skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Industrialism" (I lack a better term) is the real bane here. But it's sort of more than that, right?

At the macroscopic level I think it's fair to analogize humanity as a system searching for equilibrium. But we can also do work on ourselves through technical and cultural revolutions. My foray into the past, watching the present, and my projections of the future all paint the classic "monkeypaw" trope. We cure childhood disease and population booms, increases the breadth of the economy, consumes masses of fuel and component elements while jointly polluting everything... We destabilize the system, creating novel problems of various sclae, and it just repeats ad nauseum. It doesn't matter what system you use, as long as we're complicating things as such none of them will ever "succeed" because they require some ideal state approximation that we will never let arise. In engineering everything is a compromise, you can't have your cake and eat it too, etc...

Neither Marx nor Friedman are really wrong, per se, but they can't be right, either. From there it's just a matter of moral convictions, at least in my opinion, which paints everything with an even less discernible gray.
I have an extension with a small user base that uses 'declarativeNetRequestFeedback' permission. I haven't experienced any issue with the review process.

https://ris58h.github.io/youtube-chapters-in-player/
Thats surprising, GSO always had me sign for my shipments and required ID. If I wasn't home or no one over 21 was then I'd have to pick it up at the distro center.
> I'm generally not aware of how to make it work without significant centralized power.

You get rid of the need for power entirely. Communism, by definition, is free of state. That hinges on achieving post-scarcity.

The Communist Party’s primary tenant is achieving post-scarcity to one day usher in communism. The Soviet model failed, really, because they never got there. Probably not because of a poor power dynamic, but because post-scarcity was, and still is, beyond our grasp. It may not even be possible.

When you think about it, the Soviet model is fundamentally designed to fail! If everything went according to plan, it would have fallen to communism. It was never meant to be sustainable.
Don't know what you're referring to. "Hell" didn't appear in the title
Orwell was actually fighting FOR communism. Specifically anarcho-communist Catalonia. What you call Communism is actually ideology called Marxism-Leninism, there are libertarian variants of communists too, for example anarcho-communism or council communism. Communism is stateless, classless and moneyless society so you can ask yourself a question. Was USSR state communist? It was a state. That ideology postulated that it can impose communism top-down, which was always criticised by anarchist thought which operates on horizontalism and not hierarchy. Orwell was a democratic socialist till the end of his life, which a lot of people don't know. He was not a liberal or social democrat.
Related:

Bootstrappable Builds:

https://bootstrappable.org/
I’d say that it depends on who you ask when it comes to what’s „common sense“ and what’s „a way that works“.
What I have seen working is:

- Have somebody who is responsible for understanding the customer from a business perspective and be able to explain that to developers in the form of prioritized development items.

- Try to build something that works to confirm your assumptions and manage risk, ideally on a short-ish cycle of a few weeks. Always keep a working product. In some projects this is not (immediately) possible - in that case, it’s probably better to run a traditional waterfall-project, with the tradeoffs that come with it.

- Get together regularly to talk about less immediate topics and improve the work process.

- Plan and make forecasts using actual data from the past, not wishful thinking.

And that is basically Scrum. For me this is common sense, I wouldn’t know why you would do it in another way.

How it’s implemented in practice differs and it seems a lot of places don’t implement it very well. So far I haven’t heard many good suggestions from the developers suffering under these implementations on how to make it better though, hence my question.
Be the superhero here and add some guides
But the GPL explicitly forbids you from forbidding that person who paid you from sharing the code. If an employee works on a Linux driver that you'd prefer be a trade secret, those GPL imports are going to be a massive problem.
Is "meta-magic" and "monkey-patching" what we mortals call code generation and which is an useful technique to automate coding and which can both save time and generate safer and more correct code or is it something else?
Now returns a 404. Interesting.
glibc defaults to 5 sec, but the server wouldn't need to resolve the redirect domain -- that'd be the client's job. Unless it's doing so for some proprietary reason, of course.

