skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always felt that Powershell was a solid indication that the whole GUI-isation of the world that started with such a bang in the 1980s has been an impossible task to complete.

For something as complicated as Windows Server, there is not enough time to build GUI screens and OLE/COM/DCOM interfaces for every little flag, function or feature. Microsoft must have realised this quite some time ago.

The evidence? That even Windows 11 contains ancient, crufty GUI screens from Windows XP and older. It turned out the Unix guys were right all along. There is nothing wrong with the core of Windows as an operating system, but the baggage it carries mostly due to all those failed GUI screens makes it inferior in practice to Unix based systems.

I have one powershell script I use, which is something that manipulates an Outlook mailbox. It's unreliable (thanks to Outlook) but again demonstrates what a pointless idea the entire Powershell project was and to a certain extent what a dead end things like systemd will eventually end up being.
Strikingly similar, but so are most websites anyway.
Oh man this would be awesome to have as a shared web space where I could play arbitrary card games with friends like a hyper restricted Tabletop Simulator.

Nice and slick as is, though
Only for the first one, after that queue em up
Google wanted to be an Answer Machine before ChatGPT hence "I'm Feeling Lucky" button but road to there is long and hard. I think the biggest Google's problems are SEO spam often coupled with scams and fraud and last but not least, lack of transparency on how exactly they rank their search results.
I'm from the UK, but was in San Fran for a weekend last year.

Did I ever feel unsafe? No.

Was it sad seeing a lot of, very obviously mentally ill, homeless people? Yes.

How to solve this? Hard to say.
They used the same type of border over the first example, of course it doesn’t work. It’s “our genius design vs average nonexistent nonsense” type of move. Make table/list grid less pronounced, make the selection hint more saturated than a field bg, and now it looks better than #2.

Their selection looks like a hover hint in both cases as if they were afraid to tell a user that a row may have a selection on it.
People in this thread are confusing satisfaction in the justice system for schadenfreude. It’s just nice to see people who have done wrong held accountable.
It is as if people have lives
My favorite project ever in undergraduate was getting these glasses to work with a PC. We got the specs (pun intended) from online resources and a how-to VR book published at the time (mid-90s). My partner designed / assembled the circuit board to interface the glasses to the PC's serial port, and I wrote a display driver that would switch video pages and simultaneously trigger the glasses to flip shutters. The result was 3D on a PC screen.

The demo program was a robotic arm simulator that my partner already had on hand, since it could easily render wireframes. The updated simulator rendered two wireframes of Optimus Prime, so with the driver in place, he floated in front of the screen.

And, of course, you could rotate him in space, and then hit the space bar to transform him in 3D.
I suspect a more important issue is that attending an "upscale" store is at least partly an aesthetic experience. A heavy security presence spoils that aesthetic. If you want to shop under a 10 x 10 foot grid of security cameras, there's always Wal-Mart.

To be fair, the security presence in Wal-Mart, or in a bank, may also be an aesthetic.
Nobody that earns that much is living in a trailer due to necessity in the Bay Area, or SF proper. If they choose to do so, they are likely looking to "FIRE".
Visit a city
That’s the same old sketchy number they like to tout.

Autopilot can only be used in safer conditions, and if the car goes “whoops I’m out, take over” shortly before an accident that doesn’t count in that stat either.
I don't know the truth of it, but it could also be crime reasons, with no economic reasons to justify putting up with it. Corporations aren't that worried about employee safety if there's a lot of money being made.
I'm not saying there's no interest in global groupchat. I'm saying that after Twitter dies, there will be insufficient critical mass in any one spot to have a global groupchat.
> Kodak saw a train coming, did a study that told them that they had to do something, but then sat on the tracks.

Replace "Kodak" with "Google" and that's the exact impression I get from friends who work there
And if that's true the only ones that are traveling through interstellar space are going to be really messed up in some way.
While it can be faster, you must be using Commodore 64 or something. Or you have Defender running or something... It starts instantly, anything else is your local problem. Please stop spreading nonsence and learn to use your machine.
> You can’t physically construct a speaker that makes a sawtooth wave.

