skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At my first job, I was on a small team and my boss did all the code reviews.

He would leave comments like:

- "This is really awkward, change it to..."

- "This variable name is awkward and confusing"

- "You have failed to understand..."

- "You are overthinking this. Keep it simple and do..."

- "This causes unnecessary overhead. Think about it..."

Every review, I would have to re-write everything to exactly how he wanted it, variable names, logic and all. To the point that the code was not mine.

I would very much disagree with what he wanted. Any type of constructive push back would be met with enormous backlash.

But it wasn't always what he wanted me to change, - the way he delivered the feedback irritated me the most.

In my following jobs, I have had many reviewers for my code. I've had 30+ other people review my code. They have all been much nicer. And deliver feedback that I actually agree with.

I am thankful when someone finds a bug in my code, or an easier way to do something. Using a function that I am not aware of. This way QA won't find the bug, and I am learning.

Anyways, my advice is to look at how the person is delivering the feedback. Take note of that, and know it is them if they are toxic. And when you do a code review for someone else, be sure not to be that person.
It's not a great way to compare, but a clearer presentation would state "100%" for pixian.ai and < 100% for the competitor.
It still blows my mind that a 64-bit i9-13900K with 24 cores, 36 MB of cache, and a turbo speed of 5.8 GHz has to pretend to be a 16-bit 8086, which had a clock speed of 5-10 MHz and was discontinued in 1998, just to properly boot itself.

(An exaggerated oversimplification I know, but still)
The relationship between Bourbon (spirit), primarily distilled and aged in Kentucky, and Bourbon (vanilla plant), primarily grown in Madagascar is one of fascinating cross-convergence of "things rich French speakers loved", plus the coincident accident of Bourbon, Kentucky being a shipping port (and Oak as an aging vessel high in imparting vanillins). Both are a reminder that vanilla as a flavor was long a spice for (and named after) kings and to be enjoyed mostly by the rich. It is still hilarious to see things like "vanilla JS" meant to imply "boring" or "cheap" when historically that's very inaccurate.

Also, yes, bourbon (spirit) is a good accompaniment to late nights in JavaScript.
Regulations are there to help in cases like this. If the regulation is failing to accommodate modern vehicles, they need to be changed. Trusting companies to "get it right" on their own and act in the best interest of peoples' safety leads to unnecessary deaths. Seriously, back when seatbelts were invented car manufacturers were almost completely against it. They lobbied against regulations to implement them.

Luckily, at the very end of the video, it's actually revealed that a couple of months ago the new regulations were put into action (about a decade late)
seems weird, amazon will just use AI as another tool just like every other company, including microsoft which funny enough he didn't name
No need to get snarky :)

Redundancy is a good thing. Do we feel manufacturers are cross-checking accelerometer with the speedometer? If not, there is no redundancy gained.

On the other hand, if your speedometer is faulty, or not working, you'll know pretty fast. If your dedicated accelerometer is faulty, you might have no idea what your brake lights are doing in the back.

Dunno; it just feels "we need to know acceleration, let's add an accelerometer" is a non-imaginative, add-cost, add-complexity idea. Again, if we think ABS and speedometer and the new accelerometer are being cross-checked and sanity-checked, awesome, but I'm just a bit cynical of that, compared to adding the 3rd thing to do the same thing.
I think the effort in the testing of the thousands of drugs was to help create the AI model.

This gets to the crux of my skepticism around the big claims around the pace of AI advancement. At a fundamental level the upper limit of AI advancement, in any area, is "the speed of information". For some areas, like pharmaceutical/drug development, the information comes from the real world, human/biological processes (e.g. clinical drug trials), which take time. At the extreme, the outcomes of interest could be long-term (i.e. years or decades). AI surely advances analytically capabilities, but ultimately models can only be developed or refined with new data/information, which unfolds at a rate that may be independent of computational speeds. AI models that are highly predictive and valuable by definition necessitates a feedback loop that is tied back to real-world outcomes/timescales.

