skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Practically speaking that's the same thing, normal people don't know and don't care about Windows vs. MacOS vs. Linux. It's a computer, and they hate it.

Apple at least designs their UIs to accomodate how normal people use computers, which is why their stuff doesn't mesh well with tech nerds and professionals without a mindset change. We are not normal people.
AMD Screws Gamers: Sponsorships Likely Block DLSS [video]
My first office software was WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3 on DOS. Then Lotus Smartsuite, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, now LibreOffice, with occasional bits of Google Docs. I never had to be retrained.

Here's the thing, for 90% of use cases, those are all effectively equivalent. You really shouldn't need any retraining whatsoever. A spreadsheet's a spreadsheet, and a word processor is a word processor. You type the text in the box and then hit print or whatever. Nothing new to learn.

Now admittedly, there are some power user features which are different, which is why I said they're only 90% equivalent. But most people don't use those anyway. Yet they will intensely oppose using a different but 90% equivalent thing because they haven't spent years being trained to use it - even though it's almost exactly the same thing they're using.

It's just a weird and bizarre mental hangup that seems to be natural to many humans.

If you're in tech, you will see the same thing with programming languages, frameworks, applications, etc. And it's on both sides, not just the users, but also the people hiring them too. "Oh, you've only worked with WordPress, you haven't been trained in Drupal?" "Oh, that's PHP, I only work in Python." "Well we're looking for a Ruby developer, not a C# developer." "That's React, I only know Vue.js"

It's mostly all general-purpose programming languages, libraries, and frameworks. Sure some details are different. There's a bit of a learning curve. But if you are actually capable with one, then picking up another nearly equivalent alternative should not be viewed as some impossibly complex thing that will take years of retraining.
We're basically there already. It seems like many google searches just return link after link of identical content taken from various other pages. They are as unique and accurate as lyric websites.

The good news is that my AI would filter those for me!
Whatever bad AI brings us, as long as people have access to it themselves then we're on a level playing field and the arms race continues as normal
I've found many good ones just from looking at games with high review score on MetaCritic. This is how I found Hollow Knight and Chained Echoes, for example.

On a side note, it's quite astounding what just a handful of people, sometimes a single individual, can accomplish. It becomes quite clear that the main limiting factor when trying to create a good game is simply your own imagination and creativity. A large team with a huge budget seems to be just as much of a curse as it is a blessing.
> Thats why there are no startups trying to make video hosting sites.

No, there are no startups in video for the same reason there were no startups in office apps or operating systems in the 2000s, a subsidized 500lb gorilla in the space.

The problem with a video startup is that you have to charge for your content. And some jerk will download your video, post it to YouTube, and distribute it for free.

If YouTube were forced to stand on its own instead of being subsidized by the Google advertising maw, we'd see innovation in the space.

Until YouTube gets broken out from Google by anti-trust action, the video startup space will continue to remain dead.
I don't mind the tags. It's just kids scribbling and it's neutral and ignorable to me. Neither ugly nor worth paying attention to.

I absolutely abhor advertising that pollutes outdoor spaces. So I guess it depends on your values.
Solar (and wind) power is great for powering AC in Spain during the summer but sucks for reliably heating homes in Scandinavia in the winter. That's why we in Sweden used to have enough nuclear power combined with hydro to heat the entire country in a co2 clean manner.

Then the greens destroyed the nuclear reactors before their EOL in a collaboration with the social democrats, the "ex" communists, etc.

Now we're rebuilding that nuclear capacity.
I'm not from Poland but I hope this is hyperbolic. Parts delivery is once or twice a day delivery in most cities in Europe, no matter if it is Renault, VW or a Kawasaki motorcycle. Of course a part can have longer delivery time but not because it is a Renault instead of a Audi. At least not at any reputable delivery business in modern parts of Europe (which I would think Poland is a part of even though I haven't been there since the 90's).
Presumably that the opportunity cost can be rather high.
Federal Judge Blocks White House from Communicating with Social Media Companies
We have considered that possibility, assessed it, and determined that was not the case. Onto the next thing.
My father died (heart attack) while writing his master thesis, 2001. In the closer family we all attribute this to stress during the period. He was a professor at a university, maintained a farm and often traveled to São Paulo for meetings with his advisor and classes.

