skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it highly likely that the model will be, if not now, trained on its own source code. I think it will be extremely difficult to prevent that as time progresses and the LLM is given more privileges and compute access.
Why do you think Premium is a failure?

I am a creator with a subscriber base of 2+ million, and a subscriber to Premium. Trivia: on a per-view basis, I make more from Premium views than ad-watching views.
> Is the goal to maximize profits this quarter, or shareholder value (share price) this quarter, or over the course of a decade, or a century, or a millennium? Merely changing the answer over those four options would entail massive changes in management goals and choices.

This is the absolutely crucial core question that gets skipped over so, so often.
The GP asked for resources to understand low level network programming.
Not everyone want to spend their whole life in an urban environment. Perhaps there is not much opportunity for this in the Netherlands, but I can't imagine not having a vehicle to go camping/rock climbing/kayaking/mountain biking/hiking which requires going to remote areas not typically serviced by public transport.
> The ring buffers used by this particular API reside in userspace rather than in kernel memory.

More specifically, the physical pages backing these ring buffers are pinned and mapped into both address spaces. (The kernel needs to be able to read submissions (sqes) off of it and write completions (cqes) into it, and could not do that if it were only mapped in userspace, or could be paged out.)
At this point it doesn't matter anymore. We have whole generations of young professionals who are forced into life long debt to have a shack to live in. Your argument is like arguing against letting people have bicycles and continue walking, because cars are better. People need to escape rent feudalism first, then we can talk about other stuff.
Some companies are working on 10 centimeters.
Much in this world would be better if we donated to what ought be a public service. If browser vendors didn't have to chase profits, perhaps they wouldn't be so user-hostile, and the same principle applies to most software I'd say.

That we don't have a world where this is possible is in my opinion both a cultural and political failure. What if every person on HN gave 1% of their income to various open source projects they use? What if we made this a cultural norm, and you'd be shamed if you didn't?
I used public transportation (and cycling) throughout most of my twenties and only got my own car in my thirties. Public transport only works when you live in an urban area with good connections. Where I used to live, public transport was often delayed, or on strike. During winter it was annoying to have to wait in the cold for a bus or train that had 30+ minutes delay. And during rush hour the train and bus were so packed you could not sit down for most of the ride.

Meanwhile, with the car, I don't have any of those frustrations. During rush hour I'll sit in my car rather than waiting in the cold or standing up in a train. Given, finding parking can sometimes be frustrating, but it's a minor frustration. Going grocery shopping (or anything larger and heavier) is way more convenient with the car as well.

That said, bicycling is still one of my favourite ways to commute when the weather permits. :-)
Self-organizing behavior is a wildly underestimated and underappreciated force in the world. It's behind almost everything people regard as some sort of conspiracy.
Yes, unfortunately were not exactly working in Amsterdam, and needed a tram to the local station and then a train to, perhaps Amsterdam.

That said, I would love to know why 's-Hertogenbosch is spelled that way. I asked a few locals, and none knew.
I think it believed it was being honest. We can debate what it means for an LLM to "believe" something, but I don't think it was intentionally trying to deceive through its hallucination.
Cars? OR wheeled surveillance and infotainment devices? Because that's a part of the issue.

Their price and wages are another.
Sure, and if I'd been born with Ted Bundy's genetic makeup and lived his life, I'd be Ted Bundy. This isn't the slam dunk you seem to think it is.
I disagree, I believe that Rust is a fabulous language for early prototypes.

Sure, if you're going to throw away your early prototype there are better languages. But nobody ever does that.

Instead your prototype evolves into your product and early expedient decisions you made that were appropriate for a prototype aren't appropriate for your product and you have a significant refactor.

And Rust is the best language I have ever encountered for refactoring. Just bang away changing the code until it compiles, and it's quite likely that once it compiles it actually works. That's not an experience I've had in any other language. Usually a significant refactor exposes some foot-guns that don't fire until significantly later. So you avoid refactoring and your code ends up a right mess.
Where do you live where Covid is still a a problem? What do you think the solution to this problem is? What timescale are you looking at for this solution to completely fix the problem?
Large public companies have diverse, non monolithic shareholders who very rarely have similar goals beyond making money. It is exceedingly rare for the majority of shareholders to agree on anything other than maximizing either short term, or long term discounted profits. Sure, it's possible to have other goals, but that almost never happens in practice.
surprised to see all comments up to now be mostly “learn more tech shit”
People who are really interested in rust tend to be top-tier developers. I don't think they're consciously lying about their experiences working with the language but they may not hit the speed bumps that normal people would. My personal abilities make me competent in golang, ruby, python, java, c++. I love the quasi-functional styling of rust but whenever I've tried to build small projects in it I've gotten bogged down in fighting with the compiler in ways I never do in the former. It is fast as all get out tho!
You can move somewhere you don't require a car. If you're posting on HN that is likely well within your ability.

