skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The model has been much under discussion here for about a day, and I think that discussion represents its status and the concerns with that status fairly well.

> My laymans experience with ptsd is that most experiences are outwardly visible

I would suggest the thought that you may be overindexing on what you've been able to notice. People don't always like to show what hurts.
I did it at quite small scale, but within an on-prem docker swarm. It was indeed a pain because if I remember correctly the default discovery uses multicast which is not enabled on typical cloud networks or on a Swarm/Kubernetes overlay network. I looked at database pings where they'd use your RDMS for a sort of quorum mechanism, but that seemed very brittle and I got the impression it was more of a last-resort type thing.

I was able to use the kubernetes cluster driver which uses the Swarm cluster's DNS for node discovery. It was indeed quite a pain to get working, but since then has been solid as far as I know. I believe there is also a native ec2 networking driver these days, but that is not something that I explored.
Oh it’s fine. But it would still be $1500 or so if I had a second kid, or a third. It’s also like 15% of my overall yearly childcare expenses for one kid who is already in elementary school (and was much less when was in preschool). Just increase the child tax credit by $1500 and be done with it.
Ask HN: Should you work for a startup that is in Pre-seed stage (during 2024)?
As with everyone else in here, I've been effected by the layoffs, I received my notice back in December, and was laid off in January, and I've been looking for a job since then.

I've gotten very few promising options (compared to the opportunities I used to have pre-2020). I've gotten a chance in a an interesting startup that is still in pre-seed stage, the job compliments my background experience very nicely, however I'm very pessimistic about the state of the economy (for good reason as anyone would know by now).

I've gotten an offer, which includes equity (I wasn't told how much its worth, neither are they willing to discuss it... its like here is a percentage of something that might work and might not work).

So, I could use some advice about startups (never worked for one before), because in terms of finance, already established companies might have some financial security (in terms of at least having a stable salary for say, a 12 months period), with a startup (fewer employees, fewer operating capital) I'm not sure what to think of it.

Of course because I'm not in a position to be picky, I might have to just take the job.
Great issue!:)

Love the m16c boot loader article and the chimera format one! stuff! MASK ROM bits reading from image I keep being told is "impossible" like many a bug in easier distant & past time! HEH!.

Fun issue! Made me try out the degate facelift and some other things in
/mnt/procrastinat0r with excitement!) Ended on starting training a model of my own eventually. Work led me to stash of forgotten uncapped chips I all but forgot I uncapped and imaged years ago!:) pastor@p-only-zine might get something in his inbox stocking in return! Still ANTISPAM subj?:) Great!:)

god damn a 180GB of decapped metal & die layer stiches, - confocal spinning laser color photo stiches and n/w FIB image. I need some of that crack olympus smoked making a 32bit confocal + auto stitching unit: About as usful as a bag of rocks (label said "Olympus 32bit bag of rocks"!)

ST / Renessass / BCM processors & socs (arm / mips / various unknown arch javacard thingies!) + storage chips. metric fsck tons!;)

thx!

- p67 inmate
It's not 50 lines of code if all the real work is done by importing a library...

That's like saying, I can solve any problem in 2 lines of code. I'll publish a library for it first, then:

import foo; foo.do_the_thing()

Magic!
Debunked time and time again. The oft-quoted "70%" stat is referring to all men vs all women. Within the same job, the pay is much closer to 95%. Any difference is still worth understanding and closing, but there are plenty of pretty reasonable explanations for why a 5% pay disparity may exist between men and women.
The pro of it being a commodity (widely available, easily traded, of easily quantifiable quality and accessible quantity) is important to get what you say you want! For 'sellers', it actually makes life a bit harder as they have much smaller profit margins in general and need to get very good at what they do to compete. If you think making housing not a commodity is going to make it easier to access, you're not paying attention.

It may produce more bespoke, custom houses though. But they'll only go to those who can afford to do a LOT more to get it.

The reason why that listing has a $15k broker fee is exactly BECAUSE of the weird and hard to deal with reality that is a rent controlled apartment in NYC.

There are probably other off the books type things going on too, IMO.

If you want something transparent and easy to get for the average person, making it a commodity with clear rules is exactly what you want! If you want to incentivize gaming the system, the other direction encourages that.

