skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you may be confusing what is providing the payout. There is not a single game I’ve played that payed me money that also had a well defined path to success. Gambling any simple game is a near gauranteed loss of money. Poker can payout, but it’s a truly grindy game, and one bad night can wipeout months of grinding. Blackjack can have positive expected value, but good luck successfully counting cards for more than a couple hours without getting permabanned. So what game are you playing that provides payout that isn’t based mostly on dopamine that is provided by you in the real world? And if it’s just numbers go brr that is the payout, you can always buy a counter and watch those numbers go up. In fact, you might be able to train yourself to get a hit of dopamine if you get a clicking counter that goes up when you click it…

Still, it sounds like you may be in a bad place, and my heart goes out to you. Hang in there. Life doesn’t always get better, but seasons change, and this too will pass.
>If your goal is to change the companies behavior, then protesting and getting fired and getting a WaPo story is more effective than resigning in protest.

I bet they are equally ineffective.
> relatively

I'm not sure that means what you think it means.

Relative to the cost of housing in every nearby city, that's very affordable.
I'm sorry but I don't understand and I think I need a longer answer.

I could interpret this three ways:

1) "Leftist Activists"; are a mixed group with some supporting pro-LGBTQ rights and others supporting Palestine.

2) "Leftist Activists"; are a homogenous group, including LGBTQ people, of which they support Palestine (and thus, support a regime that would wish them harm)

3) "Leftist Activists"; are a homogenous group, including LGBTQ people, who will always attempt to ally to the downtrodden, even in cases where the downtrodden would wish them to not exist.

Are any of these correct or is there another interpretation I missed?
Gift article (no paywall): https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/22/technology/generative-ai-...

Preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.22.590591v1
I must once again point you back to the article.
Thank you! This really should be the link, the twitter link is unusable
I wonder how much a truly high-quality book recommendation service that actually worked and people trusted would change the landscape of the book publishing industry. My own experience as an avid reader is that it's quite hard to find books I actually like and that are worth spending money on. But when you hear these numbers about how many books are published and few books make it big, it makes me wonder how many amazing books there could be that I've never heard of because the publishing industry never marketed them.
Another anecdote - I sold a technical book through one of the big publishers, never heard back post advances, and found out that the international edition wasn't considered to be part of my royalty agreement. This was bad for my coauthors and I as the international edition became part of the curriculum for several universities for several years.

Live and learn.
> Let's create one web framework that will be perfect for everyone!

"Situation: There are 15 competing standards"
> the most glaring of mistakes that you are almost never going to make. Not impossible that you could make one, but highly unlikely. Certainly not on the order of "lots".

Not true. People make these mistakes all the time.

I was literally reviewing code today where someone write Python code to write a field that didn't exist. They didn't realise because they hadn't written a test. They asked me to check if it fixed my issue, which wasted 5 minutes of my time checking, when an IDE with static types would have told them their mistake instantly.

You can pull the "well I don't make mistakes" classic, but it doesn't matter. People do make these mistakes.

I linked an empirical study showing that 15% of bugs are precisely these mistakes. If you don't think it's worth eliminating 15% of bugs then frankly I just think you have crazy priorities and I can't really fix that.
> If you feel so strongly then quit

Doesn't it seem like there's quite a gulf between compliant silence and quitting?

I don't know much about these protests so I can't say whether I agree with them or not, but the general idea that there's a black and white choice here doesn't make sense.

Also, doesn't it seem likely that many of these people understood that they could be terminated or face other discipline for their participation in these protests? That is, many may have understood they were putting their jobs on the line, right? That's no small sacrifice.
Some people consider LGBT+ to be a persecuted minority. They also consider the Palestinians to be a persecuted minority.

It is about helping those who are a persecuted minority even if one of the groups wants to kill everybody in the other group.
> way beyond the capabilities of standard SQL

Maybe some examples would help

> AI and LLMs (coming soon)

Why?
In terms of protest visibility, the protesters could ask for nothing more than the ongoing drip of news articles on this.

I would think that the news articles have far more impact than booting the Israeli government off GCP. Getting kicked off GCP certainly hasn't done anything to stop Russia's genocidal war.

If we're going to do ad hoc sanctions, at least learn the lessons about what are good and bad sanctions. Doing partial sanctions has shown to be worthless.
Kafka Connect: A Love/Hate Relationship
In general, the pro-palistinian side is favored by the progressive left, the same group who are also pro-gay/pro-trans etc.

