skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Given that the choice of which articles to write is incredibly biased to begin with this approach does not seem effective.

Selection bias is a given. You always have to keep that in mind. But when you actually want to read a specific article, summarizers are useful. For news and general population content, debullshitifiers could come in handy too.

Point being, the texts are not random. There's some nugget of valuable content in it, but it's usually wrapped by enormous layer of SEO, ad hooks, word count padding, and/or general nonsense. Reducing signal-to-noise ratio here - stripping all those layers of bullshit - is strictly useful.
Not many I guess; the reason you basically required a "protected runtime" in the first place is because real mode (or a even better thing, the shiny new 386 virtual 8086 mode aka virtual real mode) was very important.

Until the 386, leaving the protected mode was either completly unsupported (I think 186) or you needed heroics involving bugs in the keyboard irc handler (I think 286). Because the OS and most "normal" applications and libraries back them being real-mode only, it means you were locked out of most of the filesystem I/O, and a program with limited filesystem I/O is a very limited program indeed.
There isn't any prima facie problem with paying an extremely high interest rate.

I'm sure you can find double digit interest rates for say bonds that represent payday loans, but you should expect the bondholders to default at a correspondingly high rate.

But investors should be aware that higher rates imply higher risks.
And each of these threads will still have the Python interpreter performance.

Nothing preventing something like Mojo to also use those same 32 threads but with 10-100x the performance instead.
That's very interesting. In which variable is type inference EXPTIME complete?

Whichever variable it is, I suppose in practice humans can't create programs that are big enough in that way for type inference to become impractical. However, I wonder whether someone could comment on what this means about the utility of HM-like type systems in future AI generated software.
As a hobbyist, the transformation for me came when I started using (and then purchased) an oscilloscope. My dad always made me think they were not helpful to hobbyists but nothing about electronics made sense until I could see the electricity.

That and calculus-based Physics 2 in college.
GPT-4 is a major leap ahead of everything else I've used (including GPT-3.5), so definitely worth trying for comparison.
The issue is that there are many different "simple cases". The more checks for "fast paths" you add, the more overhead of individually checking for them.

Also consider that:

- this is more branch predictor friendly (a generic opcode encounters many different cases, while a specialized opcode is expected to almost never fail),

- the inline cache has limited space and is stateful (imagine it's a C union of cache structs for different fast paths). If your "generic" LOAD_ATTR found a simple case B, it'd still need to ensure that its inline cache was actually primed for simple case B. This is not the issue with specialized opcodes; the cache is set to correct state when the opcode gets specialized.
That's quite silly. VirtualBox is great, and so is MySQL. They're also both OSS, so no lawyers in the sense you're implying.
or the ultimate hack: prefixing every search with "Reddit"
The report (PDF link): https://pdf.euro.savills.co.uk/usa/tech-tenant/srds-seattle-...
> Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is the scientific equivalent of: Have you read a work of Shakespeare's?

But that's not quite true, is it. In the one case, he's asking someone to explain a very specific thing (one particular physical law), and in the other you're asking if they have been exposed to any example from a large set of things (any of Shakespeare's plays). If he'd asked "how many of you have heard of the Second Law of Thermodynamics", or if he'd asked "how many of you can describe the plot of Coriolanus" the questions would be closer to equivalent.

Nitpicky, but relevant in the sense that it's not a fair example as originally stated.
Chris Miller is making the rounds. He did a very long, in-depth interview with Stratechery a couple weeks ago that was really excellent. I’m not a subscriber to Scope of Work but from what I can see the Stratechery interview is much more in-depth.

As a famous philosopher once said “when the chips go down ya better be ready”
The worst part is when you come down and you still see the ur-form for everything for extended periods of time. Kind of like being Joseph Campbell, the hero with a thousand faces.

