skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My credit card gives 5 miles per USD for flight bookings, between 3 and 5 miles per USD ofr hotel bookings (depending of direct or via an OTA) and 5 miles per USD for restaurant/food purchases. Now one can call a mile worth one cent or one and a half cent, whatever you want. Either way it's going to be closer to a 3-8% personal benefit rather than 1%.
If you travel rather often it adds up.
Network-manager is the easiest transition
Foraging for Abundance
It is next conceptually, but it’s not proven you can do it till someone’s done it. Other rumors suggest whatever GPT4 is, it’s not multimodal.

I don’t believe large models are great multimodal demonstrations either, insofar as being large just lets you memorize different modalities side by side without necessarily integrating them.
It’s definitely not just the right amount for my floors. They creak and bounce every time I walk across them!
Just to pile on here:

- The linux security model is backwards. All applications spawned by me have permissions to read, modify and write all of my data. The security model stops malicious programs messing with the operating system (which I could just reinstall anyway). But the security model does nothing to stop programs corrupting / encrypting / stealing my data. Wat! We need capability based security for applications (or something like it). Its not sexy, but applications need to have restricted access to my filesystem.

- The file API is a bit of a mess if you want to edit files atomically. (And who doesn't? Crashes should never result in corrupted data). Implementing atomicity in userspace on top of the existing write() and fsync() APIs is inefficient and stupidly complicated. The kernel should add an API which does atomic writes to files, and 90% of applications should use it. And while we're at it, add either a syscall for file write barriers (sort of a much finer grained fsync) or add completion events like windows has had for decades. That would let us dramatically speed up modern databases, with basically no cost.

- Files in sysfs/procfs/etc should contain JSON. Handling 18 bajillion text files, each with custom formatting is awful. And if you want to watch for changes, the current model of polling + diffing is ridiculous. We should have a generic "watch item" API to get granular JSON patch (or something) events from kernel objects. That could be used to monitor network traffic, handle USB+bluetooth device insertion/removal/status change, see the firewall status, debug kernel drivers, tell you when a file has been modified, and so on.
WiFi can be made as hard as cables to be intercepted or jammed if you're interested in investing in a nice equipment which uses laser communication in non-visible specter.
Op said how does the floor know with what force to push back.

Well guess what Op, it doesn’t. It’s a coincidence.

Suppose you had a vertical series of random floors that exert random levels of force. If you step on one and fall through, then you just fall onto the next floor. And if that one doesn’t exert enough force, you fall through that one as well. This could continue, until you finally hit a floor that exerts sufficient force back to you, and that is the floor you will rest on, perhaps forever, if these falls killed you in the process.

It is by sheer coincidence you found a floor capable of holding you. In essence this is what must have happened at some point with everything in the universe, giving us the world we have today, a world built entirely by coincidence.
+1 for plasma, it has excellent support for swapping out the window manager
Could you define PMC in this context?
Give some examples?

I use ChatGPT for 200-300 queries per day and it’s astonishingly accurate.

I’ll double check with Google if I’m unsure but it’s almost always been correct.
This seems like you didn't even grasp what the problem was, let alone try to solve it.
This headline format really needs to die.

There's no story here beyond 'California's reservoirs are not sufficiently large to offset all water losses from drought, or to capture all rainfall during flood weather.' It's great clickbait because the same story is likely to be true under almost any conceivable range of circumstances.
Presumptuous.

Also, opinion.

You seem to be missing that harvard attracts exceptional (and well connected) people. Expanding the business to suit their skills is a natural evolution.

>...dining...

Uh, Harvard throws a huge number of fund raising events that have to be catered and no one cares about the name of the catering company if the food is trash. It's in the best interest of Harvard to set their own standards for their events
Goose Island sold after their peak. They weren’t the best small brewer in Chicago anymore and many wanted to go do other things.

For example, one of the brewmasters moved back to his hometown in Michigan and started a pretty well-regarded hard cider place. Speaking of, the “wine trail” in Southeast Michigan is worth it - not for the wine so much (it’s not bad, but it’s not anything to write home about), but that excellent small independent distilleries and breweries have popped up and now a large group of people with a wide variety of tastes can have fun alternating between the 3.
They probably didn't lose their way, so much as they slowly became less effective at combatting the exploits of black-hat SEO and the massive amount of complete garbage content farms out there, while simultaneously they have allowed the ad business to corrupt them completely, which deincentivizes them from showing good organic results because they sell more ads when it's hard to find the obvious things people want.

