skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a common misunderstanding about Stack Overflow is that it's a place to get your questions answered. It's not - that's only a secondary use case.

The primary purpose of S.O. is to produce a searchable corpus of answers with few duplicates and pretty high-quality answers. They're optimizing for being the first google result for "how to do X in Y language." They're not optimizing for being the best place for an individual to ask "hot to do X in Y language."

When you consider S.O. through that lens, I think a lot of how the site works (aggressive close-as-duplicate-ing, for example) makes more sense.
This is great! More experiments are key. I know, I know, many of you are getting flashbacks to physics lab, but come on, it's totally different when you're coming up with the experiments yourself! :D

As for some philosophical inspiration, the analytic philosophers like Kant, Frege, Russel and early Wittgenstein have methods for breaking down natural language into (possibly) useful elements!

Like, everyone speaks of "context" in terms of these prompts... how similar is that to Frege's context principle?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context_principle

Some other Wikipedia links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_turn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_language#Meaning
Outside the U.S. they don't have that sort of carrier upgrade system. The article is about younger americans though.
True, but when learning OSI in 90s - they were always refered to as 'layers' of the same protocol.

Stacks where completely stand-alone applications connected which were not layers of the same protocol/system.

I think that the simple way is to refer to them as stacks now, but if you were raised on LAYERS - refering to OSI as 'stacks' feels foreign.

It appearsthat as we atomoze / containerize various teck, we now thing of them as 'stacks' rather than layers.

It seems that 'layers' are now 'services' rather.
Those can be answered by ChatGPT. Only question is where to integrate it into peoples' workflows. Maybe into the post-creation interface? Maybe into the SO question-creation dialog.
I can't lie, yes. BUT I used to write the same type summaries with my human brain all the time here too. Is it wrong to get all these points from an AI summary?

I guess you could argue HN might as well just auto summarize every article now!
tried, everything comes OK.

This happens infrequently, where sometimes pages take very very long to load. Other sites run fine meanwhile.
You would hope someone would have the balls to enforce the Sherman act.

Last time that happened was about 20 years ago, over microsoft bundling IE with windows though.
Man, been down this path for a long while. It gets tough! Flattening csvs with hierarchical headers (as in, headers that that apply a category to a second row of headers) are tough.

The ways csv can fail is just fucking nuts. Especially when they're half hand written, half automated, or where a failure is 20m rows in. Hard to have speed and strong checks simultaneously.
That’s because Apple markets it to sell hardware and spends tons of money to market everything around it. To these insanely costly devices, add to that their insanely costly accessories, if the device has a problem — add insanely costly services, not to mention the insanely costly warranty extensions.

Google and Android on the other hand.. you see the difference? Google invests in Android to sell ads. That’s literally it. Other OEMs also do all this to sell ads and get as much of private customer data as much possible along with selling devices.

These are two worlds.

As for being fashionable. These two OSs do not really complete with each other. This is a very comfortable duopoly for both the companies and the customer pays the price in one way or the other.

Hell even the people who buy Android don’t look at it from fashion point of view. Someone has to record calls, someone wants to do something else, someone wants it easily repairable, somnolent simply doesn’t want to sell one or two kidneys to buy an Apple device. Etc.

In the end - everything considered, when it’s about value for money — Apple devices just don’t stand a chance.

(And just in case you are planning to jump on “no, I think Apple prices are just a d they ‘just work’”. Trust me they are not and there is a whole rest of the world out there beyond the USoA borders).
>because the city infrastructure (usually plumbing) can't handle it.

Are you sure this is true? Water distribution is usually constrained to minimums required for the fire suppression loads and duration. Typically, as far as I know the NFPA 1 standard is based on the construction type based on materials and design defined IBC chapter 6, and square footage, not on use or occupancy classifications.

Now the BUILDING plumbing would be a different story entirely. That would change dramatically from offices to commercial/residential uses.

But, you said city infrastructure, so I'm curious what wall you ran into exactly?
"Traditionally"? There was less than a two year period from Android's release to the first Nexus phone being released. They started selling their Nexus phones in January 2010, and the first release of Android was September 2008. It's been 13 years now since Google started selling phones and less than 15 since Android was actually available. It's not like Google started selling devices a decade after Android was out.
Ha! Ok, I see. If you could really have the discipline to live like this, then yes you perhaps have extinguished dirty, irrational belief from your mind, achieved full Vulcan status. But at what cost?? How could you ever fall in love? How could ever be happy? It just sounds very lonely, very difficult, and not very human.
it is fascinating to watch the carves out and weird exceptions the Supreme court has granted over the centuries going against completely the original intent of the constitution

