skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It's frustrating to be accused of disordered thinking on your part when the actual issue is disordered expectations from the other party."

The expectation isn’t disordered, it's carrying with it implied social expectations (technically it would need to go against these to be disordered). The problem is that neurodivergent people tend to not pick up on the implied expectations and neurological people don't tend to notice that they need to be more explicit with thier expectations.

"What they actually should have asked was, "What happened during your favorite episode?", which might have produced the response given by the sibling."

Why is that what they should have asked? The initial exchange is technically correct. The asker should have said they didn't know that one and asked a follow-up question of what happened in it. Asking what happened in their favorite episode as the first question isn't necessary and isn't the general social flow of conversation.

I do agree on the second paragraph.
Better odds and no work at a game of chance. That's pretty damning.
California Is Losing Tech Jobs
I would really not trust XPC to be any relevant when you care about raw performance and latency. Whole OS is slow as molasses.
The guy filming is not the weird part. You don't think the fact Snoop Dogg has a cereal and is suing Walmart for not carrying it is strange?

Perhaps I missed the evolution of Gansta Rap and that's the main lyrical content these days...
Do Economists Understand Business?
This reference instrument variability is especially true of the BAM, which due to its measurement technology has a high "noise floor" at low concentrations, while remaining a fairly good measurement at high concentrations. I believe two identical BAMs next to each other can easily have more than 25% disagreement at the lower end of the concentration range.

The T640 also recently had its approved calibration algorithm(s) updated, to a new set which often reads about 7% lower. What does that mean for T640 reference data collected in the past? I don't know, and AFAIK neither does the EPA really.

All that to say that reference instruments are still instruments with limitations, even if from a regulatory perspective we treat them as "truth".
Wrangel* island? That puts a new spin on the 1981 soviet cartoon "Mother for a Little Mammoth": https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2mpew0

* named for the explorer, not the White
They're not saying it's harder, just that it leaves you not wanting to do other things when you're done, and in a way that doesn't map to traditional physical fatigue, which is why it's "weirdly" taxing and not just taxing.

Mental and emotional fatigue accrue and exhibit themselves differently sometimes, but often matter quite a bit in the end. Plenty of people choose to leave well paid office jobs for more physical jobs that pay less. Unless you think they have a mental illness or are stupid, presumably they did it for a good reason.
To generate passwords or just store them?
Offtopic: the article finishes with a list of links bulleted with, to my eyes, some weird symbols. If anyone else is curious about them, they are Georgian numerals:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian_numerals#Numeric_valu...
one imagines thorough lawyers always recommend a belt-and-suspenders approach to even the slightest liability potential.

and "low damages" (to/for whom?) don't typically inform the feasibility of a class action. it's generally presumable that individual damages are insufficient to justify most individual action—hence class formation/certification. but the 'profitability' of attorneys' fees awards certainly do.
I live in Chicago and we've got an 8% clearance rate for murder. Its virtually impossible to be caught here.
Good point: as you become an expert in the given system, you can encapsulate or abstract away multiple things into one.

A silly example: when you are learning to dress yourself as a kid, zippers are hard, shoe laces are hard, putting left shoe on left food often gets mixed up. All these little details. When you are older, these details take no mental capacity and you can "get dressed" as a single concept.
> Now, a new paper raises questions about McKinsey’s methodology and suggests that its advertised findings may have gotten the causation backward: financial success may lead corporations to embrace diversity efforts, rather than the other way around.

Completely unsurprising.

> Since McKinsey refused to turn over its numbers, Green and Hand had to reverse-engineer the firm’s 2015, 2018, and 2020 datasets.

So it's still not completely settled who is right. But the fact McKinsey wouldn't turn over their dataset is suspicious. When one researcher works in the open and another does not, conflicting results are likely to favor the open researcher.
There are a lot of ways one can answer this question:

- Because the base path isn't necessarily full of annoyances, just things that may not jive with your workflow. But you won't know that until you run up against it

- "More pleasant workflows" usually comes at the cost of additional or more featureful/complicated tooling. The cognitive overhead or time spent setting up/learning these tools might dwarf the savings you get

- Adopting a premade package of pleasant workflows might include a lot of cruft you don't need. Starting from "scratch" means you understand why you added all the things you did
When I said "PC" that was a noun, not an adjective. There was a "PC magazine" by that name.
If it can happen in this universe, and the universe is infinite, then there are an infinate number of duplicates. This doesn't mean they would be "like" you, they occupy a different time/space and thus would be a independent entity.
It could just as easily be explained as those who are prone to schizophrenia like cats. I'm not sure why these kind of articles exist and people give them any credence whatsoever. This is typical media fud. While it is an interesting data point for people doing actual research it is useless information to convey to the masses as it provides no actionable data.

