skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bloody stupid of him, even for his goal of European "third-pole". Pissed off the US, Taiwan, eastern EU, Ukraine, EU gov, Japan, South Korea, all the French citizens in the South Pacific, the list goes on. All at the exactly wrong moment too. Could have just not said anything, took the Americans money and worked towards that "third-pole". But what can you expect from a man whose recent actions could put the French euro-skeptics in power, thereby rendering France not part of that "third-pole". Or, who can't get France's economy to start growing for the first time in ten years due his own self-serving ineptitude, thereby rendering them, the...err, "12th pole" in 50 years and with a retirement age of 96!
Obviously I like the idea of a Portal 3. But I am afraid that they will make it controller-friendly to the detriment of keyboard/mouse controls so they can sell Decks or VR-only so they can sell their Index headsets like they did with Alyx.
The Myth of the Successful College Dropout (2013)
> That seems unlikely to me, but maybe not to you? Or you're saying it's like plausible deniability, like nobody can prove they weren't, or something?

I mean, there were times in my career where I was working 12+ hour days for one employer, so working 16+ hour days for two doesn't seem like that much of a stretch; still leaves you with 8 hours of sleep. I've known enough workaholics in my time to know that it ain't beyond the realm of possibility.

But yes, it's more of a plausible deniability thing. Either/both employers would need to prove that you weren't working 40 hours a week for them, which is not only impossible (good luck proving a negative) but a much higher standard than is reasonable in the first place (especially for programmers, having a full 40 productive hours a week is rare and unsustainable; half that or less is more typical).
I credit that book to me going from no college degree to principal developer.
Seeing as this is just an ad does anyone have a link to the free chapters at least?
Feel free to tease apart beauty and functionality to a roomful of engineers. I'm always up for the debate because everyone has their own perspective and it's usually interesting.

Everything has terrible ROI if you don't understand the "I" and aren't tracking the "R".
Freelance Writing as a Profession Is Getting Nuked by GPT
I think the comparison to movies is quite apt, actually. There are a few mega brands that pump out mega-budget, mass appeal content, but suffer from the competing pressures to appeal to as many people as possible to maximize profits, versus having a cogent artistic vision appealing greatly to any one group.

Meanwhile, you have smaller, lower-budget productions for whom the only chance of market success is making art that appeals greatly enough to some people that the game or movie expands by word of mouth and critical acclaim.

For specific examples, I'd point out Devolver Digital's catalog in games, and A24's portfolio of films.
Unfortunately LLMs, even the best one I'm aware that exists (GPT-4), aren't reliable.
Probably no more than LSD and Bill Nye did.
You have a point. But I think as a layman I would have appreciated a little more about what kind of reader the book is appropriate for. And possibly have that appear within the first three paragraphs of the intro. I like how this book does give you an idea of how you should expect to work through the examples though.
Planning is a weakness for LLMs sure but i don't think this benchmark is any good. Mostly because it fails to do what a good benchmark should do i.e Reasonably inform you of the models capabilities.

You would come away from this thinking LLMs couldn't so much as stack blocks or perform tasks of that kind. But they can. https://innermonologue.github.io/

also the benchmark is too spatially focused to be a general planning benchmark.
With umptillion gigs of shared memory, too. Really the only reason I'm entertaining moving up from an mba to an mbp, but I haven't convinced myself it's worth the splurge yet.
1920 Hz in my case. I had tinnitus after I got rear-ended at a stop light. Decades later, it still recurs once in a blue moon, lasts for a mere 10-15 seconds then vanishes when I tell myself repeatedly "nothing is playing 1920 Hz".
I don't think AI needs an analogy, especially one of manual physical labour, especially when it primarily affects "knowledge workers".
I was expecting a link to a story. this just goes to a reddit sub

It's interesting how top substack writers are earning more than ever and getting record subs since early 2021 despite AI. Same for top Twitter people. The authors I follow keep getting more and more 'likes' and comments on their posts.
Actual developers just use lodash.

