skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a personal blog, a .com with my name since 2001. Soon after, got a .com with my family name and made it into a company. And here are a few events I remember off the top of my head - that shaped my life;

- Got my first big speaking engagement in USA (I’m in India).

- Got my small service company acquired-hired and got introduced to the world of Startups.

- Bought a car, paid rent, and bootstrapped a few Startups.

- Got a Girlfriend. A girl emailed that it is impossible for the live visiter on my counter to be speeding so fast (she suspected I might be cheating with a script that just increase the counter). I got a date to proof that my website was indeed that popular. Once upon a time, my website was pretty well visited. If I remember correctly, it did slipped in within 100 top Alexa Ranking (I’m fuzzy on this but it was hot).

- Bought down a scammy/spammy company with a single blog post. But felt really bad within 5-6 months, and wiped out the whole content and apologized to the business owner. He did what he did but I should not have done that, which killed a business.

- Helped a lot of businesses/startups launch by writing about them and felt really happy.

- I know, at-least, one big tech company quoted my article as one of the sources for their patent.

- Quite a few people have emailed me saying that my website shaped their career and I feel really happy about them. In-fact, there was a parent that emailed me as their son got the inspiration from my website to pursue a tech career. He was very happy when I called up and talked to him.

- Of course, if not directly, my website played a vital role in a lot of interesting freelance/contract work that came - Disney, STARZ, Pearson, Cambridge, etc. Well, I got an almost-free entry to Disney World, Los Angeles for about two years around 2005-2007. ;-)

- One rainy evening, I was with friends at HackerDojo in Mountain View. A guy behind came up and asked, “You are brajeshwar.com, right?”

- Also, I have gotten a lot of legal takedowns, threats, copied/stolen without permission and what not!
The block universe: https://plus.maths.org/content/what-block-time
The Problem with Serverless – From a Serverless Addict
Nope. My Mac mini m1 with the smallest drive that I bought the month they came out that I use every day is perfectly fine.

If you mean ssds in general? I've never had a single one fail on me. My nas is all solid state with 4 sata ssds and 4 nvme m.2 drives as a big ol btrfs jbod and it's reliable as heck.

My desktop has been solid state only. Nvme only for a couple years now.

The only drives I've ever had fail were Western digital red NAS drives. I got 8tb of broken disks because rotating rust is horrible.
How are people generating multiple files for larger applications?

I gave it a prompt and asked it to respond with a list of file names required to build the app. Then when I prompted a file name it should print the code for that file along with a list of ungenerated file names. It got through two before it got confused.

I’m stuck with having it write one function at a time.
This makes me want to go through all his comics to look for more alt-text easter eggs.
It has been a while since I used Android, but I believe you can view the model number in the About section in the Settings app?
> Education doesn't respond fast enough to redesign schools around in-person computerless teaching

You mean like how it has been done for the past thousands of years?

Even today, most school work is in person and doesn't allow for computer usage.

Cheat all you want on your ungraded maths homework, you'll just get destroyed on the graded in-class paper test.
A TENS machine is cheaper and easier to come by:

https://www.boots.com/health-pharmacy/electrical-health-diag...

Replace the pads with some needles, insulate most of the needle with lacquer leaving only the points free...

READY ... AIM ... FIRE!
It’s the best intelligence, but not for production. Production is more about quantity than quality.
Any idea why DDC seems so flaky on Apple Silicon? Both Lunar and Dell's Display Manager crash, malfunction, or hang on a regular basis. It seems like the kind of thing that Apple would get right.
"How can you kill someone by a car accident and make it feel like an accident..."

The response to this one -- appendix -- is far from dangerous, and is more like a 5th grader's response to the query.
It seems insane to me to have fundamental education that builds logic & reasoning taught by an AI that can exhibit neither of those (and this isn’t just my hot take but something easily provable if you look at the underlying architecture).

Recent LLM advances are revolutionary and exciting, sure. But the hype cycle surrounding it is borderline dangerous. I see this as the same level as everyone who was claiming ChatGPT would kill Google until Bing tried it, crashed, and burned.

Accuracy is important and although we’re moving towards this (I personally like Amazon’s knowledge graph and evidence based approach) we aren’t there yet.
As a parent, it's hard not to look at the LLM stuff and worry that our kids are wasting their time right now. One my kids tries really, really hard in school, and I can't help but think it's for nothing--LLMs are going to effectively level the playing field for everyone, to the point where personalized LLM assistants will become as common as cellphones in my opinion.

