skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But I haven’t seen anyone saying that life was better in the Roman Empire, ever.

I think that many segments of modern society have a tendency to look at history through rose colored glasses and underrate how awful it was for everyone involved, even when it's couched with "but of course you wouldn't want to actually live there."

But this is tricky to talk about because it's not a universal tendency and it doesn't hit everyone the same way. Some people have a tendency to look at history through the opposite lens as if the people involved in it weren't human beings at all and were too primitive and desperate to have any relatable emotion. And the existence of those people who treat history like it was just a primitive hell is why you tend to see memes about getting scammed by a brass merchant being so popular, because it feels like a very human everyday experience and it contradicts that opposite narrative.

Maybe you haven't ever encountered anyone saying that Rome was the GOAT, I'm not going to say you're wrong about that if that's not your experience. But then I remember seeing people get weird online about criticisms of Sparta. There is a real tendency I see to abstract history in a way that papers over the humanity of the people involved, and I think that pointing out that the people involved were human beings who suffered in human ways that are genuinely horrible (sometimes horrible to such extremes that it is difficult to internalize and empathize with) -- I think that has some value in punching through that instinct in both directions because whether people are glorifying or demonizing history, the thing that unites both of those instincts is the reduction of the people involved to caricatures and actors rather than human beings.

But your millage may vary; I don't know what parts of culture you're embedded in or whether you ever find yourself around people who fall into that trap. Maybe you don't. All I can say is that my experience doesn't match yours, and I do run into people who glorify history, and I do run into people who glorify Rome.
Which have absolutely nothing in common with Loom.
yeah the self driving car gets bugs written by some overworked grad named kevin who was hung over at work that day
Can’t even call print or logging from signal handlers (that’s UB in Python), despite being bounced off of the VM.
It “understands” the prompt by passing the data through the neural network and activating individual neurons to a greater or lesser extent.

In the case of BERT models (which I know better), there is an an activation for each token and that activation captures the meaning of the token in context. You can average these over all the tokens in a document and get a vector which is similar to the document vectors used in information retrieval. Traditionally you would count how many times each word is in a document and make a vector indexed by words, but the BERT vector can (1) find synonyms since these typically have a vector close to words with similar meanings and (2) differentiate different meanings of a word because the neuron activation is affected by the other words around it.

Activation of the neural network is the way that it represents the input text and I think “representation” is what is going on when it “understands insofar as it does.
Assuming by "as they choose" you mean without buying a Developer ID then yes, they can do these things. In fact if you don't supply signing certificates Conveyor will self-sign your app and produce an HTML download page with instructions telling the user how to bypass GateKeeper. It'll also generate a `curl | bash` one liner to install it from the terminal. Obviously, this isn't meant for consumer software. Really you shouldn't bypass GateKeeper even if you're a pro level developer, although of course in reality we all do it.

I too used to be maximally skeptical about this stuff. I saw what Apple did with iOS and like so many others saw the writing on the wall. But it's been 15 years now and you can still distribute and run unsigned Mac software if you want to. Developer ID/notarization remains very different to app review. App sandboxing remains optional. You can still get root if you want, both the default de-privileged version and the full fat version (by disabling SIP).

In the end the wall writing existed only in our minds. Apple have never closed the macOS platform like with iOS, and honestly I see no sign they ever will.
Meta is courting the risk of going full Orkut, where people come by to check out early hype on an unfinished product, find the feature set underwhelming, and head off elsewhere. The tradeoff with getting tens of millions of users at launch is that it will be harder to get a disappointed user to come back and try again than it was to get them to try the first time.

I'm sure for the dev team this is a busy time, and the work they need to do to accommodate so many new users creates a feeling of forward progress. But none of that work (from what I'm seeing in discussions) seems to involve adding basic functionality, while in the interim people are forming a durable first impression of the service.
I suggested an HN version of dramacoin a few months back, it got one interesting, thoughtful reply, and one low-brow coomer reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35186653
Imagine you are suffering day in and day out in crushing poverty, that you see nothing but crime and hopelessness all around you, that your friends and family have been killed or are rotting away in jail, that you are looked down upon, spat upon, and despised, that you see no hope of bettering or escaping your situation.

Then imagine you've taken something that infinitely transforms your world and makes you feel amazing to such a degree that's absolutely unimaginable to someone who hasn't tried some of these substances ("better than sex" is an extreme understatement). All your pain is gone, all your misery forgotten, amazing vistas open before you, all is good.

After that brief stay in paradise, you come crashing down and back in to your miserable life. Everything is as before, your passion is back, only you now know it's possible for you to get back to that exalted state, to escape that prison of a life you've been living in, even if for a moment.

Is it evidence of a disease for someone who's gone through this to desperately want to experience that escape again? To be free and feel great?