Honestly, I don't understand the complaint, a lean stdlib isn't a shortcoming.
Thanks for the response Steve. In general, I unfortunately don’t agree that this is a “convenience” feature or that this alternative you brought up is “flexible”.

This way of doing things is just so much more painful in terms of ergonomics we elected to instead escape hatch into raw SQL with a different library (Sequelize) in our case. Black boxing some of our business logic into views or RPC is just not something devs I work with are comfortable with. Having business logic live in the db like this just unlocks a whole new world of pain for people who aren’t used to it. Now I have a whole new class of problems too, now I have to have unit tests in the db with pgTAP and now I as a dev have to decide when and where this kind of logic should go in the db vs in the application layer and how to test it. In general I would really call this not a viable alternative at all unless there are some comprehensive design documents that say “do this stuff as RPC in the db because it makes sense to do it there, do this stuff in the application layer”. When I tried selling this ‘workaround’ in its current form to other devs in my org, they all balked at it.

Maybe I’m thinking about how Postgrest is supposed to work fundamentally wrong and all of this stuff is generally supposed to live in the db. But there certainly isn’t any guidance directing that in documentation currently. And in general I think if you want to advocate for a design where you split business logic between your application layer and your db there should be a plethora of examples where this has been done successfully, especially because that idea goes very much against how a typical developer thinks about system design.

It’s weird because I can do everything else in a “typical CRUD app” the nice way with Postgrest except this. It feels like the part of the codebases where I have to deal with this (and indeed, it comes up every time) is a constant wart in an otherwise pretty good setup.

Please don’t take this as me hating on Postgrest. I think it’s absolutely fabulous software and I am in genuine awe of what you have achieved. I can only aspire to have your work ethic and vision when it comes to this kind of stuff. I just want to help you see how myself and the devs I work with use it in real life and how they react to Postgrest in the context of using it when trying to make maintained business applications over years of time.
Well hacker news changed the url. I originally had one that listed the top posts for this month, but that extra information has been stripped.
Heaven forbid you want to replace a blown capacitor.
It's not the database I'm worried about.

If you push a change to your frontend server that does all the work itself and it breaks you have a service interruption. That same system based on queues it's a queue backup and you have breathing room.

If you're doing a longer operation and your app server crashes that work is lost and the client has sit there and wait, in a queue system you can return almost immediately and if there's a crash it'll get picked up by another worker.

Having a return queue and websockets let you give feedback to the client js in a way that is impervious to network interruptions and refreshes, once you reconnect it can catch up.

These aren't theoretical, this architecture has saved my ass on more occasions than I can count.
> We maintain things like queue ordering by adding an ORDER BY clause in the query that consumers use to read from it (groundbreaking, we know).

The dude's being a bit too self-deprecating with that (sarcastic quip).

But there's valuable something buried there - if it is possible to efficiently solve a problem without introducing novel mechanisms and concepts, it is highly desirable to do so.

Don't reinvent the wheel unless you need to.

> You could set the prefetch count to 1, which meant every worker will prefetch at most 1 message. Or you could set it to 0, which meant they will each prefetch an infinite number of messages.

O what the actual fuck?

I'm really hoping he's right about holding it wrong, because otherwise ???
Does OpenAI even have the compute to begin to meet demand?
>internal server error

When you try to generate
When Chrome launched, it only launched with ~2-3% market share in the first week compared to Firefox. Everyone thought that Chrome wasn't that good and Firefox would be fine. However I knew on day one that Firefox was in serious trouble and I switched browsers immediately. But what I didn't know is that Firefox would do nothing to compete for 10 years.
ESC/EE eventually moved to a new domain with a hyphen. I wonder if Pen Island ever did?
They should just 'stop' the move the secure boot, eh?

By doing what, exactly?
That likely implies an opportunity play for the category.

Some categories are vacant because of no first movers (frontier migrants get slaughtered) while others are vacant because there's not enough money in them.