Your hypothesis on performance is interesting! I think someone altruistic thought "if we judge sites on this metric, everyone will be forced to do better" but they failed to realize that it's a hard problem at scale to NOT be a bloated mess (especially on the frontend! 'Let's add one more UI library, it's just 12MB!')
Most companies contributing to open source do it either because they (1) consume projects directly or (2) want access to the community. For (1) it is no longer considered a waste of money as the corporation directly benefits from such changes. (2) is slightly harder to directly quantify however by opensourcing tools like tensorflow or react companies directly have access to talent pools which otherwise would not exist and they can cut costs on train ing. Its also free marketing for companies. In the end there really is no salary lost.
Just search for "overdrive pedal" on Sweetwater and you'll see a lot of pedals that have been around for decades. Read up on the newer ones and you'll see they generally just add novelty options and variations to classic designs. You can easily find comparisons of schematics by googling, though it's not as simple as "Tubescreamer 85 vs Tuberscreamer 2023" because of various small evolutions and models. Try "tubescreamer circuit comparison" to get a good start.

Delays are another story, search Sweetwater and you'll see it's dominated by digital options that bundle things modulation, stereo effects, and loopers. You won't see the same analog options as the 80's, or many analog options at all comparatively.
> C++ is also not a ‘replacement’ or a ‘successor’ to C, it’s a fork which slowly ‘devolved’ its C subset into a slightly different dialect of C without much hope that the two languages can ever be united again (which IMHO is a damn shame, because being able to mix C with a sane subset of C++ would be really useful for writing libraries).

Isn't this just... wrong? I mean I write in a common subset of C and C++, starting from ANSI C or C99 if required, and then when I am later required to use C++ features, I try to isolate those portions, and expose them through C interfaces.

Maybe the author meant something else, and I am misreading this.
The thing is, it's needed. You can't have an organization without some level of bureaucracy. It's what ensures an organization, works and remains to be a functional organization.

But it's very nature is anti productive. By this I mean: documenting, discussing, approving, and creating boundaries, all work to slow down an organization, even though it's necessary to ensure the wellbeing of the organization. As a specific example, organizations often have separation of duties for certain things (like activities involving payment to prevent embezzlement from happening), but doing so naturally slows down the handling of these activities. If one person has to do his part, then write documentation to instruct what they're trying to do and what they need someone else to do, send those instructions to someone else, wait for their approval, and then send it to someone else to process it... all of this is slower than if the person who wrote the instructions, skipped writing the instructions, and approved and processed it themselves. But obviously that can result in some bad situations, and hence why some bureaucracy is inevitably necessary.
That’s a kind of anthropic principle argument, but the other part of it is that the floor was designed to not collapse. If it was designed for you to fall through then it’d do that.
Why would Apple reduce the number of devices you need to buy?
I’m telling you, the only way out of this mess is to eliminate qualified immunity, and becoming a cop should entail forfeiting many civil rights in exchange for insurmountable amount of power a cop has. US police is basically a military, and should be treated as such.
I've found that if I give it a pair of questions ("Why does X breed faster than Y", "Why does Y breed faster than X") it'll give me two neat little responses that explain why both these statements are true.

That doesn't sound useful on the surface of things, but the additional information in the responses allowed me to craft more traditional search queries I wouldn't have thought of (in my example I learned that species X is hermaphroditic, and that water temperature may be having an impact).

So replace? No. Enhance, if used carefully? Maybe, for now.
> 6 weeks of wasted work is much better than 12 weeks of wasted work

If he had wasted 6 weeks less than would have otherwise been wasted, I would have given him credit for saving 6 weeks rather than blame for wasting 6 weeks, which is what actually happened. According to everyone involved, including reportedly the manager himself, though he wouldn't say it to my face.

> And how exactly did you know what work to do in the first place?

I'm a data scientist who helps people across the company with analytics. They make measurably better business decisions than they would have without me. Relationships, continuous service on existing products, and word of mouth generate more work.

Basically I run my own analytics consultancy inside the company.
I agree there is little urgency. After all, if there were, the withholding of information would be devastating, not just annoying.

But you're right that having a low priority Slack channel that you can casually look at when you're at a natural stopping point is way less disrupting than having to drop everything you are doing because the clock says it is meeting time.

I wonder sometimes if people who get engrossed into this meeting culture have just never experienced better? Anything can seem like a good idea if it is all you know.
Sources are supposed to be previously published, so that they can be independently verified. This "source: trust me bro" format is getting old.
I don't think that training a GPT on GPT output is likely to be helpful. If nothing else, it's going to be like a human getting stuck in a filter bubble - it's not going to improve correspondence with reality.
Product packaging is commercial commerce, which is regulated. Firms voluntarily engage in regulated commerce.

Cease updates of a canary is doing nothing.
I have two 27" 4k monitors and don't want to waste a single pixel.
I did not looked how the gap feature can be enabled/disabled and I really hope the default is disable contrary to the new "drag window" feature that can not be disabled and that regularly disrupt my workflow.

