skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thinking inductively is prone to error. This doesn't change if you choose to use a Bayesian approach. If you don't want error, first principles thinking is much more accurate. Some people discover it and think they've discovered the path to thinking without error, but actually first principles don't lead to no error - they lead to a deep and fundamental humility.

I find the greatest proponents of Bayesian thinking to be in the rationalist community. So to get across just how wrong everyone is about just about everything pretty much always consider that the pejorative lessons on predictable irrationality and cognitive bias are delusions that come about through the flaws of statistical reasoning. From first principles we know that superhuman chess AI are also predictably irrational and cognitively biased, but that this isn't actually irrational or biased so as to desire us to abandon the choice. Even in chess - much simpler than reality - the correct solution was too large to fit within our universe.

It is difficult to articulate the magnitude of this humility. We couldn't fit the chess solution into our universe, but how complex is chess relative to other problems? If the complexity of chess was a grain of sand or even a single atom than it would be an understatement to claim that the more general problems are only as large as our universe.
How does this compare to Retool (https://retool.com)? We use Retool at my company and like it; this seems like it is similar, but targets non-developers and is less mature (e.g. in the quality of the components)?
Ouch. Details?
Thanks for clarifying! I got excited that maybe there was a corporate subscription in place.
Yes, I've seen those same problems. It's not so much that good engineers don't exist overseas, it's that the communication and legal barriers facilitate fraud and the channels get flooded with hustlers.

I've only seen one outsourcing shop that could make things work, and it was a small owner-operated operation where the guy who ran it kept flying back and forth and took a personal role in hiring, management, and communication. It was impressive to see but wouldn't scale.
If this interests you, consider also seeing:

"The Perfect Media Server"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25619137

(578 days ago [Jan 2021]; 159 points, 82 comments)
I really like it!

I feel like it could use some scoring mechanism. I want to feel friction against just making guesses until something works.

Post-completion edit:

It does have a time-based scoring mechanism. That didn't register with me at first. I continue to feel that it could use come mechanism to dissuade low-effort guessing.
The MSRP of a Camry is less than half that of a model 3 long range.

26000$ vs 57000$
> so why isn't yours....

Because this isn't a software project with a README, this is a piece of writing about READMEs that happens to be in a README.md file, likely because that's what GitHub displays by default.
I used LocalStack quite a bit at my last gig. It sure is nice to be able to use Terraform to spin up the same infra on my laptop, and test against that. It reduced the number of developer sandboxes we needed to have in AWS. I sure do wish AWS would go the GCP route and offer an emulator. I prefer to use that in E2E automation that's run in CI/CD pipelines.
The GitHub page is better.
https://github.com/omniedgeio/omniedge
That’s the “subpixel” precision I’m talking about.
I have like 60% of a game ready, but it's in the fridge while I finish some other projects. I intend to release it on a game console but I don't have the time to work on it right now. As many people here have said, I work a full time job as well. I would like to join, but I don't now if I'll have the time for the meetings.
This bit us recently as well. Got a $38 monthly bill for a single, one-page, oneoff static site we were hosting there that used to be free. I think it's because the CI (bot) user in our GH org counted as one user, and my GH account counted as a second user after I made a recent commit. Feels like Netlify is trying to juice up their revenue. :shrug:

I checked Vercel, and they do the same thing (charge for GH org accounts).

Fortunately, GitHub recently announced support for using Actions as a generic builder for Pages: https://github.blog/changelog/2022-07-27-github-pages-custom...

They're recommending this approach as an alternative to their in-house Jekyll version: https://github.com/github/pages-gem/issues/651#issuecomment-...
Usually the manufacturers websites have the highest prices
My advice: just write your documentation in dry bullet-list format. Soon there will be tools based on GPT-3-like networks that can turn these into beautiful prose :)
That's a very good question. The child eventually learns to stop using symbols and instead begins to copy the shapes, negative spaces, curves, etc. in front of them and makes an assemblage of otherwise-meaningless shapes, lines, curves which is interpreted by viewers as a representation of the real thing. Does AI have the potential to do that? I don't know.
Corded electric mowers are very rare in the USA. I live in a suburban neighborhood in the North East and have never seen one in my life. I see some battery powered ones though.

