skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep I defederated her instance because it was full blown woke political stuff. Nice thing though with mastodon, we can do that. My instances are apolitical technology groups. Still though- I love mastodon.
I appreciate your honesty about failing high school social studies
AI Foundation launches AI.XYZ to give people their own AI assistants
> Paste in a query and ask it for a detailed explanation. I've genuinely not seen it NOT provide a good result for that yet. [...] If you've found differently I'd love to hear about it.

I have not directly tried it (the employer does not allow AI chatbots for any application intended for production (i.e. more sensitive stuff), but only for doing experiments), but working on the code I very rarely had the problem that I could not understand what some single (SQL) line of code does in the "programming sense".

The central problem that rather occurs often is understanding why this line does exist and why things are implemented the way they are.

Just to give an example: to accelerate some queries, I thought some index would make sense (colleagues principally agreed; it would likely accelerate a particular query that I had in mind). But there exists a good reason why there exists no index at this table (as the respective colleague explained to me). This again implies that for ETL stuff involving particular tables, one should make use of temporary tables where possible instead of JOINs; this is the reason why the code is organized as it is. This is the kind of explanation that I need, which surely no AI can deliver.

Or another example: why does some particular function (1) have a rights check for a "more powerful" role and a related one (2) does not need one? The reason is very interesting: principally having this check (for a "more powerful" role) does not make a lot of sense, but for some very red-tape reasons auditors requested that only a particular group of roles shall be allowed to execute (1), but they were perfectly fine with a much larger group of users being allowed to execute (2). Again something that no AI will be able to answer.
They pay the record companies a lot of money to have their music on their platform.
>> Suppose that this move is designed to move regular users over to Twitter Blue

I hope you don't work in marketing. Why would a non-paying user watch Twitter arbitrarily limit the number of Tweets a _paying user_ can view per day, and think "yeah, I'll pay for that".
Wow, some people just can't get over their musk hate.
Can you explain how it’s not true? I’ve personally run software from the 90s. I am not a myth!
Speaking from a US perspective...

Unions are the reason we have a minimum wage, limited work week, paid holidays, equal pay for equal work, unemployment benefits, workers' comp, the family medical leave act, and many more things. If not for unions we would all still be doing sixty hour weeks getting paid in company scrip.

"Socialism" brought us Social Security, Medicare, child labor laws and agriculture subsidies, health insurance, food assistance, housing subsidies, energy and utilities subsidies, and education and childcare assistance. And it brings the rest of the modern world free education and healthcare.
> Mastodon confronts you that if you say shitty stuff, nobody wants to listen to you.

Mastodon isn't a person, you're talking about the guy who runs the instance.

> nobody wants to listen to you.

The person who runs your Mastodon instance is not everybody.
Probably. But its a prisoner dilemma and part of the reason apps shut down was because they lacked the time to react. There's no way they'd have an alternative ready "in time" even if we all agreed on an alternative and made a big push for it.

And "all agreeing" on the internet is a herculean task to begin with. Some want federation, some want centralization. Some want memes and others want serious discussion. Some don't even want to leave reddit period.
"Not invented here" syndrome
I do get a big boost from GPT-4 in some areas, for a different reason - it's a great and versatile tool for overcoming random mental and emotional barriers.

There are plenty of tasks I'd normally procrastinate on, or be reluctant to do, because they're tiring, boring, or emotionally difficult for reasons specific to myself. That is, cases when I have the knowledge and the skills, but lack the willpower or composture (or glucose / caffeine in my bloodstream). Using GPT-4 for with that kind of work isn't saving much time vs. what I could do, but it is compared to what would actually happen, which is either me procrastinating on it, delaying it for a better time (next morning, day with less meetings, etc.), or suffering a 2-10x performance penalty from having to fight through my own emotional blocks.

On the net, this isn't making me 5-10x more effective at work. It's probably not even 2x, short-term. Mid-term, 2-5x would be possible, because all the things I did earlier than later add up. Time will tell.

Am I telling on myself here? Maybe. Sorry not sorry. I am a human being, with a human brain, which means some things that should be easy for me, become hard for unrelated reasons. GPT-4 is one of many tools I have to overcome such challenges, but it's a particularly powerful and versatile one, so I'm happy that I can use it.

(Also, INB4, I have access to company-approved deployment on Azure, so I'm in the clear with using it at work.)
Editor's Choice?
For the record: That's fine! Contact info is on my profile for a reason :). As you'll have seen, I have replied to the email!
That's why none of the explanations given can possibly be thorough, and I'm finding very few plausible explanations on HN either.

Most seem to be happy to blame whoever they view as their opposing team, which rarely leads to wisdom.
This is nothing new from Grantham.

He makes some great points about the valuation of assets being near historic highs, but he has been calling for a crash for a very long time.

