skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
100% this! What is worse is that LangChain hides their prompts away, I had to read the source code and mess with private variables of nested classes just to change a single prompt from something like RetrievalQA, and not only that, the default prompt they use is actually bad, they are lucky things work because GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 are damn smart machines, with any other open LLM, things break. I was hoping for good defaults, but they are not, the prompt I wrote over 6 months ago little after the launch of ChatGPT to do some of the same things work much better.

Would you have anything you can share with us about those "several features using highly sophisticated LLM chains that do all manner of reasoning", I'm really curious about the challenges, the process and insights there
Is this not akin to https://www.researchgate.net/publication/231068500_Oriental_... (if the mirror wasn’t covered by a polished front?)
I don't get your latter point either. Both Lua and Python's (the two most common scripting interfaces) native interface is in C. There's no reason they would plug into C++ any better.
Right, but it also means that any legitimate users who get in later and want to genuinely participate are put on a permanent backfoot. Because ethereum is deflationary, and because PoS ensures marginal rewards goes to the biggest scammers- sorry I mean "the most passionate"- then the people who have more will get more.

This is also a flaw shared by the actual real world economy used by big girls and boys. However, crypto has also innovated many many more flaws and insecurities. So I'd rather stick to the bad system we have now, vs the worse system designed by grifters who quite literally just do not understand fucking anything about sensible ways to organize people.
Batteries are already eating the lunch of natural gas peaking plants, and as time goes on the economics are going to tip ever further in favor of batteries.

Natural gas is a transition fuel, not the end game.
Long term? I doubt it. Who’s going build those packages?

Two major parallel incompatible implementations of Python, maintained at the same time, duplicating all efforts at testing, dev, build, release train, etc. while both are maintained.

Does it sound familiar?

Even ignoring the obvious parallels to Python 3000, there’s a limited amount of time people will be bothered maintaining both.
indeed, it's almost a certainty that every framework and tool in the JS ecosystem becomes obsolete as time goes by.
The "fossil fuel binge" has driven so many species extinct that there is no chance it will be a "blip".
> How will we

By adjusting which price to earnings multiple we want to tolerate, just like we always do

Or take a bearish position if it happens to match your risk tolerance at the time

The stock market will be fine, people will trade shares, who cares if the market price is greater or less than today’s
In Europe, nope, only some trains have power available. Never saw it on planes, and I fly regularly.

Even on trains, one must be lucky and even if lucky, it is usually one socket per pair of seats.
I think that it is not such a bad programming language. I have used it for both graphical and nongraphical stuff. For example:

- A library to read/write the ZZT file format. I had then also used it to make a program which will draw a graphical map (I also defined a "PCEncoding" vector, although some characters seems to not work somehow). I had also done other things with it that are not graphical, including constructing ZZT world file automatically or making batch modifications to existing world files.

- A library to parse a UHS hint file. Later, a program could also be written to allow it to be printed out, perhaps even using invisible ink or scratch-off layer if you have a suitable printer. It could also be used for interactive mode without printing.

- I wrote a program to convert the levels from a DOS game into the Free Hero Mesh level import format, in PostScript. (A similar thing can be done to convert levels from other games, I suppose.)

- I wanted to measure the computer's temperature and load over time, so I wrote a program in C to write the measurements to a file (just simple binary data with fixed length records) and then wrote PostScript program which will plot it on a graph and make a PNG file.

- I also implemented getopt and JSON and multicodec in PostScript. I don't use JSON much, although I do use the getopt implementation sometimes.

- I wanted to write a Pokemon battle simulator in C. I had used PostScript to manage some of the configuration-related stuff that is used before the program is compiled. As a side-effect, it can also make the type matchup charts in PNG as well (in addition to producing the files in the format used by the battle simulator I wanted to write), so now I have those as a reference even when playing a different game.

- I also implemented Infocom's Z-machine in PostScript, although that is mostly just to see if I can. It implements both interactive mode (without the printer, using standard I/O), and the transcript (with the printer).

Nevertheless, there are some things I would improve in PostScript. For example, add a "unread" operator (similar to ungetc in C), a built-in procedure called "#!" which just skips the rest of the line from the source file (the following slash is a new token in PostScript (which will be skipped by this procedure) so this will work), optional auto-allocation for stuff such as "readline", making warning/diagnostic/error messages on stderr instead of stdout (although "print", "=", "==" would still write to stdout; you can use "write==" etc to write to other files, but being able to do this with "pstack" would also be useful), and some other stuff. (Some of the stuff in Ghostscript is good, such as the ARGUMENTS array; that is probably the feature of Ghostscript which I use most often. %pipe% is also useful.)
Perl 4 to 5 was quite successful. Perl 5 to 6 was definitely worse than Python 2 to 3, since the latter actually worked out in the end.
Reports released by IPCC and other organizations [0] indicate that we have 15 years to take drastic action on the environment. This tracks with the extremely accurate prediction from The Limits to Growth [1] published in 1972.

If we do not take action on climate _now_ then _nothing_ is going to matter.

We will enter into an irreversible feedback loop that causes human extinction, yet it won't be apparent until it is literally on the doorstep for people to realize.

If you are not quitting your job and working to advance the existential threat of climate change and the main driver of the catastrophe (capitalism and perpetual growth) then you are wasting your (and your children's) time.

An excellent book on what needs to be done is Less is More by Jason Hickel [2]. This is the only problem that matters since literally existence depends on solving it. The time for deep concern is over. Action is needed and it is needed now. Education, degrowth, reuse, technology. So put everything else aside or you are laboring (and living) for nothing.

[0]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-023-01157-x

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth

[2]: https://www.jasonhickel.org/less-is-more
An incentive for the teachers is better than no incentive.

I recall a case at a company I worked for. They snagged a major contract with IBM, but it had a tight deadline. They hired a team of 6 or 7 greybeards to do the work. The fun thing was they each got a $10,000 bonus if delivered on time.

They delivered it on time, got the $10 grand each (a lot of money in those days), IBM was happy, all good. So I asked them, did the $10 grand bonus motivate them to get it done on time?

They were offended, saying they were professionals and would have worked just as hard without it.

I laughed, and didn't buy it. Do you?

Here's another case. There was an earthquake in LA, and one of the cloverleaf freeway interchanges fell down. They contracted out the job with a tight deadline, and a bonus of ONE MILLION BUCKS per day it was finished ahead of schedule. It was finished several weeks ahead. Ka-ching!

Money talks, BS walks.
This was an incredibly balanced and level-headed take. I agree with it all
I’ve got a second grader and myself & other parents are wondering how useful a public school education will be in 10 years when they are graduating
I'm out, if I get more, I'll come dish them out :-)
Do you have a 13" MacBook Pro with M1 or a 14+" MacBook Pro with M1 Pro/Max? If the latter, it has decent battery life, but it's nowhere near as efficient as the regular M1 MacBook Pro. If it's the former, I guess I'm surprised, I own one (I'm writing this comment on one) and I've loved how the battery seems to just last forever on mine.
Clock runs computer in slow-motion
Sure. Assign the students at random. Some years the teacher will get a better batch than other years, but it would all even out.
Well it doesn't help that Microtik routers ship with a clean allow all firewall rule set!

When I briefly used my (since-returned) CRS-tier switch as a router, it kept getting popped within five minutes of me resetting it!
Huaqiangbei, Shenzhen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huaqiangbei
Pervasiveness seems to be more a function of whatever the latest workplace fad is rather than based on underlying assessments of how well it works. I've heard upper management outright say things like they're mandating return-to-office simply because everybody else is doing it.
Impact from moderation always goes both ways. The more you insert yourself, the higher the chances that your own stupidity warps the entire communication channel for the worse leading to shrinkage and echo chambers. And people dont vanish, chances are they are already attempting the next tower in babel a few ips over and get up to who knows what.

The merits of proof of work should be discussed for the specific scenario. If it allows for reputationless discussions and throwaway accounts, how high is the cost really? In comparison to banevasion problems, moderation overhead and the resulting attack surface requiring more resources while deteriorating the channel? Otherwise impact less emergency breaks for idiots might be reasonable solution. Its not much different from timed bans.
Of course there are limits on what can be achieved. But we won't know until we try. It's hard to be worse than the current system of no incentive whatsoever.
thanks, but I'll ask "copilot for docs" to save time and get better answers.
ok great how do i read this on the train when i have no internet?
People with money homeschool, with much better results. There's even small homeschooling groups that pool resources to hire the best tutors money can buy.

Homeschooling is exploding exponentially, doubling from 2012 to 2023 and a large portion of the parents who pulled kids from schools during COVID simply aren't going back.

Understandable, because the quality of education is extremely poor. Unqualified parents homeschooling literally produce better outcomes.

Not to mention the violence in public schools (which is escalating), and the abuse from teachers that the major US teaching unions ritually cover up (the teacher's unions vehemently defend predator teachers).

Teachers unions are in the business of protecting predators, financially and with predator-friendly policy like union-decided arbitration venues. [1]

[1] https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/campbell-brown-teachers-un...
Hmmm, that's not really what seems to be the case, as widely reported about a month ago.

eg: https://petapixel.com/2023/06/05/japan-declares-ai-training-...
The world population is collapsing at a rapid pace.

Our economic growth is based on a growing productive population.

Our economic prosperity is based on a growing productive population.

Different parts of the world are dealing with population collapse.

Look at Japan, a xenophobic country facing population collapse. The total GDP has remain stagnant over the past 20 years.

Look at UAE, a country facing population collapse and acknowledging reality by handing our long-term residency permits to affulent immigrants, mostly Indian Hindus. They are even building the first Hindu temple in Islamic middle-east in Dubai!

Look at Africa, where the population growth combined with sectarian warfare is making for a troublesome living - https://pudding.cool/2018/07/airports/
South Africa is even regresssing. Rich businessman of Asian Indian origin who have lived for generations are already heading for UK/Canada. And with them tax base would collapse like Uganda (90% tax revenue came from Asian Indians in Uganda in 1972 - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-36132151).

Look at USA/Canada/Australia, all of them have low birth rate but compensate by being genuinely immigration friendly. They will grow while sucking even more productive population out of rest of the world.

The Europe would keep importing cheap labour (by choice) and welfare-loving immigrants from middle-east & Africa (by virtue of proximity). And they would transform Europe, how they tranformed Lebanon - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WubIe3c5NGc, further imagine how the voting blocks would look like when whites are rich & old while non-whites are poor & young. Why would they not demand higher taxation and lower welfare policies?

China would have same fate as Japan. Xenophobia with a collapsing population. China would appear a lot of more timid.

12,000 years ago, when sea levels rose, Tasmania lost connection to mainland Australia, and this lead to decline of knowledge and tools over time.

We might see the same in our world.

So, I believe population collapse is a huge problem.
> Cash incentives aren't going to make a difference.

If they don't make a difference, then there won't be any payouts to make. It's a can't-lose proposal.
My pocket subscription renewal is coming up. After 8-10years of using pocket, I'll not be renewing it anymore. It was a decent product that just got worse over time and I just don't see them improving it anymore. Pinboard was a decent alternative but now that's not an option anymore.
I'll be checking out the third newer option, raindrop I think.
We are the primary cause. To suggest otherwise is unscientific and contrary to empirical facts. You may as well say "round earth narratives imply that spheres are the shape that planets tend to be".
In my experience all serious electronics/electrical engineering learning material is written like this, as if the student knows everything about electronics except the one topic the author is explaining. Probably an artifact of being written for industry users. You can get used to it though, kind of putting boxes around certain circuits and just looking at behavior without asking how it works until you need to understand then doing a deep dive.
Can you see off-instance replies to a post yet?

How about quote toot?

Thse are unfair questions, because I know the answer to them, but it demonstrates why Mastodon is unfit for the kind of chatter that Twitter excelled at and Bluesky is trying to inherit. You can't overhear stuff on Mastodon, and that has two chilling factors: one, it makes it feel like a deep echoing well unless you follow everybody you might want to talk to (thus making your signal-to-noise ratio plummet; Twitter was always better with fewer follows, so long as they engaged with people you didn't follow too--Bluesky is similar), and two, it encourages reply-guying because your Very Thoughtful Response doesn't look like it's been preempted.

Bluesky owns, actually, because they get that shitposting is the fun part of social media, and they built a thing that's good for it. They've made mistakes--quite a few of them--but they have the core of something that the Mastodon developers and ActivityPub standardization folks more generally really should look at. Because, as it stands, when you evangelize for "the fediverse", you're asking people who expect one thing to come to an offering that is drastically less of That Thing (in the good ways; much less so the bad) than the one from which they left.
I've never gotten a full day
Hard to agree.

In an ideal world everyone would share their architecture, stack and so on and we as an industry we could learn between each other and everyone would have a net gain out of this information sharing.

In reality at the time that you share something in good faith you will always have someone trying to exploit it.

One example: I’ve worked in a CV production API to recognise certain documents. More than 900 days with no spikes and only real users in the system.

Then the CTO went to a conference to talk about how our performance was great and made a very large advertisement about our system. End result? 1800% spike, and tons of frauds and adversarial stuff coming.

Not being cynical, but I do not think that we’re entitled to have any disclosure from any private company in that regard.
The funding is really not that great, we are on the funding level described as "fusion never" (https://benjaminreinhardt.com/fusion-never/)
That works for some types of code and fails for other types. If you have very long lived but memory heavy apps, allocations really matter...
I’m gonna guess that most people on this board lead productive lives and can handle drugs and alcohol, so it’s going to cause some bias and self-selection. But there are folks out there that who have never had a drink in their lives, have one, and then immediately spiral out of control and become violent.

I’ve seen it first hand. Really nice guys, had no issues or violent tendencies, then got a hold of alcohol or drugs and it completely changed them. In the worst cases it went to the ultimate extreme and they wound up killing others.

Once you realize this, your perspective on the laissez-faire attitude changes. The reality is that some people are fundamentally incompatible with drugs and alcohol and society needs to put up boundaries to prevent collateral damage, even if we were OK with them killing themselves. I think some drugs are worse than others (For example I’ve never seen someone get violent after smoking Cannabis) but messing with your brain chemistry is not a trivial thing like the pro-legalize-everything camp wants to proclaim.
I do run ubuntu 22.04 in a VM, it works fine for things that aren't graphical and it has the usual performance penalties that come with connecting via a RDP connection, but it's a nice alternative when I need it. I haven't tried IntelliJ via virtual network to the VM though, that's a novel idea, I'll give it a go!
But it is possible to not have photos on your phone, e.g. if it is a new one, or if you prefer to use a separate camera, or you are not the person to take pictures.
To rub salt in Stallman's wounds.
From your own description, you blaming instagram, social media, instead of the obvious is really interesting.
Memory and CPU efficiency, since most systems were memory constrained. My first server had 128MB of RAM...
That quote is talking about the way nutrients move around a plant I think, and how that introduces measurement issues depending on where and when you sample. Whereas I think this comment thread is just talking about overall composition. As in when the nutrients move from the stem to the head of a crop, if you sample the stem you would see a nutrient deficit, but actually the nutrients are still there, in the head.

That's important for farming, not that important when discussing the makeup of plants overall.

Useful sampling for crops is usually done post harvest, since that's the output and what we actually care about. Even after harvest, crops will change depending on the conditions endured during processing and shipment.
Take the README.md, print to pdf and transfer to your reading device before leaving?
I'm a math dropout, now self-taught software engineer who has been spending the summer filling in gaps in my CS education. Programming language implementation finally started to click for me -- bytecode interpreters and compilers are much less intimidating for me than they were several months ago. And now having implemented my own (toy) interpreters, I'm interested for the first time in understanding some of the nitty gritty details of how hardware components work. So I started working through the nand2tetris projects and tinkering with breadboards, and wow. This stuff is so much fun! I'm bummed I didn't start sooner

I never really imagined I would be interested in this stuff, much less find it kind of beautiful. Pure math brain, if you aren't careful, can train you to view anything applied with disdain, and something as earthy as hardware even moreso. But it's kind of beautiful how there are deep and inevitable connections between some of the most abstract theory computer science has to offer (plt, pl design and implementation) and the way physical objects are harnessed for computation. I guess if you consider that von Neumann was a mathematician first and foremost then it starts to make more sense

Either way, I'm having a great time -- definitely recommend anyone in a similar position learn this stuff whenever you're ready for it
In my experience benzos are effective in the same sense alcohol can be. They don't really solve anything, not to mention are highly addicting.

I'm sincerely doubtful that being able to target their impact more tomorrow the brain alone makes a reasonable difference.

Getting at the mental health crisis might take a multipronged approach but I'm not sure this is an essential prong but I'm open to arguments to the contrary.
sh.reddit seems to be build ful on web components with lit, different than HTMX. Looking into the web inspector is certainly depressing if your tastes come from the era of “semantic” HTML and progressive enhancement.

But well. The real sin of new.reddit wasn’t really the technical underpinnings, but the UI design. Here it seems even worse in parts: permanently clicking just to read the comments.
World population is still increasing.

It's climbed from 2.6 billion in 1950 to 7.8 billion in 2020.

If world poulation halved we'd still be at 1975 population levels .. a time when the world functioned.

> Our economic prosperity is based on a growing productive population.

We live on a finite planet with limited resources, the notion of unlimited growth being essential for continued status quo is flawed thinking.

Our greatest challenge as a species on this planet is to learn how to live well within our means.
You are a contrarian in the best sense, thanks for sharing this!
Any ML influenced language has sum types.

Including some that run on the JVM and 30 years of Java, makes Maven Central certainly beat cargo.io in package count.

So there are options.
ePub DRM Removal Tool
I worked for a couple years at a company that delivered electronic assessments. Their use case makes sense for control of the device ( these assessments were usually delivered to a classroom environment where proctors could observe physical cheating ). It took a lot of pushback with Apple to be allowed to “not allow screenshots”. Which, I think, is pretty great that they originally pushed back, but then understood the product.
KPCB = Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB)

Today I learnt.
The tradeoff is that the Framework's battery life is garbage. I had laptops a decade ago with 2x the battery life. I'm lucky to get 3 hours of battery doing web browsing, and standby/hibernate on the Intel processor in it is so bad that it'll fully discharge in less than 12 hours doing literally nothing.

I really want to like it, but my Framework is literally a worse user experience than my old 2016 Macbook Air and it's probably 3x the price at this point. Playing even a lightweight game makes the fans ramp to a frustratingly loud level and I essentially have to keep it plugged in at all times.

It's also hard to express how oddly problematic having a 4x3 display in 2023 is. Almost literally nothing expects that.