skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is starting to get comical.
Completely agree. My team has on-call duty, but we don't have to do it 24/7, just during business hours. I hope we never get to the point where we're giving support 24/7.

Slightly off topic: stdout's On-Call.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiApm-OFfsY
Was it the 3DS perhaps?
I probably should have added /s :)
It's been so long since being part of a debate cycle about whether a piece of data was an 'attribute' or an 'element' in XML. I had forgotten how much angst was eliminated when JSON came along like some kind of uncivilized philistine and just didn't have attributes.
The Paris catacombs, while lacking the Catholic aspect really resonated with me. There is something so incredibly humbling in looking at literally million of skulls and realizing that we are ultimately as insignificant as they were.
How long until it’s a common part of the interview process to do a brain scan for wrongthink?
Slightly different tangent but people do this with ETFs all the time. I built a tool that shows potential swaps to harvest losses for taxes but keep similar exposure. Checkout taxlossharvestingtool.com
>You may be thinking “what?” but we spotted an interesting opportunity to enable upgrades on another popular consumer electronics product: the Steam Deck.

and

>We’re continuing to search for ways to help you with hard-to-find upgrades for other products, so let us know if there is anything we should focus on!

From the article.
External Garbage Collection in Ruby
Apple is known for going with tiny teams rather than the gigantic, bloated trees of VPs and Directors that other companies have. Their CFO even spoke[1] publicly about it, a rarity. Sometimes you just need a team of two people reporting to the CFO to do something. You don't need 2 SVPs, with 10 VPs, with 80 Directors, each with trees of management/ICs to do the same thing.

1: https://twitter.com/workmj/status/1595324607984271360
Took my company being bought by a european one to get that to happen.

On-call for many companies (most I've worked at in the past 23 years) is a borderline abusive practice; and often times they already run the team on fumes.
Recently I had to convert a bunch of well structured XMLs to csvs (flattening). I downloaded the apache xalan-c (xslt engine) and xerces-c(xml engine) windows binaries from 2004 (!) and to my surprise they worked fine on windows 10.

After that it was half an hour work to write a quick XSLT and convert the XML to CSV.

I know that there are other (even easier) ways to extract data from an XML but I have to admit that writing an XSL transformer and see if working gives me joy.

Probably I'm getting too old remembering the old days...
Why do you believe that a system should not need to consume millions of documents in order to be able to make predictions?

For your example, the concepts of driving, night, vision, all need to be clearly understood, as well as how they relate to each other. The idea of 'common sense' is a good example of something which takes years to develop in humans, and develops to varying extents (although driving at night vs at day is one example, driving while drunk and driving while sober is a different one where humans routinely make poor decisions, or have incorrect beliefs).

It's estimated that humans are exposed to around 11 million bits of information per second.

Assuming humans do not process any data while they sleep (which is almost certainly false): newborns are awake for 8 hours per day, so they 'consume' around 40GB of data per day. This ramps up to around 60GB by the time they're 6 months old. That means that in the first month alone, a newborn has processed 1TB of input.

By the age of six months, they're between 6 and 10TB, and they haven't even said their first word yet. Most babies have experienced more than 20TB of sensory input by the time they say their first word.

Often, children are unable to reason even at a very basic level until they have been exposed to more than 100TB of sensory input. GPT-3, by contrast was trained on a corpus of around 570GB worth of text.

We are simply orders of magnitude away from being able to make a meaningful comparison between GPT-3 and humans and determine conclusively that our 'intelligence' is of a different category to the 'intelligence' displayed by GPT-3.
There's no regulation with teeth to hold companies accountable for breaches, by and large, and therefore this is exactly the appropriate amount of pessimism.
Hello and thank you for your message.

What didn't work with the get started button ?

Yes, I didn't work on onboarding yet. You actually have to login to start using the app.