I see the possibility of having AI agents interview and quiz people: far more people than any human hiring manager could ever interact with. And then, the algorithms would deliver the best fraction of candidates for final/manual review. Throw away the résumé algorithms and interact with humans to discover their talents and qualities that keywords cannot locate.

This is possible in narrow specialized AI domains such as coding and chat bots. Clearly, AGI is 10-100 years off in the distance.

The extreme value potential is apply similar discernment of exceptionally talented hiring managers in narrow domains that AI could not necessarily be fooled as easily by. Interrogation by chatbot seems a plausible future in most human activities.
you seem passionate and knowlegable about this so i will ask you. i want to know more about the API changes. detractors say that it was at best an irresponsible change to the API that inconvenienced companies that use it. proponents say that musk simply stopped making the API free which was always unsustainable and people should have known better. what was really going on?
The stuff you should know podcast just released an episode on the history of playing cards that was interesting
I'm well aware of Martha Stewart's current status as an ex-con, and that Bernie Madoff died two years ago.

Either way, while Mrs. Holmes won't quite have an 18-hole golf course at her new digs, my point still stands. She'll be out before she's 50.
Can listen to this again and again. I wish there will be, or to know other made like this, not graphic but immersive,

as well in such way AI to emerge.
Running out of people is even more implausible than running out of legal entities.
Book Review: From Oversight To Overkill
Tinnitus can be close to a pure sine wave at one freq or can be a wide band whooshing or noise, or many other variations of timbres with their own freq ranges

I don’t play or enjoy music anymore, no more power tools, etc

Protect your ears
They thought a painting in their TV room was a fake. It sold for $850K
I think you're talking about the ReAct (Reason -> Act) pattern https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/python-react-pattern
What absurd statement. Speed limit isn't "proper speed." It's even called a limit. You go rate of traffic, faster or slower as they adapt. Yes that means going over or under the limit.

Sometimes people facemashing into the keyboard also reveals idiocy.
You need state of the art consumer tech to run a model comparable to GPT-3 locally at a glacial pace.

Or, you can use a superior GPT 3.5 for free.
> Longer if I have to think of one that went off and wasn't some form of 'oh shit oh shit oh shit, wrong button' reaction from the person trying who accidentally turned it on.

I think this is what makes it such a scam. The amount of false positive alarms makes more people desensitized to them.
You need to try McDonald's in Japan. It's not gourmet of course, but at least it looks like the pictures on the menu and is put together exactly the way it's supposed to be.
Is this true even for elite Australian universities like ANU?
I'm sure MySpace thought the same thing about their never-before-seen accomplishments. I suspect very few people knew what "something else" was in that case, either.
BBC radio4 dramatization of war and peace was pretty immersive.
The reason trucks have taken over U.S. roadways
I would argue that Valve is just not a games company anymore. They make a video game platform and that’s what the majority of the effort is spent on.

It’s like going to Google and wanting to only work on search. It’s an ads company.
I played a game of solitaire but as I was moving my kings onto their suit's stack at the end I triggered the joker easter egg and the entire deck got put back into one pile :(
I think the reason i say it’s lazy is because I often end up feeling like they didn’t care, they just asked to fill the void. I’d love to have a real conversation about anything really. Ask me about my favourite place to eat, what my opinion is on a new product on the market, tell me about a book you’re reading and why it’s interesting…all works for me. The what do you do thing, it’s loaded with other elements; who makes more, who do you know, should i respect you. I could brag pretty hard if that’s the game we are playing, but honestly for new authentic connections, I’d like to stay away from that stuff at least for a while. It’s unavoidable, it’ll come up, but i love trying hard to delay it.
The OP is talking about surgeons, not doctors. The two are entirely different professions; it's like conflating doctors with nurses, or doctors with medical researchers.
I always tell ppl to test their designs with German content. Usually the longest words, generally speaking, which breaks a very high % of "first passes" on designs.
Did they test planning with some kind of inner monologue and/or reflexion ? Genuine question.
It reminds me of the Trump thing, it seems people really lose all rationality when they are faced with a man who publically doesn't care and does whatever he wants and is successful at it. I wonder if we will one day have a psychological name for this. It must be related to something in the human brain that touches on social repression and decades of instilled moral codes like "Don't say this, nobody will like you" and then when somebody does it anyway, you feel like it's an invader from a different tribe or a tribe member violating the fabric of what holds together the tribe. When really, he's not doing much different at all and they'd privately do the same exact jokes as a kid like "Twitter is Titter! haha! Like titties get it?" I bet lots of people had such a dumb thought but repressed it and when a supposed adult and major social figure acts like that, it evokes anger that the tribe is in danger.
The article has a side-note saying:

> “two models trained on the same data but with different algorithms will behave much more similarly than two models trained on different data with the same algorithm. That’s because the training data contains the patterns in user behavior that algorithms mine and use when recommending new content.”

Do we know how ‘true’ this statement is? Or how much % an algorithm must deviate to cause a % change in results? What about difference in data? If someone can point to somewhere to read up on this, I'd like to know!
And did that YouTube cure ever really work? A remedy that was going around some years ago, I think involving doing something to the back of the head...
Shuffling doesn't reset flipped-ness, it looks like "flip" is the only action that puts all the cards facing the same way
Honestly, that’s kind of cool to get the entire repair rig. I doubt it’s worth it for them to differentiate based on the of work done, so they just send the entire kit.

I don’t mind that Apple does this if anyone is allowed to make their own repair rig as well.
TikTok Ban Isn’t About National Security. It’s About Dominance of US Tech
Take a look at Apache pulsar which is a messaging and streaming platform

https://streamnative.io/blog/comparison-of-messaging-platfor...
Also had a similar experience using RabbitMQ with Django+Celery. Extremely complicated and workers/queues would just stop for no reason.

Moved to Python-RQ [1] + Redis and been rock solid for years now. Redis is also great for locking to ensure only one instance of a job/task can run at a time.

[1] https://python-rq.org/
Yo I thought those tweets might be from a few years ago and "they must have resolved those by now"... no, the tweets are literally from TODAY and SIX DAYS AGO. What the hell?! Sad times...
I meant reviewed by a (competent) human; not, audited by a security team/whatever. Generative computer code is in a whole new category of risk, because it can hallucinate a `rm -rf *` that you might overlook if you don't understand the code yourself.
So much copywriting is low quality SEO filler anyway. There are tons of businesses out there that just want content and want to regularly publish content as it makes their site seem active. I played around in that field for a while for a few side dollars and even as a writer for a company that didn't go for the cheapest solution, they really didn't care too much about the content, just that there was content.

Several times, it was clearly never read by whoever titled it.

Not surprised at all.
> top substack writers are earning more than ever

When I see substack links I feel two things. One is relief that it wasn't a quora or medium dot com link, so I will probably be able to at least read it. Second is impeding doom because substack now looks like how quora or medium dot com used to look, so it seems inevitable that substack will turn into that. I'm not sure exactly how to express what I mean by 'turn into that' but maybe that's also why I'm not getting paid to be a writer.
As an ancient UNIX person, I've always loved PowerShell from the start. I remember the first time I played around with the first version that wasn't a download (2). I wanted to see how it dealt with objects, so I ran something simple:

$ui = (Get-Host).UI.RawUI

$ui | Get-Member (to see the methods and attributes available)

$ui.WindowTitle = "Hello World Window!"

After that, I was hooked. PowerShell providers and modules are incredibly useful, as is piping output to Out-GridView. Later versions have introduced more cmdlets that, quite honestly, everyone should use instead of DOS commands (e.g., Get-NetIPConfiguration instead of ipconfig). I do remember a bit of timing issues (often solved by inserting Start-Sleep) and other general flakiness like others have noted here, but the ones I've noticed were fixed in later versions.
> Doctors have an unusually strong professional monopoly.

