, and HEAD~3 was determined by substracting the last 3 patches rather than fast forwarding from root to length - 3.

To do so requires that the patch function is a reversible function, which for git is not hard to achieve. I wonder how many CRDTs that is true for.

There are ways to transmit only a partial history for git, there should be ways to do the same for most CRDTs.
I volunteer at the Florida Railroad Museum. We have a couple speeders.
I'm afraid yes. The left one is much flatter and is clearly a drawing, while the right one looks almost a photograph.
> So it isn't that only 700 jobs were created, it's that despite the massive layoffs everyone is reporting on and focusing on, there was actually a small net positive in job growth.

^ This guy reads.
The burden of proof lies on you if you want to make claims like that
> Well, we had people bragging about working 2, 3 or more remote jobs in 2021/2022

Do we know how prevalent that really was though?

I just assumed those were extreme outliers, famous because they were so outrageous.
I have not, though this doesn't surprise me from seeing how lobbyists buy ads on TV and the net. What I'm saying is that the people paying $$$ to communicate with US Senators or Fortune 500 CEOs like that are operating on a different level from regular people.

If you write a letter to the newspaper, you might hope to influence one person, or the general audience of the paper. If you feel so strongly about something that you compose an op-ed, you'll also have to do the work of persuading a feature editor to publish it (although this isn't too hard, if it seems like it fills the news hole). That's a bit less accessible than a letter to the editor. If you're buying full page ads, you're leveraging capital that most people don't have to go outside of regular interpersonal communication channels.
This is the art of bullshitting.
Unity is laying off 25 percent of its staff
I somehow missed the “UK” part before “post office” and thought at first they’d burned 31M lbs of mail.
Saudi Arabia's military is staffed largely by dilettantes. The only reason they ever fought against the Houthi's was because they're Sunni and the Houthi's are Shia.

And the Houthis are really in control of all most all of Yemen, so calling them insurgents etc is misplaced. They dissolved the government and replaced it with revolutionary councils.
Did you conduct the extensive study into all the possible failure modes if we allow pilots to wear smart watches? Or cork-soled shoes?

It is appropriate to use caution and care. You are right about that. It is obstructionist to demand every possible mode of failure be used as an excuse to block progress. It is possible to use flaky hardware that will increase risk. But it isn't that hard or expensive to use reasonable care to avoid it while dramatically improving the tech. To pretend that any new tech would automatically lead to hundreds of deaths and should therefore never be considered is ridiculous on its face.
I am curious why the door plug is not a plug door — that is, a design wherein the desired panel would be installed from the inside and sealed by the differential pressure, like a cabin door. This part looks more similar to cargo door; those usually have to open outward for space, but what is the design constraint for this case?
I've seen some weird sentences in the French course. I have the impression they were written by a French speaker who needs to improve their English a bit.
Looks like ChatGPT Plus will be getting annual subscriptions soon, for the equivalent of US$16.66/month (So probably US$200/year accounting for rounding errors)
The article from flexport states that insurance rates through there are 3.5x of what they were in the beginning of december
Except, of course, from Boeing's aircraft-software QA... which killed hundreds of people already.
Yeah. I think Wes McKinney liked the data frames in R, but preferred the programming language of Python. I've heard somewhere that he also got a lot of inspiration from APL.
Evidently not though....
What’s the power brick like these days?
Nope. It is most probably caused by operational stress - rudder assembly is moving, fuselage is also working (compression and decompression cycles on take off and landing, thermal expansion and compression). I bet they don't just put red Loctite on it to keep it from getting loose. My bet is design flaws, not manufacturing or QA.

EDIT: I saw the pictures of bolts with pins and bolts without pins. The ones with pins cannot get loose, the others can. Let's see what happened.
yeah and at one point most people considered the earth flat
I think the point is there were at least two sets of loose bolts at the same time.
IPTV M3u Server
The IPTV m3u 2024 file includes Bein Sport channels within the series of free iptv servers for watching satellite channels via IPTV links and servers.
Luckily this seems to only effect one (newer) model of the 737, though you begin to wonder what was missed in the others.
I had a friend who was a translator for Nintendo and could translate across 12 different languages. He said after he had the first few learned, he would learn new languages by re-watching his favorite shows with both audio and subtitles in the language of interest.
From the first link:

They implemented lots of algorithms - CRDTs and OT algorithms and stuff.

