skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, same, except on my home file server (unraid) rather than my desktop.

I use https://hub.docker.com/r/ich777/thunderbird, which exposes the UI as a website with a javascript version of vnc. I log into it every once in a while to verify that it's still fetching updates.
That sounds like an absolutely awful way to go, and only seems to be that way because we don't allow voluntary euthanasia.

Just give them enough fentanyl to go out happy and let them be. Starving yourself to death or dying of thirst seems extremely cruel.
It would have been another hegemony. Yahoo was google then. AskJeeves, AltaVista and many others were not ever going to be competition. Yahoo was the stronger one then and it failed.

Who do you think it would have been competitive for?
Right there with you. I mean if we're ok with doing stuff to make the suicide easier on them, why not like allow them some inert gas, drugs, or a firearm, or to be wheeled out to "see the sights from the top of a bridge." I really would not want to go out by starvation/dehydration.
I don't see what is false about what I said, the conversation has played out literally over and over. One call fails and Musk is an ego-maniac that ruined Twitter, nothing happens for a week and it is "all praise the great engineers he fired". There is such intellectual dishonesty. I have zero loyalty to Musk, I will criticize his mistakes and laud his successes, can you say the same? Calling any pro-Musk sentiment a cult of personality is just another trick to stick to your dogma.
This is awesome. There have been so many times when I needed something like this, as I'm sure there will be again in the future. Welcome to ... my bookmarks.
Looking at the DBT semantic layer documentation I think I get it. The goal seems to be describing a metric that could be aggregated at multiple levels once instead of defining all of the aggregations separately.

For example, if you want to be able to aggregate revenue by subscription plan and by country over year, month or day, then you would have 6+ different aggregations. The more dimensions and time periods you add, the more the various combinations blow out. (I think the formula is dimension permutations multiplied by the number of time periods.) Having a single definition of the metrics prevents errors from occurring in rote implementations of the metrics. A bit like generics, but for queries.

At this point, I'm curious how they manage to make the integrations with different platforms work. (Ultimately, I think that's why they acquired Transform.)
I had thought this was also to do with gpu physics at some level of precision in the float it matters so one machine configuration will not precisely match another machine doing the same calculation. Or something like that.
It would be better than nothing, but not really adequate. There are numerous circumstances where such a screen is impossible or impractical, and if every program did this, it would be as good as not doing it because people will react to it like they react to other common warning dialogs -- not really seeing it at all.
The wealthy are simply more meritorious by virtue of being born into wealth.
They're already rewriting Stonewall.
Why Structured Concurrency Matters
The only people mindlessly, and without evidence, calling others racists for the past 30 years are Democrats in reference to Republicans. My inference is not even remotely a stretch or controversial and is likely 100% correct.

Furthermore, did you look at any of my links or read any of what I said? Twitter was extremely left-biased and the internal docs prove it.
It seems to be getting a lot of hate here (where I found it) but I've been using it for over a year now. One of my developers used to drop into my mac from windows to do builds and diagnose ios issues plus spend non trivial time setting up other things, it was basically on for hours. Latency was good, no issues whatsoever in our time using it.
Anyone have a MOOC or other course on this topic they've taken and would reccomend?
A bad one. What's the insight here? If a body were a nation-state, it'd be a totalitarian hellscape where life is cheap, individuals exist only to support the collective and some populations are invaders to be exterminated.
> There's also the generational use cases - "write me a program that does X". Is this something people would use a search bar for? We don't know, and wouldn't know, until its out there for a while.

Oh God. I seriously, seriously hope not. I can imagine some coasters I work with shitting out source code doing this

Anyone who trusts an LLM and is committing to a code base that other people work on - I would never want to work with someone with this attitude. Physically writing code takes far less time than understanding code
This sounds like a really horrifying way to die. To willingly choose this shows the pain that some people must be dealing with.
It's a coordinated attack on the companies, and anybody that is going to hold shares long term. Focused specifically on the ones that will buy shares after one or two announcements of larger than usual profits but will hold for more than a couple of months.

The people doing this do not lose time thinking about workers.

(About Gitlab specifically, they are not profitable, so a layoff is a normal survival strategy if their cash is running low.)
I care! I look at the dates on the bags and try buy the most recent stuff. Most roasters don't bother to even put dates on their bags though.

Maybe we're minority but we exist. There are dozens of us!
I am taking the degree for the sake of it without a goal to aim for.

The goal is adding MS to your resume to get a higher-paying job. Secure
your finances, then think about helping other people.

Also, when you get to my age, 1.5 years is a blink of an eye.
Also for the users. For my part, I appreciate if stuff looks modern. I understand the whitespace madness complaints, but a software which looks like 1999 is not something I want to work with.

