skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are asking for product analytics, you do not have a lot good alternatives:
- Posthog
- Amplitude
- Mixpanel

I would recommend Posthog except their customer communication is a nightmare. You can only talk to developers who answer days later after your query on Slack. They need like an Intercom feature.

The reason we are still using them is the session recordings. It lets you watch what users are doing
I have to agree, and on top of everything i deem this a straight up wishful reversal of the likely outcome:

Vehicle registration is governed by a central authority _by law_, not by technical necessity.

Therefore blockchaining-up the storage of registrations themselves will likely do very little to remove the need to deal with the responsible department -- it might rather make dealing with the DMV _much worse_ since they'll not have full authority over their records anymore, while third parties might be able to interface with them however they see fit, yet with no official communication channels with the department and zero authority over the actual legal side of registrations.

And even if they do keep full control over the nodes & contracts and just make it "Blockchain" for the buzzwords sake, the immutable nature of those records could very well end up being of little more use than having a persistent "paper trail", yet make it an absolute nightmare to correct human errors if the tech isn't implemented very carefully, and if personnel isn't very well versed in handling this new system.

At the very best, it could give retail more accessible ways of handling registrations directly on sale, but that'd still mandate a huge additional support and oversight effort by the department and might easily result in a much worse shitshow than current bureaucratic issues could ever be.
I see. I must admit to not paying much attention to FSF, but instead other organisations such as EFF seem to be championing consumers' freedoms as opposed to developers' freedoms.

I do think RMS has made some very important comments and insights about how technology is being abused by companies, but I'd agree that he's probably not the best person to be running an organisation - maybe keep him around as a consultant.
You know what I believe is also a toy model? chatGPT Turbo, you can tell by the speed of generation. And it works quite well, so small size is not an impediment. I expect there will be an open model on the level of chatGPT by the end of the year because suddenly there are lots of interested parties and investors.

Eventually there will be a good enough model for most personal uses, our personal AI OS. When that happens there is a big chance advertising is going to be in a rough spot - personal agents can filter out anything from ads to spam and malware. Google better find another revenue source soon.

But OpenAI and other high-end LLM providers have a problem - the better these open source models become, the more market they cut underneath them. Everything open source models can do becomes "free". The best example is Dall-E vs Stable Diffusion. By the next year they will only be able to sell GPT4 and 5. AI will become a commodity soon, OpenAI won't be able to gate-keep for too long. Prices will hit rock bottom.
Every company is different, startups included. In my first full-time job, I was at a big company and completed my first project in a couple months. As it turns out, that was actually my project for the year. I literally had nothing to do (it was a gov't funded project, so my hours were paid for the year, regardless).

Startups need everything done all the time, so there's a much higher probability of being pulled into non-coding tasks. That said, it sounds like your boss & company don't really seem to care what you're looking for in terms of growth and experience. Again, this isn't uncommon at any company. You may have just landed in a role that's not a great fit for you.
I "doctored" yesterday's french fries with some chili, cheese, and chopped onions. Does that make me a doctor?
Primitive Asgard Cells Show Life on the Brink of Complexity
This must be how early chemists felt trying to figure out what helps and what hurts, and everyone calling them witches
For those who want to crunch numbers here is the Excel file I created for the comparison with all the scenarios and valuations:

https://link.babich.me/ycdeal
Right, that’s why they’re fake.
For those wondering what the "SSO Tax" is, it refers to the excessive pricing practiced by SaaS providers to access the SSO feature on their product.

A documented rant has made the rounds at https://sso.tax , which lists all vendors and their pricing of SSO.
The FSFe is doing incredible work there, yes. They're not perfect as an organization (there was some weird shit with inequal pay a couple years ago), but in terms of actually making efforts to changes that matters, I would consider them far more effective than the FSF.

They're Europe focused though, and while that's not an issue for me, the US is still for now the prevailing legislative body when it comes to the territory of FOSS and it's hard to expect the European organization to take up the fight of the US FSF.

At the moment they're iirc not working with the US organization anymore because the FSF reinstated Stallman without any prior communication or warnings to them.
You are correct that the desire to subsidize commercial activity plays a role. Republicans may not have power in a state like CT but there is still a desire not to be beat up on an issue that will play well to the masses. For instance, Michelle Obama advocated for better nutrition for school lunch programs. No reasonable person could possibly have seen fault with this but after Fox News attacked her over this it became a dead issue.

EDIT: It is definitely not a dumb idea as you suggest. Many counties have sensible policies on this issue and yet they manage to trudge along without much trouble. As I said it is OK to advocate for pay-as-you-use government so long as people like you don’t pay for your negative externalities too often.
> LLMs can generate code, making it easier for developers to create complex software programs.

Sweet sweet complex software programs.
Or just let things perish. Literally nothing last forever.
This is interesting and I want to know more.
Appreciate the detailed feedback here.