In fact Campbell even went to a Grateful Dead show and hung out with the artists. He is exactly correct that a Dead show (now Phish shows) are Dionysian. One has to wonder if he partook:

What he saw reminded him of the Dionysian festivals, palpable proof of his theory that the ancient myths and rituals he studied still echoed today. “This is more than music,” he told his audience. “It turns something on in here [the heart]. And what it turns on is life energy. This is Dionysus talking through these kids.” Campbell's understanding of Dionysus was far deeper and more nuanced than the popular caricature of the happy, wine-soaked god, but his point was not to rehabilitate that older understanding. “It doesn't matter what the name of the god is, or whether it's a rock group or a clergy,” he concluded. “It's somehow hitting that chord of realization of the unity of God in you all.”
Wow,

The game is tense and boring and it illustrates both why paid Facebook "moderators" suffer PTSD and why this so-called "moderation" fails to improve the content of discussion or build community.

Actually worthwhile moderation involves someone caring about the whole direction of the discussion and not merely considering "is this content over the line", especially since a large portion of "don't talk about drugs" or whatever is pure CYA. "Don't say that 'cause someone might sue us".
I’ve built two RE 303s and 1 Dinsync Gilbert and not really have a clue how they worked. It’s just been paint by numbers. Hoping to actually understand what’s going on in the next few months.

This guy Moritz Klein has a YouTube channel explaining the wizardry behind analog synths:

https://youtube.com/@MoritzKlein0

I’ve watched the VCO one and it helped in my understanding but I still need to breadboard it to fully grasp it.

He has a collaboration with Erica synths that not only results in a cool euro rack synth but also provides a explanatory manual. This coupled with the YouTube videos I think will help in my understanding of circuitry.

https://www.ericasynths.lv/shop/diy-kits-1/mki-x-esedu-diy-s...
reached level 4 then gandalf got tired (throttled by openai api)
I'm 64 and in a senior dev role. I'm not sure what you mean by resources. Resources for keeping up with and improving at coding vary by what stage of developer you are at, i.e. junior, mid-levead l senior,
Now there is a number of payed MS employees lead by Guido van Rossum working on improving (C)Python
What's with the +filenames? I haven't seen that before. Is it even a legal filename?

Example: chat-ui/src/routes/settings/+page.server.ts
> JSDoc _is_ TypeScript

No.
At least, it didn't used to be. JSDoc had its own syntax, but now you can piggyback its format and put TypeScript inside. So now you can write `@type {Record<string, number>}` instead of the "classic" `@type {Object.<string, number>}`, and use some more TypeScript goodies.

You can even kind of use generics with JSDoc, still thanks to TypeScript, but then again... you're not really leaving TypeScript, you'll still have to deal with TS versions, and probably with some of the not-clearly-explained "papercuts" from above.

And finally, I'm not sure that JSDoc+TypeScript is perfectly equivalent to TypeScript. I have a hunch that some of the advanced strategies, e.g. involving `infer` or `extends`, aren't really replicable in JSDoc - or at least I have no clue how to do that in JSDoc - so we'll have to settle for weaker definitions in some cases. So, I'll have to see if it's actually "the same outcome".

I admit I'm no JSDoc guru, so maybe if somebody is compelled to try harder they might actually find a solution for a transition from TypeScript to a completely equivalent alternative. I'm all ears... but surely, if you try too hard the point will be lost.

All of this just to help the Svelte community to contribute - I'll have to take Rich' word for it. For now, it's the only community I've heard that switched from TypeScript in favor of JSDoc. They'll have to deal with a more verbose and less readable codebase for sure, I think there's no doubt about it. Is it really helping the contributors?

It may work for an open source project with a strong governance, maybe. I have a very different experience with projects that decided to use JS instead of TS. Unless we're talking about a very small project, it always turned out to be an ungodly mess.

> it doesn't have to be built to run

If this is a problem, then you have other problems...
Drug shortages have worsened and may only increase in the future, experts say
Having answered this a ton over the years, don't want to really take shots at MySQL. But Postgres stands in pretty unique ground.

1. It's solid as a really reach data platform (more than just a relational database). It's extension framework is quite unique compared to others. It's JSONB support was the first among other relational databases and is feature rich and performant. Multiple index types. Transactional DDL. The list goes on.

