skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also just not in its training corpus. It's not. It's in journal articles, etc. But here we go again thinking chat gpt can give us something from nothing. Also a hallucination with a chemical reaction could easily mean death. It's just not a good tool for this.
I think there's three reasons:

1. Anyone old enough, remembers that Florida and New York are suppose to be under water now. Going outside should be hazardous, requiring that I cover every inch of my body or be instantly burned by the sun. My incredibly "green" 5th grade teacher told me that by about 20 years ago, water would be so scarce that we would all wash our bodies with wash cloths instead of showers.

2. It's undeniable that there is a natural component to climate change. You literally would have to be anti-science to ignore what we know about climate change throughout the planet's history, and even just within the Holocene.[1] You'd have to be a science denialist to ignore the non-human factors of climate change: solar acvitiy (which we cannot model), volcanic eruption (which we cannot stop), and sometimes we aren't even sure what caused drastic climate changes.

3. Climate change is the only constant. We know that even if there are no human emissions the climate does change drastically from little ice ages, to warming periods, all within a single human lifespan. Our current focus seems to be in denial of this. Instead of accepting that this is a natural process that we must prepare for, we seem to be hyper-focused on what can be described as real-time terraforming.

What I've had most luck with is being more accurate. Instead of "humans are causing climate change", use "climate change is a natural process, but human activity seems to be destabilizing it and making it more extreme". Don't use average temperature like this article did, because most people think a constant +2 degrees year-round. It's all about volatility: a winter that's 10 degrees colder, followed by a summer that's 14 degrees warmer.

From then though, it becomes a bit harder because you're in the policy side of things. The UN SDG and WEF are honestly not helping anyone with their messaging. The focus should be on things like building resilient food supply chains so that food can be plentiful an affordable, even when natural disasters hit. Everyone would be in favour of that. Instead we get a moronic "Meat will be a special treat", and by the way "you will own nothing and be happy".[2] Good luck with anyone but a Davos Elite being on board for that.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_periods_and_events_in_...

[2] https://twitter.com/wef/status/983378870819794945
If this site is interesting to you, you might enjoy this just-released conversation[0] with Shamil Chandaria, a technologist and academic with multidisciplinary research interests spanning computational neuroscience, machine learning and artificial intelligence, and the philosophy and science of human wellbeing. He's a long time meditator.

I've not yet finished it but so far it's fascinating.

[0]https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/320...
"Public appreciation doesn't shield the site from prosecution" - serious question though, why not? Sure it infringes on copyright but I would argue at this point, research data should rightfully be classed as a public asset. It appears that's a popular opinion, based on all the piracy. So why don't we just classify it as such?
Also had it hallucinate absolute garbage from time to time. The worst offender, that consistently shows up: Claiming there are certain library features, when there are not.

Easily the best rubber ducky though. Copy pasting big blocks of my own code and asking about it gives new perspectives to problems I am stuck on. Huge time saver in that regard.
Yep, I still have my Passport in a drawer somewhere. The keyboard is -sensitive, which means you can swipe on it to scroll. Awesome device.
Original paper here - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.10791.pdf
The cold war involved numerous bilateral agreements, accords, understandings, etc to prevent a nuclear war.
Just don't read their poetry.
Just because all religions are a belief doesn’t mean all beliefs are a religion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirming_the_consequent
They should have tried the laptop market as well, I loved their phones..

There are rumors about Elon Musk's team wanting to buy RIM to revive the BlackBerry legacy (with the current weather of the geopolitics, it's IMO very well positioned for a comeback), leveraging Starlink would be interesting to see..

Who remember when last year he mentioned he'd make his own phone to go after Apple (appstore drama)? ;)

Apple has no competition, Microsoft tried and flopped, BlackBerry is imo the only one able to compete
They are clearly not politically neutral, unfortunately, whether by accident or design. And I say this as someone who has been a supporter for years.
If you can pull/transfer the certificates from the provided modem and can clone the MAC's to your own modem it should just work.
This makes me think they do in fact have the balance right
Cool, but I will stick to this stream, thanks. Loving it.
Stream name is inspired by little squares of cardboard?
I think the fact that some phones (read: iPhones) are resistant to this is pretty awesome.