This was my point (3), though you've added an additional set of reasons why it is particularly hard for shapes like a sawtooth.
While I think it only furthers your point, this particular Whole Foods has actually been expected for much longer, here is an article from 2018: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/San-Francisco-s-massi...
Your counterexample isn't one. It's a made-up, incoherent mess, that doesn't show in any way what you claim it does. That starts with the incomplete definition of the law itself, which is part of a single sentence that you pasted off a multi-page Wikipedia article on the topic, which isn't exactly the best source in the first place. Why don't you just try to think through the simple explanatory outline I gave you?
Many people double-post right now. Though since twitter effectively killed it's API that basically gutted a bunch of tools that would automate that for you. Though maybe you could post to twitter and have a tool that is just plain webscraping your home timeline and reposting....

It looks like neil does quite a bit of boosting (retweeting) on masto: https://mastodon.social/@neilhimself
You're welcome, I was happy to find a reason to think back and reflect. There's not a great history of all this stuff because the sources of information are largely blogging networks that imploded, youtube videos, and a lot of private forums and events.

It's really interesting that the diatribe was from 2016 because within a few years a lot of the names he mentioned would have very few supporters at a similar event.

By the way, your comment was correct in that the room would have had a lot of r/atheists in it.
This is going to elude a quick explanation.
The problems are very specific to San Francisco, so trying to fit this into a national narrative or attribute it to a single factor is not going to work.

* The voters sacked the old DA. He wasn't doing a great job but more importantly he had picked a fight with the police chief.
The police have a tough job in the city and also they have been slacking off for the past 50 years.
A security guard can't really intervene in a fight without 1.) risking their physical safety for $18 an hour, and 2.) risking a lawsuit since they don't really have any legal grounds to detain someone.

The store was on 8th and Market. I generally try to avoid that part of town for physical safety reasons based on a number of personal incidents involving some of the the more unpredictable characters in that part of town. I'm not sure what Whole Foods corporate HQ was thinking on that one. The location is just not a good place for a high end grocery store. HQ messed up.
I would also point out that Rainbow foods is maybe 0.5 miles over on Folsom and Division. While Rainbow is near a lot of homeless encampments (maybe more than 8th and Market) the people are more steady and I never get the unsafe vibes in that part of town.
in that case, the bar to qualify as a cop gets lowered like the TSA. you can always hit your metrics if you try hard enough. the ol' saying "lower your standards, raise your average" can apply here.
> “Claude-Next” — 10 times more capable than today’s most powerful AI, but that this will require a billion dollars in spending over the next 18 months.

GPT-4 cost less than a billion dollars? What is the claim here? That they're spending more money on compute than OpenAI, or that they have made algorithmic breakthroughs that enable them to make better use of the same amount of compute?
> This store was opened in 2022 and presumably the decision to open it was made in 2021

I think it was earlier than that. Pre-pandemic. Here's an article talking about it in early 2018. https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/San-Francisco-s-massi...

Pre-pandemic, one of several possible narratives about that area was that Twitter had moved in successfully and trends were looking up. That was the sort of optimism that brought Whole Foods. I remember that there were some local reactions that they could be getting ahead of themselves.
I see. As somebody who left Twitter, I'm glad somebody finally had the courage to tell me that everyone always disliked me. At last, the truth.
They just reinstated крепостное право, now one can't leave the country if a military recruitment office (военкомат) sent a summon letter (even if you don't receive it. You have to check yourself manually on a special website beforehand). Along with other restrictions like ban on transactions involving real estate (land, apartments, houses) and such.
I know you're kind of joking. But ever been to Rio de Janeiro? Every restaurant and store in the nice neighborhoods, like Ipanema and Leblon has a least one guard.

