skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey there, I'm the author of the prompt engineering guide (and run Brex's Office of the CTO) – I can pull back the curtain a little bit.

I firmly believe that the introduction of LLMs will be as essential to the future of human-computer interaction as the introduction of the mouse and keyboard were. Every technology company with sufficient resources should be exploring the implications of LLMs on their business.

Most of our research for LLMs falls into three buckets:

1) Internal processes – Any area where an employee is writing or reading some kind of communication is up for grabs.

2) Developer productivity – Whether it's improving the quality of code, reducing time to implementation, or answering questions about our services and architecture... empowering our eng team with LLMs is an area of major interest.

3) Customer Experience – Employees frequently need to write memos for expenses or have questions about Travel & Expense policies (e.g. "Can I buy alcohol at this team dinner?").

We're, of course, exploring far more interesting use cases than just what's above, but that's the low hanging fruit.
FYI, Toolbox mounts your entire home into each instance (and you can't run separate HOMEs for each instance, as not everything adheres to $HOME all too well). This completely ruined the experience for me.
It seems like these kind of forums are not exactly your area of interest, if they're community focused. Information gets snuffed out all the time, with every death of a person we lose large piece of information, but hoarding, and especially expecting others to hoard or assist hoarding is not the correct approach to what is essentially a _you_ problem, so grab that terabyte disk and make a mirror yourself if you are so inclined. Nobody is or should be required to let corpo behemoths in for your convenience and to comply with your questionable opinions.
It works the other way around, too.

Currently, the top 5 causes of death in the US are, in descending order, heart disease, cancer, COVID, accident, and stroke. If you could wave a magic wand and make it so that nobody ever died of heart disease anymore, those people would still die eventually of something else. So, curing 100% of all heart disease would actually cause more people to die of cancer, COVID, accident, stroke, etc.
I see, yeah, that’s neat. I can still imagine situations where it’ll fail, but they’re reasonably limited. (If you detach and attach in the middle of a large sixel image being transmitted, you’ll have the tail of it dumped on you in text form; if you detach from a session with the terminal set to red text, it’ll be back to default when you return; and so on.)
> The SQL stuff sounds cool, but Ecto is so expressive I don’t even need to resort to raw SQL like I do in other languages.

The SQL example I linked to isn't something you'd use to interact with a database in production, for that you'd probably reach for an ORM like Prisma. I was just trying to demonstrate the level of type inference you can achieve with TS. Going from a pure string of SQL or JSON to a concrete type without actually executing any runtime code is pretty crazy.

> Elixir typing can handle a subset of intersection type which is rather niche

I personally use intersection types quite a bit. If union types are like the logical or operator, then intersection types are like the logical and operator. Being able to define a type that combines one type and another is not a niche workflow for me.

> In my own experience, I have found Elixir and it’s typing capabilities to work well for me

Can't argue with that! Everyone has their preferences.
I'm not sure I buy that. x86 chips have targeted laptops for decades, yet they were absolutely walloped by Apple's ARM chips. IIRC a big part of that is that the ARM ISA has 2/4 byte instructions whereas x86 can be crazy sizes which made it easier for Apple to have 8 instruction decoders. At least that's the best theory I heard for why it is so fast.
Wow, what an impressive display of rhetorical gymnastics! It shows such fanatical dedication to the cause of carrying ESR's water. If you're up to it, I'd love to see you also have a go at rationalizing how his own words that I quoted aren't at all racist.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35943008
Do you have an idea/opinion on Chez Scheme and its compiler?
That's not what the article I linked says.
If I steal your phone or SIM and make a bunch of calls with it, then would the phone company waive the bill if you tell them "this arp242 guy stole my phone"? That's not the phone company's problem. They should have cancelled the SIM card.

Radio Poland could, in principle, try to get a reimbursement from that Sudanese person, but good lucking 1) finding them, and 2) actually doing something about it.
Few minutes of work for a permanent payoff? It's a no-brainer.
Yeah, I think the (worrying) confusion is that Amazon calls it a seq2seq model, which was the name of a SOTA RNN from Google a while back.

Ofc now, seq2seq just means what you said (an encoder/decoder model, which is actually what a “truly vanilla” transformer would be anyway).

The fact that any serious researcher thinks any other serious researchers are using models without self attention is the real red flag here.

No one is trying to use other models anymore because they do not scale. There’s enough variety within transformers that you could argue we need a new level of taxonomy, but transformers are basically it for now.
It can do Mermaid diagrams just fine. Very convenient.
Suno is kind of underselling this with their default voices. With just a little effort you get great stuff, very emotive, fantastic cadences. Here's my female David Attenborough I was playing around yesterday. Not the clearest but charming.

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/163408/238257231-4...

