skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And many other areas. I really enjoyed how they removed some features I used from their cloud offering and then made it a paid upgrade.
Basically, except that it's so unlikely for a worker to achieve truly high status (basically, true financial independence, fat FIRE in today's terms) that it might as well be close to impossible.
Is it not mind blowing that someone who doesn't know how to code or at least doesn't write code professionally is able to still produce something valuable that improves their daily life through code?

We spend so much time building tools with code that other people can use to write code - ITTT, Airtable, Retool etc.

Now we can cut out these middlemen!
Here are some options:

- Streamlit for very simple frontend, you can code in Python.

- TailwindCSS + Vue. Very easy to pickup and you can learn only a small part of it to get your website working. (There are many templates of components to get you going quickly).

I'm actually the opposite, I know some frontend but struggle to get backend working for my side projects.
"Would you like to change your status to suicidal?"
I always like this better than true notebooks for a lot of purposes, but it's long overdue that we standardize on a format here. Knitr and RMarkdown never caught on, and Org Mode and VS Code both just do their own thing. It's a shame there isn't something more "portable".
As long as the synthetic data is good, how can you tell the difference between it and human generated data?

This paper has one huge hole in it: it assumes that content on the internet is not moderated and that the training dataset will never evolve to take rating into consideration. On social media, the form of moderation is # of likes. Once detected, bots that output bad data will be banned and content deleted.

The key issue I have with the paper is for good synthetic data it is impossible to tell it apart from human generated data.
>Likewise many dating profiles say "I want a man who will spoil me."

"Looking for a man who is $trait, $trait, and generous."
Reddit (the company) controls the platform. They can just install new mods if the current mods arent doing their job. I doubt most users would even notice that the mod names have changed.
Tight labor market*

* except the tech market the majority of this audience participates in
Is it easier to get a job now that we have many systems for handling applicants? Because it seems like hiring and getting hired is harder, or at least takes many more applications than in the past. Maybe there’s something similar where we’re spending more time tweaking filters to get to a manageable pool, but then accidentally filter down to a group of similar, yet incompatible people. We’re probably not great at judging what we want and maybe more constraints actually force us to consider people we otherwise wouldn’t and discover what we didn’t know we wanted by introducing some randomness. Perhaps dating apps would be more effective if it initiated the matchups and neither side was flooded with a list of people to filter through.
How silly the name sounds depends on whether it brings to mind a style of jazz or a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles henchman.
I use pypoetry for dependency management in Python projects. It helps a lot, but doesn't resolve the issue of pip packages to fail installing because you're missing system libraries. At least it specified the Python version to use. With many open source ML repos I have to guess what Python version to use.

I'd really like to see more Docker images (images, not Dockerfiles that fail to build). Maybe flatpack or snap packages do the trick, too.
People who make this claim have a poor understanding of the supply/demand dynamic. Just because inflation is caused by supply constraints doesn't mean you can't fix it by reducing demand. Think about it like a container with an input (supply) and an output (demand) for water. You don't want the container to overflow or to dry up. Too much input without enough output will cause it to overflow. Too much output without enough input will cause it to dry up.

Let's say that this inflation is caused by supply constraint (not enough input). The container is starting to dry up. So what do you do? You have two options: you can either increase the input (fix the supply constraint) or reduce the output (reduce demand) to match the low input. The second option is the one the Fed has chosen as the first is beyond their purview and likely too complex and poorly understood to be immediately fixed at all.
Well, no, mods on Reddit aren't democratic in the slightest, it's a basic dictatorship where the topmost mod has all the power. And in a dictatorship the best you can hope for is a BDFL, but BDFLs arise when a community starts small (and thus doesn't attract malevolent dictators) and congeals around someone benevolent. You can't take a large community and appoint a new dictator, because it will overwhelmingly attract exactly the type of person who shouldn't be the dictator. In practice, this will likely result in more malevolent dictators, not fewer.
I have a game, whenever I see a familiar brand or local franchise selling consumer products or services whose quality seems to have declined recently, first I try to guess if they've been PE funded, then I check by going to their website and looking for the "investors relations" page, or googling "<company> investors". It's crazy how often it's the case.
Could you elaborate? What kinds of problems are solvable within say 2 hours?
Not really the same thing. Notebooks are a tool for interactive programming, maybe even literate programming if you want. They happen to be most commonly used in data science and data analysis work, where interactivity is important.
This seems like a nice approach. Mine is similar. I refactor often, by moving stuff from a lower level of discipline to a higher one:

Enclose scripts in functions within the notebook, which minimizes the clutter of hidden state. I also have a habit of not walking away from a notebook without doing a "restart kernel and run all cells" to make sure the notebook works. I'm not dealing with giant data sets, so this doesn't cost me much.

Frequently used functions go into .py files, using auto-reload to keep things synchronized while I'm working on them.

Mature .py files that I might want to re-use in different projects get turned into pip-installable packages. The notebooks become informal tests of the packages.

I've never used venv, and never encountered dependency version problems. Some of the dependency horror stories may be obsolete due to the maturation of the big packages such as numpy and matplotlib.
Self play in RL is signal enough that machines can learn on their own. How we train models and what class of models is important. No doubt the paper makes good points but I don't think the reality is so black-and-white.
I didn't mean that dollar stores had moved down market; I meant that dollar stores moved in, split the low end of the market out of the old "regular grocery store" and now the medium grocery buyer is left with the choice of dollar store groceries or some kind of grocery delivery service/meal kit/personal chef.

If this doesn't make sense, maybe it's a metaphor. Does it seem like the normal way of doing things from 20 years ago has now been replaced with an absolute garbage version, and a version you can't afford?
It’s cool to see Tesla’s connector becoming a standard. Great that there’s some shared effort there for the sake of making the transition to EVs smoother for everyone.
The main reason is not necessarily because of the information presented today, but because of the years upon years of information the platform currently contains.

If I want to learn something technical (for example, music production) I'll search in google the thing I want to understand, then add the keyword `reddit`.

What the past few days has demonstrated to me, is how much of this information is on Reddit and how helpless I am without it, with all the main subreddits closed.

Furthermore, if I want to ask something technical I'll ask it on Reddit, and will almost always get an appropriate response. So it's been reliable for me as well.

Also, the fact that I don't need to create another account for a separate platform, just so I can ask a question about a new hobby I've just discovered. It's the fact that it's so centralised that makes it so valuable.
Black swan event?
I think it is just burst-y in development and a newer project. Last updates were in may.
Should voting by itself sort the good and bad content? So if the community knows things naturally the spam should fall down and good content be on top?
In the Senate, Biden’s spy pitch falls on deaf ears
> Wut? It sounds like you're talking more about dip pens than fountain pens?

No. These things don't happen all the time with fountain pens, but they can happen much more frequently than with ball point pens.
Amazon's cloud unit is considering AMD's new AI chips
I've read that even among female teachers theres a big difference in approach to misbehaving boys depending on if they had a male sibling or not. With declining fertility rates, you can imagine that being less and less common.
I'm not sure what smart sales are, but the older Jupyter Notebook interface had several optional plug-ins that let you control things like freezing cells from being re-executed, controlling cell execution order, etc.
They just use Bing user the hood and the results are awful. I use some browsers that default to Bing/DuckDuckGo and every time I can’t find something I switch to Google and find the answer right away.

Bing seems to surface a lot more unrelated or spam my websites at the top of the results.
Mattress subs?
There seems to be interest on HN when it comes to articles about Crowley and similar figures.

Can some one help me understand why it's popular with this audience?
There is work that is unpleasant but needs to be done (chasing raceconditions, memory leaks, etc.) - and there is grind, that kills all your love for the project. If it is the latter, I really do recommend to make a break and do something else. I tried both and grinding did not work out, but coming back fresh did and I usually immmediately spotted the problem, I otherwise would have wasted lots of energy on it.
It's likely that it's because you have specific design principles in mind, whereas if you don't know about design in programming you will be blown away that you can copy/paste commands and something works.

Otoh, if you want a function in less than 100 LoC that performs a complete download/parse/process/transform process to a Qdrant DB and makes this available on IPFS, using producer consumer queues, as few intermediate files as possible, allows starting/stopping caching, and multiprocessing where possible, you may have a a harder time. However it can still be enormously helpful to get the structure for this pretty close, with a few internet lookups to find appropriate packages to help out.
https://archive.is/W9t0E
It's now also (confusingly) known as PYREX, and here's their website: https://www.pyrex.eu/. I'm not sure if they can deliver to the US (because trademarks and stuff).
Even a cheap VPN service works fine.
Price inflation via shrinking packages is not hidden. It is measured and represented in inflation indices like the CPI.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-12/measuring-shrinkflati...
Thanks for letting me know. I've actually been pushing a couple updates today to try to address this and figure out the right pressure or hold-time threshold before the slider activates. It's a tricky balance, but I just increased it to .85 or 300 ms, and hopefully that's a little better. I know that the mobile experience has some issues, but I'll try out some other solutions this week.

For now, if you accidentally marq a marqt when scrolling, you can set your marq back to neutral by sliding it somewhere near the middle of the marqt. It sort of acts like an undo.
> I'd bet most of us could name names.

Yes, anlmost every product and every retailer here in the UK !

“New packaging, same great taste” !

Grapes used to be 500g. Now they vary between 400g and 500g

Butter in smaller shops is 200g instead of 250g.

Plus hundreds of other examples
Jobs are still pretty easy to get if you have actual engineering and/or management skills.

Not so much if you’re a recruiter, product manager or have “DEI” in your title.
There’s a fundamental difference: Excel is knowable. If you want to find how it came up with a number you can click on the cell and see the formula. Not so with ChatGPT. You ask it to do a thing, it does it somehow. You ask it to do 100 rows of calculations, how can you know row 69 is correct? That ChatGPT corpus might lead it to think the number 69 is funny so it puts in a joke number. Yes, stupid contrived example but how can you know it won’t?
Wow. You really do attack everyone personally, don't you?
"I hate MSFT because they're mean to people I like, but if they're mean to people I don't like then I'll support it"
> “getting a large Rails app booting”

What does ‘booting’ exactly mean in the context of a web app (Rails)?
The Constitution says they don't. The US government only has the powers explicitly granted to it in the Constitution. Creating a central bank isn't one of those powers.
Hehe, I think many parents do tend to sweeten the deal for the youngest so they don’t have to deal with empty nest syndrome
Where am I supposed to put all the groceries? They have to stay on the scale, but the scale is very small.
The fact that you cannot interact with the real world without wrapping side effects is sufficient justification that OOP is easier to teach, IMO.

I'm a strong proponent of FP and agree (though I recognize I may be biased) that it's easy to learn with the right teacher, but that's a big caveat that isn't universalizable IMO
I had just such an engineering manager once confide to me that it was, for him, a comfy deal at his PE owned company. (n=1)
McDonald's plans to overtake Microsoft and Sony in their ploy to become the future gaming console of choice has been revealed.
I am curious, do you often put on eggs to boil and then walk away doing other things for an extended period of time?

I am usually still in the kitchen preparing the rest of the meal by the time the alarm rings, so turning off the stove is not a big inconvenience.
This is some truly horrible advice!

Finding a therapist is very very hard for most people - this is not your go-to when suicidal, this is something to prepare ahead of time.

SSRI's can cause suicidal thoughts in some people, but in the vast vast majority they eliminate them.

Those suicide hotlines are there to have someone to talk to, that's it. True they are not as good as a therapist, but they are better than nothing - and they give good advice.

The part about hospitalizations is troublesome because yes, they are incredibly invasive, and can really mess with people - but also there isn't really anything else we have available, mental health is not easily managed.
... are robotics not at all even on the horizon of your thoughts process?
The work from Voyager seems like an early PoC there already. Many hurdles of the past have been leaped over with ease lately in that area, so it's a glaring error to overlook it.
I'm no fan of Meta, but a lot of these questions seem unfair. They open by saying Meta let people download the model "rather than centralizing and restricting access to the underlying data, software, and model," which is true, but then they go on to essentially blame solely this act for enabling basically every possible malicious thing that one can do with an LLM. They also throw in an unsolicited jab at Stability because of deepfakes made with SD. (In fairness they do also mention wrongs enabled by OpenAI, though those are given much less emphasis.)

My point is, they seem to be strongly implying that they are heavily opposed to decentralization of these tools overall, which is a bummer. Decentralizing these models shouldn't be a crime. The cat was out of the bag as soon as research papers on LLMs were made public, and malicious actions were already possible with centralized OpenAI models. I don't blame Meta or Stability for the actions of their users.
I think they’re panicking after being devalued to 6b with hopes of IPOing.
This is where they could really come in. Automatically forward anyone who tries to access old one to new one. And they could even migrate the content already there.

Win-Win. New community gets the boost they deserve and old one gets to stay dark.
I found this paragraph so relatable:

> Personally, I like to put a single song on repeat for hours and hours, days even. It helps me zone in. Why does this admittedly strange behavior help me? I'm not sure exactly, but I've known it to be helpful for more than half my life. I like to get up early before the family is awake, close Slack, put my phone in Do Not Disturb mode, and work. I even put a Post-it note on my monitor with the task I'm focusing on to help keep me on track. Sometimes I can accomplish more in that quiet hour and a half than I can in the rest of the day.

Except for the post-it note, I do those exact things. These seem to be the essential pre-requisites to being very productive (for me):

1. Set aside some time to work on something specific (with clear goals and intentions).

2. Block all interruptions (messages and calls of any kind and other distractions).

3. Focus and get in the zone. I find that music helps a lot here, and generally for me it's electric music or songs with very subtle lyrics (almost dream-like). If the lyrics are too noticeable, they become a distraction.

The above works both for my personal projects and work. I work remotely and sometimes there are so many interruptions during the work day that I simply abandon everything and go do something else (a walk, groceries, work out, etc.). Then I catch up in the evening or during the weekend, when interruptions are at a minimum or completely absent for hours on end. Almost always I'm more productive in a couple hours like this than for entire days.