Frankly these are all things I've wanted to address. We've just had to prioritize other tasks.

We're definitely going to keep iterating.

Thanks for taking the time to try it!
The question for me is whether they understand complex concepts and can apply them in new areas.

So when I’m doing quantum computing work, I go back and forth between Claude and GPT4 and both complement the other very well.
At some point, we need to realise that we’ve learned enough through consumption. Only by creating can we maximise the learning journey and prevent what we’ve learned from stagnating within us. The best way to do that is to develop a habit of creative experimentation and expression by allocating daily time for our creative pursuits.
Some specialized vehicles such as the HMMWV (Humvee) do have such systems for enhanced off road mobility. But the necessary compressor, air lines, and sensors are complex, heavy, and prone to leaks. It's just totally impractical for regular civilian vehicles. Just stick a little portable 12V air compressor in your trunk if you expect to deflate your tires for driving on soft ground.
People who made money with their phone had fully adopted Blackberry devices long before the iPhone came around. It may not have been as fun or slick, but when $80/hr. was on the line you weren't exactly going to wait around until something better showed up like the average consumer could.

The parent is right. The success of ChatGPT in business is that it brought awareness of the capabilities of GPT that OpenAI struggled to communicate beforehand. It was a breakthrough in marketing, less so a breakthrough in tech.
Ya I see this as an extension of what's happened to the Internet, but in everything.

Searching for a product now is just a bunch of SEO crap rankings with affiliate links. Didn't take anything intelligent to create those, just rename 2022 to "2023 (Updated)" and viola. The cognitive overhead of having to parse out solid reviews, find trusted sources, etc., is pretty high now.

And now we're going to have video, audio, music, and entire conversations we think might be authentic but aren't sure, that are just regurgitating patterns with some guesses mixed in. Feels like the next phase will be trying to constantly parse our real from fake.
Seems ironic, isn't it? In a complete anarchy, you'd have less freedom as you have now, despite the lack of law. But rules and law, while limiting freedom technically, are exactly the things that enable freedom. Because nature doesn't recognize freedom, and the boundaries that define it, and so, they are crossed all the time.
> blockchain to handle DB + access api for relatively slow db operations I think is one of the rare great current blockchain use-cases

Ok, sure, it's OK for car registration to be slow and expensive in compute terms.

But what benefit does blockchain have here? What could blockchain possibly add that a private database maintained by the state with otherwise equivalent functionality couldn't do better?

This is a textbook situation where there is a trusted third party. In fact, the state is the party whose opinion controls in this situation. It's not like people are registering cars for fun, the are doing it because it's a government requirement.
Universities are about a few things:

1. Education - Inspiration and job training
2. High-achieving peer groups
3. Prestige and signalling
4. Fun and independence

Online courses do #1 better than CCs. Dorms are essential to #4, so CCs miss out on it. There is no prestige associated with CCs and the titular community isn't especially high achieving.

What value do CCs provide ?
Ask HN: How long before databases get vector similarity search in them?
I know sqlite has it and you can always use a specialized service. But why not directly in mysql or other databases?

https://github.com/asg017/sqlite-vss
Which are hard or stressful to get qualified for if you have your mental abilities with you, and you might not qualify for any of it (CHIP is for children, isn't it?).

They can be almost impossible if you don't, and it isn't like someone is going to walk you through it.

And most of these programs aren't going to do anything if you aren't already in crisis mode - disability might be the biggest offender here. You have a 24 month wait for medicare at that point, nevermind that you are obviously out of work at that point. You might qualify for medicaid, sure, but might not.

And to be fair, most of my knowledge on this is personal: My ex was on disability for mental illness. I don't know how well he got along after we split.
The government blockchain projects that I'm aware of that have had some success (AFAIK. I've been away from the space for a while and was only ever peripherally involved, e.g. https://digital.gov.bc.ca/digital-trust/) it was more about having information exchange and a coherent view of information across a multitude of organizations. Not so much the cryptography, immutability, etc.

Mind you I'm actually not sure what the CA DMV would gain. It seems they're the only source of truth that matters with respect to CA residents. Title information maybe given that does move from owner to owner.
the only one broadcasting the lies seems to be Turley himself: chatGPT didn't share the conversation with the internet, he did
The claim was:

> Already there are Intel Laptops being created that will not allow us to replace Windows with Linux or a BSD.

The Linux Mint forum post includes this:

> To be able to boot Linux on such PCs you need to either disable secure boot in the BIOS or you need to enable the "Allow Microsoft 3rd Party UEFI CA" option in the Security section of the BIOS.

Then if you follow the link to the document from Lenovo:

> Starting in 2022 for Secured-core PCs it is a Microsoft requirement for the 3rd Party Certificate to be disabled by default. This means that for any of these Lenovo platforms shipped with Windows preinstalled an extra step is needed to allow Linux to boot with secure boot enabled.

