skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, the answer to those questions lies in my relationships. Even the ones that go sour: did you love well? Did you have a lot of quality time with them?

Realize that every relationship (family, friends, lovers, spouses) ends in separation. Every one, whether through estrangement or death. And that is natural and normal. Not depressing. Just is.
Haha. Definitely not Aussie, I'm in the US. But i do hang around with some....Honestly don't even know what possessed me to phrase it that way :?
Bird and Lime will always have a special place in my heart for inspiring the last silly season political debate before covid in our town.

The very first day rental escooters were legal in town the company hosted demonstration had someone fall off in the town hall parking lot and require hospitalization. It was all so silly and things only went sideways from there. I saved tens of minutes over the course of a summer taking them on one route and I got two free helmets in the mail.

Leafblowers, historic districts, rental scooters... There has to be some focal point for the nervous municipal energy whether or not there's anything to focus it on. Things got deadly serious during the school reopening discussion and they never really went back to the way they were before.

Pour one out for the micromobility startups' dreams and may whatever comes next be as delightfully odd as those things were.
Not for Home edition though.

You can still use a program like Sandboxie to try to sandbox an application.
> I think you're way out of your league here if you're saying that there is nothing illegal under contract law to sign a contract to rob a bank.

Could be. Like I said at the beginning, IANAL. But if you are any less out of your league than I am, it would be pretty easy for you to cite the specific provision of contract law that would make it illegal, and how it would be prosecuted. Would it be a criminal offense? Felony or misdemeanor? Or would it be a civil suit? Who would be the plaintiff? Under what provision of contract law would they sue? What would be the actual damages?

At worst, signing a contract to rob a bank might be evidence of a conspiracy [1] but conspiracy is not part of contract law. Merely signing such a contract in and of itself is not an illegal act. I could sign such a contract, for example, as part of an April Fools joke and that would be perfectly legal even if the contract that I signed were drawn up by a lawyer and was prima facie valid and enforceable.

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[1] https://www.justia.com/criminal/offenses/inchoate-crimes/con...
It's a hard balance.

One of my managers had the goal of "shielding" the engineers, which in practice meant that everything went through him (at each step losing nuance), we never knew why something was important (we didn't know what we wanted to solve and why it was valuable for the company), why something was the most important task at a time (why not work on something else), we didn't know who to ask about it (felt like learned helplessness), we didn't know how deadlines came to be (where they just made up or was there a really good reason).
Hydrogen, being so small, penetrates directly through the molecular structure of steel and in the process causes embrittlement of the steel. Is a long distance H2 pipeline a solved problem using alternate materials?
that comes from how good their team is at communicating with them

Communication is a two-way street. Proactively calling a meeting with all those involved to understand the situation and then letting the team get on with their work is 100% a managerial skill, not a function of the seniority of the engineers.
Open-source hardware licensing is not as straightforward as software, and funding isn't really figured out yet either. Hardware has significant costs to develop, manufacture, and sell, and many projects are niche or passion projects that can't compete with mass manufactured clones. Legal obligations of the licensing aside, the understanding is that the primary way to support the creator is to buy directly from them. Prusa has gotten pretty big and it looks like they want to make decisions about whether they've outgrown that model or not.

With software, it costs nothing to just git clone and build for your personal use (which also presents its own funding challenges). For hardware, there's gonna be a chunk of people who just want the product/functionality via clones, and you need to be careful to keep the community/project to grow sustainably. IMO, it should be along-side and not in spite of those clones, but you can see the frustration.
Yea, but we're used to that danger. In fact, we're trained to deal with that danger from being a few years old. E-scooters are a new danger that while far less dangerous is far more annoying because we're not used to it.
Then watch as people reject the new APIs and continue to develop for that emulation layer.
Why are you so sure that legibility and alignment are the wrong things to look for in a large organization?