There is a degree of modern style needed because Thunderbird does not exist in a vacuum. Windows evolved, macOS evolved, iPhone/Android look different than 1997 Windows .. which Thunderbird looked like the last years.
The sculptor Stanisław Szukalski chose to die this way.

He had had a stroke and was stuck in the hospital knowing that he would never sculpt again due to partial paralysis. He just refused all food and water, and that was it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Szukalski
I'm with you on this. I tried Thunderbird again just a few weeks back, to see if it could replace Outlook for me. Nope, but it's nothing to do with the UI, which seems... fine?

My issues were:

- no support for O365, unless you pay for a 3rd party plugin
- bizarrely high CPU usage, even when seemingly not doing anything
- *sometimes* memory usage grows really high
- a bunch of small niggling issues over missing features - for example, I can't paste in a formatted signature from Outlook

I'd much rather they focused on the above - the UI is just fine!
Very true, but it is hard not be frustrated reading the constant stream of confidently incorrect information about this topic. I left /r/programming similar reasons and it is sad to experience the same on HN.
I remember reading the Starbucks book by Howard Shultz many years ago. In it, he talks about how Starbucks grew by offering a "superior experience". That is pretty instructive here. Coffee is, by itself, not a luxury item. Not even the best coffee in the world. It's just liquid in a cup.

If you want to sell premium coffee, you have to create a premium experience. If you're doing it online, you need a website/app that feels premium - whatever that means!
One entity (person/group) with a strong product vision + a giant decentralized workforce is pretty much how everything gets built. The actual people putting hands to keyboard have the mythical man month thing going for them.
If you're using Gmail, I can recommend Mimestream [1].

It's still in beta, but I've been using it for the better part of a year without issue. Fast, simple, clean.

[1] https://mimestream.com/
Is there a way to reduce the divides? If DEI increases them and the status quo sustains them, how do we make things better? Or are things fine as they are?
Well, it seems you nerd-sniped me a bit, so here's a new version which deals well with scientific notation (negatives were already supported) and is actually simpler, using a split and "it's better to ask for forgiveness..." instead of the regex:

def numeric_descending(line):
possible_number = line.split()[0]
try:
return (-float(possible_number), line)
except ValueError:
return (float("inf"), line)

matches = {l for l in open("beef.txt") if "lasagna" in l}
print(*sorted(matches, key=numeric_descending), sep="")
Dev LLM stack, production LLM stack, example projects, & things you'll discover
The dev LLM stack

- OpenAI + Pinecone + GPT-Index or Langchain

- Perhaps also dust.tt for playing around with prompts, kinda like a more advanced gpt playground -- <https://docs.dust.tt/quickstart>

The production LLM stack

- The dev stack

- OpenAI + Pinecone + GPT-Index or Langchain

- arXiv for finding new research to build on

- Prompt platforms such as Humanloop

- ML frameworks such as PyTorch, Keras, Tensorflow

- MLOps tools such as MLflow, Kubeflow, Metaflow, Airflow, Seldon Core, TFServing

Example OpenAI Projects

- <https://github.com/openai/openai-cookbook>

- <https://gpt-index.readthedocs.io/en/latest/gallery/app_showcase.html>

- <https://langchain.readthedocs.io/en/latest/gallery.html>

- <https://gkogan.notion.site/gkogan/The-OP-Stack-aafcab0005e3445a8ad8491aac80446c>

- <https://github.com/transitive-bullshit/yt-semantic-search>

What OpenAI/MSFT should do

- Fund "AI white mirror" -- a tv show that has beautiful visions a future where intelligence costs ~0

Things you'll probably discover

- Embeddings work ok, but not great, from a user perspective. As a developer they're great to work with. As a user, the results aren't ranked quite right. Embeddings use cases will be better with GPT-4 or GPT-4.5.

- All of the obvious gpt apps will be built. We'll get hundreds of basic gpt wrapper apps (and some of them will be big businesses!), hundreds of basic embeddings search apps. If someone can think of the idea and make it without needing specific relationships, credibility, or experience, then it'll probably exist by Summer 2023.

- The developer energy in this space is intense. Adults are going to hackathons to build ai apps. This is awesome.

- Devs using gpt will soon be a large enough market that startups will exist and succeed just by selling to developers that are using gpt-3 in production. We already saw it a little bit, but we'll get many more startups here.

- How could AI not be better than me at all computer based things within 10 years?

- AI is kinda like a kid. When they're young, they're not that smart. Then all of a sudden, they've gotten enough training data, and their brain (compute!) has grown, and they're doing useful stuff. This is related to why people will say that building models can feel frustrating because it doesn't work well for ages and then all of a sudden it works (CEO of Oasis said this, CTO of OpenAI said this, and Instagram co-founder said this).

