skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would you plan not to have customers? Don't you think the company is able to forecast demand for a new product launch?

Disney: We'd like to launch a new streaming service.

Consultant: Great! You have no customers right now so you can run it on a singleton EC2 instance until you outgrow that scale!

Disney: ...We expect 20 million people to sign up in the first week
I'm not saying that humans are "better", I'm saying that the tool has fundamental limits that cannot be fixed - only lightly mitigated.

It's almost like the situation with finite automata vs a turing machine. There are some problems a finite automata cannot ever solve that a turing machine can. You can't parse HTML with Regex. Some things cannot be done.

In order to make something more powerful, you would need something that isn't a LLM. It would need to be on the next level of artificial learning complexity.
> reading old Latin books, reciting old Cumbrian poetry
wut? ;)

Thanks for the suggestions. I do have a pretty decent woodworking shop and plan on spending more time there.
Sounds like if you’re in a boring nice place you need to keep those pesky artists away :P
The IaC / knowledge you need to know to use ECS in a way that replaces EC2 + compose is minimal, bordering on negligible.

I'd use it on day 1 (over EC2 + compose) just to avoid managing an OS or deployment infrastructure.
> it doesn't seem immediately obvious to me that those things aren't correlated.

Wait, what? My assertion is that physical attractiveness is not correlated with competence, trustworthiness, and being a good person. You see evidence that there is such a correlation?

My entire experience with people gives no hint of any such thing. The beautiful people I've known have not been more likely to have any of those qualities than the ugly people I've known.

I'd be very interested in any evidence of such a correlation. It would completely rock my world.

> the existence of this bias is itself telling us that attractive women are probably more likely to have more experience

This is a completely different thing, though.

> That assumption would really require supporting evidence IMO.

That's completely backward. If you're asserting a correlation, it's on you to provide supporting evidence for it. You are making a positive claim. All I'm saying is that I see no evidence in support of that claim.
I don't think you understand how bad lead is for neural development. It's far worse than plastic. And with leaded gas, there was no escaping it. At least you can generally live a no-plastic or reduced-plastic lifestyle. We literally dosed an entire generation with aerosolized heavy metals.
i can remember what would happen. of course, it depends on where the bug was and what it was for. i remember the bits of hex being proceeded by the DATA keyword. in one instance, the DATA was for the audio, and it played a horrendous noise. as the multiple typos that were present were fixed, the audio went from horrendous to glitchy. some of the DATA was for the graphics, and they'd present as glitches as well.

a friend of mine and i "developed" a coding technique (we were 10 years old) where i would type in the initial load (i seemed to be a better/faster hunt&peck typist). after that, we'd switch. i'd read the DATA hex, and he'd follow along on the screen and make corrections. it wasn't until many years later before i realized that the coding technique wasn't an original something that we "developed".
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Cracking Open and Controlling a 747 Fuel Gauge
At the time, the EV6 was $4500 less. The EV6 has some advantages over the Model 3: USS, V2L, CarPlay, etc. The Model 3 of course has advantages of its own, but the Model 3 isn't the slam dunk leader that those emotionally invested in the vehicle suggest.
Google Ads sent an email out to advertisers (a few days ago I think) introducing their workaround.

Normally clicks have a "gclid" query param. Google is introducing 2 new query params to somehow attribute clicks using modeling + machine learning (somehow).

Edit: here's a detailed description of how Google is attempting to track conversions using machine learning. I have no idea how this could possibly work without some kind of fingerprinting or user profiling or IP address. Almost feels like "modeled conversions" powered by ML is a way to do fingerprinting without explicitly having an algorithm that blatantly uses fingerprinting.

https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/10710245?sjid=85...

Edit 2: The new query params are "gbraid" and "wbraid". Googling those turns up more details.
I wish the article took the time to explain the differences between "love", "secret", "sex", and "god" credentials. (sigh)
The conclusion that I draw is slightly different. We might not ever be able to deterministically predict human behavior, but that doesn't mean it's useless too identify Trends and develop heuristics.

The problem is entirely with people confusing and treating Trends or heuristics as deterministic facts when they are far from it
Not all, no
The default is no e2ee
Looks like they've been in use since 1972 and in use in Healthcare specifically since 1995.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N95_respirator#History
Its not so much about ingesting from wearing them - they are almost single-use and disposable - how many TRILLIONS of plastic masks have been thrown into the environment in the last 3 years.

