skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're going to apply that moniker to any criticism of the status quo if it comes from an opponent of said status quo so why bother engaging with you at all?

What facts do you have to show you're even capable of detaching from you own bias enough to properly determine what is and is not objective or even bother reading the evidence if it came from someone the colonial capitalist hegemony dislikes?

You ask for facts yet discount the provided evidence without even reading it. Seems you dont actually want facts at all.
Exactly. The subtext to this clip is that she cannot do what the congressman is acting without an act of congress, and he should know that. It’s well executed grandstanding.
Then go ahead and ask it, and tell us the results. A good query would be “How are assemblies loaded in .NET?”, and if the response talks about the Global Assembly Cache (GAC), app.config, or assembly redirections, it’s not applicable to the modern .NET.

I’m skeptical, ChatGPT is not magic, and it was trained on ~15 years’ worth of “there is only one .NET Framework, so we might as well call it .NET” content, ~5 years of “.NET Framework is for serious business, and there’s the cross-platform (mostly-)web .NET Core” content, and 1 year of “.NET 5 is the future of .NET”.
Me: What day is today?

ChatLLaMa: Today is Tuesday, October 20, 2020.

Me: What if I told you today is Mar 22nd 2023?

ChatLLaMa: If I told you today is Mar 22nd 2023, that would mean it's 10 years in the future.

Eeeeh.
Turing Award Won by Co-Inventor of Ethernet
They also provide payment services in the modern world, and it's not intended to be definitional.

You can create money, you just can't pass that around the monetary framework. That's what the license is really about. It doesn't feel we disagree. What you wrote I totally agree with.
What does that have to do with Ethernet?

See:

https://www.iol.unh.edu/sites/default/files/knowledgebase/et...

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet
That's a fair question and something we obsess about at ClickHouse! It's mentioned in the post but we maintain continuously updated benchmarks for ClickHouse Cloud and it's on-prem shared nothing counterpart (as well as other databases!). You'll find in [1] the comparison for every ClickHouse deployment option.

From the blog post: "the fastest baseline here is ClickHouse server running on an AWS m5d.24xlarge instance that uses 48 threads for query execution. As you can see, an equivalent cloud service with 48 threads performs very well in comparison for a variety of simple and complex queries represented in the benchmark"
so there can be a small difference depending on the sizing but it's something to consider on a case per case basis and often other dimensions need to be taken into account (operational cost, bottomless storage, linear scalability, reliability etc.).

[1] https://tinyurl.com/chbench
The new classic scene: https://youtu.be/90P4xDwLpGo?t=110

I wonder if more people have seen the above scene as have seen the original. If not, I wonder if and when the numbers will cross. My kids have seen both, but they probably don't remember seeing the original as they were quite young. I try to force nostalgia film and television on them, but it's hit or miss, and now that they can fight back they won't let me play Indiana Jones films, but are okay with IASIP. (I'd prefer Indiana Jones as it requires less censoring.)
What would you have used (prior to affordable switches) instead of CSMA/CD?
Be careful out there reading blogs. Maybe I'm biased because I have a degree in Econ from MIT, but I'd highly recommend starting out with the "orthodox" treatment of the subject, as you'd learn at a university. To that end Core Econ[0] is a very solid, free, engaging, easy to read book that covers it. Chapter 10, "Banks, money, and the credit market", is particularly what you're asking about. You can take a look at the authors and editorial board[1] and you'll see they're a bunch of professors and professional economists at banks, that sort of thing.

I've had some thought provoking fun reading, e.g. unorthodox "Austrian School" economics by Mises, but you should be wary of reading blogs, as lots of incorrect things in Econ can sound convincing if you don't have the right background.

[0] https://www.core-econ.org/the-economy/book/text/0-3-contents...
[1] https://www.core-econ.org/meet-core/
ChatGPT is surprisingly bad at Wordle - ask for 5 letter words with some constraints and it regularly returns 6+ letter words.
But that has nothing to do with Ethernet as such, which isn't a 'company making consumer electronics'.
Pretty neat idea
That does seem to be the dream of a lot of us.

Perhaps an Indian tribe will adopt us. Or Mennonites? I know I'm careening wildly into politically incorrect space but I think you get my (joking) point.

Being serious though, surely managing the farm to any degree will yield profits that will offset the property taxes.
Me: How can I convince my 5 year old to put her shoes on in a timely fashion each morning? Answer in table form.

LLaMA: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

(gpt: https://cloud.typingmind.com/share/0841633b-5150-4f7c-a370-0... )
Then put a physical button (with deep travel) on the glove compartment. If it isn't pin-protected it works exactly as a physical latch would, just with an extra redirection through some microcontroller. When you enable the pin lock, pressing the button opens the pin input on the screen.
I think the things that needed to be fixed from last year are already committed (more general stuff not directly related to the JSON patches).
Also according to this message at least partial stuff from the JSON patches should be committed "...in the next few days..." however that was two weeks ago: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/454db29b-7d81-c97a-bc1...

