skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, I think for shared docs easy edit-ability/instant-autosave is an antipattern that encourages less-thoughtful editing and hurts their purpose as a long-term store of knowledge. The places I've worked that have really leaned into that part of Notion (vs just like Notion as a nativeish-app/snappier Wiki) were all overly ADHD in their approach to planning and work in general, too.

There's a certain sort of worker that really leans into that as their version of "easy async collaboration" but is actually just putting the burden on the recipients to make sense of the author's journey and thought process, instead of putting more effort into more-infrequent-but-more-curated updates.
Too bad corporate operations are so smooshifyingly bland, robbing properties of their soul. Profit is nice, even vital, but a bad thing to maximize at the expense of all else.

Or maybe it was the colonialist taint that just doesn't sit right these days?

But... the world is still vast, and worth exploring. Maybe even moreso now we _think_ we know everything via Twitter etc.

International Geographic, anyone?
That we should consider all of the animals we have killed and enslaved over the millennia as people.
This one doesn't have music but with another hour I could have added it. It's built using PICO-8 which is a Lua-based game development environment. It includes code/graphics/music editing tools and handles deploying to a static HTML.

http://electroly.com/games/parry1.html

Source code: https://github.com/electroly/games/blob/main/carts/parry1.p8

You can see it's not a very good or sophisticated game but it was done quickly and we had some fun on Twitch playing it. PICO-8 makes it easy to write tiny games. It's not so much about my skill but about the availability of streamlined indie game-making tools. The hard parts of getting a game initially up and running have been done for you. There are "fantasy console" products like PICO-8 and TIC-80, and tools like GameMaker and RPG Maker target modern systems. In the old days it would have been Flash.
Reddit isn’t receipt, in fact is basically the opposite of signal. Go live in Amsterdam and draw your conclusions — I’ve lived around and know:work with people from all over
I find the gimbal one to be… really dumb. The navy releases a video called gimbal and doesn’t say anything. Later experts look at it and say, “looks like gimbal lock”.

And what… people don’t believe that the navy also concluded it was gimbal lock?
Congratulations on aggressively suing the poor souls who don't know better than to never use an Oracle product. Get lost
That's how the current system works unless you use physical cash or something like Monero (but even in those cases, it's not guaranteed to be untraceable).

A CBDC just takes all the BS of having many different systems to process payments, manage bank accounts, etc. etc. and unifies it under one system.

Implying that "every penny" cannot be traced with the current systems we have is a misnomer.
There isn't a tool that can do this job faster. git takes a few seconds once you're at half a million commits. Facebook has many repos checked in in their entirety that are bigger than that.
> And hope OpenAI forever provides the service, and at a reasonable price, latency, and volume?

They are enjoying the be the market leader for now, but OpenAI will soon be facing real competition, and LLM services will become a commodity product. That must be partly why they seeked Microsoft backing: to be a part of the "big tech".
Perhaps, but Python vs C is hardly an apples-for-apples comparison. I could get 1000x differences benchmarking Aurora vs Redis for example. That's what I meant by "used in a way not meant to be used".

Broadly speaking, there's plenty of public benchmarks indicating that a properly-configured Aurora is within the same order magnitude as a properly-configured RDS Postgres which is in the same ballpark as MySQL. That's an indication to me that Aurora isn't fundamentally broken in some way, making a 1000x claim quite extraordinary.
I recently re-subbed after I noticed that they increased their monthly cap for searches.

An investment round is interesting—on the one hand, it will keep them afloat, while on the other hand it means that the investors want to see returns one day and this money has to come from somewhere.
If you quit by yourself you won't even get the paycheck. Do minimum and drag the pip out. Look for new jobs
Not who youre responding to (but probably who you thought you were responding to) but where I live is not Hawaii or the pacific northwest, it's not all roses. It gets hot and it gets cold, not Montana cold and not Arizona hot but still a bit extreme. And very, very humid.