Is the cause of such a desire -- the misery, the poverty, the hopelessness, the fantastic way these substances make you feel and the escape they offer -- can all that be justly summed up in the word "disease", or is there something else going on?
Wage theft doesn’t create the same kind of fear as someone shoving a gun in your face and taking your property.
The title is fine. Sponsorship doesn't need to include a money a transfer.
You sound like a joyish person to work with.
nvidia maintained MSRP of 30 series cards during the WFH boom and did not allow AIBs to increase prices, this was one of the main complaints from EVGA that ended up with them pulling out of the GPU market. The scalping was done by third parties.
This is Meta. In no time it will be the same old "tailored for you" experience. Soon his timeline will be spammed with tractor ads. He and other early adopters should just enjoy this wild-west phase, it will be tamed soon.
Ever tried Subnautica?
Don’t think it’s a secret though.
Whatever happens, I'm hoping we won't see another 2to3-like migration. I moved from Python a long time ago due to its multi-threaded limitations (among other things) to Java and JVM, and I really appreciate the stability the JVM team tries to maintain. Things are not perfect, but I'd take stability/compatibility over perfection any day.
That wouldn't be my interpretation, and is exactly why lawyers get you to state things in full sentences.
Thanks, I forgot I had hf defined in ~/.ssh/config

I cannot edit my post, so I hope people see your post
That also depends on the scale of the monetary sponsorship, though. If I heard something like "Meta/Google/Whoever is the main sponsor of Python for the next 3 years", I'd assume (perhaps incorrectly) much more money per year than it takes to hire a single engineer. On the other hand, someone just saying "sure, we'll do the silver tier at your next few conferences" is worth a whole lot less than one engineer.

Regardless, the previous commenter's point stands that the title could be a lot more informative.
Adding, dealing with homelessness reduces healthcare costs [1], so by all means, a net positive to society.

[1] https://nlihc.org/resource/study-finds-affordable-housing-re...
Lottery ticket winner explains which platitudes helped them pick the winning numbers
Oh good, the “Single genius visionary worship” part of the hype cycle.
impostor syndrome of a kind? don't ever show it. Just the opposite, be proud of what you have been doing aside of work, and without anyone paying you. That proves passion, and passion is rarely found nowadays.

But also, do carefuly read the fine print in the offers/contracts.
i have seen a few claiming ownership over things made (by me) after AND ALSO before going there.. esp. if there's any overlap in domains.

sounds ridiculous but happens.
I think that a person can still hate Musk/Twitter while agreeing that they should win this case.

PS - I've been told that defending yourself against California §17200 claims is really, really difficult. Wachtell has their work cut out for them.
Here's how one can succeed:

- Be born into a rich family

- Have friends in high places (ideally rich friends)

I know it's kinda sarcastic, but that is the truth. Being successful is not an exact science.

For the odd 'regular' person becoming successful, it's usually luck. They might have worked really hard enough to deserve it, but it's likely luck that got them to where they are.
It is already legal in California to use lethal force for self-defense when you are in fear of death or serious injury. So what are you suggesting exactly?
It's obviously an MP; whether it's V remains to be seen.
> This notion of freezing ourselves into the future is pretty science-fiction, and it’s naive

Being actually really dead, with your body physically no longer existing, is truly final. You won't be conscious ever again. No exceptions. This, on the other hand, gives you a chance to live again. The chance might be tiny, but it's still non-zero, so it's still worth pursuing.

Tim Urban has a cool article about it: https://waitbutwhy.com/2016/03/cryonics.html, I agree with most of his points, except "No one ever will ever ever want to live forever". Because everyone actually does want to live forever, they're just afraid to openly acknowledge it.
It depends on the social context. If your friends - or people you want to be friends with - hold it in high esteem then yeah. Also true if a lego is disliked by group of people you despise.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36618650
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36618977
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36620437
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36621950
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36624684
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36637158
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36639726
Ignoring the pretty weak evidence of slo-mo video, which could make anyone look out of it, and some circumstantial at best "evidence" (my brother's keeper and all that), there have been more high profile and damaging cases of British politicians addicted to drugs. Prime example, Prime Minister Anthony Eden[1] who botched the Suez Crisis:

> Robert Carr served as Eden's Parliamentary Private Secretary and I have been much influenced by his comments:

> ‘I find it difficult to accept the judgement that Anthony's health did not have a decisive influence at least on the conduct of his policy. I agree that he might well have pursued the same basic policy had he been well, but I find it very hard to believe that he would have made such obvious miscalculations in its execution both in the political and the military spheres.’

