skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So they sent out messages in the company chatroom, asking people to leave positive reviews.

I don’t think this is necessarily wrong, provided there was nothing forcing them to be positive or repercussions for not doing it (or for leaving a negative review).

Most people review things only at the extremes (usually negative) unless they are prompted. That’s why Amazon sends people emails with questions or asking for a review.
If a company asks their employees to leave positive reviews, and the employees generally like the place and are willing, that seems OK to me. I’ve lived in apartments that have done this and noticed when looking at reviews for others that they must have done the same.
A functional runtime from top to bottom is simple on a FPGA. It's also pretty useless. A circuit with no memory that does the same thing each time. Pretty good for a light switch, but not the kind of things people want computers for.
Awesome! Great job on this
> How can you have a public square without fostering news and political niches

Most people in most public squares aren’t engaging in civic discourse. They’re bantering and conversing and trading. With Reddit and Twitter simultaneously crapping the bed, there’s a valid niche for that sort of square on the internet.

We still need a public square for civic discourse. But it’s clear the current model optimises for bloviation and posturing. Maybe there’s a better model than every person their own broadcaster.
Doesn’t this just cause the cars to block traffic more?
Active consent of the governed has often been a large sticking point for rule of law, historically.

Whether or not you, or we, believe that is correct, incorrect, otherwise.
> "They have colors of gold, blue, brown, and some of them resemble a miniature of the Earth."

I'd love to see pictures of this claimed "miniature Earth." Because this really sounds like poppycock.
https://www.extua.pw/blog/

I haven't written much in a while and half the posts are missing, but I've kept it up for over a decade at this point.
> Hmm, is this why there are subtitles on reality TV shows based in the south?

There are (sometimes, rarely) subtitles on Norwegian TV for Norwegian dialects. Doesn’t make it diverse (homogeneous as Americans like to say).
I liked the dichotomy between the conventional web and the crypto.
Is it a similar problem if someone on SNAP buys halal or kosher products with their food stamps? It's not their money either!
18A process is allegedly ahead of schedule (moved from 2025 to 2024), so perhaps Intel will skip 20A completely?
You are lacking the perspective to make that determination but I will pray that on your deathbed you will achieve total enlightenment so you can see.
> Wire nuts are easy to fuck up.

> Wagos are hard to fuck up.

This we readily agree on, but I've seen both being fucked up enough to go over the electrical system with a FLIR for any new property purchase. The stuff you find like that you won't believe, including dead rodents, completely burned out junction boxes, arcing so strong that you could smell the ozone meters away from the junction box (essentially a matter of time), wire stripped bare over ridiculously long distances and so on. Other code violations such as using only black 1.5 mm^2 for a whole installation and non in-ground approved cable buried a couple of inches under a driveway.

My advice is to use both, each for their strengths. If you're wiring up an electric motor of any sizeable power I'd definitely do that using the best connection possible, so a crimped on screw terminal if that's a possibility, a wire nut if it isn't and a Wago if there isn't anything else. But I'd check the drop across the Wago before calling it a day, just in case. Start-up currents are pretty nasty. Also: anything behind a type C or D breaker.
I think "good" might better be replaced with "useful"
Make it work, make it clean, make it fast
Have you heard of this little thing called the Blockchain?
Sometimes it's very good I had a list of strings in this format "foo:bar:baz" and needed to convert this into an dict {"foo":{"bar":"baz"}

It wrote me the function and I got on with the rest of my work.

Other times it's just completely wrong or doesn't get what I'm after is might be a "me" problem with my prompting
The personal version is free.

OP stated "remote controlling a friends computer" which would be the free version
Can you name some models or providers? I've been frustrated with OpenAI's constraints and would love to know my options.
Good, maybe I'll get to stop cancelling subscriptions because they added a LLM to a product I liked.
At least you do a test pull. You're ahead of 99% right there! Good for you.
If someone tells me that languages are adopting a functional approach, I would expect to see the tools and methods evolve to allow functional code to be written. What I am seeing is languages adopting specific functional methods that can be used or discarded, rather than encouraging the adoption of the actual style.
For an actual business, no, it's not 15 minutes, but for a small business it's more like a couple of days once, and for a medium business it's a few days every quarter.

Basically, you need to sit down and figure out:
1. What data are you storing,
2. What are you doing with it and who you are giving it to,
3. Is it personally identifiable information,
4. Why are you storing it and do you really have to.

Yes, the GDPR's intent is to force businesses to think about that. For a lot of businesses the answers to those questions are actually quite simple.
Sinkholed: A DNS Horror Story (2019)
As others suggested, this is likely a summer vacation dip, but speaking for myself as a non-student, my GPT (4 + 3.5) usage has plummeted.