Following that, Lenovo even gives instructions how to do it.

So it seems clear to me that it's allowed and that this does not match the original claim.
I learned to solder electronic components by age 12, and later I ran an electronics operation where all of my staff could solder proficiently—they had to as bad soldering could easily have jeopardized the functioning of critical equipment. (Back then, anyone interested in electronics had to be up to speed with soldering or they couldn't do the job. Then soldering wasn't seen as a novelty or something unfamiliar as many of these posts indicate, it was taken for granted that everyone knew how to solder proficiently.)

That preface was necessary to indicate how vital hand soldering skills were to electronics and communication industries and to show that what I say next comes from long experience.

Bluntly, you're right to quote that text as not good advice as without certain stipulations it's very misleading; and that your own experience from using better soldering tools is exactly what is to be expected (it's the right advice). In short, don't use cheap crappy soldering equipment even as a beginner (you'll likely develop bad, hard-to-shake habits), rather buy the best you can afford. Moreover, one should not only buy a decent soldering iron with variable temperature control (or tips that work at different temperatures) but also it should support the wattage necessary to keep the tips at the correct temperature for the type of work you anticipate doing.

Same logic applies to your ancillary tools and consumables: use high quality solder with cored flux and always have a range of gauges to hand, always use 'solder wick', and or a decent desoldering tool, have syringes of flux† with correct size dispensing nozzles (flat-end/orifice hypodermic-like needles); and always have plenty of isopropyl alcohol (propan-2-ol) and suitable brushes for removing surplus flux/cleaning up (if it's unavailable then at a pinch use 95% or greater ethanol as a substitute).

I can't go into good soldering techniques here but I'll finish by saying always solder at the correct temperature and always clean (wipe) your iron's tips before use (and don't 'burn' them by leaving them switched on for long periods when not in use).

† There's different types of flux for different jobs—a flux, say, for reflowing IC leads on a PCB will use a different type to that used for soldering old components whose tinning may be slightly oxidized.
What is a "real engineer?" A railroad worker?
Stroppy report: FoundationDB
Are you a victim of algorithmic wage discrimination?
Sorry for off topic question, but do you plan on doing anything about the egress prices?

I do understand that you are hosting your stuff on AWS, which is subject to AWS egress fees, but the egress fee is just way too much for any serious project (imho)
That's not really how I read it.

Many characteristics would be necessary to lead FSF. Gender, sexuality ot race are not important in this context.

By all means, if a person with the meaningful characteristics to lead belong to your preferred minority groups, that's awesome! But looking for a minority group first and the desired characteristics later definitely seems to be a roundabout way to push an agenda.
Heh, my "shovel" was an ibanez sr400 (not the cheapest, maybe 2nd low cost entry) but I have no idea what strings were on. Ibanez thin neck felt like a win at first but it wasn't enough it seems.
I just want to point out that their oath is first to uphold the Constitution, then to the President, then to their officers above them.

https://www.military.com/join-armed-forces/swearing-in-for-m...

Americans disagree about a lot, including how to interpret the Constitution and which parts of it are more or less important. But I would really hope that myself and any other random American can at least agree that our Constitution is the rule book that we must all live by and that it is ultimately what binds us as a nation.
This genre of article is starting to get to me.

It seems like we can either try to address climate change through carbon emissions by changing our relationship with cars or we can ensure nothing changes and ensure that by the time my kids are my age that the world is a fundementally worse place.

If the casualty is old parking garages, it seems like a fair deal

Edit: it's been a few years since I looked at the numbers but any conversation about ev fires is statistically FUD. Full stop
The thing that struck me is that, besides that deranged sentence, the author comes off as quite reasonable. He said he was an early believer in crypto and blockchains, but he doesn't deny all the crazy bad shit that has gone on with crypto.

So the fact that one of the best examples he can think of to defend the utility of blockchain is this deranged sentence just shows how hard it is for people to give up on things that they've invested a lot of their personal belief in. There is just "no there there", but it will take a long time for folks to realize it.
> Technical and socially competent leadership is compatible -- actually, well-aligned -- with diverse representation

Reality begs to differ.

If they're well aligned, where are these people? Have they been oppressed by not being given a chance? Let's see where we are in 20 years when that argument can finally be put to rest (when's the last time you saw a positive _male_ role model in films or other pop-culture, tech-related or otherwise?).
Or they could just use a regular database maintained by the state.
Yes, that one is really good as well and I recommend it for more advanced use cases like setting manufacturer specific VCPs (e.g. E9 to 36 for PBP on Dells etc.)

