skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only reason we're even discussing the topic is because search is so poorly implemented in client operating systems. Tags suck, hierarchical structures suck, everything that isn't search sucks. Search still kind of sucks, but it sucks much more because the search available on your own computer for your own files is about thirty years behind the state of the art.
Emotional intelligence and emotional control are different. They're separate concepts, though I'd bet they correlate a bit.

It's possible to be emotional and out of touch.

It's possible to be stoic and receptive.
So, in other words, you want "longer lasting storage that can be searched even when the original goes down"? What's the difference between that and what you are imagining?
Dear god, bitter much? Who cares how much they are making? Apollo was $13/year (years ago it was $9/year). That absurdly low for the value Apollo provided. It provided a living for ~1-1.5+ developers/others (backend dev has a day job IIRC). They had server costs and various other costs (backend, icon art work, etc). If we were talking about a manipulative/scummy app it would be different but Apollo was top of the line. One of the best/better apps I’ve used on iOS.

If anyone deserved to be “wealthy” then it was this dev for the time and effort he put into the app. Even so, can you not see how it’s untenable to pay for the API even he wanted to? At rough estimates he was making $650,00 a year (~50K yearly subs IIRC). That’s 552,500 after apple’s tax, and then he has to pay the backend developer, the servers, icon designers, himself and the business has other costs/expenses. Yes, he is probably doing quite well for himself but this is a case where I really don’t see a problem with that. At $20M a year he would have to jack up his prices and drop the free tier (or jack up prices further) and a lot of those people are only halfway through their subscription at best, how does he afford them? Remember Reddit told him this year that they had no plans to change the API this year.

You want to make it out as if he is wealthy beyond compare and rallying a mob against poor, old, non-profitable reddit. Reddit chooses to be non-profitable. Their headcount is high, they’ve made increasingly unpopular/anti-community changes, and they refuse to provide decent tools to moderators after years of promising to and failing to deliver. Reddit primed the pump then took away one of few places where reddit can still shine, 3rd party apps, reddit did this to themselves. They have ignored every single off-ramp afforded to them after making this bad decision and have now been caught lying multiple times. Reddit has but to look in the mirror to know who to blame for this.
Hmm I had a similar experience but with different results. I took fairly hard but common problems that I had to do and started timing myself.

First time it would be like 2 hours, then I'd get it down to 1.25 hours. Then 45 mins. Then finally I got it down to 18 minutes and couldn't get it any faster. I learned so many tricks and it really burned into my brain all the different faster ways of doing things.

I noticed at work I got way, way faster. I ended up outperforming my entire team, by myself. I think mostly because A) I now had a habit of working fast B) I viewed it as a competition, so no water cooler talking C) I didn't have to think about how to do it, I just knew, and I knew how to do it quickly.

It literally took me from making 75k to 400k in 2 years. I just applied that to everything I could, so when doing interviews I was able to just flood the interviewer with the depth of my knowledge and how fast I worked.

Now I really put in a tremendous effort into this, not just a few hours, it was an obsession for me. But once I did it I got those skills for life. Even now that I'm rusty I still go really fast.

Also, my code quality itself is quite good, because I'll write it as fast as I can (frequently only takes 15 mins), then refactor like crazy (5 to 10 mins) and still be an hour faster than everyone else.
If anything, the mods are getting a break from their stressful lives as Reddit mods.
> Tangentially, I'm curious if you could speak to what it's like creating content as a third party author? Are you given prompts regarding the tone or content of your work?

Happy to share! The first piece I wrote for GitHub's ReadME Project was called "Publishing your work increases your luck" (https://github.com/readme/guides/publishing-your-work) and I was able to write it as a result of an interview I did with them previously.

Before I wrote that first piece, I reached out to the ReadME Project and told them that I had wanted to tell the story of my past year of overcoming fear and embracing putting myself out there. They agreed that that fit in their "developer stories" section and did an interview of me, which they published here: https://github.com/readme/stories/aaron-francis.

After that they reached out and said "sometimes we have our developer stories have a corresponding guide, do you want to write one" and so that's where the Publishing guide came from. I wrote it all for them and then they have a full on team of editors, proofreaders, illustrators, etc to help push it over the finish line. Before I wrote it I gave them an idea / outline of what I was gonna say, to get the green light. Their editing has been very light, more flow than content. Like... move this sentence up; you repeated yourself there. That kinda thing.

The only time I had a piece really torn apart was this one https://handsontable.com/blog/modularizing-to-improve-the-de... and it was because my voice just didn't fit their blog at all. What you see on the site there is about 35% of what I originally wrote before it was completely toned down. It happens though! It's their blog, so it's gotta fit their voice. (Coincidentally that was the last piece I wrote for them. Ha!)
The reality is we all would love an AI that improves on its own. Look at all those chatgpt examples that were shared because it got something wrong. If only we could make gpt learn then it would only get it wrong once that would make it so much more useful.

