skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I had a nickel for every time I had to debug some crazy Bashism. PowerShell can be finicky at times but is a walk in the park compared to the alternatives. For basic stuff like if/else comparisons I don’t need to lookup how many parens or square brackets to use for strings or arithmetic or recall if 0/1 is true false or reverse. Maybe I should just compare “false”/“true” strings or use true/false commands instead which have their own issues.

PowerShell has real functions, not just exit codes and text streams so you can easily write maintainable scripts past 100 lines. It’s got a debugger. It’s got modules and a package gallery. It’s got autocomplete and help messages. It’s got try/catch/finally instead of traps. It’s got an optional type system so you can be as loose or strongly typed as you want. It’s cross platform so the Windows devs don’t get confused migrating to Linux. It’s got batteries included for everything between cmdlets and .net. Anything you can do in C# can be replicated. Sed/awk/Grep are nice but sometimes you just want structured data converted into an object to pass around functions instead of reinventing the wheel.

Case sensitivity is a feature, $foo and $Foo should be the same and if they’re not you should call it something different or invoke it differently. “$foo = new [foo]” separates variables from types. “$env:foo” namespaces your env vars. In Bash is FOO a var, constant or env var?

Good PowerShell is readable with little effort. Good Bash is readable with significant effort if you are familiar with Bash and the problem domain already.
You're still looking at this from a legalistic perspective.
This is very neat and I’m keen to see if I can make use of it!

One note, I downloaded and dove right in with some nonsense and used up 17 of my trial tokens, unknowingly. It definitely made me understand how the app works but it was a surprise, and an expensive way to learn! Not trying to get them back but just a thought that there may be a friendlier way to introduce folks to the experience.
The cable is long enough that your room will run out before you run out of cable, so no need to be tethered to your seat.

Generally to pass through the real world you'd do something like simulatenously press two easily accessible buttons on your tracked controller. It is really very easy and I use it often.
I’d read it if the site would let me do so.
Org rules can go the other way, too. A regional nonprofit I once belonged to stated in its bylaws that any amendments required 2/3 of all members to vote in person at the general assembly.
> You don't think anyone should ever steal?

I think in all contexts stealing is wrong, it's just in some contexts stealing being wrong doesn't matter because the alternative of dying makes it a moot point.

> What about a partisan group opposing an occupation?

This was answered as essentially war-time activity. It's still wrong to steal from someone, but again the alternative of being killed makes it a moot point.

> At what point is stealing permissible?

Stealing is still wrong, it's just that it can obviously exist in scenarios that are so wrong for other reasons that the stealing is the least of concern.
Better get used to it. That's basically tech's entire value proposition.
It is temporary relief for me as well. More like a gimmick than a solution.
How? They don't have internet?

Even in Zurich, Switzerland, one of the most expensive places and healthcares in the world, it's 85 CHF / shot:

https://reisemedizin.uzh.ch/en/pre-travel_advice/rabies

Emergency room is 50 CHF extra in non-emergency cases:

https://www.thelocal.ch/20210617/emergency-room-visits-to-no....
Mine is a deep sinus tone around 50-60 Hz. The amplitude varies between the days/sometimes between the hours. Pretty annoying, even though it's most prominent in quiet environments, and I can imagine having a loud high pitched tinnitus would perhaps be worse.
You can just use a program that plays adjustable frequencies and shift it up/down until it matches.
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I don’t think they helped them. Now, did they train off the same data sources? Well, since OpenAI isn’t saying what GPT-4 is trained on, and the NSA can hoover up all kinds of non-public data, it stands to reason they may both be doing something slightly shady with emails, texts, and the like.
I was in mobile and clicked the link to try notes and it redirected me to App Store. Lol

So much for giving a new platform a try. I will never use this
I think to some extent, we're just not naturally wired to think of meta-risk. We have innate biases against negative outcomes, but since risks—or surefire outcomes, like in Scott's post—are more abstract, we just don't naturally think about them. I think you're right though, we have to start teaching people that not taking a small risk can have a much larger impact.
> since SF is famous for experiencing social issues a decade or two before the rest of the country

Interesting, what other social issues? Do you mean housing for example?
I'd say the answer is because they don't measure success in terms of who becomes competent in the language, but in how many users they have. typical neoliberal "number go up" mentality, rejecting ideological definitions of "genuine" value

https://youtu.be/m8Mc-38C88g?t=176
Your “Following” feed only contains who you are following so the smooth brained right wingers shouldn’t show up there. If you see a smooth brained right wing tweet in the “For You” feed you can mark it as “Not Interested” and the algo will stop suggesting smooth brained right wing tweets.
> simply writing Ansible playbooks

As someone who has been doing this for some years now, it is not simple.