It was a common sight for me to go sleep while he was still writing, wake up and see him still writing. He had a coffee, went to the farm, come back home, lecture at the university and went back to writing again. When he could, he went to São Paulo.

I went somewhat the same route. I finished my master degree but I gave up doctorate when I started to feel the impact it had in my health. Not only mentally but also physically.

My girlfriend is now also somewhat on the same route. Fortunately she will finish her doctorate soon and will still be alive, but I see many of the symptoms of my father in her.
Are you using Firefox?

Those URLs do not work for me when using Firefox + Windows. But the code works perfectly fine when I upload it to github gists and use the raw url.

And yeah, like you said do not want to inject remote JS into every site I visit so won't be using a remote URL.
Ryan —not Okai— is the one with a legal practice.
It’s Judge Doughty in the Western District of Louisiana. Republicans go judge shopping specifically to get him, and he gives them what they want.

On appeal, his rulings don’t hold up too well…
AFAIK Horizon Worlds uses Unity.
Just curious, what inspired you to pursue medicine. I have been a SDE at a FAANG with 7 years of experience, but I am curious in maybe pivoting into medicine or at least combining the two fields.

I have been feeling extreme boredom and dissatisfaction and was hoping pursuing medicine would give me some renewed passion.
C has to be up there.

One thing I find particularly beautiful is the elegance of how if and else work, which obviates the need for a separate elseif/elif keyword.

I also like that types are always on the left, which provides a nice symmetry for assignments. When I declare `int x` with int on the left, what I'm saying is that an assignment of x (e.g., y = x) results in an int being passed to the left of the = operator. This is different from Rust, Zig, etc., which IMO get this wrong (or at least ugly/counterintuitive).
The effects of Global Warming should've been featured in sciency publications like Times Magazine at least three decades ago.
www.rollc.at

I wish I had the motivation to post more often.
FYI I went on your site and it took 5 full seconds to load.
I don’t know if jobs ‘in the field of computer science’ are the same as jobs as a programmer but I think there exist plenty of very good programming jobs for which a phd doesn’t particularly matter, at least where I live. The people I know who got phds finished around 26/27 so I think it depends on the country/system.
is this still a problem?

I had a Roomba 10 years ago and that was the usual problem I had with it. That and having to pick up a rug so it wouldn't get caught.
I was thinking of actions taken by state actors in the context of the current geo-political climate. As such (1) can be easily brushed-off if a national security letter from a 3-letter agency is in the mailbox, (2) is debatable, but looking at that "transparency list" I mostly see Western companies, companies which I suppose are also subject to that kind of correspondence, as for (3), afaik two of the biggest browsers now on the market are controlled by companies actively working with the US defence apparatus, including Google [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/15/technology/google-ai-pent...
That's some major scapegoating of flight crew, when their airline clearly has not maintained the plane properly and caused engine failure in the first place and airport failed to provide adequate ground control support. Easy to be a backsit driver/pilot when you are not flying a damaged plane over the ocean with nobody acknowledging that you have an emergency. Ideally sure, pilot and first office would have done everything by the book and maybe landed at airport safely. But life is never ideal, and I wonder if Transair offered a lot of paid time on simulator to periodically review every likely emergency scenario. Copilot saved captain's life by directing rescue crew to leave him alone in the water and focus on captain first, so I don't think they are horrible human beings.
15€ is the family plan
Carbon dioxide takes 20+ years to reach the stratosphere? Gases with higher molecular weights like halogenated ozone depleting substances reach the stratosphere in no more than 5 years:

https://www.epa.gov/ozone-layer-protection/basic-ozone-layer...

