skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unproductivity
After being in the SE industry for 4 years I'm starting to doubt the state of my abilities.
I'm unsure if the slow pace of progress and the neverending googling is ever going to come to an end.

Daily I'm experiencing the Dunning-Kruger-effect and the meaningless hours chit-chating on slack doesn't do me any good.

I'm not denying that my issues might be rooted in my lack of skill/IQ and that I might merely be whining.

However, I do have to admit that I am getting somewhat tired of the constant nitpicking to the likes of my tech-stack.

I want the gap between my ideas and the technical implementation to be minimally small. Is that possible?

Does that mean I should cater to the Ruby-community? Python? Elixir? Or even JavaScript?

Maybe this is how things are supposed to be. Maybe I'm just lazy. Regardless, I'm unsatisfied.
The need to suddenly brake is not a new phenomenon. Cars without AEB can achieve it the old fashioned way. The driver applying the brake.
What would really save more lives would be a much stricter license system that is federaly mandated.

What little you have to do to get your license compared to European nations like Switzerland or Germany is absurd. Not only can you drive at 16 already there is basically no test to drive what is basically a tank down the road.

In the north you have the additional hazard of driving in snow and so many have no clue how to deal with it. A "Schleuderkurs" should be manditory in the north so people know what it feels like to lossee control and how to deal with it.

P.S. In Switzerland if you fail your driving test a second time you can't just do it again. You need to get a psychiatric evaluation that you are fit to drive. Yet we still have shit drivers here as well.
Hey, there's more to the US than that for visitors. Don't forget that we're also globally known for our racism and gun crimes!
Am I the only one who finds this very sketchy? They had the whole license things, there's been some loud complaining by the HF CTO on social media that this model is not getting enough attention, and there are also press releases about how Falcon tops the "leaderboard":

https://www.morningstar.com/news/business-wire/2023052900504...

I've never seen this kind of "strategy" with an ML model before. Maybe I'm seeing something that isn't there...

It could be a question of not being used to see blatantly commercial advertising in places we're used to being about software. Feels like we're moving more towards the bro-ification of AI.
Sway (and i3?) actually has the notion of containers, which can contain multiple windows and can be selected and manipulated as a unit.

It works nicely. The only thing that I haven't automated yet is that I have a rather specific workspace layout on my 4k screen and converting it from/to a laptop-screen workspace when unplugged takes a few steps.
I had the same thought, the initial reward system and their correction both missed the obvious point of rewarding the act of following orders.

It still gets tricky though if you want to include failsafes in the model to prevent the drone from following bad orders. Should the drone be able to disobey a bad or misinformed order, say if the operator tells it to hit a target that the drone identified as unarmed civilians, or generally not a threat? What if it recognized an alternative approach that would complete the overall mission with less risk of damage?
As a non-cartographer, but someone who loves maps (who doesnt?) and programming is there anything in particular that makes R more suitable than Python? Not trying to start a Python/R flame war, genuinely curious as an outsider if there's some secret sauce that R has but which Python lacks.
Thank you for elaborating. I concur about langchain and Qdrant.

With langchain it was struggle to figure out what was going on under the hood, I had to pull together multiple pieces from
multiple notebooks simply to see what the Conversational Retriever Chain does. And then it was trivial to implement a variant of it myself with all pieces transparently in one place.

I like the Qdrant interface and docs and seems to work well so far. For local testing I used their python client rather than docker and it was seamless to switch to their cloud. My usecase doesn’t involve pandas (maybe I wanted a breather from years of pandas-wrangling!);
I think the OpenAI cookbook repo has examples of using pandas in combination with Qdrant ( and many others).
Now can we go further and add self-healing?

Include a checksum somewhere. Modify the output or the checksum until they agree.

This is starting to sound like how the immune system works actually...
When I was younger I was desperate for one of these-it looked like some sort of hacking machine. No idea what I would have used it for.
Probably PR to attract subsidies/investment. UAE might be throwing more money on tech/innovation branded projects than China.
"Humans have always learnt by studying what's out there already."

Neither an AI model nor an AI developer who programs that model are actually studying "what's out there already".
One is copying files, and the other is running algorithms on copied files. And then the first one is raking in $$$ while bankrupting the authors of those files. That's illegal in the US, UK, EU and under the terms of the Berne Convention.
*the api wasn't nerfed. ChatGPT4 was most certainly changed
It would just be "better" to call the private/internal APIs that reddit's clients use themselves.

This is more or less what Nitter does for providing alternate twitter frontend https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
One benefit of finetuning larger models, like 65B, is to free up limited context space vs few-shot prompting.

If you want a specific kind of interaction with the model then you could take up 1/3rd of the 2048 token context window with few-shot or you could simply finetune it with QLoRA for a few hours on a consumer GPU and then get to use the full 2048 context with the finetuned model.
app.net[1] tried this in the early 2010s, unfortunately most people (i.e. enough people to justify running the service) wouldn't pony up.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App.net
It's really interesting watching videos of emergency responders in my country (the UK) either showing how their advanced driving looks in practice, or in later stages of training when they're explaining their thoughts to an instructor as they work.

Their progress through traffic is markedly faster without greatly compromising safety. They aren't making violent manoeuvres, they accelerate pretty aggressively but other than speed limits they aren't breaking many rules that apply to everybody else. They are paying a lot more attention to the environment and applying excellent judgement from what they learned. For example rather than weaving through traffic like a Hollywood movie, they take clear bold lines and hold them, which gives them better vision of what's ahead and more options when things go wrong. It's doesn't look as flashy, but it's very effective.
I think clearly you aren't playing any competitive games on a VM lol
One example of open source code with restrictive licensing that comes to mind are Kerbal Space Program mods published on Kerbal Space Program's website.[1]

Kerbal Space Program mandates that any mods published on their website also publicly disclose their full source code so that players can audit them prior to execution. However, all other rights are at the discretion of the respective authors and many of them use licensing terms that restrict use and redistribution.

CDisplay[2] comes to mind as an example of free (as in beer) closed source software.

I stand by my view that "free" source code and "open" source are two separate concepts that should not be conflated.

[1]: https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/154851...

[2]: https://www.cdisplay.me/
Yeah, I have to agree. Maybe I just got lucky with very capable AEB, but I've had it activate on me two or three times - and every one of those it happened basically at the same time as I smashed the brake pedal myself.
Would you guys be willing to provide help with visa for engineers from South Asia?
I would not be willing to pay reddit for the opposite reason. They are not doing an adequate job giving moderators proper tools or removing bigoted commenters who are participating in bad faith.

I reported multiple comments calling black people "subhuman" in various ways, or the "clever" variations of "stop noticing things" that Nazis write. It's lucky if reddit gives them even a time out for publicly posting their racist delusions, let alone the permanent ban they deserve.
>Android and hardware keyboards never really were a thing.

The very first android phone (HTC dream) had a great keyboard.
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Blurp:

First and foremost, I am an accessibility consultant. Next to that, I am a developer. A screenreader-using, fully blind one in fact. Why, I was featured on HN for that very thing several years ago: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8965048>.

I do my best work when I can somehow combine those three things. This spans from working with dev teams as a regular old dev, or an accessibility-focused one, all the way to training people on accessibility, auditing pages and helping with remediation.

I was unfortunately laid off recently and am therefore once more on the prowl for a position that would be suitable. Technologies include Php/Laravel, Python/Django, Ruby/Rails, backend JS, UNIX, Docker, Git, etc.

Skills outside of those obviously include HTML, WCAG, 30 years of accessibility experience given I live that life, screen reader proficiency and public speaking/teaching.

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Little hard to respond to the snark but I’m just glad I was paying attention and not on the phone or else I might be dead.

Cheers.
It would be good for users - not sure it would make sense for a company though. The third party apps stripped ads. You have to be able to make money. I think the actual mistake was having it open in the first place. You can't give away things for free from the start and then take it away.

A better model might be to start out with a small cost from the outset. Manage expectations.
My dad had one of these and he continued to use it until the day he died in 2013. I remember thinking how crazy high resolution the screen was at the time. Amazing device.

I got his old Series 3 (predecessor to the 3a) when I was still a kid and was one of the first devices I learned to code on thanks to the built-in OPL programming language!
There is a whole forum thread about that [1] with updates from the devs, but I don't think anybody received theirs yet.

[1]: https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/update-uconsole-shipping-rel...
But I wasn’t interested in someone else’s audio visualizer, I was interested in a specific approach using pitch detection and primitive line drawings, not displaying an FFT as a bar graph. Sure, I could have synthesized a few different search engine responses but it would have taken a lot more work and I would have run into issues that slowed me down to the point where I had to get back to my other duties as the father of 2 and 4 year olds who were home for the week!
I’m a bit hesitant to admit that I use the official app for Reddit and have used for years. I’ve used the browser extensions before and have tried Apollo app but I never got hooked.

I don’t understand all the hate the official app gets. I understand there is telemetry but i have pi hole to block most of that.

It has ads sure but I don’t really see them anymore, your adjust adjust around them.