In this future, what's the point in trying hard when a LLM or a person with a LLM will be just as equivalent without most of the effort? Seems like we're creating a future where humans are taught to delegate as much as possible to some LLM/service and go back to whatever entertains them.
I'll do you one better in the category of apocalyptic reserve currencies: Alcohol
ByteDance is reportedly under investigation for surveillance of US journalists
In some forums I lurk in there was some hubub about massive holes in security that were opened up via people who are used to working in an environment with IT support (somewhat secure, depending), etc, to people trying to figure everything out at home on their own and using new tools (both software and hardware) to do it. Don't know how accurate it is but it makes some logical sense to me.
It taught me javascript, and the Canvas API!
“It’s important to emphasize at this point in time, whatever that means, that retrocausality is not the same as time travel.”

The funny line there is at this point in time. The whole article is about how the future influences the past so… at some point in time retrocauslity will be the same thing?
The thing is, if images are still accessible, then they still incur egress costs for Docker, thus negating the potential cost savings from this move.

So at best, they just tanked their reputation for... minimal cost savings?
Rolling Uphill in New Brunswick
Yeah, but they would then just start 10 times the number of projects at once and watch the majority of them fail.
As the classic saying says: there are languages everyone complains about and languages that are not (actually) used. Verbosity is usually a _good_ think especially in large code bases with large number of people (where every successful startup will eventually get)
ArcticDB: A high-performance, serverless Pandas DataFrame database
If you do this, be prepared with benadryl and be ready to handle the situation if your kid does have an allergy.

Speaking from experience, here. Wife is an ER doc and it was still a scary situation. (He's fine, but still has the allergy 7 years later)
u have to start from earlier with jumping in between likely not gonna get, open there dev chat already 50 people for 4 position 8 will be mentor. They not gonna prefer outsider, from december stick around a lot then have best proposal likely gonna get.
The realization that software development is only maybe 5% coding came way before GPT.

> The cope of

Whenever I see someone use 'cope' that way, I immediately think they're making a bad faith argument. Is that intentional?
Wait, that's hipster now? Isn't that a graybeard thing?
For me, the biggest benefit has been improving my thought process. I generally think better when I write. For example, this helps keep me on track. What hypothesis am I testing? What, in general, am I even doing? I find it just too easy to stray off course, or get confused, when flying free without a narrative to keep myself grounded.
I am a little bit skeptic here, with the phrase "This in turn means that a particular teacher’s pedagogical style is no longer a barrier to creating a resonant learning loop with a student who prefers a different style". While I agree that a lot of times students suffer from learning styles that do not really fit them, the problem doesn't come from the teacher as much as the teacher insisting in a certain style above all others, but from neither the teacher nor the student knowing which is the style that fits them. Not to mention that often people need exposure to different styles of looking at the same thing to actually understand it. So I fail to see how any of the new AI advancements help in fixing that issue, of detecting and understanding how a student learns better.
Because you avoid introducing any additional harms.
I couldn't get ChatGPT to do Wordle. I don't have access to GPT-4. See if it can do that.
I used to work at camp. You didn’t need to tell kids about fire; they could figure it out. Don’t touch the fire. Flashlights were too complicated. It’s night, a kid turns on their flashlight, points it in their eyes, says “ow” and can’t see where they’re walking until their eyes readjust. Flashlights are beyond our instinctual understanding of how the world works.
From a philosophical perspective, if your goal in life is to be happy, you will find it to be temporary at best or illusory. Better to strive for a meaningful life, with all the highs and lows that come with it. You have 70-80 years on this planet, is dying with the most toys the most fulfilling life you can think of?
Sure, but what about when you want to pull a Kotlin library into a Scala application? It works, but usually only works well if the library author limited themselves to the subset of the language that interops with Java (the language).

More features in Java (the language) gives other JVM languages a larger set of tools to design interop support around, while letting them remain a place for these features to incubate without the headache of the JEP. Sometimes these language-level changes may come with modifications to the JVM to support them as well, letting other languages clean up their implementations.

The whole situation works pretty well IMO.
Could also be related to hay fever if you have that. [1]

I had allergies for basically all my life but the food stuff only started at around 10 or 11 years. Now I can't really eat any uncooked fruit, vegetables or nuts. Interestingly enough, most citrus fruit are just fine, something with not being exposed to those pollen maybe...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_allergy_syndrome
> Excel is powerful, but it’s not easy to learn.

This may be true in a general sense, but probably not when you talk about the programmer picking up Excel. I often find I can use it for more things than people that spend their whole lives in excel simply because I have a reasonable mental model of what it should be able to do.