Ozone depleting substances that release chlorine include chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs), carbon tetrachloride, and methyl chloroform. ODS that release bromine include halons and methyl bromide. Although ODS are emitted at the Earth’s surface, they are eventually carried into the stratosphere in a process that can take as long as two to five years.

I would expect gases with a lower molecular weight to blend into the homosphere even faster.
> Science is full of ideas that work out mathematically but were supplanted by a better model (epicycles) or refined when their predictions didn’t match reality (ethers).

Honestly I think this is even true of much of our current understanding of physics. People take it for granted that we've discovered some irrefutable facts, but there is so much we don't know and understand.

It's entirely possible while the math checks out currently for our theories, they could be way off in many ways.
OT, but I took another look.

This isn't about formatting (They're using WordPress, BTW.)

They're breaking conventions about headlines, and the message isn't getting across.
Ask HN: Isn't GPT-2 enough for most tasks nowadays?
GPT-2 is free and open-source, and I've seen awesome applications built using it in the past. But nowadays everyone talks about GPT-4 or other gigantic models for tasks that do not necessarily need a large model (say, summarization).

Am I missing something?
I would love to buy it, if i liked it. I happily pay Spotify, Kagi, ChagGPT, etcetc - but while i do watch a fair amount of Youtube.. i'm not sure i get that much from it.

More over, i'm constantly of the defensive with it. If i click on an impulse video -- aka one i watch guiltily but would rather not make a habit out of it -- Youtube disregards other videos i'd much rather watch and now gives me repeated videos of that one thing. I open a fair bit of stuff in Incognito just to avoid Youtube polluting my feed.

I think i'd happily pay $3/m for what i get. But generally it's not close to $12/m for me, especially when i don't feel like it's working for me.
I have been using zfs for years from ubuntu 18. Easy snapshots, monitoring, choices for raid levels, and ability to very easily copy a dataset remotely with resume or incremental support is awesome. I mainly use it for kvm systems each with their own dataset. Coming from mdadm + lvm from my previous set up is night and day for doing snapshots and backups. I do not use zfs on root for ubuntu instead I do a raid1 software set up for the os and then a zfs set up on other disks - zfs on root was the only gotcha. For FreeBSD zfs on root works fine.
Thanks, this is a good insight I hadn't considered.

So it doesn't matter if the app overall has a good rating, you're just looking for the signal that some subset of users isn't getting their needs met?
I see it as just a kind of "warranty void if seal broken". Don't do this or you may be in violation of the GPL. Maybe a legal court in $country would find in your favour (I'm not convinced it's as clear cut as you imply). Maybe they would find that you willfully infringed, despite the kernel devs clearly warning you not to do it.

The main "legal effect" I see is that you are not willing to take that risk, just like Oracle isn't.
You're right, thank you for the thoughtful feedback. It's true that the blog post skims over the meaning of `generate` when introducing it, and that I'm doing a bit of extra work under the covers in this post. I thought keeping things light and interactive would help easing into the details, but it's true that the reader has to wait quite a long time to see what the preprocessor is doing exactly, and it's not clear until the end what exactly is going on. I'll add something in to signpost this a bit better.

To answer your questions, the post is trailing the repo. I've uploaded the full source comprising this post here: https://github.com/codyd51/penpal-blog-post-preprocessed.

The code blocks link back to the Github source via a custom Hugo shortcode, and I currently need to maintain this by hand. While wrapping up this blog post, I added support for generating this shortcode via an extension to the `show` command.

Here's what the penpal command to render a hotlinked code block looks like, in the source code of this blog post: https://github.com/codyd51/penpal-blog-post-preprocessed/blo...

Here's what the shortcode generation for this looks like in penpal: https://github.com/codyd51/penpal/blob/release/penpal/render...

I think it'd be really nice to maintain all of this automagically - it seems reasonable that the technical content being built up would frequently be hosted in a finished state somewhere!
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Oh cool, glad you're still here!

You may want to look for a really nice source of essential oils, or terpenes, and put it in a diffuser.

I won't go so far as to recommend it, but I personally learned about this in the context of vaporization (not "vaping") of hemp/cannabis, but the related oils are found in plenty of other plants, and/or as concentrates for putting into the air, or into you in various ways.
https://sam.hooke.me

Mostly tech stuff, and some games. Recent topics have been:

Python, Django, C, CMake, SDL2.

These days I generally use it as a place to write up notes on whatever I happened to be working on recently. This is sometimes useful for me to refer back to, and hopefully useful for others too.

On one occasion I searched on Google to try and help solve a programming problem, only to find a post from myself published 8 months earlier, in which I had solved that exact same problem:

https://sam.hooke.me/post/2018/10/that-weird-feeling/

Before becoming a full time software engineer I used to develop video games for fun, initially in Game Maker but then later in Unity and other languages. Over time I'm aiming to (re)publish them on my website, rather than just leaving them to rot on my hard drive. None were particularly big hits back in the day, though the most successful was probably Dominos 2: Winter Edition, a physics based platformer with level editor. You can play it here:

https://sam.hooke.me/game/dominos-2-winter-edition/
> I can’t tell you why I keep returning to this venture when I’ve failed at it so many times.

Sorry if this sounds stupid or obvious, but with this kind of thing I find that it's easier to cross the finish line if you maintain humble goals. Focus on just getting a working end-to-end MVP. Refine and enhance it down the road; don't get stuck trying to make version 0 an awesomely praiseworthy effort.
Let's Encrypt doesn't work with cPanel shared hosting. A lot of cPanel providers have free certs thanks to AutoSSL but many do not (such as Namecheap). A lot of the obscure web runs on shared hosting.
https://divan.dev

Top posts:

- Rethinking Visual Programming with Go - https://divan.dev/posts/visual_programming_go

- Visualizing Concurrency in Go - https://divan.dev/posts/go_concurrency_visualize/

- TXQR - Animated QR data transfer https://divan.dev/posts/animatedqr/

- Fountain codes and animated QR - https://divan.dev/posts/fountaincodes/

- Thought Experiment: Flutter in Go - https://divan.dev/posts/flutter_go/

Haven't been posting lately – COVID+War, plus my main focus now on radical reforming sports system in Ukraine and building a new figure skating federation (a lot of cool coding stuff there too, but also a lot of research on sports governance/science).
I work for a Fortune 100 company. Recently an email was sent to all 100,000 employees saying that nobody was allowed to use DALL-E 2, ChatGPT, Codex, Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, Microsoft’s Copilot, and GitHub Copilot, etc. due to concerns about those tools using other people’s IP (meaning our company might end up illegally using their IP) or the potential that the tools might get a hold of our IP through our use of the tools and share it with others. I’m not terribly worried about generative AI taking my job when none of the thousands of programmers at my company are allowed to use it.
If something drastically changes with climate change then maybe you are right, if not then life expectancy will fall.
N+1s are a fundamentally a data modeling and querying issue.

People who complain about GraphQL having a lot of N+1s are complaining about their lack of fundamental knowledge. You can build a GraphQL with minimal N+1s and you can build a “standard” API with loads of N+1s
One of my exploratory projects while I still though that academics career made sense involved replacing smalltalk's stack based bytecode with incrementally transformed S-expression trees. Naturally the first thing I went out to do was writing S-expression reader and writer in smalltalk, my advisor at the time told me that it is pointless busywork and I should just use ST literal syntax, it looked somewhat ugly with all the # there, but saved a lot of time.

