skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main effect of that button is blocking the measurement of whether your ad click turned into a purchase, which is important because pricing ads based on conversions is more efficient than charging for impressions or clicks.

“Relevant” ads are sort of a red herring. Ad personalization matters, but commercially it’s less important than conversion measurement. Notably, Apple asks for permission before showing personalized ads, but never asks for permission to track conversions (while blocking competitors from tracking conversions by default).
Facebook is an app too
Bigger chickens would mean nothing to the food supply. We have lots of birds that are (1) commonly eaten and (2) much bigger than chickens. Chickens are very small.
Programming a Computer for Playing Chess (1949) [pdf]
Does the questioner have a reductive view of the HN commentariat?
Most programmers aren't metaprogramming, to them expressiveness isn't a big issue like it is for programmers making frameworks or languages. Making languages less expressive to make the life of framework programmers easier but at the cost of all the other programmers isn't a good trade-off most of the time.
Check out SSCD from Meta https://github.com/facebookresearch/sscd-copy-detection

(full disclosure: I am an employee who has worked with this team before internally, but I was not associated with this paper)
But do I get a blue check mark?
Even Paul Graham tweeted that crypto had a systemic risk. Bitcoin is up like 30% since that tweet.

HN != Financial advice
that's the point, none of these examples are intrinsically linked to dynamic typing.
After hours. Wall street is closed basically.
Discord.sh – Write-only command-line Discord webhook integration written in Bash
Look, I am a rank asshole if I try to deny your lived experience. So rather than that, we discuss the conclusions we each may have gotten from those experience. You felt dismissed and belittled even though I was doing my best to share my own experiences to support my conclusions, and it's hard for me to feel responsible for that.

Any discussion, particularly online, is going to involve misinterpretation. You're not in front of me, I can't use my usual tools of mirroring, tone, emoting somatically, observing your reaction to each statement, etc etc etc. This is online. It only works if you assume good intent.

Now that you've explained your position adequately, I can see where you're coming from. I merely wish that you could have simply, in the very first reply where you were articulating your position, given examples of skill approaches that have helped you personally. This means I have to consider it carefully because, again, your lived experience is to be validated and believed. And maybe taken my own personal sharing as in the same vein of trying to articulate towards why I feel the way I do.

Now I'll say that I've learned a great deal from this discussion, and thank you for participating in it with me. I can certainly see now that there are resources that can bring people from a very negative place to a reasonable one quickly. I'm glad you were able to share enough personal experience to help me to see your point of view.
If it can generate working code, does that mean that asking students to produce working code was bullshit? Or does it just mean that AI can now do a lot of things we used to asked students to do (for probably solid educational reasons) at an above average level?
That’s understandable. Me too. But it’s totally open to everyone. It’s not a private beta for researchers to understand AI better. Frankly I see the APIs for that, and I am also happy to read about it. I’d love to experiment with plutonium but I don’t expect them to distribute a free sample to everyone.

It’s not akin at all to that. You are still free to express yourself. But it’s not a given that because you have heard things you’ll express them. I’m sure you’ve heard racist stuff. If I give you prompts can I get you to rant about killing all black and brown people? You have guardrails too. Why would you expect a synthetic mind (which I realize isn’t exactly what we have here - but perhaps is a step there) to be built with none when opened to the public? That’s how terminator movies start man.
Careful. There is no "view of the HN commentariat". Many thousands of different people write on HN, and they have differing views. There isn't even usually a meaningful prevailing view: cognitive biases will make unusual or conflicting views stand out more to you, and there's an intrinsic (and topic-specific) bias on what controversies people will wade into and when. Even the initial conditions on threads can radically alter what the "commentariat" will appear to be saying.
Thank you for adding that perspective. If only we could hope that people will listen to others with actual experience of the solutions they so blithely propose.
Certainly makes their recent layoffs of 11,000 staff seem a lot more sinister all of a sudden.
StabilityAI's solution to provide base models everyone can fine-tune seems more useful. APIs are too restrictive and expensive.
First, I'd buy a nice half-gallon of Maker's Mark.
Now that you know, see if you can find an airport with bad weather and check out the holding patterns they do. You'll se a half dozen planes in the same circle separated by 1,000ft vertically.
yep I was wrong about that point. generally my point still stands; if you want total control over your repo, don't use the GitHub "Fork" button to create your repo for that code.

I linked directly to the documentation about "Fork" in another comment.
The story is in the literature plain as day

https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-3...

