skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is (technically) wrong, but not for the reasons I've seen others give so far. Your reasoning is basically fine, but your definition of an average jackpot prize is not. If we have k lottery winners and we denote each individual prize as n_i, then the average prize is sum(n_1 ... n_k) / k. It's pretty easy to see that number cannot possibly be larger than all individual n_i and thus it cannot be the case that "you" won less than the average prize for all possible yous. Some winners win less than average and some win more, or they all win exactly the same amount.

On the other hand, your analytically computed expected winning is indeed less than an analytically computed expected average prize, when conditioned on the fact that you won, because you are more likely than not to be in a lottery that has more winners than the average lottery. This is mathematically the same phenomenon as the thing where the perceived average class size if you sample random students is greater than the actual average class size, because more students will be in the larger classes. This doesn't mean every class is larger than the average class, which is not possible. It just means that if you randomly select a student, you have a better than 50/50 chance of selecting someone in a larger than average class.
do the cars need to be connected to communicate with each other though? I think you're beating on a dead horse of an unrelated subject
PLOS is open-access, as a taxpayer you can read world-class peer-reviewed (more stringent than Elsevier journals in fact) articles in your preferred field's preferred issue.
> Users cannot interact with the database directly

It is not super hard to find UI designed for end users, these days.

If you know the basics such as what a relational database is, then here’s is a good UI: https://visualdb.com
$10 for a sapling is extremely cheap. That's more in the line of what you can expect to pay for a 2 year old seedling (ref: https://monroecd.org/tree-sale-2024/). But I agree. I've planted 10k+ seedlings (most not personally; I hired a crew). It's actually fun to watch them grow. Douglas Firs take about 5 years to grow to 5' (from 18"). After that, they grow 3'+ a year. Not being a food source, they don't attract wildlife though nor do they have flowers.
It's solely about prestige, and self-reinforcing.
Metrics? No no sir, dead internet theory stands true. This is what it looks like behind the scenes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THJfNJk08ds

Literally thousands upon thousands of farms of these things. It is indistinguishable between a bot and a human being because they use real devices and have real human beings doing the captchas and prompts etc to keep the bots movin'
This it's exactly the issue with SSO and enterprise customers with complex requirements on how their IDP needs to be integrated.
It would be awesome on any grade-separated highway
> What's the worst thing that happens? You miss out on a small number of purchases, maybe a few customers are gone for good, and the shareholders reap a little less profit this quarter.

You build a culture of nobody caring about the singular thing that brings revenue into your organization. You're fine with shareholders taking a hit, because it's not your bank account - but what happens when a company has to let people go because they don't have enough customers and orders to support everyone? Oh, now they're supervillain out-of-touch CEO's I presume?

> Unless you're a hospital keeping people on life support, I don't want to hear about zero downtime.

Then look for other work? If you are being paid to keep a website online 24/7, and it goes down "for a few hours" and your attitude is "nobody died", then you're simply not cut out for that job - find another or be terminated.

There's not a single person on pager duty (or whatever) that doesn't know what they are getting paid for. Complaining about a job you volunteered (at-will employment!) for is insane.
Aren't the articles just going to get more expensive to make up for this?
Except this isn't a CVE anyone will encounter in the workplace because nobody in their right mind would run Pi-Hole on a Raspberry Pi in a professional setting. It's a waste of time.

If you want to dedicate staff to reviewing useless garbage issues you do that, go and review every issue logged against other non-commercial software.

The rest of us have a job to do.
This is what labor shortage feels like.
Add schema migrations and bulk loads to this. So many systems crap out doing things like schema migrations at scale. Query latencies degrade over time due to internal structures keeping track of things, stuff runs out of buffer / log space in memory or on disk, you have a traffic spike but you can't pause or throttle a 40 hour long ALTER, things that should never lock do lock for indeterminate times during cutover, stuff craps out after cutover due to surprising behavior but there is no rollback, or even worse I've seen things just flat out crash with some random assert fail or segfault.

It's a world of pain, and there are so much scar tissue of third party tooling doing crazy stuff dealing with this problem among large companies that really should be the DB vendor's problem.
Really? Have you looked into the Marriott data beach case?
I myself don't wish or want free content, I can create my own entertainment without the need of a large media corporation or a keyboard warrior spoon feeding me.

I don't think comparing Journalism to Netflix or ESPN is relevant since they provide quality entertainment (at least in the minds of their base) vs Journalists who stretch out 2 bits of searchable information into a 10 page ad puzzle full of psychological poking.

