skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those shortcomings didn’t matter because the interface, screen, safari, iTunes and Google maps were so good. If I recall correctly, every iPhone plan was unlimited data or at least much more data than people normally got meaning you could browse the full featured web (ok without flash). Most phones before it with web browsers were convenient in a pinch for looking up an address or something, but didn’t feel like pocket computers.
They can name themselves Theranos.AI
Vernor Vinge had an interesting take on this idea (1969):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatja_Grimm%27s_World
My original comment was that this list of engineering standards is not followed by most software engineering. You seem to be saying there are some that it can be applied ti, and I’m say those are in the minority.
I’m in so cal and last summer tested many solutions. I have one that works. A CO2 based trap (I use BIOGENTS BG-Mosquitaire CO2... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09884YS4H).

It eliminated the issue in my house and yard. I got 2 neighbors to get them and we now have a sort of shield up over the neighborhood.

I got a 20lb CO2 tank, and have to fill it up every 30 days or so during the summer months.

It is not cheap or easy, but damn it works. Highly recommend if you hit your limit.
That's why you split it 3-way into train, validation, and test datasets, to ensure you didn't use too many hyperparameters and overfit to the validation data.
I cannot speak for Good Sudoku because I never play the game on mobile, so I suppose our use cases for UI are completely different.

Funny because what I like the most about nyt sudoku is the difficulty (level design): they are on point for me, I always do the 3 in sequence, and it's always a pleasure. Hard is just hard enough for a good pastime. Sometimes Medium is harder than Hard, although it's rare, lol.
Moonlighting while oaid is one thing, his stock grants until this year were about half of the TOP LINE revenue of the company. He has been paid so much more than anyone ever has (other richest in the world got it mostly through their initial shares' growth and their companies had much more revenue) for a part time job
I read the article, but I don't see why this has to be built on top of a blockchain. What's wrong with plain old relational databases? The currency is issued by the central bank, if the central bank says that this transaction is voided, who's gonna stop them?

Blockchains are a solution to byzantine consensus, but with a central authority you can always trust the central bank (in the consensus problem sense of trust), so I don't see what problem gets solved by moving to a slower and worse database.
PythonAnywhere: Host, run, and code Python in the cloud
Also, probably somewhat of a loss leader, getting folks to move their accounts.
I didn't demand luxury housing! In fact, I was planning to buy something 3x cheaper, but a "nice" sales girl has convinced me that the alternative that I was considering is not good enough - "that's just an apartment in a 20-story house, and look what's around there, no school, no Italian restaurant (and I know you like Italian food), no nothing, and we have it all here, and also this nice shadowed alley".
Mandarin actually has a great deal of pronunciation hints. It’s barely worse than English at this, which isn’t saying much.
Crazy that we only have Elizabeth Bik as the one person who tackles this kind of fraud. You’d think NIH would care more about where their billions of dollars go every year
If the HOA is entirely elected by the people who live in it, it sounds as if it would be more democratic and more accountable than a town or city government. Your vote will have more power and the people elected will literally be your neighbors.
A temporary consulting gig is better than a bad job offer. It also doesn't stain your CV (Consultant doing something for a client vs Working at this horrible place) even if it's the same client.
Funny story from my gradschool days:

My cohort had to take a class on research methodology. The instructor assigned us to review a paper he wrote but was rejected for publication. The fate of the paper after publication was that it was published as a "Technical Report" through the university, which is where rejected papers go to save face.

One of the students decided to simple google the paper's abstract in completing the assignment to see what else was out there, and wouldn't you know, the full paper had been published in an obscure regional journal half way across the world. Everything was the same except the plagiarists made two changes to the paper:

- They removed authorship of the true authors and added themselves

- They added references to other papers they had written.

That's it. That's all they changed. Everything was exactly the same, down to the figures. Down to the references of the true author's prior work.

End result was the instructor was struck by how blatant it was. He contacted the publication and they issued a retraction. I don't know what happened to the plagiarists but I hope they learned a lesson!
Thanks for the feedback! Honestly didn't realise this had got traction so only getting to it now but you can switch off or speed up the typewriter in the menu :-)
>And really slow to load.

It seems to read a fair amount of data from the drive on startup and with a mechanical drive it really is very slow, with a SSD it is not bad and maybe a second for startup, but it is sort of the browser equivalent to a massive IDE and performance is put more on use than startup. It is large and complex and generally exactly what I avoid in software but the tab groups and note system hooked me, I was using surf for general browsing before that so it was quite a change.
The power of prompt chaining and external APIs (example)
But the cello sounds good.
I recommend enabling the annoyances filters on uBlock Origin. It removes most of this bs
My fav was Marquee. Could put one inside the other, make one vertical, add some text and watch it bounce around like the DVD screensaver logo.
In my opinion it's a weak take that only got so upvoted and commented on hacker news because it has the existential and universal logical quantifier symbols in the title and also because it uses the chiasmus rhetoric device both in the title and at the end of the article.

The argument is that several technologies don't work 'out of the box' and you have to tweak their settings for each problem that you face, and that this means it's a scam. For example you have to change prompts in LLMs or change hyperparameters in other machine learning solutions. This argument is some combination of not insightful and not true.
The correct term is "maybemorphism".
> Mao did not tried the exact same thing, lets stop with the BS first of all

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_campaign

And between 15 and 55 million of people died by his "I'm smarter than science" arrogance
Thanks for the feedback! Will have a look!
She is accessing PCs at work and when she is over with friends. Web technology is great for making stuff accessible. That the local library has a reservation system for public "workstations" makes me dubious one could productively programm there. That the computers in many locations are not available on the weekend makes this harder.

> Public computers and WiFi are available at all five branches of the Chattanooga Public Library. Access to the computers is limited to 2 hours per day if other patrons are waiting. Reservations can be made for the next available computer by phone or in person.
I think it was Bump Photoroll not Picasa that became Google Photos:
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/bump
One of the most important lessons I've learned in my career is that if a common problem has existed for a long time, a simple solution has probably been hiding in plain sight for a long time somewhere you haven't thought to look. I don't know anything about productivity research, but the fundamentals of defect density were figured out decades ago [1].

> (a) there’s no difference between test-first and test-after but (b) interleaving short bursts of coding and testing is more effective than working in longer iterations

I'm glad you quoted this study because it's a perfect example of a conclusion that should have been the starting point of a more interesting experiment. Interleaving code and test is known to be the most impactful factor. TDD and TRL don't differ in any of the ways that account for the vast majority of defects. Therefore of course the difference should be small, and of course shorter iterations should be better.

[1] https://www.slideshare.net/AnnMarieNeufelder/the-top-ten-thi...
Thanks! TBH I'm specifying all columns because the output will be expecting certain columns and even if the where clause is correct the test will fail unless the columns are right :-)
Chiasmus
"Just because that sentence is symmetrical, it doesn't make it not nonsense."
Thanks very much! I'll definitely have a look!
Harriot is quite an interesting character. He spent time in the Virginia colony and taught himself the Native American Algonquin language. He had extensive journals of the natural world in the Americas, but they were jettisoned when he was leaving Virginia, and he had to try to recreate his notes from memory when he returned to England.
> Calculate how much time you can afford to be unemployed, and how to extend that time if necessary.

I’d be interested in thoughts from others for whom this time comes out to decades, but less than actuarial time remaining. What’s the thought process between doing another turn on the hamster wheel now, when skills are fresh, vs in a half-economic-cycle or so when the market’s hotter, vs trying to stretch and stay off the wheel for good?
We can track methane concentrations from satellites so there really isn’t significant unknown sources.

https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Coperni...
That's just not true. Madoff gave 4%-10% annual returns and siphoned off 12% of funds overall.

Bitcoin gave 25% annual returns and is cryptographically guaranteed to siphon off 0% of funds.
I’m doubtful because of GiGO. Asking the right question is a very important skill.
Navy launches prep course to help recruits drop body fat
I'm gonna go ahead and just throw this out there:

the principle of specificity.

Like, if you wanna get good at cycling, running will help an aerobic base, but will not help in terms of generative force (vs load bearing), handles, situational awareness with traffic and fellow riders and learning to pick lines, balance and weight distribution on a bike, pedaling techniques for various pitches, etc.

Shoot, not even running, but Zwift vs actual cycling on the roads very much demonstrates the principle of specificity to the T.

Just makes me think, if you wanna get good at a language, you gotta use it in actual real-life situations with weight and stakes, as opposed to a game where you learn incidental stuff that may or may not have bearing in the real world.
This is also used as a poor man’s live feed: just use this element to reload the page or frame on a set interval.
Thanks for this! Hmm might be something odd coming in with the way I'm smushing together the steps using with.

Could you share what you wrote for step 1? I thought I had a fix in place for anything ending in ; but there could be other things that are causing errors when put into with
Eric Weinstein on 'Fallacy' of Quantum Gravity and Groupthink in Physics
I would disagree. Consulting work exposes you to more liability than being an employee. If you drop a consulting job midstream to take a great job offer, you're likely to get sued.
When the mysterious black box is sufficiently intelligent and its output domain is _also_ natural language, precision and even correctness of the input carries less importance.

You can give an LLM a barely comprehensible query and you stand a decent chance of getting something useful back. Try the same in any conventional programming language and chances are it would not even have a valid AST and thus fail to compile.

So it's a question of necessity--there wasn't one. LLMs are capable enough to deal with the ambiguities of natural language.

That said I've seen some forms of DSL used to program LLMs in the chatbot character.ai scene, so I wouldn't be surprised if a more general DSL purpose built for efficient prompt engineering is discovered (efficient use of tokens, standardized forms, etc).

(I say discovered because at the moment you can for example literally make up your own DSL if you so desire, and the LLM will just roll with it and mostly do what you intend)
> It would also explain why creatures without sight as well like many worms

This would require that worms evolved the cross crossing independently, after our common ancestor, which doesn’t seem to be clear [1].

All it would take is a few light receptors to get the cross cross party started.

[1] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100201101905.h...
‘No credible evidence’ of alien UFO activity, Pentagon official says
I think you are smart enough to understand what I am saying and what he tried are not the same things.
Unless all pharmacies go to automation, in which you're screwed.

And don't think it can't happen. Consolidation in to just a few companies us happening in huge numbers of industries.
Ah, another good post from Mitchell Hashimoto. Things I learned from this:

1. Better to use single extraction: I leaned towards multiple extraction for token parsimony

2. Better to do very little output shaping

3. Pointless to use instruction text like "mimic these examples"

Nice.
Check out Kiwi Browser: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kiwibrowse...
Because I wanted to run it in the browser and have a document object in context of the LLM response being eval’d!

Also, having the exemplars typed has saved me from sending broken few-shots many times!

That is, I keep all of the few-shot exemplars in TypeScript and then compile them into an array of system/user/assistant message strings at some point before making any calls to an LLM.
Yes, there are risks when using USDC that are not present when using the traditional banking system. My point is that the proposed digital dollar would not offer any benefits over the regular banking system to its users (except saving wire transfer fees maybe?), and to me appears like it would not even handle the edge case of servicing the "unbanked" any better than banks already do.
It seems that AVHRR was launched in 1978 [0], with fairly continuous global coverage since June 1979 [1].

So it was not in early 1970s, it was in the late 1970s, and it was not in early 1980s. You both were pretty close.

> Polar bears are doing fine, by the way.

Good to hear. For now at least. If true.

"In 2004, biologists discovered four drowned polar bears in the Beaufort Sea. Never before observed, biologists attributed the drowning to a combination of retreating ice and rougher seas. As a result of rapid ice melt in 2011, a female polar bear reportedly swam for nine days nonstop across the Beaufort Sea before reaching an ice floe, costing her 22 percent of her weight and her cub. As climate change melts sea ice, the U.S. Geological Survey projects that two thirds of polar bears will disappear by 2050." [2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_very-high-resolution_...
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20210426213549/https://www.usgs....
[2] https://nwf.org/Educational-Resources/Wildlife-Guide/Mammals...
Until you've what?
In Norwegian the knight is called "springer", as mentioned in the article, but many call it "hest" ("horse") too. They are both valid names.

The translation of "springer" is a bit imprecise. Instead of simply "jumper", it describes a "human or animal that can jump". A horse fits that description well

"Springer" is actually sometimes used to describe a knight's horse instead of the most common word. So "springer" has connections to both horse and knight.
Maybe related, maybe not, but I noticed this quote is incorrect:

> Odd things happen when we [project 3D space onto a 2D surface]. On a 2D map, an airplane taking the most direct path between two cities appears to travel in an arc, and satellites orbiting the globe appear to oscillate in a sinusoidal path

If you use the Gnomonic projection then all great circles become straight lines.[0] The only "catch" is that you need to cut the Earth into two hemispheres.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnomonic_projection
Also don’t need to do the entire ocean; there are specific routes and zones we care about the most, can easily prioritize those.
Worth noting that since Common Core came out in 2010, this is how students in most US states are taught multiplication, only instead of partitioning by powers of two they partition by decimal digits (e.g. 4 * 56 --> 4 * 50 + 4 * 6). Conceptualizing multiplication this way equips you well for handling large numbers in your head.

A high school student today might be shocked to see the sort of complexity third- and fourth-graders in prior generations used to contend with for basic operations:

4 * 56 ---> 4 * 6 -> carry the 2, keep the 4 -> 4 * 5 -> (previous step's result) + (carried 2) -> (previous steps' result) * 10 + (kept 4)

This algorithm had to be expanded for each additional nonzero digit in each operand. Most of us who did well before Common Core passively learned the Common Core method independently, out of necessity.

Lattice method is badass though.
Thanks for this!

My broad aim was that people who want to learn could do story mode and the people who already know it can do the challenges. "Pudding" in particular is designed as a PITA test.

Yea maybe I add something that allows through simple select statements without incrementing that count. My reasoning was if everyone is getting penalised the same way is kind of fair and the autohint gives SOME idea of column names but you're right it's still necessary to look at the tables
I’m on a 75 day streak learning Spanish and my wife is doing it too.

I took 2 years of Spanish in High School many years ago.

In those 75 days, I’ve gone from remembering basically no Spanish to being able to express and understand a surprising amount of day-to-day thoughts with her, at least as well as I could have in 2002.

We can express what we want, where we want to go, how we’re feeling, etc.

Duolingo isn’t perfect, but the gamification and social aspect keeps us practicing day-after-day and provides a natural jumping off point for using Spanish in our every day.
Can you cite some example articles? It's a for-profit Series-B startup [0] in an ever-worsening digital publishing market [1] and article sourcing is paid writers not peer-reviewed crowdsourced, so I expect parts might be worse than Wikipedia, and certainly have very selective coverage. But at first glance I didn't see any glaring errors. Also I expect they won't have an openly exposed peer-review editing process, so if an article turns out to be bad they might delete or hide it (but I can't find any such).

[0]: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/atlas-obscura

[1]: 1/2023 "Atlas Obscura wants to be profitable before raising funds in a tricky media market" https://digiday.com/media/atlas-obscura-wants-to-be-profitab...
Or just get rid of grass entirely.

Part way through a project to replace part of the yard with gravel and native plants, mostly because I hate mowing.
The revolting reason cheap ice cream takes so long to melt
Thank you so much! Really appreciate it :-)

Funnily enough I got that feedback with the last game I made (regex one called Slash\Escape) so I added in the option to switch off the typewriter or change the speed in the menu :-)
I helped cover Apple for a large investment bank. The day of the iPhone announcement in January 2007, I saw a press release from Motorola come across the wire, in which the company announced yet another phone with a keyboard. I felt pity for the unfortunate souls who had designed it, worked on its launch, and wrote the copy for the press release, and who now had to see their efforts fly into the iPhone Hurricane.
This is the use-case that OpenAI on Azure is trying to solve. It supports finetuning, too.

Not cheap, though. I think most companies will end up hosting an LLM on local code rather than using OpenAI on Azure, but for now, there is no equivalently-capable replacement.
> I believe that Bitcoin provides great relief from this situation.

I think this is a mistake: your country’s laws usually apply to everything, which means that Bitcoin either doesn’t change anything because you’re using a legal exchange or you’re technically in violation of the law and leaving a public record for prosecutors. We’re inclined to technical solutions here but the banking system is a political construct and there isn’t a good way to change it other than engaging with the political process.

This also provides the answer for perceived negativity. The bad reputation is due to providing poor, often illegal, services and the way to change that is to provide something useful which makes life better for someone. For example, PayPal is pretty unpopular but many people still use it because it’s a necessary evil (broad reach, available in most of the world, etc.). If some of the many billions of dollars spent on cryptocurrency companies had produced a useful payment system which was fast, easy to use, had reasonable fraud and privacy protections, etc. a lot of people would switch. Instead, we had 14 years of people shilling Bitcoin despite it providing none of those things because they knew it had only the value they could talk buyers into believing, and nobody at PayPal, etc. is staying up nights worried that they need to offer customers a better deal to keep them.
Drudge Report site still does this, I think. Maybe it's JS now, never checked.
Well it actually is physically equivalent considering: speed * torque = power = voltage * current.

Switching voltage regulators are just gearboxes for electricity.

Maybe you could even say LDOs are kind of like brakes on a car, since they throw away energy as heat to regulate speed.
You can detect blue checks using clientside JS and avoid the API altogether.
Are general purpose tools scams?

An operating system does many things.
A general purpose language when contrasted with a domain specific language.
A human programmer thinking that they're a wizard that can solve all problems.

However I get the sentiment I think, it's a little bit like snake oil and alternative medicine. They promise to solve all your problems.

What's interesting to think about is who it is to "blame". The developers of the product, the sales people of the product, the wild imagination of the buyer thinking the product can solve everything, or maybe the wild imagination of the developers behind the buyer. However if the seller can set off a wild imagination in the buyer, maybe you've successfully scammed them.
If there is too little housing, then resolving that requires building more housing.

You are correct, that it would be possible to build new luxury housing and then lower the cost of old luxury housing until it becomes affordable. However, that seems unlikely to actually happen since the owners of the old luxury housing are likely to resist losing money. In some cases, luxury housing may have features (size, density, amenities, etc.) that make is economically unviable to price it as affordable housing.
FYI, GitHub Copilot Labs (codebrushes) does this, as well.
Just no. If they want me available 24/7 they better compensate me really well for it. Even doctors won't do it without compensation. Better be some serious salary if being on call is baked into it.
Thanks yea Midjourney was a game changer for this! Really opened up the option to double down on a theme. If I had more time I would have liked to do more prompt engineering to have specific characters reoccur but as is it I already had wild scope creep, ha ha
And if it doesn’t sound good, it must be the player’s fault, not the instrument’s. For the cello certainly sounded good on another piece.