skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It will need a community to survive, so I think people being excited about it is a great first step. I feel comfortable investing into building a community knowing it won't be purchased and killed. That doesn't mean success is guaranteed, but it is a prerequisite for me to invest in a social network at this point.

I'll add that a vertical like books probably has a better chance of succeeding than a more general purpose social network, because there's always going to be value in providing metadata around books, it's timeless information more like wikipedia than twitter. I see a lot of value in creating a community driven and community owned corpus of book information and reviews.
Wow. VS Code can do that.
In this case Microsoft had a chat app several years before Slack was created. Admittedly, it was rebranded and upgraded a few times - however Skype for Business had group chats before Teams came out.
I taught this course to corporate clients for three or four years before developing my own materials.

The course materials for this course and the introductory course (“Practical Python”[1]) are quite thorough, but I've always found the portfolio analysis example very hokey.

There's enormous, accessible depth to these kinds of P&L reporting examples, but the course evolves this example in a much less interesting direction. Additionally, while the conceptual and theoretical materials is solid, the analytical and technical approach that the portfolio example takes quickly diverges from how we would actually solve a problem like this. (These days, attendees are very likely to have already been exposed to tools like pandas!) This requires additional instructor guidance to bridge the gap, to reconcile the pure Python and “PyData” approaches. (Of course, no other Python materials or Python instruction properly address and reconcile these two universes, and most Python materials that cover the “PyData” universe—especially those about pandas—are rife with foundational conceptual errors.)

Overall, David is an exceptional instructor, and his explanations and his written materials are top notch. He is one of the most thoughtful, most intelligent, and most engaging instructors I have ever worked with.

I understand from David that he rarely teaches this course or Practical Python to corporate audience, instead preferring to teach courses direct to the public. (In fact, I took over a few of his active corporate clients when he transitioned away from this work, which is what led me to drafting my own curricula.) I'm not sure if he still teaches this course at all anymore.

However, I would strongly encourage folks to look into his new courses, which cover a much broader set of topics (and are not Python-specific)! [2]

Also, if you do happen to be a Python programmer, be sure to check out his most recent book,“Python Distilled”[3]!

[1] https://dabeaz-course.github.io/practical-python/

[2] https://www.dabeaz.com/courses.html

[3] https://www.amazon.com/Python-Essential-Reference-Developers...
I pay for various services and watch whatever is on them, because it is simple, easy and $50 gets you an astoundingly overwhelming amount of content that you could barely scratch the surface of. Also, $50 today is $25 in when adjusted for inflation since the 90s and this is much, much cheaper than the cable+video rental amounts a typical family would pay back then. I will occasionally hunt down some torrent of something if I really want to watch it.
ChatGPT isn't the right tool to use for checking if numbers are prime. It is tuned for conversations. I'd like to see a MathGPT or WolframGPT.

The real question is if ChatGPT is worse on math and better elsewhere, or just worse overall. That is still unknown
> This is a perfectly sane, at least from business point of view,

It's perfectly sane to actively avoid trying to understand the your tools of your trade better?
But the value is in relation to everything else.

A Google Suite account costs 6 dollars per month, do you think this is 80% of that value?

Microsof Office 365 family includes 6 accounts 1TB of spacce, 60 minutes of free call in skype, word, excel, powerpoint, etc, and costs 10 per month.

A calendar application like this has 1/1000 the complexity and I would add 1/1000 the value. And even more, this functionality can easily be added by MS (google already did).

The price makes no sense.
I use https://emby.media along with private trackers and Usenet.
Fixed asset allocation aligned with ordinary American, and no moving back and forth from cash. (Just cash for modest bill-paying, emergency fund, home, big child-raising expenses like college tuition.)

They're generally incentived to keep all 3 indexes up.
Like the old SNL sketch: The All-Drug Olympics!
Don't worry, to make it fairer Congress will make a law to ban trading for the rest of the citizenry. It won't affect the market too much though as they'll be the only guys trading and owning stocks.
I appreciate that this contains an actual test. It lacks some rigor but it's a lot more compelling than the other posts I've seen saying "I can just tell" via anecdotes.

edit: I take it back. This is terrible, this is actually worse than anecdotal since it's basically a terrible representation of an existing paper.
SHOW-1 Create episodes of TV shows with a prompt
I won't be using this.

The grid system is still using floats instead of flex/grid.
My mother is 95. She's not walking anywhere. My wife has a bone spur in her heel. She can walk, but not far.

So, yeah, a world without cars sounds great if you're young and healthy, and there's good public transportation and bike paths and such. But for some people, it's cars or being a shut-in, and so, yeah, they are really stubborn about hanging on to their cars.

