skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The metrics are likely comparing 2020 item and 2024 item and assuming it’s the same thing but the manufacturer cleverly gutted the 2024 item of all quality parts and just kept the name
This is compatible with David Brooks' book about the importance of everyday social life; I wrote about it in "The quality of your life is the quality of the people you get to know: Illuminating the David Brooks way:" https://jakeseliger.com/2023/11/28/the-quality-of-your-life-...
And the ultimate university degree, the PhD, is all about learning how to learn. It's unlikely that you will continue to work on the project you did your dissertation on where you spent 3 to 6 years becoming an expert on in grad school. The point wasn't getting the knowledge, it was developing the skills to get up to speed on a new topic quickly.
That's why I use Lyx. WYSWYIG-enough like MS Word, but still can resort to good old Tex when needed. Sure, some documents are easier to write in Word.

My personal experience with TeX is kinda similar to HTML: you still remember some parts even if you don't write it for many years...
Do some research and let us know. I'd be interested in finding out either way it turns out.
>Crime stats and polling of people’s perception of crime show this as clearly the wrong approach for instance.

The only crime stat you can trust is murder and that's because bodies can't be hidden (easily).

Everything else gets swept under the rug.

When I wanted to report my car broken into I was hung up on three times because of a poor quality line, which was fine before I told them what I was calling for. When I went there in person I had to wait 40 minutes for someone to take my report and give me a reference number for my insurance.

Crime is absolutely massively under reported.
> It's absolutely within their ability to track (and force franchisees to track) inventory

Depends on whether or not the franchisee has implemented inventory tracking correctly.

> It's also within Dunkin Corp's ability to give stores the capability to provide refunds from the retail locations

That's the franchisee's decision at that point. Dunkin's corporate was out of the loop in that transaction and as such is reticent.

Dunkin's tends to hold its franchisees to a lower quality bar imo.
Arguably it has been for a while: https://casnocha.com/review-cowens-infovore
How do you define hard work?
Cleaning can require working hard (keeping up when cleaning cutlery etc in restaurant or number of rooms to do is intense) or it can be hard work (cleaning puke out of toilets...).
[1755–1750 BC]
Coordinate against what? Glaciers melt, it's a cycle. What are you on about?
I live in Japan, Tokyo, and sometimes I come across these annoying/distracting high-pitched noises even in residential areas. They are a nuisance for bypassers too, if you've got ears young enough. But the residential areas don't have any problem with loitering youngsters, so I keep wondering if the noise is targeted against pests or wild animals. This article made me think if I should seriously start measuring the volumes and frequencies objectively. What kind of equipment would you need to get some data to get started with?
Not at this scale and this population though
The prompt was the error: "Mysql2::Error: Incorrect string value: '\\xF0\\x9D\\x9C\\x86 i...' for column 'variables' at row 1". It quickly led me to understand that this character is from 4-byte UTF8 but my db is set to 3-byte UTF8. Whether this is "real" problem solving or not, it helped me solve a real problem.
> changing to driving on the right reduced accidents while overtaking, as people already drove left-hand drive vehicles, thereby having a better view of the road ahead

They already used left-hand drive vehicles but rode on the left?? That's just ridiculous and obvious why they switched...
> Maybe I should start lying about my lack of a degree like a real con man.

Nah. The world needs more people with principles and strong moral character.
I haven't spent a lot of time in that immediate area but I'm not sure why that complex wasn't designed with more of an outdoor orientation. That's not universal in London. I'd say Covent Garden and Camden Town were at least somewhat more outdoor/quasi-outdoor friendly.
I block and hide all right wing content but the X algorithm doesn't care. I feel like Musk personally wants to force me to see it as he tweets out his support of Trump. I like X because AI people are there. The right wing content is ridiculously stupid so it's easy dismiss even if I have to see it.
If you already drove cars where drivers sit left side as Wikipedia says, what exactly were those 85% thinking about? Clearly not road safety?
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Back in the day, searching for "top secret", "highly confidential", "for private use only", etc, ... would return interesting results.
Because you can put your (La)TeX documents in source control, split them up like you would with code and assign different authors to different chapters or section, without disturbing each other or having to worry about merging the document later.

One of Words big issues is that very few people know how to use it. It's such a massive program, with an absolutely insane feature set. Still you see people manually doing stuff like setting font size to do headings, rather than actually using the feature to set and style headings, but now they can't use the automatic index, so they also do that manually. It's also funny to me that companies will complain about UI changes, because that will force them to retrain staff, but most companies don't do training on Windows, Word or Excel to begin with.

