skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Maybe. Premature optimization is said to be the root of all evil...

The full quote, because it always gets butchered to "premature optimization is the root of all evil":

Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%.
Many folks refuse to accept or do either of these things. If you aren’t that person, then congrats! Well, maybe. It has pros and cons either way.
Lindy?
This seems great in theory but unlikely to work well in practice.

Your close friends are already in touch routinely via email, phone, text, in person.

Your extended network of acquaintances though? Connecting on a social media site is much less of a hurdle than: make them aware you have a newsletter. Get them to click and subscribe to the newsletter, get their email client to route that newsletter to their actual inbox so they see it, etc.

A newsletter seems best suited to those with a bit of fame, enough to have a bunch of 'followers' - who will seek out and subscribe to a newsletter.
I added a TOC and introduction to the project https://whatisthequestion.wordpress.com/2022/12/22/hobbes-th...
Fair point. Any idea if judges typically consider such things in this kind of case?
Love the demo jitters as he picks up the frosted flakes, "Well that's working. That's good."
Not science fiction. 150 might be possible for some people alive now.

Andrew Huberman's interview with researcher David Sinclair mid-2022 well worth a listen for high level but technical coverage of state of play.

Yes, these people are avid promoters of their work, but they are doing the work.
HE COULD BUILD THE NEXT AMAZON OR FABECOOK!

/s obviously
It may be too much for moms, but maybe the html document includes the content, but a chrome extension does the work and presents the secret in the extension popup.

- attack surface area drastically reduced. only one MITM matters now, the extension installation
- requires great extension UX, to help dads know where to click

less portable than just a document, but perhaps a nice middle ground
What is the purpose of your link?
Here's a Washington Post article that speaks to the tie between the labor shortage and immigration.

https://web.archive.org/web/20221215195859/https://www.washi...

However you feel about immigration there's no doubt that we need more people to do some jobs. We are not making enough people. If you don't like immigration, get busy and start making some kids.
Cows convert material that is inedible to humans (grasses) to materials that are edible to humans (cows).

Modern farming has made things much easier - crops are highly modified and farming techniques have advanced to produce huge yields.

Consider also that redundant food supplies protect against famine - if your potato crop all dies then ol’ Bessy means you still have options.
The skeuomorphic YouTube icon always looks so chintzy to me. Does anyone know how/why that came to be? Did Google just not care enough about branding at that point to insist on using the real logo?
> did a (paid) trial project,

Is the trial project something that could be used by the startup?

If so, there's a hazard that a startup could accidentally or intentionally use the carrot of a supposed/potential FTE hiring as a way to get contract work on better terms (more available, more committed, lower cost).

It could additionally be a way for the startup to fill their hiring funnel, and then (even bigger win) keep it in a holding pattern.

This would be a multiple win for a startup that isn't ready to hire, but needs work done relatively inexpensively and well on their schedule, and would like to have the option to hire when necessary (people it's keeping captive), with lower risk, and all while keeping more equity. The worker correspondingly loses multiple ways.

I doubt this was the intention this time, but I guess this could easily become a practice, especially if it ends up being wisdom quietly passed around in startup circles.
I'm in the same boat. I can spend weeks and months exploring the most mundane things I buy. One thing I have realized is that I rather enjoy the process. I like to find out more about what comprises a quality product for a given application and how the various products in the market fare. And so I have let go and let the process take its own sweet time.

Of course, every now and then you need to procure something immediately. For such situations, I have a fuck-it budget that I won't regret burning. As long as it's within that budget, I say fuck-it and grab the nearest thing I see.
It really is ridiculous, even if you're 'loyal' to a brand, even that one brand can have hundreds of variations of a single product, why??

There has to be logic behind it but I don't understand it. It does make choosing something almost impossible.
We did, but there really isn't anything interesting about Kaboom to make for discussion here. There's no technical wizardry or open world or groundbreaking mechanics or sense of fascination or urban legendarium about Kaboom, it's just a straightforward reflex game doing simple things with the hardware.
You've done a fantastic job of describing what I couldn't put my finger on! One of the issues I had when developing this code was what I referred to as a "jarring" noise when distortion gain was turned up. It's like you describe: almost "metallic." I alluded to the "jarring" sound in the article, and it's great to know the culprit! There weren't a lot of repos, articles, or forum posts that had examples of solid, straightforward distortion implementations, and now I can see why.

Hopefully, we'll see someone get some code out there that helps clean this up!
To me one definition of Great is that I get additional value in a second reading. In fiction Tolkien is the prime example. There are very few non-fiction authors this holds for. When I find them it’s a dangerous path as I want to read everything they ever wrote.
Lack of empathy is the norm in nature, not the exception. A species of predator that could empathize with its prey would starve to death.
It would be more accurate for the title to say "duckduckgo extension".