They're not the majority of car users. But you can't ignore them when you design your utopian future.
OneSignal (YC S11) Is Hiring Software Engineers
AOC claimed the insider trading is an open secret in Congress because:

* Congress members don't get paid much and like money.

* They are often old with healthcare issues. Their govt health plans are not great.

* They maintain two residences, one in DC and one in their home state. AOC rents an apartment in NYC that she never lives in and one in DC. This is a huge expense.

Closing this privilege might have other unintended effects... Only the very wealthy can afford to be in Congress.
Disturbing, yet compelling. Seriously, I loaded it (and ComicMono) on an xterm and it's surprisingly easy for my dyslexic eyes to read. I may have to keep one of them.
I'm surprised it's not already taught in school. Even in US public schools, foreign languages are taught (poorly), most often Spanish.
That doesn't make any sense to me.

A company doesn't take ownership of items that come in for repair/servicing, and simply locking other people's property into a room/shop/garage is hardly a basis for ownership as otherwise thieves could just nick something, lock it into a garage and then claim ownership.
English is currently more or less the global language for most things international.

The solution is to push even more English education if international scientists want to keep up.

I would have the exact same opinion if Chinese was doing the same.
Really? I work in the gambling industry and nobody in my household is allowed to gamble/bet online just because of that.

When I worked in finance, myself and my wife also had a lot of restrictions in regards to our investments.

Anyways, these are just a few examples, but there are a lot of domains of activity where restrictions extend not only to the direct employee but also to their spouse or direct family.
This comment has an interesting take on it, haven't read the paper to verify the take:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36781968

EDIT: FWIW I haven't noticed any such regression. I don't generally use it to find prime numbers, but I do use it for coding, and have been really impressed with what it's able to do.

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This paper is being misinterpreted. The degradations reported are somewhat peculiar to the authors' task selection and evaluation method and can easily result from fine tuning rather than intentionally degrading GPT-4's performance for cost saving reasons.

They report 2 degradations: code generation & math problems. In both cases, they report a behavior change (likely fine tuning) rather than a capability decrease (possibly intentional degradation). The paper confuses these a bit: they mostly say behavior, including in the title, but the intro says capability in a couple of places.

Code generation: the change they report is that the newer GPT-4 adds non-code text to its output. They don't evaluate the correctness of the code. They merely check if the code is directly executable. So the newer model's attempt to be more helpful counted against it.

Math problems (primality checking): to solve this the model needs to do chain of thought. For some weird reason, the newer model doesn't seem to do so when asked to think step by step (but the current ChatGPT-4 does, as you can easily check). The paper doesn't say that the accuracy is worse conditional on doing CoT.

The other two tasks are visual reasoning and answering sensitive questions. On the former, they report a slight improvement. On the latter, they report that the filters are much more effective — unsurprising since we know that OpenAI has been heavily tweaking these.

In short, everything in the paper is consistent with fine tuning. It is possible that OpenAI is gaslighting everyone by denying that they degraded performance for cost saving purposes — but if so, this paper doesn't provide evidence of it. Still, it's a fascinating study of the unintended consequences of model updates.
You lost hope in the government, but a good government is not focused on spying but on making life better, basically opposite of what you described. Governemnt can be efficient at building things, maintaining infrastructure, but not spying and controlling it's citizens.
The project is outdated. The grid system is not using any CSS3 feature. So, yeah, it's an old framework. If you want better features, you may go Tailwind CSS.
> Solving this effectively solves all of those hard problems, at least in a subset of your language where you are able to address it.

No, "solving" this by preventing it in the first place just makes programming way too hard.

In practice, using something while other people are using it is perfectly fine in most cases. E.g. most Python programs do that, and most don't have bugs most of the time.

The "use-after-free" problem can far more easily be solved by removing `free` (e.g. by using Garbage Collection).

Most concurrency bugs remain even if you solve all data races (e.g. as Python does, with GIL) simply because the semantics are wrong (e.g. having to update 2 counters which cannot happen simultaneously), or iterating through a list while modifying it (no data races here if done from a single thread!).
I always thought it was a gimmick to call it JavaScript when Java was out, when I’m reality they had almost nothing in common.
I don't think so, the tendons make the knee potentially more stable, the performance so comes from the muscles. And it requires surgery, usually that kind of surgery is hard on the body, and requires extensive physio therapy and training afterwards.

So, the kangaroo tendons are potentially better than traditional implants, the question you pose so is whether or not they are better than the original, human ones. And I somehow doubt that, but I am just a semi-engineer with a ruptured, but still working, knee and not a physician.
It’s a little easier to write idiomatic python bindings for a C/C++ library in Cython IMO, because you’re writing the bindings in a language that’s almost python.
Probably the first Spelunky but Slay the Spire, A Short Hike and Disco Elysium are close. Honorable mention to both 80 days, Stardew Valley and The Witcher 3.
No, we accept that everyone is born without equal opportunity. Its a key difference.
I remember that and also remember them releasing a new version that literally didn't work on yahoo.com. I complained and they said some snarky comment about not complaining about things that were given for free.

That browser didn't last long, and was terrible.
Not to the same degree, no, but between a Switch and a Steam Deck I'm able to actually chew through my backlog today. I am no longer a completionist but I'm at least able to experience games again. FWIW, I've got 4 year old twins, an 18 month old, a full-time+ job, a spouse I love spending time with, and a small set of hobbies that I engage with daily or weekly; I'm busy. The Steam Decks killer feature is it's sleep mode, which lets you effectively pause any game at any state and seamlessly resume it on wake (Switch has the same feature).
My spouse was an elected official in California, which came with reporting requirements for stock transactions and gifts for both of us[1] But then, in a community property state, we don't have separate stock transactions and gifts, valued economically, aren't usually seperable either (there's exceptions or at least higher gift limits from family gifts, which are likely sources for seperable gifts)

For us, it was easier to avoid making stock transactions that triggered reporting and avoid accepting gifts that would trigger reporting, than to fill out the reports. I had equity based compensation that had to be reported, but then everything else went into diversified mutual funds, which is a good idea anyway.

[1] See CA form 700. But note, this doesn't apply to federal elected officials from CA, only to state and local officials.
Even an E5 can become a millionaire pretty quickly. You can definitely save around 100k/yr at that income and with a 6% return (very reasonable) that ends up giving you $4m after 20 years or $8m after 30 years. So you will end up quite well off in retirement.
I've mostly given up on thrift. We have Netflix, Disney+/Hulu, HBO ("Max") (shared with friends), Youtube Premium, and Amazon Prime. In the past I've also used Plex a bit, but I make enough money that it's just not worth the effort to maintain when all of the above apps stream so seamlessly through our Chromecast.
I have seen companies being even cheaper, everything required for project delivery, including hardware, trainings and licenses has to be provided and paid for by the client.

The consulting company is providing only warm bodies.
I think it would make sense to only allow congresspersons to own "total market" index funds like VTSAX; wouldn't that more or less align their interest with the general American public?
It's not bad actually in terms of readability. I would want a dotted zero though.
> And cases like Sweden show that restrictions were mostly stupid flexing of control powers

I wish this meme would die. Not only did Sweden not do well in the pandemic, they also ended up enacting a ton of restrictions, some more stringent than what much of the US had in practice.
SEC regulations generally apply equally to family members you make financial decisions for. You can still probably get away with it but the SEC has ammo if you get brazen.
I'm merrily running down the selfhosting/homelab rabbithole, so I have an Unraid server running on cast-off enterprise gear I picked up from my previous role. Storage is easily expandable as my needs change, it has straightforward docker support (which is great for, y'know, selfhosting).

I'm sitting somewhere around 20 TB used of 34 available, split between media libraries, backups from my homelab cluster (which I've been very lazy about setting up, so I could reduce the footprint), and network storage for my workstation and my wife's desktop.
They probably do not have a motive to make it dumber, but its a side effect of some other agenda, like higher profits.
The rules on Congressman trading should be coming from their districts and states that they represent. it could possibly hurt the quality of congressmen and senators that run for election if this rule is implemented at a federal level.
The legend :-)
The ability to detect quality is harder than the ability to detect defects, so the obvious metric is improved while the nebulous one is "good enough". They are competing goals.

This is not necessarily the case, and even if it is doesn't imply gaslighting as compared to inability to measure.
NEPA is a problem for clean energy
Then post a less inaccurate article, already:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/rival-e-bike-maker-h...
We have started charging people with assault for attempting to infect others.
They need a brain-dead way to hop between instances without losing data, if it doesn't already exist. Of course this only works well if the instance that is shutting down gives notice in time for people who login in only occasionally to see it.
I wish we just called people up like we do for jury duty.
Because you signed up to pay for a beta service???? You can stop paying at any time.
Are any of these ARM systems suitable for easily running Linux on them?
seems very odd. the issue was that when Git marked lines in a file as being in conflict then the file was no longer a valid Jupyter file. and their solution was... to change the language so that Git's conflict syntax is valid?
You can see the backtest performance of some of some strategies built around congressional trading data here: https://www.quiverquant.com/strategies/

The holdings and advanced metrics are behind a paywall (apologies in advance).
How so? Did you critique the paper? Or are you falling for science bullshit?
"but we don't know if it was deliberately targeted or not [...] They are collecting Chinese DNA so we can target people by race"

He is very clearly doing the "wink to audience" dance in this paragraph. Yes, it gives him plausible deniability because he hasn't come out and explicitly said that C19 is ethnically targeted but he's following the Tucker Carlson and Glenn Beck "just asking questions and pointing things out and look, if the audience take something more away from that WINKS TO AUDIENCE what can I do?" bullshit.
I was nervous going in on the headline. I don't want to be defending anyone, but I also don't see the point in holding up someone as a spokesperson for all scientists. At large, folks are doing well to speak for themselves.

Don't let that stop you from this, though. I'll be listening to the full interview later, as it sounds very interesting.

The headline concern can be boiled down to "even scientists talk past each other." Especially in experts, expect that most people are exposed to more caricatures of arguments than makes sense. To that end, kudos on staying engaged on both sides of this!

This also introduced me to Norton's dome. Worth the price of admission just for that.
And how is your worst case scenario worse? Because the bar is already as low as it will go and instead of just leaving some behind we are actively holding a whole bunch back.

I could have graduated by 12 if they just let me go at the material, instead they had me drop out, in frustration at being forced to work at the pace of the stupidest and laziest, before returning to do exactly what I describe through an alternative education program which cost the system 5x as much per student as main track... and that without addressing that it would likely be cheaper due to fundamentally fewer teachers required per student as the teacher wouldn't be babysitting study hall like they are now but instead focused exclusively on the acts of teaching and grading.
Am I the only one who is not particularly impressed by any of these links? Maybe I should see it as exemplatory examples, but they would not make it through a Code Review.

-> Currently serving as Application Architect for a medium sized Python application.
And if you do find one they will be a lot pricer than the other models.

The fragmentation in their lineup (and general lack of availability outside of B2B) really hamstrung them IMO.
I self host plex on a NAS synology box. What is your setup like?
Fear, loathing, and excitement as Threads adopts open standard used by Mastodon
Cool to see that this is moving along - Jupyter merge conflicts have caused me a huge amount of headache over the years.

My solution has been to switch over to Quarto notebooks (mentioned in the post with Jupytext), but I see the issue around saving cell outputs.

I'm curious why one would specifically want to save cell outputs as is in the Jupyter notebook, rather than archiving that in some other format. Sure, that might require putting a lot of information in one page (e.g., if that output is dependent on many other code cells and their outputs), but that just moves the linkage problem around - you'd have to have some way of indicating that the specific cell output was generated by a specific version of cell code (and the order in which they were run, sometimes multiple times).
Proofreading is enormously expensive in time and, as a spouse, goodwill. More so if you have to proofread their colleagues papers as well, where the level of English can vary enormously.

Perhaps it's time to reimagine the scientific paper in a more terse format with more declarative statements and data rather than the mini-novel. That would make machine translation more tractable and may even lead to better tools to check assertions and search related work.
That doesn't put any legal obligation on the spouse though.
Ultra Ethernet Consortium
How is that surprising? It's super obvious why it hasn't been done before...
it's kind of amazing how there's a post like this on every single substack link. Just click continue reading people. It's right there.
> a good way of "group negotiation" to get a bulk discount on Microsoft (US) products.

More broadly - the EU has an interest in the terms of trade in software being more consumer friendly because it's a net importer of software products.
I believe they are referring to the original observations of code output degradation due to adding training epochs for safety. These observations were made by Microsoft working directly with OpenAI early on. They comment on it in the technical lecture for GPT-4 in the famous 'Tikz Unicorn' example, wherein the model got better and better at making the unicorn during typical training, but then regressed when training after that for better safety.

It is unclear why this may be, but to speculate, it may be due to classifying large regions of the distribution as 'off limits' and therefore less structure about these regions is modeled in detail (since it is now not needed, and summed up as 'as a LLM, I cannot'). It is certainly strange that making a model less deplorable will make it worse at coding in general, but it does appear to be a real observation.
I gather that kangaroo "leather" is also quite resilient.
I'm thinking of "Not Just Bikes" on YouTube, so definitely the Netherlands. I rarely hear about Denmark. Finland even less so.
A disk is a bunch of bits
That's not what that study says. That study is about dietary protein.
I would have preferred the write a real browser in C that was far and add Self to it for Scripting and maybe Java Applets directly in the Browser.

Implementing the browser itself in Java isn't a great idea, specially in the 90s.
unRaid server with ~100TB raw space.
They’ll get around it somehow. It might just be an extra step for them to do hidden trades through extended family or some such.
At the point you will see harmony championed over diversity.
The notion that hospital capacity had a significant effect on the fatality rate is not so strong. Even early into the pandemic, hospitals stopped putting people on ventilators since it didn't improve health outcomes. So "flattening the curve" just meant extending lockdowns and probably not saving any lives.