> Lord William Deedes, the distinguished journalist, who was also a Minister in Eden's government, accurately said on television in 2004 that during the Suez crisis, Eden ‘under prescription had, as many did, and still do, barbiturates, I think, to assist rest and sleep etc. and amphetamines sometimes for a little bit of a pick up’, and agreed that this was what was called ‘uppers and downers’.31 That combination is contained in Drinamyl, identified by Eden's own doctor as the drug he was on. Drinamyl is now very rarely used, as the medical profession have become more aware of their effect on judgement, energy and mood. Deedes’ account, however, contrasts with Eden's wife's view that he was not taking ‘uppers and downers’ and was only taking anything like it (Benzedrine) in the last fortnight before he resigned.

[1] https://academic.oup.com/qjmed/article/98/6/387/1548168
> I don't see how the software does anything other than get less valuable commercially with every passing year

That’s the worst part of all this. It’s not like he’s sitting on a goldmine, he’s hoarding something of immense historical value because it’s slightly more beneficial for him to do so than it would be to share it.

I can’t imagine steering your legacy from being immortalized as an MIT AI researcher to… that.
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I think if anything, a double green check would mean the opposite: The point of the check mark is that it indicates you have read the message even if you haven't (yet) given a reply.

It doesn't tell why you didn't answer: if you just didn't get around to answering yet or if you don't want to answer on purpose. (But of course it offers the suggestion of the latter. Hence "left me on read" being a thing where "no reply" is seen as an act of communication itself.)

But there is no situation in which it indicates approval.

So if anything, "double green check without any reply" could be interpreted as declining a contract offer. But even this would be a stretch, I think.
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Did not expect to see Alan Partridge on hacker news. I'm Alan partridge was hilarious!

“Jet from Gladiators to host a millennium barn dance at Yeovil aerodrome. Properly policed. It must not, I repeat not, turn into an all-night rave.”
If the hype of it being a “Twitter killer”, doesn’t it need to provide the features of Twitter minus Elon?

Wasn’t that the whole point of all these new apps?
It is unfortunate that VLA type was made optional in C11. It's like throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Luckily, they decided to make it mandatory again in C23 again, with only the automatic allocation optional.
Interesting. I'd say that's true for the majority of engineers yeah. For my own career I've been stuck on projects (with the exception of one last month) that was all over 3 years old and needed maintenance. Some projects were learning to read AS400 RPG code then converting that into java code. So I guess that is kinda greenfield? I don't know, I enjoy reading code and understanding what's happening But I absolutely get the distaste for it
To be fair, he's talking this context in particular. I wouldn't be anywhere near as harsh, but would definitely frown on somebody replying to a legal contract with a thumbs up to mean "I accept".

If it were the other party, I would (and have) asked for clarification. Surprise; there have been multiple instances of potential disaster caught early this way!
You don't have to use it. I don't understand this obsession to have to do something because it's trendy.
Given twitter is has only ever been used by a small subset of the population, I'd argue anyone aware of the twitter drama is in something of a bubble.
This is like writing “mechanics hate bolts”.

Yea, mechanics love to complain about metric and imperial sizes and when they don’t thread in correctly, but at the end of the day a good mechanic loves seeing a smooth running car.

Similarly, a good software engineer loves it when they have a smooth running service. Updates work without hiccup and the system can be inspected to see how things are running. Having clean and maintainable code is directly proportional to the ease and pleasure of work on this service.

I believe in quality over quantity and I also believe that beautiful code exists. My hatred of code comes from lazy or rushed implementations, which can and should be improved over time.

LGTM culture is a product of bad management and should not be used as an excuse to ship lazy code or code written by people who hate what they do.

A good engineer should take pride in their work, even on the bad days. And even when the product itself isn’t what they would personally want.
Honest question, as someone who doesn't use Twitter: why don't you just read the papers?

For the specific case of the Paris riots, you could check on Le Figaro (right-leaning) and Le Monde (left-leaning) – yest, both of them.

I find that following two newspapers allows me to get a balanced-enough take on current events. No need to try to decipher some ultra-short quip from random people and infer the 90% of missing context on my own.
"Non-commercial"?! How much money are they making from it now?
In a broad sense maybe, but not really. The spec says:

> 4. Major version zero (0.y.z) is for initial development.

I'd argue that most of the projects we are talking about here are long past initial development.
It sounds like Facebook is volunteering 3 person-years which is nothing resembling a 3 year sponsorship. We're talking at least an order of magnitude difference. 3 person-years sounds like one team at Facebook working on the GIL for 3 months.
https://archive.org/details/vls-archive seems to have a lot of good stuff
Meta contributes a huge amount to the open source community.

https://opensource.fb.com/
If you have to put that kind of work into a platform to make it usable, I would suggest putting it into a platform that aligns with your values. I just can't understand why anyone, even "normals", would be so eager to jump into bed with Facebook again after the last decade.
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As an alternative, you could just not use the product
I’d recommend anything by Julia Davis, who was in the ‘thick people’ sketch. Her comedies are pitch black and very good, including Nighty Night and Hunderby.