I assume this is just what his investors like to hear and how he ropes the contrarians into his fund.
Is there a downside to totally deregulating them?
> or what even the harm is.

The child didn't consent to this sort of usage, that's for one.

Would you be comfortable with your identity being used in ways you don't approve of?
Is there a downside to deregulating them? (Like supplements.)
Unlocking your full potential comes down to one thing: passion. Find what lights a fire within you and let it fuel your journey towards doing great work.
I just want enough to be able to work on it as a full time thing.
I believe you can’t mix it with non-sandbox data. That’s the sandbox bit in fact.
Wow. I didn't know there was a word for this. This is why I only use ebooks now because physical books would just pile up.

10 years in jail got my reading list down considerably though. Managed to read over 800 books, though the one book that I really, really wanted to read[*] I only obtained just before my release and never finished: In Search of Lost Time by Proust.

[*] Based on a comment by a character in Murakami's 1Q84 that the only time you will have enough spare time to read Proust is if you end up in prison.
Either you control what is being relayed or you don't.
The latter was not very successful (zeronet was a CSAM cesspit).

If you choose control then you end up with the fediverse, because
there is no such thing as the "one big fediverse" if every moderator makes different decisions.
Considering, ~50% of marriages end in divorce, its pretty much coin flip odds.
With that said, I have always viewed marriage as a positive and consider myself happily married. Its worth the roll of the dice. You are right though, its important to invest the time to ensure you have the right partner. I was with my future wife for 6 years, owned a home together and shared a bank account before we got engaged. There were no surprises left by the time we got married.
Great blog post. Some observations:

Ada was not originally an object-oriented language, though it eventually became so. But the 432 project predated Ada and pivoted to that language when it came out. Intel had to adapt Ada to work with objects (it was pretty close already).

An advantage of the 33 bit scheme to protect capabilities is that you can push them on the stack where they will get mixed with normal data and then pop them later such that everything still works. In the 432 style you would need two separate stacks or awkwardly work around not being able to push/pop capabilities.

The "AND NOT" instruction is interesting for using a mask to clear bits. which is why it is called "BIC" on the ARM.

While the 186 and 286 were flawed for making IBM PC compatible machines, for what they had been designed for they did a pretty good job.
The app? No, there's no such way to control that. Your best bet is CSS configurations on the website but it'll be a pale imitation.
> Even though the SB didn't support memory management or objects, Intel didn't remove that circuitry.

I am curious about this detail. Was this due to production line convenience, an early example of binning, or probably something else entirely?
Empty profile, not sure how to send you one without having someone else snatch it. Please email me via the address shown to you on https://lucb1e.com/email-address/
> But everyone else I followed either never moved or quickly gave up and seems to have taken up residence on Bluesky.

What were the types of people who moved over to Bluesky?
I think people can do great work at any age. Sometimes newcomers look at a long-standing problem and discover or design a new approach that is substantially better. Other times established experts can leverage the breadth of their experience to develop a better solution or offering. For me, the key elements are the desire to create something of value or make a contribution, a willingness to collaborate to extend what you can accomplish, and the self-discipline to work hard for extended periods of time.
Crash as in what? Get delisted from the Nasdaq and go bankrupt or just have a bad bearish couple years or something? Their cashflow had pretty consistently improved since their IPO, they would've maybe had a couple bearish years, would've laid off employees like most other tech companies and most likely would have roughly followed the overall Nasdaq trajectory in the market. But that's a normal business cycle, the stock market is full of companies in much worse shape (look at Amazon for its first decade) that can survive any storm as long as their DSCR ratio isn't crazy...like Twitter's is now.
> Of course this assumes they kept track of who owns what code in the first place.

Not only that but for any large company to release code somebody in engineering needs to look at it to at least know what all is there, the legal department needs to assess the risk of potential liability, then which license to release it under needs to be decided. Finally, somebody in a senior business role needs to sign off on doing it.

I think it's great when old code gets released but the reason it's rare is it gets complex and it's nobody's job to do it. That's why many such releases are thanks to an employee deciding to care about doing it and having the internal cred and sway to push it through. Or, as it appears in this case, someone who had access to the code and is awesome enough to release it anonymously years later when the business is defunct or will no longer care.
> One thing about having leadership that is known to lie about anything or everything, for any sort of imagined persona gain

I will note that the few times I investigated claims of Elon lies they were not proper lies, either being misunderstood, misleading (which IS unethical, don't get me wrong), of indeterminate truth value (he said, she said type stuff), delusional optimism or actually true.