I will fix the onboarding to avoid this kind of bad first impression, sorry.
> What this article is not showing (but either irresponsibly or naively suggests) is that the LLM knows what a bag is, what a person is, what popcorn and chocolate are, and can then put itself in the shoes of someone experiencing this situation, and finally communicate its own theory of what is going on in that person's mind. That is just not in evidence.

You can't really conclude that unless you think we have a deep mechanistic understanding of "knowing". I agree that LLM doesn't have the same knowledge of these things as a human does, but it clearly has some kind of knowledge of how these words relate to each other. It "knows" that a "person" "puts" "things" "in" "bags", and for instance, that bags don't put things in people. So it clearly has some knowledge of bags and people, it just doesn't have multisensory associations with these objects.
> Meanwhile, Apple has a mostly-stable massive chunk of the consumer device market and has always had a profit margin that is startlingly high. Not much has changed as far as they're concerned.

Apple had a big bump in pandemic-related revenue too, inspired by mass WFH hardware purchases. And now Apple revenue has gone down as well: https://sixcolors.com/post/2023/02/apple-results-and-charts-...
Why should it matter who wrote it?
Reminds me of “Tivo” when in 2001 I would record all my tv shows that “aired” and watch in the order I wanted. Now someone will build tivo for Adele.
Amazon, Google, and Meta all seem to make riskier bets, too.

Both strategies make sense—make big, risky investments, or grind out more profits in existing, highly lucrative markets.
Why would all of them leave your service just because one thing is not available on ff?

Popular as hell services are constantly annoying users e.g reddit fb

Or arent or werent available on web at all - iirc instagram

If you have leverage then they aint gonna leave as hard as you make it sound
I've been a freelance marketer (I do google ads) for 8 years now. The thing that made all the difference for me was building a good website for myself and then buying google ads on keywords that indicate people are looking for somebody like me.

I have gotten all my clients that way.
I prefer email sitting in the outbox for a short period of time before send/receive completes, it has saved me from mistakes enough times that it is worth the delay.
I've made my own fully 3d lovecraftian text editor, I'd like to give this a try and see if I can make a 3d object for my text editor, with my text editor.

Does it contain facilities for export into non-parametric mesh formats? (.obj / .fbx / collada..) np if not.
Sounds like a problem of python-dotenv rather than a problem with environment variables. Env vars have been around forever, it's has well established syntax at this point, that X tool doesn't handle it properly doesn't mean the format is wrong.
It's banned on all Transport for London services as well, courtesy of one mayor B. Johnson

You can drink and get away with it, the ban kind of serves as a deterrent for bad behaviour and gives guards/police an easy way to get rid of people being drunk pricks (which is not technically illegal)
Open source seeds as in the Open Source Seed Initiate [1] come with a GPL-like pledge that you won't restrict creations from seeds based on these seeds [2]

> You have the freedom to use these OSSI-Pledged seeds in any way you choose. In return, you pledge not to restrict others’ use of these seeds or their derivatives by patents or other means, and to include this pledge with any transfer of these seeds or their derivatives.

[1]: https://osseeds.org/
[2]: https://osseeds.org/ossi-faqs/
> Most layoffs are happening in growth businesses that aren’t even profitable on paper.

Google? Facebook? Microsoft? All very profitable, all doing layoffs.
Yep. JS doesn't have a standard library so npm is the best we've got.

And speaking of the best we've got, the XSD validator above is the only one I'm aware of on npm—kind of shocking given how many overall libraries there are.

It speaks to the unpopularity of XSDs among web devs, which is ironic since HTML is XML.
Not exactly.

I explicitly noted that they are no longer FOSS, but I beleive its wrong to call them "closed-source".