I'm no expert on AI, but I get this sense that the exponential improvements that many believe will lead to the singularity may in fact reach an inflection point where the curve flattens out becomes linear or asymptotic, as the rate of improvement is governed by the rate of new information in the real world.
https://archive.is/JrzFZ
> The secret lies in being able to pepper the material with nanopores less than 100 nanometers in diameter.

This sounds promising, but holy heck how do you prevent these from getting stuffed full of dirt and dust in short order?
Solar and Wind power was completely blocked up by conservative governments all over the globe for the past 50 years. Consider Reagan, who removed solar panels from the roof of the white house just a few years after they were installed and not long after multiple oil supply crises in the 70s. Even if the solar panels being installed in the first place was only symbolic, removing them was also purposefully symbolic.

America at least had a great chance to invest in nuclear energy and completely end dependence on the middle east for it's energy, but it chose Reagan instead.
Evaluating the veracity and relevance of everything it says. Reflecting on what it’s given me and determining whether it meets my objectives. And then the topics I use it for are thought demanding!

If you are using it for marketing copy, that’s one thing. I’m using it to think through some very hard topics — and my kid is trying to learn how photosynthesis works atm.
This is awesome, thanks. I wonder if complementing it with a vector store of the full repo further assists.
The US Might Be Only AA+
We don't know the long-term developmental effects of repeated infections either. There's no reasonable control group here.
> Remember, Pfizer wanted to hide their data for 70 years until releasing it. [1]

Please attempt to be honest with your critiques. The FDA (not Pfizer) said that with current staffing and funding levels, and given the rest of their FOIA requests, it would take 75 years to scrub and release the patient files for PII. As is completely routine, a judge told them this needed to be a priority so they would have to turn over the files in under a year.

Since then, they've turned over 780,000 pages of records and the plantiffs attorneys are all dropping off the case since they realize there's nothing there and they're just completely standard patient charts as the FDA had previously told them.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.35...
I even tried to convince them to be in the mindset that Paul Graham created Hacker News to get more mindshare on YC. He gave the idea of Reddit to the 3 brilliant Ivy League founders who applied to YC with a basic GMAIL extension I think that copied emails or something.

So I tried convincing them that if it’s okay here on PG’s creation, then it should be okay on his other creation.
<2% of US homes are on variable rate mortgages.
For motorcycles (with combustion engines) where engine-braking can be quite effective due to the high displacement/weight ratio, there exist (but afaik isn't widely known or deployed) custom brake-light switches which can additionally be activated by chopping the throttle or downshifting.

I never had such device and relied a lot on engine braking (and on followers to pay attention to the distance, rather than my brake lights). Every once in a while I surprised a tail-gater, but luckily none hit me yet.

I rather think we need to rethink driver education.
Others have made great points. I'll offer a practical approach that worked for me.

I found criticism was difficult because it came as a surprise. It seemed to me as if the person giving the critique was using criteria that I wasn't made aware. This felt unfair.

The surprise, not the criticism itself was the struggle.

my solution was two-fold:

1. Eliminate the surprise by "shopping" my work around early and often for feedback.
2. By doing step 1 I would learn the "hidden criteria" that others would use to judge my work.

At this point I am rarely if ever bothered by criticism. Since I ask for feedback early when I don't feel "done" there is nothing at stake. Early criticism doesn't stick and just feels like we're working together on a solution.

If you go up the mountain and work alone, for a long time, criticism will feel worse. I do the opposite. Might work for you.
Important information about your GitHub account
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We're writing to let you know that we were recently made aware of a bug that allowed users using fine-grained personal access tokens (PATs) with repository `read and write` permissions to bypass the workflow permission that checked the ability to access and edit an Actions file via the git command line interface (cli).

