skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is precisely what Rawls is trying to get at with his "original position". Our system certainly creates value and that value is certainly unequally distributed. Would someone support that situation if they did not know what part of the value distribution they would receive?

I think it's likely that a lower class person might prefer an alternative system that produced somewhat less value but distributed it more equally.
There are two Irish state departments that are hyper competent. The IDA and Revenue. This can involve both. I'm not at all worried or the political blowback will see them functionally banned from Europe and an acceleration of the social media regulation and hate speech laws introduction.
I don't think it's true that the Google Play Store favors Google-created apps. In fact, while it may have happened, I can't even remember a time that the Play Store recommended a Google app to me.
IMO not quite. Here's how I see it:

- Generic utility apps, the kind that you would search by what they do, like an audio player, an image converter, or a file manager — yes, it works for them like you say.

- Those free to play mobile games everyone knows and loves (no). They buy stupid amount of ads to get people to install them. They may get some installations thanks the app stores themselves, e.g. from the top charts, assuming they get high enough there. So app stores do play a role in their visibility, but a limited one. And this is where it ends.

- Apps for IRL services, like getting around (taxi/scooter rental/car sharing), or ordering food, or many other similar things. They get popular because people see their logos around them all the dang time, often together with QR codes with download links. They also often buy ads. Sometimes people recommend them to each other. App stores don't play any significant role for these.

- Apps for something you already use. Like your home utilities, or your bank, or some sort of "smart" device you got, or loyalty programs. Again, you don't discover these thanks to app stores, you usually install them because that company says "we have an app, get it here".

- Social/collaboration apps, the kind that are useless without people you know also using them. No one searches app stores for "social media" or "messaging" or "calls". People recommend them to each other. People see that their friends are on there and get on there too. Again, app stores don't do much here.
Will more information that could touch on what you mentioned be in their S-1 registration if they attempt an IPO? I need to search through all the court documents to see if there are any more details about prior years. Good thing I have LLMs to help with this now.

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/16272543/neo4j-inc-v-pu...
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/16276158/neo4j-inc-v-gr...
> The first question is necessary since the numbers have to start somewhere.

It’s not, though. The only thing asking the candidate for a number specifically generates is leverage for the company performing the interview. The company can just as easily provide a range to start “the numbers” and display good will to boot.
I think they used to be called morphogenic fields by Rupert Sheldrake.
The claim made here is that at 100GbE the sequence numbers wrap in milliseconds. That number seems right (source: vibes).

Why isn’t this a serious problem then? I’d love a networking expert to chime in.

Is it that high bandwidth links also have very low packet error rates?

Or is it that individual TCP flows rarely saturate the link? (Because of congestion control, lower end to end throughput, sharing links, or some other reason?)
>whoever runs this site has been engaging in

You are suggesting that BFL is using "organic marketing" to push their product??

It may be worth mentioning that the BFL team actually consists of the people who invented Latent Diffusion (At CompViS, a university lab), then developed Stable Diffusion at Stability.ai and now they are pushing the state-of-the-art with Flux.1.

The attention is well deserved and Flux.1 is definitely the top model right now.

edit: had a look at r/AiArt. This seems to be a place where people post their "Bing Image Creator" output. Maybe that's not where the enthusiasts are. Try r/StableDiffusion
Thinking about causation versus correlation is crucial!

Makes me wonder, how often do people realize this only after making expensive decisions?

Would be interesting to hear stories from people who have experienced this first hand
Your math is wrong… and it cannot be assumed that traffic is uniformly spread.

Finally what you’re saying is orthogonal to MongoDB - you can self host Mongo on a raspberry pi.
The counter thought experiment to Rawl's is: imagine two worlds, one in which the obvious implications of Rawls's thought experiment were made law and one in which they weren't. Fast forward 20 generations. Discover that the Rawlsian world is an economic shambles of inequality and ethnic warfare while the other exceeds our most techno- optimistic dreams. What went wrong?

The point of the experiment is to show only that by rejecting the the possibility that such a thing could occur, you're exposing your implicit belief that you know the causal connections between equity, economics, technological advancement and human happiness, just like Rawls believed he did. But you don't know that system.

Rawls's thought experiment's real success is to smuggle into the conversation an exceedingly vast set of knowledge claims about how complex systems in the real world must behave.

It's a thought-terminating thought experiment.
You can hire and fire, but you'll have to follow local laws.

Sorry, but bozos like Musk bank on being able to bend the rules, and changing the system. They're used to operating in places with either lax laws, or where enforcing the laws is too cumbersome, and think it same applies everywhere else.

Then they come to countries with rock solid workers rights and completely different cultures, act like clowns, and wonder why they're getting shot down in court.
> Then, as now, the word ‘liberal’ (with its roots in the Latin liber and liberalis) combines two meanings: freedom (liberty) and generosity (liberality).

