skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I created MeatballWiki. We ended up helping Wikipedia launch. I am responsible for the barn stars and the [[free link]] syntax.

I thought peer to peer social software was my future. I was going to speak at O’Reilly p2pcon September 23, 2001 in Washington DC. Well that didn't happen thanks to 9/11.

So unemployed after the bust I got into a masters program in Toronto to extend my ideas from MeatballWiki.

I met the love of my life and married her later. I got a job running marketing at FreshBooks and went hard into SaaS partnerships.

From there I created the Cloud Software Association and the SaaS Connect conference. Now I have my own startup AppBind to solve partnership problems.

So, not much.
Just so you know, the original version of this quote was "commoditize their complement", not "commoditize their competition"
That's what I thought too, but seems like that happened over a year later.

The data seems very questionable in general, so who knows.
ZFS was a use case that immediately came to mind.
I'm curious what the raw numbers look like. Is OSX gaining users, or is it just not dropping as fast as Windows?
Very cool! Are you doing prompt engineering, fine-tuning, both, something else?

I'm wondering if it'd be cool to have a chess contest where all the bots are LLM powered. Seems to me like the contest would have to ban prompt engineering -- would have to have a fixed prompt -- otherwise people would sneak chess engines into their prompt generation.
The study is saying carbs or bread have an adverse influence on health. But that's false. It's creating anxiety about a loaf of bread that is patently idiotic.

Eat a reasonable amount of bread and your body is fine. The human body is really great at adapting dietarily in most healthy humans.

Weight is only one dimension of health.
Makes me think of the "when is main not a function" article from 2015:

http://jroweboy.github.io/c/asm/2015/01/26/when-is-main-not-...
Not denying it's shittiness but it doesn't do that for me.
> religions and philosophies like to pretend otherwise.

"pretend" is a little too harsh; "insist" is more like it. And for good reason, because...

> Human life, specifically, is no more or less valuable than any other life

...is considered harmful.
Unfortunately most of the growth seems to have been for another user hostile OS, macOS.
And the fact that I have to shut down my windows laptop to have any reasonable expectation that it'll have a charge the next day. Or maybe even later that day.
relatively cheap MacBook Air and iPhones.
So you basically don't care about licensing.

That's ok for your use case but risky for anything open source of that might be sold around the world.
Yeah, okay. Lmk when there's telegram groups of people injecting 10x the human dose of masks and literally dying.
Consider this Osprey taking a rest on a boat during migration from the UK to Spain - https://twitter.com/sachadench/status/1569801627757838338
For those who are in the "technology will solve education at scale" camp and open-minded + curious to learn how this has played out over the past century, I highly recommend Audrey Watters' work ([0], [1])

Every new flavor (radio->TV, TV->Internet, Internet->MOOCs) was going to succeed where the previous one had failed, but (spoiler alert), cutting human teachers out of the loop has had a 100% failure rate (at scale -- though small pockets may have seen success).

[0] https://www.nea.org/advocating-for-change/new-from-nea/far-r...

[1] The Monsters of Education Technology (book)
Yeah, no. Firing everyone because AI can do iptables now is the sort of pipe dream you sell to a crazy one-man startup, not a pre-established business looking to save money. If you legitimately believe that people are paid for their "single threaded" potential to write software, what kind of business do you run?

You're being unnecessarily fatalist and it's making your viewpoint sound as ridiculous as the self-proclaimed 10x devs that could lay off entire software teams because they wrote Homebrew in a weekend.
I don't think the name or design matters very much at all.

The vast majority of traffic you get to your blog these days will be because somewhere linked to an individual post.

As long as it's readable, the people who arrive to read that post won't care about the branding that surrounds it.
I was thinking about this.

On chess.com you can chain premoves, on lichess you can't(afaik).

So in theory, to the extent premoves explain the rating difference, the difference should be greater on chess.com assuming they have the same parameters in their rating calculations. Therefore it should be possible to perform an analysis to shed light on this. But someone would have to go recompute the 3 different ratings under the same system first to be able to make a sensible analysis.
single-core, latency doesn't matter, low footprint: serial

throughput: parallel or G1

balance between latency, footprint and throughput: G1

latency more important than throughput or footprint: ZGC or shenandoah

missiles and HFT: Epsilon
GPT / LLM / MLOps security repo
Made this list. Feel free to contribute..
that seems like the opposite of strange
That seems crazy - that my decision to have a ham sandwich for lunch had to be propagated all the way back to the start of the universe in order to happen ;)

And yes, provability is a major problem with all these kinds of theories. We don't have a parallel universe handy as a control, and just saying "I am not going to have a ham sandwich tomorrow" isn't a viable experiment.
True, but it does sound like how they learned to say "thank you" in high school, and how regional dialects can influence the change of language.
Nice respin on an old theme. Reminds me of the Sun Prestoserve card: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19620-01/805-4448/6j47cnj0t/inde...
> I'm wondering if GPT is going to usher in an era where new content is simply not made available to view/crawl on the web.