LaTeX is stable, most people I know who still use it have templates they made at college and they've been using them for 20 years. They can just sit down and start typing, not having to worry about leaving their preferred editor or styling. Anything can be looked up in their old worn out copy of "The LaTeX Companion" (To one with the St. Bernard on the cover. Retraining to use Word would be a major hassle.
No problem for those people to suffer then
> However, these agents still perform poorly on real-world vulnerabilities that are unknown to the agent ahead of time (zero-day vulnerabilities)

Only a matter of time until LLMs are brilliant enough to find sophisticated real-world vulnerabilities. Perhaps not every novelty, but certainly vulnerabilities that resemble any seen in the past.

The good news is in this arms race devs will be armed with similar tools, and the solution will be a few lines of CI code to run our own vulnerability-seeking LLM and prevent merging when (not if) vulnerabilities are detected.
If we count evolution as amount of genes evolved in the genotype, onions are five times more evolved than us.

But lot of this consists into redundant copies of the same information and another big chunk is included garbage borrowed from attackers. This fern could have a lot of things trying to finish it, an a lot of time to think about the problem. And of course could be also an hybrid or an hybrid of several hybrids.
You can have an infinite chain of predecessors of non-standard numbers, each claiming being FINITE(). That satisfies your definition. This could be easily demonstrated in Robinson arithmetic, which has simple, understandable non-standard models.
Mid aughts, we devs sat in the meetings discussing how to enable this. With teams from Google Health, Microsoft Health Vault, some pharmas.

In attendance were marketing, biz dev, execs. Ours and theres. But no legal. Hmmm.

And it would have worked if it weren't for those meddling teenagers.

From your comment, I'm inferring they're now allowed to use health records for marketing.
We'll soon have FOSS adapters on top of LLM:s or similar software capable of managing and to some degree extend botnets. It's likely something like this will leak from a state actor during the coming years too.
The key takeaway here is don’t hesitate.
Well, the degree of "existential threat" depends on whether you're a rich industrialized country at mid-to-high latitudes or not. And even that is conditional on the question of how many hundreds of millions of climate refugees there will be in the next 50 years, and what exactly can be done about them.

A nontrivial fraction of Earth's land area, currently populated by a billion+ humans, will almost certainly become incompatible with such density. No matter how sedentary a part of humanity has become, people will not just sit down and die when conditions become unbearable; they will start walking. I'm reminded of Sagan's poignant words, even if spoken in a much more optimistic context:

Even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven't forgotten. [...] has been meticulously crafted by natural selection as an essential element in our survival. Long summers, mild winters, rich harvests, plentiful game—none of them lasts forever. It is beyond our powers to predict the future. Catastrophic events have a way of sneaking up on us, of catching us unaware.

The refugee issue is something that many people have either not thought about at all, or try their best not to think about to avoid cognitive dissonance, or think that it can be solved by building high enough walls and shooting anyone who tries to get through. Even without regard to the practicality of the latter solution, it is morally abhorrent enough to make it incompatible with any reasonable definition of a civilized society. Particularly because it's the rich industrialized societies that are directly responsible for the crisis in the first place!
Can I rant about ASCII FS-US not being used as intended? Because I sure want to every time I must interact with CSV/TSV.
I have no idea if the Scots think or joke that the English are stupid, but can say that the English have a joke pattern of "An Englishman, an Irishman, and a Scotsman…" and it's always and only the Irish who are picked on.
> So far it's working for them. As the job market gets worse, I think this trend of stronger emphasis on degrees and pedigrees will only get stronger.

In retrospect, some of the worst advice I got from the internet and even the real world was that college was overrated.

I did well in college, went above and beyond in my studies, and learned a lot. But I did not go to the most prestigious university I could have attended. It was far more of a missed opportunity than I would have guessed.

At the time, the narrative was that colleges are antiquated institutions. They were going away for top careers, and people were fools to invest so much time and money into what was dismissed as rote memorization. Influential and powerful tech figures ranted about college being bad, people obsessed over entrepreneurs who had dropped out of college, and everyone could tell you about Peter Thiel paying people to drop out of college.

Years later, I realized that all of those famous and influential people ranting about college actually did everything in their power to send their kids to prestigious universities. They knew the value of those degrees. Those internet commenters beating the “college bad” drum were more angry about their own degrees being at a disadvantage than they were about speaking any truths.

I’m doing fine with my own degree, but there were so many times where it would have been so much easier to walk into situations with a degree from an Ivy League university. I sat at a table one time where the head of the department I joined flat out told us that he’d need to hire someone with an Ivy League degree or experience at one of the Big management firms to lead us, otherwise the other part of the company wouldn’t take us seriously. These situations do exist, although they’re not everywhere. As long as the situation exists, it’s statistically more helpful to have that prestigious degree.
Housing went up globally because of local policies all across the world all at the same time, huh?