One thing that annoys me is that notifications can be buggy. Sometimes you have to reload to see the activity in your inbox.
It never occured to me either because I expect leetcode wars and gatekeeping, but maybe 10 ago was different?
That's not what RMS writes in this document. He is also not saying that FOSS and FLOSS mean different things. His goal here is to encourage people not to use the term "FOSS" because he finds "FOSS" misleading, and to use "FLOSS" instead if they want to refer to open source software, or free software, without taking sides for one or another.

Apart from a few exceptions, free software and open source software are the same set of software, but the terms carry different philosophical / political values and it's sometime convenient to be able to designate this set of software without taking sides. Which he recognizes in this article, even if he is of course on the free software side.

He is also not using the "free source code" and "open source code" expressions at all in this document.

"free [source code]" or "open [source code]" aren't defined. They are not two different, distinct concepts in that neither of them is a clearly defined thing at all.

"[Open source] code", on the contrary, is code that's open source, that is, which follows the OSD. We don't use brackets like this in English, but "open source code" is really "[open source] code". Free software is software that follows the Free software definition. "Open" alone means nothing, and free alone can mean two different, almost unrelated things when applied to software: gratis or "libre" . It therefore requires disambiguation, so I'd suggest avoiding using it at all unless very clear from the context.

The phrase [free software] and [open source] can't be split. They are their own thing and that's what we have clear definition for. This is exactly why RMS argues against using FOSS by the way:

> since it fails to explain that “free” refers to freedom

"Free" is separated from "software" in "FOSS". Now, he was probably right to be worried about this at the time, but today I think FOSS is quite well understood the same way as FLOSS and we know that free in FOSS means libre. FOSS is not ambiguous nowadays. FLOSS might still be a better designation though for the reasons he gives. The explicit "libre" also can't hurt. Unless you are speaking about brushing your teeth with some free software, maybe avoid FLOSS for clarity.
Cellulose film could help cool cars and homes without electricity
This was delivered by a remote exploit, not a supply chain issue. How would buying a domestically produced phone prevent this?
What are the advantages to radiation hardening software? In the cases I've run into the thinking has been "if you can't trust the hardware then you're already lost".
This is basically lose/lose for everyone.

API clients would be able to identify ads in the feed and just not show them. "High-profile" apps will be required to show them at risk of Reddit terminating their access, but the long tail will just ignore them.

Reddit and advertisers won't get the same "audience measurement" analytics data, and third parties I imagine would be pretty reluctant to dump some privacy-invading third party sdk blob in their app, especially when they don't really benefit from it.

Also, one of the attractions of third party clients is lack of ads. This'll turn users away from them.
I don't understand how a popular product like Reddit has so atrociously bad UI. The site itself is just garbage and the difference between the redesign and old.reddit is just so jarring, and the Android client is also garbage.

Are there people who even thinks these designs are good? How do you even end up with something like this? Is it just garbage requirements thrown out by clueless managers? There must be some force here, because Twitter's UI is also garbage.

Some part of me hope that Reddit will kill all third-party apps and remove old.reddit, so I'll stop using the site.
Yeah, obviously and not only in Afghanistan.

(Not wanting to minimize the publishing of wikileaks, on the contrary, they succeeded where all other news failed, but the propaganda should ideally be very visible to most people)
The first popular (heavily marketed) Android phone in the US (Moto Droid) as well.
Introduction to Computational Thinking in Julia
Some Infineon MCUs have lockstep multicore. Probably not necessary for the computing power you need for engine control though.
Do you own or work for MirrorThink? You subtly mention it in the majority of your recent comments.
number of people posting in this thread != number of people hired via those threads

:)
"Annals of Improbable Research" [1] is a treasure throve of other research projects that will make you laugh.

[1] https://improbable.com/
You botched the link. (I had the same problem btw, otherwise I would've included a godbolt link as well, but idk how to create one with noscript)
Theoretically yes. However, the chance of you encountering a second hand device with such an implant is relatively low I'd say.

I guess if you buy it off journalists or activists the chance would be higher but still relatively unlikely. But as with anything, consider if it suits your threat model and act accordingly.
FDA approved AI powered 30 min full body scan MRI
StyleDrop: Text-to-Image Generation in Any Style
The topic involves a political party, so no it's never going to be "completely apolitical". But that's not what I said - I said that you're the one who seemed keen to kick off an argument about politics. Also you complained about being miserable, if you don't seek out conflict you won't be so miserable.
I hope there's also room in those institutions to try to reform sociopaths with draconian ideas about social problems.