If parent had said "they are no longer open source", I wouldn't have commented this at all, since "open source" and FOSS are essentially synonyms. But the antonym of FOSS/open source is not "closed source".
What are G2 and CF?
> nothing's stopping you from circulating cold water in the summer

Condensation is - air conditioners have an integrated drip tray which drains to the outside, but if you ran chilled water through radiators they'd all make puddles of condensation on the floor. Retrofitting drains might be possible but I've never seen one and I can't imagine it'd be cost-effective vs installing mini-splits.
Yeah. Can I put a file that imports all the modules at the top of the tree and load them before the browser has to parse anything else, to pre-cache? I haven't tried this yet.
I don't have one. I keep hoping one comes out before it dies. I'd switch tomorrow if somebody did a clean $5 / month equivalent.
Never trust any company with a PR department at all, they're all opportunistic liars who's priority is limited damage to the company, not telling the truth. They only do the latter when they think it will have the effect of the former.

Really, don't trust corporations at all. Even if the circumstances of life force you to do business with them and hope nothing goes wrong, that's no reason to ever trust them. The bigger the corporation the more true this is, since the structure of corporations makes people feel less personally responsible for the bad things they might do to you, like lying to you about the scope of a data breach. The "just following orders" mentality allows workers to do things they'd never otherwise do to you, and that's just one example.

If any sort of business is safe to trust, it's the one-man-shop owner-operator kind of business and you can only trust those guys insofar as you can trust any other person at all. In that case you have to consider it on a case-by-case basis.
The PSP had joysticks like this
Easier to turn off people’s electric than gas when they don’t follow the social rules.
The US is a large contributor to covering the costs as well. The terminal is the smaller part of the cost, connectivity is an ongoing cost. Even if they were paying, there is an agreement or ToS for all customers.
Does it? It says how managing keys in public key cryptography is complicated. As also signing and verification, and x509 certificates rely on this then one might say they too are complicated - as is everything else that builds on asymmetric crypto. I.e why encryption specifically is complicated? (Or am I just dense and missing something? :))
They ruined windows 7 too? Damn it.
Not being able to comprehend their significance is not the same as them being insignificant.
Correct on all counts. The hiring was insane and even with the cuts the number of employees is still higher than 2020
> Another option is to treat online accounts as throwaway wherever possible. As much as Reddit would like to sell you gizmos for your profile, there's no benefit to the user to have an old account with lots of karma. Just keep re-rolling with strong random passwords and you have nothing to lose.

I (used to, i guess) do the same. I must have 40 accounts in total over the years. Funny enough i didn't even make a strong password - a stupidly bad one, unique for each account, actually. I had almost hoped it was hacked because it would be interesting to be hacked and not care.
> You mean to tell me that Apple could have created thousands of high paying jobs, if only for several years, but didn’t. And this is good?

Yes, I consider it good management and judgement. Apple is a company, not some charity. Amazon, etc didn't hire out of the goodness of their hearts they felt they could capitalize on something that didn't materialize.
Yeah IMO you either use a follow-the-sun rotation and have staff in multiple parts of the world, hire a dedicated nightshift, or pay OT.

If the SRE is unable to solve the issue and needs to page the escalation engineer they should get OT for that if it outside business hours. The whole "oh you got woken up at 3am just log in late" is BS because I still have the same amount of work to do.
A Feature belongs to 1 Product only but Features can 'use' other Features across the tree, so you can track dependencies easily.

By the way, you can track dependencies at 2 levels: Features, like described above, and Tasks.

Then, your dependencies are display in both ways (uses, used by)

Was my answer clear ? Happy to help.
The solution to this would actually be to end the existence of Intellectual Property and allowing people to do what they want with the things they own.