And therein is the problem we all want this. But as soon as we allow the AI to learn on its own we have introduced the alignment problem. And of course on day 1 nobody will see gpt correcting itself on simple questions as an issue. But on day 365 after it’s been learning at an exponential rate and we’ll have all realized that it’s too late because it’s learned faster than we have.
>Some of the serialized data was stored as XML (over 1M lines!), which was slow to parse and load. Rich modified the program to serialize the data as Ruby code, which loaded much faster

So he took a data format designed for human readability and converted it to a data format that's designed purely to be read by Ruby and people are surprised that it's faster?
I don't think the repetition is a problem. He's using a local model for human-assisted writing with pre-generated embeddings - he can use essentially an arbitrary number of embedding calls, as long as it's more useful for the human. So it's just a question of whether that improves the quality or not. (Not that the cost would be more than a rounding error to embed your typical personal wiki with something like the OA API, especially since they just dropped the prices of embeddings again.)
What's funniers is that people that use an app are more likely to pay (pay for the app and by extension pay for reddit)
This is spot on, but its missing a few important aspects:

Banking used to be a boring, low paying profession. PE was basically non-existent. The whole of banking and Private Equity fire machine has been fed by 2 factors that were absent ~50 years ago:

1) ultralow interest rates for extended periods of time
2) de-risking of hubris via bailouts (most recent case: SVB).
3) Regulation creep. If you look at the industries where PEs are investing heavily, its not where competition is fiercest, but instead they look for captive markets, particularly those with licensing requirements (Like healthcare). Its easier to buy into a company when competition is not likely to show up organically next door.

If you take that secret sauce off the dish, you can't quite cook the stuff that we have going on today.
For folks who are considering Kicad, but not sure if it will be useful at a professional level...

We professionally design, engineer and manufacture accessible technology for disabled veterans and we are also developing robotic systems for industrial automation.

We have a half-dozen active projects running on Kicad and have been using it for almost 4 years now.

As with anything, there have been occasional frustrations with updates but overall, the tool consistently gets better over time.

The main decision to select Kicad was based on the plain text representation of project state which enables (1) improved workflows with Git, (2) scriptable bulk edits (3) simpler, sharable extensions / plugins and (4) easier continuous integration for build artifacts.
It’s a common short hand.

> In the field of finance, the term private equity (PE) refers to investment funds, usually limited partnerships, which invest in and restructure private companies.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_equity
The US is also extremely segregated, and a substantial percentage of black Americans live in those confederate states that have not expanded Medicaid yet. Texas has a higher maternal mortality rate than Iran.

Geography is a greater determinant of health than race. People die a full 7 years earlier on average in Mississippi than California or Massachusetts, and 6 years earlier in West Virginia.

There's a clear correlation with income here, but one can easily argue that both income and life expectancy are downstream of policy. Red state policies are simply bad for your health and your wallet.
Google is an ad company whereas Reddit is something I'm not quite sure.
Yes, like the definition of Nazi and the fact that Goodwin's law no longer means you lose the argument.
This is actually a great way to protest. If the subreddits going dark for two days isn’t enough, start posting porn or other bad type of content to popular subs that don’t have many mods.
I know there's articles and comments saying "why", so here's a couple opinions off the top of my head:

- retro games cater to the demographic who would know who Grimace is.

- it makes news for novelty, if it was just another webgame there probably wouldn't be articles about it

- the target platform has virtual machines for every modern OS and the web, so maximum reach.

- the target platform has had decades of enthusiast development support, making IDEs and libraries.

- the target platform is fixed. No fear of some instruction or device being deprecated during development or in the future.

- the devs you could contract this out to would most likely have a depth of knowledge on the system. And any of their portfolio could be evaluated against others in a 1:1 fashion.

- It has "just enough" capability to make a game that can entertain a broad audience for the time it needs to.

- why not? just some fun.
The era where they banned fatpeoplehate before the jailbait subreddit. Good times.
This is why I don't use Obsidian. Without giving root to an aggregate of random git repos, the most important features are very subpar. I have no idea what I would even do with a fancy star graph or whatever it is, and VS Code has much better search.

Edit: Also, why is the search bar for searching all notes so buried, requiring so much effort to open? Is that because it works so poorly?
I mean... yeah. In the meantime you haven't taken anything from that person; they are performing on a public street. On the contrary, similar to a packed restaurant, your presence might signal to others that there is something worth experiencing where you and your friends are crowded. This could in turn benefit the person you're crowded around by bringing more wallets within earshot. So you haven't actually given nothing, you've given your attention, and you've advertised for that person as if you were wearing a giant chicken suit spinning a sign and shouting, "Hey everyone, check out this person! Their music is good enough to attract a crowd!"

