skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
8.7 million followers but take a look at their feed. Go back a week in time (for a snapshot) and the like/retweets/comments are generally in the 10s or low hundreds, with a few exceptions (low thousands). Same with NYT. Last time I looked they had 50+ million followers with similar low engagement.

So how many of their followers are bots and what’s NPRs true value to Twitter? I don’t know. I’ve got a small 5k following and I have similar engagement.
That's because the center doesn't work for many things.

If you support individual patients making their own healthcare decisions with their doctors, how do you find the center with someone who wants to take that right away for reasons that have zero effect on them?

If you support a consenting adults right to love and marry whichever consenting adult they want, how do you find the center with someone who wants to tell people which consenting adults they can and can't marry?

If you think people should not be denied jobs or housing based solely on what's in the their pants, how do you find the center with people who think it's okay to deny people jobs and housing based on what's in their pants?

How do you find the center with the Nazi party?

The center is meaningless for most issues that actually matter.
I'm not sure how you got to that, I don't think so at all. In fact, I'm positive, any reasonable reading of what I said leaves highways of space between a lack of agency and what she did.
Make sure you're on a desktop to play. Doesn't work on mobile
More benchmarking. Some of the speedtests coming back >10gigs is a bit of a surprise given price point

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Grocery stores, Walmart, Target, Home Depot, CVS and the like have already moved to self-checkout, almost entirely. The cashier jobs are already gone
> Sure it would remain a cash cow if Meta decided never to take another risk again, but Zuck was trying to avoid Facebook becoming the next Oracle or IBM -- companies with consistent revenue but thay have lost their ability to innovate.

At some point, I think society is going to have to admit that companies have a lifecycle, and that sometimes a company should die, maybe long before it runs out of money. If the only outcomes are "grow forever" and "become IBM", then I think we should prefer the IBM route, because at least that provides value.

Leave the innovation to smaller companies and allow them to thrive or die on their merits. This whole thing where fossils long past their innovative prime are able to control the entire industry, through boondoggles that are kept afloat indefinitely through trillion dollar cash reserves, rent seeking activities, and strategic acquisitions, is just not good for anyone except the people who are able to exit.

You want innovation, get FAANG out of the way.
how do you build the knowledge and intuition around how to do this?
You should get together with https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=eimrine since you both say the same thing at the same time.
Oh duh. Sorry, I could have sworn "Raft" was in the title.

All is well here
Thanks! Today has certainly been a good jumpstart :)
I got sick of scanning through large json files to try and get a feeling for a dataset. Then when I wanted to remove some data, I was using control F - this is obviously dumb. Praetor is a flask app that lets you mix, edit, view, and export datasets for LLMs. The only pip requirement is flask. To keep it simple, the frontend is very straightforward. It uses an sqlite database and jinja templating under the hood.
Especially if your phone isn't new and doesn't hold quite as much charge any longer. I've definitely ended up plugging my phone into a portable battery when traveling. But usually if I'm out and about and using GPS and camera a lot, I'll have some sort of small bag with me for water, snack, additional clothing, etc. anyway so easy to throw a battery and cable in.
Jorge Luis Borges extolling the joys of writing in English
That’s pretty suss. Just send your passport and if they have any issues with it, they’ll ask. If they ask you for your passport and you ask “how do I comply” I’d probably suspend the account to since you seem unable or unwilling to comply.
There was an episode of the old 80's TV show "Max Headroom" which explored the idea that a new age church was taking advantage of people by providing kiosks, for a price, that contained a crude digital simulation of their lost loved ones. The show came down pretty much on the side of "it's just creepy, false hope".
Are you implying that someone (possibly temporarily) living in another country than where they're from means the sensible course of action is to instantly ban them?
I think flouted works better than flaunted when talking about laws.
Glad you like it! Check back in a few months. I'm looking to add rankings if you want to see that.
I'm absolutely astounded by this comment
It's worth noting that most of the people expressing those attitudes here are quite new accounts and/or end up severely downvoted, and often flagged to oblivion. In this discussion in particular I haven't noticed any "regulars" stepping off the deep end. It tends to be less futile to try to keep these things at bay here than most other places, as HN regulars have a low tolerance for heated/controversial political debates at the best of times, even before adding in concern over the specific views expressed, so the threshold for someone to end up flagged over it is pretty low.

If you have concerns that are not resolved by people getting flagged (may take a while for them to reach critical mass of flags) or banned, do e-mail the admins. I'm sure they'll at least listen.
An object has the potential to undermine the solemnity of a ritual. As to your hot-rodding example, there is no supernatural power I'm referring to, merely perception.
You're not the gatekeeper of words. Christianity and Islam are both superstitions.
> Ethereum is about 20 for the electricity usage of a few steel plants.