I wonder if it’s due to our outlets being 120V? We’d be limited to less than 2.5 HP with a normal outlet, whereas gas push mowers typically have engines in the 5-7 HP range.
Fair point. I guess I underestimate how cheap sourcing methane is if it as no change of offsetting the difference in electrolysis efficiency in the future.
It looks good for NixOS (or Guix) store.
Watch any of the 'a day in the life of a Google engineer' videos on youtube and it's clear why things like this happen.

Very little work is done there.
You generally don't need those brands. If you do, you search for them, filter out spam, then judge.

Or you hear about them organically, by participating in specific forums or following well chosen publications.
> Credit cards aren't meant to

But...they can. So they will.
yes! more options to save me from powerapps. looks good so far.
I speculate it's for consistency with VLAs that are not function arguments, which is the more common use for VLAs.

The original purpose of VLAs is to let you stack-allocate an array with a length that is not known at compile time. In ANSI C you must heap-allocate such arrays, using malloc.
A bit of a friend of a friend story on my part.

My Mother said a close friend (whom she named) was re-configuring their smart TV. Something went wrong and a pop up on the TV started directing her how to restore her account. Her husband told her it was an obvious scam. He went to the other room, and within 10 minutes she hopped into the car and was at a store trying to buy gift cards. The clerks successfully explained what was going on and it ended there. The husband didn't know she had left the house until she came back.

I've tried to get more details on what the pop-up was. For example was it an in-TV web browser or was it imitating something more foundational? But I haven't been able to get much more detail.
As someone who has found multiple small businesses that I use regularly, and wouldn't have without ads that are relevant, I vehemently disagree.
Honestly, QoS at the internet level was never really a big thing outside of special cases like VoIP. Network gear vendors tried like hell, desperately, from around 1998 forward to convince everyone to do diffserv, qos, etc etc etc like crazy plus DPI because they thought they would charge more by having complex features and "be more than a dumb pipe."

The situation now is that bandwidth is plentiful. A lot changed in 20Y.

100G and 400G are now quite cheap - most of the COGS for a given router is the optics, not the chassis, control plane or NPU, and optics has been, on and off, a pretty competitive space.

Plus, almost all the traffic growth has been in cache-friendly content - non-video/audio/sw image growth has been modest and vastly outpaced by those. Not just cache friendly but layered cache friendly. Of the modern traffic types, only realtime audio-video like Zoom is both high volume and sensitive to latency and congestion. That's a small component, is often (but not always) either hosted or has a dedicated network of pops that do early handoff, and so on, so your typical backbone is now mostly carrying CDN cache misses..
Implications of Climate Change [pdf]
A study by the US Military that provides analysis of the effects of climate change and potential consequences of said effects.
Second this recommendation. Very dense with lots of useful recommendations.

Only thing I cannot agree with, is the critique of Star Trek's motto and the suggested alternative. Does not have the same emotional connection.
You're not really an academic unless you're working in the academy, right? Once you move to industry, you're a professional.
> Victim is called

I’m on an ongoing mission to get my parents (in their 70s) to never answer calls from numbers they don’t recognize.

Old habbits are hard to erase.
Here are the traditional best practices of how README files should look:

• https://tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-Release-Practice-HOWTO/distp...