It is comforting to know that this isn’t a remote exploit of course, but if my son were to cat lost, I wouldn’t want the threat of an actor getting access to my phones contacts to exist.
fairseq is a fairly missed naming opportunity. C-3PO would have been better.
We keep on having to relearn this principle over and over again: mixing instructions and data on the same channel leads to disaster. For example, phone phreaking were people were able to whistle into the phone and place long distance calls. SQL injection attacks. Buffer overflow code injections. And now LLM prompt injections.

We will probably end up with the equivalent of prepared LLM statements like we have for SQL that will separate out the instruction and data channels.
> Back in 2020, there was a major riot at its Bangalore plant over underpaid wages, with millions of dollars’ worth of damage done. Both the Indian government and Apple investigated, and both found that Wistron was indeed guilty of serious labor law violations, including underpayment of its workers.

I’m not sure either are a great source to be honest.
Can't change the distro at work with hundreds of my coworkers being subjected to this, can I?

I would prefer if one of the biggest linux distros in the world did not force this upon everyone.
As I understand, the economy mostly runs on gray market US currency (gray market because the Argentine government doesn't acknowledge real exchange rates and sometimes takes capricious action against US currency use.)
That's true, that's perhaps what I should have wrote
I can't believe how much people are still using manipulative linguistic constructions like the word "denial" as they presume to know the reason for the disagreements are just emotional shortfalls.

The so called literature tells nothing about a disaster. It tells us there are climate models, these are incredibly chaotic things, their fluctuations several order of magnitudes larger than a supposed trend averaged over many runs. Now you're extrapolating these trends to project a disaster but there are many leaps in that logic.

By the way, the same is true for sea levels. The daily fluctuations of tides are order of magnitude of meters and the sea level rises projected are centimeters over decades.

We're living with naturally higher fluctuations than the worst case projections.

And that's ignoring all the question marks all over the place about the accuracy of these projections, and the fact the supposed cure is several times worst than the disease.

Apropos disease, look at the scientific consensus around COVID. The disaster projections were extremely far off.
Because AT&T / Cingular didn’t have a good 3G story.

The iPhone was the right device at the right time with the right launch partner. Its success allowed them to cow Verizon, whose bureaucracy and contract management is government like.

People bought the iPhone in spite of EDGE. EDGE was fine for text devices like the Blackberry or T-Mobile Sidekick. iPhone tipped things over in lots of ways.
I would believe that except that the rate hikes have no endgame. If he let the rates decline - wouldn’t inflation start again?

It’s like having a car with brakes and a stuck gas pedal. You can get the car to slow down but you aren’t really in control…
Yes we should be careful not to anthropomorphise ants. They really don't like it, and it causes them a lot of anxiety.
San Francisco still seems to be way ahead in terms of total dollars invested. https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1659475589672173569?s=46&t=...
Fortran, Matlab, R, and Julia are a few languages than count from 1 instead of 0. It's not bizarre to do so.
Glypha was a clone of sorts of the old arcade game Joust
Sounds like a good book to me. Got any recent recs?
The point being it's the wrong ladder. I'll stick to the enjoying life more ladder
Ah, I'd run into the lack of multi constraint ON CONFLICT in postgres yesterday and was wondering about the omission. I'd not considered this case and GP's code smell comment makes sense now.

In my specific case, business logic dictates uniqueness of both columns is tied together i.e. if an incoming tuple has a value (1, 2) today, all subsequent expected tuples with `gh_id` 1 will also have `gh_node_id` of 2. What's the best practice to model this constraint?
please do not defetusize my fetuses
Reverse Engineering Bing Streetside
30 flats built for £1m? I think not.
The 8100 was released in 2006 with its camera. I am sure it was in development for quite a while prior. That phones would all have cameras was a foregone conclusion by 2005.
What does political neutrality mean to you? Nothing in this world has no slant.
tip- late night coding is good for creativity

early morning coding fresh after sleep is good for bug-hunting
Love the dialogue here.