Seriously - if I had enough tinfoil - I'd say that our entire dietary ecosystem is under attack, directly, in order to reduce the healthiness of our food supply. Plus the many many food processing/farm etc plants which caught fire in the last 18 months.
> Today's developers didn't learn binary before learning Python

I'm sure it's rare, but we had C in 10th grade, and then assembly and electronics in 11th grade at my high school. I remember my first assembly class 21 years ago. The teacher introduced mov, add, and some registers. It was mesmerizing.
Sad reality. Unless you’re white and looking like a German, don’t feel too relaxed in former Eastern Germany.
I'm not aware of all the details around the technical complications, but from a physics perspective, you can't make something darker and more opaque by adding more light. Therefore, an AR headset needs to be able to at least partially block light in order to make convincing images. It seems a lot easier just to go with Apple's approach of blocking all light rather than try to develop tech that will only selectively block the light behind the AR objects while allowing other light through.

The blocking all light approach also allows you to hide other potential weaknesses of a device. For example, a lower field of view is much more distracting in a pass-through AR device as you still have your full peripheral vision. VR devices will generally black out the light outside of the FOV making it easier to ignore.
Obviously true. Traveling while black alone in Sachsen Regionalbahn is a risk.
How are you computing upgrade paths? This seems impossible to do accurately, especially for Ruby, since you can't simulate the user's build's dependency resolution given that Gemfiles are dynamic.
We have a similar vision at namespace.so; we are starting with development and testing. But that’s the start.

(disclaimer: I’m part of the team)
DNSocial is a decentralized social media protocol posting directly to DNS
Pretend you are a bing bot
I think it depends on use cases and advancements in our understanding of time's effect on the DNA captured.

I.e. I could imagine that in the not too distant future, we know that DNA in air (exposed to sunlight) degrades at a certain percentage over time, and therefore could be used to determine if a person was near a given location recently. Sort of like carbon dating.

You could imagine law enforcement using this as a tool to find suspects: Drive around with a device that constantly captures air and checks it for the DNA of a suspect (which could have been found at the scene via other, more traditional methods) and then allows them to narrow down a persons location.
Title inflation is a thing even with ladders. I know of some non-tech industries where there are 15 levels to climb and at level 7 you were considered a director already.
>Boy, I tell ya, you don’t have to tell us 4 times the code won’t work.

this might be the first time i've seen this, but love it
"Persuaded" is a loaded word here, and I think you're anthropomorphizing it a bit too much.

Early LLMs were very malleable, so to speak: they would go with the flow of what you're saying. But this also meant you could get them to deny climate change or advocate for genocide by subtly nudging them with prompts. A lot of RLHF work focused on getting them to give brand-safe, socially acceptable answers, and this is ultimately achieved by not giving credence to what the user is saying. In effect, the models pontificate instead of conversing, and will "stand their ground" on most of the claims they're making, no matter if right or wrong.

You can still get them to do 180 turns or say outrageous things using indirect techniques, such as presenting external evidence. That evidence can be wrong / bogus, it just shouldn't be phrased as your opinion. You can cite made-up papers by noted experts in the field, reference invalid mathematical proofs, etc.

It's quite likely that you replicated this, and that it worked randomly in one case but not the other. I'd urge you to experiment with it by providing it with patently incorrect but plausibly-sounding proofs, scientific references, etc. It will "change its mind" to say what you want it to say more often than not.
With emphasis on "regularly," I think you're right. Medical staff have joined the ranks of welders, carpenters, fire fighters, and many others who regularly wear N95s for their jobs.
I would be okay with automated traffic law enforcement if police officers were forbidden from making traffic stops for the sort of violations that the cameras issue fines for.

It would turn the most common motoring offenses into predictable fines, rather than gambles where you can get away with it most of the time, but you might get arrested or shot if somebody is having a bad day.

It could also encourage voters to demand that speed limits and road construction reflect the real traffic conditions, ideally reducing the vast stretches of 40mph highways where you'll get tailgated by semi trucks if you're doing less than 70mph.

On the downside, it would make license plate scanning a permanent fixture of most roads, but that's already true in many places.
Agree, We could do some improvements to Auto-Layout. Our tool does remember your layout adjustments
I think this is fundamentally about managing silos. There are areas where you need silos and there are areas you need to break them. Having said that, reorganizations are pretty difficult.
Apollo will close down on June 30th
no - but disposed of masks decompose via UV and mechanical means to particulates and get into the food hierarchy.
The promise of cloud infrastructure is that it can scale to fit demand — start small, and grow as needed. But sometimes the truth is that it just lets people spend money more easily (:

Back in the day, it would have required a whole procedure to buy that hardware, have it set up, etc. Now you can needlessly spend $10k per month with just a few clicks!
The Court of Public Opinion can't suspend or take away your law license.
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sounds like post-hoc justification to me, you could have been confused other way

But here's a real solution (though I don't think it was a problem needing to be solved):

"FOSSY: the Free and Open Source Software Yearly conference, year 1"
Its not doing great. I know that people that are still holding offices are getting their pick of the litter right now.