It would also solve most of the issues with copyright in memes, YouTube and the like
When I started out one of my first jobs came with an on-call pager. It was a puck shaped item that you carried on your belt. When sitting on the toilet it would slide out of its carrier and fall into the basin. Nearly happened twice to me (I caught it). Several others had it fall in. It had to be vigorously cleaned before hand over to the next engineer. That is what is called a "Clean Handover".
Cloud*, totally
The demonic possession and exorcism parts not hell itself
Poster is in the UK (or Ireland). Recommending going to New Mexico sounds funny :)
This is pretty amazing. I'm inspired to go write something similar now, that uses AI to pad out source code to exactly 80 characters per-line...
Apple Reportedly Planning to Limit iPhone 15's USB-C Port Same Way as Lightning
Pretty much everything from the emulator room. Squeezed myself in at the start, and stumbled out at the end!
Already done https://www.airapbattle.com/
WoW, I just tried it too and I'm blown away with the results!!!
AFAIK, In the UK you usually have 6 years to file a claim for a defect in a product, though the product has to be fit for purpose and last for whatever a 'reasonable' lifespan for that product is.

e.g. most people would expect a car or a sofa to last for 3 years with normal servicing per the manufacturer's guidelines, so you could claim against the vendor if something broke during normal, though you may not expect a plastic fork used every day to last as long. This can be overridden somewhat by the users manual / marketing materials - like if you sold something as 'temporary' or 'disposable'.

If you serviced your car using the wrong fluids or parts that do not meet standards (like cheap eBay spark plugs or reclaimed oil full of metal filings or something) then the vendor may be able to claim that the parts had caused the issue rather than them, if it were a reasonable claim to make.
That's because you (presumably not a Catholic or, like most, a poorly catechized one) are projecting your values and view points onto a faith you don't understand.

Classic cultural colonialism if you ask me.

There's literally two millennia (well 5 if you include the Old Testament and commentary) literature on the Church's position on matter, the body, corpses, life, death, afterlife, etc. necessary to understand this.

Have you read a significant amount (any!) of this to reach your conclusion?
If you're in Vienna you could also check out the Michaelergruft.
I replaced my air-to-air heat pump for 3-4k last year.
It's awesome to have been able to follow this journey from the beginning. Reading your blog posts, to your announcement, to your yearly posts. Keep up the great work.
What does it change when you add another model? I don't see how this lets us extract extra information.

What distinguishes two conjoined models from one model with a narrowing across the middle?

If the idea is to have two similar minds building a theory of each other, then I guess this could be informative, but first we'd have to establish that the models are "minds" in the first place. It's not clear to me what that requires.
This is still the case. I was getting an early train at around 7.30 one Saturday, and there were a bunch of people drinking in the train station. The staff member told me they were regulars. For context, most pubs won't open till 10.30am or later.
I don't know. Maybe there was a sweet spot a few years back, but 20+ years ago you only had your personal network to count on, none of those fancy marketplaces. And it was a slow grind. And there were intermediaries which did give you a constant flow of work but took a large cut, and you often ended up being the 5th or 6th contracted party on a project. It's, TBH, more or less the same - except now you actually do have the fancy marketplaces and VCs that give you an alternative.
So basically "he lied to me, lying is a human behavior, so I trust him."

Wew.
>So he’s more likely to just drop a mean word about David Guetta in a track in the future and call it even than to take him to court.

He could use AI to produce a track in the style of David Guetta and rap over that, would be pretty clever.
Apple is the only (the one, the only) phone manufacturer that sells a human-hand-sized phone in the US, the iPhone Mini. I'd love to go back to Android, I find iOS to be pretty terrible, but I'm afraid my hands are not 15 inches wide, so it's just not an option for me.
The Starbucks near me recently switched from taking your card at the drive thru to holding a card reader out the window which asks for a tip. It seems kind of absurd to ask someone to fill out the tip amount with one hand from their car.
How a Zig IDE Could Work
Don't we already have useful (YMMV) models that can run on an average gaming desktop ?
Given Apple’s headcount increased during same period was significantly less than comparable companies, one might take the position that they in sum contributed significantly less to labor market than similar tech companies.