And Bark is more than TTS. While I haven't had much success with one-shotting full songs with Bark, you build a decent sample library with it. A few recent ones I saved, just randomly concatted here:

https://soundcloud.com/jonathan-fly-620508219/bark-all-night...
> Majority of Indians are non-vegetarians

Is there somewhere in my comment that implied otherwise, so much that I got two responses saying the same thing?

As far as I understand, I only said about 500 million Indians are vegetarian, which is about 35% of India's population.
Towards regenerative business models: A necessary shift?
> I don't donate to Wikipedia because they need money. I donate to Wikipedia because I think they are a force for good in this world and I don't believe there is such a thing as a free lunch.

If you donate to an organization that doesn't need the money, you might as well assume that money will be wasted on something with the similar societal benefit as a party full of hookers and blow.
The argument is slightly different. It's not economically efficient to allocate wealth to children according to their parents' abilities (as opposed to the children's abilities). Doing the latter (as opposed to the former) will maximize the aggregate wealth of a society.
That was mostly IBM's doing and goes well beyond the purview of the ISA specifically. x86 doesn't really define that you "must use a BIOS/UEFI/etc." You can't boot, for instance, a standard copy Windows or Linux on a Sony PS4 (which is not actually a PC compatible, even though it almost seems like one) without ten billion asterisks and hacks.
The iPhone hasn’t even been out for 15 years. People were calling Apple dead not even 6 or 7 years ago, the Apple Watch not being enough to satiate the demand for new toys.

The days of Apple basing their business on shiny new iThings are mostly past it, Airpods notwithstanding. Now they’re in pure optimization mode, and going deep into content and services.
You are witnessing the birth of a new frontier. A lot of businesses are getting created and disrupted. This is a healthy thing, the problems associated with AI notwithstanding. If you are in the middle of it, as I am, there is no time to get bored; you have to keep up.
I'm part of several digital archivism projects. My personal disk array is 54TB of data. That's without even getting into 1PB+ of data on LTO carts.

Last time I checked, Archive.org et al weren't a "corpo behemoth", but consuming server resources is exactly what a normal user does.

Site owners should get with the times and serve up cached static pages to users who aren't logged in. Even then, they should be serving up cached static pages and rebuilding cache for relevant pages when someone posts new content when it comes to forums. Not being able to handle a few crawlers is an administration problem. Why should the community/public suffer for someone's inability to configure a server appropriately?
I wonder if all these companies realize how many money they are leaving on the table and why they apparently do little about it. I mean all the production chain.
A lot of people on HN care about repairability. That's probably why a Fairphone product review is more likely to be posted here. If you know of a more technical review of this, please post it.
If a file is moved or renamed does it still have its tags?

If not, then I’d say `dmsd` needs to have commands for moving and/or renaming files, while keeping their tags.

Auto tagging seems like a potentially quite rich area.

How are tags visualised? Can they have custom colors etc? (That’s where half the fun is, for me)

Would tags be the only way to add meta data to a document? I see there’s a concept of having tags that are key:value …

Would there / could there be expected types for the values, or the ability to set up expected patterns that the values for a given key ought to comply with.

Anyway — seems fun and I want to encourage it generally!!
From what I've heard (friends who worked there for a month), electricity in South Africa is demential. For example there's a timetable to know when you will have, probably, four hours of electricity tomorrow and for the next week. You cannot make extrapolations from that.
That is hardly a random doctor's blog. It is an interview with Dr. Don Layman, one of the top experts on protein metabolism, and includes links to multiple relevant research papers. You should educate yourself before spreading misinformation.

Chronometer is junk. It is not a valid source of scientific information.
You need a second secret LLM supervisor that's really pulling the strings, rewriting the inputs of the other two.
Forget the moral code... how long would this rich people last without the government protecting them? Should we have a free for all? That's the way you start the revolution and the rich loose their heads...
If ultimately you still need to plug something in, what makes it less sustainable exactly?

(I don't use a MacBook in 2023)
But you're so wrong. Emotions are the opposite of rational. You have much less control over your own actions than you realize, and definitely very little over your feelings. If that were not the case, depression would just not exist.

Read up on neuroscience. It may open your eyes to the reality of being human.

Some articles to get started:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/unconscious-brandi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_free_will
Comments were the the organic voice of the public. So we know this is happening. How many L's will it take before we leave the altitude sickness of the high road, and turn our democracies into Babylon? They could have just done ordinary marketing, but nah, better results if they snake it. 3 year moratorium on working in this space would be much better. Deprive the public of it's voice and the penalty is to be silenced.

This road is going to end in hell.
What is it that you like about running Arch within Fedora, vs. just running Arch (or any other alternatives you have tried)?

I run an Arch VM on Windows; I started out setting up Arch in the VM while experimenting with booting into Arch raw (it's installed on a dedicated, physical disk), but I became distracted and never perfected the raw boot setup, so I just use it as a VM, which I tolerate. The idea of Distrobox intrigues me but I'm not imaginative enough to see how it would help me, so I'm keen to hear your thoughts.