It's been known for a long time that serotonin is associated with social dominance and that drugs like the SSRI prevent and somewhat heal the brain damage that comes from being "an underdog". There is a long running question about "Why are poor people so fucked up?" that mainly answered by "being poor damages your brain".

It's an inconvenient truth because the Rx is revolution. Although justifies the use of SSRIs just well it is not a message pharma or your doc want to promote because why should we poisoning the fish in our waterways with our SSRI-contaminated urine when the problem could be dealt with more directly.
The OP said that was at a minimum:

> ...or I give up some of my valuable time to call them and go through the hell of phone customer service, a 10-15 minute commitment minimum.

Anecdotally, I find the 15 minute time frame to be the minority of the calls. But, 15 minutes is not a trivial amount of time, especially if that need comes in the middle of doing something else important.

Edit: I see you're other comment where you were referring to their one particular instance but everyone else is talking about the general problem.
“ There are only two platforms where AI/ML will be delivered”

Why would you believe these are the only platforms?
Maybe he passed away?
"Why do you feel everything needs to be monetized?"

You should ask Google that. Because they're the one actually monetizing. It's like a money printer with everybody's content as free fuel.

I didn't say everything needs to be monetized. I'm saying that there's content that requires to be monetized (otherwise the content will simply not be produced) and content where the producer will attempt to monetize it because they believe it has monetary value.

Surely it's up to the content producer to decide on monetization and not you. If you believe a recipe is worthless and not worthy of payment, yet then still continue to consume it regardless by bypassing any attempt at monetization, you're a hypocrite.

Either it is worthless or it isn't. You can't have it both ways. Or well, on the internet you can, and that is exactly the problem.

Don't take it as a personal attack. Our internet culture is hypocritical. It's a WE thing and I include myself in it. The internet we have is of our own making and our own behavior.
Law firms still have secretaries because the lawyers have to bill for their time, and they have to itemize their bills, and the clients read them.

It turns out that if you actually keep track of both time and its value, secretarial jobs are a good bargain.
unless you timed it perfectly (tl;dr you didn't) Meta was off by way more than the core stocks in the S&P 500 too
I did have pleasure of working on a system where we had 60k concurrent writes (cloud storage, bulky writes, a lot of data) - it's really not a rocket science if it's not complicated and short messages + views on them is not that complicated. Computers are really fast today, you just don't do stupid things. Scalability problem has been already solved at twitter and there is nothing inherently complex with serving short public messages. Most things don't need to have short latency and they don't need to be 100% precise.

As an example currently whole stack overflow runs on 9 on-premise servers.
There is nothing misleading about it - this is how I’ve always ran my neovim configs and it did the job - without project management and hundreds of packages. Don’t trick future readers into thinking this kind of yak shaving is necessary and not a personal obsession.
I think you've missed the flurry of political opinions he's been giving in the past few months?

I think it's really these that have made him unpopular, he stopped just being a tech guy that's a little funny and so on and went "mask off". People did not like what he had to say, now, you might agree with most of his opinions or you might not be aware of them. But I would say largely the reason he's put a target on his back is not just because he bought twitter but why he bought twitter.

People weren't really predisposed to hate rich people, Elon Musk has been rich for decades. But the public opinion towards wealth concentration is changing, you're right in that. Is that a bad thing? I think what people saw is Elon Musk buying one of the largest public social media companies for vanity to the tune of a very, very, public trial. I mean he was forced to do it, he joked about it and then he had to pay; it was ridiculous! Right in the middle of an economic crisis as well.

I don't know, I am not surprised at all opinion on Musk has shifted. I don't think it has much to do with people "hating on rich people" as much as people just hating on Musk specifically because he's the naked king and everyone can see it.
https://www.tado.com/ (at least was in the past)
How would you view python if any time you used it for anything which could mistakenly or otherwise be interpreted as a breach of woke orthodoxy, the interpreter lectured you?

A list called whitelist or blacklist? How dare you.

Numpy or pandas to analyse covid jab datasets, peculiar election result data not from sub-Saharan Africa, climate models? You already know the result, i can't let you do that Dave.

String matching and analysis of the text of Orwell's 1984? We can't have you engaging with conspiracy theories.

Master slave replication? Call the authorities immediately!

As much as i like some of the results that come out of chatgpt and as little interest as i have in actually undertaking in anger any of the missions that the above contravening examples have their genesis in, i have zero interest in, and simply refuse to on principle, paying to execute anything which demands the prerogative of preserving and promoting the prevailing political orthodoxy over the task i am interested in accomplishing. I'd rather just pool the money i would have spent with other like minded free thinkers and train our own LLM absent the intolerable nonsense. If I wanted to pay for such lectures I'd just go to a modern US college
GP did not mention disciplines, and I don't think individual disciplines are to blame.