Finally, while I liked the article a lot, I disagree with the premise that projects _must_ be finished. It's fine not to finish a project, it's not failure at all. On the other hand, yes, there is a certain feeling of accomplishment that comes with reaching a level of "completeness" of a project.
https://archive.is/UooBb
What's the whole list now?

- 211 - local charities

- 311 - city maintenance

- 411 - phone directory, discontinued?

- 511 - traffic

- 611 - phone maintenance, discontinued?

- 711 - phone relay for disabled

- 811 - call before you dig

- 911 - general emergencies

- 988 - suicide

What else?
I'm the opposite. I want to like it, but it hurts my eyes to read.
It is up to me to do my own research and see whether people in my state or city are getting set to tank the economy on purpose because their politics are awful. This is actually not terrible advice. Hell, the rest of this post is just wall to wall facts.

I'm a bit at a loss here. I was getting all warmed up to try to have an argument with you but it appears you're probably right. Well, you can't win them all.
Don’t tell OP they can treat netflix shows as they do books…
I don't use it but I have heard both good things and bad things about it. One of the big limitations is the fact they use ngspice for their simulation and many models are encrypted. So lots of folks use it as a frontend for ltspice. TL;DR, it can be challenging, but there is support for it.
What do employees do when this happens? I mean, Elon has made working from home a fire able offense, so where do the employees go at 8am the day after eviction?
I hate how easy it is to get confused about what content on the page is even related to the original question. I have to get into my “Quora mindset” where I’m constantly double-checking that I’m not reading the response to a different random question injected into the original page.
I mean, obviously not, but we are experienced (more important, because we actually understand CS, computers, networking, etc. at least the competent engineers anyway) and knowledgeable enough to have robust testing, monitoring & observability and alerting, and mitigation strategies in place.
This is a weird thing to tie to graphic designers. Just because you noticed a graphic designer doing that doesn't mean it's a thing that's more commonly practiced among graphic designers than any other trade.
FlashAttention in PyTorch
A simplified implementation of FlashAttention in PyTorch for educational purpose.
> The bit about a Comanche warrior wearing the armor of a conquistador is also real

That was probably Iron Jacket [1] who is known for wearing conquistador armor that made him seem impervious to light arms fire.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Jacket
For me, a non-American, Bing Chat is totally useless. Every time I wanted it to help me with a search for some country-specific thing, no matter if I ask it in English or my language, it returns results about the USA.
Nice. I mostly use it for generating data, or getting high level general information about topics.
You'd think so, but it's the opposite. Just look at making friendships, nothing makes you a friend better than proximity, convenience, and timing (childhood friends hello?). Facebook friends? Yeah, not so much...
Not sure how well it scales if you need to provide a function definition for every conceivable use case of 'external data': functions": [
{
"name": "get_current_weather",
"description": "Get the current weather in a given location",
"parameters": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"location": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The city and state, e.g. San Francisco, CA"
},
"unit": {
"type": "string",
"enum": ["celsius", "fahrenheit"]
}
},
"required": ["location"]
}
}
]
I think the reality is that computer science is only tangentially useful preparations for a career as a software engineer.

There's some courses that are inarguably fundamental, some which "separate the good from the bad," but there's also many which are simply not practical, besides the fact that they teach you how to learn.

It's a flawed analogy but I'd liken it to mechanics vs automotive/manufacturing engineers. There's a good bit of overlap, but lots that isn't shared. And software engineering as an industry doesn't always do a good job differentiating between the two
There's one key mistake you're making in your assessment. That stimulus is not "spent-and-gone." That money continues to stay in circulation. You can see a graph of the monetary supply here [1]. And you can observe that inflation only started to get reigned in once the monetary supply started to decline. This is why many individuals tend to be against 'printing' money. It's not like people get a boost and things then go back to what they were before, but rather you now have trillions of more dollars floating about in the economy which will tend to drive prices up.

I'd also encourage you to look at the financials reports from most companies. If your profits increase by 5% at the same time inflation increases by 8% then you're both (1) getting absolutely economically wrecked, and (2) reporting 'record profits.' As companies are motivated to frame their earnings as positively as possible, this can be misleading to people who take those reports at face value.

[1] - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL
Yes, but it's okay to refuse to grind. Sometimes the juice is not worth the squeeze, and it's equally grown up to give up.
Are you talking about the summer 2023 version?
IMHO its better than OrCAD, probably as good or better than diptrace and about on par with Altium for people without managed libraries.

Once they improve their library management system, it will surpass Altium in nearly every way possible.
Subreddits generally undergo twinkdeath between 100k and 1m users. Once enough people know about the sub they tell all their snoo friends and pretty soon it’s just a hivemind and memes and funny quips. Watched it happen to a lot of tech subs.

The exception is subs that lean heavily into over-the-top curation which is also its own special kind of groupthink hell imo.