I apologize for not bringing receipts for the orchard stuff. I promise I didn’t read it somewhere silly, but will try to find the source anyway since me saying so doesn’t prove anything.

As for who paid, you’re probably right that while the CSWP itself definitely was paid for by the urban water districts, perhaps many expensive… uh… “tributaries”? Branches? were invested in by the ag counties to move the water they were getting from it, and if they were promised that water was forever and it wasn’t, I assume that they would be mad. And tbh I don’t think anything I know is related to the Colorado River stuff, so if your info is about that water, perhaps that’s part of these discrepancies.
> Apart from potential side effects of anesthesia,

Bingo. If they were going to study the effects of some drug on amputees, it would be better if they didn't amputate limbs to test it. People don't have a good understanding of the damage from general anesthesia, so it's probably easier to get them to agree to do this study (and therefore perhaps easier/cheaper than selecting people already undergoing general anesthesia, and coordinating with the anesthesiologist and controlling for confounding factors like why they're being anesthetised in the first place)

But ethically, it would be much better if they didn't put people under to perform a stupid study on them, since it is damaging to the people getting anesthetized.
Meta’s next round of layoffs will start next week
> but they're unlikely to be best, unlike in the past where the state deliberately sent best abroad.

I don't see that happening for a long time. Very few, if any, kids are turning down MIT to go to Tsinghua instead, and once they are abroad in the states to study, if they are in STEM (ignoring the non-STEM kids who go because they have money), they aren't going to come back unless they get access to some crazy resources. What we settled for in our Beijing Research lab, at least, were some under the radar talent with PhDs from Zhongshan universities, very good people, but even the Tsinghua PhD student (who isn't as good as the PhD undergrad) would go abroad even in the late 2010s.

The lack of worldwide talent hurts China in terms of practices and tech culture. It isn't just access to a wider talent pool, but cultural nuances don't really gets ingrained since you get your workers in the west from a wide variety of countries. China is also becoming less liberal, not more, and that can't help either in terms of retaining talent (under Xi, there are real risks to staying and raising your family in china vs abroad, and there is no end to Xi's rule in sight, things could get really messy without a planned peaceful transition of power). Finally, China's housing bubble has no end in sight. You think a million dollar town home in Seattle is expensive? Try 1.5 million for a two bedroom apartment in Beijing! Unless you can make ALOT more money in Beijing, why not work in Seattle instead? At least you can buy a house.

China is going to do OK with all of this, but I don't think they going to thrive as much as you think they are. They have a lot of big challenges coming up in the next decade.
Perhaps they should just eat cake?
There's two factors, temperature and seed. You could run the inferencing with a common seed to get the same exchange twice, but you're still using entropy to make choices.

If I understand correctly, a temperature of 0 is somewhat equivalent to a markov chain -- choose the result with the highest fit every time. It's not just un-fun and un-creative, it gets stuck in holes and cycles.
Elegant, with a wafting hint of the sublime
Honestly the Vogons were only the third worst poets in the universe. If you can read awful human poetry like anything by Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings, they won't faze you.
The researchers get none of the money.

Quick tip: You can often email a researcher and they will sometimes send a pre-print version of the article if you don't have access. Nobody is making money off this.

Other than public scholars, academic books rarely make enough to even consider it minimum wage.
When customers are “willing” to pay
Beautiful writing but please: can the origin author just get off their baroque coruscated, highly gilt and filial-decorated chair and say out loud: ITS BEEN BOUGHT FOR THE MARGINAL ADVANTAGE IN SPEED TO DO TRADES.

It has line-of-sight advantage to link the markets in London and Europe. Thats why it's valuable.

