skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Rather, it presented a problem, and wanted to see some approaches to that problem and a discussion of their properties

I suppose I perceive the narrative differently; it really sounds like the author has a complex roleplaying scenario in mind, where there's a base assumption that he is the smartest person in the room and pre-plans 3-4 moments where he can assert this. If I was the candidate, I would be praying that this guy isn't my direct boss.

> So how do you evaluate a candidate on those metrics, if not by giving example problems?

Simple: I talk to them and get them talking about how they have solved problems in the past. I will dig in on interesting points and take careful note of telling details.

Perhaps this will help: I have enough experience as a developer that I can tell very quickly where the person I'm talking to falls on the skill spectrum. Part of my negative reaction to this post is that I sense the author does as well; however, where he chooses to make them feel small, I just keep asking questions because I want to give them more opportunities to sell me on their strengths. Their ability to whiteboard leetcode in an interview has laughably close to zero relationship to how they will perform on a Wednesday in jeans without feeling like they are being interrogated, so I largely skip that.

If you cannot quickly tell someone's experience (or BS level) from talking with them, then this interview style will not work for you.

> Who cares about their personality?

We have to agree to disagree here. Personality is huge, probably just behind potential. In real terms, if I am going to spend more time with my coworkers than I am with my life partner, they better be trending towards great company.

One of the questions I ask myself during an interview is whether I would want to be in a band with this person. If I wouldn't enjoy driving across the country in a van with them, what makes me think I would be able to do my best work if I'm trapped doing it with someone I don't like?

There are enough brilliant nice people in the world that I can comfortably avoid hiring brilliant jerks and come out way ahead on every metric.
I just went on a Theroux binge reading his recent books, Dark Star Safari, Deep South, On the Plain of Snakes. I wish I discovered him earlier in my life. Its given me a totally different perspective on what travel can and should be. I think his view doesn't go along with the internets view of travel. Which maybe is snobbish, or elitist or w/e but definitely richer then most guides or what people do. I think in one of his books he has a quote calling sight seeing just superficial lol. Hes also pretty judgemental at times of other people, I think the world needs a little of that sometimes. Its inspired me to do a big overland trip like this, even if stuff is modernized now. Still think it would be cool to just take trains around china even if they are fast now.
I wonder if this will help with the iOS app's battery drain issues. VPNs of any kind come with a battery penalty, but some of these issues might have exacerbated that
>Fun or Play can be considered useless if not being commoditized or sold, but of course they are essential.

No they aren't.

Stoicism will tell you that happiness can come from virtue.

We are living in an age that marketing companies push hedonism because they can sell it. Much harder to sell virtue in a 5 second youtube ad.
Microsoft has no taste, no taste for charging you a ton of money for nothing tangible, but a green bubble and not being able to talk to your poor friends.
Almost all of those "innovative" shapes hold the same kinds of battery cells.

These could be user replaceable.

But really, you could 6 different shapes that would serve 99.99% of the use cases, and the other .1% could have replacable cells.

As long as working people deny the descructive forces of profit .vs technical excellence, this won't improve.
I went to try this out only to read the words 'download the software'.

Good luck with that. Even the Firefox plugin requires some additional setup. Frictionless it ain't. By a long stretch.

Sigh.
I saw this pop up on my feed earlier and I wanted to post it here for others to try.

It's based on the EleutherAI's 12b Pythia model and is fine-tuned using a new Open Source Instruct dataset that Databrix put together.

The model is here on HuggingFace: https://huggingface.co/databricks/dolly-v2-12b
your source is one guy apologizing for racist remarks, and you're extrapolating that out to concur with the previous replier's assertion that this is an example of "the horrific hatred directed at Obama that's only really explained as racism"?

to paraphrase you: just because you can find someone who dislikes Obama because of some racial reason, that does not prove the pervasiveness of racism as a factor in the vitriolic hatred directed at him.