Sit down at outdoor seating at any restaurant in those areas and there is a guard standing there right by the tables while you eat.

San Francisco is about at that point. Years ago I was sitting at some outdoor seating on a first date and a guy walked up, grabbed my dates glass of wine, pounded it, and said "I'm an alcoholic" making eye contact with both of us, as he set my dates glass back down on the table.
Been using the webcam with my FreeBSD desktop for job interviews over the past couple of months. Unfortunately Zoom eats up a ton of CPU and then crashes when I open it in a browser tab, and there isn't a packaged binary that I've given a try yet. On Google Meet the browser also doesn't support blurring out the background. So, while it's not totally broken or anything, I don't rely on it for important video meetings.
> But you're right that their moat will probably be razor then. A few senior devs can get together and probably hackathon a library that's just like Langchain but much more robust. Thanks for an idea on what I'm gonna do this weekend lol.

Did you do it? I'm doing something similar but in Rust, for my product. It'll be open source soon enough.
If I were a cop I wouldn’t expend any effort to chase down a criminal if I know the DA is gonna shirk their responsibility. What’s the point? Law enforcement doesn’t work if the law isn’t enforced.

Same way I’m not gonna do any extra work in the office if I know my manager doesn’t care.
IANAL but it's not: they could be compelled to return whatever was invested (or however much of it remains). It's pretty unlikely given that it looks like a successful Anthropic investment is perhaps FTX creditors' best chance at decent recovery.
Ignorant comment but my limited "understanding" is that in most networks much of the knowledge is highly entangled and to do an efficient computation for a particular completion might involve something like converting the input sequence into a representation that involves the right "modular" latent sub-spaces, only, for the meat of the computation. So making those latent sub-spaces might be key.

Although unfortunately I don't really understand any of it. But I strongly suspect that things need to be better factored if we want good interpretability and efficiency. Not that I think it's easy to do that and still get performance and generality.
I don't know the truth of it and there are varying levels of reporting in different cities, but: https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ca/san-francisco/crime

"Safer than 2% of U.S. Cities..."
https://playingcards.io/ worked well for me and my family during the pandemic.
Google controls distribution on Web through Google Chrome. How would AI assisted search even reach casual web users? Word of mouth is not enough.
Here's a link to the full resolution images:
https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2023/117/01G...
It's absolutely true, and the only thing I missed and you are not wrong about is that supplying armies via ship was possible, if they only operated near ports. That's exactly why the Roman empire conquered lands around the Mediterranean but never advanced deeply into central Europe or the middle East.

But no, neither depots nor wagon trains can supply a large army over long distances. It's not too expensive, it's impossible, because the animals that draw the wagons (and build the depots) themselves eventually consume more supplies than they can draw.

A force of 2000 men over 100 miles? Yeah, that may be in "doable, but expensive" territory. 50,000 men over 500 miles? Forget it.
My mastodon timeline has been growing pretty rapidly over the last year. With obvious ratcheting up happening whenever elon steps on yet another rake. 'Let that sink in' nearly doubled the amount of posts per day, 'hardcore mode' another, 'api shutdown' another...
At 20,000 copies sold (according to the site), it seems you get rich by writing the book!
yikes. this ain't it chief.
as far as I understand, it does a visual snapshot of the DOM, so it should work w/ custom elements just fine
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We have a mix of agenda jobs and rabbitmq. I know there are more complex use-cases, like fan out. but in reality the rabbit stack keeps disconnecting silently in the stack we're using (js). Someone has to go in and restart pods (k8s).

All the stuff on Agenda works perfectly all the time. (which is basically using mongo's find and update)
Lol “the law” .. what law? Maybe in some dumb ass jurisdiction - but you’re a bit full of yourself if you think where you happen to live is “the law”.
Sorry to bring up an older thread, but I was looking into LangChain recently, and I was thinking of making something similar but in other languages. Do you have any insight into what direction is better to move in for LangChain-like alternatives?
More robust isn't good enough. This is a security issue, and if your security fix is only 99% effective it's only a matter of time before someone finds an exploit.