The fact that your friends in this scenario would weirdly shower you with expensive gifts after inviting them to watch a street musician perform doesn't negate the free advertising you've provided.
Samuel Delany also has that fever dream wandering style of prose for me.
If somebody managed to raise the money to make multiple human centipede films, or "a serbian film", anything is possible.
No difference, I'm just saying the tools to make such copies are not as interesting as a findable place with those copies.
My personal feeling is that higher level layers should be built on top of strong lower level layers, and we don't have that yet. Scan is of course useful, and there are a ton of them in Vello, but there are other things that are somewhat scan-like but use low-level primitives in a different way, like my stack monoid work.

Out of scope for this blog post, but I also believe there is tremendous potential for hardware that broadly resembles existing GPUs (same register layout, instruction scheduling, memory hierarchy) but with fewer limitations and performance problems. For example, the queue that's currently hardcoded between vertex and fragment shaders could be exposed as a general purpose queue primitive, allowing more dynamic scheduling of multiple different kernels in parallel. I haven't done a deep enough dive into hardware to make concrete proposals, but as I explore, I get more and more indications that what we have access to is a fairly limited subset of what's possible.
If they are they didn't tell me. I explained this more fully in a few other threads!
I've used this sentence as an example with my children, showing how with language you can demonstrate pace or frenzy. A battle charge is absolute chaos. There's no time for sentence structure, it's all wild glances from one thing to another.
Google has not traditionally done well with in-house copies of existing competitors.
> at the level of a Marc Andreesen [sic], without actually having to be Marc Andreesen [sic].

Oh, I guess we are in a AI bubble then. There are so many wonderful thinkers right now in the AI space to aspire to be like, but the only reason to aspire to be like Marc Andreessen is because you want AI to be the next crypto.

Better find a good coat, since AI winter will be here sooner than I'd thought.
Only after they have been fed human language, which was the point.
Does the spike in ocean heating mean we have breached a climate tipping point?
When you reach the level of scale where you need to move to distributed systems, you pretty much need to re-platform anyways. That's usually the ideal time to make a decision like this.
Truly an indictment of those who build golf courses, by which metric Florida is utterly damned.
I mostly work on MacOS these days and previously my general purpose text editor wax Textmate: https://github.com/textmate/textmate

Last official release was 2021, so I looked for something more regularely updated, and found CudaText. Definitely very Sublime-ish, and I like it so far.
The microarchitectures that I saw and the ones that I hope to one day see [pdf]
I can never decide if it's reasonable that they're off by default (they break more things, and they're not "ads") or if it's an obvious missed opportunity to improve millions of people's lives.

Either way: yes, annoyances++. It helps a lot.
It's hard to say why, but Clancy Brown is the one person I can see with the physicality of The Judge. Maybe it's because of his role as The Kurgan in Highlander.
IKEA bets on remote interior design as AI changes sales strategy
Well it's not robbery as there seems to be no electoral pressure to abolish it, and it's generally in line with Australian concept of mateship and supporting your neighbour.

A minimum wage worker pays more like 1k in taxes per year towards healthcare, still somehow "$1000 for a couple of stitches" strikes people more than "$1000 for nothing at all", and somehow people seem to be grateful to the "free healthcare" for getting a 4-man 10-hour surgery "for free" rather than their neighbours. Go figure.
FWIW Mine was working as was a peer who works @ AWS.
Because it depends entirely on the use case. There are plenty of cases where Java will be faster than c++ purely due to the available libraries.
Ask HN: Are We in a Tech Bubble?
I’m not even talking about the stock market, but the industry as a whole.

It’s things like the Reddit fiasco that got me thinking, can some of the biggest companies even be profitable ?

Without a doubt they provide a service, and they have users, but what if a lot of those users cannot be converted to customers ?

Uber, the plethora of food delivery apps, Reddit, Twitter etc.

Those companies seem to rely on cheap cash to subsidize their operations. But, can they turn their users into customers ?

Same things with the AI hype, sure chatGPT is good, and has a lot of potential, but will enough people pay $ to keep the GPUs running ?

Maybe I am in the frugal minority but I don’t pay for any of those services. Uber is the only one I take every so often, but if the prices went up I would switch to taxi without a second thought.
Slightly off-topic, but I am just starting to learn about the field, and saw

> GPT4 still projects information into some highly non-linear latent space and samples from that

Do you have more information/know where I can find things to read about the "highly non-linear" part of that? I've been reading some stuff[1][2][3] about smaller models, and my impression has been that the latent space is shockingly linear for those ones. But counterexamples would be informative, especially if it's something that only happens with larger models.

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[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.15162

[2] https://www.neelnanda.io/mechanistic-interpretability/othell...