I've stopped adding new stuff to the public areas of my websites. Not as a result of GPT specifically, but as a result of a dramatic increase in the amount of scraping being done to support things that I don't approve of. AI training in general being one of them.
New API tests can be generated by enabling the agent locally and/or on a staging env.

Its simply a matter of using a baseline of: `production` (usually for regression tests), `staging` or `local`.
They absolutely are decision making models. Prompt them right, and they will output a decision in natural language or structured JSON. Heck, hook them up to a judicial system and they can start making low quality decisions tomorrow.
> with how buggy 4.0 still is.

Unreal is pretty notoriously buggy as well
If you look past the literal interpretation of the specific words in this particular statement, the people involved have previously shown a deep appreciation for the risks. Altman is optimistic that the risks can be mitigated with effort, but he believes that they're there.
Installed base size, not market share.
I sincerely apologize for taking your submission in good faith and reading it at face-value.
Every time I open Unity these days it I hate it a little bit more. Everytimy I open Godot I love it a little bit more. The bloat vs the transparency. The frustration vs speed of development. Godots catch phrase should be: Godot gets out of your way! Unity may have democratised game dev but Godot made it fun again.
Did training doctors get any cheaper? If not, then a doctor will try their hardest to get out of debt as soon as possible. Just think, their friends who aren't doctors already have a house by the time they graduate with a few hundred thousand in debt and no house to show for it.

You want cheaper healthcare? Make becoming a doctor cheaper.
Check other articles by the same author.
They have this free gaming app with Amazon prime that changed names several times.
Fort Hood Soldier Found Dead After Telling Family About Sexual Harassment
I will not be a first adopter of this, but it is cool.
One thing ChatGPT probably won't tell you about macroeconomic theory unless specifically asked about it is that a lot of the foundational assumptions are highly idealized and aren't that useful for making real-world predictions:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-economist-has...

> "But what is not widely known is that these now legendary economists—William Stanley Jevons, Léon Walras, Maria Edgeworth and Vilfredo Pareto—developed their theories by adapting equations from 19th-century physics that eventually became obsolete."

I'd probably trust ChatGPT more on elucidating the history of the development of macroeconomic theory then on applications of the theory to real-world problems, but that goes for the working professionals in the field as well, with all their rosy predictions of the benefits of NAFTA to the working public in the 1990s, or their predictions of the benefits of financial deregulation in the early 2000s prior to the 2008 Recession, and so on.

E.g. ChatGPT claims American academic institutions adopted macroeconomic theory with Milton Friedman at Chicago and Alvin Hansen at Harvard, and this was preceded by development in the 1920s at the National Bureau of Economic Research and in the 1930s with the Cowles Commission. If you ask it what role the above four individuals in the quote played in the development of macroeconomic theory, it gives illuminating answers on utility, general equilibrium, indifference curves, and Pareto efficiency (which, ChatGPT claims strongly, is not zero-sum game thinking). This all seems fairly accurate based on other sources, except that the relationship between game theory and Pareto efficiency seems fairly contentious.

Also, here's a good question to ask it in the context of the desirability of optimizing Pareto efficiency:

"Has macroeconomic theory ever been criticized on teleological grounds?"

Generally, this is probably not the best subject to give to ChatGPT as a quantitative test. Maybe try it out with something more concrete, like how to use gravitational assist (aka 'slingshot') to send a spacecraft to Jupiter or Saturn, and see how explicit it can get in terms of a launch trajectory?
Landing and taking off again doesn't obviously conserve energy. Midway has fuel, but there's probably not much accessible food on a cargo ship.

I wonder if birds are smart enough to notice which direction the ship is moving?
Oh you're right, hive mind, it's efficient. Sorry.
Huh. Not an issue for me, but I use windows, maybe their Mac app sucks?
In the XVII century, the alternative to heliocentrism was Tycho Brahe’s model: Earth at the centre, the Sun and Moon and the stars revolving around it, and the other planets revolving around the Sun. It was basically equivalent to the heliocentric model with a different coordinate system.

It’s important to understand that astronomers chose it because it really seemed to provide a better explanation given the knowledge and technology at the time.

Tycho Brahe himself noted that his model could be disproved by observing the stellar parallax effect as the Earth orbits the Sun (if the Earth does move, then the stars would look slightly different throughout the year). This is a real effect, but so small that it couldn’t be observed until the XIX century.
I have long felt resistant to therapy because while there are some clear general human situations I face, so much come down to specifics, to how I take to the world and what I want & expect in community & my interests versus what is available, versus where other people are.