Science communicators have turned into fud communicators. They're ill equipped to be actual scientists and they're not good enough to actually get a job in any kind of media industry so they fell into this niche that really didn't need filled.
The key can be up to 100 bytes. The key in the hashmap is in cache. The key being compared is from main memory. Basically the whole file in memory is being gone through and compared. With 1 billion rows it’s about 16GB data in memory for a 16-byte average row. That’s approaching the memory bandwidth limit for a second, making it a memory bound problem.
Strategies for AI Model Training with Data Privacy in Competitive Sectors
Greetings HN community,

I'm delving into the complexities of training AI models in sectors where data isn't just sensitive, it's a cornerstone of competitive advantage. The challenge is to leverage this data for AI without compromising the privacy of the data providers or giving an edge to their competitors.
I'm reaching out to this knowledgeable community for insights on how startups and tech companies are navigating this delicate balance. Specifically, I'm interested in the following areas, Are startups using these to skip those concerns?:

- Anonymization Techniques

- Federated Learning

- Differential Privacy

- Service Models with Privacy Tiers: For those offering AI services, how do you structure your offerings to provide varying levels of privacy? What strategies do you use to articulate the value of these different tiers to your clients?

- Legal and Ethical Frameworks: How do you structure your legal agreements to ensure the ethical use of customer data, and what steps do you take to maintain compliance in a global context?

I'm eager to learn from your experiences and to discuss the best practices that can help us all advance the field of AI responsibly. Your contributions to this conversation could be invaluable to many of us facing similar challenges.

Thank you in advance for your thoughts and contributions!

Best,
Sivo
"All the (unneeded) secrecy around the compensation package - you are not allowed to talk about your salary and stock options with other employees, and in some places not even with your manager."

In the United States, this is not just unnecessary secrecy: this is completely illegal. Trying to forbid employee-to-employee conversations about compensation will land the company in trouble, and every manager should know this.
News is a really weird place to start with AI, because it obviously doesn't work. The AI cannot go out into the world and do investigating journalism. It still can't access tons of documents that are still hidden away in archives and libraries around the world and it cannot do an sit though endless hours of court room session (even if that might be a fairly good place to start). The only "news" AIs can report on are press releases, that and rehashed articles written by journalists.

Due to the volume of half-arsed news the current AIs can generate your average reader might not notice that some is missing, though I questions that. People are starting to notice that their newspapers doesn't actually have news anymore (and that's just do to cost optimization and competition from ad supported online news).

I fear that we're entering a world where some of us pay for news written by real journalists, while the masses consume garbage "news" which is more tailored to them clicking ads, rather that learning about the world.
> "Why would you need to?"

If someone is going to suggest that there is "illegal child pornography in DALL-E's training data" I think it needs to be backed up - that's a pretty big accusation.
Im kinda in the same boat. Recently got a dog and have been finding absolute bliss in literally just sitting in the grass with him for like 30 mins at a time. Really is the highlight of my life at this juncture and im totally cool with that.
Is there anything more uncivil than the complete disregard for human life?
It kind of comes down to money, but...

My wife and I work as teachers now after successful paths in tech. I do some consulting, choosing the most interesting problems instead of money.

We seek fulfillment and meaning and personal growth instead of papering over suck buying nice things.

Of course, having a big pile of capital as a backup makes this a lot safer to do.
Don't like all eggs in one basket.
That its more that needs to be done for no benefit.
Same here! Props to Achim from AirGradient, we need more entrepreneurs like them. I built some of their DIY Air Quality Sensors open design boards for myself and was so happy with them that now I build and give them as gifts to people I care about.

I integrate them in HomeAssistant via MQTT, see [1].

More in line with the discussed article, I correct the humidity and temperature by adding/subtracting a fixed deviation that I calculated from observation, but I would like to implement something based on [2].

[1]: https://github.com/nsbk/airgradient_mqtt

[2]: https://www.airgradient.com/blog/slr-temperature-example/
As a consumer I'm sick of seeing these data breaches. The market is not solving this problem.

We need legislation to force businesses to do security audits of their products if they collect PII, and fix the bugs in a reasonable time frame. If they don't they need major penalties that are recurring and increase over time. This way a whistleblower can report their company if they fail to properly perform an audit or fail to fix the bugs.

This may seem toothless, but avoiding shame and fines is a big motivator for companies in industries where data privacy regulation exists. If we can force them to start investing in security, that reduces the likelihood of security holes sticking around forever, leading to breach.
Can anyone say whether it is possible to have an accident where this becomes a runaway process like the Great Oxidation Event?
> The problems are aversion to technology in places, unwillingness to adopt new (human) protocol/processes, entrenched proprietary technology, that does not adhere to standardized formats.