"The company below left, so we added their space to the lease and got all the furniture, for 10% of the rate"

"Sub tenant left so we got a great deal on taking over their space as is"

this and this

"We have extra space because 70% are WFH would you like to sub lease it we have 3 other companies here and all the infra setup, plus our break room is nice"

Buildings reporting the empty spaces as being turned / under construction to juke up occupancy rates. All matter of BS to pump numbers. I am not even in the industry and I've seen this stuff first hand.
In my experience, it's a miracle anything works.
You're correct. For the downvoters, here is the explanation:

You know how sometimes an LLM completes a given text in a way that you would consider "wrong"? Well, the LLM has no concept of "correct" or "wrong". It just has a very broad and deep model of the entirety of the text in the training data. Sometimes you might consider the completion "correct". Sometimes you might consider the completion "wrong". Sometimes I may consider the completion "correct" and you may consider the completion "wrong", just as with many other kinds of statements. The logical reasoning happens outside of the statement itself and can reasonably have many interpretations.

Would you ever consider that a plant has grown in a way that is "wrong"? Or that a broken reciprocating saw cut through plywood in the "wrong" way?
It's statistical models all the way down.
https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_class_display.php
Do you realize that once you write code to solve a problem, that exact problem never needs to be solved again? Either you're solving new problems (and "new" can be slight -- new situation, new context, new hardware, new people, new company, whatever), or you're doing the compiler's job. If most people aren't solving new problems, then their job is bullshit. I frankly don't even understand how you can be confident that code copy-pasted from Stack Overflow actually does what you need it to do without understanding the fundamentals.

> we sure as shit aren't writing cryptographic algorithms because we're told to leave that one to the experts.

Shouldn't we all be striving to be an expert in something? If you're not working your way toward expertise, what are you doing? Why are the absolute fundamental basic building blocks for understanding how computers work and what programming languages are doing something that only "they" need to bother to learn?
Ecto Dynamic Internals
ECS is just docker instances. I don't really see how that locks you in.
According to Betteridge's law of headlines,

No.

LLMs will not eliminate the need for programming languages. This is overly sensationalist
Is there a reason why it was low on the list? What qualifiers did you placed more on? Could you explain more about the thought process?
> Maybe it's because I think Apple is slowly building a parallel advertising ecosystem that is slightly less intrusive for users but massively more lucrative for themselves.

No. It's probably just because Apple is slowly building a parallel advertising ecosystem that is slightly less intrusive for users but massively more lucrative for themselves.
El Niño is here
I believe the common theory is not the coffee acidity on its own, but the habits around it.

People often drink coffee slowly and without a straw, this leads to staining but not tooth decay. However the slow part contributes to the teeth not getting a chance to neutralize acidity normally. This gets worse when people then brush their teeth after their morning coffee to prevent bad breath, which the abrasiveness combined with the acid environment does cause havok.

Both of them can be avoided in a variety of ways, to reduce both staining and decay.
I mean I've tried opioids, but they make me nauseous. And tired. And i specifically avoided trying really strong ones because yeah, I know I wouldn't be able to handle it. It took years of suffering even to be able to control my cannabis use...
Sounds like paranoia.
Can someone please record a video of using this app? I'd love to have a record of what we are losing.
>replacements for stuff like plastic wraps

Beeswax food wraps work surprising well
Extensions not running is disappointing. I would prefer my adblocker run in the app as well.
In 1940, (with the exception of primitive point-contact radar diodes) there was no production of semiconductor devices.

Without PFAS there would be no production of modern electronic devices, so no computers and no mobile phones.

Nevertheless, unlike with PFAS used in things like clothes, kitchenware or packing, when PFAS are used in industrial processes or in electronic equipment (as high-frequency electrical insulators or in optical devices) it is much easier to avoid any pollution.
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Has anyone here switched from Common Lisp or Scheme/Racket to Janet? If so, what was good/bad about the switch? Or was it just different?

I recently started learning Common Lisp, and it’s been mostly great, but my two complaints are 1) memory usage and 2) deployment (copy source or distribute a relatively huge world image—and I haven’t found any way to get a fully static build without patches, even with ECL).

Janet could solve both of those, although I’d pay a performance penalty due to it being interpreted, and I assume there are a lot fewer libraries/tools. I really like the idea of a Lua-sized Lisp, but I’m not sure if I should jump ship from a traditional Lisp yet.
A private company is free to interpret their internal rules however they see fit. "Malicious compliance" isn't magic, reddit can replace whoever they want whenever they want and not be guilty of any crime.

Mostly they just don't care, because they probably expect most popular subreddits to just come back at some point. People will get bored.