For a sketch show I’d recommend Big Train - it went slightly under the radar, but has an absolutely incredible lineup of talent.
A lo of people in this thread seem to be misunderstanding what is being asked for. There is no runtime reflection needed. What is really needed is -

1. A way to get a value that represents the type of any statically known type (i.e. known at compile time).
2. A way to compare two typereps for equality.
3. A way to convert between types if the typereps are equal.

This is basically the equivalent of the `Typeable` class in Haskell and PureScript (https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base/docs/Data-Typeable....). Both Haskell and PureScript erase types at runtime, so it is possible to do without adding a runtime to TypeScript as well.
"Have rich older friends"
The actual ruling [0] is very approachable and far more interesting than the article above. The farmer was in the habit of accepting contracts from this particular company by saying "yup" or "looks good" or similar short responses. SWT quite reasonably took this usage of the thumbs up emoji as just another one of the farmer's casual signatures.

If Chris sincerely did not intend to sign the contract, he really should not have been in the habit of accepting contracts with a casual single-word reply in the first place. Had he insisted on a more formal process in prior negotiations with SWT, I doubt the judge would have granted summary judgement in this case (and SWT probably wouldn't have assumed the thumbs up was a signature).

[0] https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/2023skkb116-480130.pdf
Not everything should persist, such as in a classic web architecture, analogous to redis vs postgres

Ex: For some of our use cases for more-text data sources and APIs we are helping folks index for Louie.ai, we do ingest-time embedding into persistent vector DBs for the raw, and are looking at llmindex and others for more ephemeral run-time caching of post-proccessed results. Ex: Pre-embed 1GB of text for fast search, but then only cache ad-hoc genAI task results on those, like classifications. We may still want to persist the embedded task results for other reasons, so not obvious.

If figuring out that kind of thing for use cases like analysts talking to DBs for cyber investigations, supply chain, emergencies, etc, we are actively hiring in backend engineering (remote): https://www.graphistry.com/careers, who build louie.ai
Nonsense. As with any and all "social media", block early, block often. It's your time, your attention, so you should get to choose what you see.

Of course, you run the risk of enclosing yourself into an echo chamber, but that's up to each individual user to consider.
Yes, like how "all you can eat" doesn't literally mean staying at the restaurant all day and exhausting their supply.
I wouldn't worry about it. Interesting people with non-mainstream development backgrounds stand out in a good way. Over the years I've gotten tired of interviewing the same people over and over.

You'd just look like you tried something different, it didn't work out and you're looking for a job. I'd be most interested in what you learned from the experience and how it could benefit my team.
STFU all I said is that what they claim is not what's the state of their project today. Don't even get me started on their alignment BS.
The iPhone is still pretty much the same ~330PPi as before, only the OLED number are inflated. If you only count the smallest PPI within the sub pixel of OLED they are still, magical ~330 ppl on newer iPhone.
I think at this point it is better Meta to ditch python and invest in a new programming language that mimics exactly wording for wording of python but without GIL. Google did it with their Carbon for C++, Go for C/D/C++. Microsoft even wrestle with Java for .NET and at one point their J++ 2 decades ago. Meta shpuld create their own. Maybe dump their resources into Modular. Python at this point is basically a C++ with a hotch potch of features and codebase. Start from clean like Mozilla Rust would help entire programming a lot than invest in a niche subset feature of Python which they dont have any control at all (I am speaking from corporate point of view). Python is like Perl, it will continue to have its place even decades later to be generic or niche for AI. But the rest of us may be moving on to something more specialized and cleaner like Rust, Ruby, Modular, etc.
A loosely related article that was recently discussed:

https://ploum.net/2023-06-19-more-rms.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36389805
Concrete has poor tensile strength and is wash to damage with a hammer. Also as a building material is very expensive...
^ This is one of those customers you lose on purpose. The comments section in general is full of wonderful behavior, but this is top 5.
It would be great if all these sites (including Reddit) just had a button "show me content I might like", instead of distracting me with click-bait.

I get too distracted and end-up wasting too much time doom-scrolling. I've deleted all my accounts.
But all of these people are already actually truly dead, with their physical body not existing much more than the mummified remains you sometimes find in other places. The fact that they're frozen rather than dessicated is irrelevant - frozen mamallian bodies are completely dead.

That there could in principle be some way to restore them to life is not much more true than it is that you could in principle reconstruct a burned letter from the ashes, with enough information about the burning process.
We do have the full facts, this article just doesn't link to the actual ruling, which is a personal pet peeve of mine.

https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/2023skkb116-480130.pdf