Or did you mean failing to resolve some internal service's hostname?
I've got my Kozmo bag around here somewhere... used it as my work bag for ages.
I'm leaving it for context but you're correct it should be something else - I commented too fast and came back for review.

The intent is to convey the reality - the "fires decreasing" trope (in relation to climate change) is based on total global area - a flat measure.

It's true the total area of sparse relatively open grass fires has decreased.

As a number it doesn't reflect the increase in volume of material being burned in dense older growth heavily wooded areas seen in California, Australia, Canada, etc.

At some point NASA (or anyone else that wants to pull the raw data) might look at removing periodic annual burn from their fire data sets and look at the differential on "new area burned" that hasn't seen fire for a decade (perhaps).
I think you might be over-simplifying. This (and llama.cpp's grammar-based sampling, which this is moving towards[1]) doesn't say "no, not like that, give me another token". It excludes impossible tokens at each step, but otherwise samples like normal.

Is this a revolutionary trick? Not really, since llama.cpp and guidance, and probably others have already done it. But it's a good trick, and hopefully one of many to justify the valuation :).

[1]: https://github.com/normal-computing/outlines/pull/178
I am, however you’re not wrong. The main use of the word is either regarding annoyance, but can also mean snitching.

“Narked” in the scuba community 100% refers to nitrogen narcosis. See the company called “Narked at 90”.
Also throw a potential ecological catastrophe in the mix

3) Look in the early/mid seventies around the oil embargo - this is when the cost disease really took off and I wouldn't be surprised if there was some subtle change in mentality that enabled a lot of the things we see now.

2) I think that the majority of people that are not profiting want to stop them, but the boiling frog effect is so slow that few do - and the brave new world is quite good at subduing the fighting spiring and inquisitiveness - think of it that way BG3 that is moving to become one of the highest rated PC games ever is just a basic very good game from the late 90s/early 2000s

1) I think we are in a really bad Nash equilibrium right now - so to change we need a really big external push. Never let a crisis go to waste. And there will be crisis. But it will require the right kinds of people to be near the power levers.
I've experienced similar behavior on iOS, not sure if it still does that though.
I jumped to another startup, one that made a lot more sense. Next, I tried my hand at my own thing, and failed. And soon enough, I started accepting shittier and shittier jobs until I admitted to myself that I had no special talent for what I was doing (mktg and biz dev), and that I didn't even like it. I wish I had quit the field 10 years before I eventually did.
> Paying off your mortgage with an interest rate less than inflation is a mathematically verifiable horrible idea.

This is often the case, but not always. It also doesn't account for the much better sleep I get at night, or the unshackled feeling I experience knowing I am debt free. There's an enormous psychological benefit that is not easily quantified.
Onyx Boox Tab Ultra C review: 10.3“ E-Ink Kaleido3 color screen ereader
Orwell wasn't a trotskyist, but democratic socialist. He probably leaned libertarian in his socialism, cause he admitted that he should join anarchist side and not POUM, which was some coalition of trotskyist and libertarian Marxists.
Isn’t prompt engineering basically writing tests around a prompt and fiddling with it till you have as many passing tests as possible? It’s basically software engineering around a black box.
Given how this works, I don’t think that is possible unless OpenAI implements it themselves.
In theory, compile time guarantees renders runtime guarantees useless as long as you don’t interact with untyped code.
The goal of IA should be to distribute full copies of the archive. Not doing so guarantees it will be deleted and replaced.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8732894
I hope this does not catch on. I worry about body hackers trying to live in a hermetically sealed homes with oxygen-noble-gas atmospheres.
Where are these discussions? I'm an anarchist and could give anarchist lens to wherever is such a discussion happening.
How to Approach Change: The Big Cut or the Soft Transition
Not quite.