(I know that an upgrade add the ability to disable the drag window feature, it's just not available in FreeBSD yet).
> The toxic lake bed will get exposed one way or the other, if not through the actions of men then through natural fluctuations. Given that the lakebed is already contaminated and there's no way to fix that, the best solution is to live someplace else.

> https://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/pubs/46447

That's not what Figure 3 says. The low point on the graph shows a lake level decline of about 120 centimeters (in 1581), but the average depth of the lake is 490 centimeters (Wikipedia). So the natural drying of the lakebed does not seem to be expected on a timeline of centuries.
This is true, although sporadic "single-dose" use will allow enough rem sleep towards the end of your sleep cycle.

Heavy use leaves enough of an after effect to supress rem almost entirely, which is partly why it causes issues with long-term memory
Warmth thus far is uncommon but not outside my 40 years. Often, January 1st is a great day to ride a motorcycle.

It's not yet February. February is often a b*tch no matter early winter.

Revisit this come March.
The majority of private equity (incl. VC funds) funds are close-ended by definition [1].

Once the fundraising completes for a fund, no “new” money is allowed into the fund. New investors can invest with a PE firms in 2 ways: invest in a new fund, or purchase shares of an existing fund on the small secondaries market [2].

So no, in most cases PE portfolio managers are not going to track “new” vs “existing” money within a fund.

There are exceptions, ie there are PE asset classes that are open-ended (ie. The infamous Blackstone REIT [3]). Open ended funds are more common for public equity hedge funds.

[1] https://www.investor.gov/introduction-investing/investing-ba...

[2] https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1zspcywbpn2h7...

[3] https://on.ft.com/3Zc7Wku
Alcohol is incredibly easy to produce from almost any available organic matter makes it difficult to ban.
For those new to the term "Constitutional Sheriff"

> The Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA) is a political organization of local police officials in the United States who contend that federal and state government authorities are subordinate to the local authority of county sheriffs. Self-described constitutional sheriffs assert that they are the supreme legal authority with the power and duty to defy or disregard laws they regard as unconstitutional. As a result, they may sometimes be referred to as sovereign sheriffs.

via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_Sheriffs_and_Pe...

Terrifying.
> taking down a warrant canary

The canaries are set up so whoever has the website stops the updating. Nothing is taken down. Nothing is updated.
britney innit
> if anything its getting worse.

It's gotten a lot worst and it will probably get replaced by GPT4 or its successor.
So why did you say "crippled" rather than "pruned" in the first place?

"Crippled" is an adjective that attempts to describe a loss of functionality and it is massively overloaded these days. I won't go further there.

How on earth is wiring and pruning of a small plant causing a loss of functionality? I brutally prune roses and fuschias and many other plants too. They respond by growing enthusiastically and being healthy and vigorous. My bonsai do too.

We can skirt around a debate of minor points of language but you did deploy a pejorative term: "cripple" with possible malice 8)

I'd love to hear about your thoughts on these horrors: https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/types/trees/training-espalier
That's a good point! I didn't mean to imply that the book says that dedication to learning or producing is enough in and of itself. Just to say that one of the things I agreed with in the book is that it's better to be a producer than a consumer.

Overall, I enjoyed the book, and thought some of the advice in there was really good. One thing I thought was valuable was something I think you're getting at in your post - which is that ideas that have the potential to make big money quickly have a combination of scale and reach and magnitude.

As a younger guy, I thought that the way people got rich was to get a good job and save lots of money (think doctor, lawyer, engineer). But as I entered the workforce I started to understand that actual rich people I encountered almost exclusively got wealthy through owning or being pretty high up in a business.

One thing that reading Millionaire Fastlane helped me crystallize is that serious wealth creation isn't an inherent property of all businesses, and that plenty of self owned businesses don't pay as well as a regular job, and even create more work for their owners than a job would. And that businesses that can create real wealth (read: "can make someone rich") have to have that scale and reach.

Overall I felt the read was worth my time, even if there are some things about it that I didn't love.
Valid question. For me, it’s about being in the apple ecosystem and seamlessly integrating with my other devices. I use it as a second monitor when traveling with my MacBook and use it as a HomeKit hub.
Maybe they are considering that we shouldn't build and optimize our society solely for the purposes of maximizing revenue.

