skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't follow. What's the context or meaning of put up or shut up? Did you reply to right thread or did I inadvertently misrepresent anything?

My point is that on all my projects for 25 years now, it's normal for many roles to need a significant amount of studying to become productive. That studying may involve project or client specific material such as design and architecture documents, functional specs, process and procedure documents, business overview, etc. On bigger projects there might be a part or full time training / L&K coordinator who would prepare and maintain training materials for new team members, create on boarding paths for roles etc.

I read on HN about developers who start coding week 1 and I'm always impressed and astonished but also puzzled - coding what? In ERP world all code satisfies a specific business purpose and a random outsider wouldn't understand business functionality to create or fix business code day 1. Is it actually our goal to be interchangeable cogs, knowing only technology stacks but nothing about business or functionality?

Either way, I don't understand what client shoild put up or shut up?
Google Palm LLM Demo – Travel Planner
Feedback can tell you if something does or doesn’t work independently from being criticism. For example asking someone to summarize a story you wrote is a great way to see what is or isn’t clear. How would you describe character X’s motivations is another approach.

People naturally want to provide criticism, but it’s surprisingly inefficient without a great deal of context.
... do they have guitar tab and chord sheets lol. Oh I can imagine the replies to this already lol.
It's chat-gpt generated. It's even leaked part of the prompt in the intro.

I especially disagree with:

> natural language processing (NLP), which is the field of AI that deals with understanding and generating human language.
I've cancelled my subscription after first major price increase and never came back. Torrents still work nice.
Why do so many people in the tech industry have so little respect for their peers who work elsewhere in the industry?

The idea that large companies aren't solving hard problems, that that's only being done at startups, and that large companies are 'one trick ponies' is just incredibly myopic. Have you worked at a large publicly traded tech company?

Sure, in any business a bunch of the systems will be trivial. In larger businesses - especially ones that have grown through acquisition - there's also some scaling-law complexity that means they have to also do a bunch of annoyingly trivial work gluing together lots of duplicative and redundant trivial systems. When you look in from the outside of a large business that mess can definitely obscure the fact that at the heart that stuff is all in support of, usually, several significant and impressive engineering achievements, which support and drive that business forward. And they're probably performing operations that, from the outside, you would hear the name of and think 'well, that doesn't sound very difficult'.

I'm going to give a non-software example, that I think might show a little bit of an analogy for how 'engineering' at big companies can be at the same time operating at a complexity you wouldn't imagine, and yet be accomplishing something you might think from the outside is totally trivial.

Jump to this timestamp in the recent Smarter Everyday video about Kodak's film manufacturing line: https://youtu.be/mrJP82ZZiag?t=1742

See that workshop? Those precision engineered toolheads they call 'hearts' are the punch+die sets that they use to cut sprocket-holes in film. Everything there is bespoke, custom-made, and meets constraints you would never have thought of. It's engineered.

Software engineering in large companies is like that. If you don't think that banks contain software systems as complex and carefully engineered as those hearts? Or that manufacturing control software isn't in the same league? Or that the inventory management systems that drive a large retail business aren't on that level? You just have no idea what engineering is.
Neat tool!

I prefer using environment variables for my connection info to avoid passwords in my shell history or plaintext config files. The standard[1] ones from libpq work in psycopg2 if you pass an empty connection string. Then you can keep them in the environment variables or do

PGHOST=db.company.com PGUSER=postgres PGPORT=5432 PGDATABASE=postgres pg_explain_locks --query "SELECT id FROM table"

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/libpq-envars.html
Yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35963163 (274 comments)
I hadn’t heard of Beeper but it looks incredible. And since they are also people who work on side projects like these, I know I can trust them.

Unfortunately, seems like there is a waitlist of some 177k people for new signups.
It's an example of people assuming a bureaucracy got something glaringly and obviously wrong, but when you dig into it, the bureaucracy probably got it right.
Using calculation generation to improve GPT-4's numeric reasoning
For reference, your Keurig pours coffee into your cup at 192*F. McDonald's coffee wasn't even this hot when that lawsuit happen.

Additionally - the detail often left out of all the armchair analysis is the customer placed the fresh cup of coffee between her legs while in her car, and removed the lid. Her legs crushed the now-unstable cup... and she was unsurprisingly burned.
great explanation. thank you all for contributing to our learning!

> in a machine translation task, it transforms a sentence in one language into a sentence in another language.

here English is being translated to which language - I'm assuming vectors? might be a silly question, I'm assuming that's where the origin of the word "Transformer" lies
While it seems wildly counter-intuitive, burning, done properly is usually a net carbon increase.

Many, many ecosystems require fire for their life-cycles. Without reasonably regular fires, some species can go extinct.