But most people ask me for a Lunar alternative which by that they mean a pretty UI with some adaptive or automated brightness. That's why I usually recommend TwinkleTray.
The affect of sea level rise on the Bay of Fundy is going to be... interesting.
Not entirely sure but I think the point here might be that you need multiple spares, due to all of the punctures you'll get going off-road in this harsh environment.
'Bullshit jobs' is an indictment of the socioeconomic system that enables such jobs to exist in the first place. It is not an indictment of the individual doing the job; the psychological association between oneself and their bullshit job is at the heart of the analysis. I like this definition:

>"a form of paid employment that is so completely pointless, unnecessary, or pernicious that even the employee cannot justify its existence even though, as part of the conditions of employment, the employee feels obliged to pretend that this is not the case."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
Software/Hardware Engineer. SHE News.
There is usually a path for two years of cheaper community college with transferable credits to two final years at a state university.
I don’t think being a Boston resident is a requirement. I believe some of the board members are already non-local (Henry Poole lives in California as far as I can tell, Odile Bénassy lives in France).
I don't think railroad workers have much of an opinion on the title of software engineers.
Sure. They provide a form for that, and there are discussion threads in many places. Commenting vitriol on random projects that are, in fact, totally unrelated to the Rust Foundation is not productive.
> If we have these bots contributing, will they have anything novel to contribute? I doubt it.

They're contributing to the shared knowledge bases. That is, they're mutating state. Over time, same questions will start yielding different answers. Different follow-up questions will be asked. All of that will further alter next iteration of questions and answers. This is, IMO, a form of thinking, and it will yield novel thoughts over time.
Lets start by Bell Curve not being an actual science.
There's less the further back in time you go, of course, but a few 20s examples:

* Westinghouse desk fan. Tanky and moves a ton of air because it has essentially no grill, but I do have it on a kill switch to protect little fingers.

* As @zamnos mentioned, radio. I have several consumer receivers and amateur transmitters from the period. These fall less into the "best" category for obvious reasons, but are more for kids' historical context. I'm exploring arcane combos like a cassette player + tiny AM transmitter + antique radio. Sort of a [mono] stereo with a non-all-you-can-eat music library combined with experiencing the physicality of RF propagation. Also they have standard 1/4" headphone jacks!

* Many books around that age. Tom Swift, Oz, etc.

* A few kitchen gadgets like an electric waffle iron and a hand grinder (I do have modern ones too).
https://youtu.be/tBJ-CTKG2dM

Goes into workings of retrieval augmentation with example
> Is that any more "engineering" than "prompt engineering"?

Yes?
From the same forum post:

> To be able to boot Linux on such PCs you need to either disable secure boot in the BIOS or you need to enable the "Allow Microsoft 3rd Party UEFI CA" option in the Security section of the BIOS.

it's not like they're blocking completely the ability to install Linux, anyone installing Linux should be able to follow those steps. Don't get me wrong I'm no Lenovo/MS fan but spreading FUD is not the way

edit: formatting
Schizophrenia is not an all or nothing. It's not like one resistor fries and suddenly they're hearing voices completely indistinguishable from reality. Some people have partial or even significant insight into their illness. That is to say, they are aware and appreciate that their thinking is disordered, or that the voices are actually internal, and they have coping methods. Some methods of coping like reality testing seem like they can be taught, and it does seem likely to me that having a lot of general intelligence would make such a thing more effective.
Distributed Machine Learning Notebooks with Elixir and Livebook
It's like how physical manufacturing will choose to save a few pennies on a part reducing the overall cost per unit, saving themselves millions at the expense of the actual quality. It's fine when you do it with one or two part, but when you do it with all the parts, you're just creating a crap product.
This is very cool! I created this small convenience script without the intent to customize `Termdebug` itself, leaving any preferences to the users. But I can see many nice things you added there that can combine very well with the two!
I'm not a smart man. But I just don't see how any kind of economics work at this point. This sounds analogous to the universe eventually reaching the same temperature and pressure everywhere, and no events can occur ever again after that.
At this point if it keeps someone from buying another fossil fuel car, I'm fine with it.
>That left the Muni driver in a bind. “I can’t move the bus,” the driver said to one of two riders on board. “The car is automatic driving.”

my problem with busses is that they are huge and, in my experience, mostly empty. they create traffic and their weight damages roads.

as far as public transportation goes, busses are as braindead as it gets.
You say that, but it's clearly not true. Imagine all the problems of the DMV as it is now, plus dealing with a buggy blockchain app where people use malware to steal your car registration. Or, in 10 years, when you have to download and install buggy, poorly-maintained apps and figure out how they work, just to sell your car. It can definitely be worse.
> since they can exhibit "mode collapse", a loss in entropy, where they e.g. tend to produce content which is very similar in style.

so wait, is this why all these chatgpt answers in HN comments sound so similar and are thus easy to detect?
Very interested in this topic but haven’t experimented much with it yet, do you know of any good resources or writeups?