Perhaps housing went up because of a global increase in wealth inequality.
This is the time for AI assisted efforts to merge with open source to deliver alternatives to all these Big Company type proprietary software solutions. I have been thinking of what it would cost to create enterprise workflow and document management but based on nodejs. Perhaps targeting the business markets of a smaller country such as Pakistan could be a way to get real world feedback before larger markets are targeted. Need all the documentation translated into Pashto? There is now an app for that.
Seriously - how hard would it be to recreate the 80% of features that Autodesk is actually used for? Just to get something that is "good enough", using AI to architect it, design the test suites, the integration suites etc?
It’s a common mistake, but you’re conflating the state of overpopulation (i.e. too many people in the world) with the rate of change of population.

Indeed if the total capacity of the earth was, for example, 2 Billion people, the birth rate could be declining or even 0 for quite some time and we would still be overpopulated.
Careem went from Pakistan's ride-hailing leader to stuck on the sidelines
One of the things I decided to do with finl was to formalize on LaTeX’s syntax. No more shifting category codes, Separating out the lexer definition of commands from their meaning also means that tooling becomes simpler. Throw in proper variables so there’s no longer the need for redefining macros to emulate variables and it becomes a little more tractable.

That said, even with these restrictions, writing a good lexer/parser of a LaTeX-like syntax is still a challenge (and made all the slower by the needs to earn money, spend time with my kids and have other joys in life).
"under the cover of AI instead of admitting they staffed up poorly."

Yep, the "AI" thing here smells of BS... like most of AI anyway. Just look how well our AI business is doing, we don't need that many people anymore.
If your perception doesn't match your body, would you prefer to change the perception or change the body?
100% vibes-based guess: there could be more training data that includes part of the quoted material and cites it to "Poe" without IDing the specific work, versus full citations.
Sounds cool, but what do you actually mean by that?
The speed of change is the problem.

If glaciers melt a source of drinking water is gone, that has an impact on the people who depend on it.
My hunch is it's ~20% schadenfreude for EVs and ~80% schadenfreude for Tesla. Teslas seem like fine, but not exceptional, vehicles. I take some enjoyment at their stumbles because I don't care for their approach and claims around self driving, and don't think Tesla should be valued at many multiples of very similar competitors.
Does it really deliver on that though?
If the DNA is in the cell's nucleus, the DNA will be utilized to produce whatever gene is encoded in the DNA. But if the DNA is just floating around on its own it will not survive a cell division event and the material would need to be periodically reinjected to keep working. However, if the injected DNA is part of a full chromosome, it will be replicated when the cell divides - and will be permanent as long as the cell or its progeny survive.

Some viruses will just inject the DNA into cells, but will not become part of the cell's genome ("transient" transduction). Other viruses (like lentiviruses and these adeno-associated viruses [AAVs]) inject their DNA not just into the cells, but also have machinery that splices their payload DNA directly into the cell's chromosomes ("integrated"). The location in the genome of the splicing event is relatively random. Random is not necessarily great as it could interrupt other genes already in the chromosome. CRISPR is a now-famous tool that helps "integrate" DNA into a specific spot in the genome by being guided to a specific location with a small piece of a specific sequence.

Once the DNA is integrated, any cell, and any of the cell's progeny, will produce or "express" the gene on the delivered DNA. In this case, they delivered the 5991 characters of DNA associated with the OROF gene [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otoferlin
These USB blasters are infamous.

There is a market for a generic, open hardware such device that actually works.
"Utility" isnt axiomatic or analogous to holes. It's "vibes" dressed up in sciency sounding language.
Residents and tourists (whether from the area or not) often have different needs. When I worked in downtown Boston for a bit, I would rarely go to the "shopping areas" and, if I did, it was probably to go to a restaurant with someone.
> cancel anytime with two clicks

This seems odd. Why not one? One thing I really like about iPhone subscriptions is the ability to cancel them with a single click through a common interface. I suppose it’s technically more than one click as I have to open the interface but this wording seems weird to me like there’s some extra steps I won’t like.
Do you have any sources for the subsidies given to chinese car makers?

On my cynical side I think the EU car makers have a huge leverage on the local manufacturing jobs and in consequence the public opinion. That can result in them bending laws to whatever they want (see the consequences for the dieselgate in EU so far). It's easy to not want to compete when you don't need to.

Even if you assume the argument for JV being bad for business is valid, why only bring that up now that they're against the wall on their own local market?
You're making the exact same mistake as the poster you're answering to warns about - you're mixing the objective reality ("absolute crime numbers") to percieved reality of population.

If the population percieves themselves unsafe and unhappy, your numbers don't really mean much to them because to restore happy society you need to look at *perception* and fix the reasoning behind it. Making the crime stats number go down won't do that by itself.
Just in case it isn't clear, the usual European date format (DD-MM-YYYY though the separators vary) reflects the usual pronunciation ­— even in Britain and Ireland, where today is the ninth of June.
if you want specific advice, you need to find the right sort of coach for that advice. for example, cognitive behavioural therapy is a skill that you can get taught, and you won't have to talk about yourself much, the tying in with your own experience can be done by you in your head. I haven't taken such a course myself, but that's my understanding of it after my ex- went through it.

if your problems are financial, you need an accountant. if you struggle to speak to a large crowd, you need a public speaking coach or training group.

a therapist is the one you talk to when you have stuff weighting you down and when you try to talk to others they give advice that starts with "you just need to ...", like you haven't tried it. if reading my post has riled you up, paying somebody to listen to you complaining about it might work quite well.
I definitely understand where you are coming from and would never deny these things are happening. But my point is that argues for too much trust in anecdotes and people’s perceptions.

We all know memory is incredibly faulty, for instance. Yet people have a very high perception of their own memory’s accuracy. It’s kind of in the same vein. It’s not that people can’t remember things accurately, it’s that we need to start from a place of skepticism when depending on it. Same thing goes for people’s perceptions of crime, the economy, etc. Their anecdotes and lived experience, insofar as they can even accurately explain their lived experience, needs to be put into context re: its value for determining “reality.”

That being said I would never undermine the value of how people feel. If people don’t feel safe, that is a bad thing too. And we can cite all the stats in the world we want but ultimately feeling unsafe is not a good thing and that perception needs to be addressed.
Why would I need an LLM for running a botnet?
>Also we invented computers that can think,

No, we didn't. They produce useful text but can't think.
And to create these texts we produce more carbon dioxide in the process.
And not all AI generated text are useful.
What's the statistical relevancy of your "everyone I know" sample for US population in general?

Are people you know of different ages, social classes, races, upbringings and living locations to capture the sentiment of population?

Or are they all well off people in a few rich areas?
You seem to come from the point of view that body and mind are quite separate, and that changing your body through surgery and hormones and other chemicals has less effects on the "real you" than a change in brain wiring would cause.
>Perhaps close instruction and observation and correction?

You have lectures (with questions and discussion), labs, assignments and corrections, and so on. Obviously the lectures and such are not one on one, but given to the class you're in. It would be expensive and require dozens of different professors just for one person to cover all study subjects with a degree.

Also a lot of it concerns learning about stuff you were pointed to by reading the relevant material, so it's can't be done similarly to the one to one teaching a tacticle thing, like how to handle glass blowing to get into the guild, or how to ride a bike.

Still, regardless of what it contains, the difference between self-studying or not is that in the latter you are given a systematic, organized, curriculum to follow.

And it's the quite common idiosyncratic mix-and-match, and jumping from subject to subject, and often lacking foundational knowledge in base areas, that academics look down on those who "self-studied".

Or course if someone studied by themselves in an equally systematic and organized way as a university curriculum, coverting the same bases and expanding in a similar way, they'd not really be "self-studied" in the spirit of the term, just nominally.

But traditionally that was hard or impossible - and in any case, very rare (the other kind of haphazard self-studied person was far more common). Now with the internet and easy access to information, it's somewhat easier, what you need is heavy discipline.
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Email: ignatif@gmail.com

Couple of things about me:

- Stared working as a software developer in 2016
- Have some UI/UX background (2 years)
- Been working on multiple startups as either solo founder or co-founder (most of them failed, but here's the one which worked quite well: https://chronos.web-pal.com/)
- Most of the time been doing freelance work, never worked in big/medium corporations
- Very curious about AI/LLM world and have some expertise in this field as well

Ideally I am looking for a contract based jobs but open to other opportunities
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Wikipedia entries generally don't have years added to them, as they are not the original text, but rather text about the text. If you linked to the original text (or a translation will do), then the original year makes sense (unless the translation's date is more important).
Pro tip, people hate ivy droppers. The only people who will respond well are other people who went to the same ivy as you.
The value of an Ivy Education is that you become friends with people who have rich parents, and those people bring you into the stuff they start because they have the capital to do whatever they want.
>Utility and value might be defined by self referencing each other but that's true for many other concepts or words in a language for that matter

Precisely. Like when a priest says that "love" is "god" and "god" is "love".

Plenty of our language is deeply unscientific.
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