Yes, most journalism is less valuable than the critically acclaimed fantasy horror Stranger Things. This doesn't mean Journalism is less important or that good journalism doesn't exist. Honestly it's crazy to me Journalism doesn't see more critique. Most just sensationalize, fearmonger, and point fingers.
Complicated, or worryingly straightforward and effective? It really does seem that over time, this would compress the space of peoples' preferences - and since listening stats also feed into production and promotion - the space of music produced.
I wonder if this is an improvement over a conventional white boarding question.

It seems to me that debugging in particular is often dependent on the developer realizing some edge case or scenario where things circumstances line up to produce a bug. In that case, wouldn't a "bug squash" end up being similar to a "gotcha style" white boarding question.

The author, quite correctly, says that the interview should be scored not on whether the candidate can immediately vomit up a solution but on whether they can demonstrate their an organized thought process. However, isn't that true of white board questions as well?

Overall, it seems to me that the real problem with conventional white board questions is when the interviewer focuses on whether the candidate gets the right answer rather than on whether they demonstrate the ability to problem solve. While it sounds like the author is a good interviewer who focuses on assessing the candidate's thought process, it's not clear to me that giving debugging questions is actually what causes that.
I work in a sector where due to poor English and writing skills, OpenAI has been quite transformative in the quality of emails being sent - to me at least. But…I find my eyes glossing over when I notice ChatGPT’s telltale signs. Also on matters of substance, ChatGPT has a way of saying nothing at all - it writes in glittering generality and in a way that can feel devoid of context. I’m quite pro AI as an editing tool, but I think it would be a great loss for people to lose the capacity for writing.
Agreed that it is an analogy. I'll go farther and agree that I could flat be wrong! :D

In the analogy, though, I do know people have a hard time distinguishing between pain and soreness. Such that it is not uncommon for people to exercise too hard and trigger pain, which will slow them down. As such, I expect that sun exposure is likely the same. I even agree that it is probably easier to jump over any threshold that there may be and to get too much sun. I have a hard time thinking any darkening of skin is a sign of damage, though.

I also think it is tough to distinguish between damage versus wear. Which, is probably just my not liking the language of "damage" here. Do we say that guitar players have damaged their skin to build calloused finger tips? (Genuine question.)
If you have enterprise pricing, have substantial enterprise features. That’s it.
The bundle pricing is a problem, as is consolidation in the publishing market. The fact that that there are so few publishers nowadays really doesn't help with pricing. Another example why antitrust enforcement is needed.
> avoid saying Taiwan

And more: https://pen.org/report/made-in-hollywood-censored-by-beijing...
Do you really think the best way to react to a perfectly civil comment attempting to tell you that you're saying something wrong is to get defensive and pejorative?
I really wanted to try this out with a difficult bug, as I've had Zed installed for a while and haven't actually used it. But I have no idea if I'd get in trouble for that... even though our whole team uses VSCode which I'm sure has scanned all our codebases anyway.
I haven't purchased from them yet.

> What would you have done if after clicking the ad/link, the page didn't load?

archive.org first just to check if it's down temporarily. But if you're a vendor just reselling Alibaba, then there's not a lot of reason to shop from you. But with real value add, you can get customers. That's exclusive products, support/warranty, niche product, etc beyond just "fulfillment".
I have something similar. I was added to the Google domain of some open source project, given an email address. But I can't log in because Google is demanding a phone number.

I guess I could probably talk to the admin and get it reset, but it's pretty upsetting that the are basically holding accounts hostage until you hand over personal information.
> Having 2 physical levers positioned differently would not make it more obvious to someone already unaware of this.

Yes, it would, because it's so much easier to see. Remember that everybody on that bridge, which includes the Captain and the Officer of the Deck, was unaware of how the throttles were set. Two physical levers would have made it obvious to those people, and they could then have issued the right commands to fix it.
For disappointed readers expecting a language that actually works in a grid, the original 2D programming language, Befunge: https://esolangs.org/wiki/Befunge

There are more, such as ><> https://esolangs.org/wiki/Fish and MarioLANG https://esolangs.org/wiki/MarioLANG .
Wonderful.

“Look at data about use, costs, and find allies across your campus who care about issues of equity and openness,” Bourg said. “This is both the right thing to do in terms of our values with public engagement and the right thing to do from an economic point of view.” - Chris Bourg, Director of Libraries at MIT.
Where, when, and what exactly are you speaking of when you speak of increasing prosperity?
The effect on experienced negotiators is different:

Portraying it as a principle, a policy ('our policy is ...'), an emotional issue, etc. are all just window dressings for what they want, and everyone tries to portray their wants to be as non-negotiable as possible in order to drive up the price they can demand. One basic tactic is to act angry about your want; some politicians love to do this one - it's a new outrage every day.