[3] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1610.01644.pdf
Ya, we basically get what we vote for. Our political leaders are fiscally not disciplined because we demand them not to be. At best, fiscal discipline is used to fight the otherside’s agenda, like what happened during Bill Clinton’s term coupled with the Republican revolution of 94. That led to a surplus.
heh, good point! Most of the older ones are using GameBoy-Online[0] instead, since that was the GB Studio default for a while. But I think everything since GBStudio 3 should be binjgb.

[0] https://github.com/taisel/GameBoy-Online
Jon Stewart's journalistic integrity used to better on his comedy show, where he didn't talk over guests.

I find it funny that he thinks it's perfectly fine to squeeze as much profit out of your customers as possible if you're providing a non-essential service like he does. However, if you're an egg producer and go through the trouble of protecting your hens from bird flu, you shouldn't be allowed to profit from the increased demand for your eggs when your competitor's hens die out. That's a great way encourage people to pursue exclusively non-essential lines of work.
Real value is something that can pay your bills :)

Sometimes prestige does it, too, e.g. when you're hired to a better position on a next job, due to your prestigious title, a part in a famous project, etc.
At some point in that process you should be able to get onto Medicaid and/or Social Security Disability. Of course that can take a while and it's not easy for a patient to deal with cancer treatments and navigate those systems simultaneously.
Weird, I didn't notice the actual outage at all except high ping to a non-AWS server/IP on the west coast. Normally the latency is ~85ms, today it has been >170ms. SSH is basically unusable at that latency and even bandwidth is very low (not sure how that could be).
Yip, really grateful for it. I went into a public Queensland hospital recently and didn't pay a cent. Service was really good too!
I believe it. That said, even when trying to adopt that frame of mind, it was still basically impossible for me to identify anything I had said that would have been at all offensive or upsetting even to an extremely sensitive person.

Who knows. I still kinda think it must have just been a mistake, or maybe something I said was taken extremely, extremely out of context (and if I lack the imagination to see how, well, shame on me). I mostly just find it humorous because this is the only ban I can remember getting in almost three decades online.
The generalization is absurd and it's not intellectually honest to defend it.
I've been using the cached version in the Google search results. It doesn't always work but I've had good luck with reddit during the blackout
What makes price controls on medicine work is the other side of the equation: Massive subsidies to supply. How expensive is it to become a doctor in Europe? How many are trained every year? Who builds the hospitals? Ultimately it's not a matter of price controls, but turning a large percentage of the whole thing into a public service. And even then, it's not hard to find some issues, it just works better, in most ways, that the US' bad mix of public and private incentives and regulation.

When we discuss price controls, we tend to be talking about situations where the supply of goods is provided by the private sector. Then price controls often lead to supply shortfalls and black markets. It's easy to understand if we make labor to be the good with a price ceiling. Many american companies would love programmers at $20/hr, but they can't find any. Imagine that the government caps said salaries at $20: We'd see fewer people going into the field vs something easier, or that just was allowed to pay more. The companies that still get $200+ worth of value for programmers would still want to pay more, but without the supply, they'd try to skirt regulations by becoming more competitive in indirect ways. Maybe your benefit package would include a mansion, and an expensive company car, and a live-in staff. Keeping prices down when demand vastly exceeds supply is very hard.

There is such thing as excessively high prices though, via monopolies and regulations that force waste. I think that's a bigger reason for the US' healthcare pricing problems than the magic of government healthcare. What socialized medicine does is make sure that even the poorest can afford it, which can be seen as a valid objective onto itself.
Very interesting blog. I might be n = 1 as a software engineer who occasionally reads patents to learn how they work, but I also have some experience with the patent system and can read "patentese" better than most. They often leak more details than their papers.

I think a key point here is that Alice is clear as dirt on its intentions. SCOTUS could have come up with a much cleaner test but didn't, and has had the option to clarify their thinking several times since then but has never taken it. I guess patents aren't "sexy" enough.
Even so it's a maddeningly complicated system. If you end up in front of a doctor outside of your magic network, you might end up with a sudden several thousand dollar bill instead of $400.

Minor mistakes and games can also create odd billing situations that are opaque and difficult to fight.
These data structures are not mutually exclusive, see the paper by Crowley linked elsewhere in the discussion. You could use, e.g., a piece table with a gap buffer for descriptors, or a piece table with a tree for descriptors.
Then why are “Incels” a thing?

Then why are there dating coaches - always for men?

Then why online dating platforms always have a lot more men than women?
Fascinating. Thanks for answering that aspect of my post. So similar excuse if you were to exercise a right to be forgotten? (Would that even apply in this context? Or is that what you’re describing?)
Firefox reader mode works. Just tap the icon in the address bar to toggle it on and off for any page.

When in reader mode tap the menu icon and select the option to adjust reader mode settings to change font.