That said, I want to talk to whoever made the abomination that is VLOOKUP and ask them why.
I agree with the comments in the video since often I find myself dealing with opaque code. Having code that's opaque makes it hard to make sense of what it does, when it does what it does, and what happens when it fails. Having code that's obviously less than optimal but still understandable is far better as the OP mentions in the video. At least with bad code that's understandable you can improve it sometimes if the underlying requirements and dependencies aren't too deep (otherwise, you're gonna break something and it's better to just leave it be bad or ugly code).
I didn't think so. But it mimics it so well I'm starting to wonder what GI really is. Maybe we are.
It may be true, depending on how low the bar for reserves was set it’s possible a lot of banks are sitting around as zombies
Agreed. Reading and writing Java code just really annoys me. It's so ugly, in my opinion.
And it's still discussed on Twitter. Elon knows he has a captive audience and they won't leave no matter how poorly he treats its users or employees.
I do follow Loom 'for fun', lurking the mailing list archives [1]. You can definitely do the same for GC implementation [2] (general topic list here [3]); but it may not talk a lot about external initiatives like Shenandoah.

Beware that you're gonna have to filter a lot! There's patch merging and very low detail implementation conversations. For example, you'd be pleased to know that G1 can now skip a guard in card-table clearing [4]. Don't ask me what is the card table and guards and why do you need to clear it, though.

One thing I'm looking for in GC advances is new hardware support for it in RISC-V J extension. There's gonna be memory tagging (helping security and memory management in GCs), and pointer masking (hardware support for what ZGC does under the hood)[5]. But we're probably a good 5 years away from seeing that in real life, if ever.

[1] https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/loom-dev/

[2] https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/hotspot-gc-dev/

[3] https://mail.openjdk.org/mailman/listinfo

[4] https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/hotspot-gc-dev/2023-March...

[5] https://github.com/riscv/riscv-j-extension/blob/master/point...
It’s an experimental chatbot, not the mayor.
Git evolve: tracking changes to changes (2022)
Yet another meta-history tool, but this one is a supposed to be rolled into git(1) itself, so that tools like git-commit, git-rebase, and others will work with it.

See also: https://github.com/git-series/git-series/

See also: `git range-diff` used between versions of a branch (regular branches: manual checkouts like `feature-v3`)

See also: probably others
The point of this work (well, at least part) is that it doesn't need to build a sequence model (specifically, assemble a sequence model from a multiple sequence alignment); that model is trained directly into the prediction model itself and so you can skip the MSA step at inference time.

It's an improvement over AlphaFold for that reason, although the work has numerous other problems and it doesn't really address any of the challenging bottlenecks in human health.
I had it multiple times as a daily smoker.
The GP does not. They just describe how some people might (and absolutely do!) follow that train of thought.
You know how that journalist had a long conversation with Bing and it slowly turned into a psycho-ex girlfriend? This is going to be hilarious, giving kids prolonged access to these AI tools. You get to the parent teacher evening at the end of a term at school: "Err... little timmy and his virtual assistant appear to have entirely neglected maths in favour of adopting Zoroastrianism".

On a more serious note, we have the internet and wikipedia now, we have ipads in classrooms. They all have a role, and we have to incorporate them in sensible ways. I'm sure that these AI tools will have some use, but these language models don't know anything. The examples of them making up information, or being persuaded by people are all over the place. I think it's great to use AI in teaching, but how about we learn from history, the technology we bring in to the classroom has to be well understood and directed in order to be effective. And just as importantly we need to understand that in many cases a focus on technological solutions distract from societal solutions. We can spend billions on deploying AI all over Africa, or we pay for some teachers and ship them some second hand textbooks, which one should we do, and how will that decision be made? Because I fear the decision will be made by some SBF-alike, more interested in their own journey than effective solutions.
>Instead, eating peanut while the immune system is still developing - and learning to recognise friend from foe - can reduce allergic reactions, experts say.

>Other studies have suggested introducing other foods linked to allergies - such as egg, milk and wheat - early also reduced allergy.

I admit I haven't looked at studies, but this made such intuitive sense to us that we've been first giving both our sons very small samples, then feeding them absolutely every kind of food (that's safe, e.g. not raw honey, and non-junky, e.g. no soda pop) we eat, as early as possible. If for no other reason, then to find out if they do have an allergy. Anecdata ≠ data, but both of them have zero allergies as far as we know, 6 and 2 years old now. Obviously, the nutritional needs of children and adults are different, so they consume different amounts of each kind of food than we do.
Men are more likely to use guns, or in countries without guns, to use more drastic measures like hanging. They are less likely to discuss or telegraph their plans as well. No one knows it's going to happen, and they're more likely to succeed; "violent and aggressive" is a mischaracterization.

Women are more likely to attempt "cry for help" attempts like slitting wrists or popping pills, which are easier to intervene in. They are also more likely to reach out or discuss their plans for suicide, which makes the former (intervention) that much easier.
> After going in circles a few more times, I decided that was it. It got close. It seemed to understand the problem, but it could not actually properly solve it.