The approach of evaluating students based on "text generation" is very boring to study for, easy to fool (a parent/guardian can do it, last year's students can pass you an A grade answer, ChatGPT can generate it) and doesn't prepare students for reality (making new things, solving new problems).
> Aside from monogamous gay people

Where are all these ads, movies, and TV shows depicting non-monogamous queer relationships? How is the government providing this "top-down" support? Are there now tax breaks for people in poly relationships?
The defect was a huge deal for a long range telescope because the distortion makes up a larger part of the image the further out you go.

At Earth to spy satellite distances, it's like 1/4" and probably below the resolution of the camera used at the time.
Well, he could be 10x smarter /once/, and very wrong the rest of the time. This is a flaw in financial and business reporting: we tend to ascribe oracular powers to people who have been right once before which can blind us to analyzing their newer claims fairly.
I'm not sure we can quibble over the definition of a vDOM. There is the DOM as found in browsers and then there's a layer on top of that, proxying access to the DOM, which we call a vDOM.

Svelte does not have this construct. All actions are performed on the DOM without an intermediary proxy object.

Tracking 100% matters, because you must iterate through the vDOM to determine the diffs that must be applied to the underlying DOM. On every change to the vDOM. This is not free. It is why the following abstraction leaks exist in React:

• shouldComponentUpdate
• React.PureComponent
• useMemo
• useCallback

This is making the developer worry about things the computer should've be able to suss out for itself. You expressed concern that Svelte's compiler approach is new and therefore subject to bugs. Aside from Svelte being over 6 years old now and having gone through 3 major versions already, my assertion is that any potential bugs present in Svelte's compiler at this point pale in comparison to the number of potential (and actual) bugs or performance gaffes present in the equivalent React app due to excess lines of code, complexity, and abstraction leaks such as those listed above. The cognitive overhead is real and has a measurable effect on developer output. Bugs are proportional to number of lines of code regardless of the language being used.

I assert that we developers, people, human beings, are far more fallible in this regard as to render concerns about the Svelte compiler's accuracy relatively moot. This is analogous to the switchover from Assembly to C. Early C compilers certainly had their issues, but even in the earliest days, the increase in productivity and reliability as a whole far outweighed the benefit of manually generating all instructions at that lower level. Even though today there are still optimizations to be made from analyzing hotspots and replacing generated code with assembly in those few spots, the compiler-first approach stills wins out because 90%+ of the time, it does as well or better than the hand-crafted Assembly... err... React code can in a tenth the developer time simply because compilers are now and have always been better than human beings at managing rote development tasks. Rote as in flagging variables for reactivity, (un)subscription to stores, accessing data properties, handling data binding, marking sections as immutable, etc.
Agree. I've said for ~10 years now, that it seems the American Dream has transitioned from "Anything is possible as long as you work hard enough." to "Do as little as work possible to get the same paycheck." Something has definitely changed in the culture.
As a teenager, I always put the Windows task bar on the left, under the logic that vertical space was more important than horizontal space for reading text. (Yes, this is the sort of thing I thought about as a teenager.)

As an adult, I've switched back to the bottom. Teenage-me's reasoning wasn't wrong per se, but in practice I feel 16:9 screens already provide sufficient vertical space, whereas I like having more horizontal space to keep multiple windows open at a time. When I was a teenager, I usually just kept everything in full screen anyway.
Personally, I find rapid prototyping much faster in Rust than Python, and I don't think I'm a "top expert".
cough Reflection. This also includes Annotations which can give clear semantics to code generation.
definitely inspired by goreleaser! it's a great project
What we're actually doing is making the environment less suitable for us and most of the other currently existing species. Long term, that's not a problem. Once we're done trashing the place, life, biodiversity, and working ecosystems will still be here. They will just be very different from what they are now.
Unless you quantify how many agricultural stocks are on the S&P, you're not addressing his point.
There's definitely some AI hype going around right now, so it's important to filter that from these conversations. We aren't as advanced as people say, and we aren't advancing as fast as people say either. We are advancing.

Most HN readers will be receptive and maybe even in agreement about statements concerning the hardness of these problems, but not the magicalness of these problems. In your post, you used a lot of magical words, which the commentariat is correct to identify as non-constructive. Phrases like "human connected to other humans", "human judgement", "moral aspect".