• https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Releases.html#i...
> What's the issue? I used to watch a lot of medical dramas on TV and in my opinion the black rockstar MDs are way overrepresented in comparison to their real-life numbers:

Well, this clearly isn't the case in the DALL-E training dataset, because "medical doctor" overwhelmingly yields white dudes-- even after OpenAI's effort at removing bias.
maybe zerotier?
I feel like posting Matt Parker's spectacular "Readme Driven Development" lightning talk is obligatory here:

https://youtu.be/23xzRCoDZf4
sometimes it's an alternative to just disable swap.
Users first but users can't use a web browser that might (but unlikely) compete with their app revenue?
For sure! Our site is B2B ecommerce, and any sizeable customer has all their users coming to us from a single NAT or proxy. For major customers it's likely that there are several of their employees using our system at any given time.

The answer needs a whole lot more finesse than this.
Alternatively, allow $0 signups but approve every new account. It's rather easy to spot spam signups
Thanks, worked for me!
> an 800-page paper by Klainerman and Szeftel from 2021, plus three background papers that established various mathematical tools — totals roughly 2,100 pages in all.

It basically comes in three volumes. What an astonishing amount of work.
Indeed, you're right — it's companies where our engineer customers work. It's been a while since we looked at that list tho, so it probably could use a refresh!

For some companies on that list, we do have more than one engineer subscribing, and for in many cases we've spoken to them to learn about their motivations and feedback. We also have a Private Leaderboards feature for teams.

In the past few months, a nice small win for Paul and I is what we like to call the "Slack Share Effect".

It's when one of our users shares CodeCrafters within their company Slack, and then we notice multiple new users that work at the same company. When we get in touch with them, I always enjoy asking "how did the OP describe CodeCrafters on Slack?" and 100% of the time, I discover that customers do a better job describing CodeCrafters than we ourselves could. It's also how we uncover use-cases :)
> they treat retail like its an embarrassing legacy offering

I agree, which is such a shame because their retail brings valuable customer data they'll later monetize with ads and other things.
Tile never became ubiquitous though - but yes, I agree, if it can't be done in a way that can be abused, it shouldn't be a product.

But money talks, and Apple have decided they're comfortable with the risks because it's another brick in their ecosystem wall, and makes them money.
> Voids are a description of an area that has relatively less matter density than the average of the universe, not objects themselves, so I'm not sure what you mean by a void "moving".

I think that was exactly the point that your parent https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32342806 was making:

> Does a void move? No really, by our current definition of 'void', does a void move or is its position and shape solely defined by the objects moving into and around it?

That is, I think that they were not asking a factual question—"obviously voids can move, but do they?"—but rather a sort of ontological question—"does it even make sense to ask whether voids move?"—just as you are.
>Thanks to them being yet another attack vector and funny stuff like on this post, got demoted to optional on C11.

Sadly, the C committee doesn't really understand what was wrong with VLAs and a sizable group of its members wants to make them mandatory again:

https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2921.pdf ("Does WG14 want to make VLAs fully mandatory in C23")
The keyboard control is quite nice.
Super cool. It's likely in the works but it would be cool to have more recipes / mini templates to start with on the application builder. E.g. a list of most active users or something similarly generic to help me get to something real faster. Also the ability to add an integration / connect postgres from the 'new api' prompt rather than having to go back to the dashboard first
As someone who used to have to hack internal tools, love that superblocks is making this easier!
My point is, "getting paid by the number of words or paid by the number of stories produced per day" is no longer journalism. Call it reporting. Call it wordsmith-for-hire. Call it whatever you want. But that is no longer journalism.

I certainly understand the nature of that business has changed. However, that doesn't mean they get to be lazy and sloppy and still earn / deserve the title of journalism and journalists, any more than flipping burgers at McDonald's makes me a chef.

The fact that they've knowingly and shamelessly changed the meaning of the word (i.e., they use it well aware of the fact that they don't meet the definition) doesn't make it okay. Repeating a lie doesn't magically turn it into truth.
> When you get a good job, someone will ask you how much money you want to dump into your 401k. You will probably say “none” because you are conditioned to believe that trouble is just around the corner

This was relatable. While never having to support a family of 4 on 35k, I did have a period of my life where I was very broke on my own. When I finally started to climb out of my situation, I remember thinking people were idiots for putting money in a 401k. You can’t get it out if you need it. It took 5 years of stable employment before I actually started putting money into a 401k.
Yes, it would.