I thought by 2023 we could all be mature about this and agree that, sure, there was a nonzero amount of racist hate for President Obama during his presidency, yet the idea that, in general, negative sentiment toward him can be exclusively attributed to racism, is absurd.

do you really believe that anything other than a tiny, statistically-insignificant minority of Americans in 2008–16 disapproved of their President based upon the color of his skin? do you really believe that anything other than a tiny, statistically-insignificant minority of Americans today, in 2023, are overtly racist toward black people based upon the color of their skin?

(I also note that you chose to not respond to my assertion that Obama did not really do anything for black Americans specifically, during his two-term presidency. he was elected on the promise of Hope and Change, and while he gave plenty of the former, he utterly failed in executing on the latter. ditto for my assertion about Obama's successor.)
I do agree with your second point (emotional voting seems to be common imho).

"An educated citizenry is a vital requisite for our survival as a free people"
- Probably Jefferson?

I wish that the voting population were more knowledgeable about civics, the issues at hand and basic economic theory (i.e. no such thing as free money/services, that someone pays and not just everyone but you). I get a spew of party talking points for any interaction. I don't get a sense they even understand what they are saying. (Hence the reason for the first quote).

A lot of people I see (or am exposed to), don't read the news and base their decisions on clickbait-y articles (without even reading it) or shared/liked articles with dubious authenticity from their family/friends.

I get a sense of massive tribalism and am completely dumbfounded about it all.

To quote Jefferson again: “The government you elect is the government you deserve.”
We told you this would happen, but no, we were luddites.
Ironically, Linux probably mostly does this to save disk space (and probably also to save RAM in the early days). And now with docker you download hundreds of MB only to install a small python script ...
Blocking an IP range isn't xenophobia.
> They seem awfully limited to me by comparison.

Can you list your most important feature(s) in chosen your ide or editor that you suspect emacs doesn't have or can't easily have?
How do you surf the web in vim?

How do you read email, RSS news, and usenet with vim?

Does vim have a chat client as powerful as ERC?

Mainly, though, is vim programmed in and extended through a lisp, and does it have an entire lisp ecosystem built around it?

Don't get me wrong, I love vim, and used it and vi for 25 years before switching to emacs. But my emacs can do far, far more than vim ever did... and there's no way I'll be switching back until it has all the above and more.
The last update on 20021 was from April 2021 when Jon announced it was delayed (with no specific information on when it would be ready): https://www.reddit.com/r/Jon_Bois/comments/mwmo0i/programmin...
> Plus I always come back to the question: if you care about open source so much, why aren't you running Linux?

Yes, exactly. I'm one of the biggest FOSS advocates around, but if someone is running Mac or Windows, I have a hard time accepting criticism from them about closed source software. They are obviously pretty comfortable with closed-source/proprietary blobs. If you're running closed systems, you're voting for closed software. It's pretty hypocritical to criticize others to go open when you don't.

With my FOSS projects I do try to support macs, and if it's relatively easy then windows, but I don't blame anyone for taking a "like for like" approach to their software. Open for people who vote open, closed for people who vote closed. Live by the sword, die by the sword, or something like that.

Seems quite fair to me. It's also arguably better for Linux/open source, because if more software vendors took this approach with their software, we'd see more people choosing Linux because it would give us another competitive advantage. That leads to more Linux users, and the more Linux users there are the better it is for the whole community. More software vendors will support Linux, for example.
Reverse entropy?
I felt the same way once I started using GPT-4. It can't do everything as well as Google, but so many things are answered with a similar level of accuracy and waaay better user experience. The problem for Google is that even if they can match it with Bard, they'll still be eating into their Google search profits significantly. I just don't see how they get out of this unscathed.
Yeah when I buy a hammer I always buy the one that has no labels on it of any kind. Just plain hammer and no signage on it whatsoever. Thats super important because what if I stop hammering and start reading the sign, could be a serious distraction. None of that, I am all about work and hammering.
Hm, I've had luck with openai gpt4. I've had it make fake APIs before, but usually when I say "fooFakeApi doesn't exist" it corrects itself.
TouchHLE in depth, part 1: a day in the life of a function call
I've always thought railway journeys would be a nice subject for a podcast, in the vein of an audio equivalent of the slow TV genre. Some ponderous commentary about the carriage and passing scenery, with the soothing train track sounds in the background. Would be great to fall to sleep to.
Thomas Alva Edison, Nikola Tesla, Albert Einstein, Wolfgang Mozart and Leonardo da Vinci would disagree.