If you use it in a "what should be done" or "what is the right thing" sense, you get useless generalities. "It is important to remember that ... <there are many sides to the situation>". Suppose for example that you talk to it about combating judicial bias. It will largely insist that judges are unbiased because they're supposed to be unbiased according to their job description... You won't walk away with any insights from engaging it in ethics/morals topics.

If you dive into depth with some subject, it will invariably make errors and contradict itself in the details. I dove into how electricity works and it was saying and enthusiastically confirming electrical energy is encoded in electrons' kinetic energy. Then it started claiming that electrical energy is definitely not in the kinetic energy of electrons, that electrons don't lose speed when they bump into atoms, and instead the energy is "in the field". Ok... YouTube it is.

It's at least less convenient than a search engine at routine fact-finding due to its knowledge cutoff, inability to display images and links, etc. Ditto with translation. It's good but so is Google Translate and Google Translate has in-line suggestions for misspellings, a menu of languages, etc.

Ok, it's pretty good at writing hilarious poems, imitate people ("in the style of", etc.). Friends and I sometimes text each other hilarious things GPT said. But even there the machine is sort of laid bare, and you can see its creative limits. Its poetry is ultimately pretty lame, basically, and gets predictable. It's like an insistent and repetitive 8 year old with a lot of knowledge to pull from. It's not something I do often.

It's good at writing boilerplate code but honestly I just don't reach for that use case often. I like to stay in my own flow rather than constantly delegate to a robot and check its work, which I find flow-breaking, especially if it doesn't understand my APIs and makes mistakes often.

I do, sometimes, engage in architectural discussion about how I should design something at a high level. It's full of mistakes but bouncing ideas around can be useful. But I only feel the need to do that once in a great while.

These issues are exacerbated by being forced to downgrade to 3.5 after using 4 for a bit. You might feel like you're getting somewhere with 4, and then 3.5 starts laying doozies on you. This is another UI/product issue, but affects usability.
There is a world of difference between means-tested vouchers and non-means-tested vouchers. Non-means-tested vouchers will have the effect of making expensive private schools more affordable for the upper-middle-class, while means-tested vouchers can't do that.
> a few innocent kids getting suspended unfairly for being attacked might be worth it if it prevents more attacks that escalate further.

Kids being unfairly punished for being attacked encourages more attacks, though, especially if it is punishing all participants regardless of role in a manner that is less of a punishment for the kind of people who would be inclined to attack and more of a punishment to those who would not.
Interesting, that’s not typical product though
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
I’m so glad that there’s a website where we can finally see the Wendy’s brand account riff with Heinz about promotional Is It Cake? posts or whatever other thing the masses are clamoring to read
As an example, Georgia offers scholarships for all students above certain GPA cutoffs. The Hope and Zell Miller programs, specifically, pay for many students to attend schools like UGA and Georgia Tech.

Many programs and scholarships have grade cutoffs or maintenance requirements and while scholarships aren't entirely based on grades the grades are often a prerequisite.
I did a project with one of the Art Frames from Frame Labs: https://framelabs.eu/en/
I don't think anyone plays MUDs with plain telnet. Just use a client with an automapper like tintin++
99% of the time it is not hubris, just the author missing some viewpoint/info/awareness.

The author seems to have put in a lot of thought. And would be open to putting in more thought if you illustrated where he is incorrect or missing info. Otherwise the content is appealing to a lot of people.
It is very exact text, but it is missing basic point:

People who develop and manage the code, most likely do not own the debt. Code (and technical debt) belongs to stock holders. And there is a huge separation from developers and management.
This wasn’t organic. It was organized by a tiny group of activists looking for an anti-tech flashpoint.

It’s a hoax. A fiction. An attempt to portray widespread safety concerns among the populace that do not exist.

Here’s the local context.

There’s a hearing coming up at the board the state of California appointed regarding expansion of the robotaxis.

Alongside that vote, the city’s quality of operation has noticeably deteriorated. Encampments are more common, drug intoxication to the point of collapse and physical decay is highly visible. Robberies have become commonplace.

These effects are now beyond the point where they be explained by pointing at flat trend data, or as a temporary effect of more severe pandemic measures.

A number of local politicians have been facing significant heat over this dysfunction.

National and international media publications have begun to distrust local publications for papering over issues and have amplified that pressure.

At that point, those SF politicians began a sudden unified push attacking self-driving cars. Self-driving cars have recently become more reliable than manually driven taxis in SF in terms of accidents per miles driven.

The attacks escalated to the point that false data was submitted against robotaxis to the California board, mischaracterizing accidents where another driver impacted the self-driven car while stopped. That falsehood was later discovered.

When those same people began promoting this “night of the cone” meme, the origin was obvious to even the most casual observer.

Robotaxis have been up and operating for some time. The city is in trouble and it needs the revenue innovation brings.

We need to stop playing games.
Pretty sure making sure dude doing electric work actually knows basic is a good thing not "over-licensure"
Since the NSA has shown they can't do it, I'd venture to guess the likelihood of Telesign or any other company being breached is approaching a 100% chance.
The issue there is that there is a difference between what an expert who gets lucky can do with a LLM, and what the average person can do with it. People are sold by articles about the former, but long term word of mouth depends on the latter, and some portion of normal people are going to get frustrated and give up using LLMs rather than build their skill set.
Why does Meta need an answer to WGPU? How does the existence of WGPU create problems for them, and how does this new thing solve problems that anyone else has with WGPU?

This just feels like sour grapes about the fact that WGPU excluded Khronos when it was developed, so Khronos wants their own, with maybe a bit of promotion-driven development on Meta's part.
This is a nice but very long exploration of the tech debt metaphor, raising several excellent points. I especially like comparing it with the business uses of actual debt.

The only thing I think I'd add to it is that like actual debt, a lot of people do not behave sensibly with tech debt. One of my big tests in any new job is the first time a product manager wants to put something on credit. E.g., "We have to add feature X right now so we can land a big client. Can we cut corners to get this out the door? We'll sort out the mess later."

Despite things like this making my eyelid twitch, I'll always tell a new product manager yes the first time they ask this. But then I watch carefully to see if they're conscientious about paying down the debt. Some of them are great about it, prioritizing the deferred work. Others, though, always have a next emergency. But in my view if it's always an emergency it never is, and so I never again trust them with the tech-debt credit card.
Sure but it has everything to do with whether I can easily tell that it's good.
I don’t think any comparison other transport/policy is good way to discuss safety , otherwise we will be talking gun related homicides compared to other developed countries or discuss our covid deaths with other countries due to policy decisions.

Self driving like regular transport should have strong regulations and policing , today police is not equipped to handle these issues(tickets?) and there is no strong regulatory body (like NTSB) which is looking into non fatal incidents and that is a problem
Try restarting it and entering “tldr”
https://ahmadrosid.com
I write about web development mostly about Laravel, JavaScript, Rust and Golang.
I had to switch back a chatbot from GPT-4 current to gpt-4-0314 to make it work again (knowledge retrieval / context stuffing).
The problem is that if they didn't give constant disclaimers then a lot of people would very happily sue them out of existence if possible and at the very least constantly condemn them at every opportunity.

This kind of AI capability challenges worldviews. And that means that many people are very eager to tear it down and find ways to dismiss it. Combine that with the general enthusiasm for excessive litigation, the fact that it actually will occasionally give advice that could be very misleading, general lack of cognitive ability of those consuming it, and it explains why there are so many disclaimers.
If you prefer something more hobby-grade, I made a similar thing with an ESP32-based screen:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/making-the-timeframe/

It fetches images from HTTP every half hour and shows them.
I think this may be useful, but part of me immediately thinks of this XKCD about standards: https://xkcd.com/927/
It isn’t really linear. Sleeping is a heap insertion which takes O(log n).
You're right, that's weird. The particular snippet you linked to isn't that egregious, it just creates a dummy 1x1 texture for some reason, and changes a hint. A lot of stuff in that file though is branched on that opengl flag. The `render` function is a huge mess, and it doesn't even seem like that demo supports Metal at all.

But tbf also, I'm just skimming the code base. Maybe they'll publish some better docs later that explain/justify these things.
Hollywood has adapted all sorts of niche comic books in the hopes that something might land.

I think one of the reasons Hollywood avoids many video game franchises that people would sort of expect them to adapt or sequel is a lingering hangover from the FMV craze of the 90s. Hollywood Producers worked hand in hand with a bunch of videogame companies, lost a ton of money in the process, and seemed to come out of that distrustful of two-way working relationships with videogame companies.

That reason seems directly relevant to GK in particular: GK2 was quite successful in Sierra terms, but still somewhat unsuccessful in Hollywood (accounting) terms and likely still on some Hollywood producer's books as an old loss.
Corsi-Rosenthal air filters can reduce VOCs
Same is happening to Google Maps.

I and other reviewers had left negative reviews for Cosuno Ventures GmbH as it's an incredibly toxic and horrible place to work in. I received a take-down notice from a German Google Maps review employee saying that Cosuno is claiming it's a false review and they don't know how who am I. Even though I worked at the company for 4 months with the CTO and had responded to the e-mail with documents signed by the CEO and CTO.

They're rocking a 5 star review now. I didn't receive a response from Google and my appeal has been ignored. I still have the company's t-shirt in the countryside.
Or you can teach the normal kids how to defend themselves and unite against the bully.
A standardized solar panel idea is interesting. It would allow trickle recharge and also would help during high grid demands via V2G.
I broadly agree, but teachers and other public employees have pension plans that are funded mostly by the employer (public) and pay 50-80% of their annual salary for their lifetime after 30 years of service. So you can't compare those numbers directly.
I only buy cheaper Bluetooth earphones.

I use them when I exercise, and I don't want to pay a lot for something I am going to sweat all over, and probably lose.

This is why I also need the earbuds that are connected by that big brace around the back...I would loose an Airpod in a week...
That's what they said about Facebook
FWIW, I posted this Show HN yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36622035

We're building forth.news, which is sort of the exact opposite of this view point. We're only news. Only journalists post, so theres no hate speech, no spam, and no misinfo.

If you want to get headlines, and you want to curate your own feed, check out https://www.forth.news
I don’t understand how wall clock time is constant.

Sorting [5, 50] is faster wall time then [6, 60].
Read this chapter in 'What Technology Wants'. The technium operating as a living organism takes a new form in the context of LLMs - especially when considering these technologies are emulating source content created by humans. If generated information breaks conventions of quality checking (like SEO ranking and upvotes) it would appear that the technium is biased towards a different kind of validation mechanism - or perhaps none at all.
Ramaswamy on CBDC
Before considering cost, and you might've already done this, but I'd try and run a 5-shot prompt for your use case with GPT-3.5 and MPT-30B and Falcon-40B. That way you can get a sense of how performance compares, without needing to go through the fine tuning. My guess is that 3.5 might still be significantly better on the 5-shot. I guess you're really comparing base 3.5 with fine tuned MPT-30B/Falcon-40B though, so perhaps for a fairer comparison (until 3.5 fine tuning is available), you could do something like 2-shot with 3.5 and 10-shot with Falcon and MPT.
Autobiography of an archaean organism reflecting on itself and its place in its world. No idea what I'm supposed to take away from it.
A smart person's fallacy is that more learning will yield a better outcome. (Note they've largely been rewarded for learning across their school career because that was something they excelled at). I've come to believe that in fact action should precede learning. That is first take action-- fire, ready/recover, aim (repeat).

We think we can just learn to succeed, but in fact we need to learn in the right direction, which requires to first attempt it and gather feedback of where to learn.
> Until banks accept that they got defrauded, not you, whatever they do will be too little.

True. Regardless of accepting responsibility, I think they're spending a good bit of money in preventing fraud from happening [1]. Maybe some regulation around banks taking fraud losses would do the trick but the flipside would be that simple financial flows of legitimate customers would become full of friction as banks race to lock down fraud losses. Fraud detection is a really hard fraud problem for even a human, let alone models.

[1] https://bankingjournal.aba.com/2022/01/study-banks-see-rise-...
Good luck policing what people decide to talk about...
That's okay.

Another senior DBA lived on a boat, so I took my DBAs over to his boat and we spent the afternoon, then went for a walk in the tony seaside town at which his boat was moored. We went to an art gallery.

One of the pieces was a semi-abstract gradient, but the colors could definitely remind one of the sky, and the steely gray of the ocean. I loved the way you looked at it and kind of got lost in the middle. It "felt" like the ocean more than "looking" like the ocean to me.

Another DBA was standing there looking at it and said, "I don't get it."

"I'm not sure there's something to 'get', exactly."

"Is there a boat or a person hidden in it? I can't find it."

For this person, looking at a picture had to have a point--a subject. It was, on some level, a "Where's Waldo?" exercise and since he didn't solve the problem of finding Waldo, he didn't get it.

But not everything's like that. It's okay to not like something. It's okay to not get it. You can still be a DBA. You can still have a picnic on the boat.
What exactly is threads for? Not for sharing interesting headlines? I am not sure what's is purpose really is and how it differs from Instagram and Facebook.

Is it just to show me celebrity one liners? Show me obvious product placements.. or heavily promoted movies?
Have been really enjoying Brogue lately. Besides the difficult, turn-based gameplay (decision making is more cerebral than reactive), I think ASCII graphics are part of what makes these games so enrapturing. Our brains are incredible at constructing rich narratives from limited information.
>I don't think that points to companies colluding with the Fed, that's just companies adjusting to market forces the Fed created (the difference being coordination).

You are a programmer, right?

You understand the concept of indirection?

The only way I can imagine this wooshing is if you don't realize that indirection isn't just a technological mechanism. It is, in fact, near omnipresent, and reached for constantly by people in management positions. It's a sociological tool that imbues the wielder not just with great power to get things done while detaching themselves from the suffering created by doing so, but also gives them enough plausible psychological distance that even the masses tend to cut them a check when in reality, a bit of thought on the arrangement of things boils things down to "actor creates signal, signal hanfler handles"
Its wild to me that Intel continues to pay a dividend
The constant is the biggest number in the array
Assuming they do business in CA, so CA law applies, yes. That doesn't mean they comply with the law, and as far as I know, enforcement is mostly still on a ya, sure we will get around to it someday attitude.

So, just because you can in theory, doesn't mean you can in practice. Let us know how it works out for you!