skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm reading this thread and am, again, surprised by the fact of people changing editors willy nilly. I have customized my bbedit experience endlessly. I have text filters, dynamic snippets, script elements, 'text factory's and a zillion project files (I often have two or three for one project so I can open the configuration or the UI or the back end separately.

I can't imagine choosing to give up those decades of custom features I've built into my workflow. Nor can I figure out how I would work the practicalities. I would say that it is literally impossible for me to change editors at this point.

And, I consider this all to be a tribute to bbedit's flexibility, speed, and solid, hard core reliability. I love that program. If they offered a paid release every year, I would ante up happily.
I prefer to give money to my neighbor than to someone who lives across the country or the world, when given the choice. That's it for me, everywhere has good beer.
Reading through the text which implicitly and as a perlocutionary/performative act by the author is precisely intended to be not the kind of low-effort content of the evoked 'Ennui Engine', actually strengthens my perception why I would actually feel more enjoyment in the "low effort content":

The relatively long suspense of the "Cargo Cult"-like explanation at the end completely falls short of any built up expectations I had, I wouldn't have noticed a difference in the argument if it would have been left out. Instead it seems to function merely as an ornament to elicit some feeling of superiority in one's insight.

I mean if I am able to "explain" cargo cult to you it would be least expected to be cargo cult'ed by the very thing.
The text touches on that briefly but suddenly rejects its humbling implications for all the facets of our life by highlighting one aspect: >its most insidious and impactful manifestations lies in entertainment and how we consume it. Where does this uncanny certainty come from?

Not to end on a negative note: Why not trying to appreciate some low-effort boredom at a time? Not something to be avoided at all cost but as an highly viscous opening space in one's rapidly passing sense of time, being mostly empty ("boring") or worn out of preconceived notions, but yet to be taken roads, train of thoughts or in some very rare cases, I'm told, for inspiration. Some appreciation for boredom goes a long way and makes oneself intrinsically less prone to the trappings of the described engine by just waiting "it" out.
Closer to Asimov's 'Nightfall' as well.
I’d argue that all these models are stochastic parrots because they’re not embodied in any way. There is no way they can actually understand what they are talking about in any way that is tied back to the physical world.

What these LLMs and diffusion models and such actually are is a lossy compression method that permits structural queries. The fact that they can learn structure as well as content allows them to reason as well, but only to the extent that the rules they’re following existed somewhere in the training data and its structure.

If one were given access to senses and memory and feedback mechanisms and learned language that way, it might be considered actually intelligent or even sentient if it exhibited autonomy and value judgments.
> The whole of stackoverflow is run from a single (though quite powerful) machine

No, it's not.

But anyway Stack overflow is only text, it's an irrelevant comparison.
The README.md certainly is confusing then:

Version: 0.49.0
I tell friends that digital is great if you have only young children or live in a neighborhood with occasional break-ins - otherwise, it has almost no redeeming qualities.

Daughter got a great game for Christmas? She can’t share it with siblings, or friends in real life, or friends from another state (why not mail game cards once in a while?). Kind of a huge shame really if it was a single-player game with a finite beginning and end.

It’s dumber though for collecting too. As a collector, if you buy used… the games you bought for $35-40 will probably sell for at least $30-35 (if they are Nintendo). They might even explode like the GameCube or 3DS. And with 70%~80% of Switch purchases being digital, there’s going to be a real physical media shortage when the eShop goes down. (At a minimum though, if they keep even 75% of their value over a 5-year period after you bought them for $38 or so used, you could spend $1000 on Switch games, have it still be worth $750, and have paid about $50/yr to have a ludicrous catalog. Can’t think that way with digital.)

Which, that’s just great too. Digital is not very resilient to any kind of cyberwarfare, or AWS having a bad day. Just when you need it most, it’s gone. I rate our odds of keeping electricity available as being much higher than computers and digital equipment.

Edit: And while I keep adding reasons; remember that physical means you have the ability to always play the game version physically on the card. (If you update the game after inserting the card, you do need to factory-reset your Switch to go back to that older version for various reasons, but you can still get to it.) This matters quite a bit if a game becomes more bloated and slow over time (Minecraft), or if the game had useful duplication bugs that were patched (Zelda: TOTK). Digital downloads? You're stuck with whatever update they give you.
What frequently happens with pinballs though is that the score you need to get a free replay adjusts automatically so that the ratio of free games stays at a certain target percentage.
Agreed. It’s one of the best experiences you can have, IMO. And it really does bring people closer together. If you test your drugs and stay hydrated, you’re set for a great time.
But what happens when they visit here, and then while they're on the fence of us being friendly discover what name we refer to them as and then just decide the universe is better off without us?
If you wear Vision Pro to watch movies, can the field of view achieve a cinema-like effect. Or can we have a movie theater viewing experience on Vision Pro?
> This means you cannot free-market renewables unless with massive subsidies, or with artificially created market rules (like the current 'merit order' in the EU, which stifles coal and gas but nuclear too in an unfair manner)