In a lot of ways, the struggles are similar to BLM - there is a great injustice being done by a powerful force funded by the US government. Or again with opposing the US's global war on terror. The people in those groups aren't forced to be on the palenstinians side, but it is logically consistent with the other two.
For the last level, you can get onto the moving platform on the first cycle if you're quick
They're probably quite surprised that they're getting fired. Opposing colonialism was safe politics at Google until Israel started colonizing/raping/genociding Gaza.
Parent of a 10 year old in public school. I can't think of any race related subjects that they do at school. Sure they may cover a race/culture during a specific month (eg. February they learned about the underground railroad this year, they did a week on the Chinese New Year). He has a number of friends that go to private schools and its not too different amongst that peer group.

Sure there are differences overall. In talking with other parents, for instance, the privates around us have classes on ways to study methods (notetaking, how to approach tests, things like that). Our public school does not do this (nor does any of the public middle schools we looked at). The privates around us also seem to give a lot more homework (even during the summer break).

Our math programs seem average for what they are learning. We have been going to additional math tutoring outside to get our son ahead but it wasn't because of the program at his school (we started in Kindergarten).

There is a also lot of info around bullying and so on. I just figured this was all schools. This one I don't know about at the other schools around us.
^^^ this.

Starting a war and losing it should have consequences.

They tried to genocide the Jews in 1948 and lost.

If there are no consequences for what they did - they'll just keep doing it until they'll be successful. Which, coincidentally, is exactly what Hamas said about Oct 7 - that they'll repeat it again and again.
I suspect most of the power that you already _love_ flows from the sexp based homoiconic syntax :-)
Build a city without an airport then? Don't see the problem here tbh.
Essentially, what I hear in your statement is "if I can just teach people how I see the world, then they will see the world the same way." I firmly disagree with that assessment. Someone can be educated and yet see things differently from you.
>Mottainai

Que aproveche/aprovéchalo from Spanish. (May you take advantage/do benefit from something).
Aprovechar it's the literal opposite of desperdiciar, to waste.

>Exotic subject-object-verb

Not for a Basque.
There's nothing wrong with PHP v8+.
So, just doodling on a virtual napkin with some round numbers:

- If you're not writing to a formula, writing a book will take 1000 hours

- You net $2 per sale

- You want a salary of at least $20/hour

= You need to sell at least 10,000 copies of your book, in order to make a living.

Which 6.7% of the books achieved. Rather: 93.3% of the books did not achieve this. Note also: These are figures from professional publishers. Self-published books have (afaik) far less success.

Conclusion: writing, like any other art form, is unlikely to be a way to make a living. Better to keep it as a hobby, while working a job that pays the bills.
Sure what was wrong with table layouts and spacer gifs anyway amirite?

I’m a designer who codes, and CSS Grid has completely transformed (and simplified) my approach to responsive web design, and enabled much more complex layouts as a result. Just because a layout was possible before doesn’t mean it was easy.

By all means do things the old way if you want, but to suggest that it would be better if it didn’t exist is insane.
How to fix college finances? Eliminate faculty, then students. (Satire)
Maybe, but even proving there's a second protein that does this in mammals would be a major discovery.
In germany and maybe the entire EU there is a one year mandatory time where the manufacturer has to replace/fix the item and after the replace/fix event there is another 2 months on top.
I was just editing the Wikipedia article, it should be more readable now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Foundations

I think the main thing is the existence of the universal set. For my use case, the type system of a programming language, such a universal set is very useful. There are various hacks used in existing systems like cumulative universes or type-in-type which are not as satisfying - instead, I can just check that the type signature is stratified and then forget about types having numerical levels.
Filling rows without any defined columns is more or less what flexbox already does.
The project and community might be worthwhile, but as long as the product is the exact same, I don't see what there is to mention. I'm excited to see what the future holds though, more attention in this space sure sounds good.

Unless my information is out of date?
Somehow I think I can do better than that.

Dunning-Kruger.
>Some books are never published in print at all and exist only as ebooks and/or audiobooks. And many books exist in “print on demand” form in which a physical copy doesn’t exist until someone purchases it. In the old days, books would go out of print when people stopped buying them. But in the modern digital age books can exist “in print” for forever.

Yeah that was the answer to my first question. If they're only selling a few copies, no need to print many / any.
Looking for more detail, came across:

> The advertisements thus formally promote the Hungarian government’s anti-migrant measures. At the same time, they also stress the dangers of migration and the violence of migrants. These advertisements also appeared in countries when allies of the Orbán government, also campaigning with anti-migrant slogans, were competing in parliamentary or local elections. [...]

> Google distinguishes between two types of advertising: political and non-political. The former is subject to stricter transparency rules. [...] Google confirmed that the relevant Hungarian government ads do not violate the terms of use and, as they do not promote political parties or politicians, are not political ads.

[0] https://vsquare.org/orban-central-europe-online-ads-election...
> If you have a complete type system.

Nope. You don't need a Turing complete type system.
Uh, first thing I could come up with at short notice: https://19thnews.org/2024/03/lgbtq-americans-gaza-israel-pro...