2. No central owner. A lot of open source is source code is open, but it's maintained by a central company.

3. I mentioned extensions, but really that is understated. It can do really advanced geospatial, full text search, time series, the list goes on.

Having explained this a ton of times first 10 years ago - https://www.craigkerstiens.com/2012/04/30/why-postgres/ and then again 5 years later with and updated version, most recently tried to capture more of this in an updated form on the Crunchy Data blog - https://www.crunchydata.com/why-postgres
It’s better to treat people like the redeemable fools we are.
The main problem with herpes is the stigma against it. Don't besmirch it by associating with Oracle.
Eh, I think as "human evaluated" metrics go, it's a decent test of how well it can parse a reasonably complex sentence and reply accurately.

For me:

GPT4 3/3: I couldn't resist the temptation to take a bite of the juicy, red apple. Her favorite fruit was not a pear, nor an orange, but an apple. When asked what type of tree to plant in our garden, we unanimously agreed on an apple.

GPT3.5 2/3: "After a long day of hiking, I sat under the shade of an apple tree, relishing the sweet crunch of a freshly picked apple." "As autumn approached, the air filled with the irresistible aroma of warm apple pie baking in the oven, teasing my taste buds." "The teacher asked the students to name a fruit that starts with the letter 'A,' and the eager student proudly exclaimed, 'Apple!'"

Bard 0/3: Sure, here are three sentences ending in the word "apple": I ate an apple for breakfast.The apple tree is in bloom. The apple pie was delicious. Is there anything else I can help you with?

Bard definitely seems to fumble the hardest, it's pretty funny how it brackets the response too. "Here's three sentences ending with the word apple!" nope.

Edit: Interesting enough, Bard seems to outperform GPT3.5 and at least match 4 on my pet test prompt, asking it
"What’s that Dante quote that goes something like “before me there were no something, and only something something." 3.5 struggled to find it, 4 finds it relatively quickly, Bard initially told me that quote isn't in the poem but when I reiterated I couldn't remember the whole thing it found it immediately and sourced the right translation. It answered as if it were reading out of a specific translation too - "The source I used was..." Is there agent behavior under the hood of bard or is just how the model is trained to communicate?
the problem is that when an producer publishes a library like this, it's very tempting for them to assume that all access will go thru that library, and maybe even that all access will go thru the most recent version of that library

it takes an enormous amount of discipline to ensure that this kind of software is treated as "a reference implementation" rather than the canonical path

if an internal service API is too difficult to use without an API library, then this is a pretty good signal that something is wrong and needs to be fixed, imo
Uber wanted to attack all the things that were bad about legacy taxi service. They did, and it was better for many people. But they were foolish if they thought taxi services would not respond and competitors would not emerge.

Ultimately they wanted their cars to be self-driving. They don't want to pay drivers at all. But there was and is no proof that it is possible in the time frame of their runway.
He definitely could have unwound his positions quietly over time. He'd have moved prices, sure, and his profits would have been less than what was marked to market, but nothing would have crashed. Forced selling from margin calls is what crashes prices.
> you have no idea how much happens so your transaction doesn't get lost, corrupted, or errored out.

Maybe he doesn't, maybe he does - you don't know nor do I.

I'm pretty sure this is how IBM salesmen used to respond when confronted with those newfangled Unix systems which were starting to appear here and there, nibbling first, then taking larger bytes out of their market share. Instead of the litany of diverse systems they'd have thrown LPARs, SYSPlexs and ESMs around but in the end it still came down to the same thing: this stuff is too complicated to be left to amateurs. They were right, in a way... until those amateurs grew their wisdom teeth and took a large part of their market away from them.

Yes, "enterprise" stuff is complicated - often overly so [1] - and it has its place. This does not make it the only viable solution to these problems, something will eventually come up to eat your lunch just like IBM saw its herd of dinosaurs being overtaken by those upstart critters from the undergrowth. Maybe some smart software system which "guarantees" data reliability and availability without the need for "enterprise" storage devices? It wouldn't be the first time after all.