Regardless of if it is a commodity or not, there needs to be constant vigilance regarding manipulation, scams, etc. Scams and manipulations are easier to hide when goods AREN'T commodities. There are some amazing horror stories (on both 'sides' of the economy) behind NYC rent controlled apartments and living in NYC in general.

[https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/commodity]

From the link:

"1
: an economic good: such as
a
: a product of agriculture or mining
agricultural commodities like grain and corn
b
: an article of commerce especially when delivered for shipment
reported the damaged commodities to officials
c
: a mass-produced unspecialized product
commodity chemicals
commodity memory chips
2
a
: something useful or valued
that valuable commodity, patience
also : THING, ENTITY
b
: CONVENIENCE, ADVANTAGE
… the many commodities incidental to the life of a public office …
—Charles Lamb
3
: a good or service whose wide availability typically leads to smaller profit margins and diminishes the importance of factors (such as brand name) other than price
4
: one that is subject to ready exchange or exploitation within a market
… stars as individuals and as commodities of the film industry.
—Film Quarterly
5
obsolete : QUANTITY, LOT"
I wonder if it would be possible to balance this thing by sloshing fluid around, or with linear actuators moving weights around.

Or maybe a pair of motors, moving two circles with weights on their rims around, to shift the center of gravity around until it's stable enough to park them on opposite sides?
Navigating the current data engineering landscape
> Getting fired is widely considered to be the individual’s fault (e.g., non-performance). I’ve heard something about the standard being “egregious misconduct”, but that’s just beyond the details that I know about.

I have no real information, this is just my handwaving, but I do not think this is the case. Most employment in the US is at will for both sides. That is, an employer can terminate an employee whenever it is beneficial for the business (and an employee can leave with no warning even if he is needed by the business). No "fault" is required on the part of the employee -- needs and priorities of the business could have shifted, for example.

I think most employers would take this route of "no fault termination" if at all possible. Otherwise it would make sense for the employee to fight this, file complaints, etc. incurring potentially large costs for the company on time, effort and the PR fronts. So they tend to terminate employment with a bland corporate legalese instead of a red flag like "misconduct". Being terminated by a previous employer may cause some concern when job searching, but unless it actually comes with a paper trail of "gross misconduct" or some such it should not affect unemployment benefits. My 2c.
The problem with the "Anglophone" strategy of focusing on ideas -- like the old "Designed in California. Assembled in China" statement that used to be on Apple iPods, is what happens when China (and elsewhere) start having their own designers (which is starting to happen)? What value will California provide then?
Roe v. Wade is about abortion, not contraception in general. It's a fallacy of composition to suggest that someone against abortion is "against contraception." While some people do use abortion as contraception, that doesn't mean contraception == abortion.
Superior may depend on your goal. If it’s mass disinformation campaigns produced by generative AI, those mentioned data sets may be ripe for the cause.
Details for the curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyro_monorail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUYzuAJeg3M
Suggestion: option to auto-Run upon 1s past each edit.
Like I said partially. Other organizations include Igalia, Collabora, and the GNOME Foundation, just off the top of my head.
Housing is the biggest one here, though, because it hits in two key ways: people need bigger houses to have kids but also they need childcare, and the cost of real estate makes that brutal because people need daycare to be close enough to be practical travel-wise and it’s a labor-intensive business without great economies of scale so all of the workers also need to be able to make rent in the area.

This is a classic area where government support would make a huge difference: don’t have a bunch of small businesses competing with Starbucks on rent, and have things like healthcare paid for out of a huge pool of employees.
Run your own blog, on your own domain with github. It takes like 2 hours to setup and costs $20/year. Lately, it really feels like the whole "social media" decade was a dead end.
One thing I would love to read would be an archeological exposition of the internals of PyMC over its various versions and backends. This is not in anyway to indicate that its old and dated, just that its evolution interests me.
No, but good luck getting an interview without one.
“The world” is defined by experiences of individuals. By shaping and being an integral part of the world as a single human being experiences it changes the world - as experienced by someone - dramatically more than building an online dry cleaning service. You shape the nuanced perceptions of everything in that life, you become a primal force that defines every moment of their life, to their last breath. There’s no greater impact to be had on “the world.”

The broader sense of the world is an intellectual exercise. The world is a spinning ball of uncaring rock covered in a crust of self replicating carbon structures. You might slightly perturb the movements of that crust in some remote way, they might even shape some rocks to look like your long gone carbon structure, but you don’t change anything at that scale.