There's always a reason to say you can't do it, but I do what I can and if it's important to you you can too. It's a change in habit and lifestyle, that's all. Live lighter and don't rely on comfort like you'll die without it.
The function 1^x is constant everywhere. You can write (-1)^x to get the kind of effect you are looking for, but doing this with 1^x is madness.

>The only disadvantage of this approach is that symbolic differentiation and integration are more complicated, by multiplication with a constant.

There is more to it than that. The exponential function is not really e^x, it is lim_{N->∞} (1 + x/N)^N. The advantage of this definition is that, since it is valid everywhere on the complex plane, it allows the rigorous definition of real powers without recourse to inverse functions. We still teach students to prove things.

But also, isn't this a little contradictory? The goal of the original blog post was to simplify various differential equations. If you aren't simplifying symbolic differentiation, then what are you simplifying?
I see where you're coming from and I agree, Vancouver can definitely feel soul crushing if you're not making a lot of money. There's huge problems with the city right now.

But I also think it's important to maintain perspective. Nobody is talking about killing themselves in retirement. This is literally not a thing. Don't pretend it is, it'll only make you depressed and susceptible to conspiracy theorists.

Vancouver sucks, but it's also the most desirable city in Canada. There's a reason real estate is so expensive and keeps going up, it's because people keep moving in.
The Biologist Blowing Our Minds
If I had a nickel for every time I've been pitched an app/system like that over the past couple years, well, then I'd have plenty of money to pay for news subscriptions. It's a good concept, it just needs a champion big enough to build a standard process that is elegant and painless and then onboard the largest news sources to kick-start the ecosystem. The hardest parts will be money transmission and getting everyone to agree to your standards and processes (in a way that gets them paid and doesn't steer potential paying eyes off to a competitor because you want to build a platform or marketplace instead of an add-on payment tool). Of course with all the new things happening in fintech, this type of system is not that hard to build today.
I’ve had plenty of cases where a Linux upgrade caused a boot failure, or an upgrade only half finished, or where I deleted files by accident.

Grub will boot from previous snapshots. I can rollback a failed upgrade to before I started it. I can go to the special .zfs/snapshots directory to grab old files.

I love ZFS as my boot/root drive. It just gives me a little extra confidence that I’m not screwed if something goes wrong.
Don't buy bottled water, don't use disposable grocery bags, buy things in glass over plastic containers, and cook your own food. Those small changes alone will reduce your plastic disposal by like 90%.
Then looks like you know already where smaller and weaker models are useful.
It looks pretty cool. And is actually something I tried while I was working on futures-intrusive (before I lost most interest in async Rust).

But besides being possible, I'm wondering if its a *realtime* OS in the sense that the term suggests. A realtime OS requires guarantees that tasks run in certain intervals - which seems to require preemption, and thereby "real" stacks. When using a cooperative multi-tasking system it seems any task could prevent all others from running - which voids the realtime guarantees.
I don't know about law exam, but Brazil has more undergraduate courses in law than all the rest of the world combined, naturally this comes with a lot of shit univesities and that means a lot of people with a law degree but don't work in the field.
The past is whatever wiki says it is and as long as it is hyperlinkable.
How about Oakland at 2AM?
I never pass up the opportunity to use the couple of cool words whenever this topic crops up.

It is the distinction between a solar day and a sidereal day. :)
It certainly says something about your faith in your own product when you try to contractually prevent your customers from publishing performance information about their experience.
Britain to be left without emergency coal reserves this winter
I'm sure others know waaay more about this, but I think it's a thing you can improve locally. Though usually I think of it as the other way around, where maxing out upload severely impacts download. My understanding is that this causes bufferbloat[0], making packets queue up for a long time on your gateway, ultimately limiting you to way less bandwidth then you should be able to get.