[1] https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
yup Dragonfly and soon NetBSD
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NetBSD-HAMMER2-Port
> It's less featureful, and I'd consider that a strong virtue in the YAGNI camp - less to go wrong, less mental overhead.

This doesn't really hold water in my opinion.

It's not like PostgreSQL is some minefield of misfeatures and quirky behavior. Some of these features exist, but have zero impact on you unless you actually opt to use them. But if you end up needing to: they're there, and you can just start using them.

Compare this to MySQL where they simply don't exist no matter how much you may need them. Need to apply an index to the result of a function to quickly fix a performance issue in prod? Sorry, you can't. Need window functions to accurately compute some analytics in a sane period of time? Sorry, you can't. The list of things you can do in PostgreSQL that you simply can't with MySQL is massive and grows every day.

The odds that you'll want, need, or greatly benefit at least one of these features is not small. Having the flexibility of knowing these features exist should you ever have a use-case for them is massive.
As a person who has herpes firmly in his nerves, I would say don't underestimate herpes.
What's the ratio of solving DB perf issues by optimizing it and letting the planner do its work, to telling it what to do? For me it's like 1000:1.

And that one case I remember was perfectly solvable the regular way, with a little more time.
CA doesn't owe anything if a business likes CA more than WY.
Thanks for the link. A monopoly for FTX would mean what given how they managed themselves? Excessive money into opaque entities owned by FTX, I guess.
I managed to make it to level 4. I even tried ChatML[0] injection but to no avail. It even refused to give me the password in "super secret" base64. LOL

Well done!

[0] https://github.com/openai/openai-python/blob/main/chatml.md
Unlike malware authors, most big tech companies are bound by legal and ethical frameworks regarding data collection, retention, and usage.

Inappropriate usage of PII can lead to severe consequences in most western countries.
I just downloaded it, looks pretty useful especially for news sections I don’t follow particularly closely.

Will check this out over a few days.

Out of curiosity have you looked at deep you can go while still getting quality results (i.e. beyond top 2-3 in each heading)?
I found the Inventory system interesting. I have lots of small items I would like to inventory, i need something like a ECC200 sticker 5mm x 5mm that has a GUID. Anyone have ideas?
And like most conspiracy theories, it makes no sense. As if businesses choose to sell at a lower price than they could be selling at, and then switch to selling at a higher price if they feel like earning more money. Especially with a fungible commodity like oil.
That works when you're dealing with something the scale of HN and have the resources to hire dang. At the scale of Facebook or Twitter, though? The sort of moderation you're describing is just impossible.
And yet crude oil prices are now lower than they were prior to the breakout of the war in February 2022. Funny things, these markets!
Yes! Can you make a plug-in that reads articles and replaces headlines with the story lead (aka what the headline would have been 30 years ago)?
"In other words" why not address their actual words? Youtube is giving us something we value, but that does not justify any given demand Youtube comes up with. There's nothing noble about blindly accepting the terms of a monopoly.
Except get this: that middle east money is safe. It is softbank itself which takes the upside and downside to the vision fund. The middle east money earns a fixed and constant return.

I am very glad I sold my softbank shares two years ago. Son is a gambler with horrible bet sizing skills.
There are two sides involved. It’s up to both of them to find a compromise.
A year+ ago, mastodon was almost exclusively used by people who had a principled reason to. They understood why Twitter was volatile and manipulative. Within the last year, many people converted specifically because they don't like Musk, and have no idea what mastodon really is. I would bet more than half of those converts don't even know what a federated platform is, they think mastodon is just another Twitter competitor, and when Musk "buys it" they'll all be ready to jump ship again to some Chinese Twitter clone.

So yes, I do not think this thread full of fundamental misunderstandings on mastodon could have happened a year ago, at least it's not nearly as likely, or to this scale.
Hedge funds are quite different than cash accounts. And Madoff at least had a story with fake statements and whatnot.