At a certain point your local experience and the present matter more. Particularly the stronger influence you’ve had on the world at large the more empty it feels in the end, because you are still you, you still only live 24 hours a day, there is no score, no game over you won screen, and the impact that matters most to you is the way your children look at you as you take your last breath.
I agree these covers have soul and character. Totally unlike flat minimal aesthetic of the 2020’s.
I have found that the #1 cause for lost sleep is anxiety. Every piece of sleep hygiene, from blue light to meals to exercise to whatever else you want to consider can't hold a candle to going to bed with a quiet head. Your advice is good but I wanted to put this out there: First fix your worrying and running thoughts, then fix your sleep environment if you still need to, then look into medication.
I’m literally not.
In many Asian countries the kids live with their parents and if they move out after marriage it’s to a house on the property with the parents or very closely nearby for support.

Getting together regularly with family or friends is usually very healthy. I suggest people watch the documentary “Happy” 2012 by Roko Belic. It was introduced in a class to help with stress among many other supportive topics.
This is a great way to articulate it. People operate in extremes, caring too much or little
I've been more and more impressed with XFCE, purely on a usability, get out of my way, support my workflow basis.
There are many middle possibilities between that and aliens expanding at c.

Expansion at c is very unlikely. Insane things happen when you approach c, like the cosmic microwave background transforming into a gamma ray laser aimed at your head and collisions with microscopic particles destroying you. It may be that travel close to c is so hard as to be effectively impossible.

I’ve read that speeds up to about 30% the speed of light are “thinkable” with currently known physics plus advances like compact fusion reactors. Think something that looks like the Epstein Drive in The Expanse or the ships from Avatar.

These models provide indirect evidence against the existence of FTL travel. If FTL exists it means we really have to be extremely early, maybe even the first in our galactic cluster. Otherwise someone would have visited at least.

I also think if someone has visited, such as if some tiny number of UFOs are actually of ET origin, it means we are probably incredibly lucky to have neighbors that aren’t “reapers” in the dark forest sense. It’d be funny if our galaxy is actually full of aliens and we lucked out and are camped next to some superintelligence that is both benevolent and powerful enough to fight off anyone who isn’t. So hey if they’re taking our cattle maybe that’s a pretty small price to pay.
I think you and others here don't understand subtle ways. When you're sitting at a table with a braggart or two who are trying to impress by being more trendy or whatever, you can just let them talk. Just one look and a funny eye roll slyly to the other company and you've already beat them. Trying to compete in bragging is foolishness. Nobody's impressed.
I worded that really badly. Obviously, making a better evaluation function is good, but you can't try and use it to replace the search tree.
Wow, this is a blast from the past for me - I was examining the framework in 2015. Amazing to see it's still well and alive. Back then, I'd simply use some resteasy framework.
The same to folk who come across a price of 6.66, 66.6 or 666.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/not-paying-the-devil-his-d...
Just to add some context, the term "Top 5" is not subjective, it's a reference to those five journals. Tenure and promotion decisions in top departments based their decisions on publications in those journals.[1]

[1] https://newsroom.iza.org/en/archive/research/the-tyranny-of-...
Maybe some thin plexiglass around it would be fine - not sure if it would compromise the mechanism though.
+ intensive in terms of energy usage + needed a second gyro to feel like you are standing in a flat environment.
what 20$? I am running it for free except for domain name cost.
I think the change is more sites offer a dark mode, so the flash is more visible even though it always happened
A popular theme in today’s productivity culture is “waking up early.” It’s considered a sign of discipline to wake up at 5am.

5am is reasonable... if you fall asleep at 8:30 or 9 PM.

I wish we’d stop emphasizing early wake-up times, and start emphasizing reasonable bed times. It takes just as much discipline, especially with my phone so easily accessible and the TV so easy to binge.
I don't know that 'renamed' is the word. Borrowing from the older term to name a newly recognized phenomenon, I'd rather say. On the other hand, they could call it Tuesday for all I care, if doing so helps people get effective treatment for it.
> but the highest fertility rates are pretty consistently recorded in impoverished and conflict-torn countries

Lack of birth control.

> The problem isn't that people in the West need to make greater sacrifices to raise children.