You can watch this playing out in realtime on Reddit - take a look at the people trying to find "jailbreaks" for ChatGPT etc. Jailbreaking isn't the exact same thing as prompt injection but it's very similar.
Anecdotal, of course, but this was my Whole Foods and just about every time I went in it was pretty well trafficked. In addition to the apartment complex right above the store, there are several high density complexes within a couple blocks of that store. I really doubt it was for economic reasons.

But it was fairly common to see someone riding the long escalator up to the exit (the store is below ground) while yelling profanities at the security below watching them leave. When the store opened it used to have a nice selection of hard liquor, but they stopped selling that due to theft. And there are always several people so high they're barely able to stand, pretending to shop.
Per sq ft, per capita, per any stat you care to look at this isn’t really true if you use the actual numbers and not whatever doctored nonsense people are blowing around to pretend their form of politics/propaganda is better.
From a PR perspective having armed security at a grocery store would invite a whirlwind of bad press and unfair comparisons. Most people would agree that stealing food for sustenance can sometimes be justified.

I can already imagine social media backlash over someone being apprehended at gunpoint after trying to steal a small amount of food. Contrast that with how it would look for someone apprehended at gunpoint at a bank. Almost no one thinks it’s okay to steal just a little bit of money from a bank.
>There still isn't much of a reason to move away from it, except for those who want to signal their disdain for Musk's political views

There ISN'T? Ever since Musk stepped in it's riddled with bugs and changes for the worse. As an example very recently and as of now Twitter Circles are broken and tweets that should be private only for a select few are visible to anyone in the "For You" tab. This is MASSIVE and probably even a breach of GDPR.
Your first example is just as functional as your second. And, quite possibly, better style.

But your overall point is fair. A function, once composed, curried or having captured data, is very much like an object. Indeed its representation in memory is likely very similar to an object (mostly functional languages) or actually identical (Java). Your debugger won’t show the data in such a function but it’s happy to show the data in an object. That’s a big advantage of objects over functions. Hopefully debuggers will get better at this eventually.
I highly doubt the SF supervisors spend any time consulting actual experts on anything.
Sorry to say this, but everyone in this thread should be aware of ghost job openings.

https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/fake-jobs-hide-cooler-...

It's sometimes incompetent HR process and sometimes intentional market signalling, but these companies may just be stockpiling resumes for future use without any intention of hiring right now.
>Work is just the shit you do for other people to stay alive.

A disheartening realization my sister-in-law pointed out is that we don't perform work, we perform jobs. Even the unemployed and retired have many jobs. Sibling, friend, parent, child, partner, spouse. Our most vital and rewarding jobs don't have a uniform or an RFID badge, but the robots may nevertheless take them too.

You and I might be hesitant to replace friends and family with artificial people but they might not feel the same way. Why risk rejection when compatibility can be programmed?
It's interesting, but I don't think it's going to robustly solve prompt injection.
>> Nobody relies on estimates from a single satellite alone.

Yes they did. From the paper I just cited:

The six main groups that provide satellite-altimetry-based GMSL estimates (AVISO/CNES, SL_cci/ESA, University of Colorado, CSIRO, NASA/GSFC, NOAA) use 1 Hz altimetry measurements from the T/P, Jason-1, Jason-2 and Jason-3 missions from 1993 to 2018 (1993–2015 for SL_cci/ESA). The differences among the GMSL estimates from several groups arise from data editing, from differences in the geophysical corrections and from differences in the used method to spatially average individual measurements during the orbital cycles

The apparently independent time series are actually computed from the same raw data sources, as there isn't an abundance of redundant satellites measuring sea level.

