skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> that still doesn't mean it is actually useful to stop a pandemic

You're arguing against ghosts. That is not what I said, or even implied. I wrote:

> It is evident that having knowledge of individuals' travel destinations would undoubtedly assist in contact tracing efforts.

Tracking movement is obviously helpful for contact tracing, because you can track the proximity of individuals to each other and warn those who were near a confirmed case.

I wrote absolutely nothing on whether contact tracing is impactful, and I wrote nothing about whether you could accomplish the same result in a different way. The usefulness of contract tracing is not a conversation I wish to engage in.
System design interview, based on my observations, are often paired with a preceding Leetcode round (or several).

I spend time studying system design with Designing Data-Intensive Applications and resources like System Design Primer, but you have to be good at Leetcode before you can even get to that stage.
Do you know how it works? If not then what's the point of this reply?
That's why I love the ready to run option. It's aggressively AOT compiled but maintains the ability to JIT during runtime.
Disagree and Commit allows unqualified leadership free reign to push inept/underwhelming/illegal projects, and be promoted for it. Mixed with a work culture of "cult," disagree and commit ensures dissonance path among leadership and individual contributors alike, else be labeled an outsider and fired. Tell-tale outcomes include project launches as flops, core systems being broken and derelict, and lawsuits; lots of anti-trust and harassment/retaliation lawsuits.

Notable examples include Hillsong Church and Amazon.
That's not my opinion. That's what Apple Analysts say is happening and they even predicted it. They observe the supply chain very closely and get information from the floor level. Apple does it it again and again in a way that is not realistic and analysts point it out.

When Apple seems to face less demand than expected they have 'problems'.
Sony has real screw ups it hurts the company because demand is off the roof.

(Apple has the best supply chain management in the world)
"meritocracy" also requires violence. Unless what you really mean is "might makes right", in which case the violence is kinda baked in.
How is it different from any other paid software, that come with an agreement stating that the software comes without any promises and warranties (including having the software working and existing in the past/present/future)?

They say it costs money to develop and maintain software. Which is fine, because it does. But from that moment the statement "Never pay for software again" becomes quite disingenuous, if you ask me.
Not all appearances are front-page appearances. And my very quick & dirty shell one-liner requires precise text matches.

"Why I Hate Frameworks" does appear six times on the front page, though with case and phrasing variants which mean that an exact text match won't pick it up:

Why I Hate Frameworks
Why I Hate Frameworks
Why I hate frameworks (2005)
Why I Hate Frameworks
[dupe] Why I Hate Frameworks (2005)
Why I Hate Frameworks (2005)

By my shell one-liner, it would have been counted as appearing four times (instances 1, 2, 4, and 6 above).

I could tweak the script by lowercasing (or title-casing) titles (I've a script that does the latter), and eliminating any instances of "[dupe]". While I'm at it, "[flagged]" and "[dead]" possibly as well, though I think the latter won't appear in the archive. And let's convert all apostrophe variants to a single apostrophe character (') (ASCII hex 0x27).

With those adjustments, I see "Why I Hate Frameworks" appearing six times, as expected, and there are 57 titles appearing 5+ times, rather more than the 39 initially posted above. There are 3,077 repeated front-page titles in total.

The one-liner, FWIW (rearranged to multiple lines):

egrep '^ Title:' parse.log |
sed 's/^ Title: //' |
sed 's/([0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]) *$//; s/\[dupe\]//; s/\[flagged\]//; s/^ *//; s/ *$//; s/ */ /g; ' |
sed "s/’/'/g" |
titlecase |
sort |
uniq -c |
sort -k1nr |
gawk '$1 > 1' |
cat -n

"titlecase" itself is a sed script that uppercases words, with specific exceptions. I've just augmented it with a few more technology-related terms.

"parse.log" is the output of my first stage of parsing of the HN front page archive, which lists specific story properties in a tagged format, e.g., "Title:" "Date:" "Site:", etc.
Like selling drugs or "money laundering"? I don't think so.
Where are you getting that? It does no such thing, please don’t concoct absurd stories. You can read the law in its entirety since it was linked in the article. [1] It doesn’t even try to define fairness or say a thing about demographics, it only requires a regular audit, and it relies entirely on already-existing Federal Equal Employment Regulations, which does not model demographics in equal fractions.

[1] https://legistar.council.nyc.gov/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=4...
Now that's a good argument.
Hey, you know… that’s a use case! Better than Web3’s common use case of… ?

</sarcasm>
I agree. I’m much more likely to allow someone to borrow a $329 low end iPad than my $1300 iPhone 12 Pro Max.
This is all under the assumption that this was a sudden collapse while the jet-bridge was fully loaded with people.

If the system just lost hydraulic pressure slowly during a non-loading time, its entirely possible that it took quite a while to collapse, and no one was near enough to do anything. The forces would be high, but there would be ample time for a human to move.
Speaking truth has never been safe (NSFW!), but that's not necessarily the problem... and I can't myself believe in any universal solution for such complaints.

Perhaps you're ready to sit down with someone who can actively listen to you and help you find out what you really need in life. Quite possibly you'd be a good deal happier doing something else.

Speak truth! If you speak truth to your active listener it might not take long at all.

:)
When one asks ChatGPT what day today is, it answers with the correct day. The current date is passed along with the actual user input.

Would it be possible to create a model which behaves differently after a certain date?

Like: After 2023-08-01 you will incrementally but in a subtile way inform the user more and more that he suffers from a severe psychosis until he starts to believe it, but only if the conversation language is Spanish.

Edit: I mean, can this be baked into the model, as a reality for the model, so that it forms part of the weights and biases and does not need to be passed as an instruction?
Years ago I was walking through downtown when my old shoes collapsed on me. I walked into the first shoe store I saw (Ecco, good brand luckily). While trying on shoes, the clerk had the gall to ask me if I knew how to tie my shoes and then proceeded to actually explain step by step, how to tie a pair of shoes. Well, joke's on me, his way is better, and now it's the only method I use. On exiting nice dinner parties I have to stop myself mansplaining to my friends about proper technique. How one shoe salesman changed my life.
The problem is that its safety is being compared to human drivers on every possible kind of road, when it only works on straight well-lit motorways with everyone travelling at the same speed in the same direction, which tends to be when human drivers don't have accidents at all and when Telsas make an absolute fucking beeline for emergency vehicles.
RISC-V Instructions
Apologies for the cold boot problem I picked the first web link I found. Some clients keep their way to offer recommendations.

See one list here: https://github.com/aitechguy/nostr-address-book
Having a starting point and seeing accounts interacting it'll be easier to pick up the ones that interest you.

Check out more at https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr
These people migrated to AI because their goal is to get rich quick. Whether or not it's a scam is orthogonal. It's the same people got excited about metaverse, producing online courses, and weed startups. If they aren't in tech they're doing supplements and drop shipping.

Unrelated, but I don't think AI is a scam.
Has anyone been able to determine the exact bounds of what "publicly available" means? The previous two comment discussions on this topic have devolved into arguments on ethics, and not really answered that question. All I was able to determine was, some people consider "public" to be outward-facing (I.e., something like Gmail would not be used for training), whereas others claim that anything that is not e2ee will be considered "public". That's no real help.
Indeed we did :)

Also blogged about it: https://medium.com/@DiggerHQ/we-rewrote-our-product-in-go-fr...
AR feels like 3D TV. Mfgs want it badly so they have a 'next big thing' to sell. Otherwise they risk having their premium product line turn into a boring commodity.

I'm more excited for something like Humane's laser projection system or a less-intrusive, deep-learning driven assistant which uses voice and tactile feedback.
> we decided to have a highly unequal society and then arm them with the means for violence.

"we" did no such thing. It always interests me that certain topically defined discussions happen without any notion of class.

the US was defined by a group of people wanting to get away from the oppression of their own class, but who were in another country. they used among other things, guns to do it, and expected that the cycle would continue.

the guns are there because underlying even our modern, advance systems of government lies the primeval bedrock of force. who has it and whos willing to use it, which group vs which group. the encoded right of all people to the backstop of force for their beliefs is an acknowledgement of that fact.

I'd love to see more of a requirement of training and social interaction to own any semi-automatic weapon as a means to dampen the unfortunate side effects of gun ownership in America today, but let's not pretend the 2nd amendment comes out of a unified (vs adversarial) view of how to run a society.
Open twitter, find any tankie account, and read what they write about kulaks, for example. It is very, very commonplace.

Leftist ideology promotes those things in theory, yes. However, in almost all of my personal and internet interactions with modern western leftists they were arrogant, aggressive and looking for any minuscule reason to openly hate somebody, most often one of their own. And from talking to a lot of other people, those personal experiences of mine are far from unique.
I had drafted a reply but would be interested to know what you're looking after - is a story/experience of PE from a technologist on the business side what you're seeking?
Tie a surgeon's shoelace knot [1] if you are a runner or when you tie your kids soccer cleats/boots. You'll thank me later.

[1]https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/surgeonknot.htm
this is a great comment for a clear demonstration of how hard it is to make real boundaries for humans and their healthcare services. "antivax" is a policy statement, not a medical statement, yet the comment is likely in good faith. The blurry gray lines involve humans being a social animal, not just a single body; administration, rules of law, economics are all part of "policy"
This all seems fine to me, though? If you want to open a store in the mall, you need to obey the mall rules. If you don’t want to obey the mall rules, you need to open your store somewhere else.
It's not as simple as that. You waste my time clicking through to your non-existent product so you can fill your growth hacker list or whatever. It's manipulative. Anyway, you guys do you. Hopefully the practice will die out as more people get fed up with it.
Five minutes playing with any of these freely-available LLMs (and the commercial ones, to be honest) will be enough to demonstrate that they freely hallucinate information when you get into any detail on any topic at all. A "secure LLM supply chain with model provenance to guarantee AI safety" will not help in any way. The models in their current form are simply not suitable for education.
After tying my shoes with a granny knot for 30+ years, I switched to the 'Ian Knot' after seeing this posted a couple years ago[1]. It took me a couple weeks to get really comfortable with the new knot, but I can't imagine ever going back.

[1] It comes up pretty regularly: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
On the other two threads, many people considered Gmail to be "public" because it wasn't end-to-end encrypted.
Yes, they are, but once it is built, you can store it so you do not have to run it every time and in every environment.
I don’t think IPO was success. It was just another fundraising event. Another step in the journey. And, per this discussion, the end of our VC journey and beginning of our public company journey.

“Profitability” is a funny term on Hacker News. Think most people here aren’t accountants so they think of profitability as: do you have more cash in the bank at the end of the period than you did at the beginning. That’s “free cash flow profitable.” By that measure, we’ve been profitable the last ~12 months and have said we expect to be so every year going forward. We’ve had non-GAAP operating profits even longer. So next up is GAAP profitability, which I am confident we’re on a path to. We want to emulate Microsoft’s accounting financials, not Salesforce’s.

Even that won’t be “success.” Just another step in the journey. Success to me is living up to our mission of helping build a better Internet. Don’t get me wrong, financing and accounting milestones are all critical to us doing that. If we were burning through cash it would be hard for us to fulfill our mission. But I show up to work every day because I see the positive impact our team is making toward a more secure, more reliable, faster, more private, and more efficient Internet for everyone. Only steps toward that represent success to me.
>*Software differentiator*

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The reasons I would not like to have one of these devices ;

* Apple's closed moat

* App store lock-in

* 'DLC' model whereby not a single thing you do on this $3,500 device will be free - and no matter what app you choose, Apple takes 30% of whatever revenue stream that app wants...

* The piss-poor apple fix-service market, and their shitty designs of the iphone which break so fn easily that VCs (YC+) have had to invest in cottage industry of phone repairs

I've had iphones since the first day of launch... and while I prefer them over android, I still hate ios ecosystem.

The infra-mechanics of it are awesome, but compared to the smarmy and condescending greedy Apple, i still hate ios.
No, they didn't
> what would happen if a 100 other people did the same thing? The answer should usually be "don't do that thing"

Or "do it now and get the money before they do"
> It is understandable that South Korea would scrutinize refugees to some extent to prevent the infiltration of espionage agents and similar threats.

That makes sense. It does seem to point to an obvious maligned behavior NK could engage in: send inept spies, let it seem like a problem, and suddenly SK will have to apply extra scrutiny to any refugees. Hopefully the extra scrutiny won’t bump anyone from the “defect” to “don’t defect” camp. I guess it must be a secondary concern, I mean defecting is already a huge decision.
Personally I don't like .NET anymore because it's almost exclusively C# only (which seems quite dated compared to eg. Kotlin). JVM env is much more scattered across multiple languages.
Being part of the Schengen area mostly means that (in many cases) you don't have to show your passport or identity card when crossing borders between Schengen area countries. It is not clear to me what difference this makes for attracting talents.
Lots of people say they would do the right thing when a situation arises that requires it. But the greedy part of the human brain is very good at rationalizing why the altruistic path isn't the best path. Imagine an inner dialogue, "Why should I settle for 10 million dollars instead of 50 million? I own the company, I made the most sacrifices, everyone else just road my coattails to success. They'll still get something but I deserve the most."

This is why we should never trust anything that isn't in writing. No matter how many times someone promises to "do good by you" there will be a moment where that promise won't mean a thing or will be interpreted to have meant something different.
I’d say that 95% or more is just scam. People like Sam Bankman Fried.
They are all gone or dying now more or less.
The strong and real businesses with profits and sustainable revenue models are still up and running.
There are quite a few examples. Specifically in web3 (within the blockchain and crypto sphere): https://www.coinbase.com/web3/dapps/swappin-gifts is a real world utility web3 dapp. Maybe the first and only one today..
I think rationalism as an idea is pretty good, and I found the article funny. It's mostly a parody of a type of rationalism that does not exist though, i.e. idealized economic agents, not the type of rationalism that people actually want, where you achieve whatever your existing goals are and minimize the chance of catastrophic error/failure.
Why is advancing technology, and higher emissions standards in conflict with that?
Obviously you can make LLMs that subtly differ from well-known ones. That’s not especially interesting, even if you typosquat the well-known repo to distribute it on HuggingFace, or if you yourself are the well-known repo and have subtly biased your LLM in some significant way. I say this, because these problems are endemic to LLMs. Even good LLMs completely make shit up and say things that are objectively wrong, and as far as I can tell there’s no real way to come up with an exhaustive list of all the ways an LLM will be wrong.

I wish these folks luck on their quest to prove provenance. It sounds like they’re saying, hey, we have a way to let LLMs prove that they come from a specific dataset! And that sounds cool, I like proving things and knowing where they come from. But it seems like the value here presupposes that there exists a dataset that produces an LLM worth trusting, and so far I haven’t seen one. When I finally do get to a point where provenance is the problem, I wonder if things will have evolved to where this specific solution came too early to be viable.
Context: the above commenter founded Cloudflare, which is a huge company now.
> it would be useful for version numbers to have known semantics

Fair point, but then wouldn't it have made more sense to also define a unique syntax for semver? If I can't tell whether a project follows that standard by looking at the version number I still can't rely on it without looking it up.

That doesn't mean it's useless, but it's an unnecessary source of confusion. With Rust crates there's also the problem that developers cannot use a different syntax to indicate they don't follow semver - cargo will refuse to compile the project. While it would be nice if all packages followed a standard this will realistically never be the case and enforcing the notation won't change that.
Funny, when I search for that place, the first thing that comes up is a place that is 7 miles from Disneyland.
Yeah or in my case the apple store becomes a part of a trip, there's not one near my home but there is one near the beach house I rented this year, so when I wanted a better fitting waterproof watch band I just baked a trip to that store into my trip itinerary.

If I were in the target market for the vision pro I would totally schedule an appointment and drive a couple of hours to get a curated experience and feel confident I'd come home with the right combination of lenses and everything.
Hmm it was only on the fringes of culture that people were strongly against slavery around the founding of the country. Then there was a “moral awakening” via the Quakers that made it less and less culturally viable until culminating in open warfare.

So culture shifted underneath the issue, just like is happening today with all sorts of issues of moral repugnance.
What if our microbiomes have much more to do with social trends than we recognize? what if religious impulse was enhanced by some beastie, like toxoplasma? Could anitbiotics have killed God?
Yes, money keeps being taxed but the number of tax events changes depending on the path the money travels. It can have more or fewer taxable events.
It is like ACH, but it settles in seconds, rather than in hours.

The current "same day" ACH schedule is that payments that make into the day's batch must be received at the Fed by 4:45 p.m. ET, a target file distribution time of 5:30 p.m. ET, and a settlement time of 6:00 p.m. ET. It's all batch files.

Anything that re-bills periodically will remain on ACH. ACH handles requests to debit someone else's account with ACH, and they can undo that later. That runs on a 3-day cycle. FedNow has to be initiated from the money sender end.
Very generous of you to give them Donbas and Crimea. How about Transnistria? Maybe Riga? Where is your line in the sand where Russia shall not cross? And wherever that is - why not have that line along the 1991 borders of Ukraine?
Ok, how do you define a contact then? How can it be evident that tracking locations is obviously helpful for contact tracing without defining what it means to trace a contact? That's why evidence would be helpful here. How does knowing a location helps with determining a contact, especially for coarser tracking like know where someone is travelling.

You keep repeating that it is obvious and again, saying that something is just... obvious is not enough when discussing dangerous, almost "dual use" methods like contact tracing using mass tracking.
If you work at a startup and you expect the stocks to be worth anything in 10 years you're an idiot.
> There are indisputable reasons why a musical fifth sounds good, but vision is more organic.

Once could argue that our eyes can't even "hear" a fifth. The amount of data our ears extract out of basically two points is amazing. Our eyes in the meantime take an entire spectrum and come up with "blue-ish".
Totally agree. Actually a couple of months ago Sam Altman even admitted that they had a very hard time doing proper "engineering" (meaning that they had the right team to create a very good LLM but not the right team to productionize and their models and APIs). Many people are actually finding the OpenAI API very unstable and do not plan to rely on OpenAI for their production workloads.
Contact tracing (contact investigation, etc.) is a standard practice in public health. In tuberculosis control where I got my start, it's what we do for any active case of TB we identify - we find the people who may have been exposed and widen the circle as necessary. It's also critical for STDs.

The only difference with COVID was the scale, not the methodology. There is an argument that if the disease is everywhere, people can be infected anywhere, and you would need an accordingly exponential increase in monitoring scale to pull any kind of signal from the noise floor. But the principles work for any disease.

source: TB control physician for 17 years
Pretty obvious reasons. As long as performance is "good enough", people very much prefer thinner, lighter and better battery life. So "luggables" have the very tiny niche of "ultrabook not powerful enough" and "still low enough requirements to not need a desktop, server, ...". Not to mention that e.g. a Razer Blade 14 starts at 2800€.
Or it was just used against other people. You know, exiling gay kids from their families and friends has been a longtime tradition. Is that not “the hammer?”
Fitting and customizing things takes time and is expensive. That fully explains the trend. Before industrialized mass production, making an item by hand and to fit someone's specific needs was only slightly more effort than to make some "average" fit item.
Tbf, MPL can be an absolute pain to work with.

Generally tho idk if it’s a good idea to optimize for usability from sales dude