Gas does cost a decent amount, but it's also something you can control. Combine trips, drive less, and drive more tamely.

In my opinion the freedom and convenience of a car is worth the cost of fuel.
Thank you for sharing additional context. While I disagree with you strongly, I don't see much value in furthering the discussion here.
This is also false, but less obviously so. The most clear counter example is officers are allowed to negotiate increased compensation even if it hurts the company. Which illustrates the separation between acting as an individual and an officer.

The actual legal obligations are fairly narrow such as protecting minority shareholders. But, that rule is only in effect for the most egregious situations as there isn’t a strict ranking between objectives. Reducing pollution more than legally mandated is a tradeoff between profits, reputation, and shareholder wellbeing. It’s simply not obvious what the correct tradeoff would be and things get even more fuzzy when you include risks.
Not sure about elsewhere but it's widely available in the us at pretty much any pharmacy.
"early 2000s"? You know forums like this are from more like mid-2000s to mid-2010s right.

Another one of these weird gen-Z no-history takes.

Also, the point of this was coding your own I guess?

The 'old school' forum software still exists and runs. Not to mention more updated and modern takes like Discourse.
And .yt is a ccTLD :)
I've always figured that if I buy a bike from Craigslist, I should check the serial number and look it up on bikeindex.org. If I ran a used bike shop, that would definitely be part of my procedure.
A story about young people falling out of love with cars starts in Portland OR? Pardon me if I roll my eyes.

Most cities are not Portland, OR. Culturally, geographically or structurally. Show me this trend in Anywhereelseville.
Not sure I would describe a multi decade history exploring the transition from feudalism to capitalism as "hyper focused", or niche for that matter.
The market will find a way to repurpose these buildings, but it will not be at the rates that the current owners want.
Psychiatrist* /s
Indeed they did post too soon. Member of RASC received this email:

"I want to confirm that it is the desire of the RASC's Board of Directors to have SkyNews Inc. cease operations in the coming weeks, but the announcement on the SkyNews website that it is closing at the end of February was put up in error today. Let me explain. The Society’s Finance Committee and Board of Directors have been holding numerous meetings and consulting with the National Council about what action to take concerning the chronic and worsening deficits that SkyNews has been incurring in recent years, and especially in the current financial year. The RASC, as the sole shareholder of SkyNews Inc., has had to fund these deficits.

This past weekend the Finance Committee (which includes some Centre treasurers) met, discussed the situation fully, and agreed to recommend to the Society’s Board of Directors that the Board ask the board of directors of SkyNews Inc. to have SkyNews cease operations, including SkyNews magazine. The Society’s Board of Directors met last night, discussed the matter fully again, and passed a resolution in accordance with the Finance Committee’s recommendation.

Because SkyNews Inc. has its own board of directors (who are appointed by the RASC Board on behalf of the Society), it is the SkyNews board and not the RASC Board that has the authority to make the final decision about SkyNews. The SkyNews board will be meeting next week to discuss this matter. If the SkyNews board agrees to have the company cease operations, then it will also address the important issues that members have raised today, such as what will happen for subscribers who have recently subscribed or re-subscribed.

Again, the announcement today on the SkyNews website was an error and was premature. The Board takes responsibility for this and for the understandable confusion that it has caused. We will keep the membership apprised as matters unfold in the days to come and as final decisions are made.

Michael Watson
Director and First Vice-President, RASC"
The rezoning alone would take a decade at best.
I love JS, but I agree with all of this. I will say that vite/parcel/etc. are genuinely simpler and worth the migration headaches. (They are also built in Go/Rust, which should probably cause some self-reflection in the Javascript community.)
I think we can recognize the tremendous utility of something without having an emotional connection like love for it. I agree that I can't imagine not having a car with my four little kids. I also can't imagine not having laundry machines with four little kids, but I don't love my laundry machines; I'm not passionate about them. If you swapped them out with different but reasonably equivalent machines, I wouldn't even blink. Edited to add: And when I don't have four little kids anymore, I'd be happy to live car-free in a walkable city or use a laundry service.
And all the while companies are advertising like crazy to try and hire more heavy equipment operators (starting north of 100K). There are plenty of other jobs out there besides "dog walker" and "software engineer"
> Those are the design decisions accompanied by developers who think complexity is the enemy and seek to "contain" it at all costs—even when it adds hierarchical/organizational complexity.

Not in my experience. Overengineering and unit-testing always come hand in hand, likely because both are the "enterprise" way of doing things.

> the question is whether or not tests as a whole are useful

Huh? Nobody ever asked this question.