Like journalists, Musk rarely outright knowingly makes literally false statements, but this does not mean you should take what he says at face value.
Perhaps the engineers that understood how to analyze the logs were laid off?
Apparently their 5-year cloud contract failed to renew today

So, there may be a much simpler explanation for why their new rate limits on regular users to can-barely-scroll levels, and how that has all sorts of unintended consequences they weren't ready for
i want it on netflix
ngrok.io url does not spark confidence, this seems to just be a openai frontend also the "arxiv.org" restriction is only applied on frontend so it'll gladly go download any file (I tried with a 1gb file and it seems like it might've broke the entire thing since it keeps throwing Internal Server Error).
The whole topic here is about how America could/couldn’t have anticipated the invasion.

The topic here, at least where it started to veer way off course from the original thread, is the essentially pro-Kremlin narrative in the GGGP comment and its GP ("The proxy war started in 2014 with Euromaidan"). In this context - US calculations as such are a red herring. What matters here is the clear (and basically rather crass) implication in these comments of core Western responsibility for Russia's military actions.

Which implication your words definitely seemed to be (if obliquely) echoing and supporting. Or at least playing footsie with, for some reason known only to you.
How do plan to send me an email without talking to my mail server?
This view also introduces the question of how badly has Elon hurt his reputation and orchestrated mythology. Until Twitter, many thought the man a "genius" that could do no wrong. After Twitter, Elon has become "very human" with glaringly obvious flaws.
Is it a healthy relationship if they don't respect our boundaries?

it's not, but that doesn't mean it is a good idea to just refuse them. unless the relationship is seriously broken, it is always a good idea to to try to work on the relationship with your parents and avoid making it worse. if this is the only issue i'd have with my parents, it would be better to try to resolve the issue instead of rejecting them.

I think people may be projecting some very strange personal feelings about their parents on people they don't know.

possibly, but i get the same impression from your message too. you may have reasons for your choice that are not visible from your post, which is fine for your choice. but because i can't see those reasons (and it would be out of place to share them here) i have to interpret your message based on the context available.
"Ukraine was procuring drones from Türkiye, artillery from Germany"

Don't you mean artillery from Deutschland? :)
Maybe hasbro wants to hire you?
I run a Mastodon instance. You don't have to see eye to eye with me or my users to talk to us. However, I have defederated from instances that host:

* Loli porn

* Extreme neo-Nazi content; I'm talking about swastikas, hardcore racial slurs, and the like

* Targeted bullying and harassment

You want to spark a conversation about the relative merits of Republican fiscal policy, let's chat! You want to say that we should still own slaves, Jews eat babies, or gay people shouldn't exist? Go away. I don't owe you a soapbox.

Disconnecting from a server with despicable content doesn't take away that server's right to speak. It just preserves my -- and my users' -- right not to hear it.
Well, feel free to refer to the case law of LinkedIn vs. HiQ, as I said in the comment you replied to. That is law.
I sort of agree with this. We’ve been marketed to that we should be happy and that buying <thing|experience> will make us happy. These <things|experiences> will bring pleasure but they don’t create meaningful happiness. As if pleasure and happiness are the same thing. But they are often conflated.

I can’t tell or teach people “how to be happy”. I’m not even sure that’s possible or if it’s something everyone can do or would really want to. But I do know that being hooked on a treadmill of pleasurable experiences isn’t it.
I don't want to quibble about semantics, but habitual behavior of this sort just falls under the category of "liar" for me.
> Your comparison of mutable programming to the use of goto and unhygenic macros would suggest that mutation is a similar type of dinosaur to be culled.

Then you missed the point, which is that using mutation a.k.a. cells a.k.a. imperative code when it's not needed is a dinosaur to be culled. But you need to understand when it's not needed to realize this.

Functional reactive programming adoption is not something caused by the state of one particular stack; as it is also being adopted by game engines, big data analysis tools, development environments like web notebooks, etc. People throughout the industry are seeing the value and are simplifying their tools thanks to the paradigm.

> Functional programming claims to have abstractions that make the latter more simple than imperative programming, which may or may not be true.

Look, I get it, I really do. You don't see the possibilities of the functional paradigm and don't know how and where to use it effectively, so you keep criticizing the small part of it you do understand. I've been there, done that (though it was a long time ago).

With that attitude you can stay comfortably in a corner and be impervious to the changes the industry is undergoing, and miss out on a really cool programming style out of prejudice. Or you can accept the intellectual challenge (which it certainly is, especially for someone who has spent his entire career with a single style), and know concepts that those who learn them agree that they improve their programming even if they do not adopt them 100% for their work.

