skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tokenizer appears to be the original GPT-2 tokenizer, with some curious added tokens: https://huggingface.co/Salesforce/xgen-7b-8k-base/blob/5e1ad...
Relative to its own perspective and contextual existence, sure, yes it is. Does that intimidate your human consciousness for some reason?
All of my planning is digital, so that it's easy to see across devices and by other people.

Important + Urgent = Add as event in calendar for today
Important + Not-urgent = Calendar event but for a later date, or todo list
Not Important + Urgent = Calendar event for someone else in the team
Not Important + Not Urgent = Todo list
Yes, I think that was the point of that comment.
There is a hidden premise when it comes to productivity - it always comes at the expense of your personal life. Any numbers like 'X % increase' in productivity at work need to be accompanied with a commensurate 'X % decrease' in time spent living a life. If there is a delusion at all, it is the willful ignorance of this equation. Productivity is at odds with a life well spent.
> the next generation of spam blogs will (sadly) probably be an improvement over the sea of crap we have now.

Maybe even to an extent such that they will be actually useful
Im hoping Mojo supports essentially that.
Ask HN: Dev handling failed coding test interview?
Both serious answers and jokes are welcome. How do you deal with a failed coding test interview? Hard to not reflect/dwell on my career experience so far.
Have.... you actually played d1 or d2??
It's an exposure mitigation rather than a cracking mitigation, isn't it? The idea is that if it got badly stored somewhere it's only dangerous for 30 days or whatever.
Even the "Plus" articles are still crammed with ads by the publishers, which makes the experience categoricallly worse than just reading on the web with adblockers.
Have you played D3? It's insanely polished.
> It makes writing the happy path slower, but is writing the happy path _programming?_

Most managers and even some programmers seem to think so. Build the thing with no quality control, ship it, deal with the fallout, repeat. Bad programmers think this is normal, good programmers ensure that any fallout is rare.
Weatherscan
I've been exploring using dialog for modals - what a11y issues does it have?
All of this is exactly why mainframes still exist and still excel at what they do.
I spent years designing and implementing a new data management system where speed was its main advantage. I painstakingly wrote performant code that relied on efficient algorithms that could manage large amounts of data (structured or unstructured). I tried to take advantage of all the hardware capabilities (caching, multiple threads, etc.).

I mistakenly thought that people might flock to it once I was able to demonstrate that it was significantly faster than other systems. I couldn't have been more wrong. Even database queries that were several times faster than other systems got a big yawn by people who saw it demonstrated. No one seemed interested in why it was so fast.

But people will jump on the latest 'fashionable' application, platform, or framework often no matter how slow and inefficient it is.
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Though not considered ORM, I enjoy using Ecto (elixir).
Am I being exposed to worrying quantities of lead, or do they sometimes serve coffee in the break room? No way to tell!
Start with the lowest hanging fruit. I’ve converted all of my lawn equipment to electric. I won’t be converting my stove or furnace anytime soon since they are both less than four years old. We became a one car family and have not had any significant problems with it.

Our next vehicle will be a full electric but that will probably be another 3-5 years unless we opt to be a one ICE, one electric car family sooner.
It says mid July
Convincing my colleagues to use type hints in Python has been very easy. The benefits are obvious and immediate. To the point where I wonder why there was even a time when it was acceptable not to have them.
Coil tried to do that for a couple of years.

https://www.coil.com/

There's even a micro payments api in the works.

https://webmonetization.org/
"Far less noticed was a revised version of their paper, published in May by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York."

The Fed certainly have an agenda here.

And then there's that some of these studies seem to comparing pre-covid productivity to during or after covid, which are quite different worlds.

It might well be the case that trading houses and investment banks can be more 'productive' in-person, since gossip, insider-ish tips, feeling the trading sentiment, collusion etc, is far easier.

I think the take-away is that it very much depends on the work.

One factor of in-office productivity might be the unreported over-time that is almost always a part of office life (can you just do X before you leave/over lunch, etc).
It's called circular reasoning. Conclusion cites the premises, which in turn the premises cite the conclusion. Evidence (or lack of) is used to prove it self. When you start with a false or circular premise, anything that follows is technically true. It's a powerful (bullshitting) tool that can be used to prove or disprove anything.
That would require trusting the public. But no, we are required to trust the government and some sketchy third parties I've never heard of.
Feel over substance.
Sounds like Nim.
bro how do you get a 10kwh battery purchased and installed for less than 10k, AND have money left over for a solar array to power your home and charge it.

I got quotes for a 1.2kwh solar array for my TINY house, and they ALL came in over 20k.

in most places it's not legal to hook solar up to a house that is grid connected without a license, and the lake and installation costs more than the panels and batteries
As I said, I'm an armchair observer here, not a materials scientist.

However, there are a lot of things that are absolutely designed and built to be single-use, especially in fields like space, where rocket engines have been single-use until very recently.

As for weight, I think the reason that was important was because they didn't have a big enough ship that could operate a crane and haul the submersible out of the water. Really, the whole operation was a bad idea: this kind of exploration is expensive as hell, and the only way to cut costs (with current tech) is to do really dangerous stuff.
I’m super bummed that we didn’t name this “Free Willy”
Paypal's customer support is a disaster, and I refuse to use the service anymore after they shut my account down because a withdrawal failed - without informing me - and sent it to collections, also without informing me. The hoops I had to jump through to get it reinstated were a massive pain in the ass, and if it were to happen again, I would happily ignore it forever just because they deserve nothing more.

The sooner that company burns to the ground, the better.
Penis mean “tail” in Latin.
I assume this person took one look at ecoflows lineup and saw the 10k home kit, and thinks a disconnected solar generator setup is Ok enough to run a house on gros tied under full load...
> Security discussions should be grounded in threat models over semantics.

There's no evidence that Apple is a threat.

You claimed that Apple could already remotely execute any code at any time. That sounded very sinister, as if Apple had added a secret back door to the OS, but it was extremely misleading at best, completely false at worst. Yes, Apple can ship software updates, as we all know. But that's not a threat in itself.

I don't want to hear what Apple could theoretically do. Your lover could theoretically kill you while you sleep. How's that for a threat model? Are you going to sleep alone for the rest of your life? I suspect it's actually more likely, though, than Apple shipping the malicious OS update that you fear.
Yeah. Keep pushing it. It's cool that you can write an article trying to astroturf the illusion of control once enjoyed. The world changed, if your organization can't evolve and figure out that there's no going back only forward and the model that works is not just sitting around waiting for you to pluck from your recent addled memory... And when I say you i mean me or anyone else who tells you they know what's going on. What's happening is good. The old model was way dead before we noticed under the hyper tight light of a global pandemic.

That for sure doesn't mean people don't want to collaboratively work in person with humans they like towards a goal that they can all agree on. That has been a thing and always will be. Free money created a lot of vampires who malinvested and now they are whining about how they should be in charge.

Lately I think a lot about what it means that every day of my life since post puberty I've been making computers do illusions. Tricks are something blah blah blah. What is the difference between digital goods and making someone a hammer or chair. The infinite reproducibility. The MBA class was so well heeled by all this free money they assumed that the tickets they collected to go redeem at the prize bank were reality and they are and they can redeem them.

Most of the folks that make the big technical pushes are in a minority, but it's not because the rest of the wash can't. The rest of the wash is given busy work to not compete. It's wild seeing people on LinkedIn getting screwed in the layoffs complimenting the people that wrecked em like that's the only meal.

Foster local, atomized, productive communities. Screw the silos. It's now or never and now was really a while ago.
>In a recipe calling for jam, would you replace it with ketchup?

if the recipe was for French fries and jam: yes.
Because the ChatGPT API (and analogous competitors) is cheap enough that it's both faster and more cost effective to just use it instead instead of using your own model, with maybe some shenanigans to handle its shortcomings without increasing cost much if at all.. And that was before gpt-3.5-turbo-0613, which dropped the price more and is about 2-3x faster.

There are startups that do finetuning on your own data, but with zero hints on how to preprocess your data and absurd costs (both upfront training and GPUs for serving inference) that's it's extremely difficult to argue from a customer business perspective compared to just using an API.
“If policymakers banned the use of these types of ad services, consumers would face a radically different internet: more ads that are less relevant, lower-quality online content and services, and more paywalls,”

The most popular websites already run the maximum number of ads their users will tolerate. There is no scenario where websites “run more ads” to compensate for LLM bots.
I too have noticed all sorts of legal filings being blackened out ineffectively. And majority of the time it is not apparent unless you on a very bright monitor and zoom into the text. (I never said anything because I didn’t want anyone to feel embarrassed that the data they were trying to protect didn’t stay secret). I always wondered what happens when my lawyers do the same thing.

When scanners shine green light into a page, the kinds of details they reveal is extraordinary. I have been able to recover hidden text this way. The same thing happened when I took a camera snapshot of a page. And used filters to make it gray. Hidden text security feature pops out.
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A few years ago, I had setup a publicly accessible Pihole and asked people to use my pihole as their DNS server. The idea was to pay websites a small fee every time someone looked up their IP using my pihole setup.

As a proof of concept, it worked fine but (a) i would need tons of money and (b) tons of misuse blocking to make this work.

Dropped the idea after a while though I think this could still work -

1. A group of friends set up a pihole and use that as their DNS
2. Transparently share usage with websites
3. Pay those websites a small per url fee per user
I’m not sure from the readme how this compares to direnv which seems to do the same thing.
You can understand the plot without the first sequence, but remove it and you lose more than just 10 minutes of run time. Even changing a single shot can alter how an audience engages with a movie farther into its runtime.

