skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I would avoid my father’s meathod if I were you. It did not work.

I am now a teacher, and the task you describe got me thinking. It would be tempting to teach the association of letters with their related visual patterns of dash/dots. However, a 10 year old might do better if they learned the sound-forms of the letters as discrete entities, in the same way that they leaned the shape-form of the alphabet.
Parsing arguments in Rust with no dependencies
> It wasn't a sudden bout of benevolnce from the FDR administration

Was there something to suggest it was? Getting workers back working isn't for the benefit of workers.
Right, it's still useful as shared data for multiple processes on the same machine. A SQL database mostly forces your data into one structure: the table. Redis instead provides commands which operate directly on those different data structures I mentioned.
I hope you forgot your /s!

But if you didn't - why would such a godlike super smart employer keep so many leeches on staff? An interesting contradiction in a certain conception of corporations.
Peace might be but competition certainly is more natural than peace.
Oh I still have the engine running for this. The computer will bitch at me if I turn off the engine and it's not in P
All these things are possible to do, even though only developers need them. Why shouldn’t the same be true for useful profiling abilities? Because of the 1-2% penalty?
Agreed. It's actually a very interesting use case and I can easily see that K8s wouldn't be the answer. My dev env is very definitely my "pet", thank you very much!
The Crime Industry That's Hacking Billion-Dollar Companies
I think that people who suggest to "just write cleaner code" are missing the point entirely.

Of course, we all are trying to write clear code. It doesn't mean that your tool should make working with less than perfect codebases unbearable.
I must say, coming from a bad "tinder date" in the weekend i just lol´d, thanks stranger.
It is often not the devs telling you about the roadmap, but the management. Devs are more willing to fix things, if they are broken, but are not given the time.
I have posted a few times here about this issue. Honestly, you need to protect yourself first. If your line manager is anything less than amazing and very involved, then helping your teammates "too much" is an easy way to miss promotions and pay rises due to lower year-end ratings.
Hi! Glad it works on mobile, this is the first time I've really tried to make something that worked on mobile and i was pretty nervous about getting it to work for everyone.

1. I heard this a few times during playtesting, but I thought that having walls would just make the game too challenging; it's hard enough to move around as it is, and getting stuck on a wall would be no fun. I considered sticking people to more of a "grid" but didn't really see the benefit of that without having walls, felt like turning your head "up" and still moving to the right would be disorienting, and thought it would add some complexity to my engine, so I didn't.

2. The bots are playing with exactly the same parameters as you! In fact, on average they should be slightly slower than a human that opens and closes their mouth at the "optimal" speed. The bot logic[1] is only capable of opening/closing a bot's mouth or changing the direction that they're facing, and then the same rules apply to them as a human.

That said, the bots are...pretty good, at least until you get pretty used to the game. Maybe this is a mistake? I didn't have bots until a few days before launch; this was originally just a local multiplayer game, and I added bots to make it easier for my friends to test. Then I realized that bots were a straightforwardly good addition. But it might have made sense to spend some time adding bot difficulty levels or something - the fact that they can react quickly to information and that they don't struggle to turn their face at the right time makes them pretty good.

That said I promise they're beatable :)

[1] https://github.com/nolenroyalty/paccam/blob/main/src/BotStat...
> “We can’t do our jobs without the Tech Guild,” the pledge said. “Can you imagine if our election needle didn’t work, the app didn’t open or the homepage went down?”

Timing your strike with election day is a pretty shitty move. I get that the union wants to throw it's weight around and pick an important date, but...

A: management is probably very distracted right now. To add to this, they are not offering a clear and easy to action agreement, management would have to sign a blank check to the union to get their needle back - this is insanely risky.

B: they're using independent journalism as a bargaining chip and lightly threatening Democracy in the process. Don't love that they couldn't literally wait 2 days in an election where trust in media is one of the core issues.
My understanding is that if that was the bot would be asking for, they'd ask for a CLA/DCO or similar, which doesn't seem to be what it currently asks for

> The contribution bot asks for confirmation the code change is copyright-free, but the contributor doesn’t respond.

Maybe the author is summarizing though and the bot asks the author to confirm it's copyright free and also to sign the CLA/DCO. If so, unlikely their corporate overlord would be OK with them just merging the PR without explicitly signed CLA/DCO.
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Another point: while there are some unique religious aspects to your experience, it also sounds pretty similar to complaints about secular universities.

Very common to hear about students who don't care about the material at all, they just want a job. So they are bored and frustrated by anything, especially theoretical material, that isn't going to be obviously useful for interview prep or their future careers.
Oh wow, I love this, thank you :)
>With life on Earth perhaps, but I don't think it's not impossible in general.

I don't think even that. There are extremophile bacteria that tolerate very high levels of salinity:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremophile
Let's put those numbers in perspective:

$100k is about $72k after tax[0].

Suppose I want to support a family in NYC. Average cost of living is about $9,000/mo for a family of four[1].

That's $108,000 per year. Or about $36,000 above what I would need to support an average 2-kid family, living paycheck-to-paycheck.

So if I want to be able to support a family, 100k is not even close to enough.

edit: forgot to add the sources

[0] https://www.talent.com/tax-calculator?salary=100000&from=yea...

[1] https://livingcost.org/cost/united-states/ny/new-york
I tried doing a dev environment on Kubernetes but the fact you have to be dealing with a set of containers that could change if the base layer changed meant instability in certain cases which threw me off.

I ended up with a mix of nix and it's vm build system which is based on qemu. The issue is too tied to NixOS and all services run in the same place which forces you to manage ports and other things.

How I wish it could work is having a flake that defines certain services, these services could or could not run in different µVMs sharing an isolated linux network layer. Your flake could define your versions, your commands to interact and manage the lifecyle of those µVM's. As the nix store can be cached/shared, it can be provide fast and reproducible builds after the first build.
If you were words on a page you'd be the fine print.
Fair that I introduced advantages. I assume any difference can be used for some advantage; but I agree that is not necessarily true.

None of the rest of what you mention here changes my priors, though. I expect that some differences could be seen between different sexes in many things. Outside of childbirth and physical strength, I fully expect most would be driven by culture far more than any brain difference.

You obviously have different priors. Seeming to expect that there will be differences in thought work.

And you know what? That is fine. I'm surprised by your priors here, yes. You are obviously surprised by my priors, as well. That is fine.

So, to that end, I'll note I was not trying to say this shouldn't be studied. I do not dismiss that it could be, out of hand. I do fully expect that it is not the case. But it would be far from the first time my expectations were irrelevant.
When I see people critique those numbers as being “too high”, or demands for additional compensation “unreasonable”, I can’t help but think those people don’t understand that $100k is very much the new $45k of the 2000s, and has much less purchasing power than the latter did at the time.

Truth be told, for the present cost of living in the Northeast in general, you’re looking at a family income of $300k to be “comfortable”, or a single base income of $200k. That’s if you want to buy a new car (of which the bulk cost more than $50k), a starter home that doesn’t need major repairs ($800k+), and still have some money left over to save for retirement; in cities like NYC and Boston, you’re easily looking at $250k single/$400k couple for a “Middle Class” existence.

The brutal reality is that everyone who has to work to survive is grossly underpaid relative to the current cost of living. To ignore this fact (or worse, try to compartmentalize it or limit its scope to a reduced “other” category) endangers both the economy and the state.
I read the article and frankly I'm not sure what she means by it.
Humans do the same thing. Typically in a more narrowed fashion, they read and study and learn from a variety of sources, many of which are not "free" and they become experts on a subject. They can then sell that expertise to others willing to pay for it.

LLMs just do this on a bigger scale, and not as well.
No they're definitely evil. Maybe not broadly, but they keep trying to force long-standing public RF spectrum into the private domain just so random companies can have a very slight trading edge. I have a hard time believing that there aren't other negative externalities.
City of Columbus: Data of 500k stolen in July ransomware attack
I wonder if they may become part of a benchmark in the future.
That thing was overstaying it's welcome for two years even then by staying on WiFi 4. 802.11n was adopted 15 years ago.
"Download every US Army field manual", never thought of that, seems useful
Approved by the Hell's Angels?
Of course there’s always some risk with any drug or medical procedure. But - obviously - not all risk is equal. Unapproved treatments are riskier because they haven’t been proven effective, and they haven’t been well tested for side effects. There is an uncountably large list of cases throughout history of people willing to sell ineffective and/or actively harmful treatments, which is the whole reason the FDA exists. Look up people who died taking ivermectin for Covid [1], or just pick any ailment and do some research on fake treatments, perhaps cancer for example [2]. The UN says half a million people in Africa alone are being killed every year by fake medicine today, currently [3].

[1] https://www.unmc.edu/healthsecurity/transmission/2023/03/14/...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unproven_and_disproven...

[3] https://www.un.org/africarenewal/magazine/february-2023/fake...
Would that not qualify as a harmful sabotage though?
This is what bothers me with MS SQL related tools - they all seem horrendously brittle. Everything seems prone to deadlocks, has weird edge-cases, and incomplete coverage of the API of the next tool they're talking to so you keep having to break open the abstraction and manually tinker in the next level.
One thing that is always on the table - if you see a person picking up valuable work and they don't have a ticket for it - you as a manager can create that ticket.

Now you may need to coach the person on how to do that themselves (can we make the ticket making process more lightweight? Can we make a heuristic like just put story points for the time you've already spent on it plus a buffer for after-the-fact work?)

