skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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For context for non Canadians, youth unemployment is at a decades high while we continue to increase immigration specifically for low income jobs.
Again you are claiming I said things I simply didn’t. Where did I come up with a list of arbitrary demands for him to prove he learned something?

All I said is that he simply didn’t say what he learned and provided examples of what it could look like. Again, I was very specifically responding to the claim at the beginning of the thread that a mistake made is a lesson learned isn’t actually true just because a mistake is made. It’s a very basic logical fallacy made by OP. And I point out how while he says he learned something he doesn’t actually clarify what the lesson is and what steps he’s taking to prevent said mistakes in the future. You may disagree but I feel like that adds something to the discussion.

I’m pretty done talking with you since it’s clear that you will continue conversing in bad faith and ascribing to me things I simply didn’t say.
In an ideal world, I agree. But Congress is made up of the most electable people, not the most competent people. I would rather they recognize that and delegate rather than trying to make laws about complex topics which can easily backfire, or just taking no action at all.
The ultimate example of ripping off someone else's idea, sell it to giant evil corp and profit unbelievably. Then he has to go on years of spirit walks to figure out what is the meaning to being rich, then has to talk about how he is a good person publicly... when all he really has to do is make and release another game and people will try it out, and buy it if its any good.
> Bezos will be buying newspapers and pushing out journalism critical of him for decades

Bezos bought WaPo over a decade ago. I don't see any reason to expect that he's going to radically increase his pace of acquisition.
Standing or fallen?

.. and who says that fallen logs don't show up?

Bear in mind that the final display is a processed data product with any number of artefacts smoothed, filtered, or cut away by a data processor.
Every city in the world has good parts and bad parts, the question is in what proportion and how are they changing.

The ones that are weirdest to me is when you have people living in gated skyscrapers with homeless literally leaning against the sides of the building, so much wealth and destitution mere inches apart.
On a tangent....I remember the only place you could get a coffee in Texas was Waffle House or Denny's. In the early 90's the DFW area didn't even know what an espresso was. Starbucks finally came around 1995 and it was such a joy. Now there are some amazing cafes serving amazing coffee, especially in college towns like Denton.
Everyone wants to be middle management. You get paid more and Senior or Staff level is no longer your terminal career level (and therefore pay potential) as it is for most IC. Your performance evaluation becomes more subjective and less quantifiable, allowing you to hide your mediocrity and put it on others. Even if you’re same level as your ICs and the pay is same, you still hold the power in the relationship. If you’re bad manager, all the ICs can do is provide upward feedback, and that too is only at some workplaces. If you’re a bad manager, you can still fire an IC for “poor performance” any time. If company/product does poorly, ICs usually see the consequences. If the company/product does well, the management gets the pat on the back.

Even though I despise middle management, that is the only path I see forward if I want to continue being employed once I’m in my 40s.
You're quite capable of seeing that a serious of ludicrously generalised ideological statements, entirely abstracted from reality, are as close to meaningless as human statements get (which is exactly why social media affords them). You are just blinkered by acculturation, and prefer it that why. Drama is so much more fun than reality.
Yes that's what GP is describing. Fractured Conservative party with splinters that can't command a majority.
Its pretty common where I live in Asia. Most people here dont particularly like the idea of caffeine at night, although late night coffee is rare where I live.
> The only reason residential rooftop solar became the industry it did was the massive subsidies handed out to consumers to make it financially viable.

Savings per Watt can be a lot larger for residential though, as you save the all-in price of electricity (electricity price + transport fees + other fees + taxes) while solar farms only earn the wholesale price.
There are something like nearly half a billion Americans - they’d immediately and irrevocably outvote the Canadian remnant and turn it into cold Texas.
The more middle managers you have, the more middle managers you need to manage those middle managers.
I don’t think mirror bacteria would do that well. They’d have to survive all the other handed chemicals already out there and to be able to use the other handed proteins and sugars for food to become pests. Furthermore immune systems can create antibodies which bind to arbitrary proteins as I understand it.
Maybe it’s only the online ones, but Canadians seem to have more fun discussing American politics than they do their own.

Perhaps because it’s like the weather; something massive and powerful that could crush you at any time but you can’t change it.
You’re making fun, but I’d send my kid to this school.
I don't know of any reason why they couldn't make the Chevron Doctrine law. However, I doubt that the Republican congressmembers will let it happen any time soon.