My one experience with this is on Ubiquiti hardware where there's a feature called "Smart Queues" you can enable. Really it's FQ_CODEL[1] under the hood. If you tell it your real maximum up/down bandwidth, minus ~5%, it'll enforce those limits in a way that prevents buffer bloat and lets you use nearly your full download bandwidth even when your upload bandwidth is maxed out. On Ubiquiti gear this has a CPU impact since it has move some traffic handling from dedicated hardware to the CPU. But it was a huge night and day difference for me. After enabling this, having a couple people on Zoom calls (highish upload) no longer tanked everyone else's download speed.

Also I think this stuff matters more when you have a large multi-user network. For normal home life, definitely not worth it. (In my case it was wifi for ~20 people).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bufferbloat
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoDel
This is a cool concept and a fun game. I think you have something here. I played several more games than I planned to. I didn't love the popup after every game, but I wouldn't have minded the popup if I weren't doing a marathon.

Maybe consider limiting it so there's one easy, one medium, and one hard per day, like the NYT sudokus. That would prevent me from getting burned out on it and make me more likely to keep coming back over time. Also consider serving up stats like wordle upon completion.

Edit: Make your buttons at the bottom the same size, and consider a dark mode. The little details can really make it feel polished.
A rambling screed. The article does include some interesting historical nuggets, but gets too hysterical for my taste when discussing present Silicon Valley.
I'm not an expert in this stuff, but it seems a bit premature to go to production with anything WebGPU at this point. Chrome made it available by default just a couple months ago. It's one thing if it's like a new CSS property or something, but WebGPU is pretty complex system that I think will take a long time to mature IMO.
I'm Brazilian, and I think I can add some context. I think OP's perspective is just survivor bias.

Our public (state-owned) education system (pre-college) is doing very bad, scoring poorly on PISA[0] year after year. On the other hand, the public tertiary education system is very advanced, but getting into it is tough and supporting the academic environment is also difficult (we have very high dropout rates in most STEM courses). Most upper middle-class families also expect that their children will study at a public university, so they're forced to study hard to pass in the admission exam.

Also, keep in mind that most Brazilians don't speak a second language and those who do, are generally from a more affluent background or from a poorer background but with a good academic track record that granted them a scholarship to a private institution in high school or earlier.

So, those brilliant engineers he mentioned are probably some of those people: smart people that got into the top-notch of our education system (by either being gifted or because they just got used to studying for long hours because their parents demanded it). However, the inequality within the country is abysmal. For every talented, smart Brazilian engineer, there are hundreds of functional illiterates - a 2012 study estimated that 38% of our college students are functional illiterates[1].

A classic tale of South American inequality.

PS: The government has admittance quotas in the public universities for students coming from poorer backgrounds (income, race or coming from public high schools). This helped shift the balance in those institutions, but since the admission is based on an exam[2], you can still expect those students to be above the average since there are always more students taking the test than there are available vacancies.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme_for_International_St...

[1] https://guiadoestudante.abril.com.br/universidades/pesquisa-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestibular_exam
I would do a bit more than "the bare minimum" but otherwise, I agree. Either quit once you have a job or let them fire you.
Maybe if you compare the fastest to the slowest. But if actually compare the fastest options in each language, you rarely see things past a 10-20x slowdown.
ULIDs work, but:

The spec has a really weird choice in it - it attempts to guarantee monotonicity. There's a few problems with that, namely that it's almost entirely pointless, it's impossible to actually guarantee it, and the spec mandates it be done in a bad way. Breaking those down:

* There's no particular reason why you'd expect UIDs to give you monotonic ordering, and no particular use case for it either. Being roughly k-sortable is very useful (eg, to allow efficient DB indexes), but strict monotonicity? There's just very few cases where that's needed, and when it is, you'd probably want a dedicated system to coordinate that. Even worse, if you do need it, ULIDs don't actually guarantee it. Which brings us to:

* UIDs are generally most useful in distributed systems, and the more you scale the more that will become required. The second you have a second system generating UIDs, your monotonicity guarantees go out the window, and without work that the various ULID libraries have not done, that's even true the moment you have a second process generating them. And the ULID spec doesn't even try and work around this (nor do all ULID libraries try to guarantee monoticity even when used in a single threaded manner), which in turn means you have no idea if any given ULID was generated in a way where monoticity is being attempted.