My god, this is like reading Proust. 3000 pages to say "baron charlus was offensive and bloch suffered antisemitism"

Some people need an editor
Coincidentally, Glenn Howerton's highest and lowest rated movies[0] on RT were released on the same day even though Charlie Day's movie was in the works for several years[1].

0: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/glenn_howerton

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed0ZhILQs6s
Australia's public education has this selective high school system. At the end of primary school kids could sit for an exam to enter academically more competitive selective high schools. So higher performing kids are being separated from others. During adolescence you are very much influenced and learn from your peers, so could think of it as resource being taken away from lower performing kids very early on.
The first half of the movie mixes a lot of stuff up date and time wise, and adds a bunch of completely fictional sub-plots.
I worked at RIM from 1993 to 2007
Yeah I'm sure hypothetical interference is the reason At&t is shitting their pants over this. If you can't beat them by bettering your own service, drag government roadblocks in front of them. The At&t way.
Why does what keep happening, exactly?
China being in the WHO didn't help with pandemic avoidance or response. In fact they used their position within the WHO to spread misinformation and bully the rest of the world. Their government is compromising world health, and giving the world absolutely no benefit from their inclusion.
Thanks for the heads-up. I read the about, and you’re right. There’s absolutely no hint of gender identity.
That's insane. May I ask what scipy solver you used and what you switched to in diffrax?
What kind of ODE were you working with?
Agree that the spiral as a core reason is total BS but for both the US and Europe it goes beyond just increasing the money supply.

Reducing the supply of goods/materials will have the same effect - even at a constant money supply.

In Europe the ECB/EU gov is hiding behind the War in Ukraine and global supply chain issues to hide what is mostly their own pandemic purchasing program and overspending driving massive inflation.

Then there's also their there's also sanctions, trade wars and over-regulation adding fuel to the fire.

Of course none of these are a "natural effect from market dynamics" - as much as they'd love to make it sound like that.
Legacy (the development started in 90s), a lot of different CPUs/SoCs to cover (from various vendors, none of which are famous for their mainline-ness), drivers for ICs that are not publicly available (that you're forbidden to distribute in source form).

Not that other networking companies are better in this regard, they just have been founded when OpenWRT was already around.
They will say using API means you data isn’t used for training. True if you believe OpenAI t&c’s. But that’s different than being able to say you didn’t send data to any third party.
You can safely go to a billion rows. Use indexes. Don't do silly things like count(*) or select *, select the small data sets you need using your indexes. If you need a full table count for some reason, use a primary key that auto increments and select the max, or use information_schema for an estimate. Nobody will sweat the slight inaccuracy on a table that size.
I think you may have missed the point, being that the person who's 5x smarter and works 5x harder may well not get anything unless they're the incumbent.
You're missing the point that none of the three definitions you provided offer a mechanistic explanation.
It may describe a baseline cynicism about the problem or situation. It's a healthy skepticism, a low-priority thread on the mental backburner.

Sometime later, something triggers it or an idea related to it. You can instantly jump back to it. You think "Hmm, I wonder if I can try X on it..."

Where X is a technique, method, or process you may have done before, but in a different context.
Haha indeed it is
An open-source framework for prompt engineering
Dont forget you can play computer games on it too!
I wish I didn’t identify completely with this comment.
We're not talking about comparing to a few hundred years back. We're talking about comparing to the time since the Industrial Revolution—and especially most of the 20th century.

I don't know offhand of any specific and scientific measures of consolidation, but it's painfully clear from observation that over the past 40 years, we have had a massive wave of consolidation in many sectors. Just as one example, I recently saw a chart of consolidation in the (book) publishing industry, where dozens of publishers consolidated into several, and then into the big 4 we have today. Similarly, there are a number of fairly widely-circulated charts of the few companies that own nearly all of the various food and household product brands in the US and in Europe.