Well, 12 years later (ie. early 2023) I realized that I don't really have any kind of cool sideproject and started implementing the same idea in C (with the added goal of the VM being natively multithreaded with fine-grained locking along the lines of JikesRVM and WebKit). Well, I have stub implementations of classes needed for the AST representation and S-expression reader and writer…
Much of the graffiti in São Paulo is with the consent of the building owners. Some even pay for it.
This is a weird article not understanding what prompt engineering is. Basically with GPT-3.5 one can say bye bye to fine-tuning in most cases as natural language directives (prompting) combined with chain of thought can now beat most fine-tunings. That only works with extremely large models though. One can use prompt engineering for things like "the person I like talks this way: ... Please talk like this person". Or one can use prompt engineering to simulate one-shot NER and collect all the data appearing in the conversation without any super complex ML model pipelines. I fail to see how this goes away once GPT-274745 can write its own prompts.
https://geo.rocks

My open source blog mainly with (geospatial) niche tutorials.

It's a pretty personal thing as I mostly (but not only) derive the blog posts from challenges I encounter during work or my PhD research. In this way it documents my learnings and serves as a quite verbose personal wiki.
Remember that roman concrete often used iron for reinforcement. The Colosseum is a famous example of this. The only reason it's not still there today is because metal, particularly iron, was extremely valuable so after the fall of the Roman empire, people tore whatever iron they could out of the structure (akin to people today stealing wiring and copper piping from the walls of houses).
First kid at ~33 doesn’t strike me as particularly unusual for reasonably well off professionals where I live, but maybe I’m biased by how my parents went through life and you yours.
You can subscribe to Postgres' WAL for tracking changes without having to query them. But from a quick look Kine (the etcd to RDBMS translation tool used in OP's article) doesn't use that.
I agree. But don't call it "Climate Crisis", that just sounds silly, and will make people ignore you (it's also not factual since a crisis is something that happens quickly). "Global Warming", or "Climate Change" work perfectly fine.
LLMs no matter how clever have no agency or creativity or ability to innovate, anticipate beyond what they’re prompted, etc. It’s crucial to realize that LLM chat interfaces disguise the fact they’re still completing a prompt. This isn’t AGI as AGI requires agency. GPT4/5 or whatever successor might be a key building block, and I suspect we’ve already discovered the missing elements in classical AI and the challenge will be integration, constraint, feedback, etc, but nothing will make LLMs alone AGI. That shouldn’t be surprising. Our brains are composed of many models, some heuristic, some optimizers, some solvers, some constrainers, and some generative. The answer won’t be a single magic thing operating in a black box. It’ll be an ensemble. We already see this effort beginning with plugins and things like langchain. This is the path forward.
John Carmack learned this the hard way with Armadillo aerospace. When the team went from hobbiests to employees, productivity either stayed the same or declined despite their hours effectively doubling.
https://www.renderbetter.com/blog
I've messed around in the anime fansubbing scene many years ago and still tinker around with codecs and filters since I care about that stuff.

I don't usually use hardware decoders because there are restrictions, such as what renderers can be used or what and where filters can be placed in the decoding and rendering pipeline.

Hardware decoding is great when power (be it electrical or processing) is limited, but if you really want to have all the knobs available software decoding is what you want.
"It will probably pain me to see the diaspora of users among many microblogging services."

Not just you, every publisher, influencer, notable person, institute that uses social media to broadcast information to large groups of people.
Yesterday on a train in Germany going to another town we passed by a field where panels, which looked new, were mounted vertically, like open parallel fences, and I realized that the cost drop for solar panels means that they do not need to be mounted optimally to be cost-effective.

The separation between the solar panel fences was wide enough for a tractor, although too narrow for a combine harvester, and my impression was that it is intended to combine electricity generation with harvesting. It was a small field.
I don't think prompt engineering is the problem. I find myself with minimal education but a lot of trial and error being able to "engineer" a good prompt eventually if I know the problem and can validate answers.

I think the big problem is actually finding problems you could use LLMs in. I think anyone that's played with them tends to have a good guess at whether they could or couldn't do something (although you need to really test to be sure, do some prompt engineering etc), but actually finding problems to work on that are within the realm of being solvable and useful is the hardest part imo.