Questions I'm always debating are:

1. Whether unit tests are useful (no in 99% of cases)

2. Whether more tests = better (no)

3. Whether you should invest in automated testing before manual becomes painful (no)

> unless you're arguing that an AML system can be made so simple that no tests are required and it "fits in your head,"

Some tests will be required. But yes, it should fit in your head, otherwise you cannot reason about it. Building AML system that you can't reason about is a road to failure.

It doesn't mean that you need to load implementation of every single rule in your head before you make any change. But you need to fit, for example, the idea of rule engine and enforce constraints on rules working together. If you build rules that can do anything with no constraints (depend on each other, override each other), then you're screwed. You're going to be playing whack-a-mole with your tests, and while it will feel productive, it's a death sentence.
Show HN: Cataloging the NYRB and LRB with OpenAI Embeddings
I clustered and cataloged the archives of the NYRB and LRB with OpenAI embeddings. The substack is intended to highlight categories I think are good / interesting. There's a brief technical write-up as well.
Profits influence share price, but outside of dividends and buybacks, shareholders do not take profits from the company. My point was that the question isn't well formed, because it would not make sense for shareholders to sue over poor profits. Shareholders are not directly harmed by profits/losses.

Instead, shareholders would need to (and have successfully) sue(d) over executive actions which negatively and negligently impacted shareholder value (stock price).
Lets wait for the young generation get older, born some kids, see how they, for example, cope with trains being cancelled on the day of travel (destroying their holidays with kids), and what they say about cars then.
Legal clarity and strict limits are not mutually exclusive. Nor do many European politicians pepper their speeches with "nation of immigrants" and "diversity is our strength", and when a mere million refugees came from the Middle East (to be fair, that is on top of all the non-European migrants already in Europe), that was a "crisis", and caused a significant rightward shift in EU politics.

For comparison, the US takes in almost 2 million legal immigrants per year (on a population of 333 million vs. EUs 446 million), plus however many illegal ones, and there is nothing like a "sanctuary city" in Europe.
Evolution is not an optimizer in the same sense as a minimization algorithm.

Evolution is simply the differential survival of individuals with different genetic makeup, survival of the fittest. What counts as fittest depends on both the general environment and on the interactions with other members of the same species.

And, of course, without pregnancy there can be no evolution at all.
Yes, talking about adding bike lanes in cities and improving public transportation should really infuriate the rural demographic that continually think everything is about them and their way of life. These ideas must all come from the cult of anti-car that wants to come into every tiny city and change everything overnight apparently. It’s typical status quo paranoia that always tries to halt any progress in these areas.
I am both an employee and a small-time investor in the stock market.

I actually prefer to see companies as entities such as their only goal is maximizing profits, all else be damned. They will exploit every worker and will externalize every negativity in their profit-driven mandate. And typically short term profits will trump long term anything.

It's the role of governments, as representatives of society, to rein in companies so that they don't act in ways that damage the society where they are inserted in. Cue in labor and union protections, environment regulations, etc and so forth.

And yes, companies that break regulations should be treated as criminals, including termination.
Making transparency a principle of your company’s culture
>> You add each new token to the input prompt to generate the next one.

OMFG so it really is a super advanced auto-complete!!

Yeah, this is not AGI or anywhere close. That explains how it picks up context, and also how it can lose the plot after a bit due to limited input size.
On properties like this, that is still possible, BUT..

It wouldn't happen with the same borrower on the same deal/loan. It would go into a whole new construction type of loan (which is usually some sort of short term "mezz" financing for the transition period), and then get underwritten on maybe a 10 year.

The issue with the above now though is the transition to multi family costs a lot. Many will try and get cities/states to subsidize it. And then getting a good loan to make the deal work in unknown. Nobody makes deals like that happen when there is this much uncertainty in the CRE market. If you can't secure financing post construction to make the cap rate work.. you're done. Deal is dead.
‘Affordable housing’ is an overloaded term at this point. There are people who qualify for ‘affordable housing’ in NYC who are making ~$180,000 and will be paying $3,000/mo or more in rent after their ‘low-income subsidy’ is factored in.
Oil changes are inexpensive and new cars often have them included for the first few years. On top of that with modern oils the change interval is longer than it used to be.

Unless you're driving an obscene amount or doing burnouts everywhere a set of tyres should last 3-4 years. A set for a small sedan really isn't that expensive.
Die hard rust fans often minimize the very real developer difficulty incurred by their language of choice. Even major library maintainers in rust have criticisms of various language features because of their difficulty to use. These are real and substantiative concerns that would affect any development team not made of expert rustaceans. Just look at basic dynamic programming implementations in a normal language versus rust for say popular leap code questions and you'll see the difference in basic developer productivity.
Nowadays?

