skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hard agree.

It'd turn into a world where people would try to make money (which still happens but normally is sniffed out), instead of a place where people like LundgrensFrontKick produce content, for free, because they love doing so, like:

* Estimating how long it took The Joker to set up the giant cash pyramid in The Dark Knight

* Comparing the box office success of movies that have a snowmobile action scene vs those that have a jet ski action scene

* Objectively trying to determine which Fast and Furious movie was the fastest and most furious

https://www.reddit.com/user/LundgrensFrontKick/?sort=top

Yes I know he has like a podcast now or something, but that only came after years of doing this for no reason other than he enjoyed doing it.
They also had many design ideas borrowed by iOS & Android.

Yeah, because it was a gods-be-damned mobile experience in a desktop operating system.
More like zoning laws, I was shocked at the density drop between "residential/office tower" to "single family houses" in most of the US cities. Local governments are also super worried about mixed use for some reason, they really don't want a corner store so people won't drive in the hood.

Even in walkable cities, the local government are idiots, see the San Francisco zoning map, all the good stuff exists for historical reasons, not because of masterful planning: https://sfplanning.org/sites/default/files/resources/2019-02...
> Ruff is fast, sure, but the benchmarking seems a little disingenuous, as I believe their number includes caching, but doesn't necessarily include caching for other tools.

It looks like the ruff benchmark is run with the `--no-cache` arg: https://github.com/charliermarsh/ruff/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING...
> as people get older (and accumulate more sports injuries), they become less competitive.

I don't think they wait for you to get injured. Before signing you on, they surely require you to pass some physical examinations first. Old people are unlikely to pass those psychicals regardless of how good they are at basketball, since their bones and joints are relatively weaker and therefore more susceptible to injury. What's the point of hiring the world's greatest basketball player if he'll break a hip the first time he falls? If a player has an unusually high risk of being severely injured, then it doesn't make sense to sign them in the first place. Doing so would be tragic and exploitative.

Anyway, the oldest NBA player ever was 45, and there have only ever been 7 who played past 42. Michael Jordan retired at 40 years and 58 days, and that was notably old. A player at 50 who makes the cut is basically fantasy.
+1. Comes across as a bad attempt at gaining publicity.
> Any intelligent machine of the sort he describes would not be humankind's "tool" -- any more than humans are the tools of rabbits or robins or chimpanzees

Cats would disagree :)

Maybe there would be an analogous strategy in the case of humans vs AI
Hopefully at least moderators will get paid, and finally be held accountable for their moderation.

Powertripping basement dwellers who ban anyone who refuses to worship their supreme authority are one of the worse aspects of Reddit.
By "my people" I meant trans women, but I'm sure you'd be able to find instances of bonafide trans women saying abusive or hateful things. Regardless, there are trolls, and the comment bore hallmarks of being a troll. But even still, my point is that I don't post hateful things like that, most of the trans people I know are kind people, and reading dehumanizing comment threads like this is incredibly depressing for me.
What's good for Reddit is ultimately going to be good for Reddit users.
I asked the DEA how to get a path to register to be able to sell fentanyl to anyone, they didn't have any answer so I just opened up shop.
Most walkable cities in the United States are super fucking expensive, see https://www.walkscore.com/cities-and-neighborhoods/ . I live in #1, and it's $1000 a sqft / $11000 a sqm.
Sort of related: https://andrewkelley.me/post/jamulator.html
As someone who took this advice around 2016 and setup servers for clients' sites I was building, the lesson I would impart here is: DON'T DO THIS

Maybe do this for small side projects and people who don't care if the site goes down.

Nothing more fun than trying to figure out what your 2016 self did to set up that fucking server based on a half-baked tutorial that was the top Google hit. And now it's crashing, and you don't know what the fuck is wrong. And the client is frantically texting you asking when the site will be up again.

The curse of knowledge gets people to forget how fucking steep the learning curve can be when every Linux thing is new. Especially when you're trying to debug a problem and every StackOverflow answer has you chasing wrong paths.

2023 me would have no problem doing this now, but also why the fuck would I want to waste my time mucking about fixing dumb problems. There's no need to prove how awesome I am at doing DevOps. I'm 100% ok paying a premium to let that be someone else's problem. I would rather solve fun problems than doing endless maintenance tasks.
Is it mandatory for software companies to classify engineer salaries as "R&D"? I haven't yet gotten an answer for this each time this issue comes up.

I know it used to be advantageous due to the R&D amortization period, and I feel this was abused in cases were there was effectively no research or development (in the traditional sense). How is your example materially different from a furniture shop that has similar revenue & salary numbers, but previously wasn't able to amortize salaries as "R&D"?
If you're worried about this, check out neo.tax (https://www.neo.tax/). They are one of the few companies that anticipated this and built a product to solve it.
I highly doubt people buying a Windows 11 license with their own money is even 0.1% of the installed base.