These are widely-known and well-documented phenomena, and it should be easy to find evidence if you go looking for it at all.
lack of labels on graph axes should be a crime
I always remind myself that Instagram was a 2-person team for a very long time (compared to time to PMF and acquisition).
A Curated List of Game Network Programming Resources
One of the biggest changes for me, after decades of programming, is I've learned to be more of a stickler for best practices -- at least on projects I lead or ones I do solo. I'm more cognizant of the fleeting nature of time, that big one-way arrow-O-doom. So I don't "suffer foolish things" as much as I was willing to when younger.

I prioritize better. Or try to.

And I'm more efficient during sessions at keyboard / in terminal/shell. Effectiveness is king.

I do things in a different order, too. More likely to order my sequence of tasks/milestones so I achieve the most de-risking upfront. Test my assumptions. Flush out those "dark spots" on my mental map of the problem or solution space.

Age sucks. Experience rocks.
Because Glypha was a badass shareware game back in the day. Can’t nobody do that
I have been very disappointed by the ReMarkable. I find their cloud services and desktop software very unreliable, but they see to increasingly want to force us to use these services.

I haven't used RCU -- my Remarkable 2 is currently in a drawer, abandoned, and I have moved to a Boox tablet (which is an e-ink android tablet), but I might try getting it back out and trying it with this software.
60+, caretaker for several family members, programmer for 35 years. Still love it, tho I am self-employed. Energy level is exceptionally low due to severe sleep issues. Can still pull all-nighters with no problem. But if I have to mow the back 10… I cry age and exhaustion.
You mistake me for a person with enough money to open a grocery store.
Lagging indicator of what specifically? (I agree I could imagine many relevant measures it lags, just wondering what you have in mind).
> If he let the rates decline - wouldn’t inflation start again?

Maybe it would. But why exactly are rates supposed to be low? Historically 5% rates were, if anything, low not high.
Through Ukraine, Startups Make Their Move into Defense
Hmmm..isn't this the Mathew Effect?

Let’s make this concrete and relevant to early 2023: we’ll say A represents a group of companies known as MMANGA (Microsoft, Meta, Apple, Nvidia, Google/Alphabet, Amazon), and B represents a group of all other companies in the US public markets (i.e., a broad-based index minus MMANGA).

People could have said the same in the late 90s, but instead Intel, HP, Oracle, Cisco, IBM, etc. Only Micorsoft has bucked the trend of not fading, unlike the others.
Somehow I doubt that that understanding between NATO and Ukraine that was 13 years old when Russia invaded is what OP had in mind when they referred to “plenty of talk before the war” and “not listening to the right channels”—13 years going on 100 I might add given all that had transpired during those years. I believe the OP was suggesting that there was current or recent talk of Ukraine joining NATO, which if true, would obviously justify Russia’s attempt to obliterate the country. /s
This article is quite heavily biased:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right_pipeline

For an exercise, try mentally replacing terms like "alt-right movement" with "woke movement", "alt-right pipeline" with "woke pipeline" etc.
Just to be clear, I was not implying that I want to give up and not do it. (I love writing and fixing code). I was more alluding to the fact that every time I fix a bug, I just want to fix the whole thing.

Thanks a ton for your advice and thanks for the recommendation!
Leach fields evaporate water.
Elon Musk’s money pit Twitter acquisition might be an even more salient example. Success leading to overconfidence leading to failure.

(Read “failure” however you like but the fact remains Musk wouldn’t have bought Twitter unless a court forced him to.)
I would take GP's kind of dogmatic jibber jabber with a grain of salt. There is an unspoken and timeless elegance to the simplicity of running a program from a folder with files as state
Came here to mention Nirvana the Band the Show. One of my absolute favourites and I recommend it to everyone.

Blackberry was good as well - don't expect the exact facts, it says right in the beginning it is a fictionalization.
The headline got me, but the paper lost me.

Isn't this saying what most people already knew - user content should never be trusted?

These attacks are no different than old school SQL injection attacks when people didn't understand the importance of escaping. Even if a user can't do SQL injection directly, they can get data stored that's injects into some other system. Much harder to pull off, but the exact same concept.