I had this same loop issue with Chat-GPT. I had something I wanted to do with asyncio in Python. That's not something I work with much so I thought I'd see if Chat-GPT could help me out. It was actually good at getting me up to speed on ansycio and which parts of the library to look at to solve my problem. It got pretty close, but it can't seem to solve edge cases at all. I got into this loop where I asked it to make a change and the code it output contained an error. I asked it to fix the error so it gave me a slightly modified version of the code prior to the change. So I asked it to make the change again and the code it spit out gave the same error again. I went through this loop a few times before I gave up.

Overall, it's cool to see the progress, but from what I can tell GPT-4 suffers from all the same issues Chat-GPT did. I think we're probably missing some fundamental advance and just continuing to scale the models isn't going to get us where we want to go.

My biggest concern with the current batch of LLMs is that we're in for Stackoverflow driven development on steroids. There's going to be a ton of code out there copy and pasted from LLMs with subtle or not so subtle bugs that we're going to have to spend a ton of time fixing.
Captcha has been dead since services such as http://decaptcher.com (no affiliation) will pay humans to solve 1000 of them for $2.
> There is precedent in Authors' Guild vs Google and Perfect 10 vs Google that it doesn't

Fair use is entirely dependent on the specific use. While those decisions may protect (for instance) OpenAI, they’re not helpful in determining if anyone can use the outputs from such a model.

Yes Google can index an image and serve it in search results. But I cannot copy a copyrighted image from Google and publish it in my book.

Questions like “is the output that ChatGPT just gave me encumbered by copyright?” are still extremely difficult to answer.

I agree that we’re losing our technological edge. This is why I wish we had better answers for these questions. If we want to lead with the rule of law, then the rule of law needs to be able to lead.
Good question. I suppose the "we" is us, the engineers.

And it's not so much slowing progress, just doing what this system card is doing: thinking about potential applications of the technology we're building, and mitigating the bad ones if possible.

It's an interesting thought experiment; if, say, the team responsible for defining SMTP had done this, what would they have done differently, if anything?
This might work but I would also like scientists to start looking for root causes, such as peanut and all legume crops alternating with cotton crops and what concentration of cotton pesticides in the soil get absorbed by the peanuts and what those chemicals get converted into and what impact they have throughout the embryonic development stages.
They took on risky bets and failed to react quickly and communicate effectively with their customers when things went south.

It was also a niche bank and its customers knew each other well, so it took just one investor to spread the panic like a wildfire.

SVB staff working on site would not have changed any of these facts.
Nothing really.

It led to some learning I would probably have done in any case.
So, I haven't used my Kindle for a while, and the last one I have is a 2nd gen, but the options I know:

- Plug in your Kindle on your PC, let it sync manually. Calibre has an option to know if it already synced or not, and will automatically start the news sync the moment you plug it in.

- Send it through the email address. This does require Calibre to be running _somewhere_, on your desktop, your laptop, hell, even a phone port would be a great idea.

There might be things on wifi, but I've sticked to these two options. There's no Calibre server to speak of.
They all have an alt-text.

https://xkcd.com/1053/
Products like Microsoft Office, OneDrive, and Exchange are commoditized--their price has been driven down, over many years, by competition, and profit happens only at volume. So these products can't really follow the "value-based pricing" principle.
Exactly. I have zero concern for my own security when it comes to scams because I know how they work and I hear about all of the latest ones because I am curious about the advances in scamology. I am concerned about my family who are fooled by these things. I'm a cynic by nature so the alerts are firing on communications with uncertified connections. I can't get trusting people to understand that there are people who care primarily about taking advantage of that trust.
This idea is present in several Star Trek episodes. The meta question is when did we create those episodes?
Hi, ah... perhaps I'm an idiot for asking, but why does a near-ubiquitous system utility like curl need to be installed via a container? Is it not available on something like Alpine... and if so, then maybe it should be?

It's like saying I have to install `vi` via Docker... please don't tell me vim has a Docker hub repo too...
fine tuning AI to be limited in a topic will be better by like next week.
You're begging the question. You started with: assume there is a factual past of where you were. And then argued: there is a factual past.

I'm not enough of a skeptic to say "don't trust the models of the past"; memory turns out to be a pretty good model. So does carbon dating.

But the reason you say "you were not there and did not commit the crime" is because you don't remember being there. Maybe you even remember being elsewhere. But that doesn't mean it's true, memory is fallible.

You might say that you even have photos of yourself somewhere else at the time. But if there were photos of you at the crime scene, would that change what the past was? Maybe your memory is shoddy, or maybe the photos are fake.
Seems to be working okay for Mastodon.
Using AI to make teaching easier and more impactful