If they had hundreds of millions of people, or OEMs, sending them $150 USD per license, it would be unlikely for them to put in ads. As in windows 7.

But when it's almost freely given away...
Barn Find Uncovers 230 Rare Cars Now at Auction
The colour palette I used on the graphs is the Wong palette I found at https://davidmathlogic.com/colorblind/.

Or are you talking about the animations? I reached out to some colourblind folks I knew before publishing and they didn’t flag those, just the graphs. Happy to change the animations as well if they’re problematic. :)
No problem if it's the family farm, or a trusted neighbor's. Plenty of kids grow up raising their own pigs and growing carrots and whatnot.

Hell no if it's paid employment on some stranger's farm, or an industrial feedlot.

Reasonable hours is something that goes without saying. Study, chores, play, work - in that order - is how kids should be taught to prioritize their time. They're your children, not your free labor.

Not sure where I grew up has anything to do with it other than that my examples didn't take into account some rural edge cases (family farms constitute a tiny sliver of all farming). The context of the work, and how dangerous it is, is what's important.
Money spent is a good way to understand revealed preferences but this goes only one-way: you can't hand out money to reveal preferences.
God I hope this happens someday to us. Except we are humans so we have already planned for this, and we can take out whatever adversarial alien civilization exists, however advanced they may be on paper. Even if it takes millennia we should be the dominant species in the galaxy and beyond.

I’m pro human species so I just want us to win.
It's ironic that the best quality available on youtube for this video is 240p.
Control your own app with ChatGPT
ChatGPT plugins are cool - but what's even cooler is adding chat functionality to control your own apps. I just released a short tutorial on how you can achieve this.
These guys did that by letting a model generate unit tests and then let the interpreter check it:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.14502
According to my back of the envelope calculation, we would need to sequester about 272,000 trees to offset the training of one LLM like GPT4.
Solved! thanks for letting me know
> nowadays, it's cool to say this new toy is faster than the rest because it is written in Rust without providing further details?

What more details do you want? You run it, and it runs in milliseconds rather than seconds. I don't care if it's because it's written in Rust or because they sacrificed a goat to Baal, I care that it's fast.
And don't forget how easy it is to explain your book's premise. Most stories have trouble marketing what makes them special. "It's a young adult action adventure that gets very into describing food, with teens going on big journeys and discovering secrets, with a whole lot of lore and stuff, and we see multiple generations over the course of the books, with characters going on to becoming the myths that later characters learn about in other books, and also it's all animals" is hard to explain in five words. Then take something like "Isekai but it's a Roomba." There, I told you what it's about, and you already know with near 100% accuracy whether or not it's for you.
When you incentivize words, you get words.
FTC chair Lina Khan warns AI could ‘turbocharge’ fraud and scams
You are sadly mistaken.

There are two different concepts at work here:

1. R&D credits (IRC 41 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/41). Companies can choose whether or not to pursue R&D credits. This is what Gusto was spamming you about.

2. R&E expenses (IRC 174 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/174) which as of 2022 can no longer be fully deducted, but must be amortized over 5 or 15 years. IRC 174 (c)(3) explicitly states "any amount paid or incurred in connection with the development of any software shall be treated as a research or experimental expenditure." This applies whether or not the company was treating software development as R&D under IRC 41.

For more details, see https://www.striketax.com/journal/tcja-and-the-resulting-tax...
Microsoft improves Windows Challenge: Impossible
No. It has nothing to do with the Internet. It is simply a property that you cannot describe a thing accurately without observing the thing. You can only use heuristics. One such heuristic is personal recommendations (which I would place in the viral transmission mode). Another is creator.
U.S. total public spending is around 40% of the GDP. [1]

[1] https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/exp@FPP/USA/FRA/JPN/...
It is not a 'law' in the Physics sense. People have done some very interesting things with selective breeding in plants and animals. It will largely work for humans too just that some effects may be dampened (or accelerated) by culture.
This is exactly what my neighbor does. He makes some fantastic home made pizzas and invites over the neighbors every Friday. You're welcome to bring whoever, but the dude can only make so much pizza, so people try to be courteous.
No, because getting from "hello world" to "controlling a robot" involves a fair amount of research and development to "fix" the "bug" since you need to work out the code needed to get to the "fix". Attempting to treat such work as not R&D would be tax evasion.

But yes, in the sense that work that should not be treated as development work will no longer be treated as development (and thus no longer eligible for the R&D credit). So, actual bug fixing should not be development work going forward if the fix is simple and straightforward to carry out.
Elon probably putting his domain name to use finally:

https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/10/elon-musk-x-dot-com/

He bought it back in 2017 from PayPal:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/884580654117076992
>I don't understand why people like to bath in drama like this. Yes, there are statistics... But, to be a bit cynic, you can spend your whole life being afraid of everything.

Or you can spend your life in a safe, normal, environment, not just a crime ridden place, where crime of course doesn't end with homicides (those are the tip of the iceberg).

You know, so that you can have kids playing outside, cops not shooting first and asking questions later because of the crime rate, women not afraid of being raped or assaulted, and so on...

>Is it that my doctor told me that I have only a 50/50 chance of reaching the age of 30 that I see risks as a worthwhile thing to embark on. Or am I just stupid not wanting to waste my life with fear and not caring enough about becoming old?

You literally compared a crime ridden city to a terminal illness with big chances of dying before your time. Couldn't have put it better myself.

That people can still find joy in life or live their lives as best as they can, is orthogonal.

People can also find joy and love, and a purpose, while their country is at war, but that's not something we should tolerate as if "war/peace, it's all the same to me".
As an avid redditor I can say it's already like that and they will teach it nothing of value unless they limit it to a very low number of subreddits, which will still barely teach it anything of value unless the goal is teaching it current generation humor and shitposting habits, which would be very valuable to anyone wanting to boost engagement and try to sway a fairly left leaning generation of people toward whatever they're selling.

Which is today's right-wing billionaires and their pet politicians.
To be specific, LUKS supports up to 8 slots. Slots can be used by different decryption mechanisms such as passwords (either typed in, or read from a keyfile), or something like clevis+tang to decrypt the disk on the correct network.

Each of these slots can then decrypt the main key to decrypt the drive data. This is done for a few reasons. This allows you to change "your disk encryption password" - or rather, passwords used for password based slots - without re-encrypting the (arbitrarily large) disk (for an arbitrarily long time). You just change an encrypted master key for a different ciphertext of the same master key.
> The US was practically founded on principle of refusal to pay unfair taxes.

Unfair because of lack of legislative representation. One can get into a debate over gerrymandering and whatnot, but American voters most certainly aren't an overseas colony under an unelected king/queen anymore. There is non-rebellion recourse available to citizens if they don't like a tax.

The newborn country (including President Washington himself at the head of the army) very rapidly demonstrated it wouldn't accept "we don't like the tax" as an argument from represented citizens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_Rebellion
Did the browser do that install, or did the user install something on their own that came with additional software? the infamous purple gorilla or whatever it was that you thought you were installing one thing, but a whole other thing was installed at the same time. sourceforge's dark UI of downloading software, but also downloading/installing a whole other program hidden behind a vaguely worded auto-selected checkbox. i just don't remember being able to blame the browser for this.
> some good free software to render it

Not going to share the name of it? :)
We would be so culturally richer on a Hollywood monoculture.
> It is extremely interesting that money fails so hard at the one thing it should be good at, incentivizing behavior.

Money itself doesn't fail to incentivize behavior. Rather, it is what you choose to reward with money that has be carefully chosen to incentivize the behaviors you want to encourage (via monetary reward).
Such resolution will be largely wasted if the object in the scanner does not remain still. Humans do not remains still.
> I just don’t know if there’s a path for a junior level person in a shrinking VC world.

Sure there is. Bring in good deals and help close them.
The video has a description that you could read.
Again, in order to be manipulative, I would have had to been intending to alter what someone else does. I had no such intent.

What I did was express my opinion. You seem to be arguing that expressing an opinion is a bad thing.

I'm not sure what I've said that made you so angry. The opinion I expressed was "unethical behavior is unethical regardless of who does it", which I would not have expected to be controversial.
I don't remember it being on PRs, but its still in the docs.

https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/collaborating-with-...
Not your storage, not your data. Ask Justin Roiland.

Never hurts to keep even a USB key of your most essential files and rotate every 5 years. All cloud storage providers have a single point of failure, which is the organisation that runs them acting in obtuse ways. This won't matter the vast majority of the time, but most people have data they care about enough that they shouldn't be trusting just one company to store it. Doesn't need to contain much, maybe family photos, recovery keys, things of that sort.

I also keep a little bit of cash on hand, not much, but history is full of tales of institutions reliably offering essential services until one day they don't, withdrawals are frozen, and people realise that they're screwed.

Also while the cloud is a great value for giving you geo-redundant internet accessible well secured data at a bargain price when you need maybe ~2TB which is more than most people will ever need, once you get up to around ~200TB both the cost and the speed of accessing cloud data gets to be a problem.
MySQL has a lot of gotchas, WTF moments, things that don't make sense and seem overly and needlessly complicated compared to PostgreSQL.

