skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Joel Spolsky's 20 year old post on designing an office is still relevant here. He imagines a lifestyle and tries to create a perfect space and location to enable that:

The office should be a hang out: a pleasant place to spend time. If you’re meeting your friends for dinner after work you should want to meet at the office. As Philip Greenspun bluntly puts it: “Your business success will depend on the extent to which programmers essentially live at your office. For this to be a common choice, your office had better be nicer than the average programmer’s home. There are two ways to achieve this result. One is to hire programmers who live in extremely shabby apartments. The other is to create a nice office.”

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/09/24/bionic-office/

I wonder how many programmers he employed with partners and children back then though?
That is a weird take.

Just because people might want to use alternatives doesn’t force you to do the same.

In the same vein, Google users can use multiple stores, but most just use Google Play.
Where does this consensus of considering open source to mean the same as source available exist? I certainly haven't seen any such consensus anywhere.

Or is it just a consensus you assume to be there based on the assumption that people in general would just take the words at face value?
How do we know that it's really what it purports to be? I can't find anything about the channel author. The channel host says it's from the Reagan Library; can anyone find it there?
Indeed, and it also selects for people who prefer that environment. What I also gather from the articles is that the digital nomads are not all techies, but also people in marketing and advertising.
The author mentions the n^2 nature of token size to memory and run time. Do we see any interesting work towards improving on that?

Will we need a whole different paradigm to achieve that? Or is it simply the nature of the problem - we need to consider all pairs of tokens.
> But, obviously, there is no magic.
> That's not entirely true.

Yes, that is entirely true. There is no magic. Even if we don't understand some parts yet. There is no magic.
Confusing title, but quick read and worth it. Data collector only had to swap 3 data points with 3 others to get the fake effect in their study, and the other authors seemingly had no idea.
Covid!
I mean, if I tipped on a self-serve checkout, I'd expect to get the tip, and be pretty pissed at management for stealing my tips!
Currently we only share Perseus (our exercise and article npm library). We do hope to begin work to share more code at some point but it hasn’t risen up in the priority list just yet.
good explanation on tokens and context
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4Oso9-9KTQ&pp=ygUJa3lsZSBoa...
I think it’d be a neat value-add if there were some (optional) postcard templates. Stuff like “Greetings from scenic <location_name>” that could either be used seriously or ironically. Obviously one could edit the JPG themselves to include that but I think more people would use it if it were an easy option.
Interesting to read your take as working in a real office as a developer. You spent a considerable amount of time and thanks so much for your viewpoint. Your viewpoint is fairly common in the industry. I do believe PropBox completely replaces the need for real estate agents and MLS listings. Replacing the MLS is not the DropBox goal. The goal is to focus on early adapters, technical people, and for-sale-by-owners. There are enough of them build a profitable business and we believe we can do it. I have witnessed many companies fail trying to conquer the industry. My perspective is that not one of them had a product as simple and powerful as PropBox. While I realize the chance of failure is high, we are willing and able to take that chance. No one we are aware of has ever created a total online experience until now. Only time will tell. Thanks again.
Exhaling is how you lose fat, because you're sitting on your chair all day. That's the baseline. If you were actually doing sport you'd lose fat by breaking down ATP when repeatedly contracting your muscles.
I admit that Imagenet isn't the best analogy here. But I'm pretty confident that this data cleaning issue would be caught in peer review. The biggest issue which I still don't understand was the removal of the test set. That was bad practice on the authors' part.
Good article. I never thought about it from the office space for worker perspective. As I always had an office, since I am an independent service provider, I didn't think about that. No wonder people don't want to go back. I hope workers stick to their guns.
Falcon LLM – A 40B Model
Falcon LLM is a foundational large language model (LLM) with 40 billion parameters trained on one trillion tokens. TII has now released Falcon LLM – a 40B model.
You don't have to answer any question. Provide ID if it's required. Tell them you refuse to answer ANY questions and they do what they do. Ask if you're under arrest and if yes ask for a lawyer. That's it. Just keep quiet. 0 fucks if it's awkward or you feel like this is not a normal human interaction - guess what? It's not.