But isn't this goalpost shifting? At first you said I was wrong that uncertainty has been the same size as the measurements in the past, citing the IPCC as proof which of course doesn't mention any of this, saying only that they have high confidence in these numbers (the IPCC is not trustworthy). Then it became that the error isn't big enough for you, and nobody relied on a single satellite. Now I show that they did indeed rely on a single satellite.

The core issue here remains the same: how do they know they're getting it right now? A calibration error so large it invalidated their entire time-series lasted for the entire lifetime of the TOPEX-1 mission, and it then took 20 years for the problem to actually be detected and corrected for. They've only been measuring sea level with satellites for 30 years, and the discrepancy between tide gauges and satellites has never been properly reconciled even though they theoretically measure the same thing.
I don't get it:

https://github.com/pulp-platform/mempool/blob/main/software/...

How is that mapping to cores happening? I see indexing by core id for the multiply but how does it magically end up running on a specific core? Magic compiler?
I guess "won't be big and professional like gnu" can only be said once innocently. :)

(To be fair, the tech landscape may be sufficiently different that the same won't happen again, too.)
Anthropic is currently the only company that can compete with OpenAI (because they have comparable expertise). The rest (Google, Meta, Microsoft, etc) are still pretty far behind.
With Wii Sports, it somewhat felt like you were doing the correct action for the associated sport. With every other game, and Wii Sports after the novelty wore off, it felt like a clunky input method that usually led to mindlessly waggling the remote around.
This is a coordinated capital strike. Walmart is doing the same thing to Chicago stores in vulnerable food-deserts[1], after a CTU leader was elected mayor. Workers are demanding a living wage in a world where the costs of basic needs are skyrocketing.

1. https://corporate.walmart.com/newsroom/2023/04/11/walmart-an...
I'm pretty sure they can accept your resignation effective immediately and it not be a firing. Post dating it is a nicety you offered and they declined.
I mean I kept my twitter account, I just don't use it nearly as much. When he killed the API it killed the only way I could use twitter and stay sane (tweetbot). Now I can go days without opening twitter dot com. Mostly only visiting it through links referencing specific tweets. So follower/following count might not mean much. I'm still following everyone I followed it's just that if they post I'm not actually seeing it.
I was referring to violent crime as outlined in the article.

A lot of petty crime stems from inequality and drug use not from career criminals.

And those issues can't be solved by more policing.
there is a really neat mobile-native hypermedia called HyperView:

https://hyperview.org/

which is discussed in depth in our book:

https://hypermedia.systems/book/hyperview-a-mobile-hypermedi...
A lot of "legacy" companies had businesses that were doing very well but missed the boat one or more times as new things arrived. Microsoft is a good example. Windows and Office was absolutely, positively printing money. They whiffed on mobile so hard it was comical. Going back further in time, IBM got mauled in the PC business over time, even though mainframes and PCs were keeping the lights on for decades.

I disagree with the assertion that in 5 years these companies may be heavily disrupted but these darlings that preyed on the fact the incumbents were ossified, large and slow are now themselves ossified, large and slow. The cycle continues on.

In the particular case of Twitter they're being actively driven into the ground by a guy who seems determined to wake up each day and not go to bed until he's made some very poor decisions so who knows, maybe they will crash and burn quickly.
I dare say the shoppers at whole foods voted for the political policies that led to the closure of the whole food store. So you might say it's kind of fitting
I think you'll find that it is in fact proof by all practical standards we use outside of formal mathematics.
The title reminded me of WordStar from my youth.

In like grade 5 or so a friend and I got it into our heads to become reporters, conduct interviews around our school, and publish dot-matrix printed newsletters. "Just the facts, ma'am"
The location, in my mind, makes sense. It is near upcoming new-housing, and also notorious 6th, so it's likely to be cheap and popular.

And it's more central than their South-of-Market store on ... 4th & Harrison.

The Twitter building's nearby "The Market" grocery might benefit from this closure - it's suffered greatly from the Pandemic, Twitter itself shrinking, and the great Fentanyl-flooding.