skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I'm sure it's very kind of companies to care about my quality of life and the type of my housing, it's honestly none of their business. Even if they tell me I'm "family."

Fair pay to me, at least, means paying for results. Not paying for hours spent toiling. Not paying for where I am on the planet. Not paying for how I get the results, just for the results.

Instead, there are all of these gamey factors inserted into the mix. They're emotional. They're manipulative. Yuck!
The real Master and Commander story, https://www.amazon.com/Journal-Cruise-CLASSICS-NAVAL-LITERAT..., is from the American perspective and is way better than the fictional one. To do it justice it would have to be done as a mini-series because it would be too long for a movie.
The number one threat to pedestrians and cyclists is cars. If the cars were all safer, it would be more appealing to walk and bike.
I very much want the thesis of this article to hold true, but I have to wonder if the causal relationship in the article is reversed in reality.

A quick skim didn't reveal anything, but is there any evidence against higher earners being afforded more time to sleep because of a high-paying job?
Odd, I can still download it from the original link.
It's more about frustration with hypocrisy than being evil. When your friends kill in Gaza - "that's different", that's freedom, it's for democracy. It's not like the West shies away from cruelty when advancing its interests. You just choose to be blind to the brutality, that's all.
Couldn't you increase the time your laptop waits before going to sleep?

- https://askubuntu.com/questions/1042641/how-to-set-custom-lo...

- https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/set-sleep-and-wake-...

etc
The best password manager is an offline password manager.
Completely agree, at least in an idealistic scenario.
Eh, would rather see a comparison to a webGL approach given we’re doing tweening here. Fine to not have one, just sorta leaves the question up in the air. Faster than Canvas at the very least!
Using a password manager means your password are handled by someone else's code and you need to trust them not to fuck up. Also, they are really juicy targets.

Also, here's why people don't want to use a password manager:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/lastp...
I designed a cube that balances itself on a corner
Most people have probably picked up more than that in their lives even if they’ve never seen a gym. Have you ever moved a heavy couch?

115lbs as a starting max for a man is a joke. You might put 95 on the bar to illustrate basic form, but you cannot deadlift 95 the same as 495. You’ll start rowing the barbell if you setup correctly on 95lbs just from leverage alone.
I keep seeing more and more traffic to my sites from the fediverse. I think the centralized social network model is in deep shit, at least as far as the WWW goes. The days of zero interest money and investment based only on user counts are over and traditional social networks are increasingly irrelevant. TikTok is obviously not in deep shit but that’s a separate can of worms.
> now you will replace it with another site.

Or you can self host! Github's changes pushed me to self host recently.

https://voussoir.net/writing/git_dot_voussoir_dot_net
Russian drone drags Ukrainian drone with a rope
If you want something to happen, pay people to do it. If someone wants there to be more babies, they need to pay for them.

At least the baby shortage will help with the teacher shortage.
What profession have you seen compromised?
I don't like that the logging just happens implicitly? Like, it asks to install slf4j... But can't I just start out with the standard kotlin logger before installing another dependency. That part imo is a little underdocumented.
Remember most of the business is on prem installs . Introducing the huge complexity of sharding to the codebase would have benefited these installs approximately zero.
> would spend many long nights programming while deferring sleep as long as possible.
Now that I’m older, I’ve noticed that I just can’t do it

I’ve noticed the same but I don’t know if 10 years of age explains the difference as much as simply not being at the same level of fitness. I think if I was in the same cardiovascular shape, I wouldn’t have much more problem pulling all-nighters than I did in grad school (not that I necessarily want to...)
Hang on, I'll ask Professor Farnsworth
> Oh wait, we get 2k in tax credits per kid

The guy who doesn’t have kids paid it indirectly in his social contributions. The next guy next to him too. And the next guy. And so on.
The challenge here is that we don’t get to choose, rationally, who we are - except in some very, very limited circumstances, with a lot of expensive work. It requires re-training ourselves and our internal animal. The initial training was a combination of genetics and early childhood experiences which are going to be nearly impossible to truly understand in a clear way, for many reasons - including delusions on the part of all parties.

Everything from brain scans to double blind tests show that the vast majority (95%+) of what we do, we do before the parts of our rational brain even engage. We’re rationalizing animals more than rational animals.

So perhaps a lot of the actual trauma and PTSD is from trying to force ourselves (and penalize ourselves?) to do things against our nature - and sometimes failing - and from refusing to feel what we feel sometimes because it’s ‘wrong’ and ‘not there’ or even an active threat. And often deluding ourselves about what we even wanted or why we did something in the first place.

