skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Yeah and most didn’t have this capability generally considering both the costs and the little amount of use you'd have for it.

I would say most didn't have this capability because it's illegal. In France it is now legal
As I replied in a sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36635382
> Construction projects always take far longer and cost far more than expected because of what's happening in the field, not because of what's happening in the office, so software simply isn't a bottleneck in this industry.

Hmm. The government takes place in an office, doesn’t it?

Do you think a law could make construction faster and cheaper? A regulation? Change in policy? Non enforcement of existing policies? So no votes required? I don’t know, some of that could be extremely impactful and it could happen extremely quickly. Non enforcement of all sorts of regulations can happen in a stroke of a pen. Then, think of the impact of immigration policy on construction labor. Think of all the levels of government that could impact this, local state federal. With no votes whatsoever, no campaigning, none of that slowness.

I don’t know. You worked in this for 5 years. How could your takeaway be that construction doesn’t happen behind a laptop? Like I get the spirit of what you’re saying, poopooing AR whatevers, but I am just a layperson, and it’s just common sense that if the policy were “there’s no minimum wage” or “there’s no limit on immigration,” both of which can and do occur without legislation due to nonenforcement, dude, construction would get a lot cheaper and faster. And maybe that’s not software in your limited sense, but gig economy companies essentially achieved part of those specific policies I’m describing for all sorts of things. So c’mon, of course what happens in the office in every sense has the biggest impact on construction.
Ugh, just need 20 more karma. Don't know anything about farming karma for hackernews though. Oh well, maybe I'll have to fork and allow users to specify their min karma to record the blog...
The need for affirmative action exists regardless of what you do to K-12 schools as long as college admissions count standardized test schools and extracurricular activities.
The UIs/containers people use for 4090s specifically have some kind of performance issue with Stable Diffusion, last I checked. It runs no faster than a 3090.

I think this can be solved by running RTX 4000 cards with CUDA 12.1 and pytorch nightly cu121... But thats a very uncommon setup.

Also, if we are talking cloud deployments, cheap CPU instances with 32GB-64GB of RAM are a somewhat sane way to test LLMs, thanks to llama.cpp. A GPU will give you better throughput, of course.

But CPU support for Falcon and MPT specifically are in flux, see this post for instance: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/mpt-30B-instruct-GGML
FTA: A chat bot can handle expected, middle-of-the-road queries (as in, for a bank, “what’s my balance” and so on) – but customers can get those answers already from the app or website.

This is where the author misses the point. Chat bots will be te main interface in the future. Especially for these mundane middle of the road queries. Integrated into voice controlled ai buddies.

The author is spot on for the more complicated requests. Even though these will be triaged by a the ai buddy.
I've seen no evidence that "humanity" is going to be improved. I've seen lots of evidence of the gradual enshittification of everything and a few people getting really rich.
Yes. I've come to believe that much of the skill involved in doing security compliance work is in managing (strangling) down the scope of the framework, and almost none of it is in using the framework to inform and improve real security practices. This is what I mean when I keep saying here that these frameworks are not a "good first step". If you don't actually have to engage with them, because your customers aren't demanding it, you should actively avoid them and use that precious time to build a real security practice.
I miss that in general. Everyone has become a Cool Internet Person who acts like a celebrity, or at least in a homogenized way. I miss the internet of weirdos, that felt separate from the real world.

I worry a lot that I contributed to how this is now, too, in my professional life.
DNS, obviously.
Stay classy, HN.
> No one trusts these review companies actually.

Most people do trust them, but shouldn't.
UWP was shaping good, with Andromeda, Windows Bridge for iOS, XAML Islands, .NET Native, C++/CX, and then they messed it all up.

Nowadays better stick to classical Windows development, or server workloads.
Related:

OpenWorm - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29045198 - Oct 2021 (110 comments)

OpenWorm – Create a virtual C. elegans nematode - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8949408 - Jan 2015 (12 comments)

OpenWorm: A Digital Organism In Your Browser - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7613732 - April 2014 (47 comments)

Openworm: c.elegans worm simulation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4208454 - July 2012 (14 comments)
This guy gets its!!
IME it's one microservice doing something unexpected -- then down(|up)-stream starts to act unexpected -- and it cascades.

It's way more fun to debug than some single-monster code base with a complete stack-trace from the single-process. That basically tells you exactly where to look and how it got there! What fun is that, where's the adventure!?
Indeed. We value evidence-based medicine, especially when it comes to rejecting interventions that have been demonstrated not to work. As has been said, the name for "alternative medicine that actually works" is "medicine".

But a surprising amount of "medicine" is less well evidenced than we'd like it to be. That's not the same as demonstrably-false, but nowhere near the rock-solid gold-standard of testing. But we don't stop using it, because suffering patients can't wait while we straighten out the epistemological mess.

The best one to make a decision is a doctor, who has both the education required to understand the state of the art, and the details of the patient in front of them. They can combine that with their experience to make the best decision possible. It won't always be perfect, but it's got more likelihood than people guessing about what they think medicine is about.
Can I just get the 32" eink display without any of the bespokeness though?
Is there a website that shows the outputs for a given set of inputs with different gpt versions? Like one of those gpu benchmark sites?
The entertainment dining space has been heating up with a variety of concepts over the years and more recently - pickleball, F1, soccer, axe throwing, baseball, etc. It's kind of wild to me that Basketball entertainment dining hasn't been done before. I guess software + hardware makes things more tricky, and Paul and Dan can personally attest to some hardware challenges along the way, but still...given the popularity of the sport in general and, heck, even the popularity of the "pop-a-shot" games at arcades and Chuck E. Cheese, it's surprising to me.

I'll also say, I think the video above is cool, but honestly, it doesn't do justice for the experience. It's WAY more fun in person. At our beta site at an Atlanta brewery, half-way through a game, people who aren't that into basketball are talking trash and having a blast.
Really? You don't see a contradiction in me saying: "get what they want" != "get leadership position"?

A smart AI that also doesn't want power is, if I understand his fears right, something Yudkowsky would be 80% fine with; power-seeking is one of the reasons to expect a sufficiently smart AI that's been given a badly phrased goal to take over.

I don't think anyone has yet got a way to even score AI on power-seeking, let alone measure them, let alone engineer it, but hopefully something like that will come out of the super-alignment research position OpenAI also just announced.

I would be surprised if the average IQ of major leaders is less than 120, and anything over 130 is in the "we didn't get a big enough sample side to validate the test" region. I'm somewhere in the latter region, and power over others doesn't motivate me at all, if anything it seems like manipulation and that repulses me.

I didn't think of this previously, but I should've also mentioned there are biological fitness constraints that stop our heads getting bigger even if the IQ itself would be otherwise helpful, and our brains are unusually high power draws… but that's by biological standards, it's only 20 watts, which even personal computers can easily surpass.
The form of iron "supplementation" universally added to flour in the US is little more than that. There's some theories that this impacts gut bacteria, particularly the ones associated with B-vitamin.

Iron shavings -> bad bacteria -> poor Vitamin B status -> intestinal lining damage -> celiac, allergies and autoimmune

TLDR; bread in the US makes people sick, not in Europe
The article extensively quotes a WSJ article that points outs that banks in the US have decreased from 8,000 in 2010 to under 4,700 today. But when you click through to that WSJ article [0], the included chart shows a fairly smooth decline during that period. In fact during that entire time up until a year ago, the Federal funds rate was 2.5% or less [1], which convincingly argues against the recent interest rate hikes being the primary cause of bank consolidations.

[0] https://archive.ph/yPIqw

[1] https://www.forbes.com/advisor/investing/fed-funds-rate-hist...

(Furthermore from 1990 to 2008 the vast majority of the time the rate was well over 2.5%)
He mentions ChatGPT in passing but you could write a whole separate article about that. These bogus review companies are going to be able to pump out so many more reviews, of higher quality, with access to LLM-generated content. This problem is only going to get even worse.
>> multiple staff dedicated to the care of just a handful of children.

It gets worse. I've seen multiple staff dedicated to a single child, and not the sort of child you would think needs that much. It is mostly behavioral issues that result in some kids needs near-constant dedicated staff.
Overhead only. But 3rd rail for long distances is really dangerous. Subways and metros use it since they typically strongly control access to the tracks and tunnels, but that really isn't possible when crossing whole countries.
> Running Microsoft Windows.

Is Windows 11 with all of the default security settings really that insecure? Like Windows Defender, Windows Firewall, anything that needs admin needed you to click "yes, elevate to admin" through UAC
It may be affecting authorization, then. I have a site that's private and requires auth and I can't reach it.
Voucher proponents want to get parents hooked on the idea of charter schools, and then the schools will invariably raise their prices past the cost of voucher when the undesirables start trickling onto their campuses.
> Are we supposed to pretend that IBM bought redhat to do exactly nothing with it?

They bought Red Hat because Red Hat was profitable, the stock was going up, sales were in the early stages of a massive swing upward, and IBM was dropping stock price and waning in market power. It's the same playbook they've been using for decades.

It seems more far fetched to me to believe that IBM bought Red Hat so they could destroy it.
Local banks can help towns not disappear if they are allowed to actually bank. They could in theory loan to the local plumber to start his shop, the auto body shop for a paint hanger etc. The problem is that all those loans are risky and risky in a correlated way such that if a local anchor company goes up so does the rest of the lending portfolio. Over a long enough period of time a local adverse event will happen and the bank will get hit by a liquidity crisis and get shut down.

The too big to fail banks are also prone to this but in theory because they are regionally diversified less so. Still without government guarantees about half or more would have failed in 2008/2010 time period. Still with government guarantees these banks have access to much cheaper capital and more liquidity when a crisis happens to they can out compete smaller banks.
I love the idea of "EV everywhere", but failing to acknowledge that vast swathes of the world do not have electric grids capable of supporting "all new cars are EV", or in some cases any grid at all, seems questionable.
Doesn't law enforcement have access to cell towers and the phones that connect to them along with their GPS coordinates? Obviously paranoid schizophrenics are probably not tracked but it is in theory possible and that's probably what he's fixated on without actually being able to articulate why.

Poster needs some talk therapy but I doubt he's important enough to be tracked so someone needs to acknowledge his fears and dissuade him of his paranoia.
Double darnit. The command that let me read /etc/shadow was supposed to be:

sudo ss -a -F /etc/shadow
Many people might not know that if you use the system/user/assistant syntax in a ChatGPT prompt you get vastly improved results. For example:

> "system: explain the rise in childhood leukemias over the 20th century and provide several alternative explanations as to why this trend exists, including environmental pollutions causes, improvements in detection, etc. Also describe the recent advances in treatment of childhood leukemia from a biochemistry and molecular biology perspective. user: medical student with a focus in oncology. assistant: professor of oncology at Stanford University who is also a practicing medical doctor."

I generally find this only needs to be done once at the beginning of the chat thread, as long as subsequent questions are aimed at expanding the answer (don't go off at a tangent).

In contrast, a prompt like "I need some medical advice on what's the best treatment for a child with leukemia" will give you about the same quality of results as Google/Bing/etc.
> connect to any other Visionect server in the world

Okay but what if, like a sane person, I don't want to give it direct internet access and have my own data I want to put on the wall? Can I pay less to get less (e.g. just the screen with an HDMI or DP connector so I can connect it to literally any raspi, picture frame, nuc, etc. etc. in my house)?
That's, in principle, the purpose of the progressive/conservative dichotomy, no?
> This website requires a minimum of Internet Explorer 5.0 or above, but we recommend Internet Explorer 5.5.

that's the bit that left me gobsmacked
How long did/will it take Parker Brother's lawyers to find out about this?
However, I wouldn't then use version control software like Git for versioning analysis objects, as it is designed for text file source control and diffs.

(How one does a diff of a data object look like? If there is a natural text format to save it in, it still is usually quite messy, and Git doesn't really like Gb sized csvs.)

My preferred workflow is to version the source files in Git and store the associated data objects in a separate archive directory with meaningful name and the hash of commit of generating code as metadata attribute.

Now if you had a version control "IDE" software that would render changes in figures and other blobs nicely, then it would make sense to build a workflow around it.
Noticed this myself for the first time ever a couple days ago.
I'm not sure that actually puts pressure on the parents to be better. I think that decent parents generally raise decent kids because they're good role models, and the opposite for bad parents. There are exceptions, but I wouldn't rely on it. If a bad parent suddenly has to be fully responsible, I doubt they'll suddenly have a change of heart and be able to change the kid's behavior (depending on how old the kid is).
The number of processes in a system will only give you the potential points of failure.

If we measure computer resources we come a completely different conclusion. would you use an OS that uses up more ram and cpu resources than all the programs you run inside of it combined?. How about a restaurant with more managers than cooks and waiters?.

Schools with more administrators than teachers seems like the perfect example of the iron law of oligarchy to me.
I assumed the same. The local bank should have more accurate risk assessment for projects in that area and should be able to offer lower rates vs. the big bank that has to deal with a larger number of unknown unknowns. But I can also see how this shifts from locality based knowledge to vertical knowledge of niches independent of locations which would favor larger / specialty banks
An excellent video from Practical Engineering on this very question:

Why Construction Projects Always Go Over Budget
https://youtu.be/dOe_6vuaR_s
Fairly solvable with an actual identity/employment verification system, and that's not exactly an exotic idea.
Fair question. I don't actively seek it out but I come across a bit of it on Reddit. Sad to say, its engaging on a primal level, much like how people slow down to view a car crash when they're driving by.

I used to browse the subreddit r/trashy which at first I found funny, but then after seeing the content for a while, I realized its just making fun of people or showing me examples of Confederate racists. I do like r/tiktokcringe because there is a lot of good hearted humorous content, but there too, you see examples of people being jerks.
What's the suicide rate in people who do take the treatments?
The problem is time. Getting 140+ people to learn their instruments is hard enough, mixing in Music theory is just gonna add to the frustration, for which most of the band will never need to know.

That even holds true for everything but the smallest of jazz combos. Could you imagine listening to a group of 20 musicians all playing from Fake Books? It would be a mess of noise.
> Yeah but jupyter notebooks suck at providing reproducible data science.

That depends on how you use the notebooks.

With just a tiny bit of discipline, you can integrate notebook users into your sane workflow. For example, encourage people to restart the kernel and run all cells a few times per day (and definitely, before sharing anything). Meaningful output artifacts can be saved into files, that are later read by the notebook and displayed.

Then, when users are satisfied with their notebook, they save it as a python file thanks to jupytext, and commit it to git.

This workflow integrates well with your makefile setup: to reproduce the notebook and obtain its results you simply run it as a script. If you want a pdf or a static html that shows the notebook as-is, you can nbconvert it from your makefile.

For example, if your makefile has lines like these:

%.ipynb : %.py ; jupytext $< --to notebook
%.html : %.ipynb ; jupyter nbconvert --execute --to html $<

Then you run "make foo.html" and it will convert "foo.py" to "foo.ipynb", run all the cells, and produce a static visualization "foo.html". Since the intermediary notebook is not marked as a precious file, it is deleted automatically by make.

Notice that you can simply run "python foo.py" as well, to produce the valuable output artifacts.

In the end, jupyter becomes just an editor of python files. A fancy editor, that allows interactive execution of pieces of code, which is great.
To me the entire idea of Glassdoor is fundamentally flawed so there is a part of me that can't exactly blame for things like this going on.

It has been shown time and time again that most people won't go out of their way to leave a positive review for something and will only make the effort when they want to complain.

Mix this with something like a job where generally the only reason people will leave is likely due to something negative going on (while I don't have numbers to back this up, I would not think that most are leaving because they are simply not learning anything new and feel like they are done where they currently are. But maybe I am wrong about this assumption?).

So the people leaving would only have negative views that strongly skew the actual appearance of how a job may be.

I have left 3 Glassdoor reviews (once for an interview that was so bad I walked out) and all of them negative. But for 2 of them if I look back honestly I realize that much of what I was leaving for was not an issue for the entire company and was more specific to my team.

That doesn't mean that those negative reviews are not valuable, they are. But I don't think they really paint a good picture, I know I don't trust it if I am looking at a company knowing both what I mentioned and what is mentioned in this article.
Reddit Gives Final Warning to Subreddits Using NSFW Protest Tactic
I think EV cars are the future. I own an EV. But California needs to be doing some _extremely_ major investments in their electricity infrastructure if they want any of these EV goals to be even remotely possible. It's currently in the bottom half of of grid reliability in the country, and massive numbers of electric cars won't make that better without big investments in infrastructure. Right now they seem to be wanting to mandate EVs without doing the work to make that possible.
> can't purchase

There are certain high seas where such things are plentiful.
I haven't followed this enough to objectively assess how this is being portrayed, but consider whether "most" of the propaganda you've been seeing is not a representative sample, but has been tailored to engage you.
Is competition in other industries bad and wasteful too, since it creates duplicate systems with duplicate costs too? Should we replace it with a single monopoly per industry?
> which to this day [the append() and prepend() functions jQuery provides] have no direct competitor in vanilla js

The vanilla JS append() and prepend() methods?

I understand there are differences w/these vs jQuery but, for discussion, why not use those?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/pre...
And that will teach me to proof read, if I recall correctly then this was Larry 3 and it accepted both putting an air sick bag inside a spray can and the can inside the bag, the latter being the correct answer. It has been more than 2 decades since I last played the old Sierra games, so I might be misremembering, but it was all part of a really worrying suitcase bomb disposal puzzle near the end.

Don’t ask me how Larry stuffed the bag inside the can, but there was the same animation and everything. I remember being extremely frustrated with that, since the Sierra games are otherwise quite flexible in terms of accepting input. This was also why it was useful for learning English, since you could tell it things like ‘look item’ rather than requiring it to be “look at item’ and so on.

So I really loathed those cases where you had to be super precise, since they felt immediately off compared to the rest of the game.

Regardless good times, I think the best Sierra game of that era is Space Quest 3, which had some decent puzzles, a fun story and a hero I really liked.
I think you're massively underestimating a) the amount of poverty even in the US (or whatever country you're thinking of) yet alone in places where the mean salary is only a couple of hundred bucks, and b) the limited options for making more money for the type of person who does paper rounds (often but not always <18yo, but always in a situation where they need/want the work of delivering newspapers for a low hourly rate and for likely less than a few hours a day).
It's funny because I've also seen articles pointing out that some AI companies are using mechanical turks to simulate AI. Turtles all the way down.
Accessibility is a time pit relevant to few people who are never happy.