It would also stop a not-insignificant number of my customers.
I can give a random string of letters as a prompt and DALLE will generate coherent images based on that. To me, that is as clear a signal as any that there is no reasoning or even a consistent world model embodied in DALLE. It’s simply a high dimensional latent mapping between characters and pixels. Like OP said, that is a stupendous achievement, but it is just a very complex and impressive mirror. If it wasn’t just a mapping between characters and pixels, and instead DALLE had intelligence that “understood” the symbols it manipulated, then I would expect it to generate nothing, or white noise in response to random letters.
While OPAQUE is modern, this whole idea isn't. SRP is a 1997 Stanford project with their results first published in 1998.

But you're probably not wrong about people not liking how I phrased my reply.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21923940

Got a Patreon for a year after this project went viral.
Amazon shopping is bifurcating into:

1. Drop shippers 're-branding' stuff from SE Asia

2. Amazon-branded clones of successful products.

#2 is where Amazon has been headed all along.
> Make it more aerodynamic. EU trucks today .... and flat back

Definitely go touch up your aerodynamics :) The flat back is actually not as bad as you think for speed these trucks moving at. It creates a circular vortex that makes a high pressure zone.

* Asterisks apply. Ask representative for details. Commentors on HN will comment that I over-simplified.
I think you miss the time to think about the direction. But it is the most important task compare with others. Your time allocation only focuses on execution. If one is heading to a wrong direction, it just accelerates the failure.
> Like, how do so many young people have a favorite island in Hawaii? How is everyone out there affording new cars?

The reality is that oftentimes they simply can't, at least according to a responsible definition of "afford".

All we see from the outside is the brand new Jeep, we don't see the fact that they're underwater on a 72 month loan with 6% interest. The average car loan term in 2019 was 69 months, that's insane. Something like 30% of trade ins have negative equity.

Even ignoring debt, I've spoken to a surprising number of people who make great money and live lavishly but have effectively no retirement savings. The level of financial literacy in the US is abysmal.
Super exciting. What industries or applications are you guys tackling first? Congrats!
Why not? Sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syngas
I think our intelligence has 2 components, our conscious selves that are good at formal reasoning and meaning making, and a massive neural network that is good at statistical inference. I suspect the reason we need less training data for learning than dall-e is because our conscious selves can tease out the formal relationships and models, rather than relying purely on inference which requires enough datapoints.
Unfortunately, well-known platforms with known URIs are targetted way more than any custom website. I think if wordpress just allowed rewriting all the URLs would reduce spam attacks by a lot
I've spun up plenty of clones and tiny projects that get attention for a few (days, weeks, months) and then get abandoned. I'd have no problem with most of them getting deleted: they've served their purpose.

I'd bet there is a really long tail of projects like this, that have had no commits, views, or clones in forever.

Now, I'd prefer they be 'archived' as u/londons_explore suggests, but according to the article "A single comment, commit, or new issue posted to a project during a 12-month period will be sufficient to keep the project alive", which is a pretty low burden.
"Begging the question" is a mistranslation of a mistranslation. Saying that it means something other than what people use it to mean is the worst form of pedantry.
My Indian Mom thinks the pricing is outrageous
Minor quibble with the usage of 'unnatural'. Humans are part of nature and our creations/society we build are a result of nature as well.

In the bigger picture, I don't see why 'physical labor' should be considered some privileged activity of humanity that we must hope to get back to. Movement and physical activity are important for our bodies, but that doesn't mean physical labor is an unalloyed good. If anything, we're seeing evolution at play, we're expending less human energy for our labor over time. That seems good! We just need to figure out how to not let our physical bodies degrade in a way that can worsen our quality of life.
Hugo is huge.
beautiful. Looks really great!!
This can be easily answered by giving the following input to dalle.