Would it be better to live in a world where Twitter (for example) existed because it is a useful thing and not because it might make lots of money?
But this isn't what we see, why it's so surprising. Counterintuitive. Maybe it's an artifact of the realpolitik / realphysiq of global food production supply chain? Your argument is nice and logical, and sounds like it should make sense, but doesn't reflect reality: that's OK, as the guy in the video says, almost nobody knows this. If you want to read more about this, check out Vaclav Smil, How the world really works, and the relevant numbers are:

Oil per weight - Source to table

1kg of chicken - 300ml oil

1kg of bread - 210ml oil

1kg of tomato - 650ml oil

Nutrition per oil

Chicken - 0.9g protein/ml oil

Bread - 0.42g protein/ml oil

Tomato - 0.1g protein/ml oil
The notion that every information service should be free with ads is one of the main poisons that have made the cesspool that is the net today. Imagine how different the incentives would be if Facebook and Google just made money by making their endusers happy enough to keep their memberships active with a small monthly fee. Their customers would be the end users, instead of being the advertisers.
SDL2 common mistakes and how to avoid them
I think folks are really underestimating Google in this space. They have:

1) access to way more data than what ChatGPT was trained on

2) access to data freshness through their crawlers

3) knowledge graph for a source of truth https://blog.google/products/search/about-knowledge-graph-an...

4) their own large language model LaMDA, that is apparently so good it convinced a senior AI researcher that it was sentient https://blog.google/technology/ai/lamda/ https://www.engadget.com/blake-lemoide-fired-google-lamda-se...

5) researchers that invented Transformers that GPT is modeled after https://ai.googleblog.com/2017/08/transformer-novel-neural-n...

6) Ray Kurzweil leading the Google Brain team with a mission to make computers understand natural language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil

Google pioneered this space. They also happen to already have an Assistant that is on billions of devices...
I'd love for you to explain how a search engine does have any idea of truth.
Yes, but what wasn't clear was around the margin of error. I assumed there was an expectation of being close. If I said eight hours and it took nine, close enough. But if I said eight hours and it took a year, that was once concerning, but I eventually learned that I could say eight hours for a year's worth of work and nobody would actually reflect back on it anyway. All that mattered was answering the question with something.
The chess genius David Bronstein famously dreamt a game of chess, woke up and wrote it all down.
Can’t say for certain, but I think the speed has improved over the past several years. Definitely more stable (for me anyways). I haven’t used i3 so I can’t compare the two.
> That’s what makes it a natural monopoly, you can’t have two business in stable compensation one of them will fail.

Yes it's a monopoly in that there's only one firm, but it won't behave much like one. Because the firm will be incented towards being a strong competitor towards any new entrants in the market, lest it be supplanted by them - even before those new entrants exist.
I am curious if search engine is the same? It has little idea of truth value of what it produces, other than prioritizing known and well-referenced resources.
Plastic recycling is just greenwashing by the plastics industry.
Recent and related:

Why was Roman concrete so durable? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34280239 - Jan 2023 (260 comments)

via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34281641
> I recall free node dying off or something a few years back?

Yeah, a kind of hostile takeover occurred, which the IRC community did not appreciate.

> Again, I think you grossly overestimate the amount of recorded "discussion" that goes with a bug.

Perhaps so. Seems a bit odd to me though. And a bit lonely :-)

> The lack of explanation is typically because the engineers working on changes have the context for why a change is needed, so don't include an explanation.

Well, I think it's worth noting that this is not very helpful to outsiders who are looking at and working with the code of an open source project.

Even in my closed source self owned projects, I like to provide useful context to my future self. ;-)
IIRC, Bees build their hives with their own secretions. I see this as categorically different than animals that make nests out of various items laying around. In the case of a beaver I think it is more advanced than a birds nest because they actually harvest specific trees instead of using what’s on the ground already.
WhatsApp used Erlang, a programming language designed for building concurrent, distributed systems, to help scale its messaging platform to support millions of users.

Erlang is particularly well-suited to building distributed systems because it was designed to handle failures at the process level rather than the hardware level. This means that if one part of a distributed system built with Erlang fails, the rest of the system can continue to operate without interruption.

This is critical for a messaging platform like WhatsApp, which needs to be able to handle millions of users sending messages simultaneously without experiencing any downtime. Additionally, Erlang's concurrency features allow it to support many thousands of simultaneous connections on a single machine, which is also important for a messaging platform that needs to be able to handle a large volume of traffic.
Test to me is a tool for debugging. Mock is at least useless to me. Use real mock instead by introduce real dependency, but with local effects.
This is what works for me:

- When reading, researching, listening to a lecture/podcast/video/etc, take notes on paper. Don't really worry about the formatting or the organization

- Then, in a separate step, structure and transcribe the notes into org-mode (or OneNote or Roam or Evernote or …)

For me, having that two-pass system really does a lot to improve retention. I can type a lot more quickly than I can write by hand, so the actual time commitment for the transcription step isn't very high. But I've found that forcing myself to go over my notes (at least once) in order to get them into an organized and searchable format does a lot to improve how well I remember what I've taken notes on. It also has the added bonus of allowing me to be as messy and disorganized as I need to be in order to get the information down in the first step, because I know that what I'm writing down isn't the "final version", and I'll be going back over it again to edit.
Microbenchmarking AMD’s RDNA 3 Graphics Architecture