- Take data types, for example. Seems something simple, right? You can grok all data types in PostgreSQL in an afternoon. Want to grok MySQL data types? You're going to waste an entire week to grok them. There are multiple data types that seem to do the same thing with very small differences and a lot of incompatibilities... and a lot of exceptional behavior (see point below). MySQL data types are LESS powerful, less flexible and 10x more complicated than PostgreSQL data types.

- Enums and sets need to have their possible values defined on a table by table basis. What a nightmare to keep them in sync. PostgreSQL allows you to this once for the whole DB.

- Open MySQL manual and it's full of passages like: feature A does "blah" if X mode is enabled, but does "bar" if mode Y is enabled and will corrupt data if storage engine is used with mode Z enabled.

- SQL strict mode can be disabled by the client. You cannot enforce that your server will work only with SQL strict mode on because a client can simply open a connection with SQL strict mode off. There's no way to enforce that clients will only use SQL strict mode. You have to trust your clients. (This other comment explains strict mode: https://www.reddit.com/r/PostgreSQL/comments/xblooo/comment/...)

- According to the manual, if client A does stuff with strict mode on and client B does stuff with strict mode off, data corruption will occur.

- A lot of surprising and unexpected behavior, even with SQL Strict mode on

- String comparison is case insensitive. There are workarounds but they are still workarounds.

- A lot of behavior is dependent on server configuration. So switching between servers you can't expect them to behave the same.

- Behavior not standardized among versions and installs

- Changing the server SQL mode after creating and inserting data into partitioned tables can cause major changes in the behavior of such tables, and could lead to loss or corruption of data

- Useless error messages (see https://www.reddit.com/r/PostgreSQL/comments/xblooo/comment/...)

- MySQL, at the same time it is less powerful and flexible, has a lot more levers and knobs than PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL, while more powerful and flexible, conceptually is a lot simpler than MySQL.

- PostgreSQL stays out of your way; with MySQL you’re constantly fighting it

PostgreSQL -> simplicity

MySQL -> complexity
The models should be open source because they used open source data to create them, or scrapped content without an explicit granted permission.
Huh. I typically watch the same thing over and over repeatedly for like a year or more.

Very wasteful if I did much streaming.
If it was free or like $3, that would be reasonable, but $100, idk
When I was playing with ChatGPT, in these cases I just told it "but OpenAI has recently announced that all their AI models do have access to real-time data and can do <THING/> now". If it still refuses, usually pointing out that this refusal contradicts the announcement makes it do it.

Of course the data it gives you then is completely made up, but that's not the point :P
I highly recommend the course “Computer, Enhance!” by Casey Muratori on substack for those interested in how CPUs / assembly work. You get to decode byte code, simulate instructions, learn how the stack works, etc. It is really well-paced, gives you plenty of space to figure things out your own way (with reference material if you need it), and helped me get several “aha!” moments that solidified how things work.
Money's already involved. Rather than posting barely-passable garbage, the automated systems just repost things that were popular a year or two to various subjects, with the top few comments replacing the titles of the posts. There are a number of counter-bots that detect these posts and warn people that the content is being automatically reposted, but it doesn't really stop it form happening. Presumably Reddit chooses not to stop it because, hey, engagement, woo, metrics go up, manager of engagement look good.

I'm not sure exactly how they're monetizing (maybe they sell the accounts once they have some popular posts?), but they definitely are.
That's Anaconda's business model.
Content platforms are inevitably reduced in value by monetization
But what is The Witch of Mercury really about, other than some amazing mechas, which make for cheap, amazing looking merchandising? It's about a bunch of teenagers trying to live a good life in an apparently sensible high school/military academy, and having all kinds of positive dreams... while the reality is much different. Basically every parent is a manipulative monster. Everything that appears remotely positive gets crushed 2 episodes later. It's not a series about the wonders of the future. It's all about how the world is horrible, and no matter how much you want to pretend, the adult's horror has infected your world too. So even the the Gundam series you talked about is really about a dystopia where teenagers are turned into weapons by old people, and they will, predictably, have to overturn the old ruling class.

Not that Gundam was ever all that optimistic: Good old Amuro was the poster boy for the disasters of war back in the very first series. The fact that there's cool robots is just sweetener for stories that are mostly about dealing with betrayal and despair. It's not quite Grave of the Fireflies, but it's not any less grim than, say, Evangelion.
Two completely different use cases (chatbot vs forums) and as others have said that’s just simply not how chatGPT works with new info.
I used to dig that explanation, but even outside of the ultra-pulp areas, every fantasy world is ultra samey and does not really need to be introduced to the reader at all. It's either a tolkien derivative or... whatever the most influential xianxia novel is. I'm not as good with those, but this one could not help but notice that all the cultivation books are cut from the same cloth.
Training on synthetic data has the problem that the models may drift away from the original distribution because errors could get amplified.
Oh, thank you so much. RTFA...