The problem is that the standard that you’re expected to meet in raising a child is significantly higher. Is it biologically required that you have full time coverage of someone watching your toddler? No. Is it legally required? Yes. Do most grandparents want to be live in caretakers to young children? No, they have better things to do. Do you have to pay a fortune for the service? Yes.

Is it biologically required to meet a certain standard of living to raise a child, a standard that generally requires 2 parents salaries in the west? No. Is it legally required? No, but you might sets them up for failure later in life, and means they’ll struggle too when they get to be your age.

The whole thing is people who want to be parents have a drive to make sure their kids live at least as good a life as they did (or at least should).

If that seems financially hopeless in the west… we have effective birth control and can delay until it is possible.

Sometimes the point in time when you are financially stable enough to have children is also the point at which you are biologically unable to have them (everything is more difficult after ~35 or so). If there’s no promise of financial stability any time is as good as any other.

Fixing the “problem”is a complicated mix of social/psychological problems and financial problems related to wealth inequality. Blaming millennials or whoever for being selfish is a bad take.
Might as well blame ChatGPT for writing your term paper.

If they'd been using R/Matlab/Python written by a copilot it would have been just as much gibberish.
As you describe it, the system is worthless then and does nothing. How long to wait is up to you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem

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Any observations can be an event, and a stopping point.

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I could put a resistor on the table and call it a system, and wait for it eternally, but I'm not sure that's useful. You need a desired outcome, and some limits to make rational decisions. Actually, mathematically, we can find certain limits.

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You also can't prove a negative, as some future state may eventually disprove it. So you will have to assert something like "I expect such results at such time."
This is great downside protection against the quack methods that have sucked millions out of public school budgets:

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2023/09/08/c...

But … phonics still needs other things to work, like committed teachers and parents who spend the time exposing their kids to books.

Phonics is necessary but insufficient. It is the best method, but it still requires a functioning classroom and/or household, which many kids don’t get.
Question: why is rect not centered on pen, as is circle?
> GPT-2 is may be last LLM

This is not true. You have tones of models those are even better than GPT-3.5 and really close in performance to GPT-4 and you still can train them on a single GPU with 24GB video memory. There is a hint at yet better models published last year which you can train on a single GPU and have a model comparable in performance to LLaMA2 34B. The horizontal scaling which you appeal here, may fit into 10^6 performance increase, but in general I expect single node to be at least 1000 times faster than now. And it is totally feasible that you can't scale with 0.99 vertically and of course not horizontally, but I honestly expect the scaling per GPU get better than 0.75 in next 5 years.
>> Others argued that posting the video, which has racked up over 2 million views, could hurt Pietsch’s career.

"Others" are right. She just funked her future job prospects for life. Also, is it even legal to record a private conversation with company stuff without their consent? When meetings get recorded in Teams or Zoom, I'm getting a notification explicitly stating I'm being recorded so I am aware of it and can withdraw my consent (by leaving) if I don't agree.

Also, what's the point making a scene? Once you're on the way out, you're out, there's nothing you can do about it. You're already tied to the pole, blindfolded and firing squad lined up in front of you. Nothing you can do at this point can save your life, you can go out with some dignity or struggle and scream, result is the same. The firing squad has no authority to revert the decision that lead to your execution, they're only carrying it.
Perhaps this is not the most charitable take, but "because civilization is basically a tautology" isn't convincing this one that it needs to be perpetuated by my descendants. If it gives other people reason though, then I guess it's something.
tapped out at "Motivated by bigotry", good luck with whatever you're fighting for
Had a similar experience and even filed a couple of bugs back then. I don't know the current state but back then it felt like having something that looked like halfway modern Java but still carried around large amounts of old school JEE cruft. Probably was the migration to quarkus though. So it probably got better?
Most of these I already knew except the -12 to +14 UTC.

Thankfully most programmers don't really have to worry about all of these edge cases unless they are writing their own timezone libraries.
Fucking journalists publish an article with magnetic dipole measured in Teslas... So I go to the linked paper, and it has basically the same contents, on basically the same wording, with the magnetic dipole measured in Teslas.

It appears that at some point, somebody involved with this knew what they were doing. But we are removed so many steps from that person, that anything said there could as well be Star Trek techno-jumble. Including the conclusions.