The soil fertility, for example, in Australia is so poor, and there's not enough moisture for fungi etc to break down the leaf-litter, that unless there is a fire valuable nutrients remain unavailable and it impedes growth.
Mail scanning? Are you implying that you have automated mail scanning, or do you mean there's someone there that will scan it for you. I am really intrigued. I don't do well with physical mail.
Honestly, this sounds like a great idea. Project Gutenberg for tabs in the public domain.
It's strange that despite the research showing that most customers intend to consume the coffee immediately and despite this lawsuit and, apparently, others, McDonald's and other establishments continue to serve coffee at such a high temperature. Every time I buy a hot drink (admittedly, not that often) I can't actually drink it for several minutes.
> That's not nothing

Any thoughts on how most ignored the "software engineer" from Google and his thoughts on their AI? [0] I know personally I tended to ignore it and let it get buried. However, in this sort of context I do wonder what would make something like that actually effective in persuading others.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/12/google-en...
So 28% have ad blockers (or similar blockers).
General privacy legislation would not cover the USPS due to sovereign immunity.
We know that the tech works. If the USPS can't own it, what will stop other agencies from scanning mail?

Post-9/11 there was a huge federal power grab: "security" at the cost of our personal liberties.

I think stopping USPS from scanning is playing ineffectual whack-a-mole instead of neutering some three-letter-agencies. But it's probably at least political suicide to challenge those agencies directly.
An extremely complicated solution for a problem which does not actually exist.
Yes, the kitchen has many hazards that are not expected in a drive-through restaurant, and your point about how she held the coffee is presumably why the jury found the plaintiff 20% liable rather than 0%.
Not sure what the point of your post is.

Rome (and Greeks before them) did certainly see the difference between Romans and Barbarians, but they also integrated the newly conquered tribes into the army, and eventually society. At some point there were even “barbarian” senators, and Roman citizenship was granted to everyone residing in the empire. They clearly didn’t have the same idea of race that the Nazis, or most of the western world until not long ago, had.
Of course the plaintiffs attorney argued coffee should be lower temperature - it literally was their case.

And no, there is no coffee professional (organization, individual, whatever) brewing coffee at 140*F.

Additionally - 140*F water is still going to burn if you spill it all over your clothing. Lastly, the customer removed the lid of the coffee while between her legs, which is how the cup was crushed and coffee ran all over her.

The case was absurd...
When did Elon become a moron? Or was he always one?
There are some good explanations here of the self-attention architecture that makes Transformers unique.

However, most people gloss over other aspects of the "Attention is all you need" paper, which is a sense mis-titled.

For example, Andrej Karpathy pointed out that the paper had another significant improvement hidden in it: during training the gradients can take a "shortcut" so that the bottom layers are trained faster than in typical deep learning architectures. This enables very large and deep models to be trained in a reasonable time. Without this trick, the huge LLMs seen these days would not have been possible!

Andrej talks about it here: https://youtu.be/9uw3F6rndnA?t=238
Is there a way to have recuesively constructed attentional architectures? It would seem like the same process that you describe could be even more useful if it could be applied at the level of sentences, paragraphs, etc.
Over here in Minneapolis, an apartment building went up about ten years ago, and a certain very vocal segment of the neighborhood vehemently believed that it would destroy their homes’ value (with vague innuendo about what kind of people live in apartments and take the light rail to work). No such thing actually happened, of course.
I think a more accurate analogy is that if you bought those 3 items and they did have proper itemized cost, but the whole package also had a $500 shipping charge. And then it’s not obvious how to distribute the shipping cost across each item. And in both situations it’s probably better to itemize by itself, though maybe some system didn’t allow for non tangible costs like “R&D”
Does anyone know when Codey will be available via the Vertex API? Also is Unicorn available now?
Believe me, you and I cannot be more in agreement about the isolating effects of the typical modern suburban American life, though that does vary among subgroups within the US, and "we don't have this" is not categorically true. Religious people are much more likely to report being happier (among other beneficial things), for example[0], and anecdotally I notice the same; church is a social event for most people.

But the fact remains that Sri Lankans immigrate to the US while Americans don't immigrate to Sri Lanka. This is true even for developed countries; in 2018, there were 321k Italians living in the US[1], compared to 15k Americans living in Italy[2], meaning a full half percent of Italians gave up la passeggiata to be in America, whereas 0.005% of Americans did the reverse. If people vote with their feet, they are voting for money and energy over happiness.

I do wish the average American had more access to healthy social lives.

[0]: https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2019/01/31/religions-re...

[1]: https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2020/08/20/facts-on-u-s...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Italy
TL;DR (from the article)

How the HammerBot Works

We also want to share details about how HammerBot works on the backend. Right now, our developers are using OpenAI’s text-davinci-003 model, otherwise known as GPT-3, trained on a custom dataset of our articles. The data is stored in a vector database from Weaviate and the bot is coded primarily with Python, using LangChain, a framework that makes it easy to customize AI output.

