skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would use different terms for such organizational units (group, department, division), team, in my mind and use of language, would mean low two-digit (at most) number of people reporting to the same manager and collaborating on similar topics.

But sure, the larger the structures the more likely regression toward the mean will kick in.
>I agree it has less utility as a word / set of words though.

This is the point I think you are missing. No definitions are "changed" because there is nothing new. It is only regression. It's anti-intellectual at best. Humanity can only become more ignorant as a result. By virtue of enlightenment principles, the only acceptable way forward is to question why such a degenerate tendency has arisen and consider what to do about it.
I agree.

Type-checking in general is good. However, Python's type-checking mechanisms are bad. The syntax for adding types is very obviously bolted on, they miss basic type errors all the time, and third-party libraries often miss type annotations anyway.

Python is fundamentally a duck-typed language, and that's how you should use it. If type-checking is important to you, use a language that is designed for it.
Did Google really say that? It makes sense to treat it as a different category of link. An organic back link from a blog or website is putting the weight of the website’s name/reputation behind it whilst UGC has users putting their name/reputation on it (as it relates to their relationship with the originating website). The latter is not worthless as the website ultimately allows it, it not as strong as a signal as an organic backlink.
I've used GitHub for years knowing that Microsoft owning it, they're headed for a place I won't like.

I just haven't experienced that until now.

I've been trying out sr.ht and codeberg.org.

Sadly the product is nowhere near GitHub.
No, we don't do it to help find criminals. We do it to make profiting from crime more difficult
and expensive, and to help stop funding terrorism.
The web UI is super slow. It's slow with the default view of 10 results per page and unbearably slower at 100. These aren't big numbers and my computer isn't old, something was poorly done here and setting the default number of results per page to 10 clearly is not the correct fix.

(For the record it only has a mere thousand results so far..)

Also, the content classification is so bad it might as well not exist. How does a torrent with "Playboy" in the title get classified as 'Unknown' instead of 'XXX'? Even torrents with "Porn" or "XXX" in the title get classified as Unknown. A simple Bayesian classifier should have this covered, it's not a task that needs heavy duty AI to solve.

This whole thing seems way too half-baked for me.
> Discretionary government intervention can be good for the market actually

This is more like "government intervention can give domestic companies an unfair advantage in global markets", which isn't actually a good thing, but also isn't something you can just ignore without a response.

In this case you might like it because what they're subsidizing helps with climate change, but this is mainly because we don't price carbon (pricing major externalities is one of the things governments actually have to do), not because having governments subsidize businesses is a net positive in general.
Related:

How China Built BYD

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39420505
Well, that clickbait headline certainly has James Cameronesque overtones, does it not?
Exactly what part of it is a lifestyle business if you don't write the software yourself ?

That's a recipe for a very non-lifestyle business
> All you need to really appreciate the genius of the film is to day-drink 2/3 a bottle of single malt

admittedly, this is how i got through the film as well...
The Cybertruck is a waste because it's an awful truck. The extreme aesthetics are a hard "you must have it" -or- "you wouldn't buy it a million years," with very little middle ground. The carrying capacity is shit. It's off-road and even trail capabilities are also pretty limited. Like I get that it's a trope at this point that most Americans do not buy a truck to use for truck things, but that's quite a different ball game to selling a truck to them that is functionally useless as a truck even in the rare instances you might want one. It's frankly so limited in terms of what Tesla generously calls it's "bed" that it'd be better characterized as an SUV with an open-air cargo area.

As bad a truck as a 2024 F-150 is in terms of truck-ness, it is still a truck and will perform a baseline number of truck things more or less competently, even if it would get roundhouse kicked by an 2004 F-150 in terms of doing actual work. Or hell, get yourself a Rivian truck if you want. It has a striking design which doesn't utterly ruin it as a truck and is similarly priced to boot.

And, it's worth noting, in the extremely long ramp up for the Cybertruck we're already seeing things like the F-150 Lightning, which incorporates all the benefits of an electric truck, and is sold by an OEM that actually does QA and sells via standard dealerships, and just looks like a normal ass truck while inheriting all the pluses of that fact (the ability to hold a bicycle, for example). Like, unless you are just 100% irrevocably sold on the looks of the Cybertruck, I cannot fathom why you would spend ballpark 30% more on a less-capable vehicle.

And if you just want a status symbol, the electric Hummer IMO absolutely demolishes the Cybertruck in terms of aesthetics while also being a vastly superior vehicle and is ALSO coming from a reputable, well established brand.

TL;DR: The Cybertruck took so goddamn long to actually become available that it's disappointing launch version is already getting lapped by competitors who are selling comparative machines for lower prices that are more capable and look better, and don't come with the baggage, political and otherwise, that the Tesla brand increasingly brings.
street smarts

community indexer

why download anything from a list of torrents, okay use the same set of rules
Google knows your preferences and tailors your search results accordingly. You are The hidden gem. Use anti tracking and privacy tools.
Found the https://xkcd.com/303
It supports images (though not videos and animations).