Live well lived is a life where you aren't ever completely happy and always strive for more. It's a life where your skills are subjected to resistance, and you constantly face obstacles. This makes your life an adventure.

Everyone's life should be an adventure.
Wait until you discover that it's all the same electrons doing the work. Back and forth, all day long... And no, they don't get dirty, like toilet paper would.
Now that the mob has passed, I'd like to address your statement.

> That doesn't seem like a fitting comparison, considering it's a highly debated topic to this day.

A comparison can be apt independent of how inciteful the statement is. The dropping of the bomb was a showcase of force, it didn't have to happen on a population of people. The demonstration could have happened on Mt Fuji, or Okinawa.

> These cities were largely untouched during the nightly bombing raids, and the Army Air Forces agreed to leave them off the target list so accurate assessment of the damage caused by the atomic bombs could be made.

> The Target Committee stated that "It was agreed that psychological factors in the target selection were of great importance. Two aspects of this are (1) obtaining the greatest psychological effect against Japan and (2) making the initial use sufficiently spectacular for the importance of the weapon to be internationally recognized when publicity on it is released. ... Kyoto has the advantage of the people being more highly intelligent and hence better able to appreciate the significance of the weapon.

Fucking immoral human experimentation.

Ok, back to AI. We are on the same level of change, before and after nuclear manipulation, before and after AI. We don't need to be demonstrating on the economy, we have an opportunity to show this technology in isolation before just unleashing it on the world in a grotesque tech demo.

The comparison fits.
"GPT 5 Will be Released 'Incrementally' - 5 Points from Brockman Statement" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NAmLp5i4Ps
What a disappointing article. So many reasonable explanations of technically correct descriptions of forward passes, backprop, gradient descent, and then at the end:

> but ChatGPT has no actual conception of what it’s talking about—no internal model of a stuck sandwich on which it can experiment with different strategies for removal.

You can both see for yourself that GPT-4 has a (somewhat unreliable) world model by just using it with mildly creative questioning, and you can also explain it with the technical knowledge that the article's author appears to already have:

> The A.I. is simply remixing and recombining existing writing that’s relevant to the prompt.

Look, at this point there are entire, well known, 150 page papers pointing out that it can do things like successfully predict what some source code you feed it -- even if it is pseudo-code -- would output if it were executed. The amount of load-bearing cognitive dissonance necessary to see that and then say that it only knows how to shuffle words it's already seen without reasoning about anything must be immense.
If 4chan has taught us anything, roleplaying as an edgelord and becoming an edgelord are the same thing.
The history of humanity suggests repeating the same mistakes through inexperience leads to stagnation as much as anything else. People die, died at younger ages in the past, and we had many of the same issues. It doesn't take the same people to do the same things.
Its graphing of parts of the song that are most frequented, together with its edges connecting different parts of the song, remind me of how monopoly is interconnected, and how it's much more probable to find yourself on some properties over others because of the mechanics of the game. Detailed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubQXz5RBBtU
Mumbletypeg was still played in Illinois when I was a kid, although the rules changed to trying to get your knife into the ground as close to your foot as possible.
I'll take a look at your product. FWIW as a casual observer of consumer VPN recently, I will tell you two companies I have used and so far liked:

Mullvad, it performs well and I feel that the ability to pay cash/crypto, the lack of subscription both are tangible signals that they are real about anonymity.

