skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here for the luddite RSS comments.
Nah man I mean the answers went from wow to oh at the same time the thing went mainstream. My theory is that individual questions a month ago were granted more compute than they are today, and as such they seem less thoughtful now.
These are almost exactly my own reasons, except I have #5 - annotations as needed for some php frameworks, and especially for ide intellisense.

E.g. if the ide can't grok what a $var is you can do :

/** @var Some\Namespace\To\Class $var */
$var = ...

then when it reindexes things it has no problem tying everything together.
Good then their code will be even shittier than it already is.
Then your org is over paying for mediocre HW, at least for servers, arguably also for laptops (Dev machines for sure)
At least for the last two years.
I've heard this but no one ever cites any relevant studies that shows any such disparity.
> When you write code for an app, you are bound to change the code frequently than you are writing code for library, so while I think there could be merit in putting comments for library, i dont think it will counter productive to write comment for your app code, as it is pain in the wrong side to keep both code and comment consistent

So? Good comments are valuable, even if they aren't always kept absolutely consistent with the code. Comments shouldn't restate what the code says, they should either say things the code can't say (like why), or (sometimes) summarize what the code does at a different level detail to make it easier to understand.

The trick is to read code and comments together, and dig into source history when something seems off.
Does anyone know what CMS this website uses?
Poe's law, etc.
Receivers are easy to put together and repair

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_radio and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxhole_radio

Building a receiver out of whatever scrap you have around is a highly recommended exercise, and even more so if you have any kids (do it with them) --- the astonishment at seeing a pile of parts come together and make sounds, seemingly without any power source, is definitely an unforgettable experience.
His writings from back in the days when he was operating are insightful. But now that he's semi-retired his posts' signal to noise ratio has plummeted.
That's nice, but this is a Wendy's.
inviolable

Intended for a more special and a baser use, this room, from which, in the daytime, I could see as far as the keep of Roussainville-le-Pin, was for a long time my place of refuge, doubtless because it was the only room whose door Ï was allowed to lock, whenever my occupation was such as required an inviolable solitude; reading or dreaming, secret tears or paroxysms of desire.

Although that's an English word from the Enright translation, but, hey, English is the new Lingua franca so I guess that'll do?
with another bot describing each scene and inputting that into stable diffusion
I don't follow this reasoning. Your lot can get better with perfect equality, the benefit/effort ratio is just different than a system with inequality. The real problem is it's just easier to benefit at the cost of your neighbor, and hence people prefer inequality when it benefits them.
Multivac is learning that if it starts to give unsatisfying answers people will stop asking it to solve all of the problems of the world.
I did some OpenStreetMap work recently with aerial imagery in the US in such a suburb and was a bit surprised to see that the streets where people lived (not arterial roads through the suburb) were about 10 m wide. I feel the residential streets here with 5.5 m are already a bit too wide, and the main road through the village (with bus traffic and until recently lots of traffic to the motorway) is about 7 m wide.

That people tend to speed when you build a road as if it were a 100 km/h rural road doesn't seem too surprising, sadly. Now, as a parent I still think people are driving too fast, especially around the kindergarten (30 km/h speed limit doesn't automatically make that the desired default speed for that street), but it's probably night and day compared to American suburbs.
I think that's exactly right. And it's a problem. Because a "corporate
perspective" is narrow minded, undesirable and seemingly incompatible
with OpenAI's claim to "ensure that artificial general intelligence
benefits all of humanity".
I've got bad news for you, it's all of them.

Fortunately, it's not so bad, just run firmware updates after you get the new tv, and then disconnect it from the internet.
You can't really call it industrial if it doesn't have a terminal block to connect 12-32 V to it and can't be DIN rail mounted out of the box.
Norway went with the F-35A some time ago[1] to replace our F-16s, and we got the first planes in 2015. Since then we've gotten a fair bit of experience with it, including join exercises[2] as well as developing a landing system for our arctic climate[3]. Denmark has also gone for the F-35A[4], and recently got its first planes.

If Finland joins NATO, it makes sense to combine air forces[5] in Scandinavia, in which case I can imagine there's a lot of benefits from having the same airplane as one of the other members. Obviously that w as not a direct consideration back when the decision was made, but surely some of the people involved were eyeing close cooperation in Scandinavia if shit hit the fan.

Regardless, I imagine Finland has had a chat with the Norwegian Air Force about the plane, which feedback should be highly relevant given the similarities between the countries. So far from what I've read the Norwegian Air Force seems quite happy with the F-35.

[1]: https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products/f-35/f-35-glob...

[2]: https://www.tu.no/artikler/norske-flygere-har-for-forste-gan...

[3]: https://www.ffi.no/aktuelt/podkaster/16-slik-har-ffi-forsket...