To be fair, you can write a simple Ansible playbook if Ansible isn't doing much for you. But if you're using Ansible to manage things which are themselves not simple (like "just install a Node runtime please") you are at the mercy of whatever shell script Ansible eventually ends up calling.

I've been through Ubuntu version updates and Ansible really didn't help with issues like "that package is now no longer in the PPA you got it from".

Administration doesn't take a lot of my time, but when I do need to do it, it can take a solid day of focus to make sure I know what I'm doing, make the changes, recover from the pitfalls I always forget (e.g. "this Ansible step fails in --check mode because it depends on a file that is created in an earlier step, which doesn't happen in check mode") then work through the inevitable issues. I wouldn't want to do it without Ansible, but it's not "simply" anything.
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Exactly, which is why this research is good to release. That’s my point.
So you think the person not remembering the “context” of a tweet which quotes a government official is sufficient to be ok with the global censorship of the tweet that does nothing but quote a government official.

I don’t think your comment is indicative of being a lickspittle because you aren’t actually being asked to suck up to Modi and/or Elon by either of them. I’m not really sure how to describe your comment because it’s something much worse.
“ Employing Surge AI's top-tier human annotators at a rate of $25 per hour would have cost $500,000 for 20,000 hours of work”. That’s a wrap for Surge AI
My reading was they anticipated better Sandbox MMOs for the near future, but none eventually were better...
Yes, but GPT-5 will be better and the humans won’t. It’s very troubling.
I know right! It's so obvious.
Not when a queue is involved. IME trying to replicate something like beanstalkd (https://beanstalkd.github.io/) in postgres is asking for trouble for anything but trivial workloads.

If you're measuring throughput in jobs/s, use a real work queue.
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So, uh, GPT-4 outperforms at labeling. What is that labeling used for?

"Employing Surge AI's top-tier human annotators at a rate of $25 per hour would have cost $500,000 for 20,000 hours of work, an excessive amount to invest in the research endeavor. Surge AI is a venture-backed startup that performs the human labeling for numerous AI companies including OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic."

What could go wrong? Using GPT-4 to perform labeling used by OpenAI in order to train...uh, wait.
because nobody knows how to solve that
Thank you so much for the reply! I am apprehensive about trying this app out for fear of inadvertently causing my tinnitus to increase.
Shotspotter isn't an AI though is it? I thought it was just triangulation of gunshot locations using microphones and synchronized clocks?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_feedback
I wonder if the founders really want to be launching this, or if this is a move pushed by their VCs.
Sometimes when I watch an old movie for the first time, I enjoy looking up Ebert's review. I always appreciate his thoughts, and it's somehow comforting reading his words fresh after experiencing the movie.
Everything is not the WWE. There are great replies already to this on the assumption this is a good faith post.
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AI isn’t the problem, capitalism is.

I’m not worried about rogue AI taking over the nukes. I’m worried the same people who think it’s a great idea to charge so much for insulin that people start dying are the ones who will be using AI to hurt people.

Hell, give me a slightly evil AI run amok over any pharma CEO doing their job.
This was previously flagged. Why is it back?!
I have some gallon plastic bags that have labels written on them (things like "display cables", "ethernet", etc). The cables are coiled as best I can and stuffed in a drawer near the computers.
I’d love to hear what former Twitter Timeline engineers can say about this.
in my experience, implementing a queue in pg is more troublesome than mysql.

In Mysql you can directly call

Update queue set working_id=xxxx where working_id='' limit 1

to atomically pop one task from queue.
Can you share some examples where the tooling fell short?
How are the M1 Mac Bluetooth Issues still not fixed in 2023?
Ah.

My tinnitus frequency is higher than anything I can actually hear so that doesn't work for me.
Or just get a private flight...it's much cheaper than $200k
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I thought it was pretty cool that Apple has built automation with osascript across their entire OS and I wanted to see what the possibilities were by linking it up with OpenAI Whisper and OpenAI ChatGPT.

It's pretty cool!

Be careful since it could do something you don't want it to do. I wouldn't run this on a computer you have anything important on yet!

Edit: It's entirely in bash and osascript ~_~
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Why would there need to be any sort of network request to show edit fields?
And 9 women would output a baby in 1 month!
Okay, but the point is sort of that doctors are not in fact blameless for the system that they helped build and continue to participate in.

Like sure, they aren't solely to blame, and it would probably be hard for individual doctors to successfully push for systematic changes, but the flip side to that is that they don't get to say "Oopsie doopsie, it sure isn't great".
Same. OP can you please provide a text alternative?
Unoriginal sales trainer: Sell me this pen

Jetpens: Sure! Here’s 10,000 words on why it’s the best pen
We are fucked. I have no hope in humanity managing this technology responsibly and no hope in my future. The months since ChatGPT's release have been some of the worst in my life, mental-health-wise.
So htmx works flawlessly with any other JS library?