When you enter a prompt, the server queries against the dataset that’s stored in Weaviate to get the search results. Those are then sent to the LLM to help it develop a consistent response to your question.

A lot of chatbots will talk to you about anything on Earth. But don’t ask HammerBot for a knitting pattern! It’s designed to have limits on what it will talk about; it focuses on the expertise you can only get from Tom’s Hardware, so it may say it doesn’t know or can’t answer if prompts that fall outside of its training.
Hey Randy! Love your work on Archer and wish Stern could have kept that theme instead of Iron Maiden. I was able to play Archer at some festival (maybe Pin-a-go-go?) and could tell it was something special right away.

Tell your brother to stop being so good at pinball :-) I guess it's okay though since he keeps on popping out amazing designs, especially with Jurassic Park.
Sadly I think people will look back on CSS 3 as the peak of the standard.

people keep pushing, and pushing and pushing to add more and more crap to CSS. they want to make CSS Turing complete, if it isn't already. If you want to style with a programming language, JavaScript has been around for two decades people. with each addition to CSS, you just make it that much slower. people wont stop until CSS can do email:

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski#Zawinski's_Law
It would be nice if you added a how it works section to the readme. Knowing that it does `begin; ${query}; rollback;` under the hood is important. The example with truncate in fact made me think the opposite was true, since truncate violates MVCC and cannot be rolled back.

I’m often worrying about locks in migrations that could be long running, so executing the query to figure out the locks defeats the purpose. Or at least I need to know to use a test DB.
I feel like Google Docs is slowly catching up with the functionality of Word 5 on the Mac. Maybe one day it will reach feature parity!
I switched to KDE from xfce4 because it handles dual monitor better and remembers settings for various second displays.

Then I started using Bismuth for tiling. Add to that the need for various desktop things like status icons, notifications, wallets etc, I am pretty much stuck because no wm provides this combination of features unless you take a tiling wm and spend days configuring it. (There's also the option of using something like xfce4 with the wm bits from a tiling wm.)
From the article:

> The new moral is that numbers, taken as self-explanatory truths by the public and the press, can in fact be the woefully distorted products of a broken accounting system.

So it appears you're just in agreement with the OP that the accounting system is broken, while also being the exact same sort of victim of misunderstanding that the broken accounting fosters.
Humans being bad at social decision X is never an argument against humans making those social decisions. This is because of our moral status: we are responsible for our own social systems. We cannot morally evade or nullify that responsibility by asking a Magic Eight Ball to make decisions for us.

Science Fiction writers going back to Asimov have already imagined such dystopias as when machines imprison or enslave humans because humans cannot be trusted to know what is “best” for their own lives. And of course that is how despots like Putin justify themselves.

Maybe I am biased or suboptimal in my hiring, but I own my business and I will live or die by my OWN decisions, thank you. Does any CEO feel different?
I can see the beepberry page but this gives a generic database error.
Is there a standard file format for scores? I see MusicXML and MEI.
I'm the opposite, I found that certain mental tools I'd developed in order to overcome my fear of heights and such, had inadvertently also allowed me to adopt just about any sort of sexuality (save for things involving sharp incongruity because my adhd pulls me out of it) with about two weeks to a month of conditioning. I did this a couple of years ago to increase the number of races I'm attracted to, in order to increase my potential dating pool.
Yes, and now the "Caution - Hot" markings on the cup keep us all much, much safer.

Any temperature above 100*F is going to burn. There is no safe temperature above 100*F that is not going to cause 2nd and 3rd degree burns.
Most (all I've found) capture cards won't capture HDCP streams. Finding boxes that strip HDCP aren't that hard though.
Sure! Sorry for my delayed response.

To block ads when web browsing, I find adblockers more than adequate. Eg Brave Browser on Android, or the Ublock Origin addon on desktop.

The main reason I wanted Pihole was to block ads in other situations - eg Android apps. In particular, I wanted to watch a documentary on a free video app, but the number of video ads made it intolerable.

I found Pihole did not effectively block ads in Android apps, or ads in videos. I think they must serve the ads from the same server as their content, therefore rendering DNS blocking useless.

(I will go to extreme lengths to avoid watching video ads. In this case, I actually screen recorded the entire documentary on my phone, with the ads. I could then watch it later on, but skipping all the ads)
I'm a sure if you put a Windows XP in a VM it will be hogged by a Blaster attack in seconds.
I'm not sure 3d printing is going to help that much. Getting something tested and certified for flight seems like a much bigger cost than manufacturing in this instance.
A capture card with hdcp but made into a roku like consumer friendly cloud integrated thingy
3 Russian hypersonic missile scientists jailed for treason, colleagues say
> Where are the docker/redis/next.js/linux kernel/qt/roller-coaster tycoon creators

Well, we know stories behind each of these:

- linux kernel: comp sci Msc student
- redis: written by a startup founder (in TCL[1])
- next.js: written by a founder of Vercel (as "Zeit")
- rollercoaster tycoon: written by one dude in scottland

None of these people are Staff Engineers, in the sense of this book. You may find a few traveling between big tech companies but mostly as a prestige recruiting / consulting role. Or Torvalds, whose finances I don't really understand -- multiple sources say he gets a million dollar salary from the linux foundation?