It is not. This is a classic example of assuming the problem exists within the realm of your current understanding.

The stereotype of people in medical roles not wanting/liking/understanding technology is wrong. What we don't like is the god awful technology we are handed because the work hasn't been done to understand how we work. THAT technology is not worth learning or caring about.

As someone who has rounded patients over many times, the problem is the extensive amount of information that is ingested into establishing a cohesive clinical picture of a patient, then continually adjusting the degree of confidence in numerous facets and levels of the case. Then it all gets dumped into the heads of the next group of people.

So people in tech develop these programs to help track the information. Yet they fail to grasp that there are many situations where the conclusions are based on a web of contingencies that operate on disparate time series, are affected by a wide net of things not directly reflected in empirical data, and it is completely impractical for me to continuously update the intermediate changes to my conclusions just so your software can know what's going on. The more that people try to construct a UI that captures the complexity of what can be noted in a case, the less usable it becomes. Even then, they still undershoot the level of depth needed to reflect what doctors are tracking in their heads. You may think it's enough to have someone input the hematologic data as the results and their ranges. You fail to track that my interpretation of those results is contextualized by the fact that nurse Martha was on the floor and likely dropped the ball on how promptly the ABG was run, and that certain staffing dynamics affected how much weight I give certain subjective criteria. In rounds, a simple eyebrow raise can be enough to convey to the next shift a mutually known dynamic that affects how information should be interpreted. Asking us to spell all of that out in your "new technology solution" won't happen. It is a waste of everyone's time and social dynamics will prohibit it.

I could go on and on with a variety of other examples, but I don't have the time or desire to do so. My point is that the tech hubris is wasted effort. While you sit there thinking you need to teach the "tech illiterate doctors" how to follow matters of process, we see you as someone that has been asked to develop a more effective tool, and you hand us a fisher-price screwdriver and insult us for not finding it useful.

Like the other comment said, https://xkcd.com/1831/
Did yall build all the database implementation components yourself, or are any of them open source / off the shelf? It sounds like Kafka could do the transaction log job, and overall the architecture sounds similar to XTDBv1 which does use Kafka for that component.

https://v1-docs.xtdb.com/concepts/what-is-xtdb/

I’m also curious if you support unique constraints on non-id columns, or if having writer actions close to the database kind of takes that role.
I've noticed that too. Its an unnatural thing for the body to do, interacting with a computer or other digital device for that length of time. I've never walked away from using the computer feeling charged and rejuvenated, even when working on something I enjoy. Not mentally, I am referring to a whole body feeling.

I believe the vibrations emanating from digital devices is partly incompatible with human biology, so the body spends significant energy trying to maintain its default "state" so to speak, which is why it feels draining to use computer for long stretches of time. If you read a book for hours on end, it would not have the same effect so its not purely the sedentary nature of it.

In qi-gong practice, there is a concept known as "drawing" where you can increase your strength and vitality from being in proximity to different objects. For example, if I put you in a room full of plants and natural sunlight, you WILL become physically stronger instantly. If I put you in a server computer room, you will become physically weaker instantly. The body is constantly adjusting its "aura".

I don't know the science behind it, but it is easy to experiment with. Have someone resist a push while in a wide stance while holding in their left hand

1. a phone in their hand turned on

2. hold a living plant

3. glass of water

4. a battery

See if you can feel the difference in your ability to resist the push. It will change based on the object in your hand.

There is some challenges:

1. the pusher has to have correct form and measured strength. By correct form, it means you know how to correctly use your body to create an effective push (standing too close to not engage your legs, only using your arms to push, etc) Measured strength means similar force each time to have a base to compare to.

2. the pushee has to maintain a "neutral" state and provide the same amount of resistance on every push, to maintain the "control" group.

3. enough sensitivity as the pusher to feel the different levels of resistance provided by the pushee. On some pushes, the pushee might feel "heavier" or "lighter"

4. Patience. Whatever object you are holding has an effect on your body and most people cannot feel it initially. In fact, it takes years to cultivate enough sensitivity to feel subtle changes.

I think there has been some research on this topic in regards to wearing synthetic clothing made of nylon or polyester.
I’m the author, just a fun little stylistic decision. I was looking at the style options for OL and I thought the these both looked cool and had cool history. I quite like culture and embedding little bits of it into my site — another one is if your preferred language is set to Japanese, my name will appear in Katakana, which is typically used to write out English words in Japan
A couple of these tools—the git plugin for ohmyzsh and SCM Breeze)—are intended to make it easier to use git commands.

For people interested in these kinds of tools, I recommend trying out magit with emacs. In addition to also providing git command abbreviations, magit’s interface makes it easy to see the git status with automatic updates. It’s also a nice reason to learn emacs for anyone curious about its popularity.