Well I also can act angry and say something or anything is non-negotiable, but the only question is, how much am I willing to give up in order to get that result. Acting angry, saying 'it's our policy' - I don't care about your internal policies; they aren't laws and you can change them at any time; they are your choices just like any other in a negotiation.
I would agree that this cost-plus pricing structure applies in some cases. Some companies definitely want to constrain the universe of SSO users.

But this will usually show up in pricing structures with SSO as a relatively inexpensive add-on feature -- not as part of an indivisible bundle.

Seemingly we want to talk about both of these things as "the SSO tax" but I think we can agree that they're pretty different scenarios.
Contentful Acquires Ninetailed
> you must remove _everything_ that might introduce unexpected variance

I'm not sure that follows. Cars that communicate can accelerate and brake together even in unexpected situations.
Extra LLMs make it harder, but not impossible, to use prompt injection.

In case anyone hasn't played it yet, you can test this theory against Lakera's Gandalf: https://gandalf.lakera.ai/intro
You cite this part of the article,

> Why is it important to share your work with the world? First, because there's practically no downside, and very, very high potential upside.

And say,

> There is a big downside: as the author states, finishing/releasing is hard and time-consuming. You only get one life. Every hour spent doing that stuff you won't get back

Working in public (or working at least from the assumption it will soon be made public), is something folks should try really hard to get into. It should be a default expectation for yourself. The cost is mostly mindshift!

Once you can change your default position, it no longer feels like a cost to work in public. Every action brings release.
lets use common sense a bit, humans have evolved while being in the sun, constantly, their skin darkened to protect them

as humans moved northward, the exposure to sun was so important that even their skin lost it protective pigmentation to allow more sun to reach the body

we are not even remotely close to understanding all the beneficial processes that take place when the sun hits skin

thinking that exposure to sun is like exposure to acid shows a complete disconnect from reality,

I would urge you to read up on this a lot more - you will find that people who spend time outdoors in the sun are healthier, happier, and live longer. Their outcomes when facing all kinds of cancers are far, far better.
It seems this comment is paraphrasing the following video by CGP Grey: https://youtu.be/iHzzSao6ypE
> not everybody is equally good at "thinking for themselves." A sufficiently-large group of people will always divide itself, as inevitably as if Maxwell's Demon himself were prodding them

true, but perhaps we do have capacity to learn to think well enough to pick leaders who are better people than the most of us overall, e.g. learning to not mistake charisma for pure intention or intellectual insight

with some self awareness, it takes less effort overall to know who is better than us or our friends in terms of ethics and intellect, than it is to be right on every issue

and thats probably more important than the specifics of each issue, especially since the lay person doesn't have time to delve into the finer details of everything

now if we can get in a cycle of electing leaders like that then that would set us on a trajectory of constant societal growth, but to get to that our system probably also needs to change so as to actually present people with realistic options

that is probably a lot harder, and the two are certainly locked into a feedback loop

and I don't have answers on that one, but I believe if its possible to get to where we are from pond scum, then perhaps we can get to that point in the future as well
I'm quite happy with the current scenario and decision tree used to assign CVEs. As it stands right now, it is not "everything" that gets a CVE number.

If they change the decision tree and spelling mistakes start being assigned CVEs, I am sure I will change my mind.
Depends on the task. ASIC miners for Ethereum never took off, because the algo required large RAM capacity.
A recommendation from a person you know takes into account not just their knowledge of your preferences, but also how much and in what way they like/care about you, and conversely, your taking of the recommendation is colored by your rapport with the recommender. All that is something a recommender system has no access to.

Or, more bluntly: you aren't going to mate with a For You page, so it doesn't have the same evolutionary cheat code to your preferences as other people have.
TL;DR, article is not so much about AI, it is more about Gartner's hype cycle. According the Economist data only 25% of tech hypes follow this pattern. Many more (no percentage given) are just a flash in the pan.

AI is following more a seasonal pattern with a AI Winters, can we expect a new winter soon?
do you really think that Googs has implemented a regex for this little easter egg without parsing the rest of the content in a much more meaningful manner as the original comment is suggesting? i'm in agreement that the levels of what these platforms can infer about the content you consume is beyond creepy.
AI (specifically Claude Sonnet via Cursor) has completely transformed my workflow. It's changed my job description as a programmer. (And I've been doing this for 13y – no greenhorn!)