Most of the work in a large software project is coordination between all the minds involved. The more minds, the harder this task is. Large companies don't need people who can work super productively but might work on the wrong thing for weeks before surfacing again.
When doing the processing GPT remembers these in the “working memory” (very similar to your working memory that is just an actuation of neurons, not an adjustment of the strengths of synaptic connections).

And then, there is a chance that the inputs and outputs of GPT be saved and then used for fine-tuning. In a way that is similar to long-term memory consolidation in humans.

But overall, yes, I agree, GPT-4 in an empty space, without fine-tuning is very limited.
Is there an automatic way to do this? Like a SaaS where I paste my article URL, chose where to replicate, and it does automatically? Bonus points if it gets them from a feed.
Not even novel or programming tasks alone, I use it to edit a Chinese newsletter[0] and it can never correctly guess the Chinese rock song from title and artist, always picks some pop tune instead, and otherwise mixes lyrics of separate song with no apparent reason.

0: https://chinesememe.substack.com/i/103754530/chinesepython
maximising revenue and control from the authority

it makes sense in a way
I'm happy to ban those, at least in city centers.
Bibo no Aozora is a favourite of mine. RIP master.

Played live on the piano by Sakamoto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwhYiHJq16c

Orchestral version from Babel soundtrack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsKlf_x9zRE
No one's paying anything - it's a free product. In the cases where you request stuff like food delivery, we pay the fees for you and you pay us back after you receive the food.
To be a competitor, to be fair, implies there's competition. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

There's no world, where I'd allow for some future developer to write some Java on the same VM as my Erlang/Elixir code and risk the entire VM crashing.

JVM and Erlang's VM cater to different needs and programming paradigms. While they might share some features or learn from each other's innovations, they are not direct competitors but rather address unique use cases and development requirements.

People who want Erlang are going to reach for Erlang/OTP.
People who want Scala/Akka/Java-monolith will leverage the JVM.

Replatforming, doesn't happen often.

No one is hopping from one platform for the other.
> I made a prototype message queue in Rust that processed about 7 million messages/second. That was running from RAM.

Can you share the source code?
E-Scooters are a public menace. They're way to fast for the sidewalk, dangerous on the road, litter the sidewalks and cause people to trip, and are almost always ridden unsafely, with no safety equipment at all. Get these death traps off the streets.
> Do people actually think we’re headed towards James Cameron’s terminator and soon ChatGPT will become self aware and destroy us?

That or some other unfeasible sci-fi AI dystopia. It's normal and expected the general public will have such thoughts given the amount of hype that's going on right now, but I've seen a lot of similar thinking on HN which is disappointing.
No they have incentive for others not to build, but for them to build.
Their naming scheme is so austere. PSLV RLV etc. Just straight up descriptions of the objects, nothing more
It makes me sad that the next time I enjoy a piece of writing, I'm going to have to wonder if it was "enhanced" or even written wholesale by ChatGPT. I don't feel the same with arithmetic at all.
> She said on Sunday that their business model was "very expensive -- five euros for 10 minutes -- it's not very sustainable, and above all, it's the cause of a lot of accidents."

It must be great to have a wise mayor in the government who calls out "expensive business models".

> currently be hired by children as young as 12

When I went there, I read the Lime, Dott, etc rules and they all said 16, some 18+. Where did they get 12 yo from?

It was a great way to get around the city, especially in the dedicated lanes along the Seine. Not sure how it is more dangerous than biking? But, people who actually live in that city apparently hate it, so here we are.
It's also that most devs don't understand reasonable estimates on how many inserts/sec a database should be able to handle or how many requests/sec a website should be able to handle, and they upvote and wax estatic about some of the most unimpressive stats ever.
Spinrite is still a better scandisk than scandisk.
I think cars are a lot worse, if we just took those off the street there's be no problem with people scooting on the streets
Nice.