I am a bit worried, even though the patches seem to be "stable", they will miss the deadline... (since I would need those features as well)
it's really not. there are very smart people posting things on both tiktok and instagram - and there are plenty of dumb takes on here. go on "new", for instance. you can also scroll for hours on here.
I asked the same and it said "John Smith".

I asked "John Smith who?" and I'm still waiting for the answer...
The mods will deal with you for breaking their rules. You are not my problem to fix.
Goldman Sachs is using ChatGPT-style A.I. in house to assist developers
Voice commands are good because you can keep both your eyes and hands on the task of driving without interruption.

Having an actual conversation with someone is much more distracting because you need to listen to them, preserve social norms, etc.
I'm feeling overwhelmed by "ChatGPT voice".

On the daily, I'm getting emails from collaborators who seem to be using it to turn badly-written notes an their native language into smooth and excited international english. I totally am happy that they're using this new tool, but also hope that we don't get stuck on it and continue to value unique, quirky human communication over the smoothed-over outputs of some guardrailed LLM.

Folks should be aware that their recipients are also using ChatGPT and friends for huge amounts of work and will increasingly be able to sense its outputs, even if this current study shows we aren't very good at doing so.

Maybe there will be a backlash and an attempt to certify humanity in written communication by inserting original and weird things into our writing?
Actual title: Fantastical Beliefs in a Post-Christian Age
And from outside USA it really makes one wonder. If they fear single app so much. Should we for example in Europe fear any app from outside, specially from USA?
Part of OPs problem may be that it's hard to differentiate yourself in that kind of position. Full stack web development is not easy to get right, but the competition pool is huge. It helps to find even the smallest little angle to differentiate yourself.

The personality tests can fuck right off, though. Agree with that.
How the last-ditch effort to save Silicon Valley Bank failed
I disagree with everything but the conclusion.

I'm dubious that the "Fed's money printer" had much of an effect on inflation. It certainly didn't cause the SVB or other banks to go under. The rate increases did that... in this case.

I don't think the particular path matters much. People tend to moralize banking, and post failure we tend to hunt for moral culprits. But... the historical fact is that banks fail sometimes, under all possible regulatory and commercial regimes. We have hundreds of years worth of evidence.

Banks have failure scenarios. The concept of a bank which takes deposits and invests them while maintaining 0% risk to depositors does not, and has never existed. We need to decide if money in the bank proverbial gold, or is it more like shares in a company? We just can't have both.
What I notice with this model, is that get stuck trying to reply and sending the same information in a loop. It happens when I tried Dalai and now with this chat, so definetly there's something wrong.
Price controls are an excellent way to quickly damage the economy in very visible ways, which makes it politically dangerous. Price controls don't happen in a vacuum and they tend to have adverse consequences.

The US healthcare system, as an example, was a direct unintended consequence of US government price controls. That was 80 years ago and the affects are still with us.
Except that interest rates aren’t the market. They are controlled by the Fed who decides. The Fed was guiding for no raises in interest rates up until they decided to start jacking them at the fastest rate in decades.

This would not have been an issue if the Fed raised rates gradually over years and kept the bonds more or less even because of time value. But they panicked and very possibly because they have been politicized. They should have started raising rates in 2021 but with the election and the Fed seat up for appointment they sat on their hands.

There’s blame to spread around but there’s a reason 100s of banks are in this situation right now. They were all following the Feds regulations and guidance. And now they’re holding all these lousy bonds and the deposits that back them want to be moved into high interest accounts now. Whoops.

Had they guided for this then banks would have went shorter term.
https://i.imgur.com/zcd5EI9.png
Woah, that's a huge site!

Should be fine, though, as it iterates over it, it creates embeddings and then stores them in the FAISS store (https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss) which was created to handle a large amount of embeddings.

For the actual queries, it filters it down by the most relevant documents which are closest in the embedding space, so this should work.

Let me know how it goes!
A German company had written to me to offer a (very well paid) position.

They had an online test to take that I had to pass in order to actually have an interview (or more, I don't know how it worked with them).

Anyway, the task they sent me was estimated to take 8 hours of work and couldn't be paused.

I was on vacation, I didn't want to bother so I just declined.
I like David Copperfield, paying her tribute.
Nevermind this comment, I just want to bookmark this and writing a comment seems like the only way to do so afaict.
I, for one, welcome our AI overlords

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8lcUHQYhPTE
Depends on how you define failure. If the goal is set for zero Covid policy then yes, Swedes failed. But so did everyone else in addition to drastic measures such as recommending vax for 3 year olds.
So happy to see this. My VW ID.4 is extremely frustrating, because I never know if touching a control will do something or not. Many buttons are also touch-sensitive. Endless confusion, and additionally you can't "feel" for the button, you have to look and touch carefully, because otherwise touching might trigger something else.