Proton, with their Secure Core features is pretty nifty and I like that they have other products that shoehorn into "getting away from being spied on" by providing mail/calendar/drive storage as an alternative to Google. Their drive product could use some work but overall I'm really happy to pay $10/mo for VPN+custom domain mail+500GB of available cold storage.

Thanks for the background on the industry.
That's not the idea here. The idea is to settle on a consistent standard so that listeners don't have to constantly adjust equalization for different recordings.

I deal with this all the time. One album might sound great with both bass and treble cranked up, while another one will be waay too boom-y and I have to trim the bass down to the middle.

If some standard were agreed upon for frequency response through the chain of elements (mics, processors, monitors, etc.), then listeners would be able to set their EQs to what they like, and leave them there.

Of course I'm over-simplifiying a bit. Different artists/producers/engineers will have different subjective opinions on the "right" mix, but at least there wouldn't also be an additional complication of the variety of monitors and studio equipment settings lurking underneath their adjustments.
A macro and a plugin installed with the markdown-table-align equivalent? Though you could also use this approach with emacs macros too.
I don't think it is a sudden change. The Rust Foundation was established early 2021. One of the reasons for its creation is to hold/manage the trademarks/IP, in a similar arrangement to other substantial free software projects. Clarifying and rewriting the trademark policy has been one of the specific goals of the foundation for some time (if not the whole time). It wasn't a secret project. For example, in August 2022 they solicited feedback[0] from the community regarding the revision of the trademark policy.

[0] https://foundation.rust-lang.org/news/2022-08-09-trademark-p...
Sounds like the goal of the article was achieved? You didn’t record your social life on an append-only social network.
When I think of Mexico I think... Manifest Destiny. Come on for the 53rd State of the Union after Puerto Rico and D.C. It will decimate and solve the southern border illegal immigration problem. From there, we just continue moving south all the way to Antarctica, liberating the oppressed and taxing their income.
I'm here for the comments that try to explain how capitalism and free markets are ok even if they create monopolies
Why should the grid be forced to pay retail price to homeowners when generators are offering for 10% of the price?
You got me on a technicality, but nothing of practicality.

This isn't exposed to the larger Google, nor to customers. Google itself as an organism doesn't HPC. It is an ad company that runs ad company systems.

Why are there no top-k super computers running on Google?
Writing software is spending all day literally giving commands to be obeyed.

I suspect there is a subset of us that really enjoys that in a not completely healthy way.
You are really missing what he's saying. That this particular default was subject to a bankruptcy judge means a few things that would bring alarm bells to any professional risk manager. Its not a _good_ thing, its just not the worst thing.

A few off the top of my head:

It went to bankruptcy at all. With more forceful regulatory regimes (eg banking/brokerages) they skip bankruptcy proceedings for the most senior debt holders entirely. The regulator steps in and disburses the funds much faster.

The judge had discretion, there was no legal insulation to LedgerX's creditors. They just had maintained enough arms distance to satisfy a bankruptcy judge to rule in one set of creditors favor over another's.

His point is that unlike in other regulatory regimes, nothing in the law, says that deposits at a CFTC exchange are more senior to any other liability. And the precedence on clearing house default is not extensive.

Most risk managers would view the fact that this judge ruled in their favor as the saving grace to a mistake on the risk management side.

Also, you are on tilt here. Statements like "You couldn't be more wrong on the facts here." are pretty embarrassing when you are misconstruing things so dramatically.
Perhaps. But then we should not let anyone vote who has hit escape velocity. The person you described might be very well off at which point they are a single issue voter -- low tax rates.
Sorry, deleting
Both vanilla emacs and vanilla vim are only a tiny fraction as powerful as either editor enhanced with plugins. You really missed out with this choice.
Slightly related, I use Zerotier for some personal stuff as a managed VPN, including connecting several Apple devices. I never see it mentioned in HN (Zerolove for Zerotier lol), does anyone who used both knows what am I missing out for not using Tailscale?
Also, conversely, the kernel doesn't do that much. Most of the Linux kernel source consists of device drivers, which compile to modules rather than get bundled into vmlinuz. Many of these modules are also rarely built if ever. The kernel itself really is a pretty small fraction of the complete software bundle that makes a Linux system functional.
Somewhat of a precedent exists: classic UNIX mbox files.