Given the wild popularity of posts about prompt engineering "jobs" paying +$300k, it was only a matter of time for an indie hacker to create a job board specifically for this type of job.
I think the editorial capabilities of ChatGPT are fantastic, and the author provides a good list of examples. On top of that I would add that ChatGPT is really good as composing text. The meaning making is therefore still what we have to do.
The bad guy with an AI may very well build such a competent and fast acting AI that there's no defense possible. To strain the analogy, if the good guy with the gun already has a bullet in him, he ain't stopping much
Nah, the rate limiting step of plant growth is carbon fixation. The problem is if you harvest too many electrons what are you going to do with this energy. Travel too far off of "neutral" redox potential and it winds up being a problem.
I guess "making more sense" is purely subjective.
You really want to use farsound instead of telephone?
The official written language is German, albeit a different standard than non-Swiss German. The difference is not that big, it's like between written American and British English. But I can assure you that most non-Swiss German speakers can't casually understand Swiss German dialects.

Edit: these dialect are commonly used in court, public offices, and often on TV. They have a vastly stronger role in public life than in other German-speaking countries.
If there were dedicated lanes and parking specifically for e-scooters, like we do with cars, it'd be pretty safe. I don't favor such a thing (separate lanes and parking individually for motorcycle, for bikes, for ebikes, for skateboards, for unicycles, etc), so my point isn't to advocate for it here, but I do think keeping this in mind changes the way you frame the safety issue.
They are electronically limited to 20 km/h in Paris and weigh no more than a bicycle.
On a per mile basis, likely not.
You have knowledge of an American producer of monocrystalline silicon solar panels? Please provide more information, this is new to me.
It would not be real-world in the sense that most OLTP workloads are inserting (or updating) only a couple rows at a time. In this sense it provides an upper bound on transactions per second, which for many real-world workloads essentially means requests per second (or requests*n per second for small n).

However, it's still kind of weak because you really need to interleave those with SELECTs and some UPDATEs to get a decent view of how it would perform in such a case.
This reminded me of a prior discussion[0] on bulk data generation in SQLite with Rust (vs Python vs PyPy) which previously led me to trying out two different techniques using just SQLite[1]. The approach here is so similar I tried my prior solution on the slowest VPS I have access to (1 vCPU core 2.4GHz, 512Mi, $2.50/month from vultr):

sqlite> create table users (id blob primary key not null, created_at text not null, username text not null);
sqlite> create unique index idx_users_on_id on users(id);
sqlite> pragma journal_mode=wal;
sqlite> .load '/tmp/uuid.c.so'
sqlite> .timer on
sqlite> insert into users(id, created_at, username)
select uuid(), strftime('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%fZ'), 'hello'
from generate_series limit 100000;
Run Time: real 1.159 user 0.572631 sys 0.442133

where the UUID extension comes from the SQLite authors[2] and generate_series is compiled into the SQLite CLI. It is possible further pragma-tweaking might eke out further performance but I feel like this representative of the no-optimization scenario I typically find myself in.

In the interest of finding where the bulk of the time is spent and on a hunch I tried swapping the UUID for plain auto-incrementing primary keys as well:

sqlite> insert into users(created_at, username) select strftime('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%fZ'), 'hello' from generate_series limit 100000;
Run Time: real 0.142 user 0.068090 sys 0.025507

Clearly UUIDs are not free!

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27872575

[1]: https://idle.nprescott.com/2021/bulk-data-generation-in-sqli...

[2]: https://sqlite.org/src/file/ext/misc/uuid.c
What's unrealistic is the upper few percent of society vacuuming up almost all the surplus wealth generated by the other 95% for themselves.
They have an army of designers and developers on their payroll that will trivial copy the competition if they see a threat emerge in features/functionality or just acquire them (might be the exit they want)
Except the streets are still littered with them. While cycling to work a while ago, i came across one parked in the middle of a segregated bike lane, in between a fence and a lane of heavy traffic. If this is the authority maximising control, i dread to think what uncontrolled use looks like.
I can’t sign in on iPhone. The only option available to signup is by magic link. I receive the link and open it on gmail app then when I click it automatically opens in a sandbox Safari tab. As sandbox tabs are temporary, the cookie is lost when it’s closed.
That’s rather b2b product. I don’t think, that kickstarter format is good for b2b things.
Plus the lack of a 64bit x86.

If you look at the definitions of various structures and opcodes in x86 you'll notice gaps that would've been ideal for a 64-bit expansion, so I think they had a plan besides IA64, but AMD beat them to it (and IMHO with a far more inelegant extension.)
Paris has such well-built bike infrastructure, it's a huge shame to ban scooters, which fit into bike lanes perfectly well.
It’s a known tactic to get anything on HN frontpage. Just put Rust in the title, even if it’s about a food recipe.
Crisis communication is an specific sub problem of team communication. Good takes on this often come from experienced disaster responders, like a fire chief or FEMA.

Their version of this is very real: 1) the annoying manager bugging for updates is the mayor's office or other powerful executive branch, 2) the emergency from which people are being distracted is life or death, 3) a jumpy executive can give wrong messages to the public which increase the workload or danger level.

Saw a lecture about this once, takeaways were 'clear lines of communication' and 'clear chain of command'. Wherever possible, put a person or a process between non-operational managers and front-line responders.
Not to carry them, to store them. It's basically a portable storage locker.
Blue Vélib’(electric) are a staple of Parisian (and many other cities) transportation system.

https://www.velib-metropole.fr/en/service
Bird Bikes were a regular feature on Nextdoor where I live. Lots of hand wringing about them while completely ignoring the lifted pickups with hoods taller than most children.
OP here, I see lots of comments about prompt engineering thinking in the context of asking one question to get the answer.

In that perspective, I understand why many people think it is useless. However, if you tried to make a chain of functions/calls, or worked with a tool like LangChain [0] you will see its importance.

Ex: "Which stock had better performance in the last 6 months, Tesla or Microsoft?"

A question like this would check:

- Understanding this is a financial question.

- Get the stock ticker (symbol) for each one.

- Use an API to get their performance history in the last 6 months.

- Compare.

- Return the answer.

[0] https://github.com/hwchase17/langchain
Thanks, it feels overwhelming enough with all of the stuff I don't know without worrying about seniors and managers taking a view that investing in new employees wont be worthwhile. Appreciate the reply.
I've worked at both large companies and small startups, and I've never seen taking on tech debt pay off. Features never get delivered as quickly as anyone wants, but sometimes tech debt completely prevents even thinking about features, and not being able to even imagine implementing something is a much worse problem than being 2 extra weeks late to the newest pivot. If I were starting a software company today, I'd want to keep my POC code about as clean as I'd keep production code at a large company. Well, cleaner. It's going to be alive as long as you are, and there will never ever be a good time to rewrite it.

Having said that, I am very skeptical about what some people identify as tech debt. Things like "we're using X logger instead of Y logger, this codebase is unmaintable" I tend to not prioritize, but things like "this system looks weird and we don't understand if the code is wrong or the documentation is wrong" is something that should be addressed with high urgency. It's very easy to spend a lot of time maintaining misbehavior that should just be fixed, and the first step is understanding whether or not something is wrong.
So that's a whole other debate (and I disagree), but even if you're right, getting rid of cars would be a gradual, multi-decade project. It's just not possible to get around modern American cities without cars. You can't just abandon the city. These cities represent trillions of dollars of investment.

Otoh, you could ban e-scooters tomorrow and after dramatically improving various urban areas, the biggest effect would be a few scooter companies going bankrupt.
Nix is something that requires me to write a config file to install a package, right? Sounds incredibly unappealing. Why am I wrong?
Yes - I'm also in the asset management industry. The ultimate point is, investors in a fund don't want to end up in a worse tax position than if they'd made the investments in the fund directly and not via a fund. The worst of all worlds are paying tax at the fund level and not being able to offset that against local tax due - this is surprisingly more common than you might think; not to mention tax-exempt investors like some pension funds (sovereign wealth funds are a bit different again).