Citizenship being a factor on if the government can spy on you or not is one of them. The constitution should apply to government actions all government actions, not just those take inside the confines of the geographic regions known as the US, and not just those taken against US Citizens. The reading of "the people" to mean it only applies to Citizens is very novel IMO...
This doesn't really reflect my experience. Sure, some people (me) may not have read the paper, but the presenter sure as hell has, and by the end of the hour, I do have a good idea what the paper is about, and about its strengths and weaknesses.
not altogether, it would seem. The table that is partially depicted in the article is from Wikipedia; there, it says:

PIE had personal pronouns in the first and second person, but not the third person, where demonstratives were used instead. They were inflected for case and number (singular, dual, and plural), but not for gender. The personal pronouns had their own unique forms and endings, and some had two distinct stems; this is most obvious in the first person singular, where the two stems are still preserved, as for instance in English I and me.

That might have been the part that inspired the author's piece.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_pronouns#P...
I'm curious why the assertion that YC co-founding matching is bad?

Anecdotally, I used it, matched with a co-founder, and now the business is doing well. I spent nearly a decade looking for the right person, and with YC matching found them in a couple of months.
That's why the only Tech-Co. in the US for which I always thought it's possible to build a car would be Apple.
They give me the same vibes as all the German luxury OEMs I worked with - the 3 sound engineers per car just to dial in the sound of closing doors and stuff like that. Attention to detail - with better software in Apples case.
Probably copy paste from computer to phone?
Sure We will add it in README..we captured it in our documentation.Please have a look.
https://doc.yobulk.dev/YoBulk%20AI/AI%20usecases
what kind of protections does bankruptcy afford Norfolk Southern or other corp shenanigans can they pull to avoid having to do anything?
Nor does it help that one of the largest Android vendors (Samsung) is, at best, indifferent to the Android brand. They're much more intent on promoting their own brand (Galaxy), rather than the ecosystem as a whole.
A Scientific Investigation of 'The Last of Us' Fungal Pandemic
Since apple fought hard to destroy the concept of files when it first introduced iOS (some might argue it started with the iPod), iTunes never allowed drag/drop or copy/paste foles onto your iDevice.
Anecdotally, my father is probably autistic and doing heart-focused meditation has made him much better able to handle some of the side effects, particularly sensory overload and social frustration. It might be a question of some meditation being more 'cerebral' versus others that are more 'grounding' interacting differently with a tendency for something like autism.
I used to use UPSes at home, which protected me from a handful of power outages.

However, those lead acid batteries don't last forever, and when they fail you're worse off than using a dumb regular surge protector. Now you have to replace and responsibly recycle the battery.

For me that e-waste became impossible to justify. A couple of power outages a year is completely acceptable for most home servers.
Run arm64 ubuntu in a VM and use arm64 images and it should be very fine?

I have a 256GB (with easy/cheap room for 768gb) 28c haswell-e server sitting in my basement though too. Costs like 1/3 of a macbook pro if it comes down to it.
I think we may have a different view on what the purpose of a government is. Would you be ok with the military forcefully entering a tech company, pointing guns at the employees, and forcing them to do something? Because in my opinion, that is precisely what the law does, in an abstracted sense.

Also, I have absolutely no interest in a government keeping people "safe." That sentiment only leads to license for governments to violate privacy and control the lives of private citizens.
Lenovo's anti-consumer behavior makes Apple look like a charity with a perfect rating on www.charitynavigator.org.

It doesn't matter that he's running Pop!.

Strong aftermarket sales lead to value retention which drives new sales, and Lenovo's 2023 position seems to be to generate as much ewaste as possible, especially in their workstation and server lines.

Between secure boot "oopsies", rampant (and ongoing) GPL violations, constant spyware campaigns, and vendor locks for CPUs every time I see someone at a FOSS conference with a Lenovo festooned in stickers I chuckle inside because they're oiling the same machine they're raging against.
Regarding LeetCode: I made it seem like I am bad the problems themselves, which is not the case at all. I can solve most of those problems in a whiteboard interview because I can always talk to the interviewer. It's when I'm given to a problem alone with just a timer staring me in the face that I freeze up and no matter how hard I try I can't get over that seemingly silly little hump.

Thanks a lot for your advice!
I gave this post a pass because it's not as arrogant as most HN-variety STEMlords, but yeah, it's pretty embarrassing.
Lol, took me a minute, bravo!
> think the point is that depending on circumstances you can spend either 45 minutes driving down a more or less empty road or 45 minutes in rush hour traffic and it's basically impossible to judge someone equally in those two cases

But you're highly unlikely to find a UK test centre where the routes consist of more or less empty roads (UK population is not distributed like Sweden's)

> Exactly! And that is why it is important that we make sure everybody gets tested on that before we give them a license.