Would love input and feedback on this. I have similar things that I'm going to submit, covering what builders and engineers should do, what vector database to use, why no one else made ChatGPT before OpenAI, things holding ai powered apps back, and some other stuff like that. If you want a preview and are happy to give feedback, then email is in my profile.
In fairness, if you're as bad as I am at actually deleting email, you probably had something like 15 years less email accumulation.

I also ran it on a netbook (some variant of a 901?) for a couple years, and it was great. I'm also pretty sure it would be less great now, even if I were running the same version.
That was my thought. It’s not their family’s money. Assuming the grandmother even gave the money to her family in her will, it is hers to do with while she is alive. That includes using it to pay for her end of life care.
Is this the Blockchain moment for HN and LLMs? Or will the love affair continue?
How to create an NFT project on Canto blockchain
We still have a relatively small elite ruling over us, we just don't actually know who they are anymore. Whether or not that's progress is a matter of opinion I suppose.
Well said. Ted Chiang is remarkably smart and imaginative. I’m kind of wondering if the article is satire, or will be revealed to be written by an AI, or something. It’s definitely a forest/trees mistake.
What rhetoric? Asians are being discriminated against, see the entire Harvard scandal. As well as corporate hiring policies. At no point in time did I say it was just by African Americans. I did reference a national series of events that involved African Americans because it allowed me to describe an anecdotal experience involving a corporate DEI director.

As far as African Americans holding anti semitic views, nearly a quarter of African Americans hold antisemitic views as opposed to 14% of the general population.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...

What have I said that is not "rational, open, and unbiased"? I was very clear that the DEI director experience was something I saw and I provided the context of when it occurred. Take your accusations elsewhere.
No institutional power? No institutional power. They got their man into the White House. With dank memes.
We appreciate you sharing your thoughts and welcome them. We learn as we go and your comments are inspiring, thank you.
What is the relation between people's inability to notice having a brewing disease and business predicting turmoil in the future hence going for the diet?
Git-SIM – Use Git Fearlessly
Burt Bacharach has died
Not op, but:

We didn't try to take the debate, or even much acknowledge tradeofs. These were written of as "allow grandma to die", but if we accept that the period of 18-24 is crucial for adults to find themselves, then we essentially cut 1/3 of that time, which may have several decades of life impact, to add (maybe) a few more years to grandmas life.

I am not saying it wasn't the right choice. I am saying that anybody who disagreed were not offered a chair at the decision table (or zoom room), but were actively bullied and called science deniers. Needless to say that doesn't make them want to hear our arguments either.

Then there is the entire: no mask, masks maybe, masks are essential but you don't have to wear one that isn't made from simple cloth.

Finally it seemed to me that the WHO was more concerned with making sure China didn't get insulted than to deal with the dicease. Anywhere else it would have been called China flu, and there wouldn't have been a debate over it. Suddenly we had to talk about how this was not Chinas fault and we even had these stupid "hug a Chinese person" campaigns in the beginning.
> But there seems to be this returning perspective in the tech industry that remote work isn’t a fairly standard work practice, but is instead something that is a gift to employees. A privilege to be earned. A perk to bestow upon the most deserving.

Anecdotal but I've worked remote for over a decade. This we did pandemic remote and now we don't thing is just goofy. Don't worry about places that act like that. They are shitty places to work when you can find a job that's remote, with remote people, doing remote work. Might have to work at it a bit but it's out there.

Don't settle for less and laugh in the faces of folks that think they can get away with treating you like someone that needs to be told where you work best.
> This isn't and never will be nuclear power.

Looking forward to this aging like milk. Virtually everyone in the industry believes AGI will happen, and virtually everyone agrees that it is going to permanently change humanity like we've never seen before.
Salmon and cod are both delicious.
WHYNOT?! Protect the plants via automation
A new empirical observation has the potential to change the whole paradigm and unlock a new framework for understanding.

*P = 0.005
Have you known of any company of any size to go out of business because one person left?

I assure you that if any of us got hit by a bus tomorrow, the company would send our next of kin flowers along with “thoughts and prayers” and have an open req for our position before our body got cold.

Three months later, you would only see our name brought up in the occasional “git blame”
> Interest rates matter if a company financed expansion using debt.

I haven't personally seen companies taking out operating loans using adjustable rates. Have you? If rates are fixed, then a company's expansion plans may need to slow or stop, but that's not the same as the company contracting.

> Cost of capital matters if your plan is to grow through VC and you're not yet profitable.

Which does apply in Gitlab's case, I think, but does not apply in most of the cases we have been seeing of 6-8% layoffs made at profitable companies, many of which are concurrently doing expensive stock buybacks or issuing dividends.

If your business model depends entirely on 0% interest rates, then a 7% layoff is probably not enough, you have a dead company walking. But 6-8% is what's popular, so that's what we get.
Not your DNA, not your gun
You choose the one with 3.8GPA. We did this for years when Asians were in the latter group, and now that Asians are ahead, we’re acting like broad racial discrimination is justified because high GPA proves privilege not talent.