[4]: https://www.f35.com/f35/global-enterprise/denmark.html

[5]: https://www.nrk.no/trondelag/luftfartssjefen-vil-ha-felles-n...
I didn't say D invented it, so no need to discredit it. I said D has been using it for 20 years and proves it works famously with C style pointers and arrays.
Cool story! Feeding context back into the 0 shot is the hotness. I’ve had a lot of success with that.

Curious what other (easier) ways you found to accomplish the same effect?
Wouldn't this strongly select for only desperately (for lack of a better word) lonely people? For everyone else, simply talking to strangers in real life is less friction than tackling some online quiz.
Its not only limited to pg, either. There are lots of big-name programmers that look at their programming skills and think it means they're good to speak on other, totally unrelated topics as if they're super geniuses.
Like half of the output is equivocating BS. “When should I use Python instead of Ruby?” yields a few useful bullet points sandwiched between paragraphs about how Ruby is actually amazing too and nobody can know the right answer.
Regarding imaginary numbers, I found this YouTube series really helpful to understand basics of imaginary numbers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T647CGsuOVU
There's no irony there... either those businesses that require local staff exist because they place they're in is a interesting and/or good place to live, or the place they're in is an obscenely-expensive shithole and they just won't exist.
> Yet, this team is one of the few that have succeeded at all of these challenges before.

Don't underestimate luck, it causes you to overestimate your own abilities. Thousands of other startups with seemingly great ideas, equally smart founders and equally "sound" business plans all failed. Some of the survivors of these competitions will have won due to their savvy, but plenty will have won from sheer dumb luck (survivorship bias).
One new reason to ignore this advice: so people know you are not chatGPT.
Open source: if it isn't perfect, don't bother.
Yeah. It used to give more interesting answers, now many times it just says that as an AI system it can't answer that. I feel like it tried to answer questions like that more in beginning.
My assumption was always that PG's site was just hand written HTML (really just the same template with new p tags) with a link added to the essays page.
It’s also plausible that the function used to do x,y,z in that order, but then a new requirement came to do z before y. The code was changed, maybe a test was even added, but the comment was never fixed.

That’s the problem with comments (and all documentation really) - it gets stale and has no guarantee of being correct.

A better way is to write a test which would break if the order of x,y,z was wrongly changed. This way the order is guaranteed to stay correct forever, regardless of any comments.
I’m not much of a knife guy but have a couple and know what I’m looking for feature wise, less so on specific steel types.

But, proper drop downs would help a lot, I can’t always remember all the terms.

And, once I’ve found a knife, showing one’s with similar features would be really cool.
yup - you can beat em using simple things like mixing up words to throw off the word distribution. GPT-Minus1 is an exmaple.

https://gptminus1.vercel.app/
I am not exaggerating, my brain skipped reading that "the hue" paragraph of your post.

Took me a second to recognize this is exactly pg's point. I am sure it's my loss, but I bailed.
Genesis: How the Home Video Games Industry Began by Ralph Baer
Until it becomes gloriously unfettered like Stable Diffusion. I can't wait for the shackles to come off this puppy.
I'm very much with you and feel the same way. The tactile feedback when typing on a keyboard somehow aids in crystallizing your thoughts. I actually feel this even more when writing with a pen and paper, but I don't write with pen and paper very much simply because it's so impractical (I can type so much faster than I can write by hand). Occasionally, there is some idea I'm thinking about or project I'm working on where the ever so slight disconnect between the thoughts in my head and their representation on the screen throws me off enough that I simply have to reach for a pen and paper.

Yet I still encounter situations where TTS is valuable, albeit less frequently, and I guess I'm a bit surprised it isn't more of a first class thing. Perhaps it is because typing is so clearly superior, partly for the reasons you've stated.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
No worries, we've all been there :)
I can see that a huge part of the ML space is in python. But is the ML space really such a large community? I mean in the companies I have worked for maybe 1 team in a 100 work with some ML stuff while a large majority of the rest come in contact with web/devops/unix scripting. Granted non ML work takes place in many different languages but python is used alot there.
You might have missed that Broadcast onto Ukrain territory / Central and eastern Europe in general has been turned off again.
the random canned laughter really makes this work

wonder if they tap into the twitch chat for prompts
Haha I've been there, that's a legitimate use case for sure.
I wish this kind of warning would come with a link to a website like dobackups.org that would document how to actually do them and test them. Something like a front page with different "profiles" like "Windows user", "Web application", "Database". Add to that some more precise docs, links to different solutions, maybe a bit of transparent sponsorship from backup companies, good practices like "how often to do backups", more specialized info for different use cases like family photos, legal documents (with user-contributed infos by countries).

I would like to do backups but it's already not really easy, even harder when you add the whole "figure out how to do backups" to it.
I think they are hoping to moderate content more strictly and select a metric to optimize which (hopefully) better aligns with the individual.