Does this take the migration to proof of stake last year into account?
Please act in good faith. You know why Twitter did what it did, and you know why it was wrong. We know you know that. NPR is not state affiliated, or even government funded. Fox news airs ads from the US Military - is it state affiliated?
Your argument for having a massively oversized EV is that people won't actually use it for what it's supposedly intended for?

What's weird is trying to market something to someone spending $60k+ on a vehicle by saying you won't really use it for its intended purposes (which it can't do well) anyway so shutup and buy it.

"Buy this lesser truck that's more expensive than its ICE version."

But, I want to spend MY hard earned money on a vehicle that can do actual truck things.

"NO, you do not need an actual truck so spend $90k on this EV truck that can't go very far while towing."

Wouldn't it be better to just buy a car if I don't actually need a truck?

"No, buy this overpriced EV truck."

Solid marketing strategy. The ONLY thing ev's have an advantage at right now is the idea that they're better for the environment. By almost every other measure they're a worse product. Until they fix the issues with range they're not competing with cheaper, better ICE vehicles.
I'm pretty sure that's not at all what he's saying, he's just saying that the existing bitcoin network would serve as a net settlement layer for L2 systems, which handle the much higher volume of everyday transactions. My understanding is that net settlement between banks is much less frequent than the capacity of BTC.

Lightning (an L2 system on Bitcoin) is essentially a system of peer to peer exchange of signed BTC transactions, which supersede previous ones, but don't get committed to the main net. In that way, you can keep a running tab between counterparties with effectively no marginal cost until one of you decides to close the tab by committing it.
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>I also wonder if FB could go back in time would they completely scrap VR investment? What (at the time) would have been their big bet instead?

I think this is the relevant question. So many people fall into the Trap stop thinking in terms of binary outcomes, especially with hindsight information. This isn't how business investment works at all.

The same people that are quick to judge investment failures can rarely produce an alternative idea with multi-billion dollar upside.
The entire discussion, recorded in February 1977, is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNxzQSheCkc&ab_channel=Firin....
That is exactly it. It's not the first time Zuckerberg went into that direction and failed.

He tried the same with the mobile market (and was ridiculously late in the game with a not-much-differentiating offering, not unlike Amazon). I guess he didn't want to make that mistake again and tried to be early in VR, which seemed the 'next big thing' for him for some reason.

https://www.lifewire.com/whatever-happened-to-the-facebook-p...

He dabbled in crypto thing when that was all the hype. Didn't end any better.
https://www.ft.com/content/a88fb591-72d5-4b6b-bb5d-223adfb89...
You should be more skeptical of their benchmarks as the people choosing the tests are also the ones trying to show their system passes. Their thumb is totally on the scale. Just look at the press release for GPT4, namely the graph showing where its improved most relative to 3.5. The largest margin of improvement was the uniform bar exam. Do you think that is a coincidence that happens by just agnostically feeding more data and doing more training without favoring anything in particular? Of course not. Law is a potential multi billion dollar annual revenue stream. The largest power of 2 less than 1031 is a multi dozen dollar annual revenue stream. Screw the goal of AGI, AI lawyer that can kinda do non-law stuff is what they can attain today!

Any exam you can study for is a bad test of its ability to reason through novel situations. AP tests are not a great test for this purpose.

Oh come on, how can a vision model be a competitor for a language model. That's a very tenuous leap of logic. I'll stop short of calling it motivated reasoning, but its certainly biased reasoning bordering on rationalizing.
> Go's approach is to make error handling something you have to think about for virtually every line of code

But that doesn’t work, and you can’t handle every error at the place of its origin.
Take the offer and be happy you're getting anything at all. Most startup stock goes to zero. (As a minority shareholder, you likely have no real influence anyway.)
There's also mixed messaging about being at the office. They're cutting transportation programs and in-office benefits. Even reducing the variety of sodas stocked in the kitchens (you would think there isn't much cost saving there).
Japan has bullshit parking lot jobs. Imagine if your local CVS had a parking lot attendant to direct you to one of the 30 open spots
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Do you not think this is a bit different than keeping a catalogue of their personality that you can access at any time? Would this be fair to a new partner - "Sorry honey, I didn't mean to cheat on you with my dead wife?"
Yeah, Debian will auto-configure that for you. Distros like Arch do not.

Well, it depends on what you install. If you install just xorg and a window manager, it usually won't boot into it.