* The actual ULID spec says the UID is broken up into a timestamp and a random component, and if you ever generate a second ULID in the same millisecond, you must increment the random component, and if you can't due to overflow, generation must fail. Which is wild; it means you can only generate a random number of ULIDs per millisecond, and there's a chance you can only generate one. Even worse, if you can ever manage to cause a system to generate a ULID for you in the same millisecond as it generates one for your target, you can trivially guess the other ULID! Many use cases for UIDs assume they're effectively unguessable, but this is not true for compliant ULIDs.

The ULID spec is, a best, a bit underbaked. (And as others have noted, I find that Crockford's base32 encoding is a suboptimal choice.)
I agree if for no other reason than... If I'm on a PIP, I'm not engaged.

The work isn't fulfilling or something, so moving on is a good idea. This can be a positive signal for change

Staying is also signing up for another hedonic treadmill
He's the CEO, not the CTO. I don't recall Bezos ever giving a deep-dive talk about the metrics of AWS's networking stack. He left that to his tech folks.

I have absolutely no love for Ellison as you can see in my post history, but it's a bit silly to expect detailed tech specs from the CEO of a company on an earnings call with a bunch of investors that would have no idea what he was talking about if he did.

*I did in fact forget he changed his title when he gave co-CEO to Safra Catz and Hurd to rescue Hurd and not lose Catz in what was another of a long list of ethically questionable moves. It doesn't change the fact that he's completely removed from the technical details of their products and has been for 20+ years.
Isn't it obvious they're referring to the use case of using a model given those constraints?
Growing crops for biofuel is more land intensive, and thus involves cutting down more forest and removing carbon sinks, than the equivalent solar power.

Yes, bioruels are better than fossil fuels, but worse than clean electricity.

Anyhow, it's not an either/or. ICE vehicles will be with us for a while, so it's better to use more efficient ones, but we also need to be replacing as many as possible with electric.

Biofuels are better than fossil fuels, but most ICE engines run on gasoline, and can't run on 100% biofuels efficiently and cleanly.
The only threat this poses is to the humans who currently write content for these junk websites. Often assisted by AI anyway.
I would rather businesses take a hit on efficiency and have our 15-hour work weeks. Maybe that'd provide an incentive for businesses to pursue making project management and hand-off among staff more efficient.
You're talking about FAANG PIPs, not what good managers would do that want to retain and develop good developers. PIPs it sounds like can't be recovered from realistically so it's time to move on. Maybe to a company that maybe even gives at least a little shit about you.
I'm talking about how it will degrade into carbon dioxide and what not as microbes learn to decompose it, so long term it's no worse than burning.

In rural places a lot of people burn their trash in pits. Just don't stand over it while it's burning and you'll be fine. Id argue this is significantly less bad than it piling up in the ocean.

I'm comparing to Europeans and Americans. I don't drink tap water, I refill 5 gallon jugs.
just to expand on this the issue is not that e^2πi = 1 but that (e^z)^x =/= e^(zx) when z is complex, because in general z^w . instead it would be e^(x ln(e^z)), where the logarithm of a complex number is a multivalued function.

We can compute the principle value of ln(e^2πi)=ln(1) + i(2π + 2πk) (where k is an integer) so therefore

(e^2πi)^x = e^(xln(e^2πi)) = e^(x2π(k+1)i)
> How does a college identify the suckers who are willing to pay full tuition, or something close to it? Get parents to disclose their finances. Get students to apply for “early decision.” Find out which students are getting generous government loans.

It's an amazing system. I imagine other businesses would love to charge based on "ability to pay."
> (we already have names: they're called classes; and IDs; and DOM elements; and pseudo-classes; and aria labels; we need more!?).

