skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're not sure exactly what happened, it's a mystery, which I'd argue is inherently interesting. And not just because of human emotions, but also because of the possibility of scientific advancement.

It could be there's something unique in this case, some chemical in Earl Grey isn't being properly metabolized and that's causing the issues. Investigating further could lead to some advancement in biochemistry.

In my opinion, the chances are quite small for this to lead to any significant scientific advancement, but even so, it's still worth investigating.
piety (n.) a belief or point of view that is accepted with unthinking conventional reverence.

TIL. I only knew the other definition, "the quality of being religious or reverent".
I would imagine that this is supposed to protect against cases like this. https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/seattle-police-officer-d...

> SEATTLE — A Seattle police officer who unnecessarily used a ruse to locate a hit-and-run suspect in May 2018 has been suspended for six days after a watchdog agency found that the lie caused the man to take his own life.

> The unnamed officer sent word to the man through a friend -- the complainant in the case -- that a woman injured in the crash was in critical condition and might not survive her injuries.

> In reality, the crash was a minor fender bender and no one was injured, according to the Office of Police Accountability, an independent investigative office within the Seattle Police Department. Andrew Myerberg, the civilian director of the watchdog, authored the November report on the findings.

> The driver, who friends said “was despondent about the fact that he may have killed someone,” died by suicide less than a week later.

> “Notably, the night before he took his own life, he directly told his roommate that the incident was causing him to feel suicidal feelings,” the OPA report stated.

Seattle PD is also notoriously not well behaved even by police standards.
What did you address? It sounds like you're just saying to give the drug away for free to another cohort of people who will be producing totally useless and incomparable data.

Not opposed to that, but it's not a study cohort. It's just "give investigational drug away for free."
The guaranteed wraparound of "unsigned" types in C and derivatives is not very helpful.

While the "signed" types in C are well defined kinds of integers, which nonetheless have unpredictable behavior on overflow, the "unsigned" types are ambiguous, because they correspond to 4 different primitive types (each of these 4 being available in various sizes, i.e. 1-bit, 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit, 64-bit or 128-bit).

By primitive types I mean types for which the modern CPUs implement distinct dedicated hardware instructions. The 4 types are non-negative integers, integer residues (a.k.a. modular numbers), binary polynomials and Galois-field binary polynomials.

The same operation, e.g. multiplication, is implemented with different algorithms for each of these 4 types.

Moreover, while a 64-bit "unsigned" may be interpreted as a 64-bit non-negative integer or a residue modulo 2^64 or a 64-bit binary polynomial or a value in GF(2^64), there are 2 additional interpretations between which there are subtle differences, as a 64-element array of 1-bit non-negative integers or as a 64-element array of residues modulo-2. The failure to be aware of the differences between the operations that can be performed with these 6 types and using a single name for all can easily lead to bugs.

The wraparound is correct for integer residues modulo 2^N, but it is wrong for non-negative integers, which are more frequent in most applications.

Also the implicit conversions of unsigned types are very bad in C and derivatives. They are some times correct for non-negative integers, but they are always wrong for integer residues. While a small-size non-negative integer may be converted without losses to a bigger size, for integer residues the reverse is true, they can be converted correctly only towards smaller sizes.

Therefore, the unsigned types of C are defined wrongly both when interpreted as non-negative integers and when interpreted as integer residues. Most other languages are not better.

While there are many applications where either non-negative integers, integer residues, binary polynomials or Galois-field binary polynomials are needed, so unsigned C types must be used for lack of a better alternative, the use of "unsigned" types requires extra care in comparison with using the signed types (e.g. all implicit conversions must be avoided) and it must be clearly documented what kind of "unsigned" is really meant (preferably by defining dedicated types for the various possible interpretations; in C++ it is possible to also define correct operations with them, replacing the built-in operators with undesirable behavior).
Except a lot of the people laid off from FAANGs are not developers and therefore weren't "collecting an outrageous salary". Maybe try being a bit considerate towards them?
Outside of bizdev brotalk, isn't that called "new clients"?
On the other hand, we ground up mummies for paint to the point that we ran out and used fresher corpses to meet demand.

It is a bit of miracle that they were preserved, and not just discarded.
> admissions depts are selecting for potential

No they aren’t. They’re selling a product to the highest bidder but happen to work in an industry where social and cultural expectations don’t allow them to sell exclusively to highest bidders. Adjusting to those expectations is ever changing as we’re seeing here.