It's ironic that commentary about how much screen the google popup takes is on a website with a video window that takes up about a third of the screen on mobile.
https://www.vox.com/recode/23453786/tiktok-bytedance-cfius-d...

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner argues that even if there is nothing wrong with Tiktok it ought to be banned because it gives China a crucial edge in the development of AI tools that American companies don't have. China is able to freely access Western markets but not the other way around.

> Finally, there’s the fear that China will be able to use TikTok’s data to power its AI innovations. That’s an advantage the US won’t have because its social media apps are banned in China and because there aren’t laws that would compel social media companies to hand over data just because the government wants it.

> “They are aggregating literally billions and billions of images of not just Americans but people from around the world who are using TikTok,” Warner said. “That gives them so much more data to help them create tools that can be utilized in the AI world.”
Are there model weights?
Or he just wanted out of rat-infested Bahamian prison.
Vague Enough
I've been thinking about a recurring problem with communities like Reddit or HN: people tend to comment on the headline without reading the article.

I think this less of a problem on HN, although for every post you'll always be able to spot a subthread that has nothing to do with the article itself.

So my thought of the day is this: I've noticed that the more vague the title, the more people will read it before commenting. And the reason seems quite trivial: you can't comment on something vague without reading about it first. The title of this post is an attempt to prove that point.

So with that in mind, should we make it an official rule that titles should be vague enough (outside of big announcements) to force users to read them first? :)
That's still a grid you're describing, in terms of the right-of-ways that have been reserved for the public. Just without roads built out on all of them. And yeah, that makes sense in some places.
Merely being good at what one does, when that is useful to others, is often a good definition for meaning.
Based on the reverse engineering done by Parth Thakkar [1], the model used by Copilot is probably about 10x as large (12B parameters), so I would expect Copilot to still win pretty handily (especially since the Codex models are generally a lot better trained than Salesforce CodeGen or InCoder). It's also a little bit hard to compare directly because as Parth documents, there are a lot of extra smarts that go into Copilot on the client side.

The SantaCoder paper does have some benchmarks on MultiPL-E though, so you could compare them to the Codex results on that benchmark reported here (but keep in mind that code-davinci-002 is probably even larger than the model used by Copilot): https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.08227

[1] https://thakkarparth007.github.io/copilot-explorer/posts/cop...
thats right. the spec states that if destination is non-nil then format returns nil. otherwise a string

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw50/CLHS/Body/f_form....
But serverside tracking without consent would still be illegal, right? GDPR does not make a difference between cookies and other mechanisms.
My experience was not like yours, I had numerous professors who not only took the time to entertain my questions but I also had some mentor me on research
Yeah the question then might as well end up
being “what people?”
Your dinner bill nearly gave me a heart attack. Dear lord!

I don’t have much say in UBI, but your mention that rent-control would simply “start a lottery of who gets to live in the city” sounds like a good thing. If you don’t already have established family in a high-demand city (in which case you should be grandfathered in), isn’t a lottery the fairest way to get in?
If you haven't taken the leap, go for it! That's actually how I started getting into effect pedals and now I'm hooked.
Yes, the video talks about generals. So the civil equivalent would be (higher?) management positions that already require substantial experience. (Also again, note, it is not meant to bee career ending thing. If you fail, you lick your wounds, find another role that hopefully fits your better and apply your learning.)

It doesn't make sense to apply the concept to rank and file soldiers or like junior software engineering roles.

The higher someone is on a the hierarchy tree, the more people they can influence and the more important it is to remove them when they are not a good fit.

It is very unfortunate that people think the video war arguing for hiring and firing normal employees just because they don't perform perfectly in the first few weeks. That would be absolutely psychopathic behavior. Your job as a junior is to learn and make mistakes.
Good point. Follow-on question then: why did they push for it last time?
Was 1920's content more valuable at that time?
> Once I adopted this mindset, I enjoyed working on my side projects so much more.

Why would you have side projects that weren't fun? They are hobbies, right?

From this perspective my time is spent on:
- Work: mostly fun, in my case
- Recreation (camping, biking, reading, programming, hanging out...): basically 100% fun, else I don't do them.
- Obligations: cleaning, cooking, going to the toilet, attending parties I don't want to be am required to... not fun for me.
Yep! https://huggingface.co/bigcode/santacoder
I use a PGP encyrpted files on my local computer.

https://www.passwordstore.org/ actually.

I don't trust any cloud-hosted password manager.
I agree that I have also been quite surprised by their bold claim that their meta-analysis has included "the totality of available scientific evidence".