One example I remember is from Jaws. Spielberg explained that changing the editing of an earlier scare (when they explore the abandoned boat) made the audience much less shocked at the first reveal of the shark later on. The change was literally the timing of a couple of shots; less than a second at most.

The first 10 minutes of Up colours the entire rest of the film.
This is just offensive, saying that Brazilians are better than me or anyone from my continent.
They we're getting crushed on all sides by the pressure. Its 6,500 psi or 400 atmospheres from normal. There are no remains.
Even if the input is completely safe, why would a web application need to use eval() in js?
Interesting. I didn't know any of that.
They should have just offered a way to make it write text log files.

I have a prototype FUSE filesystem which renders the journal as a tree of .log files (https://github.com/awfulcooking/journalfs)

But my muscles finally learned `journalctl` and after reading the docs I mainly use it.

Patches welcome to make journalfs practical (i think it may be lagging output when you `tail -f` atm)

Would love to see systemd offer a virtual filesystem interface by default.
Largely ignored due to the effectiveness of a decades long campaign to ridicule anything/one who questioned.
In newer Python versions, you don't need most of those imports either:

foo: list[str] = ["a"]
bar: int | None = 1
So the tunnel was flooded, but not permanently connected to the outside? Otherwise why would it crack?
The best thing I do is scan the file digitally and use PDF blackout. And then “print to image” to a PDF printer.

Other PDF editors have a pdf redaction feature that replaces the image pixels with white space. That works too.
I think that might evoke something... undesirable
I just adopted lazygit after comparing lazygit, tig, and gitui for a few days each. I’m surprised by your take because tig seemed the least user friendly and most complicated of the three by a large margin.
In a similar vein, I swear only about 30% of Apple Pay buttons I encounter on the web actually work. The rest produce a little popup with spinner briefly and then disappear. It's incredibly frustrating.
I don't think its just the pressure since meat is mostly water which doesn't compress. Its that they are going from a normal one atmosphere of pressure to 400 atmospheres instantly which is pretty violent.
> most petrol engines are going to be in the region of 30% efficiency

It’s worse than that. A recent Yale study found that—for an average car on the road—from $5 of gas you’re really only getting $1 of that energy to propulsion.

It’s 20%.
Never occurred to me that people would use Plex for local media.

Afaik its main use is for seedboxes. Torrenting on a server. You set up Plex and Prowlarr, then you have your own streaming service with all of the content on streaming services put together plus everything out on dvd, bluray, etc.

I don't think Plex would be getting much financial support from them, not because they're not willing to pay* but because having purchased the lifetime licence seems to be fairly widespread from what ive seen.

*Check out plans on seedbox providers. Most are more expensive than streaming services. Then you've got people who dont want to/can't manage the above paying for access to remote Plex libraries, much like they would a streaming service. There's plenty of people pirating for the better experience who are willing to pay a premium for it.
For me it is that I learned to program in dynamically typed languages and have used them for decades. I am interested in using types, but it is not enforced at my work, I am not given time to learn how to use them at work, and I’m too busy at home to learn it on my own.
It's absolutely key to put these clarifications in a magazine read by laypeople to whom the actual paper would be complete gibberish. If you think there are no silly quacky pseudoscientific ideas spreading from people who misunderstand the phrasing, I have bad news for you. Kudos for journalists trying to combat that.
Obligatory: https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/by-others/funroll-loops/Ge...
It's a bit more complicated than that, as an EV motorcycle drivetrain tends to be lighter than a petrol one (excluding battery/fuel tank), but that isn't going to make a big difference for aircraft
Are these big companies like MasterCard and Visa just running out of growth ideas in the Americas?

Perhaps entrepenurs in the SU should be looking at LATAM more?
Jetbrains IntelliJ does a pretty good job for me. It's not perfect by any means (esp. because I'm working with go templates, and it doesn't fully understand those), but it gets the job done better than anything else I've used.
Also a Brazilian living in Canada. No, Pix is vastly superior to interac.

The whole retail banking experience in Canada is very, very far behind what we have in Brazil. A few things that shocked me:

* How physical paper cheques are still being used and mailed

* Not all banks have scheduled transfers (useful for things like rent)

* Large transfers between accounts takes multiple days (wtf) as opposed to a couple of hours (TED)

* bizarre scams like "credit card insurance"

* not having debit and credit in the same physical card

* poor fintech/digital bank ecosystems, nothing close to Nubank

I could probably come up with more examples.
Can I ask which country you’re in? That’s an interesting consideration when education is publicly funded like that. Where I am, it’s a bit of a both… Public money is a major factor up until post secondary school, then it’s part of the picture but there’s also substantial private tuition — especially for international students. I’m not sure anyone considers a duty to their country really, despite how much public money makes their education possible.
We have optimised such that the "Semantic Web" is no longer necessary.