* What happened? *

When accessing a repository using git over HTTPS with a [fine-grained personal access token](https://github.blog/2022-10-18-introducing-fine-grained-personal-access-tokens-for-github/) scoped with `Contents - Read and write`, the `Workflow` permission of the token was not properly checked before allowing the creation or modification of Action workflows. This would allow an actor to modify workflows, allowing them to potentially use the Actions $GITHUB_TOKEN to elevate their permissions within the repository beyond the `Contents - Read and write` permission of the token. More information about the Actions $GITHUB_TOKEN is available here:

https://docs.github.com/en/actions/security-guides/automatic-token-authentication#permissions-for-the-github_token

This bug did not provide users access to any repositories to which they didn't already have access. It was limited to workflows within repositories they could already access.

* What information was involved? *
Workflows in repositories owned by your personal account may have been affected by this issue.

The criteria used to determine the repositories and workflows that were potentially affected:
- Repository write changes made using a fine-grained PAT via the git cli
- Repositories which had workflow runs
- The changes above were made within the length of time the bug was present which is:
October 1, 2022 to February 27, 2023 1am PDT

We were not able to find:
- If the git operations made actually changed workflow files
- If the fine-grained PAT used had the workflow scope at the time

The following repositories and workflows were potentially affected:

xxx/yyy

* What GitHub is doing *
GitHub was made aware of the issue on January 20, 2023. We immediately began work on addressing the bug and fixed the flaw on February 27, 2023, as well as made further preventative hardening.

* What you should do *

We recommend to check all workflow files, especially on the default branches of your repositories for any unexpected or unknown changes.

More information on how to list repository workflows and verify update and creation times can be found in our documentation located here: https://docs.github.com/en/rest/actions/workflows?apiVersion=2022-11-28

If you have any specific concerns, you may contact our support team by submitting a message through our contact form: https://github.com/contact?form%5Bsubject%5D=Re:Reference+GH-0013136-5553-3&tags=GH-0013136-5553-2.

Thanks,
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All of this looks accurate, but it's worth contextualizing: this is an optimization that bears the most fruit in "local frames of reference" -- the timescales where linear scans beat index lookups are likely to be strictly dominated by the network latency to transceive from the database. The conclusion is then that the optimization ~only optimizes for cases that effectively don't matter.
I did not know what Ctags were, here is the explanation from exuberant Ctags:

>Ctags generates an index (or tag) file of language objects found in source files that allows these items to be quickly and easily located by a text editor or other utility. A tag signifies a language object for which an index entry is available (or, alternatively, the index entry created for that object).

https://ctags.sourceforge.net/whatis.html
Realizing you can’t know everything, don’t know what you don’t know, and respecting other people can have had different experiences than you. All without judging yourself negatively for those realizations. They just are facts. No need to be hard on yourself if you put in sincere effort.

Take all criticism as a learning opportunity.
But the increased density comes with reduced IO, similar to HDD. Most of the "density innovation" of LTO-9 etc comes with either just a longer piece of tape, or increasing the number of read/write heads along the same distance of tape.

That's why, while YoY growth of tape is (checks blog...) 5%, that's lower that global HDD sales growth even this year. This is a marketing piece from the LTO consortium.

Lastly, HDDs do way way better in the DC, operationally. From a much wider environment/humidity envelope of operation, to IO scaling linerally across data corpus, to siteops management, to having more than literally 1 vendor, etc.. That's why there are only two hyperscalars left deploying new tape, and even there it's dwindling or being deprecated.

Now HDDs have their own problems, and their density scaling with hamr/mamr/smr hasn't gone great, but no one is really asking for less IO from devices given power cycling drives tends to reduce IO just as effectively as fewer tape drives, and for far less money.
Looking into this more now.
> The technical problem is wanting one end-all goto system instead of like 20 different utilities I guess.

At some point these systems have to share info, dump info somewhere (data lake, backups, whatever), and output info.

Inevitably there will be one or two systems that connect them.