If however you want to make GPA weighted by household income instead of identity I say knock yourself out, because that would still greatly reduce discrimination compared to the status quo. It will never happen though because DEI is designed to fuck over the Asian working class while leaving the privileged classes alone. The whole point is to fuck over poor Asians , that’s the reality and truth of the system you apologize for.
There are some parallels between your critique of this startup and what educators critique about ed tech startups. Mainly that the tech comes first and the context that tech is supposed to be nested in is unacknowledged, leading to failure or other issues. I’ve been starting to wonder if incubators and CS programs need to teach units on founder humility, domain context, and social context so we stop wasting so much cash on reinventing wheels.
Sorry, It was not directed at you dude. I believe trusting the science in this case was "jumping the gun" and a little bit of "blind faith". Now that the dust has settled, hopefully trust can be rebuilt.
The proud ignorance risk I agree with, as those movements have prominent historical precedents, but they didn't form from mere ignorance. They were rejections and reactions, from the bolshevik condemnations of the imperial "Whites" in Russia to fascists attacking so-called decadence with slogans like "I don't care." I grew up in Toronto with a lot of immigrants whose families fled both fascist (italy, greece, portugal) and communist regimes (poland, former soviet states, vietnam and cambodia, etc.) and unless you were from New York, or maybe Chicago, these diaspora stories about movements like this probably weren't formative, and I would argue there is a naivety among the current generation of scientists and educated people in general about 20th century history.

My own naivety is that I believed an education obligates one to have intellectual courage. When actual scientists align with people whose best arguments are to chant slogans like "denialists!", "source!", "pandemic of the unvaccinated!", "misinformation!", "hateful!" they are complicit. The scientists who went along to get along did so at the cost of betraying their fellow citizens who lost their jobs and livelihoods over matters of principle, and indeed some of their lives to the consequences of pandemic policy.

It's quite serious. A scientist or doctor mouthing talking points for attention on twitter is an expression of that betrayal, and worse, a contempt that is difficult to reconcile. I hope people are unnerved enough by it to reflect a bit more deeply.
To me, complaining about the reasoning used by companies while not currently at the head of such a company feels pretty darn foolish. You just don't have the numbers at hands to qualify what they are saying.

And I don't understand why you would care about layoffs from the tech industry (of all people) anyway, it's one of the best industry today and will probably for a while still (forever?). Maybe one of those engineers can help his local tech shop instead.
So I think I know how Bard got it wrong "JWST took the very first pictures of a planet outside of our own solar system" this is wrong as the first pictures of an exoplanet were taken 2004. However, if you search for its statement you get an official Nasa release.

"NASA’s Webb Confirms Its First Exoplanet

Lee esta historia en español aquí.

Researchers confirmed an exoplanet, a planet that orbits another star, using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope for the first time. Formally classified as LHS 475 b, the planet is almost exactly the same size as our own, clocking in at 99% of Earth’s diameter. The research team is led by Kevin Stevenson and Jacob Lustig-Yaeger, both of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland."

So there is a confusion about "First pictures ever", and "First for JWST". With some goodwill you could maybe fit both those meanings on Bards statement, but given the context this is probably not what the questioner is after.
I had an idea for a coffee business. it was a drive up coffee vending machine with good but not over the top coffee. kind of like a drive up ATM. I was thinking like at the edge of a lowes or home depot parking lot.

maybe if you were feeling ambitious add a krsipy cream knock off donut.

like the redbox of coffee except won't get disrupted by digital anytime soon

put the cost you would spend on labor into the product.

if you made a deal with one of those companies you could have a 1000 locations out in no time.
If it gives you pause, I'm satisfied with that.
What's the point of having a separate lexing and parsing step anyway?
>outputs are objects with queryable structure

I've often wondered how far you could get with a table based text structure in POSIX land.

Things like awk can deal with that already. Its backwards compatible if you ignore the first line.
Fish is very mature at this point, well supported by other tools (i.e., it's common for the supported shells to be bash, zsh, and fish), and has been inching towards a shallow level of bash compatibility. Its history and suggestion features are also fantastic.
The use of the term “macroeconomic” has become so overused and cringe at this point to conceal the true complexity of what is going on.
Impressive, but only forward pass.
It's typical paper-thin plausible deniability of corporations justifying actions.

- Oil supplies are tough so we are raising gas prices (we know we can get a few weeks/months of crazy profits and blame it on the energy crisis)

- Supply chain issues are tough so we have to tighten out belt (excuse to not give out raises/bonuses)

- The macroeconomic environment is tough, so we gotta lay off 7-10% (we have wanted to trim the fat for some time and now we have the perfect cover)

Funny how it is always slow to go the other way (slow for gas prices to come down, wages to rise, and rosters are expanded).
It’s written by Ted Chiang!