I guess it would be fine if indexed separately. Edits to data past a certain age are fairly rare.
I don't remember where the idea came from, but I heard a hypothesis that basically posited this precise thing. If you look at linguistic history many (if not most) of our words derive ultimately from some analogy to another thing or idea. Our modern languages have embedded in them the combined learning of thousands of generations, and since it is much easier to use the words representing analogies than to come up with and communicate those analogies in the first place, this means anyone who learns a modern language is comparatively brilliant to someone who lived a long long time ago.
Kinda, there are GPU kernels that are sped-up by being non-deterministic, so you also gain performance with non-determinism
> What problem, exactly, is a blockchain based social network trying to solve?

I think the problem it's trying to solve is: "How can we mix social networking with blockchain?"
Yeah, once AOL came aboard and the green card lawyers showed the future of spam, things took a turn.
Will? WILL!?

Have I got news for you...
Is that what we mean by thinking?

Imagine you interact with a program that can answer any question you have, explains itself well, seems perfectly intelligent. But then you get to read the source code and it's just petabytes of if/else statements with every question you asked and every other one you can imagine. A practically infinite list. But nothing more complex than that.

Is that program "thinking"?
I am impressed at a noisy neighbour problem where the noisy neighbour convinces the noise control officer to evict everyone living next to them!
Maybe betting? Both sides are usually interested in recording the bet.
Vicuna releases its secrete of finding available A100s on the cloud to train it
Ryobi tools have designed interchangeable "ONE+" batteries for over 20 years. Any of their 18V cordless tools from 2003 or so will have 110% compatibility (some "blue" tools show MORE power output from when they were new). Sure, this is not "universal" interchangeability. However, it's so close to what's being asked that I'm wondering why decades of interchangeability and backwards compatibility are ignored by this author. Video showing off Ryobi's backwards compatibility:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1aCxBdDcsU
Cash App founder Bob Lee knew the suspect in his stabbing death, police say
Yeah, that doesn't work when you're not receiving any heat whatsoever. There needs to be an energy input. For Earth, that's the sun. Where is the energy coming from otherwise?
Natural language :)
I find the nostr[1] protocol to be a nice alternative here. The core idea is the separation of message content from the relays which transport them. So you sign a message and publish it to several relays, and then anyone can retrieve your message from any of the relays where it is published.

As opposed to Mastadon, your identity is tied to your pubkey rather than the instance that you created your account on. The difference to Scuttlebutt is the differentiation of relays vs clients, and the lack of chaining messages together in the "blockchain"-like structure.

The result is a fairly simple protocol which is fairly low latency and seamless for many applications compared to other decentralized solutions.

[1]. https://nostr.com/
Tramp is fast for me as well, it did take some work though. I had to configure it to use my controlmaster options from my ~/.ssh/config, set tramp-verbose to 0, set remote-file-name-inhibit-locks to t, and finally set vc-handled-backends to just Git. I'm glad I spent the effort to make it fast though, because now it's pretty magical.
Not sure why or how this is a “fight” other than (as stated in my first comment) it’s one of the more ridiculous religious wars that seems to erupt on HN for reasons I’ll never understand.

I’m not going to do a full LoC analysis for an HN comment or analyze recent commits. It was a sixty second way to say “Nvidia has a lot of open source and the reductive HN take/experience from Linux desktop users solely based on their experience with drivers is a tiny piece of the picture”.

That said I would bet a dinner that a full analysis of Nvidia open source vs anyone else in the field would favor Nvidia handily.