An example that this claim is false is that there is no mention about the studies that have identified a correlation between the galactose intake (which comes from the lactose contained in dairy) and eye cataracts.

From my anecdotal experience, because I have seen at least 4 cases of eye cataracts at people for whom dairy was a major part of their food, I believe that this association of galactose consumption with eye cataracts is true.

Fortunately, nowadays for those with enough money and with access to a modern ophthalmology clinic eye cataracts are no longer debilitating due to the surgical replacement of the lenses. Nevertheless, it cannot be considered as a minor health issue, because not everybody is so lucky.
Great artists steal from... other great artists? :)
I've spent about ten minutes poking around that link and I'm still not at all sure what kind of tool Satellite either is or wants me to think of it as. Front page:

> Satellite is an alternative space for writers and the beginning of an entirely new kind of network

O...k? Alternative to what? New how? Presumably "alternative" here means the space is an alternative to other spaces (not a space for alternatives) and "new" means "there are features other things don't have" (not "we made it a week ago") but it's very vague branding. What are the commonly-known alternatives so I have an existing idea to latch on to? What are the new features? Moving on, it appears that wasn't actually the front page - clicking through to the named front page:

> a free, open, and unstoppable network better aligned with the interests of humanity

To do what! I gather this is a writing platform, but is it akin to blogging where individuals regularly put out articles? Scientific publishing that enforces a web of citations? Both? Can I have friends/subscribers of sorts? If so, do they also have to be Satellite members? Do my posts appear on any sort of front page anywhere? I'm still very befuddled at how the tool wants me to use it. Mastodon seems like the closest competitor, what does Satellite bring to the party?

> Open protocols and data ownership

Great! I like those things. But I'm only going to choose to use a tool if it has those things after it satisfies my primary use cases. Using a screwdriver to hammer in a nail is stupid if you do it just because the screwdriver has an open source CAD file somewhere.

I'm sorry if this all comes across as harsh -- I'm trying to be as straightforward as possible. I'm not at all certain if I'm Satellite's target audience, but if I am I am already disinclined to try and find out more. Tech bro hype over trivial things (or even stupid things) has completely burnt me out on new web stuff that tries too hard and doesn't respect my attention. I very much appreciate tools that are a little opinionated and a lot forthcoming about their intended uses so I don't feel like my attention has been hijacked or co-opted. If the tool is for me, great. I know what my pains are and it's not difficult for me to imagine what it might take for them to go away and you'll win me over if I can fit you into that thought. If the tool is not for me, that's also fine! It might be for someone else. But I'm not going to spend the effort to figure that out. If I have to, it's already not for me.

That said, the website is very pretty. I'm always a fan of those dynamical network images, and the layout & typographical styling is very appealing.
Ha, that’s true. But at least you get to see how dysfunctional nearly any corporation is pretty quickly.
Going to keep those problems a secret?
In one case it might just be slow. In the other your db will fall over. Unfortunately, you may find the answer when your production environment fails.
Too Much Winning: Antitrust Reform to Become Law
Thanks! I don't mind the marketing, in fact, if there is good science behind it I totally support it.
Be aware, burn out is often as much or more about self regulation than it is any specific activity. Being able and willing to say no to mind one’s boundaries being a key skill.

Changing careers can help (the novelty provides rewards), but rarely does whatever underlying thing causing the issue disappear.
I feel like you are just experiencing work at risky startups. Look up DreamWorld. YC invested in that is one of the most absurd frauds (or insert whatever word makes you comfortable) in the industry. The hucksters were even lauded as disrupters. Presumably you don’t work for peanuts and you are having bad experiences with startups related to finances. I think this is why people use the phrase “par for the course”.
I can't understand the need for this kind of thing as there are so many options for using Stable Diffusion for very cheap (or free) and of course Dall E has its own UI. What's the point of using a service like this (besides getting free compute while they are launching)? Do we really need another service aggregator?
interesting that you describe void as nothingness and then immediately assign a negative value to it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9A%C5%ABnyat%C4%81
Although I'm pro-milk, I do find these connections suspect.

In modern times, most of us agree that we should "follow the science". But few people are actual scientists, who can check the facts themselves. Instead, we treat "follow the science" tribally and accept as "scientific" whatever source we trust by other (non scientific) means. For example, we trust as "scientific" people with the same political alignment.

As such, I find it pretty useless whenever I hear about a study saying "x is bad/good for you". It's not like I can check. (There's a website listing headlines about how eggs, sleeping, and the rest, both cause, prevent, and have no effect on cancer, obesity, and the rest. I can't find it right now though.)