It's up to you. I don't gain anything with this, so I will not try to convince you of it.
Has anyone here tried using TB500 on a horse with a bum leg? Curious what results were achieved. I won't use either on myself, not because they are not approved for humans or animals but because they seem overpriced to me. But I would consider using it on a horse with a bum leg if it might reduce her pain. She's almost 30.
I don’t think it’s necessarily saying the self-inflicted DDoS has caused a technical issue that’s forced them to shut down access. I think it’s possible that shutting down anonymous access caused the DDoS, which led to giant spikes in some metric, which led them (Elon) to conclude that there was an uptick in scraping, so they imposed the 600/tweet/day limit to punish scrapers.

Seems like either my quota reset or they changed the policy because I’m able to access the site again.
The login requirement would stop people from seeing the OPs tweet https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?id=16749072623...

which seems to be marketing something made of letters and numbers, snake oil style.
I like messing with phone scammers and telemarketers. I always try new scenarios. Once I answered and shouted on the phone "Listen here, if I get only one more call from you, I will find you, I will kill you, I will behead you and I will shit in what's left of your throat, is that understood?". My wife was absolutely mortified and afraid that they'd call the cops on us (as if scammers would put themselves just for some empty threats). Unfortunately for me, or fortunately, the calls have drastically diminished in number since that one call...
Effectiveness is the important measure though, right? Not individual statistics but whether people can succeed with it. That's what those unverified reports claim - that it was tested against Stinger and more likely to achieve success. That might be because it is easier to use or for other reasons.
Was the i960 in laserprinters?
If this is over email, I always start with the "ask" first and then follow up with the most important information:

"I'd like your approval to move the validation job to a new server. It will only take one hour but will save Dave many hours a week cleaning up the jobs." Then go on to explain the details.

Nobody wants to read a long email to understand what it is you want them to do. 9 times out of 10, they'll provide the ask and only read the details if they need to.
Wow! That's super handy actually. I'm definitely gonna keep note of doing this in the future for my own projects
"Oh, you know."
I would like to see a p2p architecture.Something that relies more on the clients,like how bittorent and rss work
So you say, but its been working fine all day so...

Yeah, gonna keep using it.
Once had a coworker advocate for microservices because "you split everything into separate services and they all just work" quote, unquote. I've wondered ever since how typical that mindset might be whenever I hear anyone else pushing for similar such solutions.
It's shocking. I've been very optimistic because they have infinite money to throw at it, and no need for a profit. Is persistent peer-to-peer messaging just impossible to write?
To everyone saying it's because of a shortage of "high value" partners or whatever, put the MGTOW and FDS down and look around. Marriage is expensive and divorces are expensive. Financial independence and liquidity these days is valuable, maybe even more valuable than the marriage tax break. If you don't care about marriage in a religious sense I personally feel like there isn't much incentive to be married anymore, especially when so many people are renters. What community property is there to share?
So you're saying this isn't a DocToRs hATe ThIS oNe wEiRD TrIck! tweet?
Good effort, but ISC is still better. Sorry not sorry.
well yes. what is the outcome for my children if i do not allow them to see their grandparents?

to me, a good relationship with my parents (and inlaws) and between my children and their grandparents is more important than preventing any photos made of them.
> I want to consume almost the entire spectrum of human discourse

...said no one who's ever been a moderator.

You find out quickly that there are some perfectly horrid people out there. You absolutely do not want to hear everything that people say. It seems like you would, but you really don't.
The people who had the knowledge to realize this was a dumb mistake were probably fired by Musk.
Oh I'm sure it is given the cost of these peptides. That could just be a lack of competition and approval for use outside of the laboratory.

Body builders that push themselves too hard swear by this stuff to reduce their down time but I don't know how much of that is psychological. Body builders use BPC-157 injections for tendon repair [0]. It's also banned in horse races and banned for humans by WADA as it is considered cheating. Here [1] is an example of people trying to figure out if someone is cheating. Perhaps there are more studies on nih.gov by now, Ill check. All the cases I have seen thus far were for race optimizations and not treating old mares with a bum leg.

[0] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6271067/

[1] - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23084823/
Then how do software patents work? Aren't they mostly general expressions of steps used by computers? I can see that actual code would be copyrightable but how is it patentable?
RFK, Jr. is a presidential candidate with nearly as much support as Biden. I'd never vote for him*, and I'm not interested in much he has to say, but everything he says is well within the (statistical) mainstream of belief.

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[*] I'm not voting for any relative of another president, or probably even a relative of a congressperson; though it looks like one, I like to think this isn't a banana republic. Also, RFK, Jr. was against vaccines even when they weren't lying about them, and made his "political" bones by being against windfarms.
I have no hope for AMD. They should have made compatibility tools yesterday.
pg already pointed out to him that there has to be a better way to handle it. I agree.
Cry me a river, IT workers especially the ones working for SV companies are one of the most privileged people out there.
Ansel Adams tended to visit the same sites and take slightly different photographs over time, refining his vision of a place. I think it's a modality of most work, refinement and improvement over time as new perspectives are incorporated.