skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have two daily stand-ups (30 minutes) with different teams I’m a part of

A weekly status meeting (1 hr)

Three weekly status meeting update planning meetings (1 hr each)

Sprint planning every other week (2 hr)

Demo and retros every other week (2 hr)

Eight 1:1 weekly meetings (4 hrs)

That’s 12.5 hours per week so far without even counting any real project meeting where we solve anything. I’m generally around 16 hours a week in meetings and I’m not even a lead or anything. Just a standard coder at a small company.

And our velocity shows it. We’re slow at getting stuff done cause we just don’t have windows of time to focus. When meetings are only an hour apart, I rarely get to do anything productive between them. So two hour meetings can eat three hours+ of productivity.
Sensitivity matters in this case because the medium is saliva which contains a fraction of the antigens contained in serum. Specificity is challenging when the biomarkers are non-specific and you only have 1 testing modality but that seems to be not so much the case here.
There have been decades of tension, proxy wars and explicit threats of mutual nuclear destruction between Russia and the West.
It's the Office Space Michael Bolton argument: "Why should I abandon my country? He's the one who sucks."

From a practical point of view it may not be wise, but as a principled decision, it sends a very powerful message.
The Al Olama joke really made my day. I support what I say in the model lines and assured website. But perhaps only MS and IBM so far know how to do corporate sites…
These findings... for the first time reveal a long-term memory of the effects of smoking on immunity...

It also talks about epigenetics, which is a sort of hand wavy concept that what we do to our bodies can impact genetic expression and even genetic inheritance but it's kind of the "radiation" of 1950s sci fi. Spiderman was bit by a radioactive spider and got magic powers cuz ...don't ask. Radiation, okay? Moving on.

I am certain that everything we do in life has epigenetic impacts and our lifestyle interacts with gene expression. I think of it a bit like vernacular architecture. You draw a floorplan for a two bedroom home and are limited to local resources, the exact details look different depending on weather it's an adobe house or a log cabin.

That's a useful metaphor but it's not really hard science and at this date epigenetics is kind of a vague concept without really pinning down specific causes in most cases.

The body doesn't "remember." It remains impaired in part because we don't really understand how to fully clear these chemicals from the body. It may also remain impaired because these chemicals altered something which will remain altered after the chemicals are cleared but at this point epigenetics doesn't seem to actually identify those details.

Maybe someday it will. But not today.
The UK tax system (like many others) is not as fair or progressive as it is presented to be.

1. NI means that the real standard rate on earned income is substantially higher than the "income tax" rate. it is also not fair that unearned income is exempt from it.
2. Lots of purchase taxes, which are disproportionately paid by people with moderate incomes. People on low incomes spend a higher proportion in necessities which are (rightly) subject to lower levels. The more money you have (beyond a certain point) the less you spend on things subject to these taxes.
3. Too many loopholes.

> so we are being forced to pay for a system that doesn't work and end up having to go private (and thus pay again) when we do need timely healthcare.

Some of the NHS is good. NHS dentists can be very hard to find and waiting lists are long. Waiting times can be long too. Reform is prevented by the fear of a US type system and I think many people think that is the only alternative (and seem not to realise how things operate in most other developed countries).
> consider some of those people lacking something within,

If it was only so easy, that those who were evil could just be separated from the rest of us, but alas, the line that separates good and evil cuts through the heart of every person

Paraphrasing Solzhenitsyn, of course..
It's fine. I like how all blogs look relatively the same, makes it easy to know what to expect
Birds of a Feather Flock Together
> Consumer advocates hope that changes to NAR’s rules would lower commissions, making home purchases a little more affordable.

A little more affordable? We spent more on realtor fees than on anything we've ever bought in our lives, including cars. The cost is utterly divorced from the value provided, in many cases. We found the home we wanted to buy on our own, so the realtor didn't even need to take us around showing us places.
Based on what I've read in HN comments and elsewhere, leaving Twitter is seen as a political act, specifically aligned with liberals or wokeness or whatever term du jour. These folks tremble in fear that they will be judged harshly by their peers for abandoning the cause ... ultimately the cause of making one of the richest people in the world richer.
If you're really good at statistics, you can just intuit what seems like a sufficient N. This is actually a powerful statistical method because you can vary your intuition depending on whether you want to believe the study was well-powered or not, enabling you to easily discard Bad Evidence and include Good Evidence.

Few understand this.
"SCALP : about a hundred missiles"

Wish Germany would send long range Taurus.
This is because currently deep learning is not a science, but engineering. There is no underlying theory why deep neural networks generalize as well as they do. Classical learning theory (VC) actually states that large models with millions of parameters should not work.

There are some academics working on this, but it pales in comparison with how much money is being poured into generative AI.

So today's state-of-the-art models are trained with trial and error, and experts who are building some intuition why some methods work and others don't.
> Because as I grow older, I find I am less and less equipped to keep up with the rate of change that we are undergoing. It also means a lot of uncertainty for the immediate future. If AI takes over my job, will I still be able to compete in some industry somewhere and provide for myself?

I understand this fear, and sympathise with it even though I have multiple income streams.

> I don't want much out of life, but I do want the ability to influence my own personal situation. If we wind up in the UBI-ified, dense urban housing future where AI does all the work and no one owns anything, how much real influence will I have over my life?

Why do you fear "dense" urban housing future? I think most people choose relatively dense environments because that's where all the stuff they want is, but rural areas are cheaper[0], and the kind of future where humans must live on UBI due to lack of economic opportunity is necessarily one where robots do the manual labor such as house building and civil engineering, not just the intellectual jobs like architecture and practicing real estate law.

Likewise, while I can see several possible futures where nobody owns stuff, the tech to make it happen is necessarily also good enough that any random philanthropist who owns just one tiny autofac would find it trivial to give everyone their own personal autofac — "my first wish is infinite wishes" except the magic gene doesn't say "no".

[0] The only reason I'm looking to get somewhere a bit more rural is that the sound insulation in my current place is failing, and I'm right by a busy junction with multiple emergency vehicles passing each day — and the more less built-up areas are the cheap ones. Still the biggest city in Europe, but I'll be surrounded by forest and lakes on most sides within 15 minutes' walk.
If forcing oneself to just walk for 20 mins (thats a lazy 1km, I've managed to walk cca 3km 2 weeks ago with broken foot and ripped ligament through wild forest) is too much, good luck with convincing anybody with such mentality that now is the real "no eat" time, consistently.
Why would you give free money to YouTube if you control the content
Heyokyay Comics
Most of the moralizing is from hypocrites who just dislike the smell.
Company acquisition is possible without the existence of a stock market. What I’m objecting to is the latter.
One of the directions in which civilization is slowly developing is cleanliness.

Once upon a time, people threw all sorts of garbage in the streets, including rat carcasses and what have you. It was the norm and people complaining about it were considered sissies.

In the 1900s, this was already beyond the pale, but "everyone" was fine with black soot from coal-fired furnaces covering everything, and with car engines smelling to high heavens.

Nowadays we don't tolerate either, so smokers are starting to be targeted.
Their value increased $6T in 12 months.

If their shareholders want to keep that insane value, then they can pay their way.

Or the US could collapse and the world enter a 100 year China led world. Those shareholders can lose say 90% of their value, costing them $35T. Upto them really, it's not like anyone else has a say
How can he exit if Zelensky's goal is to retake Crimea, Donetsk and Lugansk?
> Companies competing is the default

If you had no regulation, they would simply form cartels or merge to create a monopoly.
This is the argument conservatives made in the 1950s and 1960s against blacks having the right to vote, drink from water fountains, swim in public swimming pools, sit anywhere on a bus etc. They said they were not against blacks per se, but against federal encroachment, communists in the civil rights movement etc.
Tobacco smells better than those sickly sweet vapes and I'd rather hang out with smokers than vapers.
Rather than handling the multiprocessing and message passing yourself it would be much easier to use celery + gevent and let celery do the work of spinning up processes for executing the tasks.

It may feel limiting but my advice would be to keep all the celery job queue stuff isolated from your server, especially if you are using an async web framework. Have your web server just put all the jobs in the celery queue and let it handle executing them, regardless of whether they’re cpu or io-bound. If you try to optimize too much by doing something like leaning on celery for cpu-bound tasks but letting your web server handle the io-bound ones you’re going to be in for a world of hurt when it comes to both debugging and enforcing the order of execution. Celery has its warts but you’ll at least know where in the system your problem is and have reasonably good control over the pipeline.
yeah it's kinda weird that we associate baldness with age, most of the people that get it genetically seem to start balding at a young age. I have a friend that started losing it in his teens and had lost enough to constantly wear hats by college.
Debt collection records were definitely a thing 20 years ago.

But it sounds like you were dealing with an individual landlord, that's kinda rare. They might be more willing to use common sense and not ask useless documents from someone who just arrived in the country.

On the other hand, big property management companies will typically not bother with an application that doesn't tick all the boxes.
I disagree with the author. Insights and opportunities to understand new technological developments increase every year. In the early years of these technologies, they were always less approchable to me. While in the 80s, I had to rely on outdated books from the library for superficial knowledge about PCs, now I can actively engage with AI developments in near real-time, experimenting with it as a service, running it on my own machine, or even training smaller models.

However, I am apprehensive about how society will navigate these new AI advancements. I believe we won't be able to adapt concepts and cultural techniques as quickly as the reality shifts due to ubiquitous AI. These social changes are beyond my comprehension and overwhelm me.

My engineering education has always helped me explain technology to both my parents and my children. But for now, it's just a matter of "fasten your seat belts."
What's the concern here?
The US actually has a good pension system relative to other developed countries. Retirement plans like 401k, IRA, etc are in addition to the pension system, they don't replace it, and are frequently superior to their European counterparts both in scope and flexibility.

There is plenty to complain about but pensions and retirement is one area that the US does comparatively well.
Are we 'appy about change?
Fluent Python is good book at that level, and works as a good reference book while working too.
This is quite possible, right?

For eg: if you work for a Swiss or US employer and make more than 69k(?), say 100k, as a freelancer, and have a family, you have to pay around 14%(upper limit somewhere around 1000) of the income as health insurance contribution.

I think it is costly. It is difficult to digest for me that the health insurance costs more than housing.
It isn't the technology that broke. It's the people.

I respectfully disagree. People haven’t changed in ten thousand years. It’s technology and culture that have changed. Many changes in culture have been amazing, wonderful breakthroughs (such as human rights). Similarly for technology (green revolution, modern medicine, electricity).

Social media though? That’s a technology that has found its niche exploiting human psychology for profit. It’s on the same dark branch as advertising and “big lie” propaganda/fascism. We were much better off before it!
Tucker Carlson killed Alexei Navalny.

Edit: Practice systemic awareness. This was not a throwaway comment.
You might have some grand vision of all this ties together in part 4 or whatever, but the problem is that it doesn't exist yet so we are left on discussing now this part 2, and it really doesn't stand on its own at all. Nor does the article itself state this fact that there are still two parts coming, so at least I was quite surprised when I reached the end; it truly felt like half of the article was missing.

So maybe the biggest problem here was just posting this on HN prematurely, maybe it would have worked better if you'd waited until the whole thing had been published.
If you wanna take a dump on the street, be my guest. You'll quickly find out whether your thesis that most people find smoking more disgusting than human faeces is correct.
Corporations are created [and recognized] by and UNDER Government. Their owners are provided the privilege of limited liability because of it. IF they wish to not be under the regulations then the owners can operate outside of their corporate veil and be fully liable for any and all actions they collectively take...
Large ML models tend to be uncorrectably non-deterministic simply from doing lots of floating point math in parallel. Addition and multiplication of floats is neither commutative nor associative - you may get different results depending on the order in which you add/multiply numbers.
Reading your opinion on the subject, I believe you’re struggling to make sense of what is happening. I suspect there is a combination of factors here: you are reinforcing a bias, can’t wrap your head around it, don’t have much experience working with AI, haven’t deeply considered the evolution of the universe.

My recommendation: zoom out a little bit. Every step in history is so brief and nothing is normal for long. Even humanity is a blink.

Comments like: “how is using a machine to spit out a poem creative”. Really? How is using a digital camera creative compared to painting. How is a painting creative compared to etching? And on and on evolution goes..
Pauli's insult comes to mind: "Not even wrong..."
"Accordingly, you hereby grant Spotify" what ever they want.

Crazy.
And where this statement in this article? Are you lying?
He against the war sure, but show me where he mentioned returning Crimea to Ukraine.
If you've ever been involved in ToS drafting, you're used to customers panicking over clauses that you and your attorneys crafted to deal with pretty standard business requirements, such as granting adaptation rights so you can create thumbnails or summaries of user-generated content, for example.

This ... is not that. This is facially overbroad, lacks any kind of even indicative usage limitations, and likely breaks a lot of standard negotiating and contracting for authors within the publishing (and related) industries. While I've seen bad and overbroad adhesion contracts that were cut-and-paste jobs not created by actual counsel, I don't think I've seen something this audacious that went through legal review. It's predatory.
We're not trying to build another Slack
We're already at the point where abstractions need to exist because devices (such as a modern x64 CPU) are so incredibly advanced. Even knowing assembly is a high level abstraction over an incredibly advanced closed-source chip. This article is more about someone afraid of new technology than it is about someone lamenting that ML is inaccessible or "unknowable", when all that matters is the observed behavior for day to day usage.
We have regulations on emissions. We ban 2 stroke engines. We have congestion pricing to prevent cars from coming in cities. We ban lead from fuel. We try to invest in public transportation. We build more bike lanes. We use electric vehicles.

An imperfect world is not an excuse for inaction
Does that matter when the models they generate are given away for free?

You can make your argument validly against DALL•E or Midjourney families, but we've also got the Stable Diffusion family of models that anyone can just grab a copy of.
> bandaids

Exactly. They are temporary and reversible measures that can be taken until we get carbon emissions under control.

> downsides

SRM could have the same downsides as a volcano erupting, something that has already happened throughout human history.

> easier

It is actually much easier and more cost effective to deploy SRM. Check out this article: https://climate.benjames.io/someone-is-going-to-dim-the-sun/
Technically, it works similar to feature flags. But feature flags are used for releases, experimentation (a/b testing, etc.), ops (for service stability) or permission (basic vs. premium functionality), while this is based on user behavior.
Better reference would be an ELISA test (which is actually brought up as the reference in the paper)[^1]. That seems to also run about $5 per kit per antigen[^2]. However this device seems to only require the test strip to be replaced, whereas you can only run ELISA once per strip/reagents. Also note that ELISA is harder to run so you have personnel costs and also this device claims higher sensitivity.

[^1]: https://pubs.aip.org/avs/jvb/article/42/2/023202/3262988/Hig...

[^2]: https://www.thermofisher.com/elisa/product/ErbB2-HER2-Human-..., note that I didn't shop around for necessarily the best prices.
> We don't have agency in that

Fair enough. What difference does it make if "we" or other spiecies (or natural events) have agency in that?

> ... this is a statement relative to what it felt like to me ~20 years ago...

So essentially one of your feeling (happiness) is linked to your other feelings in some sort of a loop, correct?

Which kinda leaves out anything objective out of this equation, for this particular source of unhappiness.
I think Rust is over-hyped, but I also find your take a bit pessimistic.

Rust needs time. Languages like C, C++ and heck even Go have so much more maturity than Rust right now.

Give it a few more years and:

* Hype dies down

* The language matures

* More libraries are made

* Best practices and common design patterns become more well-known

* An understanding is reached about what problems Rust is good at solving and which it struggles with

* Tooling and environments improve and expand

And I think Rust will be a nice alternative. Great for some problems, not so great for others.
Somewhat less? This is like saying an afternoon in the sun is somewhat less harmful than standing next to nuclear explosion.
I like Monarch Money and they support Canada (although idk if the Canadian bank coverage is as thorough as it is for the US). Although it's definitely on the SASSier side
> Switzerland does everything better than Germany with far less taxes.

They have the advantage that the country is so small. Us Germans however have to deal with the fact that we have the 5th largest country of Europe of which a lot of is settled and has to be supported by the entire population.

And in any case, Swiss taxes aren't that much lower than Germany's either - average tax load in the country is ~29% [1], Germany is at 33.9% [2]. Switzerland's total load may be even higher because the German figure includes social security payments, Statista for Switzerland is only taxes.

[1] https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/1176146/umfra...

[2] https://www.bpb.de/kurz-knapp/zahlen-und-fakten/soziale-situ...
Didn't you read the post I'm replying to? It's referring to a guillotine. A method of public executions. Unless you believe executions to be a non-violent affair?

As to the French revolution, who ended up being the master of the French plebes at the end? Could it be a certain military officer named Napoleon and his marshalls?
Getting an email sounds quite courteous. Most companies just put an extra sentence some in the footer along the lines of "these terms can be updated anytime without prior notice. check back here every 20 minutes, if you want to know about it, lol" (HN has this too btw - which makes sense for accounts without email. Not so polite regarding the other accounts.)
I wonder how much of the highlighted clause

you hereby grant Spotify a non-exclusive, transferable, sublicensable, royalty-free, fully paid, irrevocable, worldwide license to reproduce, make available, perform and display, translate, modify, create derivative works from (such as transcripts of User Content), distribute, and otherwise use any such User Content through any medium

is actually necessary for the service to function in the first place. But something caught my attention:

by any means, method or technology, **whether now known or hereafter created**

Why is this even legal anywhere ? How does one consent to something that is unknown at the time of signing?
Responsibility is the ceo's/boards for most places. Not that they will be taking responsibility any time soon. But the subordinate thing still applies, I think.
Nice job, respect!
I'm pretty sure I read this exact comment 10 years ago, but "Sublime Text" instead of "VSCode".
Your argument is similar to the classic hand vs. power tools argument in crafting, which eventually boils down to "did you mine the ore and forge the tools yourself?" Nowadays the argument is about CNC vs. hand crafting.

This is just a point in our overall evolution. It's an exciting time. We are here to learn and adapt.

Humans can still be creative all they want. There's still the stamp of "created by a human" that will never go away. You can choose to respect it or ignore it.
Have you read Burnham's The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World?

I often wonder if what we have today is really capitalism or rather it is something much worse.
> The rate of change that AI forces upon us has never before been experienced.

On what timeline?
Nobody "admires" the murder rate of nazis (except perhaps other nazis). People are horrified by the efficiency and success that Nazis achieved. It's a stark reminder of what can happen when the wrong people get too much uncheckered power. Denying or minimizing that it happened will make it more likely for it to happen again.
done right it's terrible, done properly in the right team it's amazing.

it's just 1 work technique. but i've never been in a team where it felt like a meeting. you're literally writing code together, i've never done that in a meeting