The only guiding principles I find useful are:

* has it been used for multiple decades, centuries, millennia => probably good

* has it been banned in multiple countries => probably bad
A lot of Triplebyte's value as a candidate is in being able to skip past screener type calls / the very earliest stages. I don't think it is at the point where they entirely replace technical interviews.
Might be overloaded – if you have a GPU you can try running it locally by getting the model weights here: https://huggingface.co/bigcode/santacoder
Is there a source that objectively compares camera abilities for these two devices?
1) The style consistency is the easiest to achieve and we are much better at looking back 2 weeks ago on our MVP
https://devpost.com/software/children-s-book-illustrator?ref...

2) Character consistency is a much harder topic but we have couple of ideas, either dreambooth for each combination of hair/age/color etc. and or layering and rendering one character at a time then layering them over an image should give much more stable characters.

3) Regenerate - we were thinkin on a button for the whole book, so that you can regenerate it if it's not to your liking up to N times. With illustrations we were thinking to first add 3-4 versions of your illustrations that you can review and set which is best and as a next step regeneration.

4) Current payment model was just a test if anyone would be willing to pay for the book. We were thinking subscription and N chapters per tier, so that you can generate like a 100 chapters a week. And how you want to spend it it's your choice.

----

I work full-time so this is side-project done in two weeks, it's far from what it could be but I am still happy that I've got something working and at least someone finds enjoyable.
>Yes there’s a conflict of interest. No, it does not necessarily invalidate the result.

Yes, same way a mail from an Nigerian ex-prince wanting to get money out of the country and will compensate you from helping them, might still be legitimate. You never know.

But if we can't go and rerun the research ourselves, it's best to see the red flag and assume it's rubbish than accept it in the off chance "the dozens of conflicts of interests might not have influenced it".

Conflict of interest in studies is not invoked to mean the study IS invalid, it's invoked to say the mean the study is very likely invalid.
Alzheimer's patients tend to have CAA (Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy) where beta amyloid plaques replace the smooth muscle of blood vessels in the brain. Since the drug (lecanemab) works by removing these plaques, damage to the affected blood vessels results in inflammation, swelling, hemorrhage and eventually death.
I thought it was only if you skip town
More like code red for those bloggers. Google is going to profit from this so hard.
High end universities regularly mark up most expenses charged to research grants by about 75%. This is the result of negotiations between the university and the government.

Nongovernmental grantors will sometimes negotiate much lower overhead. I suspect the negotiation goes “here’s $1M to a prestigious professor, and you may not touch it. We’ll give you $100k to make you feel better. Take it or leave it. By the way, if you leave it, we will happily offer the same research group $1M if they pack their bags and move to a different university.”

Wise professors with grants with differing overhead schedules will, of course, allocate charges to minimize the university’s cut.
Discussed at the time (of the article):

How Atari 2600 Game Pitfall Builds Its World - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27111377 - May 2021 (29 comments)
and none to disable their telemetry, spying or tracking
PR ? Propaganda is the word for such things. And yes, they don't care about anything except the money.
It is not easier, but in order to understand why it's not easier, writing from scratch is one of the best options. And without understanding, what are the chances you'll come up with a good solution (either yourself, or through another SaaS)?

In essence, whatever path you take, anticipate that you will do a bad job on your first attempt. Failing is a learning step you can't skip.
The risk there is more you accidentally make a bad comment on YouTube and Google bans your account, I think. I have no idea if I'd still be able to access my passwords if that happens. At least, personally I feel Google deciding to disallow me from logging in is more likely than Google losing my passwords.
> Eat no fruits from the past one thousand years, drink nothing from the past four thousand. Drink your milk (if your ancestors did).

Where do I find all of this expired food?
There’s a great novel called Mockingbird. The humans mostly consume content and study music appreciation and so on. Everyone lives on daily tokens like a UBI.
> A member of the Oath Keepers who traveled with the group to Washington D.C. ahead of the Jan. 6 riot described a massive stockpile of firearms and other weaponry that allies had stashed in an Arlington, Va. hotel.

> “I had not seen that many weapons in one location since I was in the military,” recalled Terry Cummings, a Florida resident who said he joined the Oath Keepers in 2020 amid concerns about left-wing violence in Portland, Ore. and joined the group leaders’ private chats in advance of their Jan. 6 trip to D.C.

https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2022/10/12/oath-keeper-des...

I understand that accepting reality is going to be very hard for you, but that’s okay. Your hero Stewart Rhodes is already a convict and is awaiting sentencing, and no amount of crying on the internet can change that.

You could try to contact his lawyers and tell them about your genius strategy of asking questions that you won’t accept answers to, I think that will definitely free him. Your opinions are definitely more valid then evidence presented and accepted in federal court.
Yes, sorry, typo. Chocolate is a bean.