Some screenshots of the interface are at: https://magit.vc/screenshots/
This really depends on an individuals risk tolerance.
Sizing Up the New Axis
Ezra Klein Interviews Dario Amodei
There is no adversary.

YouTube & X are not my adversaries any more than Meta, TikTok, Twitch were.

The difference is I was able to speak with actual people with decision making authority at Meta, TikTok, and Twitch.

Whereas, X & YouTube have automated systems and made it impossible to actually communicate with someone in their organizations.

Lawsuits would only serve the purpose of forcing communication, yes lawyers would be nearly just as bad as automated systems because their vested interest in delaying resolution to bill their clients, but it would inevitably get resolved.

Thanks, I’ll likely get an email to general counsel prior to filing suit.
Fruitland, North Carolina has population of about 2000. Something tells me you too can buy a house while driving a laundry truck if you're willing to move to Fruitland.
Typical: determine the conclusion you need. Twist the evidence to provide it.
What do you propose happened instead?
This exactly. I’d love to not have to work for a living so I could spend my days tinkering on projects, drawing, learning an instrument, etc. There’s so much to learn and resources to do so have never been more abundant or readily available. There’s enough to keep a person busy for several lifetimes.

But that requires money. A lot of it, if that’s what I want to do from today in my mid-30s onward.

I’m already doing some of this in my spare time and I’m grateful for the ability and opportunity to do so — having come from a poor background it’s absolutely not taken for granted — but having to work to live means everything else is pushed off into the margins with whatever energy and passion is leftover. I want to be able to get obsessed with and lost in whatever I’m pursuing like I did as a teenager, and that’s not feasible as long as a job is commanding most of my waking productive hours.
I couldn't make solar on my house pencil out unless the risk-free rate was 8%, I paid for the whole thing in cash, and electricity prices went up 5% a year. I didn't even bother modeling panel decay at that point.
For anyone who cares to read a balanced perspective on Kipling I highly recommend Orwell's. He criticizes Kipling fiercely where criticism is called for without falling into the maddened and equally ignorant invectives of OP. The whole thing is worth a read, but here's the conclusion:

> One reason for Kipling's power as a good bad poet I have already suggested — his sense of responsibility, which made it possible for him to have a world-view, even though it happened to be a false one. Although he had no direct connexion with any political party, Kipling was a Conservative, a thing that does not exist nowadays. Those who now call themselves Conservatives are either Liberals, Fascists or the accomplices of Fascists. He identified himself with the ruling power and not with the opposition. In a gifted writer this seems to us strange and even disgusting, but it did have the advantage of giving Kipling a certain grip on reality. The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions. Where it is a permanent and pensioned opposition, as in England, the quality of its thought deteriorates accordingly.
... Kipling sold out to the British governing class, not financially but emotionally. This warped his political judgement, for the British ruling class were not what he imagined, and it led him into abysses of folly and snobbery, but he gained a corresponding advantage from having at least tried to imagine what action and responsibility are like. It is a great thing in his favour that he is not witty, not ‘daring’, has no wish to épater les bourgeois. He dealt largely in platitudes, and since we live in a world of platitudes, much of what he said sticks.

https://orwell.ru/library/reviews/kipling/english/e_rkip
When you take elders into care and move them to places, that are closer to you, i am sure, that it disrupts their life in a way, that could incur nostalgia. Ambiguous. Modern life sucks in many ways.
Most programmers are notoriously bad about estimating anything - ship dates, time to investigate bugs, time to close bugs, time to implement features, complexity, etc, etc. I wouldn't blindly believe a programmer about a tool increasing productivity by __ %. I would listen to their argument first, and look at their experience. I would believe them if they have made good decisions in the past, or if they were a senior/experienced person who understands these nuances. In any case, I hope you agree that there is a spectrum. Because disagreement is not about "incompetence".
In my mind, the more generic rule underneath these rules is you want to be able to comprehend what a unit is doing without jumping between a massive number or files or contexts. Inheritance hierarchies with shared state and overrides means you need to understand multiple files and their interactions vs interfaces and composition tend to allow for fairly understandable units with clear interactions.

The big problem these deep inheritance hierarchies cause is mediocre programmers often think they're writing good code (often high focus on maximal reuse) but the interfaces and clarity are terrible.
It depends upon the person and the exact situation, but it's a fundamentally different kind of tired. My students marvel at this.

They can tinker with mechanical things for a 12 hour crunch session before a robotics competition, and end up achy, hangry, and physically tired. But it might not be as exhausting as as an intense 1.5 hour math class or chasing a bug staring at screens for a couple of hours.