That is how AOLServer used to be, and all the other scripting languages developed as Apache plugins, back in the 2000's .com wave, like mod_perl and PHP.
There was a point where stockholder compensation structures went from dividends to the increasing value of the security itself, and thats when the stock market and the economy itself started to go awry.
Family of 5, no car, just bikes.

It is possible. It just depends on where do you live and how comfortable you are.
I don’t think it is. Government had enforced diversity metrics in order to prevent hiring all-white union laborers for their contracts pretty early on in the desegregation process. The private sphere followed suit to avoid the label of segregationism.
Fuzzing integration enables security testing in Jest
The problem with that is just that the best interest of the shareholders is making as much money as possible in the short term, while the best interest of the company is being able to survive long term, which it won't be if all profits are siphoned off by the shareholders rather than being invested in stuff like R&D...
We are in the distributed systems age. If systems are composable, operations can fail for reasons that are completely unfathomable to the client. It's not reasonable to have a SharkBitTheOpticFiberCableException and 100,000 other ones that handle every reason why an operation failed.

What the client should know is how an error affects what it is doing, it wants answers to questions like

* Is it likely this error will recur if I retry immediately? in 1 minute? in 1 day?
* What is the scope of this error? Does it affect the entire system? Does it affect a particular database record?
* What do I tell the user?
* What do I tell the system administrator?

Actual improvement in this area won't come from information hiding but it could come out of attaching some kind of ontology to exceptions where exceptions are tagged with information of the above sort, that it is not about having names for them and a hierarchy, but in about having rather arbitrary attributes that help the exception management framework (somewhere high in the call stack!) do the best it can in a bad situation.
Executives are legally required to run the company in a way they believe is in the shareholders best interests. That doesn't necessarily mean maximize profits, as shareholders could have different values, but 9 times out of 10 it does.
As someone whose been in this space for a while, there are always new frameworks, new ways of doing things, new libraries and tools, most of it is just noise. Sometimes a new tool comes out (like Vite) that is a seismic shift, but for the most part that new framework or state management library really isn't all that much better than what we currently have.

My best suggestion to those developing JS apps is to not get carried away with the noise, pick a solid framework (React, Vue, Svelte, etc), pick some solid libraries, stay away from the experimental stuff, and just run with the tools you've got. There will always be a new tool around the corner that claims to be better than the existing tool, forget about it and stick with what you got, then revisit that tool if you hear alot of noise around it.
Same. Kinda looking forward to at least one day of it -- emphasis on kinda -- in that it'd be nice to talk to coworkers face to face.

But that could be 2 days a quarter. The rest will be spent trying to NOT hear them while I crank up my noise-cancelling headphones to get things done
Being orphaned doesn’t mean it’s being removed. Some subsystems will eventually get a new maintainer such as the floppy driver.
Imo being "smart" like this is reinventing the wheel and doesn't give you any productivity gains.
Meanwhile the majority of white men who are neither rich nor powerful find themselves at the bottom of the politically correct social order. Not that anyone cares anymore. /s
> Sounds like a promising area to explore.

It's so completely obvious in hindsight. It's amazing how many great ideas share that property.
Arc / Racket / Common Lisp / Quicklisp

The ChatGPT method of language construction looks very cons.

Common Lisp does math right, which ChatGPT has to learn todo.
But both, civilian and military, are government entities, not private, and I understand the OP is just exposing some similarities.
Are you completely sure that's due to Long COVID? Because that sounds like an extremely common story of drug addiction: someone turns their normal life, complete with career and family and a white picket fence, into homelessness and relying on petty theft to survive. It's incredible (in a bad way) how quickly fentanyl can ruin people's lives.
It isn't arbitrary. Asperger's and HFA are not the same. One is language impaired and one isn't, as the bare minimum clinical difference.

That being said, I don't doubt that the history of differential diagnosis is marked with widespread incompetence. And I obviously agree that being denied opportunity based on either diagnosis is a social crime.

But what you mention is not the worst outcome of the DSM-V reclassification. What they are now moving toward / doing is still classifying HFA people as Type 1 autistic. But for (former) asperger's patients they are tending to do is diagnose a social skills disorder instead.

Essentially removing anyone without a language impairment, at minimum, from the autism funded-services pool. Ignoring the arguable utility of services for HFA or Asperger's clients for one second, beyond the psychological and developmental benefits of simple social interaction.

What this also does is remove a population from the autism category that, to all but the patient and clinical professionals themselves, are often only detectable as different due to factors centered on how (often more capable) intelligence is cognitively distributed and manifests. Ignoring comorbidities.

Aside from affecting the important identity issue for the patient: essentially what they did was to remove any intelligence difference from being able to be a primary clinical marker for autism. Or sometimes the only obvious marker, depending on the individual's masking skill and ability to handle fatigue from it.