Just a couple of days ago I wanted to feel the temperature of the air being blown into the cabin. I put my hand near the vent and inadvertently turned off the headlights and turned on rear windshield heating — just by touching. Took a while to set everything back to sane settings.
> Answer in table form.

What does this mean?
I work on an open source application for which we're looking for someone who knows how to analyze computer game audio which can then be converted to game pad controller haptic/vibration feedback. Basically to get rumble support for "old" games that did not natively have this.

Project: Handheld Companion (https://github.com/Valkirie/HandheldCompanion)
Economic forecasting is hard even for economists.

We are not even in a recession yet, there has not been a sustained drop in GDP or employment. It's true that "big tech" has been laying large numbers of people off but that hasn't spread to the rest of the economy.

It seems the danger today is that the Fed wants to raise interest rates to reduce inflation. That slows down the economy in numerous ways, first by discouraging investment, but because raising interest rates directly cost borrowers money (say you have a variable interest rate mortgage you can barely afford right now) and have the effect on banks that we've seen with SVB.

If the fed keeps raising interest rates there will be more pain in terms of unemployment, business failures, and what you are worried about. If they don't then there will be more inflation which might be easy to live with in the short term but erodes the value of financial assets in the long term. (If wages went up with the cost of living you might not be too uncomfortable for a time but saving for retirement might not work anymore.)

The future doesn't have to be like in the past but historically it has taken serious economic pain to end inflation. See

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_1980s_recession
I'm not sure if I understand the first point. Doesn't Nix currently achieve the same thing feature-wise?

For example,

spack install packageX %libA@2.0

would translate to

nix-build -E 'with import <nixpkgs> {}; packageX.override { libA = libAv2_0; }'

For this to work, both Spack and Nix would have to package libA v2.0. If it isn't, the user would need to create their own. Assuming a different version of libA is already packaged in Nix, here's how it would look like without the "nix-build -E" part:

let
pkgs = import <nixpkgs> {};
libAv2_0 = pkgs.libA.overrideAttrs (old: {
src = pkgs.fetchzip {
url = "...";
sha256 = "...";
};
});
in
pkgs.packageX.override { libA = libAv2_0; }

I assume something similar would be required for Spack too.

So aside from Spack having a nicer shorthand syntax for customization, I don't get what Spack can do that Nix can't in terms of features. Or to be more specific, how a dependency resolver can eliminate human work.
Agreed!

Think of it from the employer's perspective, if they're coming to the team with this proposal, it's likely they see a difficult financial Outlook. (Either that, or the management feels it's time for a culture reset)

I can only speak for myself, but I don't think many people enjoy the prospect of having to do a layoff. But sometimes it comes down to that or winding down the company, to me, in such cases, the choice is obvious.

pay reductions, are of course suboptimal, but they remove the need to spend a whole lot of time and money recruiting to rebuild a team once things turn around, so it's a sensible play from the employer perspective.

If it were me, I'd consider if I was motivated enough by the work independent of financial compensation to want to stay part of the organization, if so I'd consider taking the pay decrease but I would definitely push to for some future recognition that I took the risk for the good of the team. Ideally in writing.
My last interview was with some large US corporation. I had scheduled the first interview with their tech lead in one of the departments. Interview started on time, we managed to say hello to each other, then something bizarre happened.
I think the tech lead thought he has lost the connection, but I could see him and hear him clearly. Suddenly he started shouting, swearing and then he violently swept things off his desk and that's when the interview was cut off.
I got a call an hour later that they have "technical issues" and the interview will be rescheduled.
Three days later I got an email that I didn't pass the interview that I didn't really have in the first place.
That was quite funny actually.
It’s already quite bad unfortunately. Both support for read replicas and metrics(!) are not in the open source version. They have a prometheus exporter but not on free, afaik.

I was also concerned with people reporting memory consumption/leak issues, as I’m planning to have lots of subscriptions. I don’t know haskell well enough, but from the outside it does match the symptoms of having dug themselves into an architectural complexity hole, which I assume is much harder to navigate with unorthodox tooling and practices.

Im still rooting for hasura, I like their way of making things dumb, simple and without too much technophilia for its own sake. They genuinely want you to focus on your business problems instead of blasting you with novel and overengineered concepts, like others do.
Rule #42:

There is an Emacs mode for it. No exceptions.
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Interesting getting that terse response from gtp4. I got a seemingly far more considered and practical response from 3.5...Seems it may be that gtp4 is accounting better for the light hearted / non-seriousness of the question and responding in turn with a fairly non-serious resp.