You might also argue that the people who put more value on their skills as "hardcore engineer" end up in small firms and startups where equity comp can end up paying them what they're worth if the skills pan out. There was a "why is Google behind openAI even though they published the transformers paper" post recently that hinted that all the authors have left google for greener pastures, which supports this thesis.

[1] https://gist.github.com/antirez/6ca04dd191bdb82aad9fb241013e...
This sounds like a problem to be solved by the insurance industry, who can measure risk because it's their money on the line. Insurers should refuse to renew fire coverage in areas where they can see that the authorities have been derelict in doing prescribed burns. Don't like it? Risk losing your house, or move.
I had a corporate Google domain wiped out this way!

This was a Google Workspace account tied to a domain (back when it was called GSuite). Google sent warning emails, which Google classified as spam. Google than wiped all all information we had there.

Naturally, there was no recourse, or even means to speak to a human being.
If the hostages are also usually the ones holding the guns, it’s an apt comparison.

If labor never walks, it has no power.
>People stroll around and chat with neighbors and friends in the sunnier part so the year. It's something that we Americans tend to be envious of - we don't have this. Instead we fight traffic.

Another thing which I missed every time I was in the states or Canada. You can't just chill in a café for hours. You have to keep consuming constantly, otherwise the waiters start pushing you out.

In most parts of the world you don't need to pay to just exist. Of course there's the expectation that you order something. But not that you leave right away.
Pinkertons are right there with nazis and kkk members for me. Nothing good comes from cooperating with them.
> There are still many paths hardcoded into /sbin

This is fixable: it only truly matters for /sbin/init, but it's nothing than can be fixed in a minute with the right kernel cmdline.

For the rest, a regex could replace /sbin by /usr/sbin in the package files

> /lib is expected to stay since the LDSO path for dynamic linking points there, removing it is not possible without breaking the ABI.

Maybe it's time to do that too? Android does just fine without /lib. Only the linker needs that, and changing the path to ld-linux should just require a kernel tweak.

But breaking the ABI could also be the opportunity to bring in android improvements, like the linkerconfig or namespaces!
Do you disagree with anything else? That sounds like a simplification and not too bad given the target audience.
The Birth of Brainstorming
That's both illogical reactionism and false.
It's orthogonal, right? How do you go from tokens to vector? Fully connected NN? lstm? Or transformer?
then i take it all back, thanks for your work, the outcome looks very useful, looking forward to using it :)
As someone who lives 200 meters from The Magic Roundabout, this is the kind of optimism I can get behind!
From OP:

A second issue with the default minification is that it broke my app in strange ways that I could not track down – I’m guessing that it’s rewriting the code in some way that is not fully stable yet. I solved it by turning off the syntax minification option

Rest sounds nice:)
Improving Performance with HTTP Streaming
My mother told me that a neighbour across the street from her that we know installed a light like that because he was paranoid that people were going to break into his car at night or something. It's been changed to a different less-bright light. She thinks another neighbour must have complained. The new one is still on most of the night but it's not as bright. I think it's ridiculous. If someone is going to go into your car, a light isn't going to stop them and in fact, might even discourage people from looking if it's too bright.

These new LEDs are just trash. Some houses, you see them stuffed in a foot apart all around the soffits on multiple levels and when you walk at night they just make the place look cheap and tacky compared to how it used to be before when people would place an incandescent flood at ground level shining upward.

Would have been amusing if you mounted an adjustable mirror on the wall near your window to aim the high-power beam straight back at their own window if talking to them first didn't work. Seems fair. It doesn't need to be pointed directly at you after all.. when it could be pointed at the driveway instead..
I know but it requires some serious acting skills to sit and nod when the person in front of you is promoting themselves as the smarterst person in the world . Add to that that you maybe saw them stumble on the stairs or burn their tongue with some hot coffee a couple of minutes earlier when preparing to start the interview.
Elon Musk Impersonator Scams on Social Media People Fell For
You don't even need electricity to listen to some AM signals. It really is essential for emergencies.
Not very convincing as the screenshot is obviously incorrect. The Grand Palace & Wat Pho are located in Bangkok, not Phuket.
> EDIT: It actually says in the readme they plan to support StableLM which is interesting because at least at the moment that's not a well performing model

I chose StableLM because that's the only other model I knew of besides ChatGPT. I'm open to adding support for other models after I fix some bugs first.