We have now improved the A.I. to seem almost convincing, and sufficiently degraded the N.I.[1] such that convincing people takes much less effort.

[1] Natural Intelligence
"pink plane" (vs. "blue plane")
Is about incremental improvement vs. paradigm shift.

From:

> There are two orthogonal forces at work in the Squeak team, with which we have been able to make two kinds of progress. These have most recently been articulated in Alan Kay's allusion to Arthur Koestler's metaphor of progress in two planes: the incremental improvement plane (which Alan calls the "pink" plane) and the paradigm shift (or "blue") plane. ("The Act of Creation", Arthur Koestler, 1964, Arkana Reissue Edition, Paperback, ISBN: 0140191917)

Via:
[C2 wiki](https://wiki.c2.com/?BluePlane)
And
[Archived Squeak page](http://web.archive.org/web/20050406063507/http://squeak.org/...)
Because at this point, nearly every name is taken. Orca Screen Reader and Orca AI are quite easy to disambiguate
Any alien civilisation, unless it's within our very solar system and we've failed to detect it which seems thoroughly unlikely, has visited us from another star system. If not FTL, they have the means to travel across light years of distance and are capable of preserving themselves for the trip if it's a long one and folding space if it's a "short" trip. That kind of technology to do either is still beyond us despite all the advancements we've made in the last 100 years

I would posit it's not even Victorian era scientists looking at an iPad. It's like presenting an iPad to pre-agriculture humans. We might not even fathom how it works or what it's even supposed to do when our frame of reference is so far behind technologically
None of the material in this article individually or together justifies the title

"The working-from-home delusion fades"
> Far less noticed was a revised version of their paper, published in May by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The boost to efficiency had instead become a 4% decline.

Four percent sounds like noise but if it isn't it still sounds like less than the cost of providing facilities for your at location workforce. The average American commute is now 55 minutes round trip. If you wanted to pay them 4% less than in person cost, pocket the money you would have spent on facilities, and let them save an hour a day everyone wins.

> The revision comes hot on the tails of other studies that have reached similar conclusions. David Atkin and Antoinette Schoar, both of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Sumit Shinde of the University of California, Los Angeles, randomly assigned data-entry workers in India to labour either from home or the office. Those working at home were 18% less productive than their peers in the office.

You paid them to participate in a study in their homes. I'm guessing some of the people assigned to do fake work at home decided to do other things.

> Chinese firm eventually halted remote work because off-site employees struggled to get promoted.

So the problem is you promote the people who socialize with the boss. Sounds like Chinese firms work exactly like American firms.

> Teleconferencing is a pale imitation of in-the-flesh meetings:

This depends on how much people are actually engaged. Plenty of people are doing this very well.
Alternative headline: Britain's coal power plants are so uneconomic that even government subsidies won't keep them open
Per the validation perplexity chart shown, the 8K length model performs better than the 4K length model even at <4K length, so why are they even offering the 4K model if the 8K is strictly better?
I have reason to believe many of these UFO movement claims. What makes this possible is closely related to the results of supercooling helium to zero degrees. Figure out why the latter happens and you will figure out how the UFOs can move around so quickly.
And the goal is to make those EV Semis… they just aren’t yet
I have a tiny apartment and I still have a dedicated office space. Whose working from a dining room table?
I find the timing interesting because coincidentally I'm having an issue with Stripe. I'm finding recently on multiple PCs that all Stripe checkouts are giving me a generic-sounding error ("We are unable to authenticate your payment method. Please choose a different payment method and try again.") no matter what credit card I use or whether or not uBlock Origin is turned on for the checkout site. However for some reason, I can still pay "unpaid invoices" through Stripe. When I complained to Stripe, I found that the support folks are not empowered to deal directly with any end-user customers on any technical issues, so it has to be done as a game of telephone through individual merchants, even though from my perspective it's a systematic problem with Stripe itself. This sounds like a lot of work to push the issue through support staff at merchants who may or may not be equipped to deal with more technically focused issues and may also be overloaded with other issues to deal with.

I did my own research and found that there could be a problem with 3D Secure and since I was not prompted about 3D Secure during checkout, that may very well be part of the problem. But since there are no visible unique ID numbers associated with these failures, I don't have any logs to pass up to support, it's all up to the merchant to dig through their Stripe account and look for the relevant info, etc. For one of the payments I had to make, I just used PayPal instead since I noticed that it happened to be another option. That's also a common pattern - everyone has to dual-home their payment processors or else a tremendous amount of "legitimate customers with money are being denied" risk is occupying one bucket.

Sadly, this is a user experience that I find typical of just about any online payment processing flows. I keep wondering, why is payment processing always so terrible?