It’s an unfortunate fact that high bidder’s children roughly correlate with high potential (somewhat impolite to point out), so colleges these days can still point to success stories and pretend they did something.
That attitude will have to change, there's no way around it. These live deepfakes will be as easy to create as a word document in no more than five years and maybe less than two.
It's only technically better that it was a quote. That doesn't come close to excusing the behavior. It's still completely beyond that pale that he chose those specific lyrics to post on Twitter. The question of how honest the reporting was feels secondary.
if you use emacs:

https://karthinks.com/software/latex-input-for-impatient-sch...
There's also stuff like Folding@Home which would be a better use for that energy.
A no-frills pack of bacon at Whole Foods in Cambridge is currently $6.99 not on sale (unless their online / delivery prices are radically different than in-store).
The better term is right to sovereignty. When the vendor implements user-hostile features, mere repair or maintenance fall short.
We're discussing this in the context of the government trying to make large companies share that proper knowledge.
I built a couple of things, but the most useful is probably allalt[1], which describe images and generate alt tags for visually impaired users using GPT-4V. Next I want to add the option to use local LLMs using ollama[2], but I'm still trying to decide the UX for that.

There's also Moss[3], a GPT that acts as a senior, inquisitive, and clever Go pair programmer. I use it almost daily to help me code and it has been an huge help productivity-wise.

[1] https://git.sr.ht/~jamesponddotco/allalt

[2] https://ollama.ai/

[3] https://git.sr.ht/~jamesponddotco/moss
Exactly. A new level of modularity will be possible. Pretty incredible! Also parametric designs of modules (a function call with 3.3v vs 5v, or 8bit vs 12bit ADC) all the way down.
I was 32 and didn't want a relationship with anyone. I was down on dating. I went to a leather bar. I meet my SO playing a video game. He took me home. We were married 21 years later and have been together for 24 years last month.

He was the last person I expected to want to be in a relationship, yet, I couldn't imagine not being with him since we met.

Just put yourself out there and live your life. Expect nothing from no one. Enjoy yourself being single and get to know who the heck you are.

That is the only advice. If you are out there living life, expecting nothing, and enjoy everything that life has to give good and bad; someone will take notice and want to be with you.
> Regular daycare costs multiples less than an at-home nanny

Unless, as I said, you have a multiples pregnancy.

I don't know where you're getting your figures but two infants is going to be $3k at least, and that's assuming you can transport them to the daycare facility and assuming that the hours line up with your work. 2x that for the city.

I really hope I'm wrong but two adults with full time in-office jobs don't have much choice here.

https://winnie.com/resources/guide-to-child-care-costs-in-ne...

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskNYC/comments/dbki6j/childcare_co... [note several years old]
I have an Xreal Air and don't find it comfortable at all unless I'm laying down. I have to use optical inserts, and it just keeps sliding down my nose all the time. Quest 3 is vastly more comfortable for me, especially with the Elite strap.

Quest Pro, on the other hand, wasn't as comfortable due to the pressure to the forehead...

I'll get my AVP later today, will compare then.
> Shouldn't cops be able to lie ...

"Hell no" seems like the obvious answer, but you seem to disagree?
When reading this headline, my very first thought was "we wouldn't have this problem if more people used Ada" for that very reason.

I don't even think Rust can do something like

type Element is Integer range 100 .. 1000;
Can open a BofA account without a TFN or SSN?
> With the commute, solid 8 hours at office, I barely have any cognitive or physical energy to do any mentally taxing work even if that means learning something new and exciting.

Address the energy thing. Diet, sleep, daily habits etc.

But also recognize that software work is incredibly taxing. I balance it with workouts, instruments, socializing, diy crafting.. and definitely not evening Rust projects. That's the same energy bar.

The people who do impressive side projects on top of a taxing 9-5 are built differently. It gives those people energy (or maybe moreso joy) to do that. Don't try to be someone you're not.
Remote Destruction of Nuclear Bombs Using Ultra-High Energy Neutrino Beam [pdf]
I did that in a low basement once. I had to replace the crumbled concrete floor anyway, so I figured I’d dig it down a foot or two while I was at it… then I found out the house was sitting on a shale ledge.

Turns out excavating shale by hand or with a jack hammer is incredibly difficult! It breaks into tiny pieces, bit by bit. Then you have to shovel said pieces into buckets and haul them out. Really heavy buckets because rocks.

One of the few jobs I threw in the towel and hired out. It still took 3 people 2 days to dig out about 18 inches. Never again!
Craig Wright's claim he invented Bitcoin a 'brazen lie', court told
No. &mut dyn Foo is sugar for something like

struct DynFoo<erase T> {
vtable: &mut VTableFoo<T>
ptr: &mut T
}

This is the underlying feature. `dyn` is a bit of an ad-hoc hack around not having this feature.
Yea, the cop showed up, presented his evidence, I argued that absent a posted limit I was following the state's default limit for that type of road, and brought a photograph of the nearest speed limit sign obscured by a tree branch as evidence that I could not have known the posted (lower) limit. Judge found it convincing. I noticed that the branch was trimmed two weeks later.

I did not answer any of the officer's questions during the stop, but did identify myself and hand him all the documents he requested. I figured I wasn't going to avoid the ticket using my mouth, so I saved it for the judge.
There is pretty good reason. If it could be described explicitly in a few hundred words, it would be extremely unlikely that we'd have seen a jump in capability with model size.
Fine as long as 18 U.S.C. § 1001 becomes the law of the land for all interactions with police (felony punishable by 5 years imprisonment for making a false statement).
> They own equity in a company that owns part of the mine, they don't own it outright.

Of course, but it's a distinction without a difference.

>the whole complaint from people about Elon was that he wasn't actually "self-made" because he benefitted from the gains of the mine and had a privileged upbringing.

Yep. Not only is this claim factually false, but (as you point out) it doesn't make any sense because there isn't any inherent ethical problem with mining.
The shutdown means great people with Cloud Native skills are available now.

People across all teams: marketing, product, engineering, dev-rel, consulting / CRE, customer success and business operations

Across the States, UK/Europe and Egypt.

If you can help these fantastic people find new roles - please get in touch!
I wrote an autonomous AI space opera tv show generator. It takes a short topic phrase on one end and spits out a 10-15 minute 3D animated and AI voiced video suitable for upload to YouTube on the other end.

Super interesting learning exercise since it intersects with many enterprise topics, but the output is of course more fun.

In some ways it is more challenging - a summary is still useful if it misses a point or is a little scrambled, whereas when a story drops a thread it’s much more immediately problematic.

I’m working on a blog post as well as getting a dozen episodes uploaded for “season 1”.
I think there may be a confusion here between engineering task tickets versus customer-support tickets which might just be "the thingy isn't working somehow".
Into LLM code generation
I'm a security noob, so correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought passwords consisting of a random string of letters/numbers/symbols was considered bad security practice these days? Easy for machines to crack, hard for humans to remember?

What happened to Correct Horse Battery Staple [1]?

- [1]: https://xkcd.com/936/
it's inconsistent. when i set it up on friday and used it over the weekend, i couldn't read the text on my iphone or the keys on my keyboard. i'm using it at work right now, and have no problem - it's extremely sharp. not sure what the variable is - but hopefully something they can improve.
Number of things here.

1) If you have partner and kid(s), give up for a decade and try again. Sounds like you don't.

2) Each job has different requirements. Find one not so mentally taxing. As others mentioned, a new job gets easier after six months as you get comfortable.

3) Eliminate the commute. Once had a job with 90 mins of heavy traffic in the morning. That lasted less than a week. Instead rented a studio about a mile from work and strolled into work each morning refreshed instead of angry. It wasn't cheap but I was able to be happy again.
We do agree. We built an early version of a viewer in the project but later moved away from it because it wasn't good enough to interact with. We might come back to it with something that is more targeted at inspecting only sections of the circuit or provide a block diagram level representation. But we don't think that just outputting a schematic the way they look today is the right solution.
> As long as defense attorneys are involved, what is the harm in this?

Good point, suspects have a right to an attorney and the right to remain silent. But much of the successful lying probably happens when an attorney isn't present. For example "look, we can wait for your lawyer to get here, but this is looking really bad for you. We just arrested your buddy and once he sings we'll just throw the book at you. If you give your side of the story first, you get the better deal."

A suspect without a lawyer might waive the right to counsel/silence and incriminate himself. Of course, he would be guilty, so it's not entirely clear this is a bad thing (unless he is falsely admitting guilt, which does occasionally happen).
My Current Approach to Software Delivery
Was told by a few folks that this was an effective condensed look at a lot of good practices and how to explain them, and at least one person proposed a change at their org based on it. Typically don't share things like this here, but figured somebody else might benefit from it, so I'm taking the plunge. Feedback welcome here or in the comments (which use a GitHub account). Be gentle. :-D
There isn't one single cop anywhere in America who can go five seconds without saying something false. That's why I don't understand the marginal utility of more cops in the room. The person you want in the room is your attorney.
It just seems better for your fake ID business if you don't require the users to use any external tools or have any photo retouching skills. Just upload any old shitty picture and go to checkout.
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Maybe voice an opinion after you get your second job.

You might do well to watch your tone.

I'm not the one you're replying to, but it seems you've constructed a straw man and are now beating the living stuffing out of him. Are you arguing that there are no jobs where machine-executable code gets written anymore? Assuming that is the case, I believe the burden is upon you to demonstrate a lack of new code being written. Because I've got a commit waiting for it's commit message, and it sure looks a lot like a new data abstraction layer to me, and I'm pretty sure I'm the one that wrote it.
That's called a civil war because the Donbass is Ukrainian territory.

Ukraine was not attacking Russia.
How does a lateral (cross) join compare to a window function in your example?
I built a tool to create "average llm" probability of code for checking how aligned code is with what an LLM would output. Working on adding context from a project to check how the style of a section aligns with the style, content and domain of a project.

Idea is to use it to identify code that sticks out, because that usually what's interesting or bad.
This is only shocking to people who don't understand that OKX basically doesn't care if you upload a picture of your dog as your ID.

To put more meat on the bone: Plaid is basically KYC for any service that matters anymore, and this $15 autogen service doesn't help you when you get to the face-scan/hold your ID next to your face level, which is required for any serious crypto exchange you'd wnat to use if you're a money launderer.
Isn't that a felony in the US? Where I live, this is a felony.
This article is a classic instance of a thought-provoking thesis that is supported by interesting assertions that don't hold up to scrutiny. See Yuval Noah Harari, Malcom Gladwell, Jared Diamond, etc. Every single one has included dilettante-level ideas that make a lot more sense when holding a beer.

The thesis is still interesting, and I don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
It's just a hit-piece against new tech: blockchain-based systems and LLM. Move along, nothing to see.
Do you want confessions or justice?
Maybe asian and immigrant cultures where there is more social stigma attached to not making it big.
Litter box cleaner: A kinect, a digital weight scale, a couple of cameras, a robot arm, a litter box, an internet connection and I would pay 25c for people using Amazon's Mechanical Turk to manipulate the robot arm and clean the litter box for me. And people would wait in line to take the job.

This blows my mind, and I love it. What sort of limits did you put on the Mechanical Turk service to keep people from farming the... you know... turds.
Having a play with datadm. It's really good and intuitive to use - good job! I'm getting errors now, but was having a lot of fun before.
Blackstone's Ratio: "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone's_ratio
I remember whisper v3 large blowing my mind: it was able to properly transcribe some two language monstrosity (przescreenować, which is a english word "to screen a candidate", but conjugated according to standard polish rules). Once I saw that I thought "it's finally time: truly good transcription has finally arrived".

So I view whisper as sota with excellent accuracy.

Now, for the type of transcription I need speaker discerning is much more valuable than accurate to the point translation: so it will be summarized anyway and that tends to gloss over some of errors anyway.

That said, pyannote has also caught me off guard: it correctly annotated lazily spoken "DP8" with non native speaker accent.

It looks really good
Sounds like there needs to be something like "civil forfeiture" for the Public Defenders system, allowing them to seize the assets of suspected dishonest police and police departments.

Which they can then either keep, or sell off to raise funds for themselves.
>With so many local taxing jurisdiction, it's essentially impossible.

What is this nonsense?

Businesses advertise "Widget is $PRICE + applicable tax". When you go to an individual store you pay ($PRICE + applicable tax). On the receipt it can show a breakdown of what that is.

If that's hard to do on the backend for the business too fucking bad. Consumers should know exactly what they're going to be asked to pay upfront.
Funny article (in retrospect) from 2010-09-23 (https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2010-09-23): Facebook is not worth $33B https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2585-facebook-is-not-worth-33...
Huh, I copy-pasted the title when I submitted it, but it looks like the article has since been edited. (There was also an example in the article about updating an insecure baby monitor that made the title make a bit more sense.)

Oh well, the new title is probably more clear anyways.
The logical error you just made is called “post hoc fallacy” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc

The reason Yatsenyuk became a prime minister, on February 27, 2014 the parliament of Ukraine made him so, with 371 out of 450 deputies supporting the decision. Just because some western politicians also viewed the guy as a good fit for the role doesn’t prove they affected the events in any way.

BTW, President of Ukraine has way more executive power than the PM. As the immediate result of the revolution, Turchynov became the acting president. He received way more political power than Yatsenyuk, yet the unknown people speaking on the leaked call never mentioned his name.
There are studies from multiple countries around the world linking locally consumed hot beverages to higher rates of esophageal cancer. Certainly it's nothing like smoking in terms of risk or it would be much more obvious. But maybe there's something to it. Or maybe there are too many studies looking at every possible thing related to cancer and science is p hacking itself and these sorts of results tend to get widely publicized.
The plan is explicitly described as "Premium accounts for family members under one roof" on their website. https://www.spotify.com/us/family/
is he STILL at it?
> I've worked at a couple consultancies and they were always chasing after that recurring product revenue. I grew to believe that it isn't possible under that business model.

The only time I've seen this work (and I have seen it work multiple times) is with managed hosting.

So if you are an expert at developing web applications or solutions using <product X> you can offer a managed hosting solution to your clients where you host the web app or the <product X> solution. Not all of them will take you up on it, but some will. Those that do will pay you a monthly fee. This isn't free (you now have to carry a pager) but is recurring.

Building your own SaaS/other unrelated product? That's a rock I've seen several consulting ships crash into (to pick a metaphor). Here's one that some of my friends tried to build in the late 2000s that I wrote about: https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/506