I hope that's enough, there's a lot of documented evidence of pride flags and watermelons in the bio of pro-Palestinian people, almost to the point where many online forums treat it like a meme.
Anyone know of any open positions related to the mission? (Software)
Propaganda pushers pushing one ideology trying to convince you to not listen to other propaganda pushers pushing other ideologies. I stopped listening to all of it many years ago. Ironically, the article linked here is just as much propaganda as anything they're trying to warn about. Flagged and ignored.
That's an interesting typo in your user name.

What kind of manufacturing do you plan to support? And what does it mean to be specific about support for American manufacturing?
My point is that it doesn't need to be. Chinese is concise, simple, single pronunciation per character, very little grammar. It has no need for verb conjugations, tense markers, 3 different writing systems super-imposed into one like Japanese does, and can still express highly sophisticated thoughts and meaning that English cannot
Hey thanks:) That was nice of you
Microsoft Phi-3 3.8B model with 128k Context
Maybe make it into category's where more money equals more guaranteed work time unless specifically excempt due to the nature of the product, but most electronics should be able to work one year at the very least.
I think you are mistaken that you cannot logically support both LGBT rights and Palestine. For example, I support LBGTQ+ rights and would not want people who opposed them in America to be treated the way Palestinians are.
In Chicago, sending your kids to Catholic school is hardly an indictment of the system. It's a very Catholic city. I went to Catholic primary school despite the local CPS K-8 probably being better (and despite my mom teaching there).

She's taking heat for it, obviously, but the heat is motivated: the CTU is intensely political, and has enemies. I'm not a fan. But my point stands: it doesn't really say anything about CPS policy that the head of CTU isn't a CPS customer.
My response to your first point was going to be "that's why you have to build the airport first" which is exactly why your second point is what it is.

It's probably not fair to let a city build up then plop an airport right next to a bunch of houses, marginally increasing their value to a vanishingly small minority of people for whom living near an airport is a plus and cutting it in half for most other people. But this is why eminent domain is also a thing - sometimes you just have to do it. The problem with airports specifically is that you'll get people from miles away who realistically will feel no ill effects complaining about it as well.
True for some things but it's all a system and you find out that other things depend on the old baggage rule to be true and so on.
The iOS 17.4 app marketplace flow is a disaster
"I still need to move to an instance that supports longer posts, but over on that other website, I made a trilogy of posts about the iOS 17.4 EU Digital Markets Act features, and all the new systems put in place for it. I also posted them to my blog so they have a bit more permanence."

"Part 1: The iOS 17.4 app marketplace flow is a disaster

A dive into what, exactly, the process is to install an app from a marketplace. And it’s definitely a process…"

"Part 2: How I tricked iOS into giving me EU DMA features

I’m in Australia, but as far as my iPhone knows, I’m in Italy. How?"
A book might be 20 bucks, amazon or bookshop will take a cut, publishing house will take a cut, and there are costs to be borne, so even with a 1000 books you are not breaking bank, are you?

And I wonder if the textbook monopoly mostly favors the authors or companies?
In that case you will probably approve of the expanded Ecodesign rules from last year:

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20230612IP...
I thought this was good neat UX: on the Nintendo Switch I was entering a serial number for some DLC, and the on-screen keyboard had all the ambiguous character keys disabled, which means that the serial numbers are generated without any ambiguous characters.

I'm not sure if this UX was built into the OS, or just part of the game I was playing (Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope).
Many books start out as a story to see if people like it on HFY, LitRPG or Royalroad type forums, then if people vote up, they start kickstart/patreon to write the series. Many new authors have started like that. Its also how some manga/anime are launched, content fans really want is turns into content.

The comic book industry also used this model, thats why so many 3rd party publishers now.
>Two, all the loud successes of statistical machine learning in the last couple of decades are closely tied to minutely specialised neural net architectures: CNNs for image classification, LSTMs for translation, Transformers for vision, Difussion models and Ganns for image generation. If that's not encoding knowledge of a domain, what is?

Transformers, Diffusion for Vision, Image generation are really odd examples here. None of those architectures or training processes are tuned for Vision in mind lol. It was what? 3 years after Attention 2017 before the famous Vit paper. CNNs have lost a lot of favor to Vits, LSTMs are not the best performing translators today.

The bitter lesson is that less encoding of "expert" knowledge results in better performance and this has absolutely held up. The "encoding of knowledge" you call these architectures is nowhere near that of the GOFAI kind and even more than that, less biased NN architectures seem to be winning out.

>That's because the minutely specialised architectures in point number two are inefficient as all hell; the result of not having a good way to encode expert knowledge.

Inefficient is a whole lot better than can't even play the game, the story of GOFAI for the last few decades.