If not, I want to play Judge Dredd this time!
I have a few people in my network that do triathlons / ironman races. It seems like they get along with each other very well. Great mix of smart, accomplished people who are constantly trying to challenge themselves in all aspects of life. When in doubt, sign up for a triathlon club nearby.
A while back I saw this article about a Tesla that stopped on a highway and caused a massive pile-up

https://theintercept.com/2023/01/10/tesla-crash-footage-auto...
Wasn't that $50? That was kindof a silly amount of money for the state of the internet and the size of the platform.
Dupe with multiple submissions, for example, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36141083 (1279 comments)

Please submitters, check before you submit.
>Reddit is for old geezers

Please let all the Gen-Z-ers know they should vacate Reddit.
Ditching a Phone Case Is the Latest Symbol of Stealth Wealth
Copyright law (EU, US, UK, international under the Berne Convention) covers reproduction, distribution and exhibition. That's exactly what those FBI warnings on VHS movies used to say. Distribution and exhibition are prohibited along with reproduction.

In all the cases I mentioned, the only legal way to make any exception to that is if the copying does not harm the interests of the author or reduce the market value of the work. These are the actual laws.

"training a machine learning model is roughly equivalent to a human brain consuming copyrighted works"

A few clear differences:
1. The person "training" a machine learning model doesn't even need to view the work. They copy a file. They do not study or learn from it.
2. A human brain doesn't rely on a 100% verbatim digital copy of the work. To the extent that a brain "makes a copy" of what it observes, it is impossible for it not to.
3. Copyright law (almost everywhere) explicitly applies to making digital copies of binary files of a work (without which it is not possible to "train" a model using the work). Nowhere does it ever apply to a human brain when a person looks at the work.

Not all the things you mentioned are considered "reproduction". A cover of a song is a derivative work, and requires compensation. Showing a movie is exhibition, and is explicitly addressed in copyright laws. These things are not just considered "some form of reproduction".

The laws actually exist and are easy to find and read.
Nowadays you need a modern web browser which is a resource hog.
A good post on the subject: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/28/the-control-group-is-o...
Didn’t read the article, because on my oldish phone the cookie options defaulted to disallowing necessary cookies and allowing all others. I’m fairly confident this is a bug
Undetectable watermarks could be quite useful for AI vendors, to track usage of their product. Potentially even track individual users.
You can append .rss to any sub e.g. https://old.reddit.com/r/popular.rss you’ll never need to reskim over headlines to find things you haven’t seen and by using the “old” subdomain every item will open it a useable UI. I’m sure they’ll kill this too eventually but I don’t think I’ll miss Reddit much once it goes full Digg.
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Regarding head mounted display - I've been wanting to try something like NReal Air Ar glasses. Sounds like it fits your description:

https://www.reddit.com/r/digitalnomad/comments/y155e1/my_nom...
There's a great video recently by Kurzgesagt video recently[0] on just how hard the immune system works to identify and kill any cell that is not cooperating anymore.

In a nutshell, the DNA fails at protecting from changes all the time, and the immune system is constantly checking for that and killing off those cells.

[0]https://youtu.be/zFhYJRqz_xk
I wouldn’t say it’s necessarily past it’s expiration date. It’s ranked 6th most trafficked sites in the US.

I do think that Reddit could do with a massive overhaul.

If I was ceo tomorrow I would;
- Install a bunch of new teams to focus on solving real problems for users
- understand user pain points with the UX. why were people using third party apps? And fix the experience. Invest in better mobile apps
- invest in some PR or similar to change peoples view of what Reddit is. Most people think it’s just a place for memes
- (random wild idea) try to understand why users like Twitter how Reddit could attract those users over to Reddit to post content

I think with some targeted investment Reddit could do so much better for itself
‘Would that it were only so.’

What?
P40s are kind of a meme. Using ggmls has roughly the same performance at a fraction of the wattage on a dual-channel DDR5 system.

I still use GPTQ for 30B, but even CPU generates quickly enough at q5_1 on modern hardware.
Just adding...I haven't thought about these devices for a long time, but now looking at the things that are available, I realize I wouldn't even want one now. Notebook computers have become so light that it's not a hassle to carry one in my bag, and suspend mode works well enough for "instant on". There isn't the great advantage there used to be.
I was pointing out an obvious example of a facade of "welcoming all" from the community (would not prohibit people from joining, anyone can show up and volunteer) vs. really welcoming all where anyone could be full members through all of their ceremonies like baptism, confirmation, marriage, etc. or even allowing anyone to pursue theological leadership positions like pastor, deacon, priest, etc.
Is Switzerland a failed state?

Concern yourself less with the money of others. Spying on my wallet is not a basic human right.
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