Disclaimer: I'm not very informed, I just did a little Googling and then summarized it as an exercise to try to reinforce my own understanding.
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Also building something in this space. I think it’s a mistake to compare the speed of LLMs to humans. People don’t like to sit and wait. The more context you can give the better but at some point (>30 seconds) people grow tired of waiting.
I'm aware of a person who started a "startup" and made a revolutionary new way to resize and manipulate images server side.

The whole thing was a simple PHP script invoking imagemagick. They made it available over an API.

Sold it to eBay for more than $1M.
Which way are the immigrants flowing? If European Joe is better off than American Joe it should be a net flow to Europe, no?

And I’ve seen way more people walking around with military weapons in Europe than I ever have in the USA - to be fair, they were the literal armed forces of the country, but still exceptionally weird to see as an American.
You didn't think to add a queue (with trackable status links)?
> "There is confusion," Meta spokesperson Liz Sweeney told CNN in an email. "The recent Financial Times article was about our vision for AI characters existing on our platforms over time, not announcing any new product." Sweeney said the accounts were "part of an early experiment we did with AI characters."

Don't worry, they still intend to fill their social networks with fake robot people, just not those fake robot people. This is definitely what users want and not a desperate scramble to justify Llamas R&D costs by cramming it into every text-shaped hole in their products.
you answered

Why, if your savings are enough? You can buy insurance. Healthcare.gov is cheap if you don't have income, and there are tricks to be self-employed as well to do normal insurance.

to

* Health care costs will prevent me from retiring anytime soon, even if my savings are enough.*

was basically saying there is no health insurance in USA. getting it from healthcare.gov as you suggested or elsewhere - it is all garbage and people with all that insurance end up bankrupt. hence, saying you can’t retire because of health cost is THE number reason I hear people fear retiring
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Congrats OP and it looks really nice! Out of curiosity, may I ask what’s ur tech stack for developing this software? I’m also an aspiring app developer :) Thank you!
Great post but there are some advance terminology that are not that straight-forward in the nitty-details of architectures.. more references would be helpful.
Is that cause or effect? If there is nothing to do, you stop going out to do it, and then you forget how to be social. Seems like a vicious cycle.
not precisely true. the "line managers" reporting to a middle manager frequently do not have the word "manager" in their title, leaving middle managers as the lowest level of actual managers.

line managers are a bit like NCO's (sargeants, corporals, non-commissioned officers) in the military; they have experience doing to the thing that they people they oversee do. The officer they report to may not.
I get what you’re saying, but it’s more than a little like someone who isn’t invested in football calling everyone on defense a “defensive back”. Middle management is a term of art referring to a specific role that works quite differently from the more common first line managers. Insisting on it as a catch-all term accomplishes nothing but making things more confusing.
This caption for a picture gave me an unintended reaction:

> everything about this new Meta AI bot is so dystopian but for me the AI-generated images of nonexistent donated coats is up there

It's a picture on Instagram--the difference is practical effects vs CGI. (It can be interpreted as satire.)
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I've found them decent and mimicking existing code for boiler plate, or analysis (it feels neat when it 'catches' a race or timing issue) but writing code needs constant supervision and second guessing to the point I feel its more handy to have it show just comparisons of possible implementations, and you write the code with your new insight.

Learning a Lisp-y language, I do often find myself asking it for suggestions on how to write less imperative code, which seem to come out better than if conjured from a request alone. But again, thats feeding it examples
Huh. I guess I stand corrected.
"Download Now" does not in fact download now
Excited to play with this! Noticed early on you ask for device password. I understand why you are doing it but this is still pretty sus, any other way to install the libraries as needed w/o pw?
Modern boundaries don't reflect history well. There's an extension of linguistics concept to states rather than languages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with_a...

We also have lost much to history. Take a look at the shuffling that happened during https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migration_Period
I think that depends on the means of going private. Original owners get together to take their baby back? Probably going to go well. Private equity firm swoops in to extract $$$? Probably going to crash and burn.
But how do their business customers make money off providing this tech to end users?
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Like you just have to look at the distribution of immigration across different countries in the past 10 years to see that this isn't correct.

It was not the norm that 60% of all immigration was from a single country...

Additionally immigration has objectively increased at a time of large unemployment which used to not be allowed until the current government lifted the restriction on 6% unemployment.

You can have a mixture of opinions but we gotta stick to the facts first
The default video editor that comes on my vivo phone seems to have more features than this..
I miss “5 to go”s everywhere.

Probably too chain-y but was pretty sweet.
This kind of reply is tiresome.

Every piece of software is providing an abstraction for libraries. Unless you're sitting there pushing raw machine code, you're just being an annoying hypocrite.
Building a good UI is not to be sneezed at- it's a lot of very important work to get a user experience that isn't a dreadful series of checkboxes with limited choice.

I haven't downloaded this so I can't tell if he has succeeded, but charging for a good user experience on top of a open-source library is a pretty classic thing.
This could be seen as a EU-nationalist framing. Just like the United States has shifted from being a federation of states toward being a singular entity.
> I get the feeling the best practices you're complaining about are TPS reports,

I’m talking about the actual term “best practices”, and not the actual practices themselves. The term is an ineffective way to communicate something.

Managers and engineers alike should be able to explain what they do in terms that can be connected with concrete actions / concerns and understandable business goals. Terms like “best practices” are ineffective at doing that. Just like there are code smells, this is a “communication smell” and makes me suspicious that there are underlying problems or weaknesses in the speaker’s ability to communicate clearly. “Best practices” also implies some kind of independence of situation which is fictitious.

“This team doesn’t use best practices for deploying code” -> unclear.

“This team doesn’t use CI/CD, engineers spend too much time resolving merge conflicts, and we see too many regressions make it into production” -> clear. If you need to put it in a bullet point, you can say something like “improve velocity”, “ship fewer bugs”, or “less downtime”.

I’m a fan of ambiguous or unclear language, but “best practices” strikes an unfortunate balance of sounding like it means something but wasting your words saying not much at all.
Oh, huh, good catch. More of their quotes are just theaurus-substitution rephrasings:

> Lucy concludes: “It’s clear mid-level management remains a lynchpin of any organisation, and to keep these roles filled employers need to innovate their strategies to make them more attractive ...

> Martin concludes: “It’s clear that mid-level management is a cornerstone of any organization. To fill these roles, employers will need to rethink their strategies to make them more appealing ...

And no by-line on the article - no actual human is claiming responsibility for writing this.
But very poorly since their API is locked down and so is crawling it. Guest access too has gotten more restricted, nearly to the point of uselessness.
Greenland has the population of a small US city.

For the cost of only $14 per American per year, we could pay everyone in Greenland $85k/yr for life. It’s $4.5/bln a year.

Greenland has already obtained some independence from Denmark and is looking for more. It’s unlikely they sell themselves to the USA directly but something that is effectively the same with a fig leaf on it could certainly happen.

And if actual world-scale conflict broke out, it would de facto be a US protectorate at best, and just another territorial acquisition at worst.
There is no broad analogy for "software" because the concept is too general.

Obviously, there are plenty of examples of software being a "bicycle for the mind," and plenty not.
No, "middle" very clearly does not include front line managers, who do a very different job.
> congrats on wrapping ffmpeg and charging for it!

I doubt that people who are capable of using ffmpeg are the target group here.
So anyway, what is your idea of a less shitty business model that can sustain their business? Paid tier? they already have it.
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Generally speaking, the goal is to report the facts
about newsworthy events. They are not trying to tell
people what to think

I think (good) reporters are going to do this in the micro, yeah.

Taking a slightly broader view, though, surely we can see that there is a myriad of implicit editorialization in any publication, no matter how factual they are.

There can be no "neutral" media because the people controlling it still make a wide range of choices regarding those facts. They make choices regarding which stories and beats receive funding and staffing, the presentation of those facts (which stories are at the top of page 1, which ones are buried on page 83 next to the obituaries?) and which facts are not reported.

Imagine a newspaper that only investigates the private lives of Political Party A, looking for fraud or salacious incidents. We then draw attention to them and put them "above the fold." We do not tell lies either privately or publicly and follow strict journalistic guidelines. You can see where this is going: the catch is that we never investigate Political Party B. Not exactly a balanced presentation of the truth, even though we never lie.
IMO, the primary reason for this is because WCS is danced to contemporary music. When the music changes, the dancing changes to suit it.