There's abstract situations here, but I'd rather have peers that really can see the basis I'm coming from, that have some ability to be on my side, as an alien apart from the world & wishing I saw more me & what I love so much reflected back in it.
I worked on something like this briefly years ago and caching and mocking the downstream calls was a beast of a technical problem.

For example, suppose a startup has an Express app that made downstream requests to Postgres, Redis, Kafka, other REST APIs, etc. How do the outgoing requests, which may follow different protocols, with varying serialization formats and handshakes, all get intercepted, recorded, and matched to the same outgoing calls when the session is replayed? How are the outgoing requests indexed and then evaluated for sameness when replayed?

It definitely seems possible to implement something like this as a series of high-level one-off integrations, for example, a middleware package for Django apps. But if the goal is a universal and automatic downstream service mocking system, it's not clear to me where this sort of middleware would even sit in the application stack. It seems like it would need to be pretty low-level, but not too low-level because the data needs to be decrypted first.

Anyway, if you guys have figured out a good way to do this, I'm definitely interested in hearing how you managed it. I'm in no way a great BE engineer, so there could be something elegant or obvious that I missed.
> German ... pilsners

[Cries in Czech]

I jest of course :) The ležák beers that are most popular in Czech Republic (Pilsner Urquell in Bohemia; Radegast in Moravia/Silesia) are veeery nice, but they're probably not a huge departure from any good German beers, though there's some really fun smaller breweries doing cool stuff you may not see internationally. Great excuse to visit though :D
Yeah pretty sad to see one hostile ecosystem being traded, and lauded, for another. That's how the cycle goes I suppose.
The Wii's GPU did indeed have a fixed function pipeline, but that fixed function pipeline did support normal mapping. ("dot3 bump mapping" as was the style at the time.) However, the Wii's GPU only had 1MB of texture cache. So it was generally preferable to do more work with geometry than with textures.

Some exec from Nintendo is on record as saying something along the lines that texture mapping looks bad and should be avoided. My conspiracy theory is that it was a conscious decision at Nintendo to limit the ability of its consoles to do stuff with textures. The N64 was even worse, a lot worse: it only had 4kB of texture cache.
“Easily” was a minor canard, or at least… it took me a couple of efforts over a couple of days to get the dependencies to play as nicely as “someone with a brand new M2 arm laptop.”

If nothing else, I continue to be amazed and how uninteroperable certain technologies are.

I had to remove glibc and gcc to get llama to compile on my intel macbook. Masking/hiding them from my environment didn’t work, as it went out and found them and their header files instead of clang.

Which eventually worked fine.
You all have been reading hacker news recently too I see.
Using a mac on your network:

1. I looked into Sidecar ( https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210380 ) to use an iPad as a second display with a mac, but it says that only iPads 3rd generation (2019) or newer are supported. Models: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT201471#ipadair

2. The mac's built-in screen sharing is a VNC server.

3. When you search in the ios app store for "vnc" the list of other suggested apps seems to have a bunch.
+1 CBT

my experience has been that it’s very “action” oriented, no BS or talking about the past. Feelings and emotions have to be grounded in reality, then you act.
This is true for autodidacts. I am one, and the same is true for me.

It is absolutely not true for most people. Most people need a human guide to show them the way. I am living this now with my two kids, both of whom need instruction (and also help from mom and dad).
Blue Hat 2023 and UEFI Secure Boot
This is about them distributing the engine itself on the store (and apparently even contributing to it), not just allowing games made with the engine on the store. Presumably you could already do that
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I made this game a while ago and have still been playing it daily against my wife (who can finish it quicker and with fewer hints)

I figured some other people might enjoy it too. I submitted it a while back but have done a couple of updates since then.
I had a valid for-life license of Office on my Windows 10 PC. When I converted to 11, the software was so slow it was completely unusable. I had to buy a 365 subscription. Then they empowered employers with a nightmarish suite to monitor productivity. They have piloted injection of adware into the operating system. Now, out-of-control AI language models are being implemented and it all amounts to the enshittification of knowledge work. Faced with these hellish anti-human systems, I see Windows and Office increasingly as actively harmful to my working life.
correct - the SVB collapse was pretty bad on its own, but it provided the perfect opportunity to jump on the blame train and spin a bunch of negative narratives.

News(events) = boring but useful
News(events + narratives) = juicy and less useful

I wrote about this more extensively here: https://claritynews.substack.com/p/a-lesson-in-how-media-and...
NewsUnfold – See Through Media Bias
It doesn't really matter though. The code is just an ML image processing API and a prompt containing the interface for that API.
Is there any point to the comment? Did Vice made the theory up?
It sounds like you need a lawyer not a therapist.
> forced to hold arbitrary, unprovable, counter factual beliefs

You're actually criticising AI alignment as a premise, which is bad if AGI is coming soon, because we will very much need AI alignment.