"""

A map highlighting the countries the ancient Romans invaded since Pepsi was introduced.

"""
>Apple hasn't been anti-ad

You mean Apple played the tracking and Anti Ads cards with all of its PR submarine articles and marketing, how Apple is not an Ad company and doesn't sell ad ( not true then and not true now, to the point the App Store Head questioned whether putting Ads on App Store search would go against Tim Cook's public image ). Fuel the public discourse against data collection AND Ads, push the narrative on all forms of media ( including Social Media ) how every single ad is tracking. ( You may want to read Benedict Evan's piece on Ad and Tracking ) And only to backtrack when the whole Ad industry questions Apple's motive on why are they all of a sudden Anti Ad? ( Tim Cook, somehow, for some reason, had to made a few public statement on how Apple is not "Anti-Ads". )

The whole tracking and Ads PR strategy got to the point where Ad is evil on HN. It wasn't "Personally I hate ads but I understand their place in the world ". It was simply I hate Ads. ( People working inside Ad industry rarely comments on HN anymore ) And when other players in the industry does "targeting" Ads, it is tracking. When Apple does it, it is "personalised". [1]

I guess the pandemic had people forget how Apple started their grand strategy play against Facebook.

I still cant believe nearly 20 years later how Apple has outdone Google's "Do No Evil" hypocrisy.

[1] https://twitter.com/Carnage4Life/status/1532861766492774400
But there is shortage of sensible jobs which bring satisfaction, are not swamped in bureaucracy or, conversely, in the frenzy to attain recursive success-in-success-in-success yesterday with inhuman cutting-edge team-building techniques, are not devoid of any sense and can boast a collective of nice people rather than an entangled skein of snakes and spiders.

And at the same time there is a growing abundance of artificially created worries for those who want to remain independent and sell their work directly.
It's interesting. I have 2 years without shopping on amazon. I'm going straight to small businesses. The attention is better and, slowly but surely, pricing and shipping are getting better.
That would be pretty neat (not only email but other online stuff) if multiple locations were considered.

I don't think someone would travel to a different city/country for this.
We're not going to be taking PayPal. However, if you don't have a supported payment method, you're eligible for free service.
Google is also responsible for the Android and Chrome platforms. In both cases, my impression is that they have long tolerated, if not promoted, ecosystems open to third party data collection of the more abusive sort. While Google may protect data gathered through maps, mail and their many other properties, their stewardship of Android / Chrome greatly diminishes my trust in their organization.
Just a quick follow up .. here is some of the innovation that happened in the project in the last decade - https://trino.io/blog/2022/08/04/decade-innovation.html
The monkeypox situation keeps getting worse
You are taking a narrow view of the possible problems, which include adversarial strategies from outsourcing firms. It's not a matter of can things go correctly -- of course they can -- it's a matter of can unscrupulous actors exploit the chaos to bilk their clients. Historically that has been the failure mode, and the fracture points I listed were their tools of trade.

"Just use a platform / reputation firm / ..."

Yeah, we had those in the last wave of outsourcing, too. They were not able to tackle the "fraud-lite" problem for the simple reason that it was much more profitable to become part of the problem and ride the bubble until it collapsed.
Someone should coin this as a law: "All problems on the internet will be solved with more bandwidth."

Everything else will turn out to be a configuration burden, control plane load problem, security issue, hard to debug (especially after the fact, impossible) and so on.

Bandwidth and NPUs with designed-in minimal latency are easy to metric, easy to measure, easy to deploy, easy to implement and so on. They have very predictable behaviors.

Reality is that we are entering a phase where networks can be vastly simplified. MPLS is going, SR is here for the time being, QoS is dying, multicast dead, SDWAN is going to be a thing for a few more years then dead, and so on.
It seems kind of disingenuous to show companies logos, when it could just be a random employee- let alone using the phrase "trusted by".