But managers who really want documentation and truly think people are doing underappreciated work can always make it themselves.
The Cure for Nagging (2012)
Hilarious but I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s true. Upon some reflection, Marcella Hazan’s Tomato Sauce recipe is probably the most that i’ve actively sought the nyt’s content.
Medtech Alimetry raises $18M for a wearable to diagnose gastric disorders
So now people have to avoid going to stores when their friends or family are working there, and avoid having a favorite cashier.
10 years ago I joined a consulting company as a data science intern. I arrived at work with my MacBook. I learned about excel in courses but had never used in my daily life: I use csv and SQLite for "data-heavy" cases and Numbers for intuitive cases (never coded inside it). When someone shares an excel sheet with me, I open with Numbers with no problem.

On day 1 I realized my work was to deal with several excel sheets of 10~50MB, with huge amount of VBA scripts, rule-based highlighting, charts... They even wrote an internally used extension for those files. Numbers could not handle and crashed.

I need Excel. I asked if I could borrow a PC laptop from the company, no, that's not for interns. I need to bring my own device. I asked if they would pay for Microsoft Office to get installed on my personal MacBook. The answer was obvious, what are you thinking? I had to manage to get Excel for myself, while the full salary they paid me was not enough to cover a license.

I left consulting after that experience and end up working as a "real" data scientist. Nothing like that happened ever. I collaborate with colleagues using different IDEs/editors everyday. If an accountant joins us and tells me notepad is all you need, I would highly respect his choice and continue with my editor. We don't need to argue, our codebase is not locked in any tools.
Mr Bean videos
As long as we don't get to the point of being able to simulate a Universe ourselves, the odds are against us being in a simulation, it seems! :)

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EeqyGquTHK4
The context was Brazil (see sibling reply a few levels up), and here indeed all identity cards have photos. Both the old per-state models and the newer federally standardized models have them, and nearly everyone has an identity card. It's not unusual to see identity cards being used everywhere; even some commercial buildings ask for (and take photos of) them from visitors (regulars have badges, and of course they had to present their identity card to get the badge).
Sure, though we shouldn't hold up the poetry or the statue as a symbol of our country then.

There is a lot of what went into America that would be (or has been) lost by completely abandoning the idea though. Maybe its worth it, that's not for any one person to decide, but its a huge change and there's always the risk of throwing out the baby with the bath water.
Is this comment made every time by hacker news people?

“I run my basement website with in my spare time? Why can’t one of the most popular websites in the world run on gum and a few paper clips”
Marwell and Schmitt's Compliance-Gaining Strategies
I also recently left Kubernetes. It was a huge waste of time and money. I've replaced it with just a series of services on Google Cloud Run and then using Google's Cloud Run Tasks services for longer running tasks.

The infrastructure now incredibly understandable and simple and cost effective.

Kubernetes cost us >$million in both DevOps time and actually Google Cloud costs unnecessarily, and even worse it cost us time to market. Stay off of Kubernetes as long as you can in your company, unless you are basically forced onto it. You should view it as an unnecessary evil that comes with massive downsides in terms of complexity and cost.
Okay, but narrowly focusing on a "quantization-robust unlearning strategy" as per the abstract might be a red herring, if that strategy doesn't incidentally also address other ways to undo the unlearning.
Docker-like language to build LLM apps
You build LLM applications with YAML files, that define an execution graph. Nodes can be either LLM API calls, regular function executions or other graphs themselves. Because you can nest graphs easily, building complex applications is not an issue, but at the same time you don't lose control.
The YAML basically states what are the tasks that need to be done and how they connect. Other than that, you only write individual python functions to be called during the execution. No new classes and abstractions to learn.
However much time the person spends driving, less optimization for their driving will result in more negative outcomes.
Nope, I have no sense of how it breaks out. But, it's a pretty good site w.r.t. technology/delivery/robustness, so 600 doesn't seem that exorbitant.
Instead of CMU's LLM summary, here's my LLM summary:

The paper titled "How Large Language Models Can Reshape Collective Intelligence," published in Nature Human Behaviour, explores how large language models (LLMs) like GPT can transform collective intelligence (CI) in groups, organizations, and societies. Collective intelligence is the ability of groups to make decisions and solve problems more effectively than individuals. This is often achieved through mechanisms like crowdsourcing, prediction markets, and forums, where diverse inputs are aggregated to reach superior conclusions.

Key benefits identified for LLMs in CI include:

1. *Enhanced Collaboration*: LLMs can facilitate more inclusive and accessible online collaborations by translating languages, summarizing discussions, and potentially even representing individuals in deliberations.

2. *Accelerated Idea Generation*: LLMs can produce a large volume of ideas quickly, serving as both an ideation tool and a resource for brainstorming, particularly beneficial for less experienced participants.

3. *Support in Deliberation*: LLMs could assist in structured dialogues by guiding participants with questions and managing discussion flows, which could lead to more effective and inclusive decision-making.