I think your example is actually quite illustrative of this - the 2nd song had a lot more "swing content" than the first; since it's an older blues song the traditional West Coast Swing patterns fit it better.
> In August 2019, the Washington Post estimated the purchase price of Greenland would fall between $200 million and $1.7 trillion

Now THERE’S a price range!
"dropbox is just rsync with a bit of cute UI"
i found those vaccuum pump never suck all of the oil completely. You can test it yourself, after sucking the oil, remove the drain plug and there is oil still dripping out
What's so insane about buying Greenland? Offer the current population $2 million USD each if they vote to join, and it would only cost around $100 billion. That's a steal considering its strategic value.
You have to shoehorn the Sami into this comparison because they really only colonized the Nordic countries contemporary with the majority "European" populations. They weren't, in the same sense, indigenous, just... less western.
not rich and not lonely and I would learn something new every day if I could. Learn to be rich in ideas. If you already are, write them down and share them with the world. Or study an ancient civilization. Or learn to fly a plane. learn something that is difficult for you to learn. There are so many things to study and learn and teach.
The spirit of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 lives on!
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As long as you don't only have 1 client. Then you are a basically a consultant and have to do what they say.
Couple thoughts here:
1. The “rightsizer” example mentioned might well have had the same outcome if the outage was analyzed in a “traditional” sense. That said, it is much easier and more actionable with this new approach.
2. I’ve always hated software testing because faults can occcur external to the software being tested. It’s difficult to reason about those if you have a myopic view of just your component of in system. This line of thinking somewhat fixes that- or at least paves a path to fixing that.

Unfortunately, while this article says a lot, much just repeated itself and I’d wish there was more detail. For example: who all is involved in this process? Are there limits on what can be controlled? How (politically) does this all shake out with respect to the relationships between SREs and software engineers? Etc..
I accidentally (another story) bought Revolut Metal (yes, the international micropayment/credit card provider) and besides other apps, I got a Perplexity pro subscription.

It works great, TBH, especially now that is "free" for me. I hope it won't start including sponsored links.

(Another tool I use daily and came with this subscription, is NordVPN. So at the end I don't mind that I accidentally clicked on the buy button)
Yes - it was called 0x10c. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/0x10c
I don't know if I would call it "the best one" when it has "How many r in strawberry" as one of its example questions and when tried it arrives at the answer "two".
It's a Chinese company in a wild hot technology field that China want to compete in. I bet that they are very well supported by the state. Similar to Llama with Meta's money.
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Hard to say Quebec is an enclave.... It is quite literally the founding half of the country.
Last time I was in Seattle the Starbucks on 1st Ave (& University?) didn't have any seating at all. 90% of their business seemed to be online to-go orders (the O.G. Starbucks at Pike Place had several hundred people in line!).
I wonder if cross-examined on that claim, that he would clarify that they have hundreds of thousands of Pro customers. Something like: It’s easy to get lost in the weeds of how much Individual subscribers paid, but that is an accurate characterization of the number of Pro Perplexity subscribers.

The point is, I have a Pro Perplexity subscription for a year, because my ISP was offering year long access for free. I think it is pretty terrible. The answers when I select Claude 3.5 Sonnet as the model for Perplexity always seem incredibly stupid compared to the answers when I use Claude 3.5 Sonnet from Anthropic’s site (which I think is really good).

I like the idea of Perplexity supplying citations, but it seems more like it is parallel construction than citing how the model came up with a particular answer. And, it seems like it is tossing out superior results whenever it cannot pretend to show its work.
I've found just being friendly, but highly critical and suspicious, gets good results.

If you can get it to be wordy about "why" a specific part of the answer was given, it often reveals what its stumbling on, then modify your prompt accordingly.
I've seen that term used from time to time to describe false color imagery in astronomy.
You're right, but in practice I don't really consider it as being too fundamentally different because it's the logical conclusion from strong enough predictive power.
>If you're competing on price, you're usually competing for the worst customers.

This is true. Also, if you are only competing on price, it is easy for a competitor to undercut you.
And now as a random reader 7 hours later -- surely you must share that post/prediction with others! I'm too curious and your comment history is fairly dense.
Down here we had a minor discussion in the 1800s about how the states and federal government should be run.

General consensus since then has been that states can’t leave, but who knows! Things could change.
Oh my word, there may finally be a Typescript parser for the JVM? I have wanted this for the longest time, and it's been on my radar to take on as a project in the near future. If this is a reasonably complete parser, this will save me a ton of time. My use case is parsing Typescript type definitions.

Edit: unfortunately, this seems to be a JNI bridge to the Rust code in SWC, I was hoping for a JVM-native solution.
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Haha take a look at my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42591805