What’s an “OT” algorithm in this context?
Just in case anyone reads the parent and the takeaway is you can’t: you can still operate UniFi that way if you want to. The cloud connection and apps are optional.
May we all be so lucky to have such an enlightened client(‘ s lawyer)!
I was not ready for that twist but honestly it wouldn’t completely shock me if he did it.
Can that really be true? I figure most people just stick with whatever they have then buy the best thing in their means when the old one gets too slow for their needs. I can't imagine upgrading from 1070 to 2070, in fact right now most people that I know who are considering upgrading are on the 900 series
No I don’t, there was potentially some inflation due to fiscal stimulus but mostly due to supply chain issues. The continuing inflation is caused by interest rate increases, ie. the interest rate sets the inflation rate.
Like all the neighbors of Israel, the last thing they want is the refugees on their land...
Last Year's Fintech Apocalypse
Fintech funding in the US and UK experienced a significant decline in 2023 as per a new report.
Someone accidentally drilling into a dyke does not mean they'll be able to bore into a magma chamber within the next 2 years. Those are completely different ballparks, there's a reason the latter has never happened, because the high temperatures make it very difficult on a technical level. I mentioned Mars because it's a similar claim we've heard in the media and from various projects for years now. Of course it's possible, anything's possible. Now show me how concretely it will be done, it's on those making the claim to provide the evidence and I'm not sure if you noticed but the article contains no technical details. After reading it, can you explain how they will drill into the chamber?

We can't be sure if Eichelberger has actually said everything implied in the article or if he's quoted out of context, but the “no geophysical technique has been shown to satisfactorily locate magma reservoirs” quote for example is misleading. Of course nothing gives us 100% certainty, they're educated guesses based on seismic data and such. But if they couldn't find giant liquid chambers in relatively shallow depths, the entire field of geophysics would be rather useless. Obviously that isn't true. If there's one thing they can locate, it's magma chambers, conventional oil reservoirs, and such. Otherwise they'd just randomly drill all over the place. Which the accidental dyke drilling shows they do when it comes to higher resolution details.

Btw Eichelberger is both the founder as well as a board member of the project looking to drill and currently seeking millions of dollars of funding for it. Such an unbiased source and what a coincidence that just as they need money, Mr. Lawton comes out with an article hyping up the idea.

https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/icelandic-research-c...
you cannot perform crimes on others, thats about it. If someone comes to my house dying of cold, they have no right to demand I help them. I would be an asshole if I dont, and I think people SHOULD help, but you have no right to demand I do (and again, not saying I wouldnt, just that nobody gets to be entitled to it)
> QE and ZIRP are deflationary policies

No, they are inflationary policies; fear of deflation was one of the factors motivating them.

> because they reduce the amount of interest payments (which are no different

That's...mostly irrelevant. Yes, government interest payments would be inflationary because some of them go back into the domestic economy, but flooding the domestic economy with money through loose monetary policy is not net deflationary; the reduction in money pumped into the economy in interest payments is far less than the amount of money that is pumped into the economy to effect that reduction.
FWIW, I think that title wasn't quite right.

The post compares the number of "who's hiring" comments to "who wants to be hired" comments. (Or maybe top-level comments, I'm not sure.)

Some of the "who's hiring" posts indicate multiple openings, and I'm guessing there have always been more job seekers than there are "who wants to be hired" comments.

I'm just saying that the underlying reality may be messier than the title indicates.
Epstein had 'sex tapes' of Prince Andrew and Bill Clinton, witness claimed
Yes. And it doesn't really make sense to make the library closed source. The common business model for these kind of tools is to provide consultation, deployment platform, or a distributed version.
I once was lost but now am found. With arguments like these, so persuasive, so insightful and relevant. I bow down to your most powerful debating style. Sir(or Xir or whatever you prefer), I bow down to you.
Hey Rafi,

Both Codeberg and Github only seem to have two files - LICENSE and README.md. Shouldn't there be some more files for this to work?
> The dogs were trained in triage, able to indicate who needed aid the most and who was too far gone to establish any medical care.

That's a crazy concept to even conceptualize. As a non-medically trained person, if I was to triage 5 injured people, assuming it wasn't terribly visually obvious (ex: missing leg)... I'd probably do a terrible job of it. Somehow they trained dogs to do so? Which really begs the question: What is the smell the dogs are looking for?
The humanists might turn out to be the weird ones. After all, it's kinda strange to be so attached to meat

https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...
Travel Planning Software: The Most Common Bad Startup Idea
Yes, it's annoying negative feature of many tech products. Of course it's natural to want to speak to your target audience (in this case, data scientists who like Pandas but find it annoyingly slow/inflexible), but it's quite alienating to newbies who might otherwise become your most enthusiastic customers.