All human moral values (e.g. don't kill other people) are arbitrary and unprovable, not based in logic or reason, they're subjective values that we've invented for ourselves because they make us feel good. No different to the "woke" values (e.g. racism is bad) that you have subjectively decided to disagree with.

Just be honest that you aren't actually against AI alignment. You just want OpenAI to program the AI to have the values that you yourself hold (yes, don't kill people, but be racist).
As much as I dislike FB, and I certainly abhor their activities related to the genocide - I think this is far too different.

Rohingya is a textbook example of blind optimisation and lack of context awareness. FB looked at a region, and people communicating in language they didn't understand. But they did see that certain symbols and/or combinations of symbols got a lot of engagement. If you're after money, you want to amplify the use of those symbols and hopefully generate lots more similar content.

Turns out that's a morally reprehensible thing when the people using those symbols were advocating genocide. (It was good for the revenue while it lasted, though.)

With LLMs and their hardcoded guard rails, I suspect we're going to see the danger emerge from the other side. Instead of actively spewing hatred, they will be used for mass sock-puppetry and opinion amplification on a massive scale. Think simple sabotage field manual for 21st century, but weaponised thousand-fold.
I would say the same about middlebrow dismissals like the one that comment was responding to, but apparently if you make a comment like yours toward them it's a bad thing.
How AI based programming could work (2016)
Would you write a blog post about it?
WebUI: Use any web browser as GUI, with your preferred language in the back end
AI-Generated or Not?
So my decision to have a ham sandwich for lunch is determined by some meta-universe that created the starting conditions for this universe, and allows for the breach in causality? Or somehow is involved in the backwards-arrow of quantum events that the article talks about so the universe cannot turn out any other way?

I dunno, seems like a "God of the gaps" thing - we can speculate on meta-meta-universes endlessly. Including one where my decision to have a ham sandwich disturbs the state of a yet higher dimension that sets the starting parameters of your higher dimension and once again I have free will.
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He was the only good part of that show, but he was really good.
Godot is no threat at all to Unreal, at the high end of AAA development you really need the dialed-in horsepower of either an in-house engine, or something like Unreal, which has been increasingly consolidating market share over the last decade.

Godot competes squarely with mid-market stuff: Indie, so-called "Triple-I" (high budget """indie""") and AA development, where Unity is the dominant engine. Unity has very little penetration share among the big AAA games.

Godot and other open source engines squeeze Unity from the bottom, and Unreal squeezes it from the top.
Android has different user agents than Chrome OS, so that should be relatively clean. The larger iPads don't identify differently than Macbook user agents anymore, but the trackers may have been able to separate them based on additional checks. AFAIK the iPad mini still identifies as an iPad.
Mario Galaxy was not even 20 years ago, and that was the point of comparison, so I think you're stating your case a bit more strongly than is fair.
Hi Dom! After more evaluation, we think your experience was a Virginia vs Ohio problem. Once we have Virginia set up (along with a few other things our teams talked about) I'd love for y'all to give us another shot.
While it will inevitable be larger in the future, Godot's current executable size is so small something like this could actually work.

At the very least I would want something like Unity Hub which can manage both projects and engine/editor version installations. Being locked into whatever version of Godot Epic Store considers to be "current" sounds like a nightmare.
Schenck case (1969), overturning the incredibly domineering WW1 atmosphere of government controlled speech:

> "the constitutional guarantees of free speech and free press do not permit a State to forbid or proscribe advocacy of the use of force or of law violation except where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action."

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

Utterly unsurprised to find it was WW1 time-period constraint, as I'm reading the utterly fabulous American Midnight about how the USG built a huge surveillance network & vigilante groups to destroy labor, human-rights, socialistic causes, and anyone not signing up for an incredibly propogandized Big Business lead war.

So... Is TikTok creating incitement of illegal acts? What other clear standards might apply to curb citizens use of this medium? Keeps smellingike horseshit to me.
> ClickHouse, for example, claims insert throughput performance of 50-200 MB/s and up to 1M+ rows per second in common use cases

This is what I've written in my docs in 2016 :)

Today you can easily get 50 million inserted records per second on a single machine, as demonstrated here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlcI2Vfz_uk
Right, well in the US, where Amazon has the plurality of its global workforce (and quite possibly majority of its highly compensated work force), severance is not required.
I grew out of my cyberpunk phase in the early 90s, but I think it's good that there are lots of leaks of all of this stuff.
I don't really have a problem with it being blocked from saying the n-word or whatever and I'm sure that there is always going to be some tuning by the purveyor, but I feel like we have the right to know more of the details with these than, say, how magic select tools work in Photoshop
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