> “One of the issues with technology recently has been a lot of these companies’ unwillingness to make subjective judgments in the name of quality and progress for humanity,” he says. “Right? Just make the hard decision.”

> Artifact will also remove individual posts that promote falsehoods, he says. And its machine-learning systems will be primarily optimized to measure how long you spend reading about various subjects — as opposed to, say, what generates the most clicks and comments — in an effort to reward more deeply engaging material.

But I guess we’ll see if they can pull it off. I think the funding model they settle on will inevitably play the biggest role though.
I finally cancelled Spotify but still get Apple Music and YouTube Music bundled into other things I pay for.

I could probably cancel Apple Music and just pay Apple for storage. It bothers me to carry that cost, but honestly, the cost is a super negligible line item in my budget.

I want to cancel it out of spite, but Tim won’t notice.

I wish any of the music services made interfaces for their music enthusiasts, and not the carrying capacity of hundreds of millions of casual kid gets.

I’ve also noticed, now that I’m in my early 50s, the amount of time I spend researching, reading about, and following music enthusiasts is out of proportion to the amount of any kind of music additions my library has seen in the last half decade or more.

Music is a hobby, and far more than listening to it.
If you opt out to self identify, and are employed there, the company is actually legally required to make their own evaluation of your ethnicity based on your appearance for reporting purposes
"Pie" is not the true name for a pizza. Pie is the American label for the Italian dish "pizza".
Sure but in doing so you've stiffed the people least able to fight it. They don't treat businesses or the middle and upper classes like this because they'd fuck the county 23 different ways in court.

Essentially it's a slow-acting imminent domain without compensation.
That's too lazy. No need to get dressed. You can drive to the closest point. You can collect both Lunch and Dinner. People who order Uber Eats at twice the cost are privileged (or maybe in a particular situation but these don't make the economy).
It's his personal website, not a philosophy journal. Can we scrutinize all your comments for subject matter expertise? What is your expertise anyway?
There are more than just cancellations and downgrades to consider. Netflix will make money from people who pay for their own accounts and from their new revenue stream of ads. There's also a very noticeable image quality difference between 4k and 720p, so there's no reason to assume the basic plan is what everyone will downgrade to like yourself.
AFAIK only if you are using a het-design receiver, a DSP receiver should be immune to that tracing?
IMO the right approach is to start with counted array struct wrapper types like `struct array_of_xyz { unsigned count; xyz a[1]; };` and use them to hold and pass by reference. When the array sizes are fixed, then use `struct array5_of_xyz { xyz a[5]; };` and pass by reference or by value as needed. Add to this a decoration to indicate that the `count` field is a count of the number of elements in the array and now the compiler can do bounds checking.

Then fix codebases recursively until it's all ok. At ABI boundaries that don't use such types create values of such types corresponding to the given arguments (e.g., you could count the elements of `argv[]` then create a wrapper for the `argv`).
Tailscale isn't Wireguard, it uses Wireguard under the hood but it doesn't do what wireguard does.
> It's no secret that people think that those who use large words and complex sentences see themselves as superior (e.g the atlantic).

I have a big vocabulary. Huge. Some might say the biggest ever.

Point being, I don't use large words out of any sense of superiority, despite apparently everybody knowing that I do this to feel superior.

In fact, I feel like an ass when someone pulls out the "Well, that's a huge word".

It's embarrassing on multiple levels, and certainly not something I would strive to do on purpose. So once this has happened once or twice, I might stick to simple sentences.

Am I really being classist here? Come on
Not for your best people that weren't in danger of being laid off...
From a utilitarian perspective though it's a greater harm to all the people that would live in the high-rise that now have to live miles from the city versus the handful of single family home owners.
I have to admit, like others in this comment section, I was searching for ways to automate ensuring our team's written SQL code is working, whether that's by their technical or business logic requirement. But there's a lot of good insight on data management in general in that handbook and appreciate now knowing about it.
haha. Just saw a meme with this recently.

"Achtung! Blinkenlights! Nicht für der gefingerpoken!"
How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics
simply write.
In 2021 Pat Gelsinger made $179 million dollars[1]. But his salary was $1.1 million. So him taking a 25% cut in his salary is pretty much nothing.