There is nothing about humanness that makes these problems any less tractable. If they are hard and we don't know how to build machines that solve them as well as humans do, so be it. But they aren't hard for magical reasons relating to poorly defined terms like "morality" or "connectedness". At least that is the opinion of most scientifically minded people, and probably the commentariat.
I have a third person intro at the top of my resume. I feel it helps alot, and makes me stand out. It's only a ~4 sentences, but it says what I like to work on, how I'm passionate about it, and what unique things I can bring.

Think of it like a resume pitch on a resume.
Google lists the following meanings for the verb “to engineer” (based on Oxford data):

1. design and build (a machine or structure).
"the men who engineered the tunnel"

2. skilfully arrange for (something) to occur.
"she engineered another meeting with him"

“Prompt engineering” is from meaning 2, not 1.
> As an academic exercise I guess it's interesting, but living this way must be truly exhausting. Me?

I agree with the gist what what you're saying. My concern involves the invasive data collection of biometrics [face data] and IDs. It's a concern over why is it needed, and why are they so forceful in collecting it.

Face rec- The TSA and the airlines are trying to push this as if it's required. (There a lot of documents and internal communication showing it's not). Why do they need this, or are our IDs not secure enough? Was their existing process not enough?

Porn- Lousiana is trying to push for auths via your id online.

Other orgs are trying to get copies of your license. Is this important for their operation? Is it important for them to keep access to this info just for the "societal harm" that is claimed over content that is age restricted?

Another piece why is my data being non-consentually gobbled up by the creeps over at Clearview AI? Why is the MSG entertainment group trying to look for a reason to ban me before I enter?

All of this demonstrates a one sided demand for this data without having any usable benefit for the people that the consent is being taken from.
If this is happening to you in California - look into California’s Amended Automatic Renewal Law that took effect on July 1, 2022.
> Do you think people should be allowed to be billionaires?

I have no issue with Bill Gates, or Warren Buffett.

> Did you know that many of the haters don't think they should?

I'd say "oh yeah, how do you know that, got citations?", but I don't really care...
If it's reliably generating working code then that isn't bullshit! (Ignoring, of course, other things about the code that might be relevant to the assignment, like coding style or efficiency.) What I'm saying is that if you are looking at the AI's output and judging that it's bullshit, and if you can't distinguish that output from your students' satisfactory essays, then that by definition means that the assignment was to produce bullshit.
Yes! Sorry didn't mean to sound like I was disagreeing, I was more just riffing on what you said. More riffing below :)

I think $META will continue to win the "social network" game on any computing platform into the foreseeable future, as that's their "unreasonable" competency. i.e. Even if Apple wins the VR hardware game, Meta has an unfair advantage at developing the most popular social media app on that platform.

However, I struggle to see a narrative where the capturable value of that social media landscape increases at growth stock rates into the distant future, given the fact that any VR winner other than Meta is liable to create a more-private-by-default computing platform than previous platforms of computing (this seems to be a secular trend).

So, even if Meta controls the same percentage of the "social media advertising" market into the transition to VR, I could see this being a smaller TAM than "social media advertising" is at (now-peak) web 2.0.

That is, it seems like their only hope to remain a growth stock to become the "Apple of VR", which seems to be squarely outside their circle of competency.

All in all, I'd agree with you and put META in the "too hard" / "probably not" category at current price. Although, even with these uncertainties, $90 was a no-brainer in retrospect (even assuming permanently-flat revenue). With perfect hindsight, I would have bought then and probably sold at $120, although that's all hot air (X
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I dunno. Sometimes it’s just Hanlon’s Razor.

In some industries (e.g. defense contracting), getting a concrete answer for where you can and can’t store certain information can be a nightmare. And often times there isn’t even a definitive answer.

So from a risk perspective, it’s easier to have a policy of minimizing the things you write down in emails and documents. You obviously need to write some things down and need a policy for those things, but if you’re just conveying a few paragraphs of information, a brief face-to-face conversation is much lower risk than writing the same notes down in SharePoint somewhere and hoping that you don’t screw up the security markings.

I guess I’ve never seen this as an official directive from management, but it’s been the reality at a few places where I’ve worked and it was never because anything shady was going on.
That's just how it is around here. To (some?) SV types friends are edges in a social graph, preferences are like/dislike counters, and humans are language models. Welcome to the shallows.

That said, life's fast, especially on news-keyed discussion forums and thoughtful, balanced comments on complex issues can take a really long time to compose as well as become very long and I think most do not bother with that (including myself; I view it as an unfortunate pathology of this site's general set-up as well as modern online life).

It can be tough at times, but it helps to remember that these voices are far from everyone's. In certain threads they suspiciously congregate though.