Meta-magic can include code-gen, but monkey-patching can include effectively doing ast-ast transforms to change the behaviour of existing code without having to actually edit the code.
Seriously dedicated spammers can, yes! But antispam is about reducing the noise threshold, and eliminating low-effort spam opportunities that can be done to a single HTTP endpoint with a bash script is a big win. Simply having to access two pages is already too much to bother with for the vast majority.
It’s something else. Monkey patching comes from Ruby, since classes are open, you can change implementations at runtime. I’m not quite as familiar with meta magic, but I believe it has similar characteristics. Sorta like dynamically injected accessors via autoload in perl.

There are cool tricks, but they come at a cost. Both for the reader of code, and the compiler of code.
Then click delays would appear random to any single client.
This is a very interesting use case of the Generative Agents project.

I feel like this is just one of the earlier attempts at creating an interactive experience with this, but there's still so much potential for future games, if the technology is refined further. Think of something like Animal Crossing (or any other game where interacting with NPCs is at the forefront of gameplay), but with the characters that have completely unique personalities and an ability to generate new dialogue (rather than relying on a limited number of pre-written lines), or react to player actions in unique ways, and so on.
Youtube has been running ads since 2009 from a very cursory search. This isn't a new development from them.
Individual forums can decide what is on/off topic. I can see why a forum would want to control what topics are on and off topic.

Obviously you can say anything you like on unmoderated places like 4chan, but what does that prove?
many retailers have started running verification through 3rd parties w your name and address. i know cigarbid now does this, believe drizly does. i think it may vary by state.
C# introduced async/await like 20 years ago and java still doesn't have it yet... I hope in the next 20 years they will finally find time to implement this feature.
The language is OSS, go fix it. Apparently you have the attitude of someone who knows how.
Can you give an example of something you've done with this skill that was very satisfying?
I mean, probably. It's also interesting in its own right.
Sometimes I learn something and think I understand it. But when writing about it (without looking it up again) or teaching it to someone, I often find gaps.

I can fill this gaps by reading it again or looking up another source.

I like to think this method of filling the gaps is faster then just reading the material again, because it forces me to recall it first and therefore sticks in my memory longer.
What?

You went from talking about ads to calling this site obnoxious? First of all, if you found my comment obnoxious, it's not "this site" that's obnoxious, it's this user!

My comment was mild. I find the increase in ads on youtube to be obnoxious. You find value in Premium, because you don't suffer ads. It's a fair call to wonder whether the value you find comes from "not seeing obnoxious levels of ads" vs anything else, such as the quality of service offered under premium.

End of the day: my criticism is directed at Google, for encouraging clickbait spammer content; increasing intrusive ads and charging too much in order to not suffer those increasing ads.
>This is a long video that can be summarized

You just described 98% of these annoying “content creators”.
I live in a cave called "x86 Hackintosh" -- it sure looks like all this would work on an x86-64 Mac, maybe similar x86-64-only environments like WSL1. Very cool to see wine32on64 being done differently -- without a magick-infused compiler!
> Hadoop/Hive and Spark, which were the originators of SQL for ETL

They weren’t.

I guarantee you, before either of those existed, when Data Warehousing was often done with a different version/configuration of the same brand of RDBMS as the transactional store (the latter likely using something closer to a normalized schema, the former using a star or snowflake schema), using SQL for ETL was absolutely normal.

Which is why newer data warehousing / data lake systems support SQL even though they aren’t RDBMSs: a couple decades of RDBMS dominance made it the JavaScript of data storage.

> Because it’s not a general-purpose imperative loosely typed brittle language like Python.

Its not general-purpose or imperative, its just as much “loosely typed” as Python (both Python and SQL are strongly typed.)