> sent does not need latex, libreoffice or any other fancy file format, it uses plaintext files to describe the slides and can also display images

The plaintext part is how you describe the presentation, not the presentation itself.
The Iliad does not describe a sexual relationship between Achilles and Patroclus, even though later times have interpreted the relationship as sexual.
You dont recognize the spam because the bad ones are removed. Good marketing targets its audience, and influences people who are not associated to repeat its talking points.
Thanks, I love it!
> with blackjack and dancers

and Slurm, please.
By the time a number is getting printed in the newspaper, Goodhart's Law has already taken effect. Anyone who has a good metric is keeping it quiet, the only way to know anything is to get deeper into the details than the average voter.
Capitalism demands that the most profitable be in charge. Once AI is better than humans...
I share your experience and would like to make an unsolicited recommendation of a recent movie that's stuck with me more than anything else I've seen in the last few years: First Reformed. Give it a shot!
Selection bias. Kias circulate in Europe. No carjacking here.
What makes the US seem so much more conformist to you than other western countries? I didn't think it was more conformist than countries like Spain, France, Germany, etc.
Google acquisitions suck because the thing gets left to rot. The last thing Reddit needed was all of its recent changes towards crypto and engagement-bait nonsense. I think they'd have it in better shape than it is now.
I mean, if I control your DNS for a few moments, there are trusted providers that will issue a TLS cert to me. Things like this happen all the time for companies that hopefully have a security officer. Individuals have little hope here.
You might enjoy a https://frame.work laptop. Camera and microphone are physical kill switches, and you'll see the device drop off USB when you toggle them.

(No wifi killswitch on Framework laptops at this time.)
And yet your parent comment was right in saying that it won't be true that "a lot of the probability mass - an amount that is not small - will be concentrated" in the center hypercubic inch.
>I’m not one to be bullish on Tesla under Elon Musk but I don’t see how the Cybertruck was a waste considering that it’s squarely placed in the most popular and profitable segment of the automobile market in North America.

If you think any current truck owner is at all interested in a cybertruck's design, you are definitely one being bullish on Tesla.

I've owned trucks nearly my entire life and wouldn't touch the thing with a 30-foot pole. Across the various auto enthusiast forums I participate in, it's universally mocked. Among the folks I know that own pickups, everyone else feels the same about its design as I do.

The only people I have heard say that it's not outright ugly are people that are Tesla fanboys and even among those it's generally "it's not that bad".

It is not a "masculine look" - it looks like something someone who can't form sheet metal put together in their garage.
There are still people who try. There are videos online of people who have memorised the ancient Greek (with modern accents, of course), like https://youtu.be/Zzal-36eIoY. I think at some point Boris Johnson of all people started reciting a bit of the Iliad during an interview at some point.

Don't expect the full version on Youtube, though; the 24 books seem to all take an hour of each, and I don't think anyone has cared to spend a full day reading ancient Greek into a microphone yet, let alone recite it for an audience.

Unfortunately, I can't really find an audiobook version of the English translation of the Iliad. Perhaps AI can be used for chores like this, as human speakers would probably lose the rhythm often, which I imagine must make accurate audiobook recordings in this style quite difficult.
Reddit has been astroturfed for a good 10yrs at this point.

EDIT: https://old.reddit.com/r/HailCorporate/
I loved having small, focused PRs. So much easier to review without interrupting my day, too. Then we got handed a policy of one PR per ticket to simplify our QA process. Oh well.
Paywall links should be banned
The more rapid change has been that people have moved to flood prone areas, and businesses have built there. This was all subsidized by federal flood insurance.

Now that these unsuitably risky areas are built out, the insurers don't want anything to do with them if they can help it. The added cost to insurance pools to insure these risky properties is affecting all of us.

There should be no federal subsidy for insuring buldings in flood prone areas.
Yet they rejected simple advances such as horse collars, or so the legend goes. So capable in some arenas; so incompetent in others.
I’m a big fan of this project. A native, GUI, fast code editor is a welcome change from what VSC does to my laptop’s battery. Unfortunately, I have to step away from it while I figure out a potential data corruption issue. While editing a complex config file in lapce yesterday, I reopened it later to find all KINDS of errors—dozens of deleted, moved, and changed lines. I haven’t pinned it on lapce and it may well end up being something else, but it’s the primary suspect at the moment unfortunately. But to be crystal clear: if the problem is with lapce, that’s on me for using early stage software with a real document. It’s a great project and I don’t blame the software at all for my choice! (Just … ymmv at this stage.)
Frontiers retracts AI generated paper about rats with giant
I read that comment as a response to the teacher’s stated goal of using the first essay to establish dominance and power. Is it bullying? I don’t think so, if it is applied evenhandedly.