You forgot grid areas.
counterpoint from MKBHD: https://youtu.be/w2KbwC-s7pY?t=306. "the reason the mac pro exists is PCI slots"
> The group estimated that around $13 billion is wasted globally on these sites each year

So if google fixes this problem, their revenue goes down $13B/year. Seems like they will never solve this problem.
I'm going to offer a counter point, in that all those solutions either require you to know where you want to go, or are entirely dependent on someone else's influence and opinions, as opposed to you having epiphanies from your own experiences and trains of thought.
The Spotify, Apple Music, etc model simply does not work for music content creators.[0]

[0] https://youtu.be/gDfNRWsMRsU
Of course not, they already have women and girls for that:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20180926-akashinga-all-wo...
Any that was would float to the surface and evaporate.
No, he’s not complaining about the marketing. He’s basically saying cloud computing is nothing, just a redefinition of existing computing. He’s not complaining about the marketing. He’s saying that cloud computing is only marketing. Clearly he was wrong.
Life in a State Legislature’s Superminority
They're only modestly worse than text-davinci-003 in my experience, and you can finetune them cheaply to do simple tasks e.g. triage human input and decide where to send it. But yeah, if you can afford to run a larger model or pay OpenAI for gpt4 calls, that's gonna work a lot better.

If you're relying on prompting for the 7B models IMO you're gonna have a bad time — they're mostly toys at that: interesting output but not consistently useful. But finetuning gets better results, and it's cheap to finetune.
This is a losing proposition for Google because they already dominate all of internet advertising. The more Google is dependent on a smaller number of high-quality content creators the more those creators can demand a bigger slice of the ad revenue pie. Big publishers even run their own ad platforms to cut out Google.
This is the first I'm hearing about sales tax being involved--and (1) + (2) perfectly describe my business. I've disabled sales tax...let's see if that helps.

FWIW, I received a similar statement from their MTS today. Only that "they're working on it" and "I'll be notified". Although, your ticket is in "Pending Fix" and mine is "On Hold" (so it doesn't get auto-closed, they said).

Thanks for the tip! PayPal should be paying _you_.
The fact that geeksforgeeks is more highly ranked than SO for any coding question I ask proves this to me.

Do programmers in Google not use Google to search questions? Do they not have self respect seeing the bad quality product they’re throwing up on billions of people every day? I can’t imagine working like that.
They pay the publishers based on what articles you read, so you get to choose what is in the bundle, but not the price of the bundle.

The main problem with the model is that it encourages clickbait titles. The secondary problem is that many people that want to support independent journalism also dislike walled gardens.
> perpetually allocates a responsible amount of incremental funds

Who does this allocation?
We are really not far off commercially viable short-haul EV flights. Harbour Air in Vancouver is converting their fleet of Beavers to EV and a company in Scotland is working on converted Cessnas. And purpose built aircraft will likely do better than these.

They won't replace the 737 any time soon of course, but progress is progress.

https://harbourair.com/harbour-airs-all-electric-aircraft-op...

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetl...
Lately companies have been using PIPs willy nilly. Almost like they have a 6 months quota of people to manage out.

No wonder engineering at most large companies has become shitty. Nobody cares any more than just doing enough to keep their jobs.

Such a big management fail.
I feel you, it can be hard knowing that you could be making more money across the border.

However, I don't know if I agree with you about SF and NYC being equivalent to Toronto and Vancouver. They're just not. We complain about rent in Canada, but SF/NYC rent is another level of bullshit. And general expenses are definitely more expensive as well, I know I feel it whenever I travel to the US.

The other thing is that in most US cities you have to pay for a car. That's just not true in Canada. This makes up a huge part of the income gap.
he's actually the CTO.
Sounds like a joke but it's true.
One could say this is just the US extending its tendrils into BRICS. Short sighted on the
At least for me, it's an awareness thing.

"oh cool webgpu is slowly starting to appear in production environments. Positive steps towards the technology getting broad adoption".

I don't really even take note of the company in this instance.