When the time comes to go before a judge you and your lawyer simply say that you did not say anything apart from asking about the arrest and for a lawyer. That's it.
"You'll be paid in exposure."
Does not seem to work on mobile at all, I get stuck giving my character a name because I can’t get the keyboard or any other way of inputting text up
You literally search for the link in your local instance. It'll figure it out.
My manager lives a town over and hates this "increasing collaboration" idea. He and I are the only employees who live here. The other three on the team are each in a different country.

We may be able to hold on forever this way. What are we going to do? Book a meeting room then 3/5 are remote anyway? Doesn't make sense.
Working together with a common currency doesn't mean countries will trade with each other. But yeah, I think this would help some countries by creating an international banking system that they are allowed to use.
Yeah, product-market fit, first mover advantage, barriers to entry/moat and regulatory capture are much more important.

Good management is probably #30 on the list, and companies with bad management (especially abusive management!) live for decades.
Fear is the artificial mind killer.

We now know how the Butlerian Jihad was conducted.
There are lots of places that explain LLMs.

…but you will be disappointed if you expect/hope to be able to recreate or modify things yourself.

You need a massive (multi TB) dataset of high quality data, and an array of 80GB graphics cards.

The barrier to entry isn’t knowledge; it’s money.

(So learning, yes. Try doing the fastai course. Change settings? No. Not unless you have a couple of million $$ in cloud credits to burn)
Oh really? It feels like his format is "I'm going to show you something quirky. Look at this quirky thing. It is so quirky! Imagine designing this quirky thing.", so something that should take 10 seconds takes 50 seconds.

For example here's him telling his viewers, who are most certainly car enthusiasts, what a lift button does: https://youtu.be/BGUqC7QbUDo?t=548
> One interesting observation is that their prompt guide recommends placing instructions after the reference text when inputting lengthy text bodies.

I tend to do this with GPT-4 even on the context window in default ChatGPT (or more often I bookend it with instructions). I find it pays off at even 1000 tokens.
Offices also have to be good enough to warrant having to travel hours each day to get to/from them, which is a pretty tough to compete with for a lot of people
I don't care how nice the office is (and I've worked in some nice ones), if it's too far I just don't want to go. My life and stress levels are too valuable and short to spend them commuting.
Probably you're have an iphone, 20% of world mobile user base
Is there a recommended blank cartridge and flashing tool? I'm totally new to this.

Edit: to turn my own question, here's an article that goes over all the options:
https://gbstudiocentral.com/tips/getting-your-gb-studio-game...
To the contrary, the YouTube algorithm strongly discourages it. Longer videos are much less likely to appear in the suggested feed. The degree to which varies, but YouTubers are feeling very heavily forced towards < 5 minute content.
I don't bring in Ellsberg for his moral authority or to rebut or refute anything, but because he is himself the subject of the comparison. He addressed this exact comparison in a Washington Post op-ed.

Surely Ellsberg's own comments on Snowden v. Ellsberg and consequences are worth seeing in a thread on that very subject.
Take some time to learn the navigation and refactoring abilities of the JetBrains family. It is IMHO unmatched by most. Using almost any other IDE feels like a downgrade, especially on large codebases with complex dependencies. Beyond Java, they have excellent support for Python, C#, Go, Javascript, and more. The engine builds a deep understanding of your code, which can make ctrl-space to suggest a method on an object feel delightful (and a Godsend on big Java names).

I also strongly prefer the keyboard shortcut set JetBrains uses. Having to reach all the way up to my function keys for combo operations makes me sad; even when I use other IDEs I love using an Intellij keybinding when available to quickly jump in and be efficient.