That won't matter. Once people find out AI/robotic solutions are better than the best human doctors, most will choose AI/robots, they will demand them. People aren't stupid.
The link in the post to NTVDMx64 at Columbia seems to be broken, but the associated GitHub project appears to be at https://github.com/leecher1337/ntvdmx64

"What is it?
===========
NTVDMx64 is a port of the well-known Windows NTVDM, which is used by windows
to run DOS-Applications, to 64bit Windows, so that you can run your
DOS-Applications on 64bit Windows too."

Something I had wanted and didn't know existed!
So are you going to take large short positions on Google and Facebook?
Promissory estoppel already exists.
I would probably want to do:

- There is a file format (possibly a ACSII format, or possibly a binary format but also provided program converting the ASCII format to the binary format; there may also be a way to convert parts of it into a C code, for efficient use compiled into programs), which can define the layout and which widgets are in the form. Usually they will be built-in but you can use external specifications too (which may be overridden by end-user, and told to load perhaps using environment variables, if necessary)

- Define the API in C. It may also be possible to call from other programming languages, whether by a dispatch mechanism (similar to Glk) or by wrappers. (There also may be implementations which can be used directly in other programming languages.)

- Separate the API from the implementation (similar to what Glk does). Some parts of the implementation may be written for a common use, and customized if needed for a specific implementation. Other parts will be only implementation-dependent; therefore they can be made depending on different operating systems (using the operating system's UI), different user preferences, etc.

- Define the use of widgets, including list, menu, button, grid, tree-view, text-entry, text-label,

- Define the use of common functions such as file-picker, clipboard, etc.

- Define use of accessibility, and also of programmability by external programs.

- Define use of international text. The ASCII form can be stored in the program; non-ASCII text can be stored separately.

- For text, you can use multiple code pages including TRON code, and does not have to use Unicode.

- Styles are implementation-dependent, and mostly is not specified by programs. The program will specify some things, e.g. forced fix-pitch text.

I have some ideas how to do and might write about it in future in another file. (I also would consider to do a partial implementation as a part of the Free Hero Mesh project; currently the UI is implemented each screen separately; there is not a common UI except for scrollbars, but this can be improved in future, by allowing a common way.)
How does Valve operate when some jobs might be less desirable than others? For instance how do they get anyone to do QA or man the ticket queue? I get that some of this will have to be outsourced but at what point does it happen during a project?
I just like the user experience coupled with a dead simple development experience. Simple CRUD webapps, which is a lot of things, don't need unique user experiences; oftentimes the less unique the better.
Usually the party demanding global censorship bears the burden of explaining why they did the censorship. But I suppose if you’re determined to blame this guy then nothing I say is going to matter.
Sure, just give your manager a copy of the bible: https://docs.google.com/document/d/199PqyG3UsyXlwieHaqbGiWVa...
Surgeon is a subset of the doctor set.

Nurse and doctor sets almost never overlap.
Vladimir Lenin Became a Mushroom – Atlas Obscura (2017)
I had a pretty brutal headcold a few years back and for about two weeks afterwards I had what I described as "supersonic hearing" though my doctor called it tinnitus.

I could hear my neighbor's garage opening a block away in San Francisco and had a frequency sensitivity that was totally abnormal. It was also really painful so I'm glad I got my normal hearing range back.
in a tweet the department said the leak has “demonstrated a serious level of inaccuracy”

"It's more like 500", the department spokesman added. Grinning.
Car alarms are not useful for bystanders, they are useful for the owner of the car (who would know their alarm shouldn't be going off).

That said, this makes them near-useless in most public settings.
AI Agents Told to Behave Like 'Believable Humans' Create 'Artificial Society'
If they narrow down their training data to software while keeping the size of the model they might shed that cost really quickly.
I'm not taking any design advice from someone who puts horizontal scrollbars in their sales pitch website.