If emotions are ‘poop’, and trauma is an opioid induced mega-log, then PTSD is constipation.

And since refusing to see the problem makes it fundamentally impossible to solve the problem, and refusing to feel something makes it impossible to know it is occurring (or learn it's lesson), down the rabbit hole we go……

Especially since society literally can’t work if our answer is everyone ‘pooping’ all the time everywhere (toilet or not) because they felt like it at the moment.

So either some people are going to become ‘terminally constipated’ (severe PTSD?) and we need to learn how to deal with it, figure how not get to shit on ourselves, or figure out how to help them become less so.
'Shell shock' is an obsolete term originating in the First World War (1914-1918) and referring indeterminately to either PTSD secondary to war trauma, or the chronic traumatic encephalopathy to which you refer. The term's imprecision is why it was retired.

I recall the bit well, and being struck as much by its insistence on direct and meaningful language as by the fierce sort of kindness he made evident in its ending. Carlin was and is a treasure. But if I get treated for PTSD when what I have is CTE or vice versa, I probably won't do so well. In that sense, the more specific modern terms do have value, jargon though they also be.
One, Two, Three, Eyes on Me (2017)
> the CRL size for the median certificate is 51KB and that half of all CRLs are under 900B.

What? So there are no CRLs between 900B and 51KB, and the first one larger than 51KB just happened to be the median one??
And one day your managed password manager will get hacked and some smug user on HN will tell you how you should have self hosted it ;). Or you'll get locked out of all your accounts one day.

Let's not pretend like password managers are a silver bullet.
I worked in a place using Django, with dozens of additional plugins and enhancements.

And my PR's were routinely flagged for writing 3-5 lines of idiomatic python that any python programmer (indeed, any PROGRAMMER) would have understood instead of spending half a day to try and find the "Django way" (or worse, the "whatever 5000 line plugin we installed to save the programmer from having to repeat 2 lines of idiomatic python 10-12 times") way to do it.

Their (IMO insane) adherence to the common, but misunderstood idea of DRY was insanely unproductive.

These frameworks become "languages" in themselves, and unless you're in it all day every day, it's _harder_ to get things done due to their incredibly large attack surface.
Superconductors still have an EM signature, they still have magnetic fields around them and are detectable.
This. If I'm the type of person who wants to do RLHF, then I'm the type of person who wants control and doesn't like delegating it to imported libraries.
Then why don't they poach similar engineers from the Netherlands and pay them half as much?
You need a special license to run nVidia cards in the datacenter, so this rules out consumer gaming cards already.
If you solve the Navier Stokes equations, you'll give a couple interviews at some local media and then keep working in other problems. The director of your lab will not make a career for himself talking about your achievment.

Some exposure is of course necessary, but when it becomes the main driving force it turns ridiculous.
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Apparently the overtime is too good or recruiting standard too low. Either way, this yelp review says: avoid Milwaukee because police would have a struggle figuring out basic who dun its.
This is neat -- but has any of it been corroborated? For all we know the scientists might have said "Well we know he uses lots of amphetamines and doesn't sleep well -- what are HIS symptoms?"

And made their list...
I recently attended a conference where Cathie Wood was a speaker.

I walked away completely unimpressed.
You missed a few glaring failure modes in the mental model one - one of the most extreme is if someone pops your password on two sites, they can likely derive all your other passwords.
You're right about the incentives, and in my opinion this won't change until police departments and the local governments that enable them are required to compensate their victims, including for things like emotional distress (being assaulted by a violent gang is going to take some time to process). The deep root of the problem here is that police are allowed to cause harm and then just walk away from any responsibility.
> I'm not a fan of the RL/SL dichotomy, because the line gets so foggy. If you squint, every loss is a negative reward, and every policy improvement a supervised target.

Isn't this just because reinforcement learning and supervised learning are both optimization problems?
Software Engineer gets recognition from mayor and governor: episode 251 and 252
Interview of Indian software engineer made famous for discovering lander wreckage on moon. Interviewed by NYT and others. Episodes 251, 252, and ongoing.
They are a lot more powerful of a bullet than just ... nothing at all! (and I self host my password manager because of course you should)
But who's to pay?
Bit more info here: https://www.htmlgoodies.com/javascript/dhtml-transitions/

Example to add a 1 second random fade-in:

<META HTTP-EQUIV=”Site-Enter” content=”revealTrans(Duration=1.0,Transition=23)”>
Scene editor is one of the major lacking parts of bevy right now, but it's in the planning stage.

You can follow the issue at https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/85 if you are interested.
This comment appears to depend on a model unfamiliar to me, in that I have no idea what you mean by 'intents' or the reference to causality here. Would you mind elaborating? I may not be alone in failing as yet to have taken your point.
True, but why would the organization need to store the password? Wouldn't it be simpler to just generate a random 4 words (or something similar) then treat it the same as a user supplied one.
Did the ancient Greeks and Romans experience Alzheimer's?
If you have the budget to hire someone from the Bay Area with a Bay Area salary, then you also have the budget to hire someone from Bumfuck Nowhere, with a Bay Area salary.

I agree with the other commentator who said: It's not stupid to pay a location-based salary, but please don't pretend it has anything to do with fairness. It's not about being fair - it's about the company trying to save money by getting a discount on employees when that discount is available.
This is very true, but "helping you realize you are doing something unintended" works just as well with a string as with a symbol.
your post was after mine so you can see my confusion

plenty of tech can be used to destroy dissent to governments, you don't really elaborate on anything. from a governments perspective there are nothing but pro's sure, but what do you expect? "hey we want this tool to make our jobs easier, but we should take into consideration to people who want to cause dissent"? what are you're expectations? not have the govt adopt any tools to improve anything because it could possible be a tool to control?
the last one is not vague, it is clearly a hosting provider: https://www.instagram.com/atomohost/?hl=en

But I picked just one faulty classification of ipinfo.io, that's not fair, I know. I only wanted to point out that what you are doing is exactly the same as https://ipapi.is/ is doing and that we both make mistakes

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You are using the 700 measuring servers to interpolate geolocations of IP addresses, right?

That works sometimes, but more than often it does not. It does not scale either.

Active latency triangulation of every IPv4 address (let's not even speak about IPv6) is simply not possible. The reasons are manyfold:

- Most hosts don't reply to ICMP

- Many routers block ICMP traffic, or they throttle / downgrade it, thus skewing measurements

- Traffic from your probing servers is probably not handled in the same way as is normal residential ISP traffic

- You have to constantly measure all IPv4, since IPs are constantly reassigned, which is simply not possible with only 700 servers

Latency triangulation works in theory, but in practice it is just not applicable to the full IP space.

Having said that, active geolocation with probing servers is still better than not doing it :D

Latency triangulation works much better in a passive way, meaning that a client is visiting a server that is under your control and you triangulate the client with JS for example (web sockets).

But I doubt that ipinfo.io has a significant share of the Internet's traffic...

Maybe I am missing something?
This is built for ML researchers out of an academic lab. There's a ton of functionality in the library (beyond RLHF and alignment) that ML researchers do every day to write papers and run experiments that the library helps abstract and make repeatable and usable.

Unless your research hypothesis is specifically around improving or changing RLHF, it's unlikely you should be implementing it from scratch. Abstractions are useful for a reason. The library is quite configurable to let you tune any knobs you would want.
I am a lot more active now than when I was young, and I absolutely need the sleep now. When I was young I could really push it and do overnighters, etc. No longer.
> If we posit that evolution typically leads to intelligence and intelligence leads to civilization, then extraterrestrial intelligence would have deduced that we were going to be coming along at some point.

I see two big issues with this:

1) "evolution typically leads to intelligence" is only plausible after the evolution of multicellular life. I don't think there's any reason to suppose "evolution typically leads to multicellular life." Perhaps these aliens are used to a galaxy where 95% of habitable planets are full of primordial soup, where primitive multicellular forms struggle to find a niche. In particular, if most planets are less geologically active than earth, and most solar systems have less asteroids than ours, then perhaps most habitable planets have less extinction events, so there wouldn't be any ecological disruption to spur evolution.

2) "intelligence leads to civilization" is almost certainly false. Orcas have near-human intelligence, including culture and symbolic communication - in fact they might be "smarter" than humans, we don't really know enough about intelligence to answer that. But it will take a bizarre fluke of evolution for them to develop technological civilization, for the simple reason that they don't have hands and there's no selective pressure for them to evolve "proto-hands" - they need the flippers to be good flippers. This is in contrast to primates: we didn't evolve hands to build tools, we evolved hands to climb trees and grab fruits/nuts. It seems far more likely to me that intelligence tends towards super smart crows and dolphins: the physiological capability of building highly advanced tools is orthogonal to intelligence and does not seem inevitable.

I'm not saying you're wrong. But my understanding of the almost-science is that the aliens would be wasting a lot of tachyon missiles if they fired at every planet with evidence of photosynthesis / fermentation / etc.
Some phonics is probably fine, but it needs to simply be a vehicle to helping kids start reading and then they just need to be encouraged to read.

I taught my daughter the sounds of each letter, then we moved on to sounding out two-letter words, then three and four. I pointed out which words were weird and why and we moved on. I then started doing the Bob books with her before she was 5 and then switched to the little Disney short books and Dr. Seuss. Now she's in first grade reading chapter books meant for those in 4th-6th grade, while her classmates are still learning phonics instead of reading. Thankfully her teacher lets me pack her books and she can read those on her own instead of continuing the same tablet lessons she's done a dozen times.

I realize not all parents have prioritized reading like I have and that can be challenging to teachers, but a big push should be to teach them enough to get them reading very simple "see spot run" type books and then plenty of practice where things gradually increase in complexity with amount of words, vocabulary, and words with unconventional pronunciation. The human brain will pick up all the words eventually without needing to try to apply 50 different phonics rules. It's just like with common core math where they have a really neat concept to try to make math more intuitive (and it's great for some students), but to many...it means they're just hopelessly confused and never even learn what would have been common for students 30 years ago.
tl;dr: Money.

People with moderate incomes can barely afford to house and feed themselves, even with a partner. Introduce a dependent child into the mix and the subsequent ~30% increase in fixed expenses and it is easy to see why fewer and fewer people are having children.

Personally I wouldn’t want children because of the increasingly bleak outlook for humanity. Climate change is looking increasingly dire, and fascism is seeing a frightening upswing.
That already exists, and is a relatively robust market, with multiple providers. I used https://pianomarvel.com/ for a while during COVID with some success.
If you have a team nearby, go work with a FIRST Robotics Competition team as a mentor/volunteer. Great community, you'll learn a lot, and make great connections if you want to get into this area as a career.
What about it? This is just a post about Javalin.

I often wonder why people always post these "sure, but what about..." replies. Hot take: There's more than one way to skin a cat, here's one.
Biological systems where the cost of reproduction increases without an increase in the available resources cease to exist. How could it be otherwise?

People often consider their desires to be prime movers, when there they are perfectly aligned with the systems of incentives they inhabit.
> I suspect the NTP server had a badly faulty internal clock which ran very fast.

A time server with a defective clock seems to be a serious problem. Zimmie says the time server was an appliance; so someone is selling as an appliance a time server that can't tell the time.
How come it's okay for a company to say they don't give me a raise for increased costs of living, but it's okay for a company to pay less, because I live in an area with lower costs of living?
You have bigger talent pools in the tech hubs, at the very least. And recent college graduates from top-tier institutions are most likely to either stay put (depending on the source, I saw 40-60%) or move to a hub, so you have a lot of untapped potential.

Talent being "better" is too subjective to really quantify, though.

Something like 15% of devs worldwide are in the US, so if you don't want to play ball, you're losing a nontrivial chunk of the total talent pool (even without accounting for timezone affinity or English fluency).

If you think paying market rate for a Bay Area dev is overpaying, are you exclusively hiring devs in Argentina (with the rapidly-devaluing peso)? You can get 10 devs for the price of one person based in SF! Even paying Amsterdam's market rate is drastically overpaying in comparison to the areas with the lowest cost of labor.
Agreed though I'd argue sticky notes happen even with user supplied passwords. When I worked at a university, I cannot tell you how often I found a sticky not on the bottom of a keyboard with a list of passwords.
Why make procreation appealing through economic safety and optimism, when you can just make contraception and abortion harder to acquire or straight up illegal? Something, something, America.
Don’t Singapore and Japan have some kind of incentives for couple to have babies with limited success?

It’ll be interesting to see what China does when their demographic crunch comes. Mao famously claimed any decimation by the USSR, would be countered by Chinese women pumping out massive amounts of new babies to compensate.
The only industry capitalized to support that is porn. So if it does happen, this is very bad news for us.
Time is a flat circle ;)
Paying people directly to have children seems like a horrible policy because it will have disproportionate effect on people who are less likely to be good and responsible parents.
Very good point! I guess for English natives the insight would be in Japanese, "text color" is テキストカラー (tekisuto karā), and "font size" is フォントサイズ (fonto saizu).

テキストカラー: 20px;

vs

フォントサイズ: 20px;
That doesn't say anything about a civilization, or any life more advanced than single-cells floating in an ocean though, right?
Good call. When you've got no idea where to start, that's how to start.

Mostly, though, I think people "flail" because they don't know the pipeline well enough to even do that. I know I've been in that position before, when approaching completely new (to me) systems. (Sometimes there isn't someone more knowledgeable you can ask!) That's where I find hypothesis -> test -> refine particularly useful. You're still wrong far, far more often than you're right, but it stops feeling like flailing, and more like making progress towards understanding the system well enough to apply other techniques (whatever they might be) more smartly.