But to your point, I also tend to use it on higher end workstations (i.e. minimum of 16GB RAM, local repo pulls on fast SSDs, tons of logical cores, etc.).
I totally agree. When I had first looked at the math I could not for the life of me figure it out. But eventually - through lots of testing - came to a comfortable approximation of what I needed to achieve and I was fairly happy with it.
It literally did not change. Not one bit. Please, if you're reading this, speak up when people say this. It's a fundamental misunderstanding, there's so much chatter around AI, not much info, and the SnR is getting worse
of course. that would never fly
Really?

How do you use Apple Pay without connecting a method of payment --- either a debit or a credit card? How do you store a boarding pass in Apple Pay without revealing your identity?

You do understand that all of this data gets stored on Apple's servers? Once they have this info, they know exactly who the owner of your particular iPhone is. Your identity has been surrendered --- willingly.

Every Apple device has a Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) assigned at the factory. This UUID is constantly relayed to Apple --- along with location and lots of other data.

https://www.howtogeek.com/425856/how-to-find-your-mac-iphone...

As a result, they can easily track you personally --- everything you do, everywhere you go, everything you buy with your iPhone --- both on the internet and in the real world. If they really wanted to, they can probably take pictures with your camera and listen in on your iPhone's microphone.

Bad news dude, you've been LoJacked -- your privacy is now fully in Apple's hands!
The problem with 'saving' cities via business is that since the 1950s, people have only thought of cities is being places for business. There are better ways to maintain a high-density area than one that empties out every night in a mass exodus of vehicles, but people can't seem to wrap their heads around that.
what do you think would happen if there was a comment about go on the internet that you somehow didn't see, and to which you weren't able to reply with a sarcastic and sneering dismissal?

probably some serious kind of disaster, right?
For any CSS newbie I would encourage them to learn Flexbox and Grid. I find that layout is the most confusing and those two display modes have greatly cleaned things up. It’s amazing how much they behave the way you intuitively expect them to. They eliminate… I’m going to dangerously say… most newbie gotchas.

Beyond that, 100% in agreement. There’s just so much and when it all interacts it can be a nightmare.
> many people a clear red flag signal to avoid Reddit.

As much as I wish that were the case, 99.9% of people don't care, won't care, and want the admins to steamroll this so they can go back to scrolling on the toilet.

This is the same reason the public attacks climate change protestors rather than the people who actually cause damage. People don't want change, they want anyone in the way of their current habits deleted as quickly as possible, and they don't want to be made to think about anything they are doing.
I'm convinced 40% of this site has no freaking clue what a protest is. For Christ's sake, by some of yalls standards there's never been an effective protest in all of history.

Like, if you don't use reddit, just don't comment like you know what's up. And if you do, feel free to screenshot me your homepage and tell me it looks normal.

Clues that you might not know what you're talking about:

- acting like the protest hasn't affected the site or it's content

- acting like mods don't literally keep the site from being overrun with trash, trolls and racists

- acting like losing the most enthusiastic users, and those who participated and contributed invaluable niche knowledge to small subreddits, won't affect the long term value prop of the site to users or investors

But hey, were like a week in of it not mattering, more and more of spez's lies keep coming out and some of y'all just seem oddly gleeful to denigrate those that care. I don't get it, doesn't seem very nice to me.
Get a new account.
The model didn't change.
THANK YOU! That is much more easier to wrap my head around. Did banks rush into the Euro and it later evened out?
It probably wasn't, just not sure why AI, for all its faults, got blamed here :)
A bit confused with the "announcement", this book has been out for a while. I have the paper copy from almost 8 months ago. Did something change? In any case, as others have noted very good book.
Hah. They probably know. This sounds like data that shows how reddit operates / source code, not the actual post/images available on the website.
Yea you can create the nicest office of all time, still wouldn't want to live there or trade it for my own private personal space.

Way happier to work hard and contribute to the company when I feel like I don't have to be forced to work in an office that isn't conducive to my life.
Complete anecdote but the other day I was using chatgpt, prompting with a long context and then an instruction. I was at the maximum size it would let me enter, having trimmed it until it accepted the input. With the question at the end, it ignored it and just gave some generic reaction to the context. With the question at the beginning it worked as expected. Maybe just a fluke, interesting to see the guidance on Claude is the opposite (and more what I would have thought).
Eviction filings are 50% higher than pre-pandemic in some cities
Comprehensive article.

I’ve long given up trying to keep up with everything added to the spec since about `display: flex`. There’s just too much stuff, and the shoehorning of features into a syntax/spec from 1996 doesn’t appear to me to be a sustainable long term strategy to facilitate increasingly complex web applications.

Maybe it’s been considered, but some use of namespaces and modules in the syntax could at least help developers opt into specific CSS modules and let other developers know what magic they can expect to find in the stylesheet.

```
@use grid
@use container
@use layer

@layer layout {
.layout-grid {
--layout-grid-min: 30ch;
--layout-grid-gap: 3vw;

display: grid;
grid-template-columns: repeat(
auto-fit,
minmax(min(100%, var(--layout-grid-min)), 1fr)
);
gap: var(--layout-grid-gap);
}

}

@layer layout {
:is(.layout-grid, .flex-layout-grid) > * {
container: var(--grid-item-container, grid-item) / inline-size;
}
}

```
The solution, is unfortunately, to get a smart stick, such as the Android TV Chromecast or Nvidia Shield, to have Android and sideload all the apps you want.
I don't like people looking over my shoulder.

Wearing headphones for decades all the time isn't great for your ears. Plus your ears can sweat, headphones are one more thing you need to keep track of, especially with the agile desk/flexible desk penny pinching spreading like wildfire.

There are many valid reasons to want offices.
Hahahahaha. Forgot about EC2 classic. What a wild ride that was
Very interesting! One of the most famous Australian prime ministers was known as "Ming" and now I know why.

> Menzies was proud of his Scottish heritage, and preferred his surname to be pronounced in the traditional Scottish manner (/ˈmɪŋɪs/ MING-iss) rather than as it is spelled (/ˈmɛnziz/ MEN-zeez). This gave rise to his nickname "Ming", which was later expanded to "Ming the Merciless" after the comic strip character
That seems to be a different proof which implies Cantor's theorem, but not a formalization of Cantor's diagonal argument itself.
They learned from the web and the way later movers like Google upstaged early big web companies like Yahoo and AltaVista. When you have the resources to do so, go straight for regulatory capture. Outlaw competition before it can challenge you to lock in first mover advantage.

AI is the first real fundamental advance since the Internet went public. Looks like they’re trying to head it off and lock it down right away this time.
I miss the SpO2 sensor on my old S5. It used to work up until a couple years ago when S Health took out the functionality.
I don't mind being in the office. I do mind going into the office.
Personally, I'm most concerned that index funds might hide bad behavior - both on the part of the investee (being overvalued), and non-index investors.
I am certain a sanitizing layer has been added over chatgpt[1], which makes it all but useless. its responses are too deterministic now. Earlier, it used to happily regurgitate studies that did not exist and provide made up links. This was actually still very useful as key terms from the response could then be used to formulate searches that would bypass the garbage that typically turns up in google (or other engine's) front page.

Now any request to chatgpt start with a long-winded spiel about its cutoff date, another one about how not to trust it and ends with another one about how one might perform a google search. Another commenter here noted that it sounds most like a clickbait article generator.."Here are 5 extremely generic things you need....". It will continue to happily apologize and ignore any instructions that you provide it to the contrary

I have cancelled my subscription. I guess I just need to rant as it was the first tool that allowed me to move away from google. It was the first tool that allowed me to augment my capabilities. I guess, now its just as good[2].

[1]<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35983824>
[2]<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36373854>

P.S: Just before posting this rant, I just realized this comment is going to be used to train a future model. A part of my 'soul' is destined to live a rather long time as a part of a set weights in some model. The absurdity of that makes it extremely humorous, will AIs be able to self-amuse (chatgpt helped me find one word that means to make oneself laugh) ?
Disgustingly clickbaity tittle.
Medicine is a bad example because it seems to create bullshit jobs through regulation whether it is private or public payor/provider. I am personally in canada and the amount of bullshit jobs just moves from insurance yo a mix of insurance and public administration. Wallmart greeter and waiter isn't a bullshit job in the context of this article's definition because it is obvious both those jobs have purpose, even if it is purpose you may not value.
Just tried Bing AI (GPT-4 based AFAIK) chat and it does it without question.
Just look up llama.cpp and read the instructions plus look at the arguments you can pass to the main program, of which context size is one.

Don't listen to people telling you to learn the ML theory, if you don't know it, learn the functionality of the program. The one I recommended is one you can run on a normal computer.
I don't know about Spolsky, but I got the impression that Greenspun was hiring MIT undergrads (and there was the Ferrari promotion).

Apropos of Spolsky's discussion of interior design, I think Greenspun's firm's old building is currently an office of IDEO, but I don't know whether it had great design back then.
The API suggests this is intentionally, possible due to a (new?) copyright filter:

https://twitter.com/arkephi/status/1670176857394741254
Which is why big subs keep overwhelmingly voting to protest, right?
Try JetBrains Rider, and be sure you are using a recent flavor of dotnet. When I migrated past 4.x to 6 of the .Net ecosystem, it dramatically improved my ability to work and deploy in C# with their rather delightful build system.

For example, in the Monogame game library, you can build a self contained binary for Windows, Linux or MacOSX nearly effortlessly with just a single command line.
I guess I just couldn't understand the position you were taking when framing this as a "lot of work". It sounded like you were dismissing it casually, and if that was a misread, I appreciate the clarification.

There's a certain common form of hostility that often emerges from some circles when this subject comes up, and I may have read into something that's not there.

Yes, this needs trials. Yes, that's what's in progress right now. And the results so far are worthy of attention.
Yup. I couldn't ever use Git without Magit. The nice part about Magit is that it's already a very discoverable interface and, like Gitless, it just runs git commands asynchronously, so you can inspect the exact things Magit is doing. Yet it's very painless to blame, rebase, squash, cherrypick, ... compared to the Git CLI and other graphical tools I've tried using in the past (mostly the built-in Git interface of IntelliJ).

Given the poster mentioned using Vim for 30 years, I assume he is blindly lumping in Emacs because I've never had to maintain macros or text manipulations -- smartparens and the built-in text yanking features have been sufficient for refactoring code and structural editing.

Most of the things I do with Emacs, people will claim are doable with tmux and a dozen assorted shell utilities, which IMO is just false since you don't get any user interface or convenience close to e.g. Magit, TRAMP, notmuch, eww, and so on.

For instance, one of the supposed benefits of Vim is that you can SSH into some box without your editor of choice installed and still edit files. Why settle for such an experience when TRAMP lets you stick with your current editor, with all of its configuration and plugins, to modify files remotely?

Likewise, notmuch is very good at organizing threads across several mailing lists, whereas Thunderbird has needed me to Google dozens of questions, click lots of buttons to set up filters, and still end up with nothing better than a flat list of e-mails in my inbox.

Since my post is getting long, I'll lastly mention eww is great for browsing things like Javadoc, Codox, the Common Lisp HyperSpec, and other statically-generated HTML documentation.

The most time investment I've needed into Emacs was essentially

sudo port install emacs-app

Then asking a friend to guide me through installation of a few packages. I don't use distributions like Doom or Spacemacs, and the last time I modified my init.el was apparently 2022-05-13. I got into Emacs in 2020.

I've tried time and time again to try using VS Code so that I can help some friends get into programming languages like Clojure, but I always find myself spending 30 minutes searching how to do things I take for granted in Emacs, like automatically indenting code as you type rather than manually hitting "Format Document" or creating a save hook running that function.