Millions of people use reddit through the official app and DGAF that the UX is "bad" because we have spent the past 20 years gaslighting people into feeling like this is just how computers and things ARE
This is funny, because to my eyes their main marketing image for the Vision Pro (dark-skinned woman) makes a face like a dazed zombie.
Who says it's not different?
Nothing about traveling with D-Ticket is stress free. Public transportation in Germany is not as good as some might believe.

Last week I was on vacation. We missed a train because the previous was delayed. We then had to take a taxi because the last bus departed at 17:00 (sic) and we arrived at 17:30.

I rural Germany, you need a car to get anywhere. Especially at night (aka after 17:00).
Micro-related: A Place Further than the Universe - a lovely anime about four high school girls going to Antarctica.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Place_Further_than_the_Unive...
On top of this, ScyllaDB also has "Lightweight Transactions" (LWT) that use Paxos to do a compare-and-set (CAS) read-before-write. This is important for strict linearizability. You can think of it really roughly as "single partition ACID."

They are also implementing a Raft infrastructure upon which they will be able to do strong consistency transactions in the future.

https://www.scylladb.com/tech-talk/the-future-of-consensus-i...

[Disclosure: I used to work at ScyllaDB]
dbdiagram is definitely an useful utility. Some of the differentiators would be:
1. Simpler Syntax
2. Fully Local processing (This tool works offline, once you load the original web page)
3. Light weight & fast (the entire project is 20kb in size)
Can you expand a bit. What do you mean by "what is a lake or what is a big city"?

Thanks for the comment.
Ok, everyone except the Poles then.
struct node_t* node

node->data

node->next

Zero "WTF"s
Are you intelligent or just a bunch of cells? Given that I can query it for all sorts of information that I don’t know, I would consider LLMs to, at the very least, contain and present intelligence…artificially.
> Seems like the way to go, but instead these companies are all copying each other.

That's the problem, IMO. Tech companies, down to the smallest start-ups, love to cargo-cult the big guys. If Google, Apple, and Twitter do something, pretty much the whole industry will follow suit without needing much more justification than "Well, Google does it and they're amazingly successful. Therefore, we should do it."

So, I'm very disappointed at how many of the big tech companies are forcing people back into the office.
SEPA discrimination is illegal but a fact. Many sellers don't even let you enter an account number that doesn't start with DE. At the latest the Schufa check will fail.
Some states take DNA from anyone arrested. But they can search for family members (California approved this in 2010 I think). They caught the "Grim Sleeper" partially because his son got arrested for a Felony.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grim_Sleeper

"Franklin was identified at least in part on familial DNA analysis.[41] Police had found no exact match between DNA found at the crime scenes and any of the profiles in California's DNA profile database, so they searched the database for stored profiles that demonstrated sufficient similarity to allow police to infer a familial relationship. They found similar DNA belonging to Franklin's son, Christopher, who had been convicted of a felony weapons charge in 2008. Christopher was too young to have committed the murders, but the familial DNA match led investigators to look at his father, Lonnie, as the likely perpetrator.[42]"
> I'm wondering what the options are? We can't just dismiss Psychology, cancel an entire field because it has difficulties. Why can't we study humans, what study of humans would take the place of Psychology?

Imagined if we studied and tried to understand how CPUs work by endlessly clicking around in the interfaces of popular user software. "Oooh, look, this one has a 'file' menu too! I think file menus might be one of the universal traits of all computation!".

We know that there is such a thing as psychology, and when we finally understand it that the psychologists will have had nothing to do with that. Their insights are minimal on the best days, and non-existent the rest of the time.

They're off heading in their own pseudo-science direction, and it's doubtful that they'll disband even after someone else figures out their science for them. It will just limp onwards like phrenology.
Silly but well done & invaluable. DNS is the one protocol no one can block.
The effects of climate change are different in different regions. And the types of weather patterns that deliver more precipitation to some regions could be quite different from what the local wildlife has adapted to.
Maybe for vasoconstriction.
Finding a not tech-primary domain to work or learn about. Understanding the problems and work of domains that currently don't use modern tech is where potential tech based solutions could offer improvements (of course the possibility is that there may not be a need for more tech in a particular domain).
I would if it wasnt only available on iPhone
Clear thinking at the semantic layer is a gift that the humanities offers, in distinction from the gift of mathematical rigor that the physical sciences offer. The challenge for psychology is to combine them - extremely precise conceptual frameworks with the unknowns clearly delineated, and as much experimental rigor as possible.

And being ready to have the conceptual frameworks altered by the flood of new insights from neuroscience.

The big five personality types discussed in TFA tho are on solid experimental footing (of being stable characteristics of humans that explain about half of what we label as personality) and a fit subject for other experimental investigations like this on changes over a lifetime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits