skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - rails is mostly needed for prototyping and crud apps

> - this work is typically done by juniors

> - rails devs are at this point largely seniors, not juniors

> - rails devs pay the bills with other tech or by maintaining legacy rails apps.

- and those prototyping apps have very often gone through multiple teams, some or all of them probably outsourced. Potentially true of any codebase, but it's true of an exceptionally high proportion of Rails codebases.

I'm at the point where I'd want a stupid premium to come in on an existing Rails codebase, and I'd want a day or two with it before saying "yes" even at that. They're great if they've been maintained by professional, expert teams their whole life, but god-awful messes remarkably resistant to analysis, otherwise.

I like Ruby a lot but most of the jobs are in Rails, and after initial infatuation followed by repeated exposure over 15ish years, I've come around to pretty much hating Rails. Too much implicit magic, too much memorization, too opaque to tools that might help overcome those first two problems.
...propaganda, delusion (sincere and well intentioned as it may be), etc.
Unfortunately, this is the thread that all these arguments begin: demonstrative ignorance of either the science, the research, or both. They originate in ignorance and because of ignorance, the response is terrible fear and prophecies of the End Times. It's no different than any other brand of fear.

There is no evidence that processing power = mind. None. There is no evidence that the human condition is any way related to some kind of terra firma of logic. In fact, there's considerable evidence that feelings are so entangled in the experience of humanness that the idea of divorce or separation is a false one. "Being human" is primarily a feeling experience that drives narratives, motivations: it underlies every single activity we engage in.

This is why people like Eliezer Yudkowsky and his ilk are so totally off the mark: it's no coincidence that the Less Wrong community and AI doomsayers can often be found on the same side of the aisle. Both camps believe in and idealize a distinct logic mind that can be attained. Funnily enough, it's still fear, a very human feeling, that is the basis for all these proclamations.

My worry is this camp garners enough influence to convince someone an AI doomsday is right around the corner unless immediate action is taken.
I have had pretty good results over the years following the mantra “normalize until it hurts, denormalize until it works”. Start with as little redundancy as possible, then carefully consider anything you want to denormalize and plan around the complexity it introduces. Materialized views can also help a lot with this.

The main issue I’ve run into following this approach has been with ORMs that don’t provide nice raw sql escape hatches–many times something you’ll jump to denormalize is easily solved with a better query, if your tools let you do so.
Maybe it's the ol' HN hug-of-death but I'm getting a mostly blank screen on the #ALL page with a single post from 'Krazy', contents a single < symbol, and nothing else. Browsing tabs doesn't change the main screen, seems to be no content here.

If it helps, I'm on Edge v.114.0.1823.43, Windows 10.

Great concept though, I like the idea of subscription money going to popular content creators but worry this simply encourages lazy posting of popular meme content, basically a monetised karma farm. The capitalists that we are, many will find a way to optimise post engagement against the algorithm and many will be pursuing hard cash rather than social interaction.
That's usually the (supposed) quote that is brought up when somebody questions this "don't give the user what they want, figure out what they need" notion.

And it sounds great, and makes you laugh the first time you hear it (but yawn the next 9,999 times...)

But think it through: how many customers really would have actually said that?

Wow, you guessed correctly! It was indeed, four guys, out of all the customers Ford had. If he had asked them, which he said he didn't.

But how many of those four would have really said that if they didn't happen to be drunk?

Wow, correct again! Indeed, zero.

So in fact this whole pithy little quote -- regardless of whether he said it or not -- is just shorthand for HAW HAW USERS DUM AS SHIT BRO LMAO
I agree it's a bad implementation. I can't navigate anywhere north of Center City because I don't know the street names there.
For some unknown reason this all still happens right out in the open without a major media narrative built around it. A few activists and lawmakers have tried but it's still not in the public consciousness.

But it's constant and blatant and somehow seems to still be legal.

The PE firm here is Cornell Capital.
Cool. I guess we'll keep emitting 600g eqCO2/kWh burning "green" gas for twenty years while we wait for solar to work at night, wind to blow all the time and storage to catch up, all while emitting massive amounts to build those technologies. We definitely have the time to wait for technology to save us. Fusion is right around the corner too, right?
After years of i3/bspwm, I switched to Gnome. I felt I was faster and more productive with a TWM, but after having to use Gnome at work, I realized that was not the case. In fact, Gnome being a full desktop environment instead of something I threw together brought me more productivity.
I was really impressed with the work that Noam Shazeer was doing at Google before he left (I worked on TPUs and frequently had to debug problems at scale for researchers). It was clear he was making some pretty impressive improvements, but the results weren't super obvious even to most people inside google, and they didn't translate to externally visible projects.

This isn't that dissimilar to working at any sufficiently advanced R&D outfit, which strongly demonstrates the principle "the future is already here but isn't evenly distributed".
When I bought a house in 2019 in an area with generally expensive homeowners insurance, Lemonade was the cheapest quote that I got by a wide margin. While I see other people in my area with traditional insurers complaining about having their premiums double or getting dropped completely, Lemonade has done one 15% raise on me in the last 4 years. Never had to make a claim though, so hopefully I don't regret it.
Couple caveats that I think should be included:

Use this for your own files where no one else has to find anything.

Avoid reorganizing other people's files.

If you do the organizing, it may make sense to you, but may not for other people.

Adding the decimals has the primary benefit of nothing being recognizable from before, so that new brain maps can be made, not horribly and painfully mangled, warped and twisted from the old maps.

If you have to navigate one of these systems and you didn't create it, use search and hope files are named well, and hope the creator didn't go overboard with making foldets. Otherwise, welcome to a little hell of clicking into a million empty folders and never being able to find anything.

Has anyone mentioned Aristotle yet? His abstraction of categorizability works, but is so obviously wrong once you have to accomplish any practical task.

For us, organic folder structure development for as long as possible, or avoiding folders as much as possible is better. Then, some intelligent and pragmatic decision making, and no hard and fast rules. We are human friendly first, where file systems are primarily intended for human navigation.
I find it pretty amusing how well these 3 criticisms apply to both LLMs and United States congresspeople. Dishonesty, frequent uselessness, and charisma—sounds like we've automated politicians!
I mean yeah, I don’t use Facebook. And the Association Board stood by the decision to discontinue use. The point is about critical mass and whether people will follow you, or whether you’ll just be alone in your shiny new social platform.

I’d you only care about communications with a certain level of critical importance, then phones and email still work fine.
My guess is that the main.py file is at the wrong location. Possibly dist/main.py aka dist.main:app.
Ahh my bad. I think we are in “violent agreement” then.
They are a few options in the debian/Ubuntu world but the name is escaping me right now.

Ubuntu and other also have some of the window sizing and management features built right in depending on what you are looking for
> the shell script is just for convenient of inserting the bin directory into the $PATH so just "python" or "pip" runs the right thing.

Or so any reference in the program you run that launches another binary or loads a DLL relying onnthe environment gets the right one, etc. There are some binaries you can run without activating a venv with no problem, and others will crash hard, and others will just subtly do the wrong thing if the conditions are “right” in your normal system environment.
I guarantee within the next 5 years an article amounting to "We asked GPT if we should arrest this guy and it said yes" will appear just like it has for the unverified facial recog matches on POCs.
Depends on what you mean by Solargraph, because it's kind of a large project. If you mean their typechecking, then definitely not, because it's not using a Ruby parser. If you mean the general feedback, then yeah potentially.

Rubocop yes if it ends up using YARP as a new backend.

Either way, I would suggest you check out ruby-lsp, which is definitely going to benefit from this speed, and soon.
Anything like Wirecutter is good until the marketers catch up with it.

Even consumer reports is gamed; they test toilets by flushing golfballs and whatnot and if you talk to plumbers, they recommend different brands.
> How does one keep tabs on startups?

Keep an eye on notable people! They are the one driving the trends, industry direction, and narratives.

You can also create Google Alerts. I'm sure there are other alternates as well. https://www.google.com/alerts

And, in general - read news!
And scammers are using AI generated voices: https://www.npr.org/2023/03/22/1165448073/voice-clones-ai-sc...
No shame at all should be expected from sharing something you worked for that can help people (including me)
> I'll never get this argument. If all you do is give bullet lists to chatgpt to get 50 pages of elaborated text just give me the damn bullet list. We'll both save time and CPU cycles

Some communication is intended to inform, some is intended to persuade... And often, the speaker doesn't even really know which they are dealing with.
Thats a very broad statement to make. there are plenty of drugs where the last thing you want to take is that drug again anytime soon and yet have therapeutic effects on your mental health.
>While it’s not clear if Microsoft will ever make these chips available to its Azure cloud customers, the software maker is reportedly planning to make its AI chips available more broadly inside Microsoft and OpenAI as early as next year.

Whatever the product outcome, Microsoft's privacy-bashing practices from the past many years mean that these chips will certainly not be just chips as we know 'em.
>It’s American culture which includes everyone that wants to participate. I don’t know why you associate that with white supremacy.

I'm not associating American culture with white supremacy. You are using the exact same rhetoric that white supremacists use. I don't know if you are just trolling me, if you are a legitimate white supremacist, or if you are just completely ignorant of your rhetoric.

In case it is the latter, I will be clear and direct and tell you that white supremacists use the same terms and phrases you use about "interlopers" waging "war" against and "destroying liberal western tradition and culture". If you aren't one, you really should be more mindful about how you speak on this subject. There are ways to convey your views without coming off like a bigot trying to watch their words which is exactly what you sound like in these last few comments.
Also, there's the whole "infield" party, that's different than the people in the stands.... and I had to just look it up, but 80K people can get in. [1]

[1] https://www.kentuckyderby.com/blog/style/the-kentucky-derby-...
This attack enables something else: quietly and unobtrusively recovering the private key of the card, effectively cloning it without the owner’s knowledge. It would be interesting to know whether the 65 minutes must be continuous or whether 13 times 5 minutes would be sufficient. The latter may be achievable.
That's great idea! Today we have some integrations (https://resend.com/docs/integrations) available, but it requires you to use a separate service.
Nice cover story to hide your ~totally existing~ time machine ;)
> how can you “fork” a security?

Exactly the same way you fork a non-security. Security is a legal designation, not a description of how a particular asset is implemented (in a forkable structure like a blockchain).

> What is the common enterprise when forking a PoW chain?

The developers/promoters of the fork, potentially.
For the LED side channel threat model, how expensive would it be to mitigate? Is it simply a matter of putting a few (more?) capacitors in the circuit?

A roll of electrical tape also seems like a reasonable mitigation in the field for the truly paranoid.
It's one thing that productivity is increased, it's another that people are actually getting better off because of that improved productivity.
> The tricky part of this proposal is that I’ve encountered many data modellers in my career who can offer the “denormalized” option, but few … nay, none who could tell me what the properly normalized data model was.

We have a data model like User has many Xs and Ys, both Xs and Ys have a foreign key to the User via user_id. The normalized version would be User has many Ys through Xs. We denormalize and store user_id on both for performance reasons. This seems like a) so common, b) so straightforward a refutation of this claim that I must be misunderstanding the author.
That looks promising, I'm currently looking at Sendgrid and Mailgun.

2 points I would bring :

- You need a cheaper plan. Mailgun have their flex plan that's 0$ for 1000 emails per month, and then 1$ for any extra 1000. It would cost more to send 50k emails, but I'm not there yet, I need a cheap starter plan with a lot less emails. My total infra cost is going to be around 30$, so I'm not going to drop an extra 66% to send maybe 1000 emails per month.

- If I reach my plan limits, you need to still deliver my emails and I' ll happily pay for them. Your FAQ says :
If you exceed your plan limits, you will be notified and given the option to upgrade to a higher plan. If you don’t upgrade and repeatedly exceed your plan, your account may be temporarily deactivated.

My platform relies on emails to register users, MFA backup and transactions invoices. So if my email provider doesn't send my emails, my platform is broken. Yes, I could "just" keep an eye on my usage, look at it multiple times per day. I could also take some of my time to put some monitoring in place to wake me up at 3AM if there's a spike in traffic and I need to upgrade my plan.

Or, I can do none of that and register to a Mailgun Flex plan, or a 20$ Sendgrid plan, and not spend my time babysitting my email provider. Both Mailgun and Sendgrid allow going over plan quota and just charge you a premium. Don't not deliver emails, you're an email provider, that's disruptive.
If I was in a room with someone who said "I think the world would be better off if everyone in this room except me were dead", I think you'd understand my nervousness around and dislike of the person.

You said there should be 6.9 billion less people on the planet and when asked if you'd be one of the 0.1 billion remaining people you said yes and basically acknowledged you'd already said too much. If that's what you left up, I shudder at whatever this [1] might have been

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36166458
Private equity, as a concept, just means a firm or group of people that owns something. We're posting these comments right now on a website owned by a private equity firm. Technically if I sell my lawn service to some guy with an LLC it's private equity.

Private Equity, as a distinct industry, is fully engaged in looting of the type contemplated by the principal-agent problem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal–agent_problem
Or you recognize that the product area it's in, and size the business to market and make it efficient for a long term run (probably growing shrinking according some metric of market adoption gap, demographics, household growth...). But that's crazy talk.
This is the actual, realizable AI risk: combining several badly understood complex systems that shape populations and lives.

Not the Skynet.
This is all true for getting information from Google or other places. The same "critical reasoning" skills are required here, except the interaction is slightly different.
> Religious fundamentalism, racism, homophobia, and outright Nazism are taking over a huge portion of rural America.

This is a massive mischaracterization. Do you have first-hand experience with these people? I specifically have an issue with your phrasing: "taking over". It may be more common, relatively, to find this sort of thing in rural areas, but that does not mean it's taking over.
Wait, I thought the Instant Pot just was a pressure cooker?

Or by pressure cooker do you mean a "on the stove double boiler-like" setup?
Subtle Differentiation (or why there are no 10x products in fintech)
Right, but past violations of the law have nothing to do with how an asset should currently be regulated, which is what this thread is about.
You seem to be getting downvoted but your comment gelled with me. I always wanted to get into a "true" tiling window manager but could never quite give up having some level of finer grain control just for whenever.

I've ended up really happy with rectangle + karbiner elements for the "hyper key" style mod to effectively end up with the bulk of what I want out of a TWM but still vanilla drag and drop if I want.

Between that + spaces I'm about as happy as I think I could be with my window layout these days and can't imagine changing that much any time soon.

I was really happy when they made the padding between windows easily configurable. That said from comments here I think I might give Yabai a go and see how I get on.
Yoshua Bengio, Andrew Ng, Anrej Karpathy, and many other of the top researchers in the field do not believe these models are stochastic parrots, they believe they have internal world models and prompts are methods to probe those world models. Stochastic parrots is one of the dumbest takes in AI/ML.
> I know exactly what consciousness is based on my experience with it, even though I could not possibly give a comprehensive account of everything consciousness entails.

Not sure if personal experiences count. Generally, we laugh at people who talk about esoteric experiences.

So a simple explanation could be that consciousness is an illusion?

Or put differently, is there any phenomenon that needs the assumption of consciousness?

The way I experience myself could be just the history of experiences. So there is something that the brain can refer to.
But if someone sold ibuprofen as "aspirin", doctors would rightfully decry the move as likely to get someone killed. It's a generic but it has a specific meaning.

Selling soda-lime glass as "pyrex" has gotten plenty of people injured, but evidently none severely enough to sue Corning's pants off.
The difference is that they can't legally collect data _on americans_, so they need to outsource it to private companies. Non americans have no rights so they can just spy on them (through the cloud act for example).
Just FYI, https://www.resend.com should have a 301 to https://resend.com
There is a Murex builtin with the same name: https://murex.rocks/docs/commands/open.html

This naming conflict is actually one of my regrets within Murex. I was a couple of years into development on this shell before I obtained a mac test system. I think most of the Murex users in the early days were also Linux users too. So I wasn't aware of the conflict until there was already too much code written in Murex to be worth the risk renaming the builtin.

However can mitigate this by running `exec open ...` -- you can set that as an alias as well, eg

alias o=exec open
My somewhat limited understanding of astrophysics is that the source material for the solar system dictates what class of star can form. Supernovas create a certain range of star types and also produce heavy atomic weights.
Always a fun read. I wind up revisiting it every year when the derby comes around (last month). The timing felt random here until I came across the other HN thread discussing Ralph Steadman and beer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36307276

Funny to see how things on the front page all fit together.
Stochastic parrots have nothing directly to do with consciousness. You might consider reading the paper or at least the definition on Wikipedia more carefully.

As far as your statement regarding consciousness goes, it's glib to say that no one has any reference point for what consciousness, thinking, or feeling are. We all have our own lived experience to draw on for intuition and guidance to inform our thinking, which is invaluable. We can relate our qualitative perception of these phenomena to other things in the world, where a reasonable person can form the hypothesis that "matrix multiplication" is unlikely to be conscious, to think, or to feel by dint of it being an abstract mathematical concept, since there is no precedence for an abstract mathematical concept exhibiting any of these qualities. Indeed, the only things in our lived experience which can plausibly be said to be conscious, to think, or to feel are biological organisms, of which a computer is not.
Likely your stated and revealed preferences are different. A place I noticed this was tech people (who are not in ad-tech) talking about advertisements: "Just describe the thing to me and if I like the specs and functionality, I'll buy it" but then when they go to buy the thing it's more of the thing that's not doing that and any time anything does that it's "oh that's cool but if it did X" but then the thing they end up buying won't do X either.

The best way to get people to interact with you a certain way is to reward them for interacting with you that way, and you likely don't. Not because that's a failure of you but it's just how people (all of us) act.

The world isn't a co-operative multi-tasking OS. We're more like the human body: a multi-agent conglomerate whose component organisms communicate via signals that are filtered and processed. Sometimes a pathogen mimics signals well enough. Other times we detect it. But the system wouldn't work if every participant trusted the counterparty.
How about, why do we even care what "rando dude from PayPal Payout™" preaches?
I made an extension provides few options to effortlessly condense lengthy articles into concise summaries or uncover the underlying intentions behind tweets, emails, posts, or articles. It works across all languages and even can be used as a translator.

I'm wondering if you guys will consider such tool for your daily routine. Any feedback is much appreciated.

Cheers!
Liviu
It is wonderful to use instead of an oven since it doesn't heat up the whole room and you can pressure cook dry beans without soaking to fully done in about 20 - 30 minutes.
Or boiled up as it may be, they get nice and hot inside.