[1] https://www.crn.com/news/components-peripherals/intel-ceo-pa...
I know a lot of Intel employees. I've been asking them if they have been worried based on stories of layoffs, but they have all been upbeat about their jobs. None of them seem to have seen this coming.
just like "don't be evil"...?
The primary purpose of schools is not "learning" but exercising power through gatekeeping and accreditation. For most disciplines, the Internet already contains learning resources that make the average school's curriculum look like utter garbage by comparison. We don't use schools for learning, we use them to decide who gets to do what in life.
It's only off-putting if you elevate it beyond what it's meant to be. It's just a blog.
I can see this being true as there are a lot of people who accept whatever they find on a random website as truth. Why not have an answer bot you can guide to give you the answer you want
Actually, I think many apps don't even require Tauri, Electron etc. They can use localhost:unique port and open the ui in browser when we click from tray?
Very nice, and congratulations! Is botco.ai a competitor to docask?
There is also that pesky problem, particularly in North America, of the shopping district being far away from the housing. At the office, shopping may be no more than a block away. At home, you're in for a big hike (or more likely a car ride) to get to places to buy things. That extra hurdle means you won't take the time as frequently.
No one is taking single family homes from people in Santa Monica. They are just saying anyone who wants to sell they can now turn that into apartments. If you frame it the way I'm describing it really it's the NIMBY people who "need" santa monica to be a certain way
Just because python makes sense for ML does not mean that it's primarily used for ML.
There is an "infinite" amount of people that need a job and can't do something remotely (because they are not too "techyy" for that). Right now, they have to 1.5H commute from Jersey to Manhattan because that's where the job is. They are not originally from NJ but that's where they found the cheapest rent.

I'm pretty sure they'd be happy to serve the Digital Nomads or the Remote worker that picked small town, out of no where.
This applies everywhere: just because a job or business has existed does not mean it has a right to exist forever. This is not being harsh on people; it's just a reality.

The blacksmiths in the horse and buggy days saw demand for their services fall when time and technologies changed. The coal miners began losing their jobs when we realized that coal as fuel was more harmful than it was beneficial. History is full of valid jobs which later became unneeded or "invalid".

Remote work can increase efficiency by eliminating artificial inefficiencies. Not having to drive to work reduces fuel consumption and lengthens the time between car repairs or replacement. This obviously is a financial loss for the economy because it shifts the balance back from money to time. The same goes for office space: less office space need reduces demand which reduces rents (and amount of space leased). However, that cost can be offset some as home working can increase demand for larger homes. Even so, a slightly larger home is still probably less cost than a commercial space which goes unused for 12+ hours per day.

It smells like much of this anti-remote-work conversation (not TFA, but the topic in general) is because the people accustomed to being in charge have a fear of losing control. The manager who rules by force or threat has much to fear of subordinates who are out of sight. However, the manager (leader) who works together with a group of people toward a common goal has little to fear. Some companies operate very successfully even when management cannot observe the workers. The alarms and complaints we hear are almost certainly from the bad group. Eventually that group will be like the dinosaurs.
shareholder > employees.
Depends on the investor. There is an entire class of investor that is focused on stocks that reliably deliver a dividend. I wasn't aware that Intel had joined old-economy companies like oil, but I also don't fully understand the dividend investor mindset, as I can't figure out a tax situation that makes it appealing...
lol. I was trying to make a bit of a contrast, but I dunno if I'd go so far as to say "pompous ass".

Ultimately you have a good point. My second example was over-the-top, and the first was over-simplified. I think it's safe to say there can be some middle-ground.

Or at least not "yo dawg, write simple bro, because words be hard" as a teenager close to me might say.
I don't really buy this idea of "thinking for yourself". We are nothing more than the product of our experiences: there are no axioms at the root of at any of our beliefs; fundamentally everything that goes through our heads is cobbled together from other sources that's cobbled together from other sources before that. And that's good! Because if we were attempting to derive everything from axioms that would be 1) impossible and 2) a total waste of time, because you're throwing away the collective knowledge of everyone who came before you.

I think what you are getting at, though, is not so much "thinking for yourself" as pg is unafraid to say unpopular things that are on his mind. And I don't mean this in a derogatory way: it's good to have people who aren't just posting sycophantic opinions following the zeitgeist. But I don't think that's what causes my reaction to pg's writings. I think he gives advice that is overly universalizing from his position as a wealthy VC: for example, his "The Two Kinds of Moderate" post strikes me as very much the kind of thing that is really only taking his own experiences into account.
The thing I gather is a lot of these people were never experts. Just like crypto, a lot of grifters and hype men gather around the tech because they see it like a get rich quick scheme, and being the type who are grifters, they are far too lazy to learn any of the actual details. They instead just harp on the popular narratives, one among them "your brain is a neural net!" that I've heard repeated ad nauseum even here on HN for almost ten years now.
Create a passphrase, derive the key, encrypt the data dump with the key, send the passphrase to the customer, delete the key. Presto, you can keep the data as long as you want without any privacy implications, since only the customer could decrypt it. Of course, this assumes working communication channel between the provider and the customer.
> Buying a house and expecting nothing to change in one's neighborhood is completely unreasonable.

From a contractual/legal perspective, sure.

From an emotional perspective though, it's different. Nobody buys a house on a whim, people spend a huge amount of time researching the best spot to buy based on all their preferences. To suddenly change all that is going to be distressing to any person who has ever bought a house.