4. *Efficient Information Aggregation*: By synthesizing opinions and identifying areas of consensus, LLMs can bridge gaps between individuals with diverse views.

However, the authors caution about potential risks:

- *Disincentivization of Human Contribution*: Widespread reliance on LLMs could reduce engagement in open knowledge commons like Wikipedia and discourage individual contributions to public knowledge.

- *Illusions of Consensus*: If certain perspectives are underrepresented in LLM training, the models might create a false sense of consensus, obscuring minority opinions.

- *Reduced Diversity*: Heavy reliance on LLMs might homogenize thought, reducing the diversity critical for effective problem-solving.

- *Propagation of Misinformation*: LLMs’ tendency to “hallucinate” or generate incorrect information could enable the spread of false narratives, especially in disinformation campaigns.

The authors recommend fostering “truly open” LLMs with transparent datasets, expanding computational resources for independent research, and instituting third-party oversight to monitor LLM usage. They argue that these measures can help balance the benefits and risks of LLMs, promoting CI while safeguarding against potential harms【5†source】.
Here's one from me: down with "the needle"!
What changed?! I'm going to check it out right now!
AI detectors don't work. https://mitsloanedtech.mit.edu/ai/teach/ai-detectors-dont-wo...
You're cherry-picking quotes. The whole point of him saying what he liked about Janis was that he didn't like Big Brother & the Holding Company, both as a style/concept and as musicians. The article is also full of quotes from Crumb himself saying how he didn't really like the hippie movement overall, even though he liked certain things about it, and the general impression is that no, he did not really feel connected with many of his own fans and fans of Big Brother.
Getting lost and found in the Bob Dylan archives
Aren't you afraid of being now stuck with GCP?
> One of the things they're striking against is arbitrary return to office mandates.

If it is arbitrary, why is the NYT seemingly standing firm on the issue? As the article tells, NYT have agreed to a seven month grace period to give workers a chance to get their houses in order. That is not indicative of an arbitrary move.

Perhaps you mean they are striking against mandates that are motivated by undisclosed reasons?
What should a logo for NeXT look like? (1986)
The article does a great job of explaining the challenges they ran into with Kubernetes, and some of the things they tried... but I feel like it drops the ball at the end by not telling us at least a little what they chose instead. The article mentions they call their new solution "Gitpod Flex" but there is nothing about what Gitpod Flex is. They said they tried microVMs and decided against them, and of course Kubernetes, the focus of the article. So is GitpodFlex based on full VM's? Docker? Some other container runtime??

Perhaps a followup article will go into detail about their replacement.
I'm not sure I'd call Discord a walled garden. Officially, it is a walled garden, sure, but there's a huge variety of different clients you can use [0]. Not every client supports every feature but Matrix clients are no different in this aspect. The API Discord's official client uses is fairly well-documented, too [1].

[0] https://github.com/Discord-Client-Encyclopedia-Management/Di...

[1] https://docs.discord.sex/
I've tangentially mentioned it before though I don't think directly (it has influenced my theory of humor).

Mentions of it show up occasionally, though it seems to be more of a trickle than an avalanche of mention. Much more so back when AI alignment was more in the news. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Part of it, I suspect, is that it is a book book from the 80s and didn't really make any transition into digital. The people who are familiar with it are ones who bought computer books in the late 80s and early 90s.

Similarly, "A Pattern Language" being a book from the time past that is accessible for a lay person in the field - though more in a tangental way. "A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction" was the influence behind "Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software" - though I believe the problem with Design Patterns is that it was seen more as a prescriptive rather than descriptive guide. Reading "A Pattern Language" can help understand what the GoF were trying to accomplish. ... And as an aside, and I also believe that it has some good advice for the setup of home offices and workplaces.

As much as I love the convince of modern online book shopping and the amount of information available when searching, the "browsing books" in a book store for "oh, this looks interesting" and then buying it and reading it, I feel has largely been lost to the past decades.
Israel's strikes on Iran spark interest in air-launched ballistic missiles
This did not start with Trump and is not unique to Republicans. Trump's rehtoric is just a symptom.
> For me, I think voice-only is actually much better than in person.

This is interesting. Can you explain why? To be clear: I don't doubt you, but I have never seen a comment so specific about this matter. I would like to learn more. For one, I assume you said "voice-only" specifically to exclude video calls, which are a special kind of hell, when compared to in-person discussions. (Staring at yourself and only seeing the other person's head always struck me as a bit weird / artificial / Uncanny Valley-ish.)
Cultural problems, communication problems, leadership problems.

I’ve been involved in a lot of software offshoring projects. It’s about twice as likely to end in failure compared to onshore software development services.

It has nothing to do with the price. I’ve worked with great devs who were cheap and terrible devs who were expensive. And it’s hard to tell which is which till the project ships or fails to ship.