skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - Typing is optional (there are still folks who don't want to lean into that and it simply isn't always necessary)

Someone who really wants to avoid type annotations at all costs can just use ": object" everywhere
FYI, the phrase is "leeway". It comes from ship movement off of the intended course.
> reddit answers are often not great, but in my experience, the rest of google search has, over the past 10 years, gone to complete and utter shit.

Fascinating.

I've read so many comments here about how people search reddit specifically in order to get better results, but I've never understood this. I don't find reddit to be better enough for that sort of thing to be worth going to reddit as a first choice.

Perhaps this explains it? I stopped using Google search a few years back because I find it hard to get to useful sites using it.

Are people comparing reddit-specific searches to general Google search results? That would be the explanation, because if I had to chose between the two, I'd go with a reddit-first approach, too.
So is Human Resources now going to train employees that it is unethical to recruit colleagues, firing employees who are hired at-will?
Note that this (token selection restriction) is even available on OpenAI API as logit_bias.
And very importantly: In most enterprises, most MacBook users are either graphics people or devs. Because they're the only communities that really have a legit reason to want them (especially the devs because iOS development just needs a mac).

Most others just have to put up with Windows whether they like it or not (working in IT for a company with 120.000 PCs and 600 Macs). And yes most companies are like us.

"The same chip inside" doesn't mean that much though. This one pushes a LOT more pixels at really high framerates, has to handle realtime input from a ton of cameras and do live algorithms on their data etc. I think the whole realtime usecase on a more open OS like the Mac? Very hard to make that work.

So I see where they're coming from, sure. But productivity wise, iOS apps are not great. Needing a Mac to connect to isn't either considering the price of each.
Enforced bounds checking for frozen C function interfaces
The best Python GUI, Electron, is missing from this page.
I'm purposely avoiding reddit right now even though several niche communities only exist there. I've been using 3rd party apps for maybe 15 years now (Alien Blue first and now Relay for 10 years). I'm directly affected by this and I think they handled it poorly.
How would a tweaked temp enforce a non broken output exactly?
Musk really is the ultimate deadbeat. Does he think these obligations just go away if you stop meeting them?
Maybe the end game is just to drive it to bankruptcy... And then get someone to swoop in with some marginal value. But paying for things would make it happen faster...

So maybe it is to burn it all down.
Asking to click a link in an email is unreasonable in this context. The email list is the official channel and project participants are expected to use it. They are not expected to have a web browser. The popularity of the linked site is irrelevant. Part of filing good bug reports is understanding a project’s communication style. A link to supplementary information is fine. But like a Stack Overflow answer the email should stand on its own.
If you're an early stage startup, you certainly are our target demographic - for startups with less than 5M in funding, we also offer a startup deal where you can get $10k in credits from us (you can apply from our pricing page). If you have any cloud credits on AWS or GCP, which is fairly easy to get as a startup, along with this deal you can effectively use a PaaS for free because the infra runs in your own cloud account.

Also just to clarify, our pricing structure is designed to increase more slowly as you scale. We offer volume discounts above a certain resource usage, so that your cost increases more logarithmically rather than exponentially.
Indeed, and it's a shame. I am looking forward to whatever is available on the Windows and Android side in the future, at least there I can run whatever software I want.
Would a Republican pass any right to repair bill? A watered down bill is better than nothing. So it's weird that you would suggest a Republican would be better for this issue.
I view investors like I view critics of media: necessary for society in small doses, but otherwise contributing little value of their own into the world.

And my threshold for having "too much" of these is pretty low...
Did a bit of digging. Studies[0] I could find about the prevalence of tainted medications in Mexico didn't look at the concentration of contaminants, but articles like the original one linked above heavily imply that it's a full (or nearly full) replacement of the advertised drug, i.e. fentanyl or heroin standing in for percocet or oxy (which to me would imply intentionality & large enough doses that it's not immediately obvious the pills are fake).

If I'm allowed to equivocate with American data... America is also facing fake painkiller (oxy, percocet, xanax) pills illegally tainted with fentanyl, which the DEA claims is from Mexico[1]. The DEA claims that 2mg of fentanyl is a potentially-lethal dose, and 42% of illicit pills they tested for fentanyl contained >=2mg[2].

The "illicit pills" from that stat could be anything, not just fake pharmaceuticals. But the U.S. Embassy has an active warning that Mexican fake pharmaceuticals may contain "deadly doses" of fentanyl[3] - and more interestingly, it and all the news stories note that fent-laced pills are mostly in tourist areas, making it unlikely that it's accidental mold contaminations (which I assume would affect non-tourist areas as well).

TLDR: Mexican contaminant concentrations aren't easily-found info, but it doesn't seem small/accidental

[0] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.27.23285123v...
[1] https://www.dea.gov/alert/dea-laboratory-testing-reveals-6-o...
[3] https://mx.usembassy.gov/health-alert-counterfeit-pharmaceut...
[2] https://www.dea.gov/resources/facts-about-fentanyl
it sounds to me like the line of credit is just a loan, such that the money for "rent" comes from a "loan" .. no cash flow involved. whoever wrote the line of credit is the one paying the rent. In large finance groups, I get the feeling this is ordinary back-scratch behavior.
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About 1500 employees.

I think it applies to everyone, including management. I haven’t seen or heard anything to suggest otherwise.

> all you can change is how you manage yourself

Good point
This is a fun example because I've seen exactly the reverse situation. (Not to say state machines are bad, just to say sometimes they don't fit as much as it seems on first glance.)

A bunch of mid-level devs on the team wanted to model our new thing as a state machine. But it dealt with a LOT of edge cases. Including real fun things like "that actually CAN be a valid state transition if Customer Service does it to manually resolve an issue caused by a previous bug or something, or just to make a customer happy, even."

I was the guy who eventually convinced them not to by illustrating just how many states and transitions this machine would actually have to have to do everything it needed to. A lot fewer people want to write thousand-node state machine descriptions than who want to write 20-node ones.

(How did I know that would happen? Because I'd previously been a mid-level engineer who jumped straight to "state machine!" for something and it added countless complexity and pain to the project. :D )
> Soooo, which is it? You can't have it both ways, either trial and error or "educated guess".

Sure you can -- trial and error doesn't mean the things you're trying have to be picked out of a hat at random. You can choose a starting point based on existing research and iterate from there based on the results experienced by the patient.
You're right about people eating this shit up of course

But the question is if people will willingly remain on a Reddit which is just like Tiktok or YT shorts or Instagram, etc and has no differentiator

Especially with their lousy mobile experience
Related to the free will discussion:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18408715/ (full paper can be found on SciHub)

> There has been a long controversy as to whether subjectively 'free' decisions are determined by brain activity ahead of time. We found that the outcome of a decision can be encoded in brain activity of prefrontal and parietal cortex up to 10 s before it enters awareness. This delay presumably reflects the operation of a network of high-level control areas that begin to prepare an upcoming decision long before it enters awareness.

This is unfortunately only a brief for Nature Neuroscience -- from 2008, so take with a grain of salt -- and I haven't been able to find the full paper. I also would hesitate to claim this as "lack of free will" or similar; the conclusion sentence from the brief seems to be most-accurate:

> Thus, a network of high-level control areas can begin to shape an upcoming decision long before it enters awareness.
This is completely false, I stated very clearly that they have jurisidiction regardless and that anti-trust is fine. I was just pointing out that it's pretty unfair to use the size of Google Ireland as if it's "just another EU country" when it accounts for basically all EU-based revenue.

€50bln is still a huge amount, but based on the phrasing of that comment you'd assume we were talking about figures well over €1t!
It's not a prepayment. It's a line of credit. Think closer to a credit card with a limit instead of money out of pocket.
> What is hard about things like this is it ultimately boils down to self control.

Only because society has allowed for the pervasive adoption and exploiting of persuasive technologies. It's like being in a casino, or having a casino in your pocket, 24 hours/day. Reign in some the extremes of persuasive technologies used in social media and distracting software, and we give people back their own wills.
Yeah, honestly I think if startup time is a real concern, python is simply the wrong choice. Slow startup is largely inherent in its design.

Not that it's not worth spending some effort to optimize, of course. But the lower bound is quite high even if you're very careful.
My suggestion for people experimenting with GTK these days is to take a look at the examples that are being built into "gtk workbench".
Does Zap add the datetime in every http response as header because Go does it and those are syscalls so it reduces performance.
The lightning bolt emoji and similar performance rhetoric is really popular in the Zig community. I doubt the similarity is intentional.
> Boggles my mind that people do that.

$ uptime
15:39:13 up 359 days, 2:02, 16 users, load average: 0.09, 0.08, 0.15

16 users is 16 tmux sessions, all me doing different tasks.
You know who handled this really well and got pilloried for it? Ellen Pao. She took a solid stand on the right side of the issue and got shredded by the user base for it. I think she was very forward thinking in how the problem could spiral and that the business was predicated on being an enjoyable environment with absolutely no obligation to dangerous or hurtful users.

If it was possible to uphold every fundamental human right and be commercially successful at the same time, we wouldn't need a government.
The problem is when you want to create a tool for internal company usage.
Or they just work for Google, of which there's a reasonable amount of members here, but yeah.
Ok, well, that’s just like, your opinion, man. The medical community and majority of the developed world disagrees with you.
This is my daily life at BigCo. These bugs are the worst.
> Discord is much more "you must be here participating to have a voice" and if you leave, someone else becomes the authoritative voice. More democratic, more humble, less belligerent.

And shutting out everyone who has a job or other responsibilities that prevent them from keeping up with the discussion flow 12+ hours a day.

I've never heard of "perpetual forum dwellers", but Discord (and Slack, and yes, IRC too) is a place that's structurally makes a community be run by close-knit group of people with too much free time.
My reddit consists of

* Subreddits associated with the city and area I live in

* Subreddits associated with software development and programming languages

* Subreddits with cute pictures and videos of cats

I like MY reddit a lot. There are many parts of reddit that are awful.
You mentioned bundling. It just defeat the purpose of ESM.
You are thinking of a social agreement often called a “handshake agreement” or “verbal agreement”. Yes a verbal or social agreement at law is often superceded by a written agreement mainly because there’s a specific common clause in written agreements that say exactly this.

The above legal concept is distinct from the term “social contract” that is a sociological term and has a wider definition that a mere legal meaning. Most of our laws are intended to capture concepts that have wider social and cultural relevance to the society to which they apply.

“Marriage” by example is a term with both a distinct legal meaning in many legal jurisdictions as well as a wider sociological conception that can vary from culture to culture.
Perhaps there was no revenue impact because Reddit has not revenue to speak of and the monthly true up with their advertisers hadn't yet happened?
A friend of mine just got a 7-digit offer at an AI company, so yes, we are so back
Yea, the future of public discussions online is interesting to consider. LLM bots are already a thing, comments posted here could be from a bot. We don't have a way to really confirm it, and I am not sure it actually matters (yet).
Trump’s Boxes and Clinton’s Sock Drawer
If Ring stuff is in the "Amazon Sidewalk" network, or eventually added to it with an update, won't be hard to locate.
Archived version: https://archive.is/t2f6w
I know this won't apply to everyone, but Blindsight is one of the few pieces of media that noticeably changed my life. Here be profound ideas, although your mileage may vary, especially if you're neurotypical or already very well read in concepts of truly alien intelligence. (The space probe chapter was one of the most life-changing passages I've ever read, so that may tell the reader something about my autism.)

I read the entire thing in HTML on my phone on the author's web site over a week or so. After the first few days of catching bits during breaks, I found myself sitting at home on the porch just reading from my phone - not typical for me. (I did later buy a copy.)
If the lack of Reddit is such a problem, imagine what would happen if YouTube was down...
there have been many times when i'm searching for things i'll go into the "tools" and limit results from 1990-2010 and find exactly it with a handful of results, vs if i don't a ton of blogspam and other crap hiding it
Is there a decent way of converting to a structure with a very constrained vocabulary?
For example, given some input text, converting it to something like {"OID-189": "QQID-378", "OID-478":"QQID-678"}. Where OID and QQID dictionaries can be e.g. millions of different items defined by a description. The rules for mapping could be essentially what looks closest in semantic space to the descriptions given in a dictionary.

I know this should be able to be solvable by local LLMs and bert cosine similarity (it isn't exactly, but it's a start on the idea), but is there a way to do this with decoder models rather than encoder models with other logic?
You’re welcome to go tell the Linux kernel devs what they are doing wrong. Fuck around and find out as the kids say. Or start the Zolnux project and see how far that goes chasing shiny objects.
At least those don't leave craters of the size of FTX, WeWork or Theranos. Stupid Europeans, even fail at failing!
The GDPR Paradox: Empowering Government in the Name of Data Protection
Also... if you're in a car that's more dangerous than usual, you have a higher risk of injuring yourself and a higher risk of injuring/killing others. If you take a bike, you're probably not going to slaughter a pedestrian.
I wasn't really trying to move somebody else's goalpost, but here's an attempt to bridge the gap anyway, at least as far as "should be free" ("must be free" follows if you're sufficiently authoritarian/utilitarian, otherwise it doesn't /shrug):

Network effects tend to pick extreme winners and losers. From most user's perspectives, there isn't much of a choice. I have an iPhone for a totally stupid reason: My family's chat is an iMessage group and they coordinate photo albums with Apple's shared albums thing. I use reddit for literally no reason at all except that other people use it.

I assert that it would be better for me and most to use an equivalent networking facility maintained by a non-profit entity, and that if there were some kind of cross-site replication such that you really could choose which option to use, a very large number of people would pick the option that didn't present inline or otherwise invasive advertisements, and (indirectly) the option that had free API access, via something like Apollo (software that's simply built better than its competitor on its OS).

So not only do I believe non-profit-reddit (hey, that's "NPR", complete with donation drives) could exist, I believe it would be better for its users and so it should exist. But I also believe it can't really exist as long as somebody is throwing a bunch of (indebted) money into winning the network effects war. So I believe that for-maximum-profit-reddit should not exist.

But I admit the belief feels empty since I'm not authoritarian enough to take it all the way to "reddit must not exist". So I'm just sad instead.
FYI: This is John McCarthy's paper in which he invents Lisp in 1960.
First time I've seen this, looks really cool! Thanks for sharing it!
well, thank you, sir.

I did actually Submit that when I wrote it. Getting to the front page is kinda a crapshoot, of course.
> my issue with it has always been that its behavior is inconsistent across platforms

Isn't that because different platforms are different? This should be a feature. "Cross-platform that feels native", because each platform has a different definition of "native".

IME wxWidgets was always better than Qt or any other of the high-level piles of bloat. For example, its layout system would actually use the platform-native, rendered sizes of components, instead of the native components only being a skin over a secret other layer that has its own input handling (looking at you, Qt/GTK).
For example see :

https://www.semianalysis.com/p/the-dark-side-of-the-semicond...

I think you are overestimating the value and amount of help from ARM, especially in the more recent Graviton generations, but of course I don't know Amazon's actual chip cost profile.
Ok, yea this makes sense. Also for others curious of the flow here's a video walkthrough I just skimmed through: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91VVM6MNVlk
Here's a demo of some system prompt engineering which resulted in better results for the older ChatGPT: https://github.com/minimaxir/simpleaichat/blob/main/examples...

Coincidentially, the new gpt-3.5-turbo-0613 model also has better system prompt guidance: for the demo above and some further prompt tweaking, it's possible to get ChatGPT to output code super reliably.
> That locks the team into “as smart as me, but no smarter”

No it doesn't.

People aren't really "smarter" just because they write incomprehensible code.

The "smarter" way is being able to get things done without making a mess for yourself, the other people working with you, and after you. Over-engineering is not a positive quality.

And "not easy to understand" doesn't mean "impossible". Maybe for Juniors! In fact, it's the people writing the difficult code that are forcing teams to be "as smart or smarter than me".

It's time to stop rationalizing architecture astronautics. There is nothing "smarter", it's just annoying and expensive.

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> One person rarely has all the ability plus all of the “on the ground” context that’s necessary to do great work across a larger system.

And this is exactly why we need code to be comprehensible to everyone.
Would the company give you a raise to afford a bigger house? No, that's a you problem.

Should you take an inflation adjusted pay cut to help the company improve their share price and delay your career growth by up to a year? No, that's a company problem.

Likely if the negative impact of these measures are seen as a net positive (attrition is 'acceptable' and stock goes up), they'll see that these measures are beneficial and continue them.

Your pay is based on the market, when measures like this are introduced, it's a good time to survey the market for your true worth.
They got away with it last time, so they tried it again ... because more money for them if it works.

If you put up with it this time, you are telling them they can do it again next promotion cycle.

Shop around ... NOW!
Take a look at Cloudflare: https://developers.cloudflare.com/cache/

It's completely agnostic to your setup. Just point your domain to their nameservers, define the routes you want cached, and that's it.

There's also an API where you can do your invalidations on deploy: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/learning/how-the-c...
i think people are underestimating the potential here for agents building - it is now a lot easier for GPT4 to call other models, or itself. while i was taking notes for our emergency pod yesterday (https://www.latent.space/p/function-agents) we had this interesting debate with Simon Willison on just how many functions will be supplied to this API. Simon thinks it will be "deep" rather than "wide" - eg a few functions that do many things, rather than many functions that do few things. I think i agree.

you can now trivially make GPT4 decide whether to call itself again, or to proceed to the next stage. it feels like the first XOR circuit from which we can compose a "transistor", from which we can compose a new kind of CPU.
Shout out to Matthew Dodd's commitment to the April Fools joke bit: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=11292...

My man added a sockopt, ping(8) option, documented all these changes in the manual pages, and added some fun sysctls related to the functionality.
Reddit isn't a monolith, the UX is ultimately down to the user. There are subs there like AskHistorians, Labrats and some others which are genuinely excellent communities.

And then there's the rest of the trash.
then resigning would have been the way to go. shutting off access to the knowledge base others contributed to is a power play

if you volunteer at a dog shelter, and find you don't agree with some of their practices anymore. do you stop volunteering? or do you just set all the dogs free
Note that you don’t necessarily need to have the AI output any JSON at all — simply have it answer when being asked for the value to a specific JSON key, and handle the JSON structure part in your hallucinations-free own code: https://github.com/manuelkiessling/php-ai-tool-bridge
> The bills need to be paid.

Could Reddit not have gone the 501(c)(3) route like the Wikimedia Foundation? Wikipedia has an immense amount of content, moderation, high traffic, open API, and they manage to keep the lights on.
It’s a gitlab link, not github. And it isn’t reasonable in this context. GitHub hosts a lot of open source projects but it is not the only place where open source happens. That's kinda the point of open source, and especially of git.

Git itself is a satellite project of the Linux kernel. It can work without the web at all. That someone EEE’d it so hard that even Microsoft couldn’t resist is no reason to expect the kernel devs to change their workflow.
I feel pretty certain that the vampires were included in quite the opposite way - especially if you read the sequel, which features their story more heavily. To me, the existence of vampires in the Blindsight setting seems essential.