There is no merit order in the EU, it is simply marginal price. The marginal cost for an added kWh of solar is zero, for wind it is about zero, only an extra hour of wear, for gas it is quite expensive, nuclear power plants might need to pay for someone to take the energy because they can not ramp fast enough.
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Why are houses so expensive
> Better ... than a system that's confidently wrong

If ChatGPT has taught us all anything, this should be it. It can be so confidently wrong while sounding believable, that I wouldn't be surprised if some kid has turned in completely hallucinated homework thinking it was a great essay.
Again, the nuclear part isn’t the interesting bit. It’s the storage part that is interesting and keeps being ignored in these comments.

Yes, the French had to pay penalties and cost overruns. Even so that only doubles the system costs from 4 cents to 8 cents.
Believe it or not we’ve had the technology a long time to “look” or “track” everyone all the time. At this point it’s simply a political decison not to.

The leadership of the PRC with help from sensetime and other industrial leaders have a working and well tested comprehensive domestic individual tracking system in production. It’s been working well over a decade at this point.
I'm not much of a gamer but I tried to buy a game at GameStop maybe ten years ago and came across the unsealed game phenomenon. I don't think I've been back in one since, even though I've purchased some games since then.

I don't understand how any business thinks opening retail packaging and selling the product as new is acceptable. There has to be some logic to it but it is baffling, and an absolute deal breaker, to me.

I'm not at all surprised to hear it's a business in decline.
I think he’s doing more good than you will in your life. I donate half my income to the global poor and I think he’s doing more good than I will.

Keep on working on fixing our system, but it doesn’t make sense to complain that others aren’t when you are extremely unlikely to succeed.
Not to reduce the value of the insight, but since she coauthored the paper with Google employees she probably had access to models more advanced than those which were available to the general public
Yet another TEDIOUS BATTLE: Python vs. C++/C stack.

This project gained popularity due to the HIGH DEMAND for running large models with 1B+ parameters, like `llama`. Python dominates the interface and training ecosystem, but prior to llama.cpp, non-ML professionals showed little interest in a fast C++ interface library. While existing solutions like tensorflow-serving [1] in C++ were sufficiently fast with GPU support, llama.cpp took the initiative to optimize for CPU and trim unnecessary code, essentially code-golfing and sacrificing some algorithm correctness for improved performance, which isn't favored by "ML research".

NOTE: In my opinion, a true pioneer was DarkNet, which implemented the YOLO model series and significantly outperformed others [2]. Same trick basically like llama.cpp

[1] https://github.com/tensorflow/serving
[2] https://github.com/pjreddie/darknet
They are independent nations with independent ruling bodies, the UK banning the merger doesn't mean the J.S. shouldn't do anything.
Did you submit a PR?
Oeconomicus comes from the Ancient Greek words oikos for home or house and nemein which means management, literally translated to 'household management'.
Is this a Xerox specific issue or industry wide problem? The author suspected that this is not an OCR issue What about out scanners? HP, Epson, Cannon, Ricoh, etc?
It could be retconned, but it at least gives the model the chance to use the space to work out a solution in smaller, easier parts.

If you ask for an answer first and then ask for an explanation after, you will most likely get self-justifying BS for an answer. You have to ask for the explanation first.
The most obvious flaw is that money is printed by the government, and the value of it is also manipulated by the government, and ~40% of it is spent by the government.

Money says more about the government than it says about the people who use it.
My first exposure to Radio on the TV was also my first exposure to cable television.

In the early 1970s, a motel in Chincoteague Virginia featured the island's cable TV provider. One station consisted of a b&w camera that swiveled between showing a thermometer, barometer, clock and a written board with the local forecast. It played an audio feed of the island's radio station.

Grade school me was so fascinated by all tech in action, it became a permanent memory.
Yes, I’m sure the plane wouldn’t fly if I weren’t on it…
This is the advice of someone who has lived the lifestyle for a short time and is on the honeymoon phase, which is when you're ready to tell everyone they're wasting their lifes if they don't do the same.

I'm 15+ years in and would be very wary of giving advice like this. It can work, and I wouldn't trade what I've lived for anything, but it can also be extremely taxing for your mental strength. I've read in the comments a quote to the effect of "freedom is very lonely" and it can't be more true. I've lived in many places and had all kinds of relationships and it's extremely hard to make anything last, for a myriad of reasons.