This wasn't the case with GPT-4/o. This capability is very new.

When I spoke to a colleague at Microsoft about these changes, they were floored. Microsoft has made themselves synonymous with AI, yet their company is barely even leveraging it. The big cos have put in the biggest investments, but also will be the slowest to change their processes and workflows to realize the shift.

Feels like one of those "future is here, not evenly distributed yet" moments. When a tool like Sonnet is released, it's not like big tech cos are going to transform over night. There's a massive capability overhang that will take some time to work itself through these (now) slow-moving companies.

I assume it was the same with the internet/dot-com crash.
You upload a clip and type a description that matches the music you uploaded plus the different lyrics you want. You may have to tune the settings to get it to change the lyrics without making too many changes to the melody. There's a slider to control the relative importance of the uploaded music vs the typed lyrics and instructions. You may also have to tweak the spelling of the lyrics to guide the pronunciation.
Although I like this interview question, it has a big downside. You make the candidate spend quite a lot of effort while you as an interviewer don’t learn much. The answer to “Can this candidate find and fix this bug?” is not necessarily equal to “Is this candidate a good expansion of the team. What do they bring that we need?”
Most real problems in the world are coordination problems, where one motivated/coordinated entity sits on an essential “toll bridge”, and the whole world can theoretically just coordinate to route around them. But because “everyone else in the world” is a huge number of people with their own mixed up set of incentives, and the solution doesn’t work unless a critical mass coordinates to do the same thing, this turns out to be really hard.
Large corporations use Article Galaxy to manage their access to digital copies of journal articles. Such organizations don't have a history of large libraries which subscribe to every issue of a journal. Their employees won't pay for access themselves. They can't raise purchase orders which require multiple department signoffs for a $25 paper. The corporations don't want to pay hundreds of times for the same article, nor do they want to infringe and face legal risks. So they need the brokers to work the system for them.

Any individual publisher which restricted access via these brokers would face a sudden loss of revenue and a knock on effect to the prestige of their journals. If they allowed some customers to use these services but not others, the predatory nature of the model would stick out a mile to institutes and regulators.
ah sorry, I don't use github either https://sfconservancy.org/GiveUpGitHub/
Are there any articles on PLOS that I can't find on arxiv.org?
The dark secret of Optional in Swift is all the extensions that make it work magic in situations far beyond the sugary ? ?? !

Disappointing, really, when someone finds the purloined letter hiding in plain sight and then... doesn't open it?? :)
The complaint isn't about anything costing money. It is about making SSO an enterprise feature which pushes the price up alot. At the same time SSO is good for security. So it is like an office space charging double for swipe cards instead of a number lock.

I think what annoys people is the reason why: a way to make more money from enterprises, and that they could make that money some other way.
In fact the paragraph needs _good_ refactoring
Of course it’s not free market.
Is it? "Large blocks of vehicles moving in tandem" is a technology we have today: trains. Are trains that bad for pedestrians and bikes?
composable algorithmic transformation in the streets

but mostly an alternative to LOOP in the sheets
Except able to go to different places, with the much lower cost of road infra vs. rail infra.
>The rest of us have a job to do.

I'm not sure why you are being hostile about it, but okay.

Obviously you feel very strongly about the subject. You should engage with MITRE and encourage them to reconsider their current CVE inclusion decision tree.
Agreed. But there's nothing precluding someone from implementing Symbol.iterator on Object: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

Not saying anyone SHOULD do this... just that one _could_.
they're effectively cartels
Does this mean that any language that compiles to LLVM can now run on the RP2350?
I'm not sure since we don't have any good way of quantifying "amount of mental reflection". But that doesn't mean there isn't a large difference between dogs and humans in this regard.
Rye was a one man project by mitsuhiko before it was adopted by astral. I think it's basically just his work.
> Are companies really just YOLOing and plugging LLMs into everything

Look we still can't get companies to bother with real security and now every marketing/sales department on the planet is selling C level members on "IT WILL LET YOU FIRE EVERYONE!"

If you gave the same sales treatment to sticking a fork in a light socket the global power grid would go down overnight.

"AI"/LLM's are the perfect shitstorm of just good enough to catch the business eye while being a massive issue for the actual technical side.
It is very nice as "Markov chains on steroids", but people believing that LLMs are anything but a distracting local maximum on the path to AGI are 200% in kool-aid drinking mode.
Genetics would have adapted if it affected reproductive fitness. But skin cancer tends to develop past reproductive age.