For example, if Apple grew headcount by 20%, but laid off zero percent — percentage wise, they’re still significantly behind contributions made to labor market of a comparable company that double in size and then laid off 20% of its workforce; meaning not only did the comparable company increase the percentage of people being paid during the period, but also at the end of the period had increased the overall percentage of new employees.
But look at the flip side where the court ruled the farmer cannot be liable for a plant naturally spreading into his field (and the farmer upon learning this using the specific herbicide meant for that specific plant strain). You now have precedent that if the plant "accidentally" (wink wink) spreads to your field you are not liable for the cost of the plant
though there is a convenient loophole known as the 'five second rule'
Extradition is only for criminal offenses, not civil ones.

The EU can prosecute Americans to their hearts content. They are limited only by their ability to collect judgment. The US will not collect foreign judgements except as specified by treaty. There are no treaties for enforcing GDPR fines in the US.

So if you or your company has property in the EU they can sieze it. But if you never go to the EU or own anything there you can rest assured that you are quite safe from GDPR fines.
I agree that the Google business model doesn't fully accommodate conversational search UI, but LLMs can still play a valuable role in this area. In terms of a parallel, you can think of the "I'm Feeling Lucky Today" button as a way to bypass the standard search results and take a chance on a single, top result. Similarly, using LLMs in web search applications can provide a more conversational and personalized experience for users, offering a different way to interact with and find information on the web.

That being said, I don't think ChatGPT or any single LLM can replace mainstream Internet search use cases in the immediate future. They might enhance the search experience for users
> As a farmer with experience growing roundup-ready crops: In order to obtain roundup-ready seeds you have to sign a contract with the vender. In said agreement, you agree to not do such things.

The farmer had not entered into any contract with anyone, that is the point. It's not his fault if pollen from his neighbor's field entered his field, even if they contained "patented" technology.
Yes, you will find an article in the little blog that I started:
https://www.ajir.app/blog/why-ajir/

Don't hesitate if you have other questions.
I hear this from companies that are 1) too big to bother with or 2) do not want to hire an external person.

In the first case, the client has some workforce deficiency, and, if they're a tech company, they're probably hiring this "middleman" to temporarily scale. Once this happens, they've probably had tons of billable hours extracted from them, get sour, and swear off contractors, or double down because of sunk cost / devil you know. These are complex sales deals, even for experience service business, I'd avoid.

In the second case, it's just an excuse, and I think it falls into a category of similar excuses ("We don't have the time to spec work", "We don't want to work with someone new to freelancing", etc etc) and almost always these people either want an employee, or a someone to boss around, not results. Also best to avoid.

My guess is you're new to qualifying leads, and it's really hard when you start, so keep trying. Chances are you'll be tapping your professional network for leads, or pitching strangers if you happen to get on a call with them via cold email. I wrote a guide, based on my experiences, to closing deals here: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/crush-it-stop-it-profit-th... (sorry for the self-promo). This can work for a while, maybe get your first recurring clients. After a few sales calls for clients, You may realize getting leads to come to you is best, or at minimum people should have a reason to answer your emails like having some kind of branding or marketing, so start writing, coding, tweeting, or whatever regularly to get attention. Keep at it. It's hard work.

You already dislike middlemen, so I don't have to give you spiel. While I don't like it either, people have kickstarted successful freelancing businesses by using them temporarily. My first freelance gig was with a consultancy as a sub-contractor, of course I got fired after two weeks, but it gave me the hunger to find more clients and find my niche to pursue. I'm still freelancing/consulting after two years.

On top of everything, you will fuck up, and that's okay, so give yourself some breathing room financially and mentally.

If you have any questions about freelancing/consulting, I'd be happy to try and answer them.

Btw, I looked into IR35 regulation, and I'm not a lawyer/barrister/esquire and this is not legal advice, but the IR35 regulation people keep talking about in this thread is very similar to the contractor self-employed definition in US/Canada, so i think that is a load of bull shit too. You might have to jump right to fixed rate work then so you do not qualify as "Off-payroll Worker". UK government has a cute little tool for determining this: https://www.tax.service.gov.uk/check-employment-status-for-t...