Some jurisdictions for fund tax residence/incorporation are much much better for this than others. If you then also look at jurisdictions which have a predictable and fair legal system and an efficient admin setup for funds you end up with quite a short list of places (Cayman, Luxembourg, Ireland, etc).
You've never been to Paris, have you? It's a death trap for cyclists.
It's sad but predictable that after tragic incidents like these the discussion immediately shifts to "let's ban guns/video games/books/chatbots..." rather than addressing the real problem – that a lot of people out there need immediate mental health help but aren't getting access to any. No amount of blame shifting is going to fix that.

I can Google ways to commit suicide and immediately find pages upon pages of results. I can be triggered by scenes in a movie or TV show. I can be inspired by news headlines. Heck I can ask a magic 8 ball if I should do it and it may answer in the affirmative. Does that mean we should get rid of all of these mediums? Beyond a point you simply cannot regulate a problem away.
Using `unreachable()` instead of `assert()` for your preconditions without profiling first is just pre-loading the gun to shoot yourself in the foot in the future. When those preconditions are inevitably violated at some point, you will get random UB corruption rather than simply aborting as is the case for assert.
I nearly get hit by someone on a bicycle every time I’m there. Hopefully bicycles are banned next.
It is a different thing.

They point of containers is that they do share the same kernel, and that each container is just a different namespace.

If each entity has a different kernel, they are VMs. VMs can be also pretty thin and have shared immutable store for their base image, but they are not containers anymore. Similarly, Xen DOM-Us are also VMs.
> When I went there, I read the Lime, Dott, etc rules and they all said 16, some 18+. Where did they get 12 yo from?

I don't live in Paris, but this random website that seems to offer scooter rentals say 12 years old: https://rentngo.fr/en/home/
My knee-jerk reaction is to offer a riposte of additional data demonstrating it really was about the managers. But I think you've got a valuable and generalizable point here. I'm going to reflect a bit on that.

You know what's difficult? Looking back at a younger self and being truly critical. Gosh, it's so easy to just say, "yeah well his employment future at that company proves my point." But then I learn nothing else that I can grow from.
Regarding point #1, I also launched something that is the volunteer idea of the OP, or just a journal with weekly themes of projects needing help, some AI related. Investing the time in this case is simply a volunteering or not decision.

[0]: (emacs week) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35413940
>And if only scaling that context length weren't quadratic...

There are transformers approximations that are not quadratic (available out of the box since more than a year) :

Two schools of thoughts here :

- People that approximate the neighbor search with something like "Reformer" and O(L log(L) ) time and memory complexity.

- People that use a low-rank approximation of the attention product with something like "Linformer" with O(L) complexity but with more sensibility to transformer rank collapse
I agree. I happen to sell the same things on my (pretty good!) Shopify store as well as on Amazon. Amazon outsells about 2000:1. The reason why is simple -- it's traffic. If you can get traffic on your own, say with a giant social following or TV presence, then owning your platform probably does make sense. Otherwise go to where your customers are. It's like the old retailers' saying: "Location, Location, Location."
I don't believe the consumer ones actually have sustained sequential read speed to saturate Gen 4.
Come on, you can make silicon monocrystalline products without pollution with appropriate controls, it's no different from the computer chip production process. See CHIPS act?

China doesn't have a big natural gas / crude oil sector trying to block development of alternatives to their products, that's the difference.
Random guess: woodpeckers might, as for them this may be a way to detect which trees offer most food for least effort.

Ironically, something I didn't realize until now, and what also confirms the original point: apparently[0] the drumming itself turned into form of communication for woodpeckers.

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[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodpecker#Drumming
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would a geiger counter have been useful here, and if not would anything?