The test isn't to ensure that they consistently handle weird behaviour from other drivers or oddly laid out junctions flawlessly (experienced drivers don't either). If we expected that, nobody would ever drive at all, at least not without thousands of hours in a simulator. It's to ensure their approaches to junctions are at sensible speeds and they pay attention to what's going on and use mirrors and signals. You can do that in high traffic or low traffic, and it's by no means certain that the low traffic conditions would more favourable to you anyway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoiZs7QpDUY

I remember a clip I'd seen where a veteran with a TBI would break down when shopping, since there's so many choices that are focused at appealing to personality rather than utility, and his notion of his own personality was minimal.
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I see great similarity in childhood tantrums and psychotic breaks. I believe a more warn/mature consciousness may have a negative reaction to large shifts changes in its perceptual comprehension.
There can be a number of causes for that change which may affect duration.

As for childhood psychotic breaks. I believe they are common. The undeveloped consciousness is so malleable that it is just part of perceiving and comprehending the world. As we mature we experience fewer upheavals but we also gather neuroses.

I'm surprised to have my credentials questioned on an anonymous Internet forum.
Its not an AI based approach, but it is a step up from writing code by hand -- you could try using open source Mito -> https://www.trymito.io -> full disclosure I built it -> to do some of this messy data wrangling. Mito lets you view and manipulate your data in a spreadsheet in Jupyter and it generates the equivalent Python code for each edit. For things like identifying that the data uses '&' and 'and', viewing your data in a spreadsheet is >> just writing code.

Once you generate the code, you could copy it into your pipeline so that you pull the code from the last.fim api, preprocess it with the Python code that Mito generated, and then dump it into the LiteDB.
> Folks in other countries don't notice it as much because they tend to use other platforms like WhatsApp or something else for group chats.

It's the same in many European countries - I'd assume it also is in every other country where people can afford iPhones. Few people nowadays want to use 3+ different apps for messaging when iMessage "just works".
In my experience then preferred place is now Discord which is awful because it's not indexed by search engines. But at least there's a chance that your question gets answered, or you get pointed in the right direction.
That's a stretch. To begin with, you can't even see the blue/green difference until you actually send a message to someone. All received messages are gray. And even without the color, you instantly know the difference between the two -- one tells you it was delivered, the other one is a shot into the void.
I think part of the reason was also to put messages on data. when the iphone came out you could get unlimited data from att, but I think you still might end up with a plan with finite text messages. Being able to text over wifi or 3g would save you from running up sms. blackberry had something similar too.
A lot of comments in this thread are discussing vendor lock-in with Apple or Google.

1Password is working on passkey support already (https://www.future.1password.com/passkeys/) and I imagine others will follow suit. Vendor lock-in isn’t part of the spec, it just happens that in these early days, the OS-level authenticators are the main ones implemented (as are other hardware authenticators).

In the mid to long term (e.g. by the time websites start supporting this), I don’t think vendor lock-in will be a problem. It’s no worse currently than chrome or iCloud Keychain being your password manager, which has been part of the landscape for a very long time. Like password managers, there will be other options. The benefit is that unlike passwords, there is a standard API for “autofill credentials” rather than using an extension to update the DOM.
> No one is going to read it. It will be replaced next year

I've never seen this happen even once in my 25 years as a developer.

Quite the opposite, in fact. Codebases grow and become more entrenched every year the organization stays in business. The goal becomes to shoehorn into the product more and more features that the original designers never dreamed of. And those original devs are usually long gone. To do that shoehorning long-term in the face of developer churn requires intense discipline around communicating to the next person what you are doing and why.
User-hostile business practices result in hostile users, I guess. Plus, this story just feels out of place on HN, to me.
>How much does abysmal efficiency matter...? Serious question.

Serious answer: Supplying sunlight isn't what's driving cost here.

The problem is that inefficient systems need to be large, and enlarging systems (even 'simple' ponds, etc) makes them more expensive.
Reddit has it's own moderation problems. I've been banned from more sub-reddits in the last 6 months than the proceeding 14 years I've used the website.

The internet is fast becoming a collection of digital-fiefdoms.
> What you are describing... by making it less profitable.

Absolutely correct and totally irrelevant to the original point, which was that the administrative overhead for the cartel is vanishingly small.

>Hard disagree

It was palatable enough for you to travel to Mexico.
The approach I've been using is that I test against a corpus of questions with known answers. Using sample-and-vote, that is asking for some number of variable completions with a non-zero temperature and treating the explicitly computed solutions as votes, has smoothed over issues with basic syntax and logic errors.