>If capabilities were improving, we should see the number of examples required to train a state-of-the-art system either staying the same, or going down. Well, they ain't.

The capabilities of models are certainly increasing. Even your example is blatantly wrong. Do you realize how much more data and compute it would take to train a Vanilla RNN to say GPT-3 level performance?
>and frankly nobody uses them

Random stat from my Oregon county (pop. 600k) library collective of 16 local libraries: 2023 saw 10.8M items checked out, up 4% from 2022
California has a lot of renewables, but retail prices have increased rapidly.
Right. No one in military conflict can really claim moral superiority.
E.g., Nazis vs Soviets. While yes, I'm not here to dispute that Nazis were on the wrong side of history, the soviets committed a fair amount of atrocities including towards their own people. Same with pretty much any military conflict the US has been involved in (e.g. remember how the US shot down iranian passenger plane and refused to apologize?).

My point is, wars do not determine who is right, only who is left.
You have nothing to hide from the current government (maybe). You don't know who will be in charge in 1, 10, 50 years. You might not need an Ahnenpaß right now, but do you really want evidence on record that will deny you one in 20 years time?
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/23/calculator-app-for-ipad...

;)
How would you even find out if you have a minority opinion without speaking out?

Maybe the company coffee machine starts using new beans and I don't like the taste. No one else is complaining, so should I keep my mouth shut?

If I say "hey I don't like this coffee" and everyone else goes "it's fine" then I have to get different coffee. If however everyone else says "it sucks" then maybe it'll get changed back.
Also, I invite anyone who thinks they have "nothing to hide" to put a publicly accessible webcam in their home bathroom. Everyone has things they'd prefer to hide, and that doesn't imply anything nefarious is going on.
Unconstrained distribution costs because of lack of political will to aggressively regulate (PG&E, etc). Mostly a California problem, as long as PG&E is permitted to extract executive comp and profits while minimizing infrastructure investment. Supply costs are plunging during the day due to utility scale solar output.

The reason PG&E rates are skyrocketing in California - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40128003 - April 2024 (26 comments)

After 111 years, SF finally moving to oust PG&E and create a public-power system - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39587901 - March 2024 (13 comments)

https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insight... | https://archive.today/PeDeH ("April 2024: CAISO sets back-to-back solar peak records in April; power spot prices plunge")

> Spot power prices have been trending lower year on year on lower natural gas spot prices and more renewable generation supply, including hydropower following years of drought.

> CAISO has 19.011 GW of installed solar generation capacity, which accounts for the majority of renewable resources on the grid at 62%, according to the Key Statistics report. Solar capacity has increased nearly 15% compared to a year ago and 26% from two years ago.

> There are currently 28.6 GW of solar projects in the CAISO generation queue, including 13.8 GW that have executed interconnection agreements and nearly 4.5 GW of those have on-line dates expected listed for 2024. Only two solar projects slated to come online in 2024 do not have batteries connected.

https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/US-CAL-CISO ("ElectricityMaps.com: California CAISO Zone")
They're doing it, so obviously they think it makes financial sense. And considering how insanely successful and good Amazon is in logistics and online retail, I'm inclined to believe they know what they're doing over some random HNer who probably doesn't know the first thing about the topic. What's your field exactly? Moreover, where are you consuming your opinions about EV from?
Also Frappe Books - https://github.com/frappe/books
From a different perspective but related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40119958
The Darfur Genocide is still happening, is on a much larger scale than Gaza and despite media coverage, the people who are very worked up about the Israeli actions don’t seem to care. I wonder why that is.
Regardless of the context, your statement that the only difference between SQLite and Postgres is that one requires a server is plain wrong. That would be like discussing Emacs being more complex than Vim, and then saying, "The only difference that Emacs has from Vim is that Emacs typically uses a client/server architecture".
You can do almost the same thing by only allowing charter schools to accept vouchers if the vouchers cover the entirety of the education costs. The first thing that happens when you introduce vouchers at the cost of a charter schools' tuition is that they raise the price of education so that there is a nominal financial barrier to overcome that poor parents can't afford.
I feel for them. I've got a backup image of wife's parents macbook air and ipad that I've had to use a few times. I was using remote desktop software but they once clicked a fullscreen "Your Computer is Infected" ad and followed "Apple Support's" instructions to download a new RD app and give them full control. Luckily the give full control dialog got lost behind the web scam fullscreen. I got rid of remote desktop apps and told them to never allow remote desktop apps again. I've come to the conclusion that any sort of banking or account tied to money is too much of a risk.
No. Coffee money. I mean success in personal achievement terms, not on money terms.
OK, I see.

I suppose my next question would be why we are somehow stoic on the Uyghur issue.

But I would guess that the reason is that the US sends support to Israel while actively cutting ties (or going to war economically) with China.