Asking because of my limited knowledge. If you happen to have a blog post or something on that, would be helpful.
If you sign in to twitter the sidebar becomes almost identical
some questions i have:
why was the secondary character needed ? could the original character with the shares have done this themself ?
why did no one else vote ?
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This assumes those people really do have no other way to contribute. I don’t believe that’s the case. Do you?

I believe people can contribute in many different ways. When technology enables us to get my work output without me, that frees me up to produce other things for society.
> raiders call a shareholders' meeting but fail to provide other shareholders adequate and timely notice,

Pretty much mostly unrelated, but this bit touched a spark.

I remember reading some, unknown book, ages past. And somehow related to the story was one of these Board of Directors meetings. The Board was obliged to publicly announce the meeting.

The board, indeed, publicly announced the meeting. In Chinese, in a small, Chinatown newspaper, nowhere near where the meeting was to take place.

Just one of those clever "letter of the law" gimmicks. Always struck me as funny. (The protagonists organized a massive campaign and managed to find the announcement, so the nefarious deeds were eventually punished.)
Most source I’ve seen has favored roasting spices for garam masala before grinding, but some have noted that there are some recipes that don’t.
Yep - you highlighted exactly what raised my eyebrow as I was writing the article.
Sounds like a prefetch issue. Or auto ack.

Rabbit is a phenomenal tool but you need to know how to use it.
What kind of app is that? Wouldn't it be hard to create user Interface in godot especially text editing components, radio, check and select boxes etc?
@freejazz - I understand your point, but there is a similar counter example which I believe is powerful.

The gay community made large strides as a movement to allow a civil discourse and transparent conversations with others who opposed their lifestyles by deciding to be open rather than secret. When people meet face to face, and realize we're all really similar - people tend to soften their views to be "human".
Anecdotally I've noticed that music at concerts and bars is not as loud as it was in the 1980s. I went to a Rolling Stones concert in the late 1980s and was practially deaf for several hours afterwards. Saw the Who like 10 years ago and it wasn't close to painfully loud. Don't see near as much live music in bars as I used to but it also seems to be turned down compared to what used to be done.
As much as I love Twitter, I welcome the competition. Twitter needs a vitamin shot
I believe that's a reference to the northern vowel shift.[1] Your family might have been too far west.

There is some "Warshington" out here in the PNW, but I never encountered that growing up in Michigan.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inland_Northern_American_Engli...
Oh I'm sorry I expect to actually know what the content being deleted was before passing judgement on whether it's appropriate or not. I suppose I should switch my brain off and pick up a pitchfork whenever someone yells "censorship".
What are the workers that the post mentions? Are these cron jobs?
PC and Xerox eliminated the secretarial pool, and working women since then have been working on much more meaningful things.
Not really--because we're not worried about old commits usage; providing a sample fosters innovation in this emerging market. The vast differences between old code, and our Regular and Pro versions means it doesn't impact Pro revenue. Initially releasing under open-source licenses was positive, and we later transitioned to controlled licensing as the product became popular and evolved, enhancing our business model.
Most people don't need another kind of database. A few do but not enough to justify an "everyone should do it this way by default" opinion.
Thanks for the update! I'm sorry to hear it.

It reminds me of working around there 2010-12. It was very sketchy then, too. I recall my cofounder going out looking for a FedEx delivery that had gone awry, something important coming from one of our investors. He came back laughing because his founder-looking-for-vital-papers energy was misunderstood by the people across the street. Before he could even say anything, they said the methadone clinic didn't open until noon and he'd just have to wait.
Lots of exports. Not just fruits and boots anymore. Mexico will have a bigger economy than Canada in the blink of an eye.
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I've had an open GSoC project for some years to create a library that makes a handful of these audio misconceptions true. So the student would design an oscillator or oscillator bank where the closer you get to Nyquist, the more some "bad thing" happens to the corresponding output. Morphing into a triangle would be one way to do it.
The 3D site is fun and all, but I’d really love a plaintext version. The content seems great but inaccessible
It’s declining quickly so perhaps it already has but prices are sticky and don’t move down more than 15-20 % a year
No signup on twitter anymore
All I get is: Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information).

Odd, I wonder why. Oh well.
Mentioning this got me to play a game of solitaire with it as well. The primitiveness of it felt oddly fun. An yes, I did the exact same thing when went to put my last king back.
Twitter now has daily outages where parts of it just don’t function and no one knows when we’ll experience a more serious one.

It serves the daily/hourly whims and mood swings of a single person who has proven to be petty, vindictive (to his employees), and devoid of integrity.

That lack of stability in my opinion accumulates.

Sooner or later it will balance out the momentum.
This isn’t really a “throw money at it” problem like the government is good at.