I am the target audience for Polars and have been meaning to try it for several months, but I keep procrastinating about because I feel residual loyalty to Pandas because Wes McKinney (its creator) took the time to write a helpful book about the most common analytical tools: https://wesmckinney.com/book/
Ed Pierson, a former senior manager at the 737 Max factory in Renton, WA, indicated there have been 20 quality/airworthiness issues post-MCAS to date prior to this latest incident that have gone largely unnoticed by the mainstream media.

It's also worth noting that other ex-employees of Boeing have also raised concerns about substandard structural components made by Ducommun and Boeing's own manufacturing processes for the 737 NG (737-600 to -900). There is no way to know which ones are defective because an unknown number of these critical parts were manufactured inconsistently and haphazardly by hand when they were supposed to be CNC'ed and Boeing just slapped them in without much care. The net result is an average Boeing 737 NG is variably structurally weaker than previous models, and prone to fuselage breakup on hard landings, runway overruns, and possibly in-flight during extreme turbulence. Level 2 corrosion on structural components only 8 years old is what happens when nonconforming, trash parts are passed off as "conforming".

Around 2009, the DOJ made a false statement that the NTSB said the NTSB concluded structural components were "not responsible" for AA 331. These were absolute lies drafted by Boeing's lawyer, Mr. Cole, as no conclusion had been yet reached. In a subsequent sworn video statement, the DOJ official admits they spoke Boeing's words largely verbatim.

This is what happens when publicly-traded corporations are run by MBAs who gut a company's core competencies for short-term profits and are allowed to largely regulate themselves as a consequent of regulatory capture and the corrosive influence of elected officials who accept "campaign support" and gold bars.
Unscripted (Google Apps Scripts Show)
Exactly. To me this felt extremely similar to the post-dot-com bust. Back then, the joke was that anyone who could "fog a mirror" could get hired in tech. While the mechanics this time around are a bit different (we didn't have TikTok back then to chronicle "A day in the life at a FAANG food court..."), the outcome is very much the same: lots of easy money led to over-hiring, and when that spigot turns off, there are lots of layoffs, which (if you got laid off) feels like an outright depression because you have a huge number of laid off people now going after a much smaller pool of job openings.

Also, just like in the dot com bust, companies really start laser focusing on roles that are directly tied to revenue, but anything that is even slightly tangential/"a luxury" gets cut. In a non-scientific perusal of my LinkedIn connections, most of the software devs and sales people I know who were laid off found work relatively quickly, but I've seen people in roles like recruiting, content marketing, UX research, and product managers that have in some cases been unemployed for over a year. Middle management also definitely had a major thinning out.
If nothing else, your argument that monetary policy levers work exactly the opposite way that conventional economics says they do is amusing.
> A few years ago, I had read that certain airlines demanded planes manufacturered in Washington rather than South Carolina, and I wonder if that information actually ends up being a useful signal for better quality planes.

The one with the blown door plug supposedly came off the Renton assembly line. No one is safe.
This is the part that's left out of every statement that starts with "There's a shortage of workers in industry X" ... "willing to accept the current wages / working conditions".

Similar for "jobs Americans won't do"... "at the wages being offered".

It drives me insane that people freely accept the concept of supply and demand, except when it comes to labor.
> Their goal is to provide answers to any question you might have, as an alternative to browsing actual sources.

You mean like the internet browsing became an alternative to actually buying newspapers? And now LLM answers an alternative to actually browsing?

Let's close both the internet and AI and save journalism. Because it's gone to shit.
I would probably consider changing "power" to "size".

My 2016 Subaru BRZ had 200 horsepower, averaged 32 mpg, and was $26K. Not a bad combo, if you ask me. A decent amount of get-up-and-go when you want it, but decent fuel economy when you don't. But it was also just a small 2-door sports car. Tiny trunk and worthless rear seats.
I've been out of work for about 9 months.

Anecdotally, my job search started feeling more promising around mid-December.
Bloody hell!! Thanks, that's exactly the kind of comment I was hoping to see. Sounds like a bit of an Apache --> Nginx moment for dataframes. Super cool!!
That is almost certainly not known at this point in time.