Its not clear what concrete meaning “brittle” is supposed to have in this claim, so I can’t evaluate its accuracy.
But then only technical people could contribute information. The website may be trying to make it so all gardeners can contribute.
How is this different from generating such things without an LLM? In other words picking random valid tokens from the grammar via fuzzing or similar techniques.
Same, but on Firefox, the latter can be nicely configured both on a default and on a per-extension basis.
Computers have been putting people out of jobs since back when "computer" was a human job title and not a machine. Its always ended up creating more jobs than it eliminated in the end, i don't see why the future will be any different than the past.
I see grammar constrained generation for 2 major advantages:

1. It consumes fewer tokens, no need to add too many examples into the prompt.

2. It suffers less from the forgetting issue.

Another minor advantage is you can control precisely where your desired output to begin with.

But overall, those are nice perks not too substantial IMO.
There remains doubt about CMB inhomogeneity at the smallest scales - basically the error bars at the right of this graph, and the region off the chart to the right, which is yet to be measured:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_microwave_background#...

A naive view would be that a turbulent Big Bang has turbulence all the way down, with many fine-grain clumps and vortices, giving rise to early black holes.

Inflation is invoked to create a homogeneous CMB, but that begs the question, and cannot be used to rule out small-scale inhomogeneities.
Being able to explain something clearly will be useful always.
title correction: over $100 million

>"9. As noted above, SAMUEL BANKMAN-FRIED, a/k/a "SBF," the defendant, also used misappropriated customer money to help fund over $100 million in political contributions "
Amazon Prime is a good counter-example that delivery does not need to be subsidised as the pro rata delivery cost decreases if

1. more people order, or

2. people order more items

Both, 1 and 2 can be influenced by marketing and delivery can become a revenue instead of a cost center.

Bonus points if that means that you can deliver from a cheap warehouse instead of an expensive supermarket.
AoE2 has a 200-unit cap, but almost every unit costs 1 to the cap.

So you can have 200 Paladins (strongest unit in the game), while in Starcraft you can have either 33 Battlecruisers (strongest combat unit one-vs-one) or 400 Zerglings (weakest but most numerous).

Exception: the unique unit "Karambit" from the Malay has a special ability where they count 1/2 population. So you can have 400 Karambits (much like Zerglings in Starcraft:BW)
Many words about site moderation have been posted in the thread.. Who here has actually moderate(s|d) a forum/chat site?
Where would you learn the skills for that first job? And which jobs would that be?
CO2 is a weird one. The science is pretty clear the trend exists and it’s even built into the building codes for HVAC. But some how that information never gets connected to the people that would actually be interested in maximizing cognitive ability.
So does only the donator get punished here and not as well the recipient? Isn't it generally the case if you receive stolen goods they can be take away?

I think there should be an exception specificity for political donations where the recipient is just as much in trouble for an illegal donation as the party sending it.
In 1980, President Carter assembled top scientists in various domains to write a report of the problems we should expect to face in 2000. (If only politicians today were that forward-looking!) It was called the Global 2000 report and was a very thick volume. It does not mention global warming. The closest it comes is discussion of acid rain and of increased "desertification."

What I take from that is that in 1980, while there was some awareness of global warming, few scientists thought it would so quickly accelerate and become the central issue regarding the environment.

[0] Summary of the report: https://www.cartercenter.org/resources/pdfs/pdf-archive/glob...
52% correct seems awfully high - I am guessing it's inflated because of the easiness of the questions on StackOverflow. In my experience, at least in my domain, I will be lucky it it can generate an answer that is more than 5 lines of code without a single error. Still incredibly useful - just have to handhold it and watch it very carefully when going through a solution.
Just like a physical bit, qubits are basically an abstraction over an analog world; they can be implemented in any physical medium you can make a quantum measurement with.

Most current implementations are "trapped ion" computers. This is exactly what it sounds like, an ion trapped in an electromagnetic field. However, people are working on many systems, including:

- Photonic (photon)
- Superconducting (Cooper pair)
- Diamond/silicon carbide (single dopant)
- Liquid NMR (molecular spin)
Doesn't that mean that there were at least 3 years before that when they didn't serve ads? I can certainly remember the days when you didn't need an ad-blocker to watch videos without ads. How are the other video hosting sites from those days doing now?
These days I use Cloudflare.