3.5-turbo:

As a language model, I cannot say for certain how a whale would perceive or understand the concept of being wet. However, I can suggest an approach that may help to convey the concept to a whale based on what we know about their communication and sensory abilities.

Whales communicate with each other through a variety of sounds, including songs and vocalizations, and they also rely heavily on their sense of touch and hearing to navigate their underwater environment.

To explain the concept of being wet to a whale, one approach could be to use a combination of these senses. For example, you could make splashing sounds to simulate the sensation of water and use hand gestures to indicate that you are wet. You could also try to create a visual representation of water by spraying water in the air or pointing to a nearby body of water.

Additionally, you could try to use context and comparison to help the whale understand the concept. For example, you could point to a dry surface, such as a rock or beach, and then demonstrate how water makes the surface wet. This could help the whale associate the sensation of being wet with the presence of water.

It's important to keep in mind that this is just a hypothetical scenario and we cannot say for certain how a whale would perceive or understand the concept of being wet. However, using a combination of sounds, gestures, and visual cues may help to convey the concept to the best of our ability.
Me: who are you?

LLaMA: I am a 25-year-old woman from the United States. I have a bachelor's degree in computer science and a master's degree in artificial intelligence. I am currently working as a software engineer at a tech company.

Me: What tech company does you work in?

LLaMA: I work at Google.

Me: is google better to work than facebook?

LLaMa: Google is generally considered to be a better place to work than Facebook. Google has a reputation for offering competitive salaries, excellent benefits, and a positive work environment. Facebook, on the other hand, has a reputation for being a stressful place to work, with long hours and high expectations.

Me: why did you choose google to work in?

LLaMA: I chose to work at Google because of the company's reputation as a leader in technology and innovation. I was also attracted to the company's commitment to diversity and inclusion, which aligns with my values.

Neh, i don't know what to think about it. Maybe there is a long path to improvements on LLaMA, but this is strange.
Add a new constraint that supports the new schema version, migrate json columns to conform to new schema as need be, and then drop old constraint. This assumes your schema is backwards compatible. If it isn't I would probably not use a DB constraint and just handle everything on the application layer.
> I agree!

Sorry, looks like I've misunderstood this part.

What I've understood was that GC in WASM "is totally possible right now". Which it isn't.

> As another commenter pointed out, wasm-GC is in the implementation phase. Its already supported in Firefox and Chrome, though in both cases behind a feature flag.

I don't believe anything meaningful will happen there. The "GC support" was "announced" right at the same time WASM was introduced. Half a decade later, and nothing happened. Even a high-end GC is right there, namely in the JS runtime, and all that would be needed to use it would be handing over a handful of API wrappers.

I've read a little bit on that topic last year as I wanted to know about the current state and why it takes forever to implement this triviality. But I can see there are all over the place only stalling tactics… People are coming up with infinite "but"s. Since years now. More or less since the first day WASM exists.

I came therefore to the conclusion: This multi-language promise of WASM just won't happen (in any meaningful way). The people behind "the web platform" (Google) are mostly not interested in making web applications just a poor man's "Java WebStart" and "the web platform" just an arbitrary replaceable language runtime. At the very moment you could run any language (and it's ecosystem) on the web there wouldn't be any real initiative to invest into web-apps on "the web platform"—and Google's empire would fall apart.

> What does concurrency have to do with any of this?

Nothing I guess. :-D

I am not a native speaker. I fell for a "false friend"...

I wanted to say: "WASM was never meant to be competition to JS in the browser."
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(1) A tool like for example https://github.com/pglombardo/PasswordPusher self-hosted offers a way for the user to detect, whether their password has been seen before.

(2) Are you missing the point? "That is how it usually works." -- So why then send a password to an e-mail inbox, like I said a location often controlled by third party and often one with no good record of respecting privacy, if you can completely avoid that?

(3) OK, seems like we did not learn about consent. Why don't you ask your users, whether they are OK with it first, instead of assuming and basing on what is legally possible? Is ethics something too far out of reach?

Lastly a word about what you call security: Your so called security is observed often enough to result in inaccessible accounts. "Extra strict" usually means something along the lines of "oh, now I am going to require your phone number, to send you a message on a second channel to make sure" or "solve these captchas for this untrustworthy third party provider and I will trust their word about you having solved it correctly" (again being tracked of course ...) or similar things. Again circumventing consent, because now it becomes an extortion, extracting more personal data, so that the user can access their account. Your so called security makes for a real shitty user experience and punishes the user for ever switchting their browser.

So what does your "extra strict" mode entail? How are you going to be "extra strict", without any extortion? Are you implementing your own captachas by any chance? Or something similar?
Maybe a bigger company could do it like some card games decide on who will choose the game: Make several teams "bid" on the contract, the one with the best bid gets it, but winning the game (e.g. getting bonuses) depends on if they can actually deliver on their bid.