Some excellent essays are probably getting marked down to achieve the shock-and-awe effect, and that’s not super fair.

But as powerful people like to say to the powerless: who said life was fair?
Just because something is hard does not make it worthwhile. It is populist slop, doesn't matter how many people worked on it.
The visualization is beautiful but it leaves two things to help really get a scale for if storms are really increasing (in frequency and severity):

- leaves out many storms especially in the third world

- does not divide by the totally insured property base which should be going over time.

I wonder if adding that will change things?
Pretty much. Take a look at Bezos' and his girlfriends history. She was formally married to the head of a top Hollywood agency.

Bezos' comes in and steals one of the biggest entertainment industry players in the country by making him look like a chump.
Hey nice work, I enjoyed that
I've started using smaller (ish) YouTubers instead of reddit when it comes to finding best in class products. For example, this channel is phenomenal: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2rzsm1Qi6N1X-wuOg_p0Ng
I'm less concerned than the OP. It seems like they are using the revenue from search to fund other endeavors. Same model as Google, fundamentally.
Not the GP, but this prompt works reasonably well for ChatGPT 3.5:

The following is a raw transcript from a YouTube video. Add paragraphs and punctuation. Do not modify or correct the text:

<paste raw text here>
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/16/journal-publishe...
For questions like these I sometimes prefer translating everything to thermodynamics.

In this case the question then becomes "Why are we looking at energy if at most ordinary temperatures systems aren't anywhere near 0 energy?". The overly simplified answer is "Because bowling balls still roll down, even at room temperature."

Which is actually kind of interesting to think about. Why do bowling balls roll down when they have vastly more thermal energy than gravitational potential? To get an answer you have to invoke the second law of thermodynamics. Which is annoyingly a bit hard to really get to understand. In short it implies that energy likes to become more disorganised, so something like gravitational potential which is very organised will eventually devolve into heat which is (by definition) disorganised. So bowling ball roll down.
I don’t think I’m missing anything. You’re just saying “I prefer prescriptivism. Mine.”
Nope that is a Basilisk. An obelisk is like a wildcard for coding in regular expressions.
It's not a karma gate, it's gated behind the showdead setting in your profile, which everyone has access to.
> Please be aware that the demos may exhibit significant accessibility issues, such as problems with keyboard navigation, speech synthesis, and progressive enhancement or degradation.

right off the bat, this callout makes it difficult for me to consider these approaches for any serious project.
I hope the links are getting set to nofollow so there really isn’t any value anymore for the spammer
checked: They are nofollow links
Remember that the professor isn't teaching an American or native English language work to people in another country. It's not American culture, except that we happen to read it a lot (for good reason); it's not English language except incidentally.

The context of the Iliad, ancient Greece, is completely alien to the modern US, just as it is to modern China. A Chinese language translation would be just as valid. Modern Americans and Chinese have far more in common with each other, of course.

The only argument is that many modern English words have ancient Greek roots, but that just makes the Chinese translator's job harder.
> Also I wonder how much we compare the Romans to what came after them in Europe, the long Middle Ages when technology went backward.

Technology mostly didn't go backward, societal organization did. Rome was nowhere near industrial revolution.

https://acoup.blog/2022/08/26/collections-why-no-roman-indus...
That's a lot of questions so I'll try to answer one by one.

> Whats your recommendation for backend engineers that want to transition to ml engineers?

I get this a lot, and my first question would be, why do you want to work in ML? Is it because it's "cool"? because it's in high demand? because it pays a lot? for the second two points, see my comment. For the first point, I'm pretty cynical about it. At the end of the day it's a dev job not very different from other domains. Depending on where you end up, your day to day might look the same, but with focus in ML systems.

Nevertheless, if you really want to transition, I still think the easiest way is to do an internal transfer to a team that does ML. That's how I got this job. If you are a good engineer, most ML teams will be happy to have you and teach you the skills on the job.

Of course maybe there is no ML team in your current company. If you are in a small company you might try to influence leadership to start ML initiatives and get some experience. I've seen many candidates do this: they start an ML project in their current company, and after 6-12 months they look for a job elsewhere. This is a variant of CV driven development, and sadly often these initiatives are hamfisted and don't really solve business problems.

Otherwise you might try to get a job in ML in another company. Lucky for you I found some companies that hire engineers in ML or ML adjacent jobs using a standard software dev loop, i.e. no special ML round, although these difficult to find. The other option is to try to learn enough ML to pass an interview.

I won't lie, this is doable, but the deck is stacked against you. The job market is pretty insane right now, and you'll be competing with people with masters and PhD's in ML, plus engineers with years of experience in the field.