Before, I used Namesilo (decent prices, good customer support and mediocre UI) and iwantmyname (expensive, good customer support and no BS).

Namecheap and name.com are fine as well, but I wouldn't use them when having other options.
The feature that required David Fowler from ASP.NET team to write a set of guidelines because everyone still uses it wrong, and had the team experiementing with Go and Java approach during last Summer, and they aren't adding it because it is too complex to retrofit?
Maybe they knew they were being spied on by Stalin.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/oct/11/revealed-sovie...

Animal Farm is a great and easy read, but for something much less metaphorical, Homage to Catalunia is a wonderful (and sad) book about Orwell's experience in the war, where both western powers and stalinists had tried to eliminate the smaller and more idealistic faction he fought alongside.
> the compiler will rewrite your program in ways that do not follow from the meaning of the source code.

It's not that, it's just that the source code has no meaning for a particular code path, so the compiler can do anything so that other code paths or conditions can be faster/more optimized.

Just nitpicking.
I think browser makers don't offer this because any protection put in place would be easy to work around.

For example, even if the extension itself can't make requests, there are plenty of ways to 'trick' a webpage into making a request on your behalf when you have permissions to modify the Dom of the web page.
Regex-constrained GPT, what is a mnemonic for pi?

> It's a word, a short statement or phrase which you learn.

Can you make a good one?

> Man, I wish I could recommend an answer. You're not gonna remember something, because, obviously, pi's so big. Actually, let's forget pi. There's only one way: Googling for it.

(count the letters)
So basically llm is the new short shell script.

Fair enough, but i also don't really feel this is threatening anybody's job.
It has made sense since the internet was invented, spammers need everything thrown at them because they will abuse every nook and cranny of your system to get paid 1 cent more
There's a great future in plastics.
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Strictly in my opinion, prompting is just a transformation from concise to verbose.

You have a short statement, with a description of your problem and the answer is a long text.

Sometimes we prefer verbose, sometimes concise. Sometimes a word already has all the meaning we need, another time we need a long description and examples.
Depends on our level of knowledge.

So from my limited point of view, you excell at moving any statement into something you can comprehend easily or that is helpful to you.

That is a nice skill and it should vastly improve your ability to communicate and express yourself.

Like beeing able to use a search engine before, it is very beneficial. Not a skill someone would hire you for, but a skill that aids many tidous tasks.

Again, my limited opinion. Maybe it is more magical and has deep practical applications, that I am oblivious to.
There is a difference between allowing a party and allowing an act. If a party says "drugs should be legal", it doesn't mean that drug dealers are legal today.

Outlawing an action is fine. Outlawing a party who says the action should be okay is anti-democratic.
To be frank, as cool as that is, it is easy to overlook the same problem with drones: they are distinctively LOUD unless at a distance (and even then).

Would be interesting to corroborate whether unusual noises are associated with their arrival.
That sounds like they were a bit uncharacteristic as a dot com in the sense that they had intellectual property that survived the company that was actually worth something and executives that weren't half bad that Amazon later took over as well and a target market that was actually somewhat real. Sure, it failed and VCs got greedy and pushed for an IPO. But then ten years later Amazon acquires the tech, and the people, and builds a decent business from it.

A lot of dot com companies during the bubble had none of that. An MBA with a silly/incoherent idea and a half baked website were all it took to get funding. VCs were throwing money at anything that had a website at some point. They were desperate to get some of the action. Most of those companies were literally created to tap into that kind of stupid money. The dot com bubble was VCs throwing money at absolutely bat shit crazy stuff; and then losing badly when the bubble burst. This wasn't that bad in comparison.

I mean WeWork isn't that different. Or Uber. Or Air BnB. Rapid growth funded. Arguably all cases where the investors maybe got a bit too greedy but also companies that are generating real revenue out of markets that do exist with a service that consumers are willing to pay for.