I think it takes a particular personality type to do this, for me I always had the urge and left very young. I still have all my friends and family back home and visit yearly which brings me great joy, though I seem to be unable to stay there for extended periods. On the other hand, I've finally found a place I love where I'm settling down, and I consider myself very lucky to have been able to choose where I want to be. So there are also great rewards for those who are committed.
the best essay i've read on the topic, much better than the op: https://meltingasphalt.com/social-status-down-the-rabbit-hol...

the author went on to cowrite a well-received pop-sci book about social signaling theory that i highly recommend as well, the elephant in the brain
If you had perfectly rational people, all uniform in their rationality, one might want to distribute that trait along the bell curve, such that most were "mostly" rational, with a few highly irrational individuals and a few highly rational ones. It's like the ant colony... send agents out along all the possible paths simultaneously, see who comes back with cake.

Even in that model though, they all average out to "mostly rational". People do too.

What about this argument requires that people be individually rational rather than on-average rational?
Reminds me of this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Znamya_%28satellite%29?wprov=s... I was so disappointed when it didn't launch. Iirc they said on the news that it would be visible from the UK had it been successful. Part of me always wondered whether the goal was a golden eye style beam rather than merely illuminating Siberia.
GPS does exist, sure, but I still often see tourists in my city look at a paper map. While standing in the middle of a busy sidewalk. People still ask for directions too, especially the older ones who are less likely to have or use a smartphone and/or mobile data.
I don't see why there should be any distinction between apps and web apps in terms of UX constraints, and I don't think one has ever existed even since the invention of the Web. After all, Flash is older than JS and much of what people loved on the earlier Web was in fact made with Flash. Similarly, many famous Geocities sites were heavily customized to illustrate their creators' preference.

The web is much more than productivity focused software, and limiting it to some specific notion of dull uniformity in the names of consistency is honestly sad.

If I want to create a site to represent a detailed exploration and appreciation of the Voynich manuscript, why should I not try to style similarly to the original manuscript? Why should utility trump aesthetics for nay document on the web?
i remember when i tried to read "oaxaca" off of a menu
> Most people doing anything of medium complexity is already using some abstraction layer, such as MJML

Citation needed.

I’m an admin for the largest email community online (emailgeeks) and when folks talk about code, everyone is talking about writing this stuff by hand.
Well, I don't know if the author understands that or not, but I guess they do. I'm just pointing to the fact that the analysis can be misleading, and I just shared a proposal that I think it would make it more interesting :)
In addition to the above:

1) function decorators etc have made the code unreadable

2) while code is succinct, a lot of abstraction is hidden in some C/C++ language binding somewhere, so, when there is a problem, it is hard to debug

3) Pytorch has become a monolithic monster with practically no-one understanding its functionality e-2-e
I thought Freedom was measured in calibers.
And I failed to mention the one aspect where bbedit exceeds every editor I have ever tried (a few years ago, I actually did a half year where I tried everything): Search and Replace.

The Search and Replace feature of bbedit is absolutely the best ever. When I am forced to use another editor, I am appalled by contrast. Since I use this 1000 times a day, I will never change. bbedit forever!
Wouldn't trust it if i'm being honest haha
It's a 32-day-old account named after the bad guy from a Star Wars movie. I'd be suspicious of them before even reading the comment, which was fairly bonkers. As for substantive rebuttal of their statements, others have already done it elsewhere in the thread.

edit: YIKES https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36166300
This is wholly irrelevant, but I love the spelling of O'Caml like an Irish last name. I'd definitely frequent a pub called O'Caml's.
> if it exhibited autonomy and value judgments.

Who wants this from ML systems? I want them to be useful, not to have autonomy and value judgments.
BBEdit was known for that in the past, but it's a weak point these days. It definitely has an upper limit on filesizes and will "choke" on large files (probably only slightly larger than the log files you're using it for).

Other apps are much better at large files. The APFS filesystem has a maximum file size of 8 Exabytes and plenty of other text editors can handle file sizes that large without any issues.
Taxes can be progressive or regressive. That's orthogonal to my point.

Climate change disproportionately hurts the poor.

Not sure why you just assume I'm against the poor when nothing I suggested is inherently harmful to poor people.

I also walk the talk. I made significant lifestyle changes because I care about the environment. More people would do the same if the incentives were aligned and we didn't just rely on peoples' intentions.
If you take into account all variables aren’t you just writing a chess engine at that point?
Obsidian-Copilot: A Prototype Assistant for Writing and Thinking
I guess Mac users are more easily impressed because there is (was) less choice and UltraEdit(32) wasn't around on the platform at the time.

It's still my editor of choice but it's a shame that they switched to a subscription model.
>"stochastic parrot" is a term coined by Emily M. Bender in the 2021 artificial intelligence research paper "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?"

This might be the first time the term was seen in an ’official’ context, but is it really the origin? It feels like the term has been hovering around for longer, and even Google Trends shows significant search trends way before 2021
People have dug into a weird trench insisting LIDAR is absolutely necessary because Tesla (but really by association Elon Musk) are trying to do it without.