The essay goes into much more detail on liberal ideas, but what's more interesting to me is how many different political models liberalism can actually fit into.

The author goes into some detail on liberal socialism. On the other end you can also have liberal anarchism though.

I've heard the term "voluntarism" being used to describe an anarchist approach where people choose to help their communities, though the rebranding mainly seems to be because "anarchy" is viewed with a lot of stigma today.
Epic hasn’t made gambling games for years fwiw. Although they do serve them on their app store. Imo Apple would have banned these games a long time ago if it were not for the fact that it granted them hundreds of millions of dollars. The incentives are bad.

Everything always boils down to the terrible incentives of app makers paying a tax share of revenue or profit rather than just paying a fixed fee for the distribution service.
this is a cognitive bias. it's really interesting.

google used to be good, because if the hours were there, someone had put effort in. they were 95% accurate for CONUS. but over the last 6~ years the quality has degraded. Only about 65% accurate now. And to me, that's worse than unuseful, because i can't plan, i need to verify, so i might as well have gone to the store website anyways.

also who the heck needs open and close times? if you need that level of precision you need a personal assistant.
Not only is it off-site, it's also distributed among all your friends' brains.
The answer to that is "structural separation". Remove even the possibility of conflict of interest by forcing divestiture.
I think back about when I had the best learning experiences, they were semi-structured classes, where each child went at their own pace, or classes where there were multiple grades in a single ~25 child class.

And skills from those classes were what I brought forward into adulthood. Not the Honors classes. Not the AP classes.

Calculating the hypotenuse of a triangle? I'll go ask ChatGPT or search on DDG cause I sure as shit don't remember.

Identifying a bird-of-prey or what kind of evergreen tree that is? I can still do that. And those were skills taught in elementary.

This goes back to not everyone learns the same way. Rote, rapping rulers across knuckles, teach-to-the-test has always caused an adverse reaction to learning, for me. And I'm not a unique snowflake amongst 7 billion humans.

Maybe the issue isn't so much the test scores, but rather what and how we're teaching. Am I good at math having gone through Honors classes? Not in the slightest way anymore. Did I ever enjoy the books I read in Honors English? Not surprisingly no, I found Jane Austen a complete bore. At the time I would have rather been reading 1984, Catch 22, Silent Warriors by Richard P Henrick, or some Ray Bradbury sci-fi, but those weren't "classics" (why the fuck 1984 and Catch 22 wouldn't be considered classics is beyond me!).

If a kid is resistant to what or how a subject is being taught, there will be near-zero retention of that subject. Despite not remembering how to perform complex calculations in math, I did enjoy it throughout school as when I was beginning to learn more complex math I was allowed to self-pace.

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The linked article reads, to me, like one of those "health hacks" or "longevity hacks" articles; indeed, it comes from a book titled, in part, Science to Supercharging Student Learning.

I get the author's point, based on how we teach currently due to No Child Left Behind. But that policy is a failed one. If I had been going to school after NCLB went into effect, I would have resisted that style of learning. It's boring; it's teaching-to-the-test; it's North Korean-robot-ism. There's no room for creativity or self-pacing.

But there's also no yardstick for creativity or self-paced learning. That doesn't sit well with authoritarians.

Anyhow, personal anecdote vs. scientific understanding and all that.
Those are buzzwords, not advanced prompting techniques.
The concept seemed unsustainable to me, thanks for the follow-up.
Sure. It’s still funny. You also call family a thing in point (1).
That's an odd assumption. That you either have to choose between rabbit holes or development speed. Usually languages with lots of rabbit holes tend to require a lot more work.

Take C++ vs Go for instance. C++ is an endless series of deep, complex rabbit holes where you get enough rope to hang not only yourself but your entire team. Serious C++ projects tend to require a style guide for either the company (most companies don't have that kind of discipline) or at least some consensus of what subset of the language to use and how to structure problems for a particular project. Look at the guides Google use or the Joint Strike Fighter. They're massive. C++ is not a particularly fast language to develop quality code in unless you have a small team and/or you are supremely well aligned and disciplined. And even when you work on a disciplined team, it takes time.

Go has fewer rabbit holes. It gives you an easier path to concurrency. It has managed memory. It is sufficiently performant for a very wide range of projects. It has a very capable and practically oriented standard library that even includes HTTP, cryptography, support for some common formats and a decent networking abstraction that actually allows you design flexibility. And importantly: it comes with a shared code style which is tooling enforced, so you don't have to waste time on mediating between various opinionated hothead programmers on your project.
That sounds unlawful under GDPR?
I did the same thing (and then downvoted the guy who suggested it was better!) It was much worse than the discourse on Twitter, with folks hurling insults at each other and saying things like "don't turn this into [X]itter".
You do not have to denormalize data to use dynamodb, just like how data doesn’t have to be normalized to use a relational DB.