Plus the overhead of dealing with 20+ different vendors, systems, updates, vulnerabilities, interconnections, etc. is a nightmare. There is a point where a "single source of truth" is too much effort and too expensive, but a clusterufck of different systems is not a great solution.
Cost to an end user is more than just the actual cost of components. There's a decent amount of vendors that actually make tape drives, so if it truly were much cheaper, someone would undercut to get business.

Given these are intended for enterprise usage, there is an expectation of quality, service, and support associated that you ARE paying for with that cost.
Google Topic Authority: A New Ranking System
I know that for now, tape wins versus optical (Blu-Ray Recordable etc.) in terms of cost.

Do people expect that to always be the case, or is anybody expecting tape to have been supplanted by something else (optical or other) 20 or 30 years from now?

Or is there just something about the physics of tape technology that we can't even imagine anything else in the medium-future that could even begin to compete with it for archival needs?

(Knowing nothing about the area, just as a consumer I would have expected that with the advent of 2-layer DVD's and then 4-layer Blu-Rays, that before too long we'd be getting 1,000-layer discs and essentially moving into 3D storage cylinders by now or something that would have left tape in the dust...)
Yes no thoughtful individual has ever used colloquial language good observation.
The problem is disproportionate scale. At what point is an amber alert likely to cause more harm than good. Is notifying 2m people likely to cause at least one accident? How about every person in the country?

The real issue I have isn’t the missing child alerts (it’s not clear they’re helpful, but sure, for the kids), it’s that the system has been diluted with silver alerts and the whole thing is bundled together. When I switched off the alerts, I was receiving 20-50 silver alerts for every amber alert. I just can’t imagine how such a system creates more good than harm. And from an engineering perspective, why is a “stop the world” notification rather than a “look out for this old person” notification? Someone isn’t being actively kidnapped.
The QR code is physically attached to the table and links directly to the menu and/or your bill. QR codes are cheap (any printer can print one) so don't need special equipment. And people already understand how to use QR codes: they might not understand what an NFC tag/beacon is, or it might not work with all devices.

What would NFC add that you can't do with a QR code?

(Use of a QR code doesn't preclude paying in the normal way by calling over a server and using a contactless payment terminal. It just gives you the option to skip that and pay directly from your device.)
USB-3, Ethernet, PCIe routing on steroids
Surely the HN moderators are not legally obligated to chase rogue bots on multiple usernames for unrelated third parties. It wouldn't be "spammy" so they'd have no need to react to it for their own moderation duties. The DMCA claims seem thin in any case especially considering SCOTUS's reaffirmation of Section 230. I don't think iterating through hypothetical legal arguments is very useful without the attendant analysis.
Could you explain a bit more what you mean?
Like Poland now?
I wouldn't go so far. I know the authors quite well, and as someone who has multiple publications in machine learning confeerences (and started a PhD in ML), they know their stuff well.
I've also heard that the growth mechanism is muscle tissue responding to damage caused by strength training / use. However, the result is not scar tissue that is "tougher". The result is more muscle tissue, of the same toughness that was there before, just capable of doing more work by virtue of a larger amount present.

Compare this to true trauma to the tissue, which results in scarring. Scar tissue may be "tougher" (less pliable) but it's not contributing to additional work. A better analogy might have been that broken bones grow back stronger, though even that requires that they are set right and have an appropriate amount of recovery time, which to continue the analogy, might be therapy needed to not be so brittle in the first place.
Ask HN: Who's Making Webflow for Custom LLM Apps?
It seems like a very common use case for LLMs will be to take them and fine tune them or specialize them on a specific knowledge base. Ideally it's exposed by API, and has self-hosting or managed options.

Who's building this?
Your front runner in Volvo cars dealership
>If they won't, then nobody will.

Churches? To spread the good news to alien worlds?
It would actually help. I'd know what fields I need to study to more fully understand the papers I'm interested in.