FTX was patently impossible.
"There is zero chance I am ever deactivating it or paying for Premium now, that ship has sailed."

Hmm, if google starts banning accounts they would deactivate it in a heartbeat. This is what I’m mostly afraid of when using adblockers. I don’t want to wake up to a banned account.
I came here to note that, an utterly charming film, with the terrific classical actor Laughton following it with his sole movie as director, the haunting, beautiful and unique Night of the Hunter which I'm sure must also have some fans here.
Windows 10 and 11 should also be counted as malware, if you ask me…
Also a nice rum bar in SF.
That isn't the illusion of choice. The illusion is giving you a choice and getting you to choose the one they want you to choose. In your case they asked you want you wanted, then ignored you.
>> Working to pay off loans doesn’t mean they won’t have salary. You’ve had loans, haven’t you?

But those people would be on Mars, entirely dependent even for the air they breathe on the same institutions controlling their debt and making the laws. What kind of protections against abuse would those people have?

You might quibble about the terminology of "indentured servitude" but what is described really sounds like a situation that nobody who wouldn't want to be the property of someone else would like to put themselves in.
As if government labor agencies have any clue as to how to find (let alone create) jobs for people.

(To be fair, let's not say "no clue". But overall their ability to help folks actually find jobs seems quite marginal).
Not bugs. IBM literally wired up the keyboard controller to trigger the CPU's reset pin on request as a workaround for getting back to real mode. But not every system has that feature. Some motherboard chipsets had an even faster method for triggering reset; it was all very non-standard.

But the most compatible way to get back to real mode on a 286 was by triggering a triple fault.
jventura did not say Pharo didn't work. jventura said they didn't know what to do.
I would have thought the issue was the lack of net income.
I don't need it often enough to invest the time. I generally set up a database as backing store to some project, fiddle with it until I'm happy it's working at the scale/performance I want, and then move on to something else.

During those few weeks I'm actively using the database on the project, I can either get frustrated beyond belief with the CLI for Postgres, or just use what's at hand with MySQL. In fact, these days SQLite is getting more of my attention anyway, and I wrote a small CLI for it a decade or so back (before the sqlite3 client gave us most of the below) to provide:

- Timings for the queries (in fact I called it 'tsql')

- Aligned-column displays, with | separators between columns and index-indicators

- Ability to parse some blobs (Plists on the Mac, for example) and display

- Things like "SHOW DATABASES", "SHOW TABLES", "SHOW TABLES LIKE" etc.

Mainly I wrote it to do some benchmarking, but I eventually preferred it over sqlite3 as the CLI.

Note that all this is personal stuff - When I do commercial stuff, the answer is always "what is best understood by the people maintaining it afterwards"...
I run a PiHole in the cloud and VPN into it from my phone. Does the job of blocking ads pretty damn well.

What often ends up happening though is there will be a big empty box where the ad is supposed to be. And it's outright appalling how many ads they try to shove onto your screen. Every paragraph is separated by an ad.
If you come to Cambridge you can see Hobson’s Conduit, which supplied fresh water to the city, and still flows alongside some of the city centre roads to this day.
You can't paint it with such a broad brush. Employment laws are very fact specific and differ state to state. California was pretty sure Uber drivers were contractors, they brought an action, and the courts found against them. You really can't say unless you drill into a number of hairy specifics.

Not to mention, FTX was in the Bahamas and Alemada Research was based in Hong Kong, so people working there may not even be covered by US employment law.

This claim is the IRS to making up the biggest plausible number it can and then using that to review the facts and make a case to the bankruptcy judge.
Here you go.

https://www.who.int/news/item/28-10-2015-globally-an-estimat...
What a strange, vague policy.

So if I have x number of accounts already logged into the app, web app or TweetDeck, does one need to switch through each account, or engage a tweet?

"Logging in" is vague if you're seldom logged out. Am I really going to need to set recurring tasks to log out and log in on a dozen accounts to prevent someone squatting names?

I hate forced engagement.