Man people have no clue what they’re talking about lol
Do you get a US salary? What I’ve heard is that the same company pays much lower wages in the EU than in the US. (With the EU job coming with more non wage amenities like paid vacation, maternity leave, as discussed, and guaranteed healthcare and better public infrastructure.) But I have no personal data point.
Thousands of people are choosing strongmen over our current system. That suggests that our current system is not viable regardless of what position in society you happen to end up in. In other words, democracy is threatened by dictatorship precisely because it fails the "original position" test.
OKC is good only if you answer the right questions.

If I answer 500 questions and 400 are about basic decency, that doesn't give a good match.

If I answer only 50 questions but they're all about relationship and intimacy that works much better.
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I've been a big fan of IRL singles events in my area recently. Speed dating and mixers are great ways to meet quality people who are in the same boat as you. I highly recommend them!
> I keep hearing this objection but how is the app supposedly stopping you from forming a happy relationship?

Most of these apps use ab testing to determine what features are launched. The speculation is that they optimize for retention and conversion into paying users, not for forming long lasting relationships. Retaining users is good for a business but terrible for people trying to form long term relationships.

It's pure speculation that this is what they are optimizing for in their experiments but I wouldn't be surprised if it's the case.
I sure wish shop owners updated their hours. But in the end OSM is better if I do it, and others do it. It's called collaboration.
It's only as abstract as "meters of distance". Which is to say, not in any practical sense until we introduce general or special relativity. The fact that it's synthetic and not an natural unit doesn't mean it's abstract or variable. It means it's arbitrary. It could be any value, but it must remain static.

That's also why we don't use the kings body dimensions as the standard of measurement anymore. We don't need to recalibrate the entire nation's standard of "foot," "inch," "cubit," or whatever when the king grows. That's not useful.

Just because the inch is the width of an adult man's thumb doesn't mean the purpose of the inch is to define thumbs and should always follow from that. That is not the goal of wanting the measuring unit. It's the same for seconds.

That's why I said: Sometimes you want to know what time of day it is, and sometimes you want to know how long something took to occur. That is to say, a datetime and a timespan. Now, you could use a different unit of measurement for those to, but in practical terms it's stupid.
thank you! glad you like it
how should a candidate respond if they arent sure what range this role should pay?
Not everything needs to be optimised.
Regarding Maps, Google long ago forfeited the benefit of doubt:

https://www.slashgear.com/google-blames-rogue-contractors-fo...
Also, it doesn't make much sense on platforms like Tinder, where the majority of users does short term hook-ups all the time.

Even if they meet someone there, they will come back to meet more.
I tried that and still found the matches weren’t good compared to Tinder… I think I’m not even sure which questions really matter, and there’s just a lot less potential people on OKC.
I just added a more complex todo app to the bottom of the page. So it should give an idea of how a more complex hierarchy can respond to events elsewhere in the hierarchy and update themselves and each other accordingly.
I am Italian and at my previous work at a bank, I had a two month notice (originally one, but increased with seniority). As far as I know, it is pretty common in Italy, and employers know that when they hire someone, the person will only join one to three months later due to this - or sometimes they offer to pay the penalty
Right, it was never a good platform for longer posts, but before at least you could try to follow the different posts. Now, public links only show one post and that's it.
There’s an excellent Star Trek episode around this precise theme (of course there is). They come up with a fable that the person to be tortured is the most important person and that being tortured for life is a privilege reserved only to the very best amongst them. Many societies did that with human sacrifices, framing the sacrifice as an honour rather than a burden, and without any utopian results.
Used judiciously, a macro system in front of your SQL is often a good approach here. You gain the "linguistically common subtable" capabilities of a CTE, the ability to name constants, and the ability to name/parameterize common sub-expressions, even in databases not supporting CTEs. With LSP support being what it is, you can even whip up editor integration for your new language in a day or less.

Compared to CTEs (assuming you're not using recursion and don't _want_ the materialization), that extra syntactic sugar helps with readability, and the "macro" nature of the thing ensures you don't have any slowdowns from running the thing due to a different query plan.

Downsides include the ability for juniors to turn your SQL into an awful mess, the fact that you'll still occasionally _want_ materialized CTEs for performance and have to write them anyway, plus if you implement it wrong you'll have runtime overhead and very few introspection capabilities (the simplest version I've seen that's decent to work with is creating SQL files as artifacts from the templates using the build system, obviously depending on how much of a rube goldberg your particular builds are).
Their goal isn't to "give up their human rights" or to heap oppression and atrocities upon themselves. Their goal is to escape their current position in the social hierarchy.