The reality is that with or without LIDAR, the entire problem space is very far from solved, and the distance to close has a lot more to do with prediction, decision-making, and abstract representation. By the time these things have come far enough that full self driving cars are a reality, it's very likely vision will have progressed as well.

The whole self-driving race is a leap of faith that there is some mid-point between "current state-of-the-art" and "full human-grade general intelligence" that is good enough to safely drive a car. Nobody knows whether that's actually true. So far, all we know is that general low-level sensorial awareness isn't a sufficient condition for tolerable driving. We all suspected this was the case, and so now comes the long tail of discovering just how much more behavior you have to add before you've sufficiently emulated human driving. These systems are so complicated and the interactions so numerous that the horizon is very foggy. It's POSSIBLE that you don't have an acceptable driver until you're basically doing human-level reasoning. Nobody knows.

The point is that if you need a significantly deeper level of inference, prediction, reasoning, world state estimation, etc. etc., then the LIDAR will end up irrelevant, because the processing chain will be so sophisticated that camera-only input is easily sufficient for the sensing aspect. And if that's the case, camera-only is by far preferable because it is cheaper and simpler.

Saying that you need LIDAR is just as unfounded as saying you don't. And it has the downside that you're doubling down on a more expensive technology that is demonstrably unneeded by a sufficiently sophisticated intelligence (i.e. humans).
Detroit never came back to what it was, but it became something different and in many ways it's better than it was at any other time in the last 50 years.
I'd like to be able to view content when not logged in. Also, the site is not mobile friendly, which is my primary method of access for these types of sites.
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/a-100mw-solar-far...
One of my favourite things on the internet is when someone tries to make a pedantic correction and someone else comes along with something that's even more pedantic.

Thanks for giving me a good start to the morning!
I like PARA a lot, which has some great ideas: https://fortelabs.com/blog/para/
I wonder how those animals feel right now, given what we currently do to the atmosphere to generate power.
But a news site (SFGate) that purports to be local to the area should know the name of the county seat of one of the Bay Area counties.
What an absolutely stupid comparison. Yeah, goatse was tamer than child porn. Got it, bud. I see where your morals lie. FBI, this guy right here. And who said I saw it one time? I literally said it was full of CP. Good work, man.
This makes enormous sense, and, incidentally, shows why the notion of "smart contracts", "the code is the law", etc. is pure folly.
but it's not wrong though. that's like saying you can't say 20% off and must provide the exact discount in whatever monetary unit you prefer.
DMARC is an anti-impersonation standard, not anti-spam.

DMARC alignment is trivial to set up, so even spammers can do that. That, amongst other reasons, is why all major spam filters are based on content, not DMARC alignment. This is why you can have 100% DMARC alignment and still end up in spam.

Failing to meet DMARC alignment will result in your email being marked as suspicious (with a big fat warning), or flat-out rejected (not delivered), but it typically won't be marked as spam (unless content is flagged as spam, of course). What exactly happens on DMARC unalignment somewhat depends on your DMARC policy, but mostly on the policies/implementation of the receiving provider. Each provider handles DMARC unalignment different.

One thing that is consistent, is that none of the email providers will reflect in any way if your email is flagged as spam or not. Otherwise spammers could trivially figure out which content trigger spam filters, and which content won't. A DMARC report will not tell you if your email is flagged as spam or not. This is also why most email providers will always fetch and cache tracking pixels, again to not expose to a potential spammer if their content made it into an inbox or not. This behavior makes it look like every receiver has opened the email, even though it never happened. This makes tracking pixels useless.

So, Resend's claim to show you 'all the events' means they can display how many mails were send, how many have bounced (due to various reasons, except spam), and how many tracking pixels were loaded. But as explained, the number of pixels loaded does not, in any reliable way, reflect the number of emails actually making it to the recipient's inbox.

Reliably sending email is an insanely hard, you can never guarantee delivery with email anyway. If the 'React' email template editor is the novelty in Resend, I'd suggest them using something like SES to actually send the email. Don't try this yourself, until you verified your product-market-fit and have the scale to invest (heavily) in your own delivery network.
> It's disaster when system handling user data is showing data for another user and this is how I understand effects of https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2023-27536.html manifesting in real world. It was wrong even before privacy regulations were invented.

It exposes data to user who in the first place had a right to see them (it very much evokes the "airtight hatchway", although strictly speaking it is not the same thing). Also the whole combination is incredibly niche in the first place and it is hard to see why the client code would ever want to establish second connection to the same server without GSSAPI.

In essence it is minor implementation oversight that has no practical consequences and probably the only reason why it even has a CVE number is that there is GSSAPI involved with that.
Corporations use governments to get around laws and regulations. Governments uses corporations to get around the constitution. They each get what they want and the people get screwed.
Not really, I use my mouse too much.