If you install GNOME or KDE that ship with a display manager, it will be configured to boot into it. That is what you would usually want though.
Okay, and responding to their ad is an “attack”?
Because it's now cheaper and more cost-effective, and if they can get away with it, saves them tons of money. Note: I don't think companies are likely to do this, but being able to do this without AI is not sufficient reason to dismiss the possibility. It's the same reason people who wouldn't steal DVDs from a store would pirate movies online. Much harder to get caught and easier to do, so this new way of watching movies for free became popular while the previous method was not.
Don't let them drive you away. As I wrote on another comment, most of the people making these comments seem to be new to the site, and while that doesn't make it that much better, most regulars here seem to be pretty accepting people.
I see. I'm not nearly qualified enough to talk about that, admittedly. Drawing the pixels isn't the problem, it's updating them fast enough, then?
Because the law as it stands today for AI and LLMs is untested; and because it’s untested, it’s frequently seen by AI based products and companies as something that can be done without legal ramifications or at least something that isn’t blocking their products from being used this way.
By this logic, Tesla is also "state-affiliated". A huge amount of companies in this country receive government subsidies, are they all "state-affiliated" media? The NPR journalists act independently from any government oversight, they are not part of the government's media apparatus
I was responding to the text I quoted.
Just "abilities present in large models not present in small models".

This also makes clear its relative nature (that is, what "large" and "small" mean), which the use of the word "emergent" obscures.
AI21 Labs tried to replicate the style of late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg based on her legal writings and failed, at least for now.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/14/ruth-ba...
android 11 asks me if i want to charge only or also allow data transfer. Is it that we can't trust android to be not be hacked just by checking if data pins exist?
Sorry, I don't follow? SQLite also has durability problems on power loss. You can use exactly the same method that SQLite uses to flush data to disk. There is no need for a WAL because the queue operations are atomic, using rename() on POSIX filesystems (including NFS). There's no rollback of course, but you can recover items that are stalled in the queue. With a journaled filesystem, fdatasync() after each atomic operation, and battery-backed RAID, I can't imagine it getting more durable [in comparison to SQLite].

Interestingly, journaled rollback mode in SQLite is probably worse durability than the file/directory queue method. (https://www.sqlite.org/lockingv3.html#how_to_corrupt) (https://www.sqlite.org/atomiccommit.html#sect_9_0) It depends on the same system-level guarantees about the filesystem and hardware, except it also depends on POSIX advisory locks, which are fallible and implementation-specific; while the file/directory queue solely depends on rename() being atomic, which it always is.
>you could keep using the last version forever

Note that this isn't what Jetbrains does. You only have a perpetual license to the version released when the subscription started. Thus, you'll have to downgrade and say good-bye to any features and fixes released over the term of your subscription.
Great, so you agree that Tesla and SpaceX must also be labeled as state-affiliated, right? And of course every single company that took PPP money, and...
> strong employment isn't necessarily ideal

Sure, but if it doesn’t cause inflation it isn’t the Fed’s problem. In theory, it’s tough to square a tight labor market with moderate price levels. But we’re seeing a strange resilience in hiring as tech’s bubble projects and their employees absorb the bulk of the pain.
Taiwan says destroying TSMC in the event of a Chinese invasion is unnecessary
I was talking to a non-tech friend about all the AI advancements lately and when she asked me what I thought the biggest risk was I said it's exactly what we all just experienced the past 3 years and realized is awful for human - prolonged social isolation.

My biggest worry is that AI generated art (be it photos, music, code, etc.) and AI assistants will become so good we won't need other humans to get our social fix.

This is so cool and I plan to try it myself to experience it firsthand but this is my nightmare fuel when it comes to my biggest fears of AI.
> Strapping a screen to your face is not ergonomic. It isn't practical

That argument is only sound for as long as the screen is unwieldy. If you could wear a pair of glasses that magically converted your laptop into a stable, triple-screen workstation, it'd be a no-brainer to assert that it was useful in at least some circumstances -- working on planes, trains, automobiles now becomes more and more possible. If the tech then progressed to the point where you could do that from a phone, and not require a laptop, or even necessarily pulling the phone out of your pocket, then it seemed like a pretty powerful productivity feature _at least_ some of the time, and if executed well enough, it wouldn't shock me to see people giving up their laptops in the same way that many people don't bother having tower PC computers any more.
I agree. The only time a lifetime license will actually be honored as such is of the company’s product fails and it’s no longer around as a company, so it allows you to continue using the current version as is.

When companies that have offered lifetime licenses don’t fail, they inevitably kill the lifetime part of the license by pulling different tricks like, creating a cloud version which now becomes their future version, while the desktop version is no longer maintained, or rebranding the same app as a new app where actual development continues while the old app gets minimal updates at most, or not updating the app with the lifetime license so it works on modern OSes and platforms.

If you’re lucky, you may have snagged a lifetime license the company offered early in its life, which it then stopped offering once it started getting successful, so it continues letting you use the lifetime license because the owners of such licenses are few enough that any marginal revenue they may earn by pulling the above tricks is not worth the reputational damage.
This video is worth a watch just for the 1-second YMCA section. 2:43
> I figured that if Mark Zuckerberg decided it's worth pivoting his entire company towards that goal, he surely must have some data to back that up.

I think he's just desperate to have what Apple has; A hardware platform on which to hang other services and applications.
Hard learned fact: USB cables are consumables, just like ink or toner for your printer. They need to be refilled every so often.
They also quietly removed their Apple M1 server option - anyone knows why? not reliable enough?
So every institution employing former government officials are state affiliated? Or does this just apply to ones you don't like?
It doesn't tow better at all. The range is abysmal when you tow with it.

Why do all you EV diehards have to lie to push the product?
The JDK would have access to network card and SSD directly.

Bypassing the kernel. Java is already sandboxed we don't need the kernel unless the net/ssd drivers crash completely.

It's a huge task/risk, but 30% is alot.
Currently the computer is consistently destroying me, so I'm good without leaderboards for now. No one needs to see how bad I am.
'Murica is the only red, white, and blue!

...Actually they just happened to be the first cheap bands that came up on Amazon.
How do you find a job as a ex-founder?
I was a founder (and CTO) of a successful startup that was bought out by a medium sized company. I worked there for a while more as a consultant (basically transferring knowledge and supporting my team with the new management) and then it felt time to leave and enjoy my picked fruit.
But after a year, I'm looking for a job and I find it an almost impossible task. I'm either over qualified or under qualified.

For example, if I apply to a position of "Director of Engineering", I am usually not qualified enough as my experience is only around 5 years of tech management and only in the startup I founded. Most of this experience is managing a team of under 5 people (later the engineering team grew to 15).
But if I would apply to a tech lead position, I am over qualified. I can't apply for any engineering jobs either as I am over qualified for those too (at least so I've been told).

At this point it feels like if I want a job, I have to be a founder again.
yes.

if HSTS is implemented properly, it won't just report an error, but it will also forbid any connection.

For example, on Firefox, you can't bypass an HSTS error. The browser won't let you add an exception to connect to the site. (you have to purge your data to connect again 'for the first time' on the site)
Nike makes shoes and other sports related stuff. If you don't want Nike, don't buy Nike.

FAANG on the other hand aspires to infect every single facet of my life, and they have some glib self-serving narrative about how not only are they right to do so, they have the moral imperative. And so what do they do? They track every single aspect of my life that they can, the invade my privacy, they leak my data, they bilk me for cash at every opportunity. Dark patterns, bad UI, run arounds on the phone, locking out of accounts. I'm sorry but this entire industry is completely fucked, and it's only getting worse. As someone who has been in tech since the 80s, the scene is done. It's been overrun by vultures, bankers, and billionaires with more money than ethics, and they think you are just an NPC in their world, where they are celebrities, kings, and gods.

That is why social tech brands have a shelf life, because none of them can resist the dark side. Nike has a dark side, but at least when I take them off my shoes aren't trying to take over my life.
in 2015 I bought a lifetime license for SpeedDial2 Pro, but in 2021 they switched to a yearly subscription model to sustain upkeep and development. I am thankful that their team has grandfathered in lifetime licenses for use of the core feature set. I believe the new features that came after the subscription model are only for the new subscribers.
This is a common misconception. I practice TDD at work and side-projects and find it very productive. TDD is best done with end-to-end tests (or automated integration tests, whatever you wanna call it). You write an end-to-end test (I give input A to the entire system, expect output B), first the test fails (because it's unimplemented) and then you implement and it passes.

It works because then your tests become the spec of the system as well, but if you only write unittests there is no spec of the system, only modules of your code. Which is not useful because if you refactor your code and change this module you need to rewrite the test. Whereas in TDD your tests should never be rewritten unless spec changes (new features added, new realization of bugs etc). This way "refactor == change code + make sure tests still pass".

You're of course free to write unittests as well, when you see fit, and there is no need to target a religious X% coverage rate at all. I think coverage targets are cargo-culted, unnecessary, time-consuming and religious. The crucial thing is, while you're writing new code (i.e. implementing a new feature or solving a bug) you need to write an automated test that says "if I do X I expect Y", see it fail, then see it pass, such that "if I do X I expect Y" is a generic claim about the system that will not change in the future unless the expectation from the system changes.

In other words, the example in this comment chain: "run a game, see 'opcode X doesn't exist', implement X, rinse repeat" is actually how TDD is supposed to work.
Superiority of human intelligence must not be questioned.
> Edit: stop downvoting ideas you don’t like, that’s not what it’s for.

I will continue to downvote creepy ideas as I please.
The UI [GUI, API, CLI, etc] is a statement in the "solution domain." By "requirements," I mean a problem statement.

"A form with three text inputs labeled street, state and zip" is solution while "the system should allow the user to specify an address" is a problem statement. (And ideally it should be more detailed with respect to its context: "The system should allow a user to specify an address associated with a delivery record, associated with the user's id.")