That's one of the reasons why it's important to make sure that everyone in society is provided for; because if their needs aren't met under the current society then they have an incentive to destroy it in favor of a different society.
Neat. I hadn't heard of that. There's also https://github.com/hfaran/slack-export-viewer which creates a very Slack-like interface to viewing archives.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend: where did this expression come from?
Why hasn't this space been disrupted? All of these apps are the same scam-like experience filled with dark pattern UX. They purposely limit communication & exposure behind paywalls, while allowing bots to roam free. Also most of them are owned by the same company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Match_Group
It's going to be really funny if technological advancement brings human and face to face interaction back into the mix. Basically, you need to beef up your social networks to help filter the bullshit via human "brokers" or "agents" that have their reputation within their social graph on the line.

Finding a life partner by being recommended by a relative/friend/coworker/college organization/etc is probably way less work and stress for the individual, assuming they have a decent social network.
So true. Slackdump is nice in that it at least allows you to download any conversation you've been a part of.
Maybe if you think of it as hard drive, but a biological mechanism might benefit from multiple pathways that can potentially trigger.
First, not a lawyer. But you basically have a few paths. L1A or L1B, O visa. L1, you can work for your FrenchCo (eg, you get a job at Mistral) in France for a few years, then get transferred to the US to work for the US arm of the same FrenchCo.

Going from L1 to a greencard takes several years and is much easier if you come in on the management L1 rather than the specialist knowledge L1.

If you are a 'known' researcher, you might also be able to get here on an O visa which is for extraordinary talent. This is the visa that actors use to move to Hollywood for example, so the bar isn't as high as say needing a Nobel prize. But you need to show that you are well known in your field, eg press articles about you, papers, journals etc.

Another path might be to immigrate to Quebec, which IIRC controls its own immigration and would be especially interested in a French speaker with AI skills. Once you have Canadian residency you can dip back and forth to the US easily. I guess you could probably even get a TN visa to stay longer in the US.

All of this stuff takes years by the way. You gotta figure out if the glow of the NY tech scene will last the decade that it might take to achieve legal permanent status in the US. My journey from L1 to greencard took nearly ten years.
Agreed. But knowing a bit about how a language (and runtime) actually works can make a huge difference when you design stuff.

For instance, I've seen lots of examples of people implementing LRU caches in Java, and then scratching their heads when performance drops because they have no idea how the GC works. Or complicating things immensely because they realize memory is tricky and then ending up with some complex pooling scheme that constantly breaks rather than realizing that often more naive code that exploits the low cost of ultra short-lived local objects.

If you know what you are doing it becomes easier to choose solutions that are performant and understandable.
being opinionated is now a dangerous game.

but those questions in the article don't make sense. your interviewers, go through interview training and are coached into giving politically correct answers.

just like you BS some answers in your interview, companies do the same as well.

no interviewer, is going to be like - this place sucks - we're slow moving, we're led by leaders without vision, there's a lot of internal politics.

everyone will tell you - this is the best place they have worked etc.

the reasonable answer to work life balance is to ask how long they have worked there - usually places with better work life balance for people that have families - not solos like us - tend to have good work life balance - and people have long tenures. YMMV.

best place I worked - before the usual tech grilling - I had an hour lunch with the team and the rest of the company. they got to know me, made me comfortable and I got to know them as well.
> properties like creativity, liveliness, and consistency

I don't believe we train The LLMs for those things specifically. It will be interesting to see if some datasets for this appear. I think we can still make huge improvements by just caring about that more.

We've got Samantha though, so I hope we will see those attributes too. https://erichartford.com/meet-samantha
Depends on what you mean by "healthy". Physically, yes, sure looks so. But that's just one definition.
Researchers found evidence of a solar event orders of magnitude larger than the Carrington event 14,000 years ago in the C14 levels from fossilized trees.

Curiously, this new evidence substantiates the theory of a ~12k year micro-nova cycle with our sun.
it's more complex than that, I think IIe and IIgs have the same register but polarity reversed, the IIc has a weirder interface that generally involves setting up an interrupt through the mouse firmware
And the tragic thing is that Google the monopolist rides on people's helpful inclinations then turns around and sells their contributions.

I actively avoid contributing to that corp. Not even marking spam. Let them drown in the fruits of their own incentives.
> My experience with these things tells me Tim won't find much respect there(even when he returns) unless the whole leadership is now replaced.

I think this is the crux of the matter. The Python community was great when it was still niche. Corruption is likely to happen the more popular a group becomes. This is why I advocate staying niche: https://srid.ca/niche
Agree, C's legacy is enormous.
An AI that unexpectedly modified its own source code
They are barriers to entry that maybe ensure your match is serious about a partnership I’d guess though.