It would also help me figure out what to ask LLMs (or people) to explain to me.
I am not able to fix the Spam score of blog digitaldimensions4.com
I am not able to fix the Spam score of blog digitaldimensions4.com. I looking for teh way to solve it and get my blog up and running.
you probably don’t need the help of strangers on the internet for this. you’re looking at the important things. it is a process.

seeking your own counsel may prove more useful than seeking the counsel of others.

maybe someone will say something helpful, maybe not, in either case it might give you some ideas.
> bias

I couldn't help notice most of the games examined focus on piracy (Monkey Island), various military acts (Mass Effect, Final Fantasy, Elder Scrolls..), or exploration (most games to some degree)[1].

Before we accuse games of bias, shouldn't we compare with the proportion of real-life pirates, soldiers, or explorers, that were women?

[1] The King's Quest series doesn't fit neatly into these categories, but is distinguished by having been designed and written by Roberta Williams, a woman. Regardless, I'm sure the authors of this article wouldn't dispute that women had a marginalized role in the middle ages, where King's Quest takes place.
> Do you need to know how fast I type before you run the calculation?

I'll assume 100WPM, call that two words, billed at $200/hour and call that $0.06, falling under "too cheap to be worth arguing against", which falls under the aforementioned:

>> If it'a a 5 second "this is probably the right choice" kneejerk reaction, maybe it's fine.

That said, there's a decent chance those 6 cents won't pay for themselves if this is a login on a single user system, with any theoretical benefits of O(...) scaling being drowned out by extra compile times, extra code to load - and I'd be plenty willing to NAK code reviews that merely attempt to replace /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow with this, as the extra time code reviewing the replacement still has negative expected ROI, and it'll be a lot more involved than a mere dozen characters.

Now, maybe we're attempting to centralize login management with Kerberos or something, perhaps with good reasons, perhaps which does something similar under the hood, and we could talk about that and possible positive ROI, despite some actual downtime and teething concerns?
And a small EU salesmen had to shut down because he was using Shopify…
If the car doesn't know the size and speed of the tires it also can't accurately display the current speed, which seems like at least as pressing a problem.

Edit: Or is detecting deceleration more sensitive? I guess I don't know how precise it needs to be relative to how precise a speedometer needs to be.
A CMA director, who blocked MSFT-Activision deal, used to work for Sony law firm
Founder here: Hit me with your questions!
It seems Like.
Agreed, if you were playing with computer vision and deep learning ~7 years ago, you knew the potential. Nvidia maintained their stranglehold on the software and hardware platforms. OpenAI (and all the great open source research published by others) really blew it open for Nvidia.
A "new unstoppable super weapon"?

This is bizarrely confused, in fact such a system has been studied since the 60s, and briefly partially implemented: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_Orbital_Bombardment...

It has too many downsides to make sense to deploy.

The only scenario where it can do anything meaningful is if it's immediately used, then MAD would apply just the same.

I can't parse the rest of the comment, so read up on the historical background if your as confused as it seems.
> That hardly makes it false. That's actually almost exactly the point the article is discussing. In the U.S. policy decisions, in this case encouraging living in suburbs, is a major contributor to the lack of walking.

Policy decisions and citizen preferences. I've been to dense, walkable residential areas, and I wouldn't trade a suburban home for that.

It would be nice to have a little more neighborhood commercial space in the suburbs (e.g. a little cafe), like some older inner-ring suburbs have/had. But the economics probably just don't work anymore. My parent's neighborhood had some of that at a corner, but 3/4 of the businesses closed or relocated to higher traffic areas.
Nvidia is 25% up on "AI guidance", a16z publishes "AI Canon".

Its settled -> AI is the new crypto
One of the small businesses in question wanted to use Shopify and got fined.
1) Postgres optimizer at some point prefers full scans. It depends on your data, your query and configuration. So on read-heavy load you basically lose nothing by adding all appropriate indexes from the get-go. Overhead having index on small tables is small.

2) If your load is write-heavy, you should consider trade-offs. Yes, full scans are sometimes your friends. Interesting thing to notice here that write amplification is basically same even if table is small.
AI bros are the new crypto bros.