I believe it's fair to say that pure theoretical knowledge won't get a job, much less unless you have prestigious credentials. Instead I would focus on a blend of applied theory and personal projects. Probably it would be best to choose one ML framework and double down on it to increase your chance of finding a job that requires that particular framework.

For theory there are tons of courses and resources online, although I tend to like more walkthroughs and tutorials that guide you on building a system rather than pure theory. For practical experience, the sky is the limit. As I said there are tutorials online that guide you on a project, but that will almost certainly not be enough. You can try your hand at Kaggle competitions, and at some point you can just choose some personal project that interests you and try to build on it.

I hope any of this helps and best of luck to you. Feel free to DM me if you want to know more.
An interesting added metric/filter would be posts that hit the front-page but then shortly after still exist on the site but are not available via navigating "next" from the main page.
dude hosting data costs money, why do you think you should get terabytes of data hosting for a tiny price. Obviously they're a stable, good platform, if you've been on them for 15 years. Paying for a good service that you like is like what every other industry does why is email any different..
I believe the extra size before stripping is because Rust ships the standard library with debug symbols included by default (for now)

Source: https://kobzol.github.io/rust/cargo/2024/01/23/making-rust-b...
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39112486
> The MOST unfortunate thing about slide presentations is that in many contexts (particularly academic talks, and investor pitches, among other things) is that people ask for your slides before or after the talk, as a substitute for listening during the talk.

I don’t know about the other contexts, but unfortunately it’s a fact of life in academia that half your audience is not really motivated to attend your talk a priori, and that a significant fraction of the other half will be distracted at some point and stop following for 5 to 30 seconds. You lose too much of the audience if the slides are not enough to follow. Another common case, besides the “I could not attend because of diary conflicts” is sending the slides to someone who could be interested but did not attend for whatever reason (after asking politely the author whether they were ok with it).

Now, that’s not an excuse for how dreadful most of academic presentations are, but you just cannot go too deep into the minimalism rabbit hole.
That’s a shame! I was wondering why it wasn’t available when trying to link to it the other day.
Does Boeing Stand a Chance Anymore? [video]
Thanks for the recommendation. I've been wanting to read the Iliad for awhile, but always wondered which translation might be approachable.
Ah — I stand corrected.
Phoenix is just as easy as Rails to get started and now with LiveView, easier than needing to know Ruby and JavaScript. It’s a secret weapon for indie hackers.
This topic is one of those that suffers particularly from the noise of petty race-based paintbrushing. Obvious the villains you're referring to exist, but if you're white and object to some construction that will have a non-negligible negative impact on the preexisting residents, there is nigh universally a voice accusing you of hating poor people or whatever race is disproportionately represented among your poor population, despite the fact that pretty much anybody of any race would have (and do have) the same objection in that circumstance. You certainly should question the unjust historical and cultural reasons why white people are lucky enough to be in that situation more often to begin with, but it doesn't make them different or justify calling them out based on their race or encouraging hatred of them ("all the white neighborhoods").
The big question in my head is whether they are capable of causing disease. Sounds like a fascinating area of research regardless of the terrifying sublime.
I interpreted this point to mean that there is no visible karma for any of a user's posts.

E.g. A reply/comment is at the top of the chain, but you don't know if there is a difference of 1 karma or 100 karma between it and the next comment.
It's changing now that money isn't as free, but basically:

More people = more growth (supposedly) = more money.
My guess is he means it'll be omnipresent in 10 years like the Iphone is now. If this gets small enough, this could potentially replace phones entirely.
NATO countries' governments and military use phones with encrypted communications to which the US has the keys. This fact was made available during investigation into the Polish government plane crash in Smolensk. The US authorities have access to the recordings of the calls made by the late president of Poland, but said they would not make them available.

source: https://www.money.pl/archiwum/wiadomosci/artykul/usa;nie;uja...

Indirectly, all software vulnerability tools that send source code and other artefacts to servers outside government's control give third parties access to information about potential attack vectors, software vulnerabilities, and infrastructure layout.
'It is urgent': European leaders appeal for greater support for Ukraine
Chat Apple Vision Pro (ChatAVP): Chat with the OpenAI API for VisionOS
I have a 32GB DDR5 ECC in a max spec https://www.solid-run.com/industrial-computers/bedrock-v3000... - it's headless.

You can go to 96 GB.

With displays: https://www.solid-run.com/industrial-computers/bedrock-r7000...
Pickup trucks aren't cars in the same way that tomatoes aren't vegetables. If you say "I bought a car" and then show someone your brand-new Ford F-150, nobody's going to think anything of it. Pickup trucks are cars, and watching Tesla fans try to spin this fact is really pathetic.