This is pretty similar to the approach used in the Toolformer paper, other than sample-and-vote, which I believe is novel.
Yes it is wrong.
That's unfortunate. I liked hugging face. Could have been the next github for ML.

Hope the push to the AWS walled garden doesn't eat them alive.
It should ideally require a warrant, but note that all sorts of surveillance doesn't. There's a misconception that the 4th Amendment requires warrants for all searches. It does not: it requires reasonableness (which is code for "a judge agrees with it"). The warrant clause of the 4th Amendment is a response to British law at the time of the founders, and the "general warrant", which was a government grant to law enforcement to randomly ransack people's houses and personal effects, used primarily as a tool of harassment rather than investigation.

This is clearer when you read the original proposed language of (what was then, I think?) the "sixth amendment":

The rights of the people to be secure in their persons, their houses, their papers, and their other property, from all unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated by warrants issued without probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, or not particularly describing the places to be searched, or the persons or things to be seized.

An obvious counterexample to the notion that all searches are constitutionally required to be authorized by specific warrants: searches incident to arrest, which have never been so encumbered. Another example: customs searches. Sometimes you can just roll the tape back how things were done at the time of the founders and see that the supposed prohibitions in the Constitution couldn't really be the intent.
> Sad that social signals have become so important.

That implies there was a time they weren't. They always have. If anything, in most cases the signals have been more diverse and therefore weaker over time.
The appeals to authority are a response to the flood of online discussions by people that are confused by what “doing research” means and suffer from Dunning-Kruger. I don’t want to read any “just asking questions” comments about COVID or the vaccines unless the people have years of experience working in the field prior to the pandemic, because it filters out the armchair experts that we have so many of.

What’s funny to me is that not everything evokes this much scrutiny as vaccines. Why do relatively few people care about what they’re putting into their bodies via the products they find at the grocery store vs a jab in their arms?
Moving goalposts a bit ...

Can we coat the seeds in a layer of compost / biodegradable fertilizer ... and so make them heavy enough to work like small bullets, and also thereby protect the seed from shattering on impact
> Right now none of the Passkey syncing providers support anything like that (and I feel like they won't, because it'd be a huge vector for scams).

Within the Apple ecosystem Passkeys can be shared with contacts through AirDrop (no other methods are presently allowed). The Passkey is then copied directly from your Keychain to your contact’s Keychain.
I rarely respond to super recent comments, but you're 100% right.

What SO didn't expect was that their real purpose was as feedstock for LLMs that will consume them and surpass them entirely.
> One of my programming interview question is a flawed piece of code implementing an algorithm. The algorithm is there in its entirety, so there is no need to actually recall the details of it. The task is to point out and fix functional flaws, then critique and fix non-functional problems.

That's similar to what I plan to do if I ever find myself having to interview job candidates.

My plan is to have a selection of LeetCode problems that I have solved before and ask the candidate to pick a two or three of that seem interesting. I will NOT ask them to actually solve them or code solutions.

We will just talk them over to come to an agreement on what the problem is asking for, talk about what edge cases we might have to worry about, and then toss out suggestions on how to approach it. A whiteboard would be available. I'd try to let the candidate take the lead in the discussion, just contributing myself enough to keep things moving if the candidate seems stuck on something.

Once we've got a solution (regardless of how much of it came from the candidate and how much came from me moving things alone), we'd go the the discussion section for that problem and take a look at the solutions people have posted, and I'd ask the candidate to check a few of those for correctness and to suggest improvements.

A lot of the solutions people post in the discussion are wrong, ranging from just simple coding goofs (like not initializing a variable or using the wrong variable) through missing an edge case all the way to just flat out their algorithm is just wrong.
You can already ask it to put together various PyTorch scripts for ML stuff. Thinking about it as businesses or jobs "not being safe" is the wrong tack though. This technology is going to 10x everything it touches, yes it'll be messy while we figure things out but in the end everyone is going to be a lot more productive.
I think this could easily be solved by removing the ability to vote on anything after X number of time units.
That's the point though. TikTok is extremely responsive and exploratory. You got forklift, train and truck videos. Full disclosure, I primarily got pretty women who were clearly of age being sexually suggestive or dancing, because, well, I'm a sucker for pretty women. Which is why it was jarring whenever I'd get videos of people who were clearly young girls and I'd check their profile or the comments for their age. With the above post, I recognize how TikTok was probing my interests and I see how that algorithm is far more problematic than people here are willing to admit.
I'm engineering this conversation with you right now.