Take drones for example. The government got really good at those because they made them jet-powered (lol) and blew a bunch of money on server-grade FPGA’s in each one of them.

You can’t really just buy a lot of GPUs to make an LLM work, you need iterative development of architecture and training methods.

Like maybe the government invented self-attention before 2017, but if they didn’t, then the constraint is training time, and the government has the same number of seconds as the rest of us.
The reason quorums were invented.
Doesn’t this discount the nature of the medium?

The option for interaction is inherent. Everything on a screen can be clicked.

The language, iconography, and visual treatment combine to differentiate certain items and establish an expectation in the event of a click.
Just curious, did you take this route yourself? If so, at what age?
Possibly one of the most practical things I’ve written about AI in the last few months. Improving how we talk to documents is, I think, one of the few morally clear areas AI is enabling. Everyone would like their work to be better understood an their ideas to be clarified to every reader. Why not leverage AI to help with misunderstanding and make information more accessible?
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I like the direction with working towards eliminating korg here!

One of the reasons I chose Directus over Supabase (they can also be used together, it's not either/or) is that I'm one of the rare engineers out there that doesn't like containers.

Well, to be more specific: I don't like containers for languages that don't need them. For example, a node monorepo doesn't really need a container, it's just a npm install away from working pretty much anywhere. Or a go static binary. Containers are great for languages/stacks that have more difficult dependencies.

That being said, Supabase just had too many moving parts for me. I'm allergic to complexity. I want my stack to be as basic as possible, I want to innovate in the business problem domain space, not the tech stack space.

I totally get the "don't reinvent the wheel" idea, but the complexity of a Supabase installation when you look under the hood at what's going on inside the container really turned me off. With Directus, it's just a npm dependency to your node app, nothing else. It'll automatically reflect over your database schema, and progressively enhance it with additional capabilities as you choose, automatic REST and GraphQL APIs with detailed and comprehensive configurable role based row-level security. An automatic and very capable Vue based admin app, and lots of other goodies. All the code is open source, well structured, easy to debug (it runs in-process, it's all just nodejs), and to fork/enhance as needed. Doing the same with Supabase would be difficult, to say the least.

I like the direction Supabase is moving with this - consolidating back to more of a monorepo with less internal services and dependencies.

I really like the Supabase Postgrest-js client too. One of the things that troubles me about directus is the home-grown DSL for queries. It's limiting and error prone, and impossible to do anything complex (you currently can't even query json fields, though that's coming soon I think). I think Supabase did a really good job with isomorphism with that library.

Another thing I think Supabase did right is to just focus on Postgres. Directus is hamstrung by their knex backend and multi-db support, imho.

I've been thinking that if I were to build something similar from scratch, I think I'd lean heavily on sequelize and build the whole shebang around that. It already has a very mature and capable DSL for queries that can be adapted to isomorphism with some symbol mapping and injection protection. It has the capability of enforced row-level security with scopes, and you don't have to deal with the issues around Postgrest or Directus' custom DSL. The only thing it doesn't have is automatic schema reflection - it's a model-first ORM. That's a solvable problem though.

I've had an "itch" about this for a while. I may be "retiring" in a year or two, and I'm seriously considering taking all the lessons learned from both Supabase and Directus and trying to create a super-simple sequelize based monorepo option as my next thing.
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Why are these books so pricey?
Gaussian transcription models are old, but they also are AI.

They are not deep learning/neural nets.

Also fun fact as a pedant tax: Symantec is so named because they started out as transcription software, hit a wall, and pivoted to security SW.
And of course part of why SMEs don't use it or don't use it everywhere is that suppliers make it much more expensive to do that because they insist security is only for Enterprise customers.
Maine, Georgia, Michigan (anywhere but greater Detroit)

Hint: all of these places are solidly purple (but voted blue in 2020 so I counted them). It's like having actual political competition is a good thing!
> It really seems like our first priority as a nation should be to dismantle this 'vetocracy' and let researchers perform studies, and teachers teach.

The housing is also really, really important: the Silicon Valley, San Francisco and New York etc are some of the most productive parts of your country. If more people were allowed to live there [0], your economy could grow a lot. A bigger economy directly translates to lives saved.

To give a simple example: your highway engineering people work with a value of life of something like x million USD. Any improvement to safety that costs less than x million USD per life saved gets implemented. The value of x gets set in vague relation to how rich society is.

[0] No any one individual is directly barred from moving to SF, if they pony up enough money for rent; but the NIMBY climate effectively sets a limit on the total number of people allowed to dwell there.
And rules requiring a quorum in order to take any kind of binding action.

If this were a real-world corporation, this would be a massive failure on the part of whoever set up the organization's bylaws. Since this is Eve, I don't know whether to place the blame on the corp's leadership or on CCP Games (I don't know if it's feasible for an in-game corp to require a quorum or not).
Mental subletting.