Edit: ah I got to the part of your repo where you mention the below, and I'm watching your video (https://youtu.be/7-FPAWjROos). Makes sense.

>Also, I've never gotten really to know Alpine, the problem with running distros like this bare metal on my PC is that there's a whole bunch of hardware quirks and all sorts of little enablement things that more generalized distros tend to get right.
> ... or a more complex system to try to avoid throwing away so much work.

IIRC Jim Keller said in some interview that modern x86 uses prediction and speculation (similar to branch prediction), and it works surprisingly well.
That's absolutely been my issue with a number of headphones, so I'm definitely interested in these.

I originally thought this was about in-ear buds (because of the somewhat misleading name), for which they'd have been just a few months too late for me (I bought some Sony MX4s earlier this year), but full over-ear headphones? I might be interested in that.
I've been playing Gandalf in the last few days, it does a great job at giving an intuition for some of the subtleties of prompt engineering: https://gandalf.lakera.ai

Thanks for putting this together!
I wonder if any of that movement can be attributed to many companies moving away from saturated fats, as an actual selling point for their food products. Not long ago it was basically a dirty word when it came to food. Doesn’t mean that people consumed fewer carbohydrates.
> but how good is wikipedia really? isn't it mostly edited and authored by self-taught polymaths with lots of time?

It's even worse than that: it is "mostly edited and authored" by people who think they're polymaths.
A meaningful driver of heart attacks was older people working manual jobs that stressed their cardiovascular system.

Now those same types of people sit in F-150s and use laptops to control heavy machinery.

Fitness is worse, but risk for a single catastrophic event is less.
> White females can't come into being without White fathers. They could during the formation of the White race. But they can't now.

The white race is continually being formed, which is evidenced by the changing attitudes towards whether Italians, Greeks, Irish, Scottish and Polish people are white - amongst others. You'll find a tonne of people that disagree over whether Polish people, and others, are white. There's no central authority that definitively decides.

> Biological race is just ancestry.

What's the scientific definition of race? Feel free to use biology papers for this discussion.
the cohort who died of heart attacks were not young. If you were gym young in the 90s, you formed the body of people who didn't die over the next 30 years, and helped moved the dial.

If you were gym old in the 90s, and lived on tater tots smothered in lard, chain smoked and drank sprite out of a bucket, you were the cohort who did die over the next 30 years.

Mr Kurtz, he dead. (Marlon Brando wouldn't have known a Gym after the waterfront)
Indeed. They are perpetuiting inequality...
If you don't use proprietary plugins that require VSCode, then VSCodium [0] is a good choice. It has a better default config that removes telemetry.

[0] https://vscodium.com
School kids aren't thinking of market value, most of them won't even care about programming in a later age.
8 trillion params in 1980? I don't think so bud. There wasn't that much memory in the entire world at the time.
For inspection cost, it includes vehicle weight tax and mandatory insurance cost.
It's nearly impossible to choke down enough protein to get fat on that macronutrient. I mean I'm sure someone has done it but that's just not a practical concern. The issue with gaining adipose tissue is typically caused by consuming excess carbohydrates and (to a lesser degree) fats that come along with the protein.
Here is the problem.

The human memory is limited. When you are first excited about something you get lots and lots of fleeting ideas. By the time you are working on the ideas, you have most likely forgotten most of them and then you are stuck. You no longer know what the next incremental step is, even though you feel it should be obvious.

My most successful project was organized via GitHub issues with a title and no content. To start to get into the mindset of shipping all you have to do is gather a bunch of these issues and assign them to a milestone, that is your product, your initial release. It doesn't matter if it is only 1% of the final vision, you will have many more milestones after this one. After your first milestone what you should do is get users. If you can't, then you should stop unless you need the software yourself. If a milestone is too big and you can't finish it in the deadline you gave yourself but you finished a significant amount of issues, then just take some of the issues out and shift them to the next milestone. Shipping will become a regular habit instead of some mysterious event in the far away future.
Just learned about pinggy.io. Neat little service! I wonder how many requests/second that phone can serve. Nowadays, phone specs aren't too bad for a simple web server.
Not everyone is always in the mood for any kind of picture.

The other day I was reading an article about some homeless people which mentioned some rather nasty sounding diseases they were suffering from; I wanted to look up some more details on that, but since there's a good chance the top of the Wikipedia page has an untasteful image I didn't. Am I able to view some pictures? Sure. Is such a picture useful? Absolutely. I just wasn't in the mood at that moment.

Sometimes I wish Wikipedia had some better controls for this kind of stuff: no censorship, just opt-in blur out some of this stuff until you click on it, like reddit.

In general I think giving people control over these kind of things is a good thing.
Mill uses something similar as well. That being said, I have <1% confidence in Mill ever moving past the slideware stage, so...
Look at this real-time garbage collector for C++: https://github.com/pebal/sgcl
The opioid crisis has killed relatively young people in huge numbers. Suicide has risen too.
Diesel engines are more efficient.
It’s been ten years since I was last in India but I saw evidence of discrimination when I was there… some seemed related to caste and other related to religion.

Not sure it was any worse than what I’ve seen in the UK though
I totally see where you’re coming from, and yes, the first few days on it were nightmarish, but I eventually got good on it. I code as fast as I do on my 65%, and not having to ever move your hands away from the main position is actually super comfortable! Chords and tap dancing definitely require a lot of muscle memory, but they are game changers.
Flat bottom woks have a flat bottom. not a flat inside.
Let individuals fight for their own wealth as it should be. Society should take care of leveling the playing field... And helping those that cannot take care of themselves.
A background is not sufficient and people should be humble enough to know when to take advice. That is not to say they should not be familiar with subjects, but relying on one person to write regulations for whole sectors is bound to lead to problems.
FashionTIY
On our platform, there are over 10,000 styles including clothing, beauty, bags, accessories, displays, etc.
I think a lot of stuff is taken wrongly in this article. First of all, React.js is a library that just provides a handful of hooks. "magical HTML and JavaScript" code is called JSX, and that is transpiled by Babel into not-so-magical nested function walls. Imperatively applying mutations to an application state inside a proxy object setter is, in fact, proactive and not reactive. Reactive implies that the renderers are pure declarative functions that are derived from data, so changing the data would result in a different renderer output based on a composition of these pure functions. So, in the end, React.js is just a library that brings a pure functional renderer to the web, and you even need a separate library, called react-dom, in order to manipulate the DOM itself with the outputs of React function. If you want to approach something similar to React, try to abstract away from DOM and HTML, and think in terms of a single pure data function, which returns a tree that can be then traversed into a set of UI elements.
Agree 200%
> For 1980 the US average commute time was 21 minutes. For Paris that was 38 minutes. For London it was 40 minutes.

> For the current state of affairs: Commute time in Paris: 32 minutes, commute time in Berlin: 31 minutes, commute time in London: 47 minutes. US average: 27 minutes.

As the other reply said, misleading to compare a city average with a national average.

> For reachability: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42949-021-00020-2

As far as I can see that's showing reachability, including by car, is much better in transit-oriented cities in Europe and China than in the US? Why do you think that supports your argument?
Again, I'm not sure that's so clear once you factor in bioavailability, and even if you were to use nitrate fertilizers and to cover the hillsides in legume monocrops to then feed then to ruminants, that would still end up being objectively better for human nutrition, as a use of natural resources. They're a state-of-the-art technology for intelligently transforming low-value biomatter into high-value animal fat and protein on an industrial scale; we aren't anywhere near that level of sophistication, and we dismiss it at our peril and to the detriment of human health.

Besides that, "Our hunger" for any resource will always grow to be arbitrarily large if there are enough of us (and our consumption of them are typically governed by things like market economies, private property and borders), and we're all welcome to develop our own innovative technologies and methods of production that can feed (or house, or entertain, or occupy) an arbitrarily large number of people to the level that we're capable of. So by all means, people should develop new foodstuffs and build multistory subterranean megastructures, and develop new power sources to pursue their own nutritional vision if they're motivated to solve future problems as they see them.
The equivalent of fining someone $0.06 for a traffic violation
https://archive.is/atZEc
I did a post-doc in one of the top polymer chemistry department. There, I noticed people tend to share the minimum amount of information. I then left this quote prominently displayed in the hall: "Alchemists turned into chemists when they stopped keeping secrets." - Eric S. Raymond
A Live-Streaming Mastodon Client in <80 Lines of JavaScript
I mean, this "API" is free whereas an official API could be charged

I guess it's only fair that we may scrape Bard just like Bard scrapes us? I think it's called "disruption" :-)
It does appear to be a reliable way of seeing what one would find by googling a term, however.
Nope, just simply overlooked it. I’ll upload smaller versions, sorry!
The sources they cite are clearly visible. The graphs are easier to grok at a glance than big tables. Do you have any response to the substance of my comment?
No. Architectural leakage via a side-channel is far from simple. It requires deep understanding of the code (i.e. what it does, why it is doing it that way and the implied effect of executing the code on the architecture) and also of the architecture (i.e. how it is executing and why that causes leakage to be observable via the side-channel).

If anything, these are canonical examples of non-simple bugs.
Apologies... my info was a couple of months out of date. It used to